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Welcome to my Cooler Master Elite 110 video. This is a tiny tiny little PC

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case that holds a tiny tiny little well

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piece. I mean, I guess you could put anything in it, but it it's specifically

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designed to hold a PC.

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and fully private. Click now to learn more. Let's start with the packaging.

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fairly straightforward, fairly thin, fairly lightweight hard foam. But

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because it is such a small case and you can't really build a computer that's

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heavy enough for it to be a problem, I'm okay with that this time around. We'll

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go with an external tour for the start here. At the front you find mesh. On the

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side you find mesh. On the top you find mesh. On the other side you find mesh.

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And at the back you find well mesh on the power supply, I guess. And then more

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ventilation. When you're trying to cram an entire PC with discrete graphics and

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up to a 4770K CPU into something this

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small, you'll need all the ventilation you can get, and the Elite 110 delivers

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here. In terms of front IO, it's pretty standard fair. We've got two USB 3.0

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ports, headphone and microphone jacks, a hard drive activity LED, a reset switch,

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and then the front Cooler Master logo is actually a power switch. There's no five

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and a quarter inch bay, but most people aren't using those these days, so I'm

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not too worried about it. And uh there wouldn't really be room for it anyway,

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which you'll see once we open it up. At the back, you can see that even though

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the Elite 110 is a small package, that doesn't prevent it from having a pretty

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decent sized bulge on it. Sorry, it's a the power supply does stick out the back

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a little bit. What this does is it gives you about an extra um 20 mm of clearance

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internally so that you can fit a fairly normalsiz power supply on the inside.

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Again, even though the case is so small, the top casing comes off with four thumb

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screws that I'm just going to go ahead and remove here.

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We'll pull this baby off so you can see it fits on a little something like that.

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And then once we get on the inside, we can see it supports two 80 mm fans here

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on the side. However, that's only if you

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don't need a dual slot graphics card, which we opted to install. This is

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Lionus tech tips, guys, not Lionus and Nambi Pami tips. We're hardcore. We

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won't settle for onboard or single slot graphics cards if we don't absolutely

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have to. Now, with that said, on Cooler Master's site, they don't really show it

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being used the way that we're using it. And the case seems optimized for onboard

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graphics or a smaller graphics card with more storage as opposed to being

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designed for people who are trying to put a full-on gaming rig inside. But I

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guess the only way to find out if this works is to check our temperatures at

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the end and see how it went. In the front, it supports either a 140 mm or

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120 mm fan that takes advantage of that mesh. And you have the option to install

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a 120 mm radiator. The manual and

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product page don't specify the thickness that's supported, but I went with a

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Siden 120 XL. So, given that that went

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in there just fine with actual actually a fair bit more clearance to go, I would

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say pretty much anything should fit. Okay. In terms of CPU cooler support, it

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can handle a 76 mm or 3in CPU cooler.

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Not much space between the socket and the power supply up here. So, using a

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stock cooler is an option, but not many aftermarket CPU air coolers will fit in

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there, which to me made that liquid cooler in the front a no-brainer for our

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Core i7 processor. I was easily able to cram the tubing in here between the

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power supply and the motherboard, even though there wouldn't have been much space for air flow otherwise. You can it

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can handle up to a 180 mm power supply.

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That's in terms of length. Other than that, it's a standard PS2 form factor,

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but shorter is much better. I used a 160

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mm power supply and this is a modular one which gives me a little bit more

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flexibility in terms of using less cables and not having to cable manage as

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much and this was about right for me. I think trying to do a 180 mm power supply

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in there would be quite a bit more challenging in terms of cable

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management. Now it's a miniITX case which means that even though there are

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two expansion slots back here, there's only one internally. So, this is just

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for if you have something like a dual slot card. Cooler Master does support

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dual slot graphics cards than as you know, but not as long as you might

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normally see in a case that's a little bit bigger. So, it supports up to a 210

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mm graphics card, but there are a couple of things that you'll have to consider

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if you want to get a 21 cm card in there. Number one is that you're going

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to want a card that has a top-mounted PCI Express connector or you're going to

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have to factor that in when you're taking your measurements because if it

