Silverstone TJ11B-W Ultimate Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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so in 2005 Silverstone created the
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perfect chassis the tj07 and I okay it's
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not quite perfect my tj07 the tj07 is the case I use for my personal machine
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my tj07 has the interior painted black
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it has some modifications I've taken out the hard drive cages I have used the
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back of the motherboard tray for mounting ssds I've taken out the front
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Bay covers and I've replaced them with mesh um I've dremeled out some of the
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back for cable routing basically I've made some some changes but the chassis
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itself with its all aluminum unibody design is in my opinion the finest case
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ever made now when Silverstone launched the
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tj1 I was very curious to have a look at
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it because the tj1 is something of a spiritual successor to the TJ tj7 with
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some key improvements in technology that have been made in The Last 5 Years so
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the tj11 is actually larger than the tj07 the tj07 has seven front Bays tj11
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has nine so it's quite a bit taller it's also wider and so what are they using
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that extra height for well for one thing the tj7 is great for liquid cooling
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that's what I do with mine I actually have a quad 120 mil Radiator in the
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bottom the tj11 allows up to a quad 140
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mil r radiator so you got more space in the bottom they've also implemented the
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concept that was introduced with the Raven series of chassis with the rv1
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which is the 90°
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altered um motherboard mounting so the
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cards actually have their IO ports at the top of the chassis rather than the
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back of it and I than that yeah we've
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increased the size we've put in the 90°
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mounting and I think that is pretty much
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it for what I had to say so I'm going to let silverstone's packaging and
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documentation here do the rest of the
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talking okay so looks like my my packing
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came off while I was taking it out of the box but give me a second to get this
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unwrapped and then I will show you guys the tj1 so we've got the tj11 extracted from
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the box you can clearly see that with me standing next to it the case appears
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very large pretty with pretty much anyone standing next to it the case is
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going to appear pretty large so let's just go through what Silverstone has to
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say for themselves on the outside of the box which we haven't quite done yet so
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not content with its past achievements Silverstone Engineers aim to set another
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Benchmark okay so beautifully crafted all aluminum tj11 is a pleasure to work
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with it's free of rivets now this is part of what allowed me to make the
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modifications that I was able to make to my tj7 it can be completely
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deconstructed and reconstructed very easily even if if you need to take it
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apart paint it and put it all completely back together it's also easier to clean
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for that reason as well I've taken it apart a few times so they have kept with
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this uh proud tradition with the tj11 you can completely take it apart bigger
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lower compartment to house even the largest radiator available talked about
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that as well potential and flexibility are truly unrivaled um okay 1,000 wat
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plus cooling capacity on air you can build an impressive storage server with
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its plethora of Drive Bay options or even an amazing piece of technology
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artwork with liquid cooling so this has all been covered so far plenty of
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ergonomic touches such as quick access filters a hot swappable hard drive Bays
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which is the tj07 did not have removable motherboard tray which the 07 did have
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CPU black back plate cutout which the 07 my 07 doesn't have but I believe the
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newer ones do and an optimized cable routing path to enable easy maintenance
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and upgrades for efficiency awesome okay
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let's move along here so the 90 degree motherboard mounting I've already talked about it includes two air penetrator air
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AP 181 fans to Aid stack Cooling so that
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is their uh cooling design with the motherboard rotated 90° extra large
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venting area for the 10th expansion slot which will'll have to show you later
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rivet Fe free construction room for powerful water cooling equipment dual
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power supply support that's another thing that it carries over from its uh
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predecessor the tj07 all aluminum construction with anodized sand blasted
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finish now this I'm really glad to see check this out so on the tj07 we had the
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anodized sand blast finish which is kind of a rough finish I don't want to touch
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it cuz I don't want to leave fingerprints um and then on the sides we
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had a brushed finish now brushed finishes I love them they look beautiful
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but they're a fingerprint disaster you touch them and it it actually etches
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into the aluminum from your fingerprints and you can't even rub it off if you let
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that those oils sit there for long enough whereas with the um with these
