Thermaltake Cases & Cooling A30 Tank Mod, Urban Series, Water 3.0 Extreme - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is
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nc.com so we're kicking things off at the thermal take Booth with a pretty
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freaking cool set of case mods here so
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this one right here is an a30 case but you'd hardly recognize it with the world
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of tanks mod that we got going on so a rotating turret has been placed on the
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top of the case with a little Gunner guy here and a big gun right here now the
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a30 is actually an matx case is
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optimized for air flow you've got a couple of frosted Windows on either side
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as well as ventilation for your graphics card as well as for the CPU memory area
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on the other side other than that it's a pretty standard layout you got a couple
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5 and a/ qu inch Bays on the front though you can hardly see them with all
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of the uh you know enormous you know tank extensions that we got going on on
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the front here USB 2 USB 3 EA I still
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like to see EA it's still a faster standard now my understanding is this
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thing actually moves can you please take it down for the audience and uh and uh
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all right thank you this this is going to be this are going to be pretty cool we asked them to uh to take them down
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and and drive them around for us and they were kind of like uh yeah okay so
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here we here we go guys we are going to be we're going to be fire firing malayer
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so to speak show us show us how it's done oh uhoh there we
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go check that out so the Treads actually move one of
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the we got to turn turn that around so one of the other cool things about this
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case is it has a very modular design allowing you to take it apart completely
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and oh no this is what happens at trade
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shows
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should we try the other one hey there we go all right we're
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moving so you can take the whole case apart build your PC and then put the
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whole thing back together due to the modular design now it doesn't have quite
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the same terrain climbing ability as an actual tank but without further Ado I
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think we'll show you some actual case designs that you can buy from thermal t
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as opposed to Crazy modded ones oh yeah we didn't see this before but the gun
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the gun kind of fires here which is uh pretty cool oh oh oh they're aiming at
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me they're aiming at the camera aiming at the camera you better you get to oh
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no okay so they're not tanks but the urban series is getting a serious
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overhaul so the C Series is getting aluminum front panels these are all the
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urban cases are quiet optimized with
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that said you can get them with windowed
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side panels however if you wanted the ultimate in silence obviously you would
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lean towards the one with the plain side panel that has noise dampening material
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on it there's a full line of uh of different cases here so everything from
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larger Tower cases to matx Tower cases
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as well as even over here you've got between the S1 and the sd1 two matx
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versions one of which is a tower and one of which is a more of a desktop case or
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or a cube case moving around to this side we've got again more urban cases so
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available in multiple colors now multiple designs but again all with that
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quiet optimized design and of course these are brand new cases so you've got
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all the updated feature sets such as things like front USB 3 ports and let's
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move all the way over here I just want you guys to check out this is the s71
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snow Edition this is here we go lots and
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lots of room for all the Hardwares inside this
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one now of course you're going to need cooling for all that stuff whether you
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want silence optimized or performance optimized and this right here is their
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new Nick series of cooler so this is the NX C5 inside here and what Nick stands
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for is network interface card however
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that is not what we mean in this context you can see there is some higher profile
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of xir RAM next to this cooler and they are demoing see how the way the Shroud
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actually overlaps with the fan rather than just building a bulky cooler and
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then St wrapping a fan to it they're going for a Slimmer profile that allows
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you to use high profile memory right next to your CPU Cooler without running
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into any random interference that causes all kinds of problems even with
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something like an x79 motherboard where you can have four dims on each side
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another side effect of this is that if you have very high memory modules such
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as Corsair Dominator platinums you're actually going to get some incidental
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cooling for them as well because that 120 mm fan is going to be sitting right
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next to it so let's go over to where the rest of the Nick series is on display
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over here we're going to move as quickly as we
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can so there are a wide variety of these
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coolers some of them with high performance looking shrouds some of them
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that are more more basic options but of course you guys watch Linus Tech tips so
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you know we're all about the liquid cooling the water line of products is
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getting an update already so water 3.0 extreme the changes here are tuning to
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the water block itself as well as to the design of the fans that have allowed
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thermal T to maintain that same performance that we were so impressed
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with with the water 2.0 extreme but with a Slimmer radiator which is going to
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improve case compatibility so I really look forward to seeing if they did pull
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that off because that was one of the things that I really liked about the
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extreme 2.0 was just the fact that it did outperform other dual 120 mm liquid
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coolers and then there is of course the pro series as as well as performance
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line so that's a slim rad single 120 mm
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and then the so that's the performer and then the pro is a thick rad 120 mm and
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they all feature two fans either in push pull or simply in a pull or push
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configuration for the extreme so this has been our coverage of the thermal
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