Reimagining the PC Case
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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845 words · ~4 min read
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thank you to dbrand for sending us to CES 2017 if you want to see all their
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cool skins click the link down below we are here at Leon Lee checking out a PC2
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you guys have probably seen my PC8 that I used in the original compensator and
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the newer version of that in compensator 2 and the pco6 review I've done and tons
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of other things we've done with Leon Lee including their boat PC and all that
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other kind of stuff but now they have a beautiful new take on how to do a more
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standard Tower and I'm rather excited now this is definitely a prototyp type
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for a few reasons and there isn't a full system in it but just imagine this this
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entire side is for your graphics cards you can have two and you probably should
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have two if you get this thing cuz it would look amazing and they would both
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Mount vertically with ribbon cables coming up over the inside nicely hidden
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by this black panel on the top right behind the tempered glass so many
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buzzwords just happened uh both graphics cards would Mount vertically right here
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the cable management for them actually goes up the ribbing that's just in
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inside the front of the case that will hide all of the cables for your system
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that need to go up the front and there's airflow options for them through the
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front of the case that has this really cool removable bracket that can fit 120
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or 140 mm fans cuz it would be a little awkward to install things up there so
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they've given you the option to take that out with thumb screws and then install your fans or your radiator or
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whatever through the front of the case then moving on to the other side of the
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system you have your motherboard tray but it is inverted it's flipped upside
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down because they need those PC Express extensions to be able to reach over top
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of the motherboard tray to get to those graphics cards so it's flipped over
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which is actually a really cool effect again you can't necess see it right now
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cuz it's not built up but it looks awesome I love inverted motherboard trace it also features a rubber grommet
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in the bottom which can feed like your CPU power or whatever from your power
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supply and there is a CPU cutout although you're going to want to deal
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with that before installing your graphics cards because the graphics cards will cover it up for drives we
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first have to return to the graphics card side of the case there's two points
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where you can install two and 1/2 in drives and they have a little bit of a
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hole where you can feed the cables through if you want to show the drives
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up in the visible part of the case or if you want to hide them in the bottom you
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can just flip them over and install it that way then we move to the basement
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there is two removable hard drive cages which each fit two drives so in total
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for drives you have 2 2 and 1/2 in and 4 3 and 1/2 in which I'm sure you could
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install 2 and 1/2 in drives in if you please moving back from there you have
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the power supply area which has an external tray because you have to to
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feed the power supply in from the back which is actually kind of an easier way to do it anyways jumping to the top of
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the case there's this beautiful brush aluminum panel which you kind of expect
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because it's Leon Le so you're either getting tempered glass or brush aluminum
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which is great I'm not complaining it has a really nice looking mesh on it and
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if you remove that there's a 3x1 120 mm
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fan area which can definitely be used as a radiator space because there is a
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large amount of room in the top of this case actually it doesn't look that tall
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but you have a lot of playroom for a fairly thick radiator there in the very
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front of the case for the io I don't
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know it's very prototype I'm not sure
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what's going to end up being here it could be this thing which I saw at their
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Booth but I'm not entirely sure if it is
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check out debranch they brought us to CS 2017 this year if you want a thing that
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looks great they also have like metal looking finishes which is pretty
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fantastic I don't remember all the different types but you can check
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yourself by going to dbrand configurator
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so go do that and then come back to our
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Channel because we have tons of other CES content see you later