Welcome to a new segment that we're calling from the
archive where basically I don't know if
we'll ever do this again, but like we found a video that we made a long time
ago and never released. So, here it is.
It's not often that I do an unboxing anymore. And the reason for that is
actually a good one because, you know, I think there's more value to other parts
of the experience with a review or a build guide or a build log or whatever
else. But this product, I actually
started opening it up and I realized how
fun the experience was and I went, "Nah, let's put the few things we've taken out
back in." And let's just start over. Welcome to my unboxing of the LD
Cooling. They used to go by Little Devil. I think that's sort of unofficially what they still go as. PC
V10 phase change cooled case. This puppy
is going to hold your CPU, a 300 watt CPU, at
minus30
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and have a look at what comes inside first, shall we? You get a couple of
boxes, each of which has, I'm assuming,
some kind of accessories or something like that. As soon as we take out the
foam on the top, we've got the top of
the case that is able to house a quad 120 mm radiator. The OEM for this case
is Lean Lee, so you'll probably recognize a lot of the design elements
of their PC V10 case. Also in here, we
get a a neoprene insulation boot that
there's going to be instructions. Oh, I seem to have misplaced the instructions.
Well, there are instructions for how to put on the phase change cooler as well
as some looks like adhesive neoprene
material for insulation. Yes, when you are cooling below ambient temperatures,
you have to insulate the cold stuff in
order to keep condensation from forming and uh getting water on your hardware.
Now, I don't think they include the needed eraser for most people, but they
threw that in for me. I'm actually not 100% sure about that. And then the same
with the PCI covers. Uh they sent those for me. Those are actually an additional
purchase. Uh this, no idea, but it's a 3 and 12 to 2 and 1/2 in drive mount. So,
I'm not sure if that's normally included. This all is though. This is a
bunch of mounting hardware for your phase change cooler. It's compatible
with pretty much any socket. So, you can see they've got your AMD holes, your
Intel holes, your other more different Intel holes, some different Intel holes,
and then this is a piece that goes on the back to keep the back plate itself
from frosting up and then just dripping down the back of your motherboard. Then
we've got another one of those puppies as well. Some more screws. And then this
looks like uh I'm not sure. I know that there's a USB module that it includes
that monitors the temperature so that you know you don't uh boot up before
it's working and something something whatever it's in the instructions. All
right, so now we got to take out these pieces of
foam. Honestly, it's kind of a miracle
that this thing arrived in one piece because this is pretty much the worst
kind of foam. It only has about 2 in of
it on either on every side. So, it weighs about 50
lb. 50 lbs without a system in
it. All right. Which means getting out
of getting it out of here is going to be a challenge because I'm not actually
100% sure if this applies to all uh
systems with a condenser and an evaporator, all phase change systems
like refrigerators for example. I know you shouldn't flip them on their sides
if you intend to use them anytime in the next I don't know what it is, 48 hours
or something like that. So, I don't want to flip this baby over cuz I want to try
it out pretty quick. And I've had it sitting upright for a while. So, I actually have to lift this straight out.
So, let's hope this goes okay. Let's clear some space. Let's put it up
here.
Okay. Nothing to hold on
to. Oh, man. That's heavy. Yeah, I'm
going to need a hand. Kill the camera. Okay, got it.
So, I've clearly I'm clearly out of practice at this whole unboxing thing.
My wife's like, "Why don't you just cut the box open?" Like, I I I don't know.
Cuz I didn't think of it. What's up, little girl? Sorry about that. Little
Missy was getting fussy over there. So, uh on the side that we had actually left
off on, you can see that there's a very, very large window. I think there's
actually a larger window option as well, but then the bottom part is just
reserved for cooling. On the back, you can see we've got 10 PCI slots, uh,
single 120 mm fan, power supply, and wa,
there's already a a power plug there. I guess we can start opening it, right? I
mean, that's how this works. Unboxing. There we go. We've got another plug
there. That's for the Oo, there's our first glimpse of the uh phase change
cooling inside. All right, let's go ahead and come around to this side where
we've got all just plain white here. We
should stay over on this side so we have light. Where we've got all just plain
white as well as another fan vent there
that looks like an exhaust. Wow, they included a Noctua industrial fan. These
guys are serious about, you know, quality here. I mean, I guess if you're
going to charge €1,200 for a case, it better be nothing
but the finest. And then finally, that brings us around to the front where
we've got four 5 and 1/4 in bays, two
large intakes, the USB module thing, as
well as our front switches. All right, so let's unveil
her. Look at that. Now, it's all
aluminum except for the bottom plate, which is steel to hold the weight of the
compressor unit that is installed, pre-installed in the bottom. This is
made in Slovenia. Check that out. And I guess
all that's left now is for us to open it up. And oh, right. No, there's one thing
that we can definitely check out. So, that's the thing that we heard banging
around inside the case uh before we were
able to open it. So, it's bubble wrapped. And that is the evaporator unit
that is going to sit directly on top of the CPU, cooling it. And then let's go
ahead and get the bottom opened up as well, so you guys can check this out.
