Fully Custom MasterCase from Cooler Master! - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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our trip to the show this year is powered by Squarespace remember guys head over to squarespace.com and build
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your beautiful website today so we're here in The Cooler Master Suite where
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they've got a couple things on display number one is a
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$130 air cooler what Su justification
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for that I'm glad you asked because there are a couple of things that
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they're pretty proud of here number one is the performance obviously they're
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saying that it's competitive with even
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pretty good all-in-one liquid coolers which actually makes a ton of sense to
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me since it wouldn't be the only high-end air cooler that is competitive
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with high-end aios what's also
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interesting about it is they've actually redesigned the bottom plate to instead
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of just have a vapor chamber with some heat pipes kind of duct tape to it now
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it's actually got four heat pipes directly integrated into the vapor
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Chamber Something that they're calling a 3D Vapor chamber now there's more though
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and it's that maker word that Cooler Master has been on about and on about
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over the last I don't know I guess ever since they launched the master case and
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that is the modularity of the design so in addition to coming with two of their
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pressure optimized fans you've got swappable shrouds you can be like oh it
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comes with 140s I actually want to use 120s I want a little bit more clearance
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for the RAM or motherboard components or whatever else it's also got a swappable
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top plate so you can dramatically change the look of the heat sink if you're into
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that sort of thing but lonus will they support it with accessories and if you'd
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asked me this back when they launched the master case 5 originally I'd have
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said I don't know I mean we've had a lot of case makers promise US accessories
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and upgrades and it's never really happened but it looks like they're
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actually serious about this I mean look at all this stuff behind me for the M
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the original master case 5 and master case Pro five as well as the new master
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case maker 5 that they're launching here at the show so they've got the original
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normal and windowed side panels but boom now we've got a noise dampening side
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panel and my personal favorite a
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tempered glass side panel with a lock on
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the top I am really liking that one
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there's also a new top panel cover so instead of being stuck with just mesh
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now they've got one that gives you the choice between mesh and just a straight
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cover with a magnetic wh look at that
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clipping mechanism whoops this right here is the
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front panel from the new master case maker 5 and this one has this cool
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little sort of magnetic system where you can pop off that front flat panel and
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you can decide okay I want more air flow but none of this is actually what I just
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said was happening which was accessories for those original
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cases here is where you've got my attention they are actually designing
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things to mount to that kind of like that rail clipon system thing that
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they've got over on the right hand side of the motherboard tray so this guy
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right here is an airflow duct that allows you to control the length of the
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duct so depending on the positioning of your PCI Express power ports or whatever
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else the case may may be as well as the position within the case so whether
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you're trying to aim at one top card two cards that are kind of spread out in SLI
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or even at the CPU itself if you have no need for optical drives this will take
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care of you and this one right here I've actually been a victim of uh video card
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seg myself and while most of the solutions that I've ever seen to address
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this have been extraordinarily cluggy
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this simple wire with a couple of little
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you know single thumb screw um you know feet here actually looks
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surprisingly good when installed in a case that's you know done up and cable
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managed as opposed to some of the stuff I've seen before that's just like yeah here's like basically like a tripod leg
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that you can kind of put on the bottom of your case and kind of hope that it stays in place but I still wouldn't
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blame you for not being that impressed at this point I mean what is this a couple of accessories for a case that's
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been available for how long Linus no this is where they are starting to get
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my attention and where that whole maker Spirit thing starts to really actually
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make some sense Cooler Master is working on developing a marketplace where they
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can enable modders to create their own accessories and sell them through Cooler
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Master ecosystem to allow people who own these cases to continue to get a lot of
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mileage out of them moving into the future so this guy right here has got a
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custom top panel a custom power supply cover a custom front panel they're also
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showing off some custom cables all of this is from primochill this one right
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here oh man Bill Owen does such mnpc
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tech for those of you who aren't familiar with his name does such amazing
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like aluminum fan grills so we've got this right here we've got look at this
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custom power supply cover so it's got a four pin Molex connector in the back for
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this like sick lighting effect and there's all kinds of amazing stuff that
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I would expect to be available through this store that would allow you to
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really get more out of this case if they
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can pull it off then you would be able to if there wasn't a manufacturer
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enabling this kind of a market if you just have to go through the forums and
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kind of hope for the best they'll have to find ways to manage the quality and
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the accountability of the whole process but if they can then they might have
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actually finally found the thing that makes the master case more than just
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