MSI Ravager Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my MSI interceptor series
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ravager unboxing this is a case from MSI which is something that you might not be
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accustomed to seeing more along the lines of like motherboards and graphics
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cards and like even networking gear and stuff like that but never cases before
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so we see a few different features outlined on the front of the case one is
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super speed usb 3.0 tool-less drive bay design solid-state drive support
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three-year warranty advanced thermal design custom lacerated imprints so
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that's kind of like a cool like claw like effect going on over here
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protecting your vital gear i don't know about you guys but when it comes to my
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vital gear i would not put it anywhere near something called a ravager
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just throwing that out there however i'm pretty sure what they mean is
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computer gear which is probably fine okay moving right along custom lacerated
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imprint and advanced thermal design includes two high quality fans cable
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camouflage systems so cable routing okay removable three and a half inch
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drive big cages full-size vga card support up to 310 millimeters screw-less
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easy snapping hard drive tray okay two the out supports two and a half
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inch as well tool is five and a quarter water cooling ready although this is
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very debatable i personally don't believe these grommets make it water cooling ready i'd rather see spacing for
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a natively mounted radiator extra spacing for cable management and
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pre-installed with 120 millimeter front blue led fan with dust filter
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let's go ahead and open this bad boy up shall we
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got my knife
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all right breaking some seals because that's what we do
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and hey soft foam as you guys may or may not know if
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you've been watching my channel for a little while i prefer
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soft foam to hard foam because it stands
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up against multiple impacts better than heart foam this is however quite thin
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soft foam in some places considering the
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size and weight of a fully loaded system but
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i guess i'm gonna have to compromise on this particular one
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all right there we have the raptor actually it looks not bad
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this looks better in person than it does in pictures i mean the ouch shocked me
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and i mean the uh the laceration like tattoo thing that they got going on here
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so this is a fairly high quality paint that they're using it's not something
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that's just like a sticker that's gonna come off this is painted right on it
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looks actually looks kind of nice and it matches the overall color scheme of the
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case so you can see the internals are using MSI branded fans as well as
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blue pci slot covers a blue motherboard back
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plate as well as more tattoos over here
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on the other side and they got an interceptor series ravager this one
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looks like it's a sticker but it's no no it's not it's not that's actually painted right on there that looks really
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sharp uh we've got support for actually you know what no let's finish with the
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tattoos and then we'll then move on okay so last set of tattoos right here three
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five and a quarter inch base big old power button as well as an led at the
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front we've got our intakes here at the front as well
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and let's move around to the rest of the outside so front usb 2.0 headphone
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microphone front usb 3.0 reset switch and hard drive indicator led we've got
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more fan girls up here we're going to open it up to find out exactly what's
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inside there on this side we've got support for up to two 140 millimeter
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fans although this spacing is also compatible with two 120
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millimeter fans on the back we find another 120
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millimeter fan or 92 millimeter fan whichever you prefer and seven pci slots
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so this is going to fit standard atx boards or micro atx boards or mini itx
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boards but not xl atx boards two filtered intakes on the bottom one of
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these is for your power supply one of these is for an additional 120
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millimeter fan now let's go ahead and use the thumb screws here to open up the
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case oh look at that they're not too tight from the factory a lot of the time
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these thumb screws are so tight at the factory that i can't get them off with
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my fingers and i have to actually use a screwdriver heaven forbid
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i need a screwdriver in this day and age
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everything should be toolless actually no i'm not much of that i'm not much of
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a tool-less guy myself i prefer things that are securely mounted to
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things that are tool-less although if you can securely mount something tool-lessly that's pretty good too not
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too much flex on the panel although this isn't exactly a premium case by any
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stretch of the imagination and the price tag would dictate that it's that it's not i
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mean when i say premium case i mean like it's
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not you know 300 case like a Corsair 800d where my expectation would be that
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it's you know built out of tank armor but
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um yeah moving on
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oops that filter came off let's go ahead and throw that filter back in there so
