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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at

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the only true successor to the original

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enthusiast class case from Corsair. This

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is the 900D and it picks up where the 800D left off. The 800D was at the time

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revolutionary. It made cable management

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uh turn into something that everyone could do with its grommeted cable

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management holes that by now pretty much everybody has copied. It was huge and it

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wasn't afraid to be huge. Before the 800D, the only cases you could get that

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were large were not even really like a

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lot of the time they weren't even proper like normal cases. Like they had 5 and

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a/4 in bays that were like weirdly mounted on the side and stuff like that.

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and it was not afraid to let you water cool. The 900D takes everything about

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the 800D and just completely amps it up.

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It's like injecting steroids directly into its corateed. So, there you go. Um,

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for foam, we've got a fair not quite super brittle foam, but it's also not a

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closed cell soft foam, but Corsair compensates by making it extremely

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thick. And as you guys know, it is the girth, not the length that is the most

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important thing. You've got another inch and a quarter or so right here on the

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top. So, let's go ahead and tilt this over so you guys can have a look at what

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the 900D looks like inside the case. So, while the box is huge, the 900D is also

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huge. Um, I'm probably going to need Slick's help taking this out of the box.

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So, we're going to tip it over and we'll be back in just a moment. How big is the 900D, you might

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ask? to which I would reply, you could easily fit at least six cats inside

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before they even started to like cause problems. So, it comes with bubble wrap

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around it to prevent any kind of or at least my review sample does. I don't

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know if they all do, but this will prevent

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any random incidental sort of punctures

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and jabs with this cardboard and this bubble wrap layer here. So, I'm going to

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go ahead and uh pull this off. We've got

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another cardboard layer here, which

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hopefully I can remove. I thought I was done with my knife, but they've packed

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it extremely well to ensure that it gets here safely. And this is going to be

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especially important packaging wise. Corsair could not afford to skimp on

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this case because especially once you actually build a system inside it, it is

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going to be heavy and big. So unless it's built extremely solidly and packed

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extremely well, you are going to end up with a damaged computer at the other end

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of any kind of shipping expedition. So

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we're having some trouble here. So we're going to get this uh wrapping done here.

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Got the get the box out of the way. And the unveiling is pretty much complete.

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Ain't she a thing of beauty?

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gorgeous, enormous window that shows you everything. I mean, at the angle you'll

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actually normally be looking at it from. So, we're going to go ahead and adjust

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that right there. So, it shows you everything from your back radiator

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presumably, uh, your motherboard. You're going to see the power supply a little

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bit, but not too much. And then you're going to see, um, a little bit of your

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drive cages here, but again, not too much of that. We're actually going to

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take a little bit of time to take all of the plastic covers off. So, there's

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plastic covers holding things like the uh the IO cover in place, holding things

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like the front panel in place, as well as protecting things like the side panel

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window here and little bits of uh of trim like this. So, we'll be back in a

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moment again with all that

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removed. So, I wanted to show you guys a few things that I noticed when I was

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taking the plastic off. Uh number one is, holy crap, the system for side

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panels on this case is cool. So, I've taken the black plastic off the window.

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You can see it's very, very clear, very transparent. However, you still get that

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thing with all acrylic Windows where it does it's very staticky, so it tends to

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collect. See, there's cat hair on it already, but that's just kind of life.

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Uh, the side panel, because it's basically all acrylic, does have a bit

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of flex to it, but I'm not super concerned because it's still got some

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weight, which is going to help it resist any vibration. And I love the mounting

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system for the glass. Just look at this. It's like

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solid screws and just oh, feels really

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good. I mean, even my TJ07, which is the case that I'm using right now, just had

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like cheesy little plastic uh fixings on it. Not Not very uh not very great. Now,

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you don't have to remove the top panel in order to remove the bottom panel

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here. So, you just pop this open and it's on a friction hinge here. So, right

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there. And then over on the other side, there's another one just like that that

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controls this opening up. And I wanted to show you guys how Corsair has

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included all the appropriate little bits of adhesive so that things don't fall

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off in shipping. So, they've uh protected all the corners and then

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they've protected things like the magnetic fan filters from coming off.

