Silverstone TJ10 Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone tgen series
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tj10 the perfect combination of legendary styling and advanced chassis
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engineering now this isn't the newest case in the world but I needed this for
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a particular build that I wanted to do
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and uh it is still one of my favorite
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cases ever although it's not quite my favorite case the Silverstone
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tj07 holds that crown and I guess I'm
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starting to sound like a bit of a Silverstone Fanboy over here but I do
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like metal aluminum cases I do like
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large cases and Silverstone does make
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those things so let's go ahead and flip this over oh man it's I mean okay it's
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light compared to a steel
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chassis but it's heavy compared to some of the more recent
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Silverstone Creations we've checked out like the F3 mini so let's go ahead and
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have have a look at what Silverstone has to say for itself premium all aluminum
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chassis for extended ATX ATX and SSI motherboards 120 mm only so that was
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back when 120 millimeter fans were a big deal unprecedented air duct dedicated ah
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that'll show you Advanced Structural Engineering okay you know what let's just put this down and have a look I
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just hit the mic okay let me fix
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that yeah that looks about right okay so
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let's go ahead and open up the case so the first thing we find is closed sell
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foam love to see that a good 2 in of
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closed cell foam around the sides of the case and then about an inch and a half
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on either end and then up at the top you can see Silverstone custom builds their
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foam so yeah your case will not get
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damaged even if it has a fully fledged
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liquid cooling system inside it love to see that attention to detail because
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there are system builders that do integrate in these things so they will
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ship it in the original shipping box all
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right next up we've got all the little accessories and
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whatnot that you may or may not need to
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put your system together and we've got a destroyed box trying to get it open
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there we go so that's working out pretty well for me so in here we find a piece
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that it never used to come with before that looks like I have no idea okay
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we'll figure that out later and then we've got all the mounting hardware we
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need for drives and motherboard tray and all that good stuff and finally a manual
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that probably says something about that other thing but I don't know I've built
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in the tj10 a number of times but not
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not for a while so I like I said I don't recognize that part and I've actually
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built in its predecessor the tj9 a
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number of times as well the only real difference between the tj9 and the tj10
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is this front door that's here on the tj10 and is not here on the tj9 so just
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a beautiful beautiful case and I will be back with white gloves because CU I
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don't want to mess it up so I'm back with white gloves so we can thoroughly
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investigate this beauty of a chassis so the front has a gorgeous brushed
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aluminum finish that I would not recommend touching with your bare hands
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because the uh the oils from your hands could etch of thumb print or fingerprint
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into it and it just a it looks so good we've got a reset switch and power
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switch in their sort of customary stylized Metal finish we've got an
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indicator LED for the hard drives as well as a power LED Silverstone logo up
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here at the top on the front very very classy looking sort of a black
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background with a shiny silver front although you can pop that out and put
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something else in there should you so desire the front door opens up to this
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side um although I believe it can actually be reversed yes it can so you
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can take out this mechanism and you can have it open the other way if you want
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that reveals four 5 and 1/4 in bays and 1 3 and 1/2 in Bay these covers even are
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fully aluminum so you don't have to worry about any ugly plastic being
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anywhere on your build uh oh I should show you guys this cuz this is just
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awesome check out the grade of the aluminum being used here okay so
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hopefully you can see that but look how thick that is it is extremely solid
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extremely ruggedly built and you don't get some of that flimsiness that you get
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on cheaper aluminum chassis so up at the top here you can see the front bezel
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overlaps a little bit and then the rest of the top is taken up by the I/O which
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is hidden away in a little there we go compartment there two USB 2.0 ports fire
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wire front microphone and front headphones there's a USB 3 version
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coming but I specifically said I didn't really care about that so this is the
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older USB 2 version of the case also on
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the top two 120 mm fan mounts that are tooless fan mounts you just go ahead and
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pop the fans in there uh most people use them for exhaust however there's a
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radiator adapter that I've also gotten my hands on that you can use to mount a
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dual 120 rad there this is the VGA
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venting that was talked about on the front of the case so it actually pulls
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air through the hard drive cages and
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then uh so that's with a separate fan in here so there's a fan in there that can
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pull air through this mesh here and then this right here is its own mesh that
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actually has a fan on the other side that I can show you if I actually just
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take off this side panel the other side panel that um that pulls air directly
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from the outside and then vents it over top of the graphics cards now there's
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only a couple graphics cards that this cooling setup wouldn't be ideal for
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things like a GTX 590 where it needs to exhaust air out the back of the card in
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order to keep that second GPU sufficiently cool but most video cards
