Thermaltake 5yr Warranty Key Switches and Urban T81 + Core V71 Cases - CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
·
820 words · ~4 min read
0:00
Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
0:05
great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
0:09
Digital hey guys we're here at thermal right now and you know me so the first thing I had to do was stop by their
0:14
mechanical keyboards I was introduced to something interesting they're going to
0:17
be releasing their own switch in the next coming while and as you can see by
0:20
the spec sheet there isn't a ton different that's because Cherry lost their patent a little while back and now
0:25
other people are able to make those kind of switches but one thing you will
0:28
definitely notice is that big golden badge it says 5year warranty that's
0:32
quite bold and really interesting and I'm really excited to see what that's
0:35
going to do to the market so what they have here which is what I was actually
0:38
first introduced when I came into the suite is their blind taste test of
0:41
keyboard so what they've got going on is their own switch versus a cherry switch
0:45
completely unmarked so you're unsure which one is which I find that really
0:49
cool because I like blind taste test because it takes away all the other
0:52
variables that could affect your result so I'm not exactly sure which one I
0:56
picked but to be honest I've felt Cherry switches that feel these are Blues I
1:00
felt Cherry switches that feel the same as both of these before due to some
1:05
manufacturing tolerances that I've noticed where different years of cherry
1:08
switches might feel different so it's actually quite interesting that they're doing this test although I'm just happy
1:13
that they're doing a 5-year warranty and overall we'll see where that goes from there on the other side of the room we
1:17
have their Urban t81 and while this case was described as a hybrid air water case
1:21
my favorite way of seeing this is just a crazy water build one see one thing I
1:25
see a lot with case guys that want water cooling systems that they want to be
1:28
able to strip it down really easily I've seen a ton of mods where people are
1:31
drilling out rivets to replace with screws so they can tear stuff down so
1:34
they can put in more radiators and in this system I find it just really really
1:38
easy and simple to strip everything out that you don't need and don't want and
1:41
fit in a ton of Radiators up in the top here they've got a really easily
1:46
removable fan filter which is great because that's really easy to take out
1:50
like I just said and also clean because that's actually quite important when you
1:53
pulling a crazy amount of air in through there and then the top comes off
1:56
completely you're probably going to be mounting your radiator under in the
2:00
bottom but you can fit huge massive fans up here in the top which is great
2:04
because it's really easy to set up a push pull configuration in this case
2:08
other than that aesthetically it looks great with their brushed look all across
2:12
it and it has a door in the front here
2:15
which I can't really show too much because of the pool table but all their
2:19
I/O and buttons and stuff are at the top and then the door hides your OD slots
2:23
and all that kind of stuff because not that many people are using Drive Bays like that anymore so it's actually kind
2:27
of cool because you can still access all your buttons without having the door permanently open which is great on the
2:31
other side of the table we have the core v71 and internally these two cases are
2:35
actually quite similar but this one has some pretty cool Drive mounting options
2:38
so you can take one of the 3 and 1 half in Drive Bas slots and mount it on the
2:43
back very quickly and very easily and it's it's actually kind of sleek because
2:47
I like mounting drives on the back of motherboard Trace to get them out of the
2:50
front of the case and uh open up compatibility with different radiators
2:54
and stuff and that's great but a lot of times you can only fit ssds back there
2:57
so it's quite nice to see a 3 and 1 half in Drive be able to be mounted back
3:00
there and 2 and 1/2 in drives thanks to our sponsors NC WD and Corsair for
3:05
bringing us to CES 2014 this year and as always if you want to see all of our CES
3:09
content be sure to subscribe to Linus techtips