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Magnetic fan filters really are the best way to go about this

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because every other system I've seen, I mean, the original sort of fan filters

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and cases were usually screwed on and then some of the later ones came along

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and they were uh like latched on or they were uh slid in or whatever else. But

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check this out. I mean, this is how hard it is to remove your fan filter.

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Yeah. You take that, you throw it under the sink, you clean it out, you put it

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back. Yeah. Just like that. And the fact

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that the intake for the case here and the exhaust for the case over there is

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so easy to get at is extremely convenient. Now, speaking of intake and

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exhaust, you can see all around the edges here, there's a gap here as well

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as over here and all along the bottom. That is how that fan is actually getting

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any air. And Corsair thought about this. They didn't just sort of willy-nilly

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um you know apply ventilation holes here. There's a gap between that piece

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on the front and these pieces right here where you apply your fan filter. That's

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going to allow for there to be um it acts as a bit of a Oh crap, the word

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escapes me. Shroud. Thank you. Shroud that will allow it to actually draw some

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air in. So that's very very smart. Now I want to take you around to the other

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side really quick. So there we go.

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That's latched on where I want to show you. It's okay. I got it. It's not

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actually that much heavier than an 800D, which is nice. It does use aluminum

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support struts in order to keep from just being it's just ludicrously heavy.

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So there you go. If I can move it, you can probably move it. The one button

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releases at the back for the top panels here. Or first I'll show you that

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functionality where the bottom opens up without the top actually being open. So

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you can get it your drives. You can actually upgrade your hard drive if you

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ran yourself cables down from the motherboard and just kind of kept them

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here. You could upgrade your hard drive without actually even opening up the top

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panel, which is very cool. And there's another removable fan filter there. So,

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these one button releases are great. You press them, you pull out the side panel,

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and then it comes off. This one's bound to be a little bit more solid. Yep. Just

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because it doesn't have that big acrylic piece on it. The way that it latches in

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up here is very robust, very strong. I

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can't imagine that that would break in any sort of uh realworld situation. Now,

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cable management room at the back. This is where the 900D really shines. And

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this, I mean, this is where the 800D really changed the game because it added

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enough room for proper cable management that everyone could do without, you

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know, origami cabling as Voodoo PC used to call it. So, check this out. That

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looks like more than an inch behind the motherboard tray. That means you could

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have a 24 pin ATX cable and something else running back here without running

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out of room and without having to do that thing where you force the back

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panel on and you kind of push on it in order to get it to actually close. And

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the funny thing is uh George, the designer for cases for Corsair said to

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me, he showed me his hands. He went, "I have really big hands, really thick

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fingers. I designed my cases so I can work in them." I'm like, "Yeah, okay.

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Sounds about right." So on the back you find not only all the cable management

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grommets you could want which come out at the top for drives or at the top for

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drives depending on whether you've got an ATX or an EATX or HPTX width board.

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You've got them here for your 24 pin as well as your PCI Express here for more

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PCI Express as well as cables for the drives over here. And I love this. So

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many cases do this and it drives me crazy where they'll have something

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interfering here between the drives and the motherboard. It's like case

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manufacturers. Hello. We have to run cables from the motherboard to the

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drives. Did you not think of this? SATA cables. They're not 24 48 in long.

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They're short. So, there you go. Thank you, Corsair, for thinking of this

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because there's lots of room to coil them up and hide them and keep them on

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these um on these drive cages here. So,

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very, very nice. You've also got plastic clips for holding cables in place. And

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tons of these little anchors. I love these. 1 2 3 4 five 6 7 8 9. Uh these

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are great because they allow you to without sort of folding things sort of

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under each other and all that, they allow you to take everything, route it neatly, and then strap it down so that

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it's not uh so it's not ugly and gross. So even even over here, check this out.

