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HyperX. So, we're here in the Silverstone suite. These guys gave me a
really hard time because I did not show up to their suite last year. They were
like, "Lion, bro, you missed all the way
cool stuff and uh you should really make sure that you come by in 2015." So, I I
went, "Yeah, yeah, definitely definitely I will come." And I was not
disappointed. So, as you guys probably know, if you watch my channel, I love
small form factor machines. I actually recently checked out a Lean Lee case
that I really wanted to, based on the initial picture I saw, really wanted to
be kind of a a console killer type box. And then I sort of pointed out a bunch
of stuff that I really didn't like about it. And so, Silvertorm was kind of like,
yeah, just a reminder, you should probably come to our suite. This looks
absolutely fantastic. Now, there were some complaints about the RVZ01 that it
was a little bit too big, but in Silverstone's defense, the RVZ01
supports a dual 120 mm liquid cooling
radiator, and you can actually do a custom loop in the thing in addition to
supporting 2 and 12 in SSDs and 3 and 12 in hard drives. But some people crave
smaller and are willing to sacrifice that stuff. And for those, there's the
RV Z2. So, in the front, you've got a slimline optical drive and really not a
whole lot else. You got a couple front USB 3 as well as front panel audio
beside behind a little sliding door. Then on both sides, this is kind of Wow.
Uh this is the only one in the world, isn't it? I will try not to break it any
further than I already have. So then on this side, you find a uh a plexi window
right here that's got ventilation holes cut into it right above the CPU um the
the CPU area of the motherboard as well as the SFX power supply. And then on the
other side, oh, she made it. This guys, this
is a very early prototype, so don't don't judge the uh the fit and finish of
the case based on what I'm showing you here. On the other side, you've got the
actually the same panel. They are reversible, so you can switch them
around if you want. And this one has the ventilation holes over the video card.
So, we'll start by taking this one off since it happens to already be off
because I'm a genius. And we can see that this is you can actually install up
to what is this like 13 in. 11.5 in. Okay. Well, I'm not I'm not
real good with the Imperial system. So, you can put up to an 11.5 in graphic
card, which is pretty much anything you'd want as long as it's dual slot.
And they've actually left an additional bit of space in the top just in case you
have heat pipes sticking out the top of your graphics card or you've got these right angle mounted PCI Express
connectors as well. It's something I might personally prefer to see reduced
in height and just kind of push people towards reference cards, but I
understand why Silverstone did it this way because reference cards are becoming
less and less common all the time. Also, on the back here, you see the CPU cutout
for the motherboard, so you don't have to worry about remembering to install
that first. And let's go ahead and have a look at what's on the inside. So, I'll
just slide this off. Try not to break it any more than I already have. And the
internal layout here is extremely compact. So you can see the slimline
optical. You can see there's two toolless 2 and 1/2 in drive cages up
here at the top. We're using a PCI Express. It looks like uh Yep. So that's
a PCB base. So that's like a hardmounted PCI Express riser coming out of the PCIe
16X slot on the ITX motherboard that's mounted in here. You can fit any
standard ITX board. Although the Zotek one they've got in here is a little funny. It's got like sodium memory. And
then the power supply. Now, it takes an SFX power supply, but this is a bit of a
unique power supply mount in uh in this way. Now, Silverstone has a whole range
of SFX power supplies with these little, you know, 80 mm slim fans, and sometimes
they can be a little bit loud, especially once they start working harder. But they've actually developed
for this additional space above the unit here, a new form factor of power supply
called SFXL. So, this is their 500 watt
SX 500LG. And now we get a 120 millimeter
fan and a fully modular interface on a power supply that has the same rear
footprint as an SFX power supply. It's just a little bit deeper. So, for some
of their cases, RVZ1 is another example of one that will work with it. For some
cases, you will actually be able to install these new only sort of a
standard SFXL power supplies in order to
uh in order to get potentially quieter cooling as well as uh well, I guess
that's probably just about it. That's about the only advantage. All right, so
now let's move on to the SG13. In this
case, if there were a couple places on
the RV ZO2 that I kind of went, yeah, you guys could have probably squeezed
another inch here, another two inches there. this one. That is not that is not
the case at all. The entire front of the case is mesh. You got two USB 3 ports as
well as front panel audio. The power switches on the top. And then I can't
show you guys too much from the outside, but I'll go ahead and get this open in a
minute. On the back, you can see this one supports full-size ATX power
supplies. You've also got the IO cutout for the motherboard as well as up to a
dual slot graphics card right here. The sides are all pretty much mesh. So,
there's your intake for your graphics card. On that side, there's more mesh on
the top. So, that's going to, I don't know, be I guess passive exhaust would
be my guess based on that. The front of the case supports a 120 or 140 mm fan.
On this side, you've got a little bit more ventilation near the graphics card.
And then, let's go ahead and open this bad boy up. They did not waste, as far
as I can tell, pretty much a single millimeter on this case. Also, a very
early sample, so don't judge it based on that. I can't get it apart. So, I'm
going to show you guys like exactly what's going on here. So, you've got two
2 and 1/2 in drive mounts on the top. So, you go ahead and put a screw through
the top here and they sit on the underside here just above the graphics
card and just to the side of the power supply. You've got another 3 and 1/2 in
drive mount on the bottom. So, this has got the holes here. You go ahead and
mount that on the bottom right next to the motherboard. So, there's it looks
like there's almost no space. It's almost touching the motherboard right
there. In the front, you can see that 120 mm 140 mm mount. And then you might
be looking at this going, "Well, hold on a second. If the power supply goes all the way down to here, I'm not going to
have any room for a decent CPU cooler." That is exactly why they wanted the the
extra space for that 140 mil fan in the front. You can actually put an AIO
liquid cooler in here. There's another little funny thing about the front as
well. So, there's you can see the dust filter here. You can also see a cutout
in the front to allow this case to accept up to a 10 and 1/2 in graphics
card. So you could feasibly put a GTX Titan Black Edition into a case that has
the same internal volume as the Cooler Master Elite 110. A case that's limited
to I think it's a 7 and 1/2 in graphics card max. Not a tiny bit of wasted
space. And uh but just in case you know you need a little bit of uh help with
cable management given that there's almost no space in it, they've also updated their Strider S series. So last
year they made them shorter than ever in spite of the fully modular interface.
This year they're making them even shorter than that. Okay, so it's not the
most exciting sounding thing in the world, but another centimeter here is
another little bit of more cable management room you're going to have to fit your system into this case. So, I
think that pretty much wraps it up for the highlights of the Silverstone suite here, guys. I do want to do a special
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