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sand blasted finishes they're actually far more durable in terms of being um
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well they're harder to scratch they're more difficult to damage with your fingers etc etc so for the side panels
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mine particularly have um IR removable
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marks indelible marks at the back from from taking it off and putting it on so
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you should be able to avoid that with this case all right a Silverstone
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exclusive dual extruded aluminum unibody frame with thickness of up to 4.5 mm so
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the unibody frame here they're talking about a single piece that here where are
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they saying yeah the single piece that runs through the entire front curve of
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the chassis so that is something that's been carried over from the tj7 9 5 and
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1/4 in Bay twin removable hard drive cages with built-in cpo5 hot swapable
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adapters we'll have to show you that in a minute six 3 and2 in hard drive trays
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with uh you can look at this picture over here so that they can see for now
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um six 3 and half in hard drive base built using industrial grade nylon very
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cool okay and then massive lower compartment we've talked about that
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before power supply housing area for up to two power supplies dual see-through
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air intake vents with removable filters
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okay uh P air penetrator fans y yep top
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mounted slide out motherboard tray system to facilitate installation 9
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plus1 expansion slots enable support for XL ATX motherboards and multi-GPU
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configuration so that's a big one as well the tj11 is actually one of the few
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cases on the market that can accept something like a Gigabyte G1 assassin
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motherboard natively with no modifications
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whatsoever all right let's take the side panel off oh we can have a look at the
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accessories that are included as well so we've got three
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SSD adapters so that's uh 2 and 1/2 to 3
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and 1/2 inch adapter oh look at this they let you decide if you want to put
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on the Silverstone badge or not so it just comes with a double-sided tape on
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it so you can either put that on your case or you can not is there a
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particular place it goes no you decide excellent all right uh dual power supply
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adapter just a relay so that they'll both turn on at the same time fan
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filters two of them oh they're magnetic nice all right tj11
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manual screws another Silverstone uh
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badge this one's not made of metal it's more of a sticker but it's smaller it's
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also nice yeah this is a metal sticker by the way it's very very nice okay
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we've got a Molex to three 3 pin adapter
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for your fans and then finally we have the single uh redundant power supply
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option here if you're building like a high-end workstation and you're going to
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put that in a Silverstone tj11 here's the side panel oh there's that extra
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screw I was wondering where that went okay here is the side panel it's very
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thick look at that piece of aluminum right there it's incredibly thick heavy
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duty construction that's what makes this case even remotely workable with though
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the fact that it's made of aluminum if this was made of steel it would weigh more than I can carry I'll tell you guys
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that much so you can see here this is completely free access for the air air
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pen pator fans here to fresh air flow from the outside and then down here
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these grills are all opened up so that for people who are going to remove the
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lower hard drive cages and mount a large radiator down there they will have all
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the access to air flow that they need for the cooling fans on the radiator
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itself so since this is a uh sort of a
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like a backwards case I've actually opened up well it's like backwards and
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then rotated 90° so I've actually opened up what would normally be the correct
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side to see the motherboard tray itself but in this case it's not oh yeah and it
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comes with uh an anodized aluminum mouse
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pad as well which is just gorgeous all right so let's open up the
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other side give me just a minute here won't make you guys sit through that so
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I opened it up but I realized we're not really done with the outside so up here
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on the top of the case we've got an enormous grilled area so this is
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actually the main exhaust for the case the back of the chassis itself actually
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has no room for exhaust at all because that is not the function of the back of
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this case so let's go ahead and take this off it's just held in place by
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Clips all right now you can see what would normally be the back of a computer
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case so there's your IO here's where you can plug in the front USB if you're not
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using the internal headers all right and there are your
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9 + one okay what does that mean so 9
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plus oh just this is just ventilation space for that 10th spot so there's your
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9+ one uh uh PCI slots as well for your
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XL ATX motherboards lots of ventilation space around the sides and the bottom as
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well and a 120 mil fan here at the back
