Top 5 Most Insane Cases
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,623 words · ~8 min read
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in a world of plain black boxes with no
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RGB one man risks it all to show five of the
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most insane cases that money can buy
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okay don't get me wrong i'm a huge fan of the understated monochrome aesthetic
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with maybe a sprinkle of color here or there but today
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today is about the outliers the biggest
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the boldest and arguably subjectively the
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beautifulest monstrosities that you can actually buy for your next pc build so
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no one offs let's kick things off with the deep cool
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oh it's heavier than it looks tri-stellar
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to make something truly unique you basically need to step out of the
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standard form factor because i mean all boxes look somewhat alike do they not
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so deep cool amongst others here today took that
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challenge very seriously as the name implies the tri-stellar has three
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isolated chambers arranged in sort of an
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arrowhead style with a metal hub in the middle that serves to route cables
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between the compartments the exterior panels have a rough kind of
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like gun metal finish that gives them a very industrial look and feel and they just
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slide off whenever you need to perform maintenance
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so each chamber holds something different so starting at the top
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you've got mounting for your GPU via a pci express extension and up to three
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ssds with some sexy tempered glass to
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show them all off then the left chamber holds your power supply
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an optional two hard drives and a five and a quarter inch bay if you still live
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in 2005. finally the last compartment
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contains an itx motherboard with either a low profile CPU cooler or a single 120
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millimeter liquid cooler thanks to this
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fan mount now each of the wings comes with a 90
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millimeter fan in the front and is designed to act like a mini wind tunnel
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so i would probably stick with a blower style GPU cooler in this case
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that is if you can afford one it is 350
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bucks now for our next trick the thermaltake
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tower 900 may actually not feature an
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overly unique form factor but it still
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more than earns its insane designation
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thanks to the sheer magnitude of both its capacity and size which are sort of
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the same thing this thing is so big that my wife can literally fit inside of it
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with the motherboard tray removed i couldn't make this stuff up anyway the
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white version that we have here in the office has a powder coated steel
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exterior and more tempered glass than
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you have probably ever seen on a single
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case at least for now and this robust
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construction lends to its over 50
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pound dry weight i mean you seriously need two
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people to move this thing around once it's full of hardware
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lots and lots of hardware the tower 900
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can hold two quad
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140 millimeter extra thick radiators
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like what we've got here and even has adequate room for fans on both sides of
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it if you're a total airflow nut the motherboard tray fits up to an eatx
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board and quad gpus although that last
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one's not really a thing anymore at least for gamers and surprisingly the 900 actually costs
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barely more than it weighs at 220
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dollars following in the size matters
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footsteps of our last case is the also by thermal take core p7 now in its
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default form here you can see it just looks like one of those fancy
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showcase cases that's just kind of like a slab of metal that you put a bunch of
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stuff on and then a tempered glass cover in front for effect but
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no my friends this case has much more to
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offer it can be upright like a test bench it can be on the wall or in its
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final form which we're calling panoramic mode you just install these extra
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included panels and the case turns into this crazy
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open concept setup thing that you can uh you
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can choose four different angles for depending on what you like to change the
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look of your case and your build i mean customization is king right
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the p7 also has a ton of radiator
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mounting with space for three quad 120 millimeter radiators in
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panoramic mode here and you can even vertically mount your gpus yes that is
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gpus plural but if water cooling or
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fancy GPU mounting isn't really your thing the case also has plenty to offer
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for normal people with space for up to eight hard drives or ssds and of course
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like the tower 900 full eatx board
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compatibility this one will cost you 300 bucks alright so you've likely seen part
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one of our Corsair slate build and don't worry we will be finishing that up soon
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tm but the slate fit our
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insanity descriptor so well that we needed to include it here and i know
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it's fundamentally just a big black box
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but what makes this case crazy is the
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ridiculous amount of tempered glass this
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glass it's gonna be huge it's curved and you
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won't even believe it and it's no slouch when it comes to hardware capacity
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either in fact it has the most capacity out of any case
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we've looked at so far the most
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you can mount eight ssds five hard drives five graphics cards two
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motherboards two power supplies two quadruple one hundred and twenty
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millimeter radiators a triple 140 millimeter radiator and 24 fans to cool
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it all off oh and did i mention that it has RGB front i o
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because yeah it has RGB front io
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now sadly this 40 pound behemoth is not
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on the market yet but we are hoping to see it sometime soon and hopefully for
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under 500 bucks because damn it Corsair
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the world needs this bringing us
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to our final case back okay
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the most insane case nay
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the most insane thing i think i have ever seen meet the zadak
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511 heli carrier we aren't sure how many
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of them exist or how many will be made but it is technically a production model
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and therefore qualifies for this video
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so all right where do we start with this thing
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not by opening it that's for sure so it did include toy jets you know yeah
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but it didn't include instructions so we're going to have to take their word
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for it that it contains a 6950x and a sue strix gtx 1080 that
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actually that story doesn't really check out at all because this is an MSI
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motherboard and you know what whatever i'm sure if you
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order one you can get it with whatever you want inside let's focus on what we
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can see from the outside the entire case is plumbed up for the
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integrated liquid cooling system with coolant lines visible on the sides here
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and over here and it's got four
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single 120 millimeter radiators here
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here here and here
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the whole thing is made out of machined aluminum and plexi and weighs so much
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that it requires two people to move it io is fairly standard and positioned at
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the back but don't be fooled into thinking that you can just put it on your desk and
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fire it up the power cord can only be inserted into the bottom once it's
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mounted on the included display stand but once you get it in there you can
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power this thing up by sliding your finger
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down a capacitive strip at the front
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is that a thing of beauty or what so it lights up
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these led lights down both runways and
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also add some blue accent lighting to the bottom now i wouldn't blame you guys
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for having decided by this point in the video that you need one of these
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to which all i can say is too freaking bad because unless you've
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got a cool twenty thousand dollars
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to see a dedicated video taking a closer look at this guy i'm kind of tempted at
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this point it is pretty sex horrific