Water & Dust Resistant PC Case - WHO NEEDS THIS??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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2,066 words · ~10 min read
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you don't really do case reviews anymore because well if we're being honest they
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have really changed much lately other
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than some tempered glass here and some RGB there but that's not the case with
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this one this is the Silverstone mammoth mm oh
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one a spectacularly heavy black monstrosity
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whose claim to fame it's been really
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difficult to open the box up is being bust proof and splash proof some things
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are about to get wet
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literally we're gonna spray water on a
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system in this case with an extreme edition processor running inside it but
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you know what we're not gonna spray water on Brandon because he deserves better than
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that even if he did bung up the audio settings the first time we shot this
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Corsairs obsidian 500d mid-tower gaming
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case features premium tempered glass and aluminum construction removable top fan
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trays and more check it out at the link below this thing actually launched all
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the way back in 2015 completely flying under my radar due to
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its unprecedented level of neatness so you
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could think of the mammoth as kind of like the
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off-road edition of what would normally
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be a computer case like designed for use
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in rough conditions oh
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you know it's actually not that crazy
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big but it's really heavy oh my gosh
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that's pretty brutal it is kind of got a plane
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sort of look to it there's no tempered glass that's pretty nice that's magnetic
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yeah the exterior is about as plain black box
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as you can get it sports a brushed steel finish but in the age of tempered glass
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Windows you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a little boring but if you look a
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little closer the entire top of the case is completely filled right so no IO or
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fan holes whatsoever up here to keep
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water from getting in presumably and check out these so this is cool these
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front louvers are not an aesthetic feature instead they actually serve to
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prevent fluids again from getting to the internal components of the PC and
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flipping it around to the back you can see it has the same louvers here with a
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notch at the bottom check that out to
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allow you to get cables to the rear i/o the design of the mammoth gives it an
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impressive IP 43 rating meaning it's
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safe from not just drips like if you were to spill a cup of water onto the
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table next to it but even water sprays
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now I wouldn't recommend pressure washing your computer and gaming at the
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same time but if you left a window open with the sprinkler running your computer
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should be okay it's just the rest of the room I'd be concerned about let's crack
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it open yeah
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here we find the MMO one second party
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trick a full fat 20 millimeter thick HEPA filter now most fan filters are
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pretty good at mitigating dust buildup over the short term but a filter like
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this is SPECT to remove 99.97% of
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particles larger than 0.3 microns that's
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smaller than all but the smallest bacteria so I guess you won't have to
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worry about your PC getting the flu obviously compared to a regular filter
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this one's gonna be a little more restrictive right but it looks like
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Silverstone thought of that because they not only have to push air through one
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just like that but also the HEPA filter and the solution these babies to
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massive 180 millimeter air penetrator
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fans at max speed which you can control with these knobs at the front these move
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a whopping 340 CFM of air about the same as a
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typical pedestal fan at medium pretty darn impressive then to top it off
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there's actually space to install a rear 120 millimeter fan as well so while Jake
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builds up a high-end system for our tests let's get a little bit of
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preparation done
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okay it's done you want to see yeah let's have a look
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alright so there are a few things that stand out
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a lot of cases these days are basically just
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the standard layout with a different
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bezel on the front not so here so first
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of all the layout is inverted so the CPU is on the bottom and the GPU is on top
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second our power supply actually takes a
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page out of 2006's book and is up on the
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top but still with no ventilation that's
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because the whole top was sealed to keep water from getting in so the power
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supply actually has to suck air from the inside then blow it out the back
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fortunately these fans that we showed you guys at the front should keep it
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well supplied with fresh air all take a
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moment here to show you guys this here CPU heatsink support thing so there's
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actually wonderful at the graphics card and the CPU which if you think about the
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applications in this case on let's say something like a boat makes a ton of
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sense cuz if this pcs are rocking you
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don't want your heatsink going and knocking about on the inside
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because of the design of the filtering system nearly 40% of the space inside
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the case is taken up by the filter in the front and the buffer in the rear to
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prevent water from entering the system it does limit your cooling options but
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even with the relatively limited space the MMO one can still fit for dual slot
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graphics cards and easily houses up to an SSI EEE be dual socket motherboard if
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you're willing to limit your storage expansion to two three and a half inch
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drives so this is all good in theory but we want see what kind of thermals we
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might expect with a high-end system in this case so you want to throw the panel
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on there and I'll get a stress test fire it up here it's actually kind of amazing
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how much air these fans move through that HEPA filter yeah I mean they are a
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max speed rather than leave it at these
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settings though like this is quite loud I want to go with not minimum but quiet
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enough that it probably wouldn't bother anyone
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that seems pretty good and we're still getting like quite a bit of airflow back
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here let's give it some time to heat up yeah okay so these are not bad results
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actually GPU is tearing up to 17 80 or
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so at its 82 degree maximum and our CPU has only two cores about sixty degrees
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three not too shabby yeah I mean there's an NHD 15 in there so CPU temperatures
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are probably expected are you ready to run it through the gauntlet yeah let's
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do it all right so we're here we're gonna do the gauntlet lioness is a
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little busy with another video and I definitely am NOT doing this for the
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second time no this has never done this test before oh this looks Turner on get
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these fans to chin so there might be a little bit of dust in there but I kind
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of have an idea of how much was in there beforehand just like throw a little dust
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on there here nice and not nice I guess I don't know I
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really hope we don't have to do this again because I do not have any dust
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left all right so there's actually quite a
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bit of dust up here I'm not really sure how that got in there okay so let's
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let's turn it off this time and see what's going on inside I think for the
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most part it's gonna be pretty decent but I imagine there's going to be some
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leakage all right
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so that is a little more dust than was in
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there before so I don't think this system is perfect but it actually held
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up pretty good regular computer dust is not gonna be an issue for this thing
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maybe don't throw sawdust at it or use it in your woodshop okay so let's see
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how the filters doing oh no that's gross
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oh so the attacked side is pretty
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disgusting but when we flip it over
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pretty damn clean so it looks like a
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little bit of dust got in but I imagine it's probably just from the cracks
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around I don't think dust that big would get through a filter like this
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and then on this side pretty dirty here
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as well alright let's get to the water oh
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my god you think I should spray with a hose - I
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think we should spray it with those alright I
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should probably turn it on before we spray it with the hose
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is it on Oh
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I really hope this survives my test bench actually
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it would be really inconvenient if this died
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I'd be kind of upset to be honest
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there's a little water in there but for the most part it looks like it's dry Wow
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Wow completely dry inside sure there's a
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little water around the edges but inside the computer there's no moisture I think
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we should probably test this before I bring Linus over you know just in case
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it doesn't work display for
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this monitor even plugged in oh my gosh
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oh yeah it works okay let's let's get Linus
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and show them the carnage so to be honest I already opened it
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there is a little bit of dust in there no water no water I sprayed this thing
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down good
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this side is a little beat-up yeah I see
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that Wow but it caught it yeah so yeah
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there's a little bit of dust on the panel there and you can see some of the
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chunks did make it through but I mean
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compared to what you'd see in a normal case
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that is really impressive I think my
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dust abuse is a little out of the ordinary as well yeah no I mean this is
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obviously a torture test but you can see even where the water did manage to
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penetrate the design doesn't allow it to
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go any further than this yeah there's a little splash shield here
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too oh so
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it doesn't have the greatest cooling characteristics out of any case we've
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ever tried but it's utterly unique in its dust and
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water resistant design making it at what
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is it three hundred bucks basically a no-brainer if you need a
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dust and water resistant PC case
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