Thank you to Corsair for bringing us to Computex 2016 this year. Check out their
lap dog. It allows you to game on the couch with a keyboard and mouse. It's
pretty cool. Description down below. Also, thank you to MSI. They have a cool
AUS desktop here and their GTX 1080. So,
this is the Dark Base Pro 900. And instead of starting with the outside and
slowly going in like I normally do with a case, I'm going to go right to the juicy stuff. This is the removable
motherboard tray. Uh, as you can see, it's in my hand instead of like in the
case. That's natural. that's supposed to happen. It has stuff like rubber bumps
on the back so you can actually put it down on a table and it can rest nicely
without scratching anything. So, you can build your computer almost entirely
outside of the case and then slot this guy in and go from there. We recommend
in all of our build guides to build outside of the case first. This allows
you to do that but not waste all of your
work. The two other adjustment points for the motherboard tray are vertical
adjustment and inversion. So vertical adjustment makes it so you can either
bring it down to be more compatible with thicker radiators or bring it up so you
can get above the power supply and show off your entire motherboard. Inversion
makes it so you can flip it over, put it on the other side of your case, have
your graphics cards pointing up, all that kind of fun stuff, and move the
windowed side panel to the other side to have your have your case in like a
switch configuration. It has a ton of cable management loops for Velcro straps
or zap straps or whatever else and a fan controller. It has three PWM and three
nonPWM plugs, although this is the nonpro version. The Pro version has four
of each. I'll get more into the differences of those later on. Also, on
the back of the motherboard tray is a single SSD slot if you only want to have
one SSD. You can kind of tuck it back there. It's all nice, clean, and tidy.
And a massive CPU cooler cutout so you can easily install whatever you have.
Speaking of CPU cooler, if you want to go with water cooling, you can naturally
fit a 360 or 420 mm rad in the top. And
if you want to go for the front, if you remove the 5 and a/4 inch bay, you can
fit also a 360 or 420 mm rad. Or if you
leave it in there, I believe you can fit a 240 or 280. All of the fan intakes are
filtered with removable filters, which is great. And when you get the case, it
comes with three Silent Wings, three 140 mm fans. Another cool thing about the
cooling is that the air doesn't actually come in from the bottom of the case. It
comes in from the side of the bottom of the case. You don't have to worry as
much about the computer being on carpet or something like that where you might
pick up different debris, which is never fun. Next up in the modular fun, we have
the hard drive trays. So, the computers pro and nonpro come with seven of these
different immodular hard drive units. So, you can fit seven hard drives or 14
SSDs as one can be mounted in the top and one can be mounted in the bottom.
You can also buy two additional if you want to remove that 5 and a/4 in bay
that's up there, which I expect you probably will anyways, although I don't know if you need that many drives. That
means theoretically you could have 19 total SSDs in proper mounting positions,
but we all also know that you could just dangle them around and that would be
fine, too. The inside of the case is lined with sound dampening material. And
the nonpro version, which would have a solid panel on the left hand side
instead of a window naturally, unless you inverted the motherboard tray,
whatever, don't worry about it. Would also have sound dampening in there. although the Pro version wouldn't
because again naturally it's a window. Moving to the outside on the top you
have your IO which is two USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, a mic and headphone jack
separately, power and reset buttons, hard drive LED, PWM controller switch,
so you can have it go through the motherboard or through the PWM
controller that B Quiet supplies. And then last but not least is an RGB
switch. So with the Pro version, not with the non-pro version, it comes with
a bunch of LED strips. And I'm sure if you got the non-pro version, you could
add your own as well. On the Pro version, not on the non-pro version, at
the very top of the case, there is a key charger to charge your phone, just in
case you don't want to plug it in through USB or whatever. So, the
differences between the Pro and the nonpro is that the Pro has a window, has
lights, and has a key charger on the top. The nonpro has no window, no
lights, no key charger. That's the only differences. Let me know what you guys
think of the Dark Base Pro 900 in the comments down below or on Twitter or
wherever else. We're we're pretty easy to contact. Thank you to Corsair for
sending us here this year. If you want to game on the couch with a keyboard and mouse, check out the Lap Dog. That's
pretty cool. Also, thanks to MSI. They'll be showing off their AUS X
desktop and their MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X8G graphics card at the show. We'll be
checking them out later on, so stay tuned for that and stay subscribed to Line of Tech Tips for all of our
Computex 2016 content.