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linkis three cases that are actually designed around the same chassis in
spite of the fact that they look completely different from each other in
pretty much every possible way so the concept with this classy design was to
take a proven design that that we've seen from silverstone's 90° rotated
motherboard concept where they have the uh where they actually have all the AO
coming out the top and take that performance that cooling performance and
put it in an upright design so in this case we have an inverted motherboard so
the io is down at the bottom and the expansion slots are up here at the top
with the power supply at the top back you are expected to have your power
supply fan facing the top of the case there's a filtered in take right here at
the back it's got room for six 3 and 1/2 in drives it's you know your standard
ATX eight slots so okay okay okay so you
don't see the work that went into it yet but here at the front so this is the rv4
we've got this is the plastic design case Guys these are prototypes so don't
mind the manufacturing sort of anomalies
here so you've got a plastic front with an open side so this is what makes the
air flow so strong in this case it's completely open here it's not as good
for noise cancellation as what you're about to see with the F4 but it does
give you the air flow you need so here they've also redesign the grills and I
hope I can figure out how to get it out there we go I'm going to pretend
that's the right way to take it off so they've redesigned the grills the older ones allowed 60% airf flow transmission
these newer ones are 90% so that again
is how they are able to achieve that they've used ap11 fans so these are high
pressure fans and able to create that positive air flow or positive pressure
inside the case and as well as moving
air through a restrictive Grill although in this case the grill really isn't that
restrictive now we're going to move over to this guy right here the F4 takes
everything that's good about the rv4 and steps it up a huge notch in terms of the
quality so it's using Alum unibody
aluminum here on the top and here in the front check this out from the side this
is a single piece of aluminum that it's actually been like I don't even know how
they did this with the folds see this shape here this is a single piece this
is not a manufacturing trick and it is not made of plastic they've also added
noise dampening to the F4 on all the panels so front top and side panels and
they're using a higher quality AP 181 fan so instead of the Raven case series
case's switch is here where it's got a high and a low speed setting this one
has a dial so you can take it all the way from 500 RPM to 2,000 RPM m to
fine-tune the case for how much noise you want to hear versus How much cooling
performance you want to have the way that they achieve the air flow that they
need in this one is to have these vents
here don't worry I'll reposition the case to have these vents at the back so
these point to the back this is also part of what makes this case more silent
because instead of directing air towards the user sitting in front of the case
rather air noise towards the user it directs the noise out the back of the
case so there's noise dampening noise dampening noise redirection but still
plenty of air flow because this is quite open and free
flowing which leads us to the internal
nickname is apparently the mammoth this is the mm1 so they took this case and
they went okay we got these high pressure optimized fans we got this great cooling performance this is all
really cool and sweet but not everyone needs that much cooling performance so
why don't we take this optimized design and turn it into a total Beast that is
dust free so yes this is a dust free case and I'm going to show you why in
just a moment so this is obviously very early prototype this is just like
basically a hunk of metal that comes down and reveals your IO so you got your
USB 3 your front buttons all this kind of cool stuff so I'm going to put that
away this right here is if I can figure
out how it comes out there we go check this out
guys I know right basically they've
decided to put a car air filter into a
case now because they're using AP 182 fans which as I said before are
optimized for pressure they're still going to be able to deliver enough air
flow to the inside of the case to take care of a reasonably sort of mid to
high-end system so no I wouldn't recommend running four GTX 680s in here
but running something like a single 680 you're going to be fine so there's those
this is where you see the resemblance to the other chassis a little bit better
than uh than what you were able to see before so it's not only dust proof but
they're also saying it is spill proof because of the fact that the top is one
solid piece and all of the vents on the front and the back are directed
downwards so if you were to spill a cup of coffee on the top of this case it
would all go down it would get on your carpet but at least it wouldn't wreck
your computer I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to try and turn this okay
we're going to go to the other side of it so that I can uh show you guys what
the back looks like so the back is a
very similar design and what they've done is they've put a space between the
io and the back of the actual enclosure outside where you can run all of the
cables that you need just like that last thing we're going to check out in the
Silverstone Suite is over here and this is very very cool and I'm not going to
reposition these too much because then you'll see my entire production crew
through the uh the mirror that's behind it actually if you guys want to move over here a little bit then you can get
an angle that's more like from that direction so I'll take the mic and uh
let's go right over here this is a dual monitor stand
that is capable of 360° rotation it can
move in pretty much any direction you could possibly want check this out it is
built out of there you can hear that solid
aluminum and it is extremely robust feeling so you can take that move it all
the way down here move it all the way back up here there's no there's no Force
required to move it around just like that we can rotate it as much or as
little as we want to in whatever direction we want align the monitors
this one right here is a touch screen and I am just very very impressed with
this particular product I don't think I've seen anything before that allows
this degree of flexibility so there's no pricing available for this one yet
because I'm sure you guys were going to ask but it's just I don't know I kind of
geek out when I see stuff like this oh yeah I had forgotten these were back
here so there's an ITX enclosure this is the M5 using an sfx power supply they've
done away with 3 and 1 half in drives entirely to save on space and it accepts
ITX with low profile expansion cards and you got 280 mm fans over there on the
right for cooling the last case over here on the right so I'm just going to
sneak past you here and move this monitor out of the way ah so convenient
is the M4 so this is a continuation in their Milo series and basically it adds
a lockable front panel just a gorgeous
thick aluminum front panel to an otherwise sort of very very plain very
elegant looking home theater case this is the kind of thing we're used to seeing from Silverstone don't miss any
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