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1 2 3 four just for bringing your 8 pin

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or your four pin up to the motherboard itself. Speaking of your 8 pin or four

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pin, check this out. Uh, this right here is an extension cable and also an

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adapter. So, if you have a motherboard that goes uh that just has a single

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eight pin, you can just run this as an extension and then you can tuck this one

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back here in your ample storage room. If you have a motherboard that takes an

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eight and a four, such as a Crosshair 5 formula, you can plug a single 8 pin

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into this and plug this into the board itself. So, very, very handy. Nice big

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CPU cutout. So, you're going to have no problem installing CPU coolers that uh

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that do require a back plate without removing your motherboard. And the

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motherboard tray itself has a little bit of flex, but you come to expect this

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from motherboard trays that have all this room for cable management as well

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as the CPU cutout and the cable management cutouts up here. And once you

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actually strap a board to it, you're not going to notice any kind of a problem

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with that. So, I'm not uh not too worried about that particular thing.

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Nice little rubber grommets in here so that you're not going to see look at

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these see these noise dampening pads right here. Corsair doesn't want this

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case to make noise. So, they've actually included kind of a Blu-Tack mod style

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thing that'll keep it from having any sort of vibration. Um, let's finish up

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at the back here and then we're going to go uh or we'll finish up on the outside

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and then we're going to uh to spend some more time on the inside. I apologize

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guys, this is going to be a long video, but this is a very important case for

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the evolution of cases in general. I want to make sure I'm covering it adequately. It's all about cooling. So,

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one of the criticisms of the 800D was that it didn't do air cooling as well as

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it did water cooling. So, Corsair has taken all that feedback and opened up

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every available surface all along the back. Your extra power supply plate,

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your IO shield, your 120 or 140 mm fan,

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and the back as well as the entire top of the

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case. Uh-oh. Oh, water bottle. It's all good. Um, is all mesh. Now, this mesh

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has a fine filter on it in addition to the uh to the cutout metal. So, it's

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also got a reinforcement plastic bracket

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on it. There you go. So, it's going to be nice and strong. And I think that's

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pretty much it for the back and the top. We'll get to more about the inside once

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we're on the inside. I just want to lead myself around the case in a logical way

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so I don't miss anything cuz uh that's really important to So, up at the top,

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there we go. We've got our IO, microphone, headphone, two USB 3 super

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speed, reset button. Love to see this tucked away where the cats won't

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accidentally hit it. Four USB 2.0 ports.

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This is great to see because so many motherboards have anywhere from sort of

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two to six USB 2 headers built into into

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the inside. And it's like, what am I going to plug into this thing, you guys?

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None of my cases support. Well, now we have a case that supports it. So, there

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you go. Very nice to see. uh power buttons right here in the middle and

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then you've got four 5 and 1/4 in expansion bays. Now you might say, "Oh,

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Lionus, that's sort of odd because I thought that's what a 5 and 1/4 in

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expansion bay looks like. This is a lot bigger than 5 and 1/4 in." And I would

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go, "Yes, you're right." Because in order to not lose the integrity of the

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look of the case, well, I think I might need to open those from the inside. I

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actually don't remember how these come off from the uh from the video we did at

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CES. But in order to not compromise the look of the case, Corsair decided to

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widen the five and a quarter inch standard to make it uh sort of work for

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them. So, I'm going to figure out how this comes off cuz I can't remember. All right, so we figured it

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out. I mean, I can actually get inside the case to work on it, which is handy

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because that's what I had to do. Uh there's little tabs in the back. Okay,

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all you got to do is release those with your fingers. See, just pinch those and

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then the whole thing comes out. Now you can see this is obviously much larger

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than a 5 and a/4 in device. But what Corsair's done is they have because so

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few people even use 5 and a/4 in devices. They want it to look clean if

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you don't install anything. And then they've used kind of a stylized um Oh, I

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might as well show you the toolless installation here, you guys. So you just

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peel this up, slide the drive in, and then let it click into place. Drives in.

