Silverstone Accessories Showcase Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is
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linkis here we are in the Silverstone Suite where they have a wide variety of
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new stuff on display some of this is super new some of this is super not
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quite as new but we're just going to kind of go from left to right here and
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I'm going to pick some of the highlights that I think are really cool so this is a case Mod's Dream It's a dual 140
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millimeter fan filter with magnets so all you do is you cut a hole in your
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case it doesn't have to be super beautiful or anything like that you take
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this guy stick it on there and it's going to look super clean no matter what
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you did any mistakes you made or whatever else these are an updated
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version of their magnetic fan filters that use mesh that is so fine that you
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actually can't really even see it so this is going to pick up any of the
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smallest dust particles and filter those out before they start clogging up your
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your system or potentially risk you know getting build up on something and having
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a short or anything like that moving right along we've got this which is
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extremely cool so these ones right here the black ones are only for Silverstone
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power supplies and unlike other individually sleeved cables these ones
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are using a braided nylon so we're not I
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mean okay so yeah you can talk about mdpc uh sleeving all you want this is a
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significant step above that in terms of
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the quality these will be completely resistant to any kind of cutting or
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damage and they will just sort of just
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feel nicer look nicer just better in every possible way they not only have
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the black ones for their own power supplies but also multiple colored ones
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in the form of extensions that'll be universally compatible even with other
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power supplies there's one more neat accessory here I want to show you guys
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so you have a 5 and 1/4 in Bay on your notebook okay cool you don't use your
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optical drive forget about it put an SSD in this okay it adapts the native
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connector that's inside your Bay to a 2 and a half inch Mount and you're Off to
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the Races you've added an SSD to your notebook or even a second SSD at that
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point now we're going to move over to this table here where we've got sort of
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an updated line uh some updated products in the Treasure storage Series so
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they've got a tubay small enclosure this
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guy right here is USB 3 they have a 2bay
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larger enclosure this one support raid USB 3 and EA which actually drives
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inside it right now as well so it's quite heavy here very solid construction
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so solid piece of aluminum on the front brushed for a very nice finish let's go
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ahead and open that up so these you can just pop out it's totally toolless you
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just use the handle right there and last but not least they have a 4B version of
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pretty much that one they're also getting into mobile accessories so this
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is this is cool actually this is a 7 mm slim 2 1/2 in uh external drive so you
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can put either a slim hard drive or a slim SSD in there as long as it's 7 mil
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so I'll pull out the old iPhone comparison here just so you guys can see
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it's not that much thicker actually it's about the same as an iPhone 4 and then
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in terms of the size this way it's uh not that much bigger so very very
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convenient very rugged because it's made out of what appears to be a solid piece
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of aluminum around the outside here so very very whoops very strong once you do
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up the screws they've also got a couple of mobile charging accessories so this
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this is kind of neat because it takes ablea batteries I mean yeah there's solar charging ones there's ones that
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you charge over USB but it's there's something to be said for the convenience
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of being able to say oh crap I can't charge my thing I have nothing I have no
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access to a wall outlet but I can go buy
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some batteries or I carry AA batteries with me or whatever else so there's a two battery one as well as a four
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battery version of that available we're going to wrap up this clip of the
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Silverstone Suite with a couple of cases here so we recently uh did a video on
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the NC Tech tips Channel of the sg9 well
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this is the sg10 which is basically the same case very Innovative case very
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compact case takes 4 2 1 12 in drives
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two 3 and 1/2 in drives two dual slot
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graphics cards an matx motherboard up to
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like a th000 watt power supply or whatever you can fit in a standard ATX
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huge Tower cooler it's a very very well engineered case and what they've done is
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they've taken the plastic bezel off of it and they've added a more Silverstone
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looking uh aluminum and and mesh bezel
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that is much more in line with sort of the the design styling that I'd expect
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from them the way that things stay cool enough in a chassis like this is there's
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actually fans built into the side panel and a very large air penetrator fan on
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the top that forces air into the chassis and it's it should be filtered I don't
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know where the top of this is but I'm quite certain that it's filtered so it forces her into the chassis while
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keeping dust out of it and if you've heard of Intel's new platform this is
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the PTU 13 so that's their their super
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low power sort of Highly integrated platform so check this out the board has
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an integrated power supply right here power in AC no big deal okay and then it
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adapts that to or rather you need it sorry you need a power adapter to go
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into here so it's a DC to to DC power supply so it's got things like SATA
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power output try to get you a better angle on that so you can plug in your
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single Drive which is going to sit right up here on the lid you've got two SATA
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data connectors and Silverstone has a special cooler for it that also is able
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to keep the CPU cool as well there's a PCI forx slot on this particular Intel
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board but I don't know if you'd be able to use it but the point of this is not
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necessarily maximum expandability to a sodum slots as well as an MSA slot here
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as well as a mini PCIe for wireless so it's not necessarily expandability but
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more just to do with the size so in this case we have a full computer excluding
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the external power supply that is basically in the form factor that we
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would have seen a 5 and a/4 inch external optical drive only a few short
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