I'll be honest in the past I wasn't exactly all that enthused by be quiet!
cases they were kind of boring and simplistic in my opinion I'm not saying
they weren't good and if they were your thing I mean hey you do you man I'm here
to review not judge and this may be the most modular case that I've ever seen
like seriously everything moves but I'll
get into that later I guess judging is kind of part of the reviewing process
but let's not worry about that just roll the intro
int skull Canyon knck features a sixth generation core i7 processor and
Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link in the video description down below okay so
as with all of my case reviews let's start with the front and it's brushed
aluminum door which opens by simply pressing the top leftand corner so I
suggest doing that with some sort of cloth or even sticking an adhesive pad
on the corner so you don't stain it with your finger oils it's brushed aluminum
that is a problem it is quite frustrating to deal with as with all
brushed aluminum but it does look great
as David has said they should almost call it be careful instead of be quiet! I
thought that was kind of funny but and that's why I'm wearing these gloves it makes handling the case much more easy
on the reverse side of the door there is also some noise dampening materials
which does kind of fit the be quiet! name a little better revealed by the door and
starting at the top is a fan speed controller switch and an LED switch
featured only on the pro model two 5 and
1/4in Bays so you can install Optical drives to use as drink holders an easily
removable fan filter for your front fans
and a giant pull tab to remove a the fan
filter for the entirety of the bottom of the case including the power supply away
at the back also note that you need to remove this large fan filter in order to
take off the front of the case or you'll end up in a funny situation the top
features a chi charging area the pro model and in terms of I/O you've got two
USB 2.0 two USB 3.0 ports headphone and
microphone jacks a large set power button and a small reset button along
with a drive activity led the bottom is a continuation of the brushed aluminum
and features some large feet to pick the case up off the ground which at first
seems a little weird because there's no venting on the bottom but it is intended
to get the side mounted venting up out of the carpet so that the bottom of the
case can breathe that that way the left side panel is the now surprisingly
common one giant piece of tempered glass and is buffered from some scratches by
mounting on rubber wrapped thread points the right side panel is basically one
large blank surface of plastic that features some awesomely captive thumb
screws but there is a removable panel that features a fan filter and two 120
mm fan mounting points just in case you really love buying fans and that brings
us to the inside the back of the motherboard tray features feur a
satisfactory amount of cable management zap strap Loops a single 2 and 1/2 in
Drive Mount which is too narrow for comfort as fitting in a few different
ssds was legitimately problematic for some of them the pro version of the fan
and LED controller which features four three pin fan connectors and four four
pin fan connectors along with two LED strip connectors to go along with the
two included rigid LED strips and then
everything else moves oh my God even the
previously men side panels can swap which side they're on the motherboard
can flip over to the other side of the case or even be raised or lowered the
hard drive cage which features up to seven Drive slots Each of which can hold
one full-size hard drive or two ssds if
you are so inclined and yeah it can even change what side it's on too even the at
first weird looking internal Power Supply Mount makes more sense once you
realize it can slide back and forth hell
yeah uh H anyways almost nothing on the
inside of the case is in a permanent position this would allow you to have
your computer on the other side of your desk or have the front pointed away from
you but still have the internals shown in through all of their Glory through
that tempered glass side panel two gripes that I do have though are one due
to the excessive amount of thumb screws on the back of the hard drive stack
you'll have a hard time properly using a right angle SATA cable here and due to
the cable management hole positioning and standoff height for the motherboard
they're not great to use there either which might cause some problems and
installing the power supply is a pane four screws for the side panels four
screws for the power supply itself and then an additional eight screws for the
side mounts for the power supply and if you're doing a PSU Swap and have a tall
screwdriver potentially another two for your graphics card or even more if you
have other various addin cards this totals to 32 screw operations compared
to the standard 16 seems like not a big
deal but it's kind of annoying moving on once you decide where it all goes out of
what I think is a total of six logical positions you can then get to cooling it
it comes with three silent Wings three 140 mm fans but you can expand on that
with a up to 360 or 420 mm rad in the
top and front of the case a 120 or 140
mm rad in the back and a 140 or 280 rad
in the bottom and the fan mounts to boot you've got basically whatever options
you may want which may be a little Overkill considering modern computer
components don't even really generate that much heat but you do you man a note
here as well is that in order to remove the top of the case you will need to as
it says on page 49 of the manual Frist remove the front panel wherever they
could they included more of that noise dampening foam Quality Construction from
a German computer hardware company insanely modular computer to the nth
degree ability to house pretty much whatever you want especially on the
cooling side of things and speed controls and lighting features to match
a bit of an advanced case that will take some time in planning and maybe a little
bit of frustration but I say it's a step in the right direction although I do
think a power supply basement of some sort may have won over a few more Hearts
as seeing all of those cables just laying there feels a little like the old
days although you might have gotten some more mileage out of it with some black sleeved cables all right guys thanks for
watching like it if you liked it dislike if you disliked it and you're were like whoa that was a lot of sarcasm in one
video don't worry about it I don't really know why that happened it just
did me actually it looks beautiful once
you're done it is just a little bit frustrating to build in anyways if
you're wondering what to do next you can go to the Forum and discuss this case or
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mean that it's probably an old
video I'm going to just leave now