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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital now my biggest criticism of Corsair's innovation in the case Market

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has to be the fact that they still haven't come out with a four-door model

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they all have two doors now they moved a little bit more towards the direction of

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addressing the needs of people who want more doors on their cases with the 250d

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over there but this while it doesn't necessarily deal with that one complaint

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does address a complaint I didn't have and that is that cases need to be more

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seethrough okay now I've given you a totally sarcastic intro here but

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honestly I love this thing George tell us about the 760t with this full

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windowed side panel and and you you got to walk us through this a little bit

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here all right cool uh like you mentioned this is graphite series 76t uh

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it's a full tower case it's based on the awardwinning 750 one of the cool things

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about it like you mentioned is that full side pen window but that's just kind of

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the Cosmetic uh part of it so it's hinged so you can just open it really

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easily and get into your parts access really easy real quick and it's hinged

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on a pin so you just want to pull it off it comes right off and you can take care

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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

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of it Excuse me while I put you put that over there okay so the nice thing about

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the inside of it is actually it maintains almost all the 750d features

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you have dual 140 mm front fans with a 280 or 240 mm radiator Mount you have a

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360 mm mount on top you you have a 140 in the back you can put a single 120 on

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the bottom those side mounted ssds that everyone really liked on the 750 or back

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and then the removable and relocatable hard drive cages are there so this case

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has nine expansion slots so it's a true full tower as well it's really solid

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performance- wise and it looks really good too that full window gives you the

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ability to show off your full system and we've just put some Corsair link lighting stuff in there to show off the

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lighting capabilities now to be there's a couple things that I want to talk

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about that you didn't necessarily touch on and that is a I love 750d I think

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it's a great layout and the fact that it now has a more aggressive looking

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aesthetic I mean not everyone is going to like this better that's the cold hard

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truth but they don't have to now that there's a more aggressive looking

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aesthetic option for the people who don't like the clean lines as much as they like the bling I think that's

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fantastic and something you guys can't see but we'll get you some b-roll footage of is the fact that there's

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actually an acrylic panel on the other side as well so that one's not

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see-through so you don't have to see all the cable management behind it but it

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gives it a more uh balanced aesthetic so how long has this one been in the pipe

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we've been working on this since about a year to 15 months so about a little over

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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

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chassis so 750d was the basis for it but then we know we had to to come up with a

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couple different variants tooling up a a base chassis is very expensive so we

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know that not Everyone likes the obsidian style ID so we wanted to dress

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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

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now normally I I object to to a a very

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very large window but I think you guys are getting away with it here because of

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the excellent cable management and because of the good looks of the inside

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and you know what guys think about this for a moment when you see a really cool

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build how often is it that you know like say for example a fractal Define r for

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build how often is it that you see people do their finished shot with the

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side panel off because the cable management looks so good or whatever it

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is that they did well that's what this looks like all the time with the

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complete like you kind of tell we took the window off so there's a little latch

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here and then because it's made of Plexi it's obviously not that structurally

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strong compared to a piece of metal but there are magic pieces here and here

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also known as magnets that allow it to stay in place and still maintain that

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fleshiness that looks good I think you guys did a really great job on this one

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uh thanks very much George for walking us through it is there any other crazy

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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

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that we have ton of clearance up here for taller radiators too I meant that

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power supply power supply oh yeah by the way power supply this is a prototype of

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the ax 1500i power supply uh the 1500i

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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

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it's now uh what would be the draft of the titanium spec so the 80 plus

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titanium spec doesn't exist right now but there's kind of a draft of it and

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this meets that draft spec so kind of like you were mentioning draft end

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routers or you know draft AC or whatever it was now it's it's kind of the draft

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spec of the titanium certified efficiency um the other side of it is we

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we went out and said we wanted power SP to be even quieter with RM we got them

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down to a really low noise level by actually hand selecting electrical

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components oh I get it so draft means you have air flow all the time rather

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than actually oh wait hold on maybe I've misunderstood no exactly not that yeah

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no um basically the premise is that uh that there are other things inside your

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power supply that cause noise besides the fan and we had fan lless modes on power supplies for a long time um one of

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the things that people notice when the fan isn't spinning is you can sometimes hear an electrical Buzz or coil line and

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things like that so with r&m series we actually spent a year figuring out how

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to hand select each little component so you wouldn't get electrical noise and

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that's been brought to this series as well so all new HX and ax level power

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supplies RM and up basically everything will have the hand selected components

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to cut down on coil Buzz wine and all that stuff like that so it's actually

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it's coil lne and and Buzz stuff like that is not actually usually coils

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sometimes it's a number of other components but it's being called coil

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wine by the industry because just kind of that's a catchall term but we've cut

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it down to almost zero this system right now is running even though there's four

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280s in it it's running only three of them in crossfire because one of them

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fried itself overnight so that's probably our fault but anyway it's

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running three system in crossfire did you just say that it's probably our

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fault yeah um it's uh I think someone Zapped it when they opened the side

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panel but uh so one of them is not actually running it's just there for

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cosmetic purposes like the fourth stack on that Titanic um poor metaphor for AMD

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but anyway uh this is a uh running 3

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280s and it's running a a six core processor

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everything's running full load furmark uh Prime 95 is running crazy we're doing

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about 600 watts of output right now so it's only about you know kind of a

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little between a third and a half of its Max load and it's doing no fan at all

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right now so you're doing 600 watts completely fanless three 280s and a

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fully pegged processor uh x79 Sandy Bridge e fanless so that's kind of one

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of the nice features of a 1500 wat power supply is yeah it's expensive you have

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that head room for, 1500 watts but even if you're running a what is a ridiculous

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system that almost nobody I know would actually build uh you can run that

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fanless so pretty nice setup for the power supply very cool thank you very

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much George for taking the time as always it's an absolute pleasure and

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thank you very much for showing us this uh surprisingly interesting one it

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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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