All right. So, this is curious. It looks like the case comes apart completely
with Allen keys, like like with hex
heads. All right, here we go.
left side panel off. So, there's our window. In spite of no protective
covering, it's in pristine condition. It looks like they're using a
very different It's not glass, but uh it
seems like a seems like a better acrylic. And then they've just got it
adhered with adhesive strips and then it
is slightly indented so it sits just almost flush with the side panel.
Actually quite nice. It's a very DIY, but like in a good way. Uh, in this
case, does seem to be a crack in the corner, though, actually. Oh, there's a
crack in the corner. Yeah, there's definitely a crack
there. So, this case is available without the the white out option. So,
you can see the case is painted white and
then the actual Here we go. Everything but the
hold down plate and the boot here is
actually uh white as well. So this is the lines here are insulated underneath
this white sleing. And then there's more
insulation here. And then this piece right here is for insulating the bottom
right here. So you're actually going to have to cut that to size. You can see
that nice shiny copper base there.
Absolutely beautiful. I mean, you see a lot of DIY phase builds on forums like
extremesystems.org or wherever else, but I've never actually seen like a
commercial grade one like a like a like a professionally done one for for
resale. So, that is pretty that is
pretty incredible. So, we can Oh, okay.
I'll take this baby. Thank you. So, what else we got in here? So, behind this
plate, we've got five of Lean Lee's
usual sort of you put rubber grommets into the drive on either side, put them
down, and slide them in. 3 and 1/4 in bays. Uh 3 and 1/2 in bays, excuse me.
We've got those uh four 5 and 1/4 in bays up here. I don't see any dedicated
SSD mounting. Although it seems like if you got even remotely creative at all,
you could drill a hole here or there, put some double-sided Velcro here or
there, and make SSDs happen pretty much all over the place. We got a nice big
cutout for CPU coolers, like say for
example, this one. Getting those mounted with the motherboard installed. Um, I've
kind of, this is kind of funny, even though they sent me the five pack of PCI
covers, it didn't even occur to me at the time that I was ordering that I have 10 of these and I'm not putting in two
graphics cards and something else. So, I'm probably going to have to figure out
another solution for that. Anyway, this is an extremely roomy chassis. So, you
can see that an ATX motherboard is only going to go up to here with like
mounting holes going like way the heck off to who knows what the heck. You can
put pretty much absolutely whatever you want in here. You can mount a 140 mm fan
between the basement and the um No, you
can't. That Oh, that's weird. So, you could Yes, you could screw through this
side and mount a fan on this side blowing up at a graphics card or
something like that, but actually that's going to be for your power supply if you
wanted to have it um have it have top
intake or something for some reason. So, let's go ahead and open up the basement
and get a better look at the compressor. All right, here we go. Last screw.
And there it is. Oh, that Noctua. Okay,
so I'm not a phase change expert by any
stretch of the imagination. The closest I've ever been to anything like this was
the one time I did sub-zero cooling, and that was with chilled liquids. So, I
bought a window AC unit and then basically submerged the uh the
evaporator in liquid and then pumped
that liquid around to my CPU. and I believe my GPU at the time. No, it might
have been just GPU. Anyway, the point is um this is a totally other ball of wax.
So, the evap head is up here. We know this. So, this is all insulated very
nicely, very professionally glued together, lippity bloop. This is the
condenser. So this is where the Okay, so the liquid basically boils on the CPU.
Then it gets brought back around and then this is where it has to go from a
vapor back to a liquid. So this is the condenser. So it's a 140 mm fan on there
that is a pressure optimized fan. The manufacturer does recommend cleaning out
the front very frequently because this is going to do all the cooling. This is
what does all the cooling. So then once it turns back into a liquid, it comes
back over here and then around and bippity boop, around and around we go.
So this is that USB control board that I was talking about before. So this is
where we've got it looks like a K-type temp probe that goes presumably right up
to the evaporator head. So that's going to tell it how cold things are running
and going to tell all these other things what to do. And then over here we've
just got general ventilation for all this down here. Now, I don't know much
about the individual models, but I do know that Danfos is well regarded as far
as compact compressors go. This is what it's going to make the bulk of the noise
of this system. It should be noted that phase change cooling, especially a
compact unit like this, like I mean, I was using a window-mounted AC unit in
order to get similar CPU temps, actually not even as good. Whereas, this has this
tiny little condenser, like 16 the size.
this tiny little evaporator, this tiny little compressor. So, it tries to make
everything really compact. So, you're gonna have to make some compromises and
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