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You can screw it in with a couple screws if you want to, too. So, they've gone

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with a recessed bezel here that will match your 5 and a/4 in device, just

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like that. Now, we pulled off the solid aluminum front piece simply by prying it

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up from the bottom. So, you can see there's four uh four points here that

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will hold that in place. There you go. Got your nice little Corsair logo on

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there. And uh the front had a couple more little pieces of tape that were

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holding in another very conveniently removable fan filter. So, Corsair

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includes not their regular class of fans with this case, but their uh their

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airflow style sort of modeled after their AF series fans. So, the entire

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front comes through this. Look, I mean, look at what the thought they've given to this. They're like, "Okay, well, fans

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pull air from directly in front of them, but they also pull air from the side of

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directly in front of them as well. And the whole thing's filtered. You can take this thing off, clean it, and you are

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good to go." So here once I've put that

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in place, you can see it draws air here. So you can actually if you get a bit of

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a better angle there, you can see from that side how there's lots of room

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there. And then you can also get air from the front here as well. Now you can

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replace these fans. You can install a triple 120 mm radiator up here without

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much difficulty whatsoever. And that is

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part of what will lead us to the inside of the case where we will start to

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investigate the water cooling options that are available. Now, speaking of

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water cooling options, the side of the bottom panels here, you can actually

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remove this solid piece. Uh, Slick pointed this out to me simply by

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removing the eight screws here. So, that'll leave you with a mesh side on

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either side or both sides, giving you even more access to fresh air for the

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components that you're keeping inside there. Now, let's go ahead and flip it

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down to the bottom so we can see if there's anything interesting to see down

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there. I don't want to uh let go of it here so much. So on the bottom, no, not

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a whole lot that is interesting down there. So there you have it. Um I think

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it makes a difference that on the older 800D, the bottom had that fan filter for

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your power supply, whereas the 900D uses a sidemounted power supply. So it's

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going to draw its air from the outside of the case here or the outside of the

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case on the other side rather than from the bottom of the chassis. They've

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included some SATA cables and I guess we'll figure out how those work in a

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moment. But um there you go. These are the mounts that are going to hold your

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power supply in place and keep it from putting any unnecessary strain on the

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back of the chassis itself. And then this right here is an additional

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mounting point for more 3 and 1/2 in or

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2 1/2 in hard drive or SSD mounting

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cages. So let's go ahead and close this up. Again, I I you know, it's

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interesting because I I found myself closing and opening it quite frequently.

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But what's good is I'm able to do it quickly and efficiently because that is

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how you are going to upgrade your computer. You're going to want to just go flip flip open do whatever you need

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to do and then move on. You don't want to spend all day every day actually

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working on the thing. So, hard drive mounting options. You've got these

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little sleds here that are capable of mounting 3 and 1/2 in drives toollessly

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or 2 and 1/2 in drives by uh screwing them in. And then it comes with three

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sleds that each holds three drives. So,

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they uh Oops. Hold on. Let me see if I got that lined up correctly there. So,

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we've got three in each one that clip in like that. You can see they popped out a

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little bit in shipping, but uh shouldn't be anything to worry about. Now you can

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install you can actually okay they're modular for one thing. So you can move

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all your drives to the basement and then you can go ahead and install pumps or

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radiators or whatever other you know I don't know action figures. I've seen

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those in computers before up here that you want. You can take this one and move

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it up here and you can keep all your drives in the front. Throw some water

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cooling over here on this side. Throw some water cooling over here on the

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other side. Maybe just a small single 120 mil radiator. or you can pull them

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all out or you can add a full additional two for 15 2 and 1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in

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drives in the case natively. So those will be available from Corsair. Uh these

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are those aluminum pieces that I talked about before, those supports and I think

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that pre Oh yeah, mounting right. Okay, so mounting for radiators is awesome. So

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you can do up to a Okay, here let's let's do all the radiators now. You can

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do a quad 120 mm meter radiator across

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here. To pull out these drives, you can put a power supply here and you can do a

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dual 120 mm radiator on the other side.

