WEBVTT 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:15.920 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:21.119 This is an ITX case that exists within a very small form 00:00:18.279 --> 00:00:26.320 factor compared to some of its competition which is ITX but actually 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.560 has a much sort of bigger form factor. I think hopefully we know. Okay, you know 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:34.719 what? I'm just going to say it. So, the Bit Fenix Prodigy is sort of that hot ITX case that lots of people are talking 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:37.760 about, but my observation about the Bit Phoenix Prodigy is that it's really cool 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:41.600 and everything, but it's actually not that small. I mean, you could you could 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:46.800 easily, if you look at the internal layout of the Prodigy, you could actually fit an MATX board in there 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:53.280 without making the case really any bigger. So, what if you wanted a truly 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:58.480 small ITX system that can still accept a fair amount of hardware, has great 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:00.480 cooling, and is very inexpensive? So, 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:03.440 the Elite 12 might be the case for you. Let's take a quick look at what Cooler 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:08.960 Master has to say for themselves. So, we're not going to worry too much about this. We'll get to that later. And 00:01:06.479 --> 00:01:13.520 nothing. And aha, supports up to three fans for 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:19.040 extreme cooling. If I have a pen in my pocket, I'm going to circle that because 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:20.880 that's obviously extreme. Okay. MiniITX 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:24.080 with ATX power supply support for easy upgrades. This is really important. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:28.400 Aluminum finish on the front panel. Okay, cool. So, let's uh get this going 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:34.520 here. I'm going to put that pen away because nothing else could be extreme 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:36.960 enough to justify that pen ever 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:39.960 again. I'm not teasing anybody here. I just really did think it was that 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:46.640 extreme. Um, okay. I I didn't I was 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:48.640 teasing. So guys, to be clear, there's 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:53.040 nothing extreme cooling about an ITX enclosure. If you can get things running 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:57.520 cool enough to, you know, overclock a little bit, then like that's fantastic. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:00.240 But don't uh don't be too don't be too worried if you don't get like the 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:04.000 maximum overclock that you would have seen on a regular ATX or larger 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.239 enclosure. Um, you know, there's awesome cases from the likes of Cooler Master 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:11.680 that will be more appropriate for extreme cooling like the half XM. All 00:02:10.399 --> 00:02:17.040 right, so the front of the case, this is quite nice, actually. So, they've got an aluminum finish here. Two USB 2.0 ports, 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.400 as well as a microphone and headphone jack, one USB 3 port, reset switch, and 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:26.080 power switch. And then you've got one 5 and 1/4 in bay, which will look quite 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:30.000 nice with kind of a black frame around it once you put a black uh optical drive 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.200 in there. On the bottom of the case, you find some 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:37.200 feet and some black paint. Okay. On the 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:41.360 other side of the case, you find some air ventilation. So, that is kind of 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:46.400 extreme. Okay. So, you've got vents that run all across both sides and the top of 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.840 the case. And this one looks kind of cool cuz it seems to have a bit of a 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:53.680 filter thing going on. Now, this is how they achieved the full ATX power supply 00:02:52.000 --> 00:03:01.120 compatibility. Now, I actually don't mind this. I built myself um a miniIT or 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:03.680 rather microATX system and a Silverstone 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:09.040 S01. And in order to get a triple rad going in that system, I had to put both 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.200 the radiator and the fans and as kind of 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:14.480 like an external sort of protrusion out of the case, I had cut open the top of 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:20.400 the case and then I put that there and I ran the tubes down the back and then into the case. And I don't mind that 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:24.800 sort of a little bit of bulge thing in order to achieve an overall cleaner, 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:29.360 tighter, tighter form factor. So, some people might not like it. I'm I'm a fan. 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:35.360 Um, okay. Got some more ventilation holes. got your two two expansion slots. 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:38.799 However, this ITX will only have one actual expansion card you can fit. 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:42.400 Cooler Master seems to be assuming that you're going to be using that slot for a 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:47.440 graphics card. So, these are really tight. I'm going to need to grab my screwdriver. And we're back. And while I 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:52.120 was removing the screws, I noticed that the case has water cooling holes, or 00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:55.840 more specifically, it has one, which means that if you actually 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:00.319 did have an external water cooling setup, you would be able to get the tube 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:04.879 there, but not back. or back but not there. So, that's a very strange strange 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:08.799 thing to do, but uh you know, hey, Cooler Master works in mysterious ways. 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:13.040 Um and realistically, you don't really need water cooling for your ITX system 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:18.239 anyway. Most ITX boards with the exception of ASUS's Z77 board with like 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:21.519 the beefy huge PWM on it aren't really capable of extreme overclocks anyway. