Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have an unboxing for you this is
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caseman if anyone actually remembers
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where that reference is from in one of my previous NC Tech tips episodes then
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you get three gold stars of approval or disapproval I'm not really
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sure because that was ter terrible that was one of the most shameful NC Tech
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tipped moments of all time the cameraman tried to talk me out of it but he did
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not succeed this is my unboxing of the
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level 10 GT so the first thing we're going to see on here
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is driving inspiration this is the snow
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Edition featuring internal USB 3.0 super
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speed so internal means it uses the internal headers not those goofy around
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the back reaching through the case coming up behind the back of the io
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shield and plug in ones all right we have some specs here so front speed 2
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USB 3 super speed Pit Stop five easy swap hard drive Bays triple Max ready
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for extra long graphics cards even up to 36 CM which is quite long let me tell
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you uh quad fan maximum ventilation and cooling guessing it has four fans triple
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color shift adjustable fan Ambience colors neat cable clear Advanced Cable
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Management SSS Smart Lock security system and cool flux liquid cooling
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ready this is a a very slick looking case if the pictures are anything to go
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by why don't we go ahead and get it out of the
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box and then we will see if it looks as good in person as it does in photos so
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the first thing we find is a very very thick packing foam so we've got about an
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inch of foam around the case itself and then an additional inch of puncture
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prevention space which means even if something were to you know be sharp and
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like go through the box it would actually have to go this far yes I
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punched the Box they would have to go this far and then through the
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foam in order to reach the case and do any damage so it's quite clear to me
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that thermal T takes the safety of their products during Transit very very
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seriously I haven't actually unboxed many thermal take products in the past
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so this will be a bit of an adventure for
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me on the bottom we found another pretty
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similar piece of foam and finally here we have a black shroud so this is
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scratch prevention for the case also very handy to have if you're ever
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transporting the case around I'd recommend holding on to that cuz then
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you can throw it in there with your system in it go to your land party or
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wherever you happen to be going and your case will not get scratched because if
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you have a slick looking case like this odds are you want it to stay slick
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looking and not look stupid because it has a big old scratch all the way across
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the side of it so I have never actually seen a level 10 GT in person which means
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this is going to be a slightly more challenging unboxing for me but let's go
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ahead and let's start walking through the features so we'll start at the front
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on the front we find a few things we find four 5 and 1/4 in Bays which are
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convenient and easy to remove by the look of things yes they
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are we have one 3 and 1/2 in front Bay
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which is more than enough these days you throw your card reader in there or whatever the case may be we
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have a lock for the front panel which is
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currently locked as far as I can tell we have 1 2 3 4
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five buttons oh neat
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te and maybe that's what's locked that is apparently what's locked right now so
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these buttons probably do something okay also on the front we have four front USB
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2 we have our front audio ports we have
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our hard drive indicator our reset switch and our power switch up at the
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top we have settings for the fans high and low as well as the fan LED Ambiance
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Ambiance colors we have super speed USB 3.0 so that is a total of six yes six
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front USB ports and finally we have an eat Port which the cameraman is no
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longer interested in he is interested in what appears to be a strip of LED
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lighting and my guess is that the reason
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there is no power LED included for this particular particular case is that that
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lighting is done here and here at the front so I have found
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the key it was strapped to the back I'm going to I already talked about that
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he's trying to point out things I forgot he loves that you know uh so here I have
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unlocked the hard drive cages so check that out so all you got to do is Mount
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either a 2 and 1/2 in drive or a 3 and 1/2 in drive into this removable sled
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lock that back in place or press the button and then you can see here on the
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bottom is actually a little flat so that allows you to get your fingers in there
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and pull it out all right so here let's take let's take those all out here I'm
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just going to press those buttons unlock them there you go this shows you how
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easily and how quickly you can actually take out all five of the hard drives in
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your system which is why it features a lock because that is how quickly
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somebody at a landan could take out all of the hard drives in your system
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all right moving around to the side we have a small window here at the top
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showing you the CPU and RAM area which is a great area to show you because
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that's likely where your liquid cooling is probably located okay we also have
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some ventilation over here including a
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headphone hanger I guess that's something that you
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can attach to that spot oh neat okay and
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then here we have a cooling fan which is
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going to be blowing nice cool air and it is filtered actually there's your
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removable filter aha push it in unclick it push it
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back in to lock it back in place so that you've got a removable filter blowing
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cool air over your graphics card there's a security systems lock so I'm using
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that same key same key very convenient to unlock the side panel which I'm not
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going to open up just yet let's have a look at the back of the case first where
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we have those grommets for liquid cooling if you're using an external
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radiator setup we've also got a rear
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140/120 mil fan Mount we've got our other security key so there's two just
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in case you lose one and we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 PCI expansion slots very nice to
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see I really like to see high-end cases Having Eight because even with a 7even
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PCI slot board sometimes you've got a bottom PCI e6x slot so that way you can
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install a dual slot card in it moving
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along to the other side we see that thermal take has done an excellent job
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matching the white finish on the metal parts of the case to the white finish on
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the plastic parts of the case that is a very challenging thing actually come
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check it out right here so here's the Front plastic top plastic and the side