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these filters are basically just mounted with little uh little clips actually
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here you can have a look so they're mounted with little clips they're
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effective if not the most you know elegant possible solution but they're
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easy to clean uh not made of metal so they're not going to like rust or
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anything after you clean them i've actually run into that very recently that's why i brought it up
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i was like not impressed um so here we are on the inside okay so
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here's our uh hard drive sled so you can see the two and a half inch mounting holes as
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well as the three and a half inch mounting holes so the three and a half inch are tool-less however you will need
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tools for two and a half inch drives you can also see that these are completely
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removable oops i put that in there there we go these are completely removable and
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also tool-less check that out so not only could you mount a 310 millimeter
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graphics card you could mount like a 400 plus millimeter graphics card and this
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also gives you a way to install an additional 120 millimeter fan without
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too much musk or fuss so you can see there's one installed right there that's
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a blue led fan can you see that he says so so okay well it's in there
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you'll have to trust me on this one and then there's another blue and black 120
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millimeter fan at the back of the case this one with MSI branding so this guy
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doesn't come out this one's riveted in however you'll probably need at least a
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few hard drives at any rate so this is your optical drive mounting basically
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you just how does this work push
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oh cool there you go so they pop out or they pop in
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good stuff what else is there to really say here
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let's have a look at the internal connectors so nothing really out of the ordinary
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here we've got power as well as usb 3 usb 2 and front hd
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audio we've got your usual internal connectors for you know your power
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switch your reset switch and your various leds that you're going to need
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i'd prefer if these were black but it's not the end of the world because you do
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have space for managing your cables so everything from your power supply is
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going to come through this one and you'll be running them out here here and
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here is where your eight pin or uh yeah here too you could potentially put an
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eight pin through there and route that to your motherboard depending on the positioning of the eight pin you can
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also route a bunch of stuff up through here at the top let's have a look at the
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spacing in the top here so you can do up to two 140 millimeter fans or two 120
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millimeter fans i would have preferred to see just straight 2 by 120 with
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support for a radiator but it's not the end of the world one way or the other i
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didn't actually mention at any point during this video that this is a bottom mounted power supply you've got rubber
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mounts right here so it's not going to scratch itself out on the bottom of the
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case and in terms of room for routing cables
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behind actually that's not bad so we've got enough room back here to easily do a
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24 pin cable without warping out the other side of the case from the back it
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doesn't really look like there's anything in particular going on
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i think that pretty much covers it other than checking out what's in here so
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hopefully there's like some oh look at the bag
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MSI customer survival pack i guarantee i
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know who at MSI came up with that idea and i know he's gonna watch this video
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i'm looking at you your initials are rk
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and that is hilarious okay um
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i also know who's responsible for these dog tags
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oh that's cool okay so it comes with some black zip ties happy to see long
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zip ties because how many times have you seen cases that come with those little
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short zip ties like this that actually like aren't big enough to hold anything
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so these are handy uh you've also got ah yes they've built in lots of space to
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use them so these help a lot when you're routing cables having all these little
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loops on the back of the motherboard tray allows you to keep everything flat
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and keep everything cabled really tightly whether it's data cables that
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you're running down here or power cables that you're running up to various places
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so that is what those included zip ties are for we also have
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oh neat okay these are handy we also have a phillips head to
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motherboard standoff adapter so you put the motherboard stand off on this side
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and you screw it in with a phillips head to screw it into the back of the motherboard tray got a bunch of look at
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that nice little touches black screws love to see that
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very nice and it comes with a dog tag
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MSI insist on the best that's actually quite nice it's very thick
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cool i'll put that with my other dog
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although this one is customized see this one's from NVIDIA
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gtx 590 squadron so now i have MSI insist on the best to go with that
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although the MSI one feels like higher quality this one's kind of cheesy
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so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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interceptor series ravager case from MSI
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