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nc.com so we're kicking things off at the thermal take Booth with a pretty
freaking cool set of case mods here so
this one right here is an a30 case but you'd hardly recognize it with the world
of tanks mod that we got going on so a rotating turret has been placed on the
top of the case with a little Gunner guy here and a big gun right here now the
a30 is actually an matx case is
optimized for air flow you've got a couple of frosted Windows on either side
as well as ventilation for your graphics card as well as for the CPU memory area
on the other side other than that it's a pretty standard layout you got a couple
5 and a/ qu inch Bays on the front though you can hardly see them with all
of the uh you know enormous you know tank extensions that we got going on on
the front here USB 2 USB 3 EA I still
like to see EA it's still a faster standard now my understanding is this
thing actually moves can you please take it down for the audience and uh and uh
all right thank you this this is going to be this are going to be pretty cool we asked them to uh to take them down
and and drive them around for us and they were kind of like uh yeah okay so
here we here we go guys we are going to be we're going to be fire firing malayer
so to speak show us show us how it's done oh uhoh there we
go check that out so the Treads actually move one of
the we got to turn turn that around so one of the other cool things about this
case is it has a very modular design allowing you to take it apart completely
and oh no this is what happens at trade
shows
should we try the other one hey there we go all right we're
moving so you can take the whole case apart build your PC and then put the
whole thing back together due to the modular design now it doesn't have quite
the same terrain climbing ability as an actual tank but without further Ado I
think we'll show you some actual case designs that you can buy from thermal t
as opposed to Crazy modded ones oh yeah we didn't see this before but the gun
the gun kind of fires here which is uh pretty cool oh oh oh they're aiming at
me they're aiming at the camera aiming at the camera you better you get to oh
no okay so they're not tanks but the urban series is getting a serious
overhaul so the C Series is getting aluminum front panels these are all the
urban cases are quiet optimized with
that said you can get them with windowed
side panels however if you wanted the ultimate in silence obviously you would
lean towards the one with the plain side panel that has noise dampening material
on it there's a full line of uh of different cases here so everything from
larger Tower cases to matx Tower cases
as well as even over here you've got between the S1 and the sd1 two matx
versions one of which is a tower and one of which is a more of a desktop case or
or a cube case moving around to this side we've got again more urban cases so
available in multiple colors now multiple designs but again all with that
quiet optimized design and of course these are brand new cases so you've got
all the updated feature sets such as things like front USB 3 ports and let's
move all the way over here I just want you guys to check out this is the s71
snow Edition this is here we go lots and
lots of room for all the Hardwares inside this
one now of course you're going to need cooling for all that stuff whether you
want silence optimized or performance optimized and this right here is their
new Nick series of cooler so this is the NX C5 inside here and what Nick stands
for is network interface card however
that is not what we mean in this context you can see there is some higher profile
of xir RAM next to this cooler and they are demoing see how the way the Shroud
actually overlaps with the fan rather than just building a bulky cooler and
then St wrapping a fan to it they're going for a Slimmer profile that allows
you to use high profile memory right next to your CPU Cooler without running
into any random interference that causes all kinds of problems even with
something like an x79 motherboard where you can have four dims on each side
another side effect of this is that if you have very high memory modules such
as Corsair Dominator platinums you're actually going to get some incidental
cooling for them as well because that 120 mm fan is going to be sitting right
next to it so let's go over to where the rest of the Nick series is on display
over here we're going to move as quickly as we
can so there are a wide variety of these
coolers some of them with high performance looking shrouds some of them
that are more more basic options but of course you guys watch Linus Tech tips so
you know we're all about the liquid cooling the water line of products is
getting an update already so water 3.0 extreme the changes here are tuning to
the water block itself as well as to the design of the fans that have allowed
thermal T to maintain that same performance that we were so impressed
with with the water 2.0 extreme but with a Slimmer radiator which is going to
improve case compatibility so I really look forward to seeing if they did pull
that off because that was one of the things that I really liked about the
extreme 2.0 was just the fact that it did outperform other dual 120 mm liquid
coolers and then there is of course the pro series as as well as performance
line so that's a slim rad single 120 mm
and then the so that's the performer and then the pro is a thick rad 120 mm and
they all feature two fans either in push pull or simply in a pull or push
configuration for the extreme so this has been our coverage of the thermal
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