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your beautiful website today so we're here in The Cooler Master Suite where
they've got a couple things on display number one is a
$130 air cooler what Su justification
for that I'm glad you asked because there are a couple of things that
they're pretty proud of here number one is the performance obviously they're
saying that it's competitive with even
pretty good all-in-one liquid coolers which actually makes a ton of sense to
me since it wouldn't be the only high-end air cooler that is competitive
with high-end aios what's also
interesting about it is they've actually redesigned the bottom plate to instead
of just have a vapor chamber with some heat pipes kind of duct tape to it now
it's actually got four heat pipes directly integrated into the vapor
Chamber Something that they're calling a 3D Vapor chamber now there's more though
and it's that maker word that Cooler Master has been on about and on about
over the last I don't know I guess ever since they launched the master case and
that is the modularity of the design so in addition to coming with two of their
pressure optimized fans you've got swappable shrouds you can be like oh it
comes with 140s I actually want to use 120s I want a little bit more clearance
for the RAM or motherboard components or whatever else it's also got a swappable
top plate so you can dramatically change the look of the heat sink if you're into
that sort of thing but lonus will they support it with accessories and if you'd
asked me this back when they launched the master case 5 originally I'd have
said I don't know I mean we've had a lot of case makers promise US accessories
and upgrades and it's never really happened but it looks like they're
actually serious about this I mean look at all this stuff behind me for the M
the original master case 5 and master case Pro five as well as the new master
case maker 5 that they're launching here at the show so they've got the original
normal and windowed side panels but boom now we've got a noise dampening side
panel and my personal favorite a
tempered glass side panel with a lock on
the top I am really liking that one
there's also a new top panel cover so instead of being stuck with just mesh
now they've got one that gives you the choice between mesh and just a straight
cover with a magnetic wh look at that
clipping mechanism whoops this right here is the
front panel from the new master case maker 5 and this one has this cool
little sort of magnetic system where you can pop off that front flat panel and
you can decide okay I want more air flow but none of this is actually what I just
said was happening which was accessories for those original
cases here is where you've got my attention they are actually designing
things to mount to that kind of like that rail clipon system thing that
they've got over on the right hand side of the motherboard tray so this guy
right here is an airflow duct that allows you to control the length of the
duct so depending on the positioning of your PCI Express power ports or whatever
else the case may may be as well as the position within the case so whether
you're trying to aim at one top card two cards that are kind of spread out in SLI
or even at the CPU itself if you have no need for optical drives this will take
care of you and this one right here I've actually been a victim of uh video card
seg myself and while most of the solutions that I've ever seen to address
this have been extraordinarily cluggy
this simple wire with a couple of little
you know single thumb screw um you know feet here actually looks
surprisingly good when installed in a case that's you know done up and cable
managed as opposed to some of the stuff I've seen before that's just like yeah here's like basically like a tripod leg
that you can kind of put on the bottom of your case and kind of hope that it stays in place but I still wouldn't
blame you for not being that impressed at this point I mean what is this a couple of accessories for a case that's
been available for how long Linus no this is where they are starting to get
my attention and where that whole maker Spirit thing starts to really actually
make some sense Cooler Master is working on developing a marketplace where they
can enable modders to create their own accessories and sell them through Cooler
Master ecosystem to allow people who own these cases to continue to get a lot of
mileage out of them moving into the future so this guy right here has got a
custom top panel a custom power supply cover a custom front panel they're also
showing off some custom cables all of this is from primochill this one right
here oh man Bill Owen does such mnpc
tech for those of you who aren't familiar with his name does such amazing
like aluminum fan grills so we've got this right here we've got look at this
custom power supply cover so it's got a four pin Molex connector in the back for
this like sick lighting effect and there's all kinds of amazing stuff that
I would expect to be available through this store that would allow you to
really get more out of this case if they
can pull it off then you would be able to if there wasn't a manufacturer
enabling this kind of a market if you just have to go through the forums and
kind of hope for the best they'll have to find ways to manage the quality and
the accountability of the whole process but if they can then they might have
actually finally found the thing that makes the master case more than just
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