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the power button is also here on the top and then on this side we've got two USB
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3.0 ports as well as a reset switch and
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then on the other side we have two USB 2.0 PS as well as our front audio ports
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on the front I want you guys to have a close closer look you can see the 5 and
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1/4 in Baye as well as oh another power
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switch so they've actually built in two power switches so whether you want to
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turn whether you want to have it sitting on the floor next to you and be able to
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reach the power switch here or whether you want to have it up on your desk and
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reach the power switch here you will have easy access to turn on the computer
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H it's kind of neat all right moving around to the other side this case does
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include a side panel window so you can see the uh sexy Hardware that you have
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hopefully installed in it because if you're going to buy this case and put in
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like a you know Micro ATX motherboard and like Onboard video and yeah then
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we'll just have to you Stone you to
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death okay so there you go that's what it looks like with the window on and now
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off and let's have a look at the internal features so here we can install
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all of our 5 and 1/4 in devices here we can see the hot swappable 3 and 1/2 in
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Bay you can also see that oh I don't even know why it included in SSD
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adapters because it looks like we can probably just screw ssds natively onto
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these right there like that maybe there's ones that uh that don't have
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that piece I'm not sure not 100% sure how these work there we go nice
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excellent okay let's have a look at these other ones it looks like they're all the same yep those are all the same
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so that's how the hard drives go in here are the enormous AP 181 fans so these
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are going to be blowing up at your components which will be inst called
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this way so your video cards are going this way lengthwise here see
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that all right here is the motherboard tray which as I mentioned before
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supports up to XL ATX so that's where
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you have those longer motherboards like the G1 assassin okay here's our front
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USB 3.0 hookups let me just see where
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those cables come from yeah it looks like if you wanted to hook those up to
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internal adapters for the time being you're going to need to get an adapter
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from these to an internal header but since on this case you're hiding all of
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these cables anyway it's not nearly as big of a deal all right oh speaking of
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the back actually there's a cutout right
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here which is going to allow you to run things like your uh your display cables
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up into the case without being obstructed by this piece
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right here okay there's so much to this case I'm
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sorry this video is so long guys but there's really nothing I can do about it
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so the AP 1881 have filters on them which are removable and cleanable there
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you go they have free access to all of the outside air as I mentioned around on
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the other side but that goes for both sides all of the internal cables are
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black black black so they're sleeved
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there's your uh there's your dual power switch right there see how it has two
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cables going into it there's your power LED hard drive LED reset switch your uh
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front USB and your front HD audio is all
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there uh here are the SATA cables for
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those hot swap Bays so you can either leave those in plug all these into your
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motherboard and then leave them as hot swap or in my case what I would be doing
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is I'd be removing them all finding somewhere else to put my drives like uh
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like I did on my tj07 is I bolted all my
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sists on the back of the motherboard tray so I might do something like that or Mount them on the back of the 5 and
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1/4 inch Bas whatever the case may be
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and uh I think that pretty much covers everything that I have to say
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about the tj11 for now I'm actually going to be doing a new extreme buyer
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guide featuring The tj11 so I invite you
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guys to stay tuned for that I'm going to be finally updating my liquid cooling
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howto with some higher performance Part Parts I did kind of a liquid cooling
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Essentials guide way back when as episode number two of ncx tech tips so
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this time we're going to do it right we're going to do it with the G1 assassin and the tj11 with some cool
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swifttech water cooling parts and I'm definitely very excited about that so
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stay stay tuned and uh let's see what the tj11 has in store I've never built
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an it before but on the surface it looks like it addresses pretty much any
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complaint I could have possibly had about my ideal case the tj07 we've got
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the black interior we've got better Cable Management it's roomier for more
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water cooling goodness and other than that I mean what else what else is there
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to change thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look don't forget to
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