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:27.680 So, there we go. We can have a closer look at all the ventilation that's going 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:29.759 on in the uh in the enclosure here. And 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:34.880 let's get the case open. So, what do we have in terms of 00:04:31.960 --> 00:04:38.040 expandability? So, we've got three 3 and 1/2 in drive bays, which we will have to 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:44.560 try to find. Uh, there we are. And are we 00:04:41.919 --> 00:04:49.919 missing a sled? Hold on. I'll be back. Yeah, I derped. So, um, these are 2 and 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:55.040 1/2 in adapters for the 3 and 1/2 in drive sleds that are attached to them. 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:58.720 So, you can natively mount. Here we go. So, let's show you guys how quick it is 00:04:56.960 --> 00:05:02.960 to mount a hard drive in here. Although, I actually don't know which way they go. 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:07.040 So, we're just going to guess. And we're going to guess that the uh connectors go 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.040 at the 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:17.160 back. There it is. So, this will go back 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:22.960 in there because that's where it belongs. Go back. It's like that happy 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:25.120 Gilmore scene. It's your home. Too good 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:29.199 for your home. has to go in the hole like the ball. Okay. Anyway, um so we'll 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:33.919 put that in there. And that is how you mount hard drives in the Elite 120 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:38.000 Advanced. Um alternately, you can use these adapters then to mount 2 and 1/2 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:42.880 in drives. So it natively supports three 3 and 1/2 in or up to four 2 and 1/2 in 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:47.919 drives. So two of those drives are with these adapters here and two of them are 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:53.759 somewhere else. And we are going to go on a voyage of discovery to find out 00:05:51.039 --> 00:05:58.560 where those other 2 and 1/2 in hard drives go. And we're going to do that 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:02.880 voyage of discovery off camera because I really can't tell. And it was actually 00:06:01.039 --> 00:06:07.759 Slick who figured this out, which just boggled my mind. Um, so you actually 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:11.120 mount one 2 and 1/2 in drive up here. Then you flip it over and you screw in 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:16.080 another 2 and 1/2 in drive from the bottom. So, using these two adapters, 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:19.680 you can screw four 2 and 1/2 in drives into here. And then, I guess potentially 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:24.639 you could do another uh you could do another three and a half inch. That's cool. That's that's actually 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:28.560 outstanding. And then the 5 and 1/4 in drive is pretty self-explanatory. So, 00:06:26.479 --> 00:06:32.000 there's just a bay here and then you screw it in from either side. None of 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:35.520 that fancy toolless stuff. I mean, this is a fairly inexpensive case considering 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:41.039 all the cooling that you got going on here and all the features it has included. So, uh, let's have a look at 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:46.639 cooling since they talk so much about the extreme cooling. So, there's one 120 00:06:43.919 --> 00:06:50.400 mm fan at the front and this gets air from, uh, who only knows where? Oh, 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:57.120 yeah, there we go. Gets air from these vents here, here, and here. Okay. Blows 00:06:55.039 --> 00:07:02.319 air through the drive cages. Then you can mount an additional 120 mm fan here 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:05.039 on the other side of this. Uh, assuming you don't have any components on your 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:09.759 motherboard that are going to that are going to interfere with that in any way. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:14.960 Then you can have an additional 80 mm fan right here blowing right across the 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:16.639 PWM on your motherboard as well as the 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:20.400 CPU socket area. So that is an incredibly smart placement for that. And 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:24.880 finally, you'll have your power supply fan built in. So you'll have up to four 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:30.479 fans in the system that are actually actively working on exhaust and and 00:07:27.880 --> 00:07:35.039 intake. All your cables inside are black. Love to see this. They've also 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:39.039 got all the power plugs are black right up to the connectors. So, it looks 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.960 really, really, really sharp. You've got adapters for these fans as well. So, you 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:46.960 can plug them into three pin connectors. There you go. There's adapter. Or you 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:51.120 can use the Molex pass through internal USB 3, which is good to see again, 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:56.560 especially on a more budgetoriented case. Uh HD audio USB 2. And I think 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:02.000 that pretty much covers it. So, this I know guys, I've been promising my builds 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:03.919 in the Prodigy and the FTO3 Mini for a 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.000 while, but this is going to be part of our roundup because the FTO3 is our 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.319 super small one, and I'd love to see how that one does in terms of cooling and 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:16.720 performance. The Bitfenix Prodigy is sort of like a big miniITX case, so the 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:21.039 cooling should be great, but it's kind of big. You know, it's not that like 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:24.960 ITX, it's not that small. And then this is going to be like our more traditional 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.000 ITX case, like our compromised one. and it's looking like it's going to be 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.919 really really strong contender just based on the cooling options that it 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.800 has. In terms of included accessories, you got some zip ties, you got some 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:40.080 screws, and you got one more set of those drive rails. So, you'll have enough uh because two of them came 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:43.919 pre-mounted on these adapters. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first 00:08:41.760 --> 00:08:46.560 look at the Elite 120 Advanced. 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