Cooler Master HAF Stackable Modular PC Case - Overkill & We Love it! - PAX Prime 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of pxs 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series Welcome to The Cooler Master Booth here at Pax 2013 they've
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got a ton of stuff on demo but it's all
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kind of one thing this is the half stacker system and this is what the I
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mean this is the most monstrous computer I think I've seen here at the show how
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do you configure one of these you don't get the whole thing in one box so you
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start with a half 935
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so to be clear a half 9935 is kind of a
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normal sort of half looking case so it's an ATX case it supports an ATX
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motherboard it's got your usual sort of eight expansion slots and then it has a
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half 915 which is actually available as
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a standalone purchase with either a rearm mounted power supply or a front
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mounted power supply so it comes with a half 915 stacked on top of it they've
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got little guide rails so you can actually stack them on on top of well
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the 9935 unit that comes preassembled or
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you can even buy multiple 915s on your own and stack them together as many
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times as you wanted so you can push on ah there we go that one you can open up
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the second one and it's a standalone mitx case so you can either have the
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power supply mounted in the front by default or in the rear that's the RC and
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the advantage of the front mounted power supply is that it gives you more room for tall tower coolers where the ITX
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motherboard would be or if you don't really care about front mounted power
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supply rearm mounted power supply or putting a motherboard in it at all you
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can use it as strictly a storage box so
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this one right here has everything pulled out of it with the stacker system
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they are trying to avoid using rivets pretty much entirely and focus on
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allowing them to screw together so you're actually able to pull out all the
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mounts for everything and throw n hard drives in there hey maybe you don't want
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to go that route maybe you want to go a completely different route use it as a rad box that's where the half 9945 comes
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in so to be clear you buy a half 935
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which has a regular sort of normal Tower with a 915 on it you can buy additional
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915s you buy an additional 915 for your 935 you have a
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945 and the way this one's configured with nice tight screws so I can't open
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it up and show you guys is there's actually two 360 mm radiators in the
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bottom two 360 mm radiators in the top
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also in the bottom is a pump and fan controller and all of that is supporting
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one beastly water cooled system here so there's a 4770k 16 gigs of dual Channel
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RAM from Kingston full liquid cooling from coolant including two GTX 690 so
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those are running in Quad s and of course if you have all that radiator
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surface area for cooling you're going to be able to I'm I'm going to be nice and
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I'm not going to touch the back of their cards but I will tell you they are definitely running extremely cool so
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we're expecting this to be available on shelves October 15th or so cuz I mean
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you never know these aren't even finished samples right here but the last
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thing I wanted to point out is that the way that they are going to align is
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going to allow you to see with this with the tubing here or the wiring is going
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to give you so much flexibility you want your power supply in the bottom unit go
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for it you want your radiators in the bottom unit you need to pass your cables and your tubes in between them go for it
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one other thing I wanted to show off since we're here at the booth anyway is
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their cherry X key switch sampler so it comes with Reds greens clears Blues
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Browns and blacks it costs 15 bucks on
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their store 25 25 bucks on 15 on the store and you get a $15 credit from the
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CM Storm store to buy a mechanical keyboard after you buy it so effectively
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you get it for free if you're committed to getting a mechanical keyboard and you
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really want to try them out ahead of time so that pretty much wraps it up for
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this booth guys remember our trip to the show is powered this year by West
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digital Intel and steel series huge thanks to you guys for allowing us to be
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here