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western digital hey guys we're here at the fantex booth checking out a few
cases one of which Linus should have reviewed by now but hasn't that's the
enthu primo and he will be getting to that hopefully shortly after ces but for
now we have the lux and the pro and a few extra options for the primo that
should be coming soon on the front panel of the lux we have two usb 3.0 two usb
2.0 mic and headphone in a reset button
a light changing button which i'll show you in one second and a power button up
on the top which is not behind the hidden door within the hidden doors that
light changing buttons so as you can see there's led bars around the case which
are not going to shine directly in your eyes if this is almost anywhere because they
shine down onto the case which is nice because it won't annoy you way too much
because the rest of the case is all black and black matches quite literally
everything so as long as you go with black and then change to whatever color you want it's going to match the rest of
your build moving to the top of the case you can fit up to 420 millimeter
radiators with this nicely removable fan filter which is actually quite solid
sometimes with fan filters i'm worried that they're going to warp if i take them off too many times but this one
seems quite solid moving into the case we have our reservoir quite nicely
displayed here more closer to the front of the case mounted quite nicely on that
bracket but you could also put it in the back just in case you have a really long
graphics card so they have a spot right here which would work very well for you
with a just nut and bolt to be able to bolt on a radiator right there moving to
the back just so we can see it easier but you can access this from the front too right in the middle of the front
here they have a nice plate for some pumps so it's you can mount quite a few
different pumps there and that's really easily accessible in a nice because it
has a rubber mounting for the pump where you're mounting the pump and it has
rubber mounting on the bottom of the feet of the mount for the pump so it's
nice vibration dampening they also have a radiator here in the front which you
can mount there or lay it down at the bottom and if you mount it here you
can't have any hard drive cages but if you mount at the bottom you could have a hard drive cage
hanging from right here so you have a ton of different options just in that small little area then moving to the
back of the motherboard tray you have a pwm splitter at the back which comes
with it it's quite nice it supports up to 11 fans which is solid and you can
get additional if i think you just have to buy them as accessories and then you
could split out to different areas and have different temperature zones so say
this top radiator you only want the fans going at certain speeds depending on
what temperature it is you can set that area different than the radiator that
you have down here whatever you want to do if you get different modules for that
they also have SSD mounting spots so if you do like their configuration here where you
don't have the hard drive cages you can mount ssds just right on the back of the
motherboard or down here as well they also have an adapter plate to hide the
power supply in the basement in their current configuration it wouldn't work
because you'd hit some of the tubing and some of the fittings and stuff but if
you felt like being crafty and going along with this configuration you could
cut this guy a little bit and then make it fit and it works really well with the
case because it looks exactly the same and there is rubber grommets built into the side which is really fancy Linus's
full featured coverage of the anthu primo is coming so we'll just be kind of
going over the newer options that they have here first of all they have a
standard white one now and then for special editions they also have orange
and white and red the orange and red will all of them to be completely honest
have a sandblasted aluminum style not a brushed aluminum which i like quite a
bit because your fingerprint burn-in is not nearly as bad there's been cases in
the past where i've built them wearing those like weird white gloves just
because i have fingerprint burning problems like mad so i'll leave like a
crime scene across the case which is terrible so this is a much better style
in my opinion and finally we have the pro this is a cost of down version of
the lux and it is very aggressively priced when you come to the inside it no
longer has the basement it no longer has the reservoir plate on the kind of front
inside area it no longer has the pw pwm splitter on the back of the motherboard
tray and it no longer has one of one of
the 140 millimeter fans that come stock on the lux but like i said it is costed
down and all of these things can be added later you could buy the accessory for the basement and the reservoir plate
and you could buy another fan to go put in there so if if you need something
that has an initial lower investment it's definitely not a bad idea on the
outside in comparison to the lux you you lose a few things as well the most
notable and what you'll obviously see first is that the lighting features are
not there so on the i o plate everything is the same as well except for the
lighting button and then at the top you lose that extra shroud that you had so
you could fit fans there and the super super easily removable fan filter but
you can still remove this fan filter to clean it elsewhere thank you for watching our fantex content be sure to
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