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Then you can put up to a triple 120 mm

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in the front. Up to a triple 140 or quad

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120 in the top. You can do a single 120

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or single 140 in the back. And I think what I actually missed was this could be

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a triple 140 or a quad 120 as well. So,

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the radiator mounting options, you can have up to five radiators in the case

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without making any modifications to it, which is absolutely outstanding.

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Motherboard compatibility, as I mentioned before, is pretty much um

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unparalleled. So, you can install an ITX board, an MATX board, which will go down

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to about here, an ATX board, which will

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be this big, and then check this out, an XLATX board, which can go all the way

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down from either eight or nine expansion

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slots. Here, I'm going to give you a bit of a better angle there, Slick. So, eight or nine expansion slots. Remember,

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they've included 10 expansion slots. So, even with a nine expansion slot board,

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you could install a dual slot card in the very, very bottom slot. And then you

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can even install an HPTX board which would take up pretty much the entire

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thing here and would allow you to really make the most of this particular beast

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chassis. I wonder if we've missed anything. We did show this in the top

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here. So you can see all those different mounting hole options depending on what

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you opt for up there. Let me just go sort of scan through and I'll see if we

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missed anything. So, here's our variety of boards that

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we'd like to try out in the 900D. Um, it

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it does say on the box it's compatible with ITX. So, I'm obligated to put an

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ITX board in there to just show you guys what it'll look like if you build a

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system with a single PCI Express slot and uh about a half of ATX or half of

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sort of slightly wider than ATX width on it. So, that's sort of ridiculous.

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Here's what an MATX board will look like inside. So, most people are not going to

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go microATX with a uh with a system like

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this, but that's your four expansion slots and standard width. Next up, we're

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going to do ATX. So, this is a crosshair 5 formula. This is one of those ones

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where that uh that extension cable will come in handy. All right, so this guy

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right here is going to look a little something like this. So, that's seven expansion slots and standard width. So,

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you can see there's tons of room over here for much, much wider boards than a

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standard ATX board. Now, the next one I have is a bit of a hybrid because some

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boards are labeled as EATX, but what they actually are is slightly wider than

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ATX. So, you see here how there's a little bit of extra width to this board.

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That makes it sort of EATX, but it's also wider than normal because there are

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seven expansion slots, but there's a burned one here at the top. So, this is

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actually eight expansion slots. And this is the biggest XLATX board that I had on

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hand. This is an X79 UD7 from Gigabyte.

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And even that doesn't look that big in

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the 900D. I did miss something on the

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inside. So in here, we've got all of our front panel connectors, our USB 2, our

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HD audio, our other more different USB 2, USB 3 front panel headers, as well as

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three SATA cables. So, what I noticed is that two of the included triple hard

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drive cages uh do not have back planes,

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but one of them does. So, if you slide that out, you can see that that is a

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toolless installation. So, you can pre-run uh presumably there's power over

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there somewhere. I think I did see it before. You can pre-run power to the

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back plane, pre-run SATA data to those three drives, and you can just take down

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this thing, pop in a drive, and you are literally ready to go without any

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difficulty. If you have hot swap enabled on your motherboard, you actually won't

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even have to turn off your computer, which is very, very cool. So, we're

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going to put the case back together and do some size comparisons against some

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other chassis that we have lying around. So, we're going to start with um the

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kind of case that most normal people would be running. And this is a

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modestsized ATX tower. So, this is the

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900D. Corsair has increased the width compared to a normal computer. And

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they've also dramatically increased the height and the length. So, I'm going to

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line them up back to back so you can see

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the sheer size of the 900D. This is a Corsair Carbide

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300R. Significantly narrower. Go ahead.

