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Digital now my biggest criticism of Corsair's innovation in the case Market
has to be the fact that they still haven't come out with a four-door model
they all have two doors now they moved a little bit more towards the direction of
addressing the needs of people who want more doors on their cases with the 250d
over there but this while it doesn't necessarily deal with that one complaint
does address a complaint I didn't have and that is that cases need to be more
seethrough okay now I've given you a totally sarcastic intro here but
honestly I love this thing George tell us about the 760t with this full
windowed side panel and and you you got to walk us through this a little bit
here all right cool uh like you mentioned this is graphite series 76t uh
it's a full tower case it's based on the awardwinning 750 one of the cool things
about it like you mentioned is that full side pen window but that's just kind of
the Cosmetic uh part of it so it's hinged so you can just open it really
easily and get into your parts access really easy real quick and it's hinged
on a pin so you just want to pull it off it comes right off and you can take care
of it and put it away so it doesn't get scratched while you're working on your system the nice thing about the inside
of it Excuse me while I put you put that over there okay so the nice thing about
the inside of it is actually it maintains almost all the 750d features
you have dual 140 mm front fans with a 280 or 240 mm radiator Mount you have a
360 mm mount on top you you have a 140 in the back you can put a single 120 on
the bottom those side mounted ssds that everyone really liked on the 750 or back
and then the removable and relocatable hard drive cages are there so this case
has nine expansion slots so it's a true full tower as well it's really solid
performance- wise and it looks really good too that full window gives you the
ability to show off your full system and we've just put some Corsair link lighting stuff in there to show off the
lighting capabilities now to be there's a couple things that I want to talk
about that you didn't necessarily touch on and that is a I love 750d I think
it's a great layout and the fact that it now has a more aggressive looking
aesthetic I mean not everyone is going to like this better that's the cold hard
truth but they don't have to now that there's a more aggressive looking
aesthetic option for the people who don't like the clean lines as much as they like the bling I think that's
fantastic and something you guys can't see but we'll get you some b-roll footage of is the fact that there's
actually an acrylic panel on the other side as well so that one's not
see-through so you don't have to see all the cable management behind it but it
gives it a more uh balanced aesthetic so how long has this one been in the pipe
we've been working on this since about a year to 15 months so about a little over
a little under a year and a half um one of the things we thought of was we needed to come up with a new full tower
chassis so 750d was the basis for it but then we know we had to to come up with a
couple different variants tooling up a a base chassis is very expensive so we
know that not Everyone likes the obsidian style ID so we wanted to dress
it up a little bit with some other designs so this is one of the other designs we've been working on is the 760
now normally I I object to to a a very
very large window but I think you guys are getting away with it here because of
the excellent cable management and because of the good looks of the inside
and you know what guys think about this for a moment when you see a really cool
build how often is it that you know like say for example a fractal Define r for
build how often is it that you see people do their finished shot with the
side panel off because the cable management looks so good or whatever it
is that they did well that's what this looks like all the time with the
complete like you kind of tell we took the window off so there's a little latch
here and then because it's made of Plexi it's obviously not that structurally
strong compared to a piece of metal but there are magic pieces here and here
also known as magnets that allow it to stay in place and still maintain that
fleshiness that looks good I think you guys did a really great job on this one
uh thanks very much George for walking us through it is there any other crazy
stuff in here that you'd like to just kind of point at and say hey this might be cool as well um just the the fact
that we have ton of clearance up here for taller radiators too I meant that
power supply power supply oh yeah by the way power supply this is a prototype of
the ax 1500i power supply uh the 1500i
is kind of like the 1,200 with a couple of big changes obviously there's more power to it but the other side of it is
it's now uh what would be the draft of the titanium spec so the 80 plus
titanium spec doesn't exist right now but there's kind of a draft of it and
this meets that draft spec so kind of like you were mentioning draft end
routers or you know draft AC or whatever it was now it's it's kind of the draft
spec of the titanium certified efficiency um the other side of it is we
we went out and said we wanted power SP to be even quieter with RM we got them
down to a really low noise level by actually hand selecting electrical
components oh I get it so draft means you have air flow all the time rather
than actually oh wait hold on maybe I've misunderstood no exactly not that yeah
no um basically the premise is that uh that there are other things inside your
power supply that cause noise besides the fan and we had fan lless modes on power supplies for a long time um one of
the things that people notice when the fan isn't spinning is you can sometimes hear an electrical Buzz or coil line and
things like that so with r&m series we actually spent a year figuring out how
to hand select each little component so you wouldn't get electrical noise and
that's been brought to this series as well so all new HX and ax level power
supplies RM and up basically everything will have the hand selected components
to cut down on coil Buzz wine and all that stuff like that so it's actually
it's coil lne and and Buzz stuff like that is not actually usually coils
sometimes it's a number of other components but it's being called coil
wine by the industry because just kind of that's a catchall term but we've cut
it down to almost zero this system right now is running even though there's four
280s in it it's running only three of them in crossfire because one of them
fried itself overnight so that's probably our fault but anyway it's
running three system in crossfire did you just say that it's probably our
fault yeah um it's uh I think someone Zapped it when they opened the side
panel but uh so one of them is not actually running it's just there for
cosmetic purposes like the fourth stack on that Titanic um poor metaphor for AMD
but anyway uh this is a uh running 3
280s and it's running a a six core processor
everything's running full load furmark uh Prime 95 is running crazy we're doing
about 600 watts of output right now so it's only about you know kind of a
little between a third and a half of its Max load and it's doing no fan at all
right now so you're doing 600 watts completely fanless three 280s and a
fully pegged processor uh x79 Sandy Bridge e fanless so that's kind of one
of the nice features of a 1500 wat power supply is yeah it's expensive you have
that head room for, 1500 watts but even if you're running a what is a ridiculous
system that almost nobody I know would actually build uh you can run that
fanless so pretty nice setup for the power supply very cool thank you very
much George for taking the time as always it's an absolute pleasure and
thank you very much for showing us this uh surprisingly interesting one it
really caught my eye when I walked in the room cool thanks man all right guys don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage
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