Our First 'LIVE' Case Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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3,197 words · ~15 min read
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I've been doing our case reviews for a long time now and I've pretty much generally done them in the same way the
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entire time but I'm going to mix it up finally with the first case being the
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master case maker 5T from well Cooler Master the way that I'm going to do it
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is I'm going to take it out of the box we're going to look at all the features or do the the case walk through from the
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front IO to the inside and all that kind of fun stuff like we normally do and
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then I'm going to build a computer into it but I'm going to do all of this live on set so you guys can come along with
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me throughout the creation process and get my firstand experience building with
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to start us off right in the top we have another box it's a box that's within a
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box that is encased around a case don't worry about it it says Cooler Master on
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it it's made of metal has a foam thing on the bottom which is nice so it won't scratch up your table and inside there
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are accessories with their own little individual compartments which is awesome
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but we will go more into that later when we're actually building the computer
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then we have a user manual but who needs
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that and that's what I'm here for anyways and then there is a microfiber
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cloth this is included because there's a tempered glass side panel on here and
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you're probably going to want to clean it off because those things collect fingerprints and everything else like
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crazy the foam that comes with it I can tell you right now is pretty awesome
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look how thick that is freaking huge and like if you press
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into it it doesn't actually break but you can
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see where I punched it it's pretty good
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the case itself has a big handle on it which I'm obviously going to have to
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have some fun with let me just get it out of here oh there's even more
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foam on the back of the case that
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seems slightly unnecessary but I'm not going to complain about more packing
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foam because there's a high percentage chance that your case will come intact
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this is one of very few cases that I've seen lately that actually comes with the
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tempered glass on the actual case and it
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looks pretty damn good but we'll come back to that later first we're going to
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start with the front IO so I'm going to do a nice little peel for you
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guys
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everyone seems to love that one gripe I'm going to give them while the peel is
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nice they put a whole bunch of gloss right where people are going to have to
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put their hands so this area is going to look terrible after a little bit of use
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there's four USB 3 ports a headphone and microphone Jack a reset button and a
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power button both of which seem nice and satisfying and clicky to press and then
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you have a fan speed and fan lighting mode control as there's a hub which
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we'll be able to check out later on but I don't know which which one is which
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cuz they left them unlabeled and you can actually see if I just do this how like
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groy this front panel gets
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after just a little bit of touching it which is a little bit unfortunate the
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front of the case actually pulls forward if you just do that because you can put
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Optical drives in the front or fanhub controls so yeah if you eject your drive
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I'm assuming the drive might push this open but if you have an optical drive in
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this year I would be pretty surprised anyways so moving up to the top of the
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case we actually have a pretty surprising amount of features on the back here we have a trapezoid like
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plastic panel which can be removed if you want more air flow or kept on if you
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just want the more consistent aesthetic at the front you've got another area for
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your fans to breathe and then right behind that under the handle there's
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some angular slots which look pretty cool and also feed a little bit more air
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to those top fans it's obviously not going to breathe as much as if the
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entire top was open but it should do pretty okay then because it's a master
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case maker kind of deal you can just pull this whole freaking thing off to
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access the insides if you want to remove the handle you can take off these two
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screws and this screw and then slide it backwards and off and then if you want
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to be able to access where you can put your all-in-one coolers or just your top
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fans in general you remove these four thumb screws and then take this whole
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tray off which we will do later on for when we install our AI now of course
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there's a handle so I have have to test the handle it's been a little while
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since I've had a case that has a handle on it that I get to test and this one
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has tempered glass on it so it's a little heavy but here we go oh my God it's really
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heavy one thing came off that's it and
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it was just the trapezoid panel that we just removed so I can put that back and
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I think that's a pass the left and right side panels are the same and require
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these keys to actually remove them they don't have the padded screws that a lot
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of the other tempered glass side panel implementations utilize so if I just put
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the key in here turn it to the right and then try to remove the panel it all
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comes off as one just like that nice and
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easy and it works that way for both sides the first thing you will probably
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notice when looking inside of the case is the Striking red paint job which
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should go well with the light bar because they're saying if you light it up the metallic flakes that are inside
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will reflect and it'll look really cool but right behind that light bar you have
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two SSD mounts to the right of that you have two rubber grommets which can
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probably feed your PCI Express power to your graphics cards above that you have
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more rubber grommets that can be used for like your motherboard power your 24
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pin USB 3.0 all that kind of fun stuff
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above that you have little cutouts for like fan power cables and your CPU power
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and then a motherboard cutout for easy CPU bracket mounting and down at the
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bottom again you have a couple more cutouts for things like your HD audio
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and maybe your front panel headers just to the right of that we have the freefor
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modular system that's these series of holes where you can install a whole
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bunch of different stuff like reservoirs or in this case a GPU holder bracket
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thing which you can pivot and raise and
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lower if you use the little thumb screws that are on there to support your
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graphics card so you don't have the ever ugly looking graphics card sag at the
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end of the card looks gross isn't good for it just so you can just put that on
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here which is nice and cool to the right of that and up a little bit you have the
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optical drive tray and a place that you can put like fan control hubs and stuff
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like that although the case has one on the back so I don't know why you'd
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bother put one there uh I don't expect this to get used all that much but oh
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well down from there you have a big hole that was cut out that's so you can fit
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tall radiators if you take out the hard drive tray that is in the bottom you can
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fit tall radiators in here for 120 mm by
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2 or 140 mm by by two moving around to
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behind the motherboard tray we can see the fan and LED controller Hub which
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supports 1 2 3 four five six different fans which are all three pins although
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I'm sure you could somehow kaj a four pin onto there and four different
