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as well as hyperx so we're here in the Corsair Suite with everybody's favorite

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Corsair PM for cases George how many

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case PMS do you have at Corsair uh I'm the only one all right so you're

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definitely definitely our favorite but also the worst yes also best and worst

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at the same time yeah so show us what travesty you've uh you're showing off

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for this show here no I'm just I'm I'm just messing with you these look like an

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improvement to me what what are they exactly yeah these are the horrors we've

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Unleashed upon you um so we released last year the spec o1 spec O2 and spec3

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which are kind of gaming focused value price cases I'll hold this and uh they

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were designed basically for uh South America Asia some gaming Focus stuff we

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had a lot of people that like the chassis but said can you do like a more refined and cleaner design and so that's

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what this is it's the same exact chassis as a specco one but we put kind of a 200

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R Style on the front and called it a 100r so it's a very clean minimalistic

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black front it's textured to look like aluminum dual USB 3 ports Room for 2 140

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mm fans in front two 120s on top and a 120 in

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back and then uh you've got uh Seven slots power supply on bottom dust filter

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on the bottom the mesh is intake from the side here and then four hard drive

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Bays inside for ssds or regular drives cable routing holes all that stuff so

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for 49 bucks it comes with 120 mm fan two USB 3 ports it's it's pretty pretty

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solid for 50 bucks um for $10 more for $59 you can get the $100 silent Edition

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which oh go plugged in well it is plugged in and that probably broke it's

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only the beginning of the show and I'm already completely destroy that's all

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right it's the only one we own um this is the $100 silent Edition same exact

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chassis inside but it gets rid of the window um and gets rid of the top mesh

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because we wanted to make it quieter and the Windows and top mesh actually hurt

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noise level production so what we want to do is take that out put sound damping

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top top sides and front we added a three-speed fan control switch right

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there and it comes with a second 12 120mm fan so you can get better air flow

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through it when it's uh quieter so that is $59 so for $10 more you get the

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silent version so there's the 100r and 100 R silent Edition both will be

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available in February uh and here's your mic back so I mean my feedback on the

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spec it was the spec 01 the red one that I checked out before so my feedback on

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that was actually surprisingly good for a $50 case there was one thing that I

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kind of wandered about and it was that little piece that uh covers the the the

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the access for the PCI slot covers what was the deal with that is that like a

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cost-saving measure or or what absolutely yeah so if you look at the

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back of most cases there's a second piece it's a single piece of Steel

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that's stamped and there's a second piece that's inlaid into that and actually to get down to kind of $49 and

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maintaining other features like USB 3 and SSD compatibility we wanted to make

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that a single large piece in the back but you can't uh stamp that depth in

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easily so what you do is you stamp it all flush and then you have the the

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video cards pop out and then you have to have a separate card adapter on that so

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you see a lot of uh lower price and value cases will do that um and

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sometimes even guys that are a little bit less scrupulous will use a cheaper chassis that has that feature and add a

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couple other things in charge 99 or 100 bucks for that so there's some other

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guys out there that do that but we use that basically on our value price cases

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budget price cases like this one well so basically I had to choose between sort

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of rolled edges in here and slicing open my fingers or having an ugly piece of

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metal in the back and you guys went with well we'll go with the ugly piece of metal in the back and the saved fingers

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yeah if you got to do something ugly put it in the back you know that's kind of

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how I feel about it that's why I sit in the back of restaurants so you're you're

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a boobs guy the ugly can be in the back

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all right let's let's move on to the cooler all right we got another product

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from George here this is the hg10 is that correct and so the idea behind this

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is you take an all-in-one cooler presumably you guys would like people to

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use a Corsair one but will it work with other ones anything that is Ace Tech

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Source that uh I've tried it will work so some of the NZXT stuff works but of

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course our products are superior in all ways right okay got it and so the idea

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is they take a Corsair liquid cooler bolt it to their video card in a way

