welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cubc mini ice you can see that it
was sent from new Taipei City in Taiwan
okay there's some sort of yeah sort of
okay box art going on here but I think
where we're really going to enjoy this unboxing is once the box is actually
open because this is a case that I think
looks incredibly cool this is a mini ITX
chassis with okay as you might imagine based on
their mini ice name and the fact that the tagline for it is frozen solid with
fair this is a mini ITX case with fairly Advanced cooling features that can also
support some pretty Advanced Hardware so the first thing we see when we open it
up is an accessory box but we'll get to that later we also see the packaging now
they're using a hard foam I would prefer to see a soft foam however due to the
aluminum construction of this case it really doesn't weigh a whole lot so it's
a lot less likely to damage its packing materials during the shipping process
and uh I mean honestly if it managed to survive an air shipment from Taiwan to
here then it's that's probably about as much of a of a stress test as you're
going to need for it however once it's loaded up with components we might be
having a different conversation because it does support some pretty high-end
internal components including a full-sized ATX power supply as well as a
graphics card up to 340 mm so let's go ahead and open this
bad boy
up all right so actually give me a second to get acquainted here guys so
I'm just kind of checking things out here um it arrived a little bit dusty
but it's nothing that doesn't come off with the old sleeve wipe so to speak so
let's have a look at the outside of the case before we go too much further here
so on the top you're going to see a 140
mm fan that is set up as an exhaust fan
so this is only compatible with 140 mil you can see the holes are hard drilled
around the outside of the grill in terms of IO we have front USB 2 two of those
two front usb3 as well as front headphones and microphone the overall
look of the case actually reminds me a little bit of my tj07 and that it has
this single piece aluminum thing going on on the front sorry I guys I'm trying
to be really careful without whoops touching it too much because uh once you
touch brushed aluminum basically the Finish is ruined forever so you can see
it's a solid piece going all the way up the front and then it's another solid
piece going all the way up the back and then meeting right here so it's two
pieces going around the whole outside of the case which I think is really cool
you've got an optional VGA cooling intake here as well as feet on the
bottom of the case giving it a little bit of space to breathe on the front of
the chassis uh let's just lift it back up
we've got a 5 and 1/4 inch optical drive bay as well as our uh Power and IDE or I
shouldn't call it IDE like so hard drive activity indicator we've got power and
reset buttons as well as a stylish cubc
logo going on here all right let's move
around to the back of the case where we find our standard ATX power supply Mount
so you can see that's done with just a couple thumb screws you screw your power
supply into the plate and then slide the whole thing into place this is much like
the PC Q7 that I have for my media PC
downstairs water cooling holes if you wanted to externally water cool it I
hope you're not going to do that with a configuration like this though because
you do have a fair amount of room included for an air cooler so you can see the motherboard is going to be right
above here so any air cooler that'll fit within here actually I think the
dimensions hold on maximum of 90 mm or 9
cm from the uh from the motherboard itself so we've got two expansion slots
yes this is Mini ITX and we also have a very unique system for attaching the
side panels so these are little thumb
screws that uh have Allen key spots in
them so if you wanted to use an allen key to wonder if it comes with an allen
key doesn't surprise me that much if you're going to go ahead and you know
make your case open up with an allen key I guess you better include one there it
is haa Allen key SL buzzer so it does
come with a a speaker which is what I think they mean by
buzzer all right there we go then we got
another one here four of these oh this isn't so bad
I could I can dig it oh
okay and there we go so solid
aluminum ha I'm totally going to do
it and he whipped out the iPhone thickness comparison bam now you know
how thick the panel is it's fairly thick actually it has a very rigid feel to it
so this is in theory to reduce the overall vibration of the case so the
overall noise level of the case they also have anti vibration rubber
dampeners here on the side panels this can be a real problem for aluminum cases
if you don't have some way to to isolate
the vibration because they're much lighter weight than their steel
counterparts which has the advantage of being well light weight attractive
easier to work with you can make more beautiful aluminum cases than you often
can out of uh steel and uh and plastic
but the drawback is that well it's not as strong so you have
to use thicker material which can be more expensive and then also that it's
uh not as not as um not as
heavy all right let's just get both of these side panels off here all right
here you can see the other one if you want basically looks the same like the
same thing and also has the uh rubber
noise dampening solution implemented on
the other side as well you can see that you can also see the motherboard tray as
well as the interior cables look at that all black cables very nice touch like to
see that all right so inside here we got
a few things we have oh this is kind of neat
hold on I'm going to have to go find a hard drive so I can install this and show you guys this all right so here are
the uh rubber noise isolation Fasteners
as well as some included hard drive screws and of course once you've
installed them you have a nice little trap to play
with see how the wheels realistically turn just like a real vehicle
would V uh no so here's how you actually install your hard drive you go ahead and
you slide this bad boy into whoops no ah
first you need to take this off there we
are and then this slides out of the way
pretty cool I guess you don't have to take it all the way off either look at
that you slide those guys in there and then
you oh hold on slide it in the right way if you want
to have an optimal user
experience and then you put this over
here which will prevent the Wheel from
moving and continue to isolate the uh
vibration from your hard drive so that's pretty cool hey I certainly think so
they also include and for a lot of companies this is sort of optional stuff
but they see how this one already has uh the sliders installed and uh it has a 2
and 1/2 in SSD Mount included so you can
do up to 3 3 and 1/2 in hard drives and
two 2 and2 in hard drives in spite of the fact that this is an ITX enclosure
check that out there's your 140 mm internal cooling fan with an included
black three Pin cable uh what else we got in terms of interial ah yes so let's
show just what kind of space there is for installing graphics cards this is
cool so I'm going to grab the longest graphics card that I have happen to have
handy which also happens to be the longest graphics card that anyone
happens to have handy probably this is a Radeon HD
6990 so if you wanted to build yourself an extreme little gaming box with
emphasis on extremely little you could throw even a radon 6990 in here with
room to spare and you can throw a 120 mm
fan down here which you can use either as an exhaust or as an intake depending
on the configuration of your card so if you're using using a blower fan like this guy right here I would probably use
it as an intake so that's really cool
with the 5 and a/4 in Bay is pretty self-explanatory in fact I think the
rest of this case is mostly pretty self-explanatory very cool little
enclosure so for a size comparison I mean here it is next to a
fairly bog standard mini tower also next
to the uh mangoes that I was eating that
I'm no longer eating and we'll take down stair shortly so you you can see it's
quite wide for an ITX enclosure and the reason for that would be so that they'll
have all the space that they allocated for things like coolers as well as the
fulls sizee power supply but it is very very short compared to Mid Tower so
it'll look right at home on your desk
without uh without that looking weird ah yes the
internal connectors so
uhhuh pretty standard stuff here too so
we've got our front panel connectors you know your LEDs your reset switch power
switch you got your front HD audio as well as your front USB one uh USB 2 and
your front usb3 so thank you for checking out my
unboxing and first look at the Cub
Tech wow I just completely drew a blank what is it even called mini ice don't
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