WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.120 Lionus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom Glass. Visit 00:00:05.319 --> 00:00:11.200 store.fantom.glass for the best darn screen protectors out there as well as 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:15.440 HyperX. So, we're here in the Silverstone suite. These guys gave me a 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:20.480 really hard time because I did not show up to their suite last year. They were 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:23.039 like, "Lion, bro, you missed all the way 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:27.039 cool stuff and uh you should really make sure that you come by in 2015." So, I I 00:00:25.439 --> 00:00:30.640 went, "Yeah, yeah, definitely definitely I will come." And I was not 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:34.960 disappointed. So, as you guys probably know, if you watch my channel, I love 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:39.200 small form factor machines. I actually recently checked out a Lean Lee case 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:44.320 that I really wanted to, based on the initial picture I saw, really wanted to 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:47.760 be kind of a a console killer type box. And then I sort of pointed out a bunch 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:52.160 of stuff that I really didn't like about it. And so, Silvertorm was kind of like, 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:56.320 yeah, just a reminder, you should probably come to our suite. This looks 00:00:54.399 --> 00:01:00.480 absolutely fantastic. Now, there were some complaints about the RVZ01 that it 00:00:58.879 --> 00:01:06.080 was a little bit too big, but in Silverstone's defense, the RVZ01 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.840 supports a dual 120 mm liquid cooling 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:12.240 radiator, and you can actually do a custom loop in the thing in addition to 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.159 supporting 2 and 12 in SSDs and 3 and 12 in hard drives. But some people crave 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:20.240 smaller and are willing to sacrifice that stuff. And for those, there's the 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:24.479 RV Z2. So, in the front, you've got a slimline optical drive and really not a 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:28.640 whole lot else. You got a couple front USB 3 as well as front panel audio 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:33.439 beside behind a little sliding door. Then on both sides, this is kind of Wow. 00:01:31.759 --> 00:01:38.960 Uh this is the only one in the world, isn't it? I will try not to break it any 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:43.280 further than I already have. So then on this side, you find a uh a plexi window 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:48.880 right here that's got ventilation holes cut into it right above the CPU um the 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:52.600 the CPU area of the motherboard as well as the SFX power supply. And then on the 00:01:51.759 --> 00:01:57.119 other side, oh, she made it. This guys, this 00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:00.560 is a very early prototype, so don't don't judge the uh the fit and finish of 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.640 the case based on what I'm showing you here. On the other side, you've got the 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.520 actually the same panel. They are reversible, so you can switch them 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:11.680 around if you want. And this one has the ventilation holes over the video card. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.840 So, we'll start by taking this one off since it happens to already be off 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:21.040 because I'm a genius. And we can see that this is you can actually install up 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:24.640 to what is this like 13 in. 11.5 in. Okay. Well, I'm not I'm not 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.840 real good with the Imperial system. So, you can put up to an 11.5 in graphic 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:31.520 card, which is pretty much anything you'd want as long as it's dual slot. 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:34.879 And they've actually left an additional bit of space in the top just in case you 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:40.480 have heat pipes sticking out the top of your graphics card or you've got these right angle mounted PCI Express 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:44.800 connectors as well. It's something I might personally prefer to see reduced 00:02:42.959 --> 00:02:48.160 in height and just kind of push people towards reference cards, but I 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:52.239 understand why Silverstone did it this way because reference cards are becoming 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:55.519 less and less common all the time. Also, on the back here, you see the CPU cutout 00:02:54.239 --> 00:02:59.360 for the motherboard, so you don't have to worry about remembering to install 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:05.200 that first. And let's go ahead and have a look at what's on the inside. So, I'll 00:03:02.239 --> 00:03:10.239 just slide this off. Try not to break it any more than I already have. And the 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.840 internal layout here is extremely compact. So you can see the slimline 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.239 optical. You can see there's two toolless 2 and 1/2 in drive cages up 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:23.680 here at the top. We're using a PCI Express. It looks like uh Yep. So that's 00:03:21.040 --> 00:03:28.959 a PCB base. So that's like a hardmounted PCI Express riser coming out of the PCIe 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:32.319 16X slot on the ITX motherboard that's mounted in here. You can fit any 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:38.000 standard ITX board. Although the Zotek one they've got in here is a little funny. It's got like sodium memory. And 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:42.959 then the power supply. Now, it takes an SFX power supply, but this is a bit of a 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:48.239 unique power supply