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has a rear one, you're going to need a little bit of extra space for that cable

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at the back of the card. Number two is you're going to want to make sure you have a strategy for what to do with all

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of the cables and wires that you're going to have to hide in the front from

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the front panel connectors like the front USB 3. So, what I did was I kind

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of crammed them into this corner, but I found that that ate up a little bit of the space that I would have had for a

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graphics card that took up the entire length inside. And a big part of the

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reason for that is because I'm using a radiator. If it wasn't for the radiator,

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I could put a fan grill on that front fan and then not have to worry as much

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about the uh the space available in the front. So, I squeezed the graphics card

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in at the end. I didn't have too much trouble with it. I mean, it all it all worked just fine. Just make sure as

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you're building you're managing your cables correctly to ensure that you're

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able to get everything in there. Um either way, what whatever you're doing,

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I recommend leaving the front bezel actually detached. You can just pull it

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off at the front right here until the very end because that'll give you a

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little bit more room to work with and install all those cards as you're

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building the system. Now, in terms of hard drive support, I wanted a challenge

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when it came to hard drive installation. So, I well, okay. I I guess I actually

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just kind of did it wrong. And to go back and do it over, I might turn the

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drives around. So, you can see I have the mounted connectors towards the back,

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and they're supposed to be mounted connectors towards the front. So, I

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would I would turn the drives around and put the cables on the other side. And I

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would definitely install drives in the top slots before populating the side,

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especially if I have a mid-range graphics card in here. It's a 260x in

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there. the way that I do because that's putting a lot of that graphics card heat

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next to my drives which is going to be bad for them in the longer term. In the

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end, it worked. And the fact that this case supports up to two 3 and 1/2 in

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drives and two 2 and 1/2 in drives or three 3 and 1/2 in drives or four 2 and

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1/2 in drives is pretty darn impressive given the size. And when we see our

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temperature tests, you're going to see that even with the hard drives in sort of their worstc case scenario locations,

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it actually performs all right. After finishing my build, I did have one piece

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of criticism. I wish the manual was a little bit better. I've already brought

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this up with Cooler Master, but step-by-step build instructions and some

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useful guidance in terms of part selection would go a long way towards

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making the build process more enjoyable. The manual is well written and

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professionally made, but I would just like to see it go a little bit deeper.

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But to be frank, if that's what I have to complain about rather than things

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like, you know, what was the overall build quality like? Then I guess they're

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doing pretty well. There were no rough edges, no things that could have cut me,

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no things that that really bothered me or I looked at and I went, really, what

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were they thinking when they did that? But I've come to expect this from Cooler

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Master, so it's hard to remember to mention that kind of stuff. And in fact,

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it's not even in my script. So there you go. I just remembered now. So, with all

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that out of the way, let's talk results. Playing Far Cry 3 with the GPU usage

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pinned at 100% yielded 90 degree temps

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on the R seven260X that I have tucked away in that little corner in there.

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That might sound high, but remember guys, these modern GPUs are actually

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designed to ramp their fan speeds to target a specific temperature. And that

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card was reaching about 72% fan speed to

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maintain that 90°. Yeah, it's a little bit on the loudish side, but it's not

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unreasonable by any means. And when you consider the stupid way my drives were

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installed, such that my graphics card really doesn't have much access to fresh

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air, it's obvious it could do a little bit better with more forethought. CPU

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temperatures of course were much better at an impressive 55 degrees max, but

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that makes sense because it's liquid cooled and access to fresh outside air

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for the radiator does wonders here. It's drawing that fresh air right in from the

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outside. So overall, the system is extremely small, extremely compact, runs

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quiet at idle, but of course gets a little bit louder under gaming load. And

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I'd say the Elite 110 if you're trying to build a tiny little system with good

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ventilation gets a definite thumbs up from me. Guys, thank you for watching

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this video. Like it if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Leave a

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comment and let me know. Do you prefer small cases like this or would you

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rather we do more coverage of things like the half stacker for example? Like

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large, more maybe more versatile, but certainly less uh spaceconscious

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solutions. I guess there's a couple more things to mention, guys. Uh, we do have

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