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will definitely ven uh benefit from this kind of an intake so you can actually
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see the construction here again all aluminum mesh gorgeous uh the panels are
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a little bit are a little bit wobbly but it doesn't really affect it much once
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they're installed on the case so here now you can actually see it a little bit
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better there's that vent right there it's probably the one piece of plastic on the case these two thumb screws right
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here hold that 120 mm fan all 120 mm
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fans on this case uh that cools the drives you can put up to three hard
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drives three 2 and 1/2 in drives per
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cage in this bottom cage here and the top cage up here and I'm trying to get
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this screw out so I can show you guys this once I get around to the other side
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cable management is pretty rudimentary in this case though so you can see here
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that the motherboard has an enormous cutout so even if you have a dual socket
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setup and I found out that this is for zons so that's uh that's just a back
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plate but even if you have a dual socket setup you're going to be able to access
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both of the CPUs and install aftermarket coolers or whatever you want but there's
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not much room down the back for routing something like a 24 pin ATX cable so you
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are going to be a little bit limited that way on the rest of the back of the
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case we don't find a whole lot so we're going to go ahead and turn this back
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around again though just the construction of it these solid pieces of
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aluminum that hold it together this is the kind of thing I appreciate I mean I
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have a lot of people ask me lonus why didn't you just use a switch 810 for
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your personal build to which I replied
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well because it's made of plastic that's why um love metal construction so on
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this side we find that same vent that we had on the other side right here and
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then we've also got a nice big side panel window which was one of the
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requirements for the build that I have upcoming CU I wanted to do a nice water
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cool build that you can see all the gorgeous components inside for so we're
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going to go ahead and remove the other side of the plastic cover here so you
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guys can see more clearly what will be visible inside so the entire motherboard
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tray area is pretty much visible in a
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tj10 build and I'm trying to figure out how to get yeah that's right that's how
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it goes in there you go so the entire motherboard will be visible power supply
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um two radiators so 120 mil in the back
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dual 120 mil on the top and then maybe another 120 mil in the front here if I
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can remember how to mount one there there is a way though all right let's go
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ahead and pull this off
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okay and that leaves us with hard drive
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cages so again a couple more pieces of plastic here but sort of a non a
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non-factor there's anti vibration mounting here here and here for the
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three drives that you can pop into this cage and put that in the wrong way and
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it yelled at me there you have it okay this fan can
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be replaced in here so it's a 120 mm fan
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but it is a bit of a chore it has a nice big guard on it that will actually
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prevent any sort of three four five six
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is that a what is that lined up with it no I don't think so has a nice big guard
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on it so that'll prevent any problems from getting into the fan blades and
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then there's the fan connector itself this is one of the reasons why I would
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want to replace the fan that's in there because it does not use sleeved cables
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um we'll be back in a moment all right we're almost done here guys but I wanted
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to show you the rad support bracket so it's uh part number rad support 09 very
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creatively um because it was originally brought out for the tj9 so basically it
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just takes this top fan mounting mechanism here which is meant to be
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tooless so you just actually clip the fans in and you replace the whole thing
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with two metal brackets that are designed to hold a radiator because
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unlike its earlier generation cousin the tj07 the tj9 has a ton of room in the
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top above the motherboard which will be here to put a dual 120 mil rad and some
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fans although I don't know if you'd get away with push pull I guess we'll find out once we get it opened up the feet on
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the bottom are in Silverstone tradition very very nice so there you go there's a
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look at that and I think we've pretty much wrapped up what there is to say
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about this case it does include silverstone's Arrow slots so those are
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ventilated PCI covers and that's pretty
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much it I mean yeah it's an older chassis but especially for an air cooled
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build or for I mean even for a water cooled build it's held up against the
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test of time extremely well thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
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look at the Silverstone tj10 don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos I forgot the most important
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feature of this case which happens to be the removable motherboard tray so I'm
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going to go ahead and remove these thumb screws and show you guys just how a
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removable motherboard tray might make your life significantly easier now you
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can see here in the bottom of the case where the power supply is actually
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securely anchored to the chassis itself so when you do your cable management and
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you route everything and you tie it all down what's going to be really easy to
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do is to pull the motherboard itself out
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and uh have all those cables be still attached to it so that's going to be a
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big problem for you if you do any sort of cable management whatsoever so the
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removable motherboard trade goes a little something like that but I would
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definitely recommend using it if you do not do any cable management thank you
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