mount in uh in this way. Now, Silverstone has a whole range 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:52.720 of SFX power supplies with these little, you know, 80 mm slim fans, and sometimes 00:03:51.519 --> 00:03:59.040 they can be a little bit loud, especially once they start working harder. But they've actually developed 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:04.720 for this additional space above the unit here, a new form factor of power supply 00:04:01.519 --> 00:04:06.040 called SFXL. So, this is their 500 watt 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:11.680 SX 500LG. And now we get a 120 millimeter 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:16.000 fan and a fully modular interface on a power supply that has the same rear 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:20.160 footprint as an SFX power supply. It's just a little bit deeper. So, for some 00:04:17.919 --> 00:04:23.600 of their cases, RVZ1 is another example of one that will work with it. For some 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:29.600 cases, you will actually be able to install these new only sort of a 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:31.600 standard SFXL power supplies in order to 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:35.919 uh in order to get potentially quieter cooling as well as uh well, I guess 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:41.280 that's probably just about it. That's about the only advantage. All right, so 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:44.320 now let's move on to the SG13. In this 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:46.639 case, if there were a couple places on 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:49.520 the RV ZO2 that I kind of went, yeah, you guys could have probably squeezed 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:55.120 another inch here, another two inches there. this one. That is not that is not 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:59.199 the case at all. The entire front of the case is mesh. You got two USB 3 ports as 00:04:57.440 --> 00:05:03.199 well as front panel audio. The power switches on the top. And then I can't 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:06.240 show you guys too much from the outside, but I'll go ahead and get this open in a 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.479 minute. On the back, you can see this one supports full-size ATX power 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:14.400 supplies. You've also got the IO cutout for the motherboard as well as up to a 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.000 dual slot graphics card right here. The sides are all pretty much mesh. So, 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:22.240 there's your intake for your graphics card. On that side, there's more mesh on 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:26.240 the top. So, that's going to, I don't know, be I guess passive exhaust would 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:31.120 be my guess based on that. The front of the case supports a 120 or 140 mm fan. 00:05:29.520 --> 00:05:34.560 On this side, you've got a little bit more ventilation near the graphics card. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:39.440 And then, let's go ahead and open this bad boy up. They did not waste, as far 00:05:37.039 --> 00:05:44.240 as I can tell, pretty much a single millimeter on this case. Also, a very 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:47.680 early sample, so don't judge it based on that. I can't get it apart. So, I'm 00:05:46.479 --> 00:05:52.320 going to show you guys like exactly what's going on here. So, you've got two 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:55.280 2 and 1/2 in drive mounts on the top. So, you go ahead and put a screw through 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:59.919 the top here and they sit on the underside here just above the graphics 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.840 card and just to the side of the power supply. You've got another 3 and 1/2 in 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:06.880 drive mount on the bottom. So, this has got the holes here. You go ahead and 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:10.800 mount that on the bottom right next to the motherboard. So, there's it looks 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:15.120 like there's almost no space. It's almost touching the motherboard right 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:19.199 there. In the front, you can see that 120 mm 140 mm mount. And then you might 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:24.800 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 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:29.680 have any room for a decent CPU cooler." That is exactly why they wanted the the 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:33.120 extra space for that 140 mil fan in the front. You can actually put an AIO 00:06:31.039 --> 00:06:36.560 liquid cooler in here. There's another little funny thing about the front as 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:40.479 well. So, there's you can see the dust filter here. You can also see a cutout 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:45.600 in the front to allow this case to accept up to a 10 and 1/2 in graphics 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:50.400 card. So you could feasibly put a GTX Titan Black Edition into a case that has 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:55.199 the same internal volume as the Cooler Master Elite 110. A case that's limited 00:06:52.479 --> 00:07:01.680 to I think it's a 7 and 1/2 in graphics card max. Not a tiny bit of wasted 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:04.880 space. And uh but just in case you know you need a little bit of uh help with 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:12.000 cable management given that there's almost no space in it, they've also updated their Strider S series. So last 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:15.680 year they made them shorter than ever in spite of the fully modular interface. 00:07:13.919 --> 00:07:19.120 This year they're making them even shorter than that. Okay, so it's not the 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:22.720 most exciting sounding thing in the world, but another centimeter here is 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:27.840 another little bit of more cable management room you're going to have to fit your system into this case. 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