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LED strips but these have to be free form LED strips these do not work with
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the 2020 plugs that you'll see on a lot of like Mass market led strips down here
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there's the back side of the hard drive cage that we saw in the front and the
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other side of a rubber grommets along with a whole bunch of like velcro styled
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Cable Management Loops three of them in a row and a bunch of notches in various
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places that they're often already using for cable management like going up to
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your 8 Pin slot and with that I think it's time to build so let's get to it
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first thing I'm going to do is actually remove the graphics card support thing
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cuz it's sort of in the way of me installing stuff but luckily that's
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rather easy to do install
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my IO plate for my motherboard and get
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that guy in there right away no I'm not I need some of
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these so Cooler Master gives you a
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huge thing which is all labeled so used
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for side panel used for top fan used for motherboard tray power supply and fan
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cage used for motherboard tray etc etc etc there a huge baggie thing of them
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series of them but they don't reeal or anything so once to open this you're
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done but that being said you still have
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these little slots in their tray that they gave you that are unused so you
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could just keep using the parts tray and put the stuff that you take out of it in
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there so it's not too bad before we move on I actually said something wrong
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earlier it's not just a 2x10 or 2x 140
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mm radiator and fan setup you can do in the front if you take out the optical
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drive tray by removing four thumb screws and just sliding it out you can access
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this area add this little accessory that I found in the box the accessories box
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up into the top bit and then you can fit up to a 360 mm radiator and fan set up
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as well if you want to expand your cooling even further and with that we
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will continue the build okay finally time to put the motherboard actually in
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the case Okay the motherboard is installed
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I'm going to take a look at this light bar that they have in here so they had
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it taped in when it first showed up but it actually has a magnet on the back you
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can see the the black backing isn't just Black backing there's a there's a bulge
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over here and I'm assuming there's another magnet over here as well and you
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can just place it onto the case and it sticks there even without the tape which
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is pretty cool and means that you can move it around kind of however you want
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if you want it to go for whatever reason on an angle back here you could do that
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or if you wanted to run it all the way along the side you could do that as well
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which actually might look better we'll see where I decide to end up leaving it
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but I'm going to put it there for now that could look pretty
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sweet next up we're going to install the power supply I really like it when case
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manufacturers include these external power supply bracket thingies I just
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find it makes it a lot easier to install things especially because I like
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installing all the cables for my power supply first so that it looks something
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like this I know everything that's going to be plugged in and I get it all set up
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and then all I need to do is screw this bracket onto my power supply dangle all
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my cables through and put my power supply in I don't have to worry about like jamming it in through the side or
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any of that junk and it just seems to work better for me and there we go the
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installation of the actual power supply is done now I just need to stand the
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case back up and Route all the cables one nice thing about their SSD trays is
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that you can put the SSD inside of it and have the nice flat black top and
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have it all be stealthy and stuff or you can show off put the SSD on top of it
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screw the SSD in through the inside and display it that way which is pretty cool
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so I'm going to do that of course I'm leaving the cooler to last so there's
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just inevitably going to be a huge catastrophic issue which is going to
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make me take apart my entire build in order to install the cooler I'm just
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calling it right now it's going to happen it's my fault I take all
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responsibility right now I have to say I absolutely love it
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when you can just install the radiator
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outside of the case into a bracket and then just drop that bracket inside of
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the case I hate trying to work with the
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full case just to install the damn
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radiator it gets so frustrating and it's just so much easier to do it this
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way we're going to try to turn it on while it's on its side just to make sure
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it
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works what what the hell what was
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that is the board
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smoking what theu is there something
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cream
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oh what the something's dead like if you smell
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this it it's bad
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oh can you smell
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that I haven't seen anything specific yet yeah well there's something dead you
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can smell it right yeah
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um that's supposed to
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happen I don't need the power supply though it's definitely in here
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somewhere okay so um something fried and
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it smells really bad right now which is why I'm wearing this I'm not even sure
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if like breathing in those fumes is a good idea so I thought I'd put a mask on
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um I'm going to try to take everything out and figure out what exactly
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fried but I seriously doubt it's the case's
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fault and the build log went pretty okay
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so so far doing good masterc case maker
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5T but I do need to get to the bottom of
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what just fried so that was fun uh it's
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never actually fun to like lose computer hardware but it was interesting to say
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the very least I thought now that it is rebuilt with a new motherboard and a new
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power supply a new RAM and a new CPU just making sure that nothing's going to
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smoke up uh that I would turn it on again on camera because who knows what
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might happen so here we go where is the power
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button voila it works nothing made crazy
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ticking noises or started smoking or anything like that you've got the cool
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light bar on the bottom everything's on
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and I didn't waste an entire another computer worth of components comments
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about the masterc case maker 5T if you liked the masterc case maker five it's
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pretty freaking similar there's now a fan and ligh hub controller on the back
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there a handle on the top and there's tempered glass side panels everything
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you know and love from the previous one is still there and because of that there
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wasn't a huge amount to comment on throughout the build It's a Wonderful
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case if you want tempered glass that's awesome if you want a handle not enough
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computer cases these days come with handles this one has a very sturdy
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handle I'm not even worried about it now and honestly with everything in this
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thing it's rather heavy anyways overall review it's good
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it's not surprising tempered glass has
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been around for a little while handles have existed before uh the light bar is
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kind of cool but kind of think I need more of
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