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metal all in one shot so the Finish is very very similar between all of those
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parts of the case so give me a oh and
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cameraman wants to look at the level 10 GT logo down there which is very nice
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cameraman you did a good job you did good okay give me a second to get this
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opened up and and I'll be back now my initial thought was to open the side
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panel we would actually flip this switch but that didn't do it nope there's an
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eject button on the bottom you can see it's labeled with a little eject thing
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and you go ahead and swing the door open so that is how you worked on your level
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10 GT so what was this switch for well
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that will actually redirect the side panel fan air flow either up to the top
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or down to the bottom depending where your cooling
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needs are so if you have your
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uh video cards mounted in the bottom you put it there mounted in the top you put
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it there oh yeah also you have what I
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think is a very cool feature right here you have little contacts here little
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contact pads here so that's how this side fan is powered you actually don't
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have to worry about routing a cable from the side panel into your case because
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it's always very difficult to manage that cable because well the case has to
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be closed in order for you to Route it and once the case is closed very
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difficult to do that so I like this that's a good solution okay
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moving right along we have our accessories which are in a box right
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here so we'll go ahead you know what why don't we look at the accessory package first and then we'll move
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on Accessory package first thing we find
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is some cable ties along with the mounting screws for all of our hard
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drives and all of our other drives next we find a four eight pin CPU
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power extension cable very handy if you have a shorter power supply go ahead and
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include that haha there's the headphone hanger so this is actually kind of a
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neat feature I need one of these uh I
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mean this one obviously won't fit on my case but there you go you throw that on there boom hang your headphones on there
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no big deal oh yeah I have matching headphones check this
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out I have cameraman Siberia
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headphones yeah yeah does that match or what you buy
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steel series headphones throw them on there then you're the wi are okay so
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let's go ahead get the next accessory thing out so here we have a uh guide
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manual thing okay that's it still fairly complete accessory
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package so we've got uh protective covers on the front what front oh that's
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the eata plug there's your internal HD audio plug front USB 1 front USB 2 your
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front switches including your power
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switch hopefully somewhere here power switch there you go and uh you also got
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our front USB 3 cable so that goes to your front panel header we've got some
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fan connectors for the internal fans so let's go ahead and I'll show you guys
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those fans we got a big old guy in the top we've got a big old guy on the side
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panel we've got our 140 mm fan here in the back so that's where you're going to
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be able to mount your uh liquid cooling
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single 120 mil rad now if you look up here on the top if you take that 230 mil
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fanof you've actually got mounting holes for a dual 120 rad as well so this is a
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fully liquid cooling ready case very good thinking thermal take all right
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we've got grommet holes for our 8 Pin CPU connector gromet holes for anything
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that goes up near the top of our motherboard which is pretty much nothing grommet holes for our 24 pin grommet
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holes for our PCI Express and finally
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grommet holes for our front panel connector so I'd take these put them
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right back out that hole where they came from and bring them up in the most convenient places at the bottom of my
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motherboard next we have our power supply mounting which includes a
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removable uh filter so that means you can
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comfortably Mount your power supply with the fan facing down and it will be held
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far enough off the ground in order to draw air in appropriately and it will be
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filtered finally we have power for the that's I'm assuming the front something
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or other front I don't know something power
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for the case oh yeah I know what that's for come around with back with me
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cameraman and I will show
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you that is not for this actually that's
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for something okay I don't know what that's for let's find out let's follow
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it follow it follow it oh that's
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probably for the fan controller okay there we go mystery
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solved I don't know okay I'm not going to worry too much about it here we have
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what is one of the best features of this case the hot
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swap interface so that has five SATA
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power connectors there you've got five SATA data connectors here so this is one
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of the smartest hot swap interfaces I have yet seen it is something that can
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be very easily taken out if you don't want it you just take out these screws
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you take them out you don't want it fine no big deal no hot swap you lock it up
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done throw away the key no big deal okay then there's no PCB these are straight
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passrs so you don't run into any problems where you have say for example
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a compatibility conflict between SATA 2 and SATA 3 because it's just a straight
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pass through Copper to Copper no complications involved next you relies
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on your own cables so you can actually route the cables however you want you
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can plug in the power however you want it is fully modular that way and last
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but not least it is incredibly cheap to implement like this so you're not going
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to have to pay a ton extra for engineering that you don't
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need there you go it's just a smart way to do it as for the 5 and 1/4 in base
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the mounting devices are here so these are toolless you go ahead unlock lock
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unlock lock pretty standard Fair these days but there you go last but not Le Le
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I didn't see these before there are feet so look at that you can get a
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little bit more stability for your Tower by letting out the
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four feet that are along the bottom I'm
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just going to go ahead and pull all those out there we go and that is it
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that is my level 10 GT unboxing and first look and I'm actually pretty
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impressed big thanks to Thermal take for sending this for us to check out and
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don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and
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other computer videos yeah after we finished I found
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another uh secret compartment so to
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speak you just press a button at the back you pop this up so there that's how you take out the included fan and you
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install the Dual 120 Ms that you would need for your radiator for something
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such as a Corsair h100 something like that