Sentey Arvina GS-6400B Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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today we'll be unboxing a case from centi and their slogan is building
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dreams so evidently this is a dream
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actually it's not a dream this is from the arvina extreme Division and it is
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the GS 6400b so I'm going to go ahead and
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assume that uh GS is some kind of say
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for example gaming series and uh b means
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that it's probably black all right there's some uh notes here about the
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case but we're actually going to take it out of the box so we don't need to look
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too closely at that I have once again done absolutely zero preparation for an
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unboxing so we will be discovering as we
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go along all of the things that are important to know about the GS
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6400b
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now this is not a brand new case it is a
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demo unit so I feel like I'm cheating a little bit on the unboxing but I guess
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that's kind of life so yeah there are no
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seals to break and it's not going to be quite new hopefully you guys will
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forgive me and we can move past
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this okay now I think I put it right side up but I'm not actually sure I
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think so the only way to find out oh b stands for blue now we know we learn
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something every day all right so I'm going to put this here as a cheat sheet
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and that's the English side excellent so let's have a look at this case
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actually it's kind of neat it reminds me a little bit of the uh the old alien
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wear chassis just a little bit not very much not very much at all actually okay
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let's start with the front of the case so at the front of the case we have uh
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ventilation and you can see that we are actually perhaps missing one of these I
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guess that's what happens when you have a demo unit case maybe it came off with
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the
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uh okay well we'll just have to continue on this Voyage of Discovery without the
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5 and 1/4 in Bay cover so as you can see these are all mesh but they do have have
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a foam filter behind them so you're not going to get a ton of uh dust buildup in
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these you can see we have two stealth 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bay
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covers okay there you are we have a
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compact flash reader SD and then a bunch of stuff that doesn't really matter and
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then on the top we have the power switch which appears to
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have a blue LED light under it and then we have some fan buttons under there we
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have a little eat oh that's kind of a neat idea so what kind of a cable yeah
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you just use like a standard internal to internal cable and then you could plug
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that into your drive that's kind of neat and then there's a regular ESAT Port 4
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USB front audio hard drive LED as well as a reset switch are all hidden down
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there more ventilation in the top on
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this side we find just a plain panel cameraman watch your angle so you don't
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get spotted there and then we have a release latch uh back here which we will
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need to undo the thumb screws in order to access so we'll do
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that two thumb screws on this side two
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thumb screws on this side and then all the thumb screws will
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be released and then we can use the
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toolless mechanism aha there we are oops so we'll go ahead
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and put that that side panel down I'm going to go ahead and remove the other
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side panel you can see here has a little
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button that you just press on and then you pull back so that's pretty
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straightforward all right and we'll
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check out the interior layout a little bit here so you can see the 120 mil fan
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at the back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PCI expansion
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slot so that's fairly standard and then we've got uh this is one of the features
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that's mentioned on the side of the Box this is kind of an exclusive exive well
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they call it exclusive coolers for video card Refrigeration but what I call it is
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fans to blow down on your video card which is also very useful so these are
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two 80 mm fans they just mount on this little swing ARM that uh conveniently
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has little uh built-in wiring so while
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that would make the fans a little bit hard to replace it does mean that it's
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uh no hassle set up as far as if you wanted to use the stock fans these are
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probably yeah these are LED fans alth I don't know what color they are I would
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guess blue based on that we have a blue case and that the picture here says well
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doesn't say anything but seems to have blue fans inside it all right
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accessories hopefully I didn't just break that so here's all of your screws
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it even includes a screwdriver that's kind of neat as well as a little microfiber cloth for getting
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fingerprints off the finish of the case so here we can see if there's anything
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else in here of note an extra
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PCI cover okay I'm very
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given that the ones in here are vented PCI and they are black and not gray like
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the extra one that's provided that's okay I won't complain hey extras are
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extras right all right so let's see what else we got here as you can see this is
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a standard ATX case so while it is a little bit wide there aren't any extra
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eatx mounting holes so what that means is that you can't mount a huge eatx
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server board but you can mount something like a rampage 3 Extreme which uses
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standard ATX holes but it's a little bit wider so give you that extra space up in
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the top you can see we have two 120 mm fans which unfortunately aren't spaced
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correctly for mounting a radiator but it looks like there wouldn't be space to
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mount a radiator in here anyway because the top of the motherboard would be right here and then if you have any Moss
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fet cooling or anything it would probably interfere with it anyhow okay
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Cable Management we've got our typical Cable Management holes so your power
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supply mounts on the bottom you can see that there is a uh a dust filter over
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the intake for the power supply so that's a separate Cooling zone for your
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power supply you can also Mount another fan here either 120 mil or 140 mm and
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then we've got front panel connectors Gore to go with all of the front panel
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stuff that we showed you before and then let's talk a little bit about the
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tooless mount oh this is good yes CPU cutout nice big one that means you can
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swap your CPU Cooler even if you have one that requires a back plate without
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taking the motherboard out of the case all right let's have a look at the
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toolless mounting for the optical drive
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okay so that's pretty straightforward so there's two little spikes in there you
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press that in locks your drive in place you press this button it opens it up
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okay that was easy and then oo that's kind of fancy look at that so
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this is how the whole hard drive cage comes out so you can take this whole thing out assemble your hard drives onto
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these little uh rails so you can see you can install either 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and
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1/2 in drives they have million mounting
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and ventilation holes on the bottom of them although they are quite sturdy feeling and then you can slide the whole
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thing back you can see this is a 140 mm cooling fan here in the front and then I
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can go ahead and slide that whole thing back in to
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open up the hard drives all you do is slide them just to the left and then you
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can pull them out and pop them back
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in that's kind of neat actually I don't know how shipping proof it is but it's
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uh definitely different and then on the back of the
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case we find not a whole lot to speak we do have some cable management spots here
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so you can use these tie downs to uh take some of the cables that you routed
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around the back and make sure that they don't cross each other when you're trying to close your uh your other side
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panel but I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about
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the centi GS
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6400b oh yeah hey there's the adapter cable you need for that front SATA thing
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cool just in case you were wondering let me just see if there's anything that
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I've forgotten hidden cable system removable hard drive base front cooler
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Refrigeration card reader okay looks like I talked about everything so thank
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