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that's a little bit more elegant than what we've seen in the past with zip ties or whatever else but what what are

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what do the results look like for an hg10 versus a stock card you guys have

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got them running side by side here yeah so the important thing is is unlike just

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kind of having a bracket that attaches the GPU the hydrocool to a GPU this is

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actually a heat sink too so it it hooks up to the vrms it hooks up to the memory

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which means that it needs to be made specifically for that card so this is

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the n780 Edition and this is the one for the NVIDIA 770 780 780ti Titan and Titan

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black which all use the same layout for the vrms and the memory so that's what

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this one's for um it'll allow you to work with any of our coolers and what it

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really does is right now it's cooling the GPU and the memory and vrm much

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better with an h75 cooler it's kind of our mid-range cooler with some very

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lowspeed uh sp12 LED fans on it and what

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we have right now is it's running at uh 58° C on the GPU at full firm Mark load

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after about half an hour firm Mark here and on the standard reference card on

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the 780 it's running at 83 so there's a 25 degree difference here uh importantly

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also the RPM of the blower fan is 2700 RPM here and we're down at 1700 RPM

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there so it's significantly quieter as well and then that means something

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significantly we are actually thermally throttle so the NVIDIA reference design

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cooler is throttling itself down to 823 MHz ours is running at the full speed

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and that adds another 5 or 6% performance even in just firmar so I

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mean and and 5 to 6% doesn't sound like a lot but if it's a free 5 to 6% then

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you know I'll take it but it's not free is it it's not free it costs $39 for the

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bracket because it's an aluminum bracket um you reuse the blower from the stock

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card because it cools the vrms in the memory you have to use a reference

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design board because these other guys are doing kind of custom boards but if

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you're buying a custom car that has a big custom heat sink on it you bought

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that specifically for that heat sink you you know so this is really for guys who

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have a reference board and want want to use a new way of cooling it so if you

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you know you have a 780 or a 770 you want to squeeze a few extra you know

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drops of performance out of it this is a good way to do that you throw an old hydr cooler on it and you know you can

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get a lot of performance without having to spend a whole bunch of money and buy a whole new card so you guys aren't

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really pitching this as the kind of thing that you expect someone to buy a

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hydr cooler buy the hg10 and and cool

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their car this is more like if they you have a a hydro kind of sitting in a

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closet somewhere and and you're not really using you've upgraded to something else that can work that way uh

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I mean a lot of people even though it's counterintuitive a lot of people will

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still kind of use the the best cooler in their case to cool the CPU even though

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the GPU produces much more heat um so realistically you know you're at two 300

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watts of heat on some of these graphics cards and only you know 100 or 89 Watts

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or whatever on the the CPU and people will still use a $100 CPU Cooler and

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some generic run-ofthe-mill thing that comes with a graphics card but if you

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want to you can go buy a new cooler for this you can use whatever you have in your closet it'll work with you know an

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h55 h75 h100 all that stuff um we do

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have versions for the n970 and n980 coming out very soon so you'll see those

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in the next few months um but this one's going to be hitting the market first cuz

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there's a ton of 700 series cards out there and there's a lot of people who would like to get a little bit extra

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performance out of it but they don't really want to buy a whole new 970 or

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980 because the performance is only you know 10 12 15% difference um and they

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might as well get a bit of extra performance out of the cards they have fair enough all right so thank you very

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much for sharing with us about the uh sleer edition of the speo one a case

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that I actually like surprisingly a lot given that it was a $50 case as well as

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the upcoming liquid coolers guys uh give a shout out to George in the comments

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below you guys know you love him he's the best darn case pm at Corsair and uh

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the best that we've encountered they're Gorilla Glass so they're perfectly clear

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they feel nice on your fingers they're grease resistant they have a nano

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coating on the bottom so they go on without bubbles guaranteed it's actually

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as far as I can tell impossible to apply them with bubbles and I'm pretty sure

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linked in the video description so we'll see you guys on our next video