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Get it from this angle as well, Slick. So, I'm going to go ahead and adjust

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that for you so you can really see. You could almost probably fit two of these

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in here. rumble in terms of the sheer volume. So,

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we're going to tuck this one aside for now and I'm going to show you one of our

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most space efficient computers that we've ever had here at TechTips. And

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this is our Shuttle X79. It has a 6 core

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3960X, 32 gigs of RAM, a Quadro 4000,

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and a 10 GB network card. And you could probably fit anywhere from um five to

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about seven of them inside the volume of

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the 900D. With that said, you obviously can't do a dual socket shuttle. So,

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there's uh there's an option that you have with the 900D that you don't have

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with that. Here is a Corsair Vengeance

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C70. So, this is a pretty uh Skookum

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gaming tower and even this one. So, with uh up to dual 140 mm radiator in the

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top, single 140 mm in the back, lots of

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air cooling. Uh I think it supports up to quad fans in the front, something

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like that. And this is what it looks like next to the 900D. And we're working

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our way up to the 800D next to the 900D.

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I have to go get one right now, though. Just a sec. So, just for lulls, I hauled

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down my rig. So, this is the Silverstone TJ7 next to it. Bear in mind, the TJ7

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doesn't look like that out of the box. I still haven't put my glass panel window on it or anything like that, but there's

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still like a good sort of 3 or 4 in

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there. that is the difference in height and then a good few inches here. And

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look how much wider it is, how much wider it stance is than the TJ07 which

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just has 5 and a/4 and then sort of a border. Whereas that's pretty much the

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width of just the bay covers on the 900D, never minding the huge gap around

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here for air flow through the front of the case. Now I'm going to move my

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system and we are going to show you a couple more size examples including the

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Bit Phoenix Prodigy. uh which is sort of a gaming grade ITX

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tower with similarly sort of way too many water cooling options but not

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designed for HPTX ports. So there you go. This also actually has a similar

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width to the 900D. I'm going to pop it up here for a sec so you can see that uh

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the Bitfenix Prodigy has kind of a wide stance and that's because it actually

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holds the motherboard in it the flat way as opposed to vertically. So I don't

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know what the uh the 900D's excuse is. Actually, I do know what its excuse is.

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The excuse is it holds a butt ton of hardware. So, there you go. That's how

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you could probably fit about three Prodigies and change in the 900D. And

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let's wrap up. Actually, here one more practical demonstration of how big the

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900D is. And you know what? It's big, but it's efficient. I did make fun of

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the uh the Cosmos 2 a little bit when it was released because I said, "Well, this

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thing is so big." But the Cosmos 2 doesn't fit nearly the same caliber of

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hardware in it that the 900D does in terms of liquid cooling. I couldn't

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figure out there. I couldn't figure out what the Cosmos 2's excuse for being so

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big was because it didn't fit that much stuff. Um 900D does. We can actually put

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our shuttle computer right inside it without any difficulty. So there you go.

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We can put a couple in there. No problem. There's your dual X79 solution.

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Um, all right. So, let's wrap up with a size comparison to the classic 800D. So,

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this is Slick's personal

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rig. There we go. All right. Man, that's

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heavy. Slick, how do you move this thing

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around? So, there's a liquid cooled 800D. Actually, I'm going to put it

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right next to it for size comparison first and then we'll uh then we'll go.

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So, if the 800D is the biggest case you've ever seen, then the 900D will be

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bigger, and it will be the biggest case you've ever seen because uh it's

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definitely definitely taken that crown

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from the 800D. So, it is wider, taller,

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and it is deeper. It is all three of

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those things. It holds so much more hardware, though. Corser hasn't wasted a

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cubic inch of the space that they've added to the 900D because remember the

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800D natively only supports a triple rad in the top, a single 140 in the back,

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and you can mount a 140 here, but other than that, the space isn't nearly as

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usable as the 900D. Personally, I don't miss the hot swap here because I find

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that the easily accessible uh opening door down here at the bottom and those

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hot swap or well, not hot swaps, but backplained uh SATA mounts back there

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are an equally good option compared to the older system. And it doesn't break

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up the uh the clean look of the front that the 900D has. So, there you have

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it, you guys. The new enthusiast

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champion from Corsair, the 900D. I hope

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