Silverstone Cases Showcase with DUSTPROOF Computer Case 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 three cases that are actually designed around the same chassis in
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spite of the fact that they look completely different from each other in
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pretty much every possible way so the concept with this classy design was to
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take a proven design that that we've seen from silverstone's 90° rotated
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motherboard concept where they have the uh where they actually have all the AO
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coming out the top and take that performance that cooling performance and
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put it in an upright design so in this case we have an inverted motherboard so
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the io is down at the bottom and the expansion slots are up here at the top
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with the power supply at the top back you are expected to have your power
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supply fan facing the top of the case there's a filtered in take right here at
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the back it's got room for six 3 and 1/2 in drives it's you know your standard
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ATX eight slots so okay okay okay so you
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don't see the work that went into it yet but here at the front so this is the rv4
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we've got this is the plastic design case Guys these are prototypes so don't
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mind the manufacturing sort of anomalies
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here so you've got a plastic front with an open side so this is what makes the
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air flow so strong in this case it's completely open here it's not as good
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for noise cancellation as what you're about to see with the F4 but it does
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give you the air flow you need so here they've also redesign the grills and I
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hope I can figure out how to get it out there we go I'm going to pretend
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that's the right way to take it off so they've redesigned the grills the older ones allowed 60% airf flow transmission
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these newer ones are 90% so that again
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is how they are able to achieve that they've used ap11 fans so these are high
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pressure fans and able to create that positive air flow or positive pressure
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inside the case and as well as moving
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air through a restrictive Grill although in this case the grill really isn't that
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restrictive now we're going to move over to this guy right here the F4 takes
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everything that's good about the rv4 and steps it up a huge notch in terms of the
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quality so it's using Alum unibody
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aluminum here on the top and here in the front check this out from the side this
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is a single piece of aluminum that it's actually been like I don't even know how
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they did this with the folds see this shape here this is a single piece this
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is not a manufacturing trick and it is not made of plastic they've also added
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noise dampening to the F4 on all the panels so front top and side panels and
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they're using a higher quality AP 181 fan so instead of the Raven case series
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case's switch is here where it's got a high and a low speed setting this one
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has a dial so you can take it all the way from 500 RPM to 2,000 RPM m to
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fine-tune the case for how much noise you want to hear versus How much cooling
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performance you want to have the way that they achieve the air flow that they
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need in this one is to have these vents
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here don't worry I'll reposition the case to have these vents at the back so
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these point to the back this is also part of what makes this case more silent
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because instead of directing air towards the user sitting in front of the case
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rather air noise towards the user it directs the noise out the back of the
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case so there's noise dampening noise dampening noise redirection but still
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plenty of air flow because this is quite open and free
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flowing which leads us to the internal
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nickname is apparently the mammoth this is the mm1 so they took this case and
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they went okay we got these high pressure optimized fans we got this great cooling performance this is all
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really cool and sweet but not everyone needs that much cooling performance so
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why don't we take this optimized design and turn it into a total Beast that is
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dust free so yes this is a dust free case and I'm going to show you why in
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just a moment so this is obviously very early prototype this is just like
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basically a hunk of metal that comes down and reveals your IO so you got your
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USB 3 your front buttons all this kind of cool stuff so I'm going to put that
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away this right here is if I can figure
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out how it comes out there we go check this out
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guys I know right basically they've
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decided to put a car air filter into a
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case now because they're using AP 182 fans which as I said before are
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optimized for pressure they're still going to be able to deliver enough air
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flow to the inside of the case to take care of a reasonably sort of mid to
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high-end system so no I wouldn't recommend running four GTX 680s in here
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but running something like a single 680 you're going to be fine so there's those
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this is where you see the resemblance to the other chassis a little bit better
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than uh than what you were able to see before so it's not only dust proof but
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they're also saying it is spill proof because of the fact that the top is one
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solid piece and all of the vents on the front and the back are directed
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downwards so if you were to spill a cup of coffee on the top of this case it
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would all go down it would get on your carpet but at least it wouldn't wreck
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your computer I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to try and turn this okay
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we're going to go to the other side of it so that I can uh show you guys what
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the back looks like so the back is a
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very similar design and what they've done is they've put a space between the
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io and the back of the actual enclosure outside where you can run all of the
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cables that you need just like that last thing we're going to check out in the
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Silverstone Suite is over here and this is very very cool and I'm not going to
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reposition these too much because then you'll see my entire production crew
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through the uh the mirror that's behind it actually if you guys want to move over here a little bit then you can get
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an angle that's more like from that direction so I'll take the mic and uh
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let's go right over here this is a dual monitor stand
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that is capable of 360° rotation it can
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move in pretty much any direction you could possibly want check this out it is
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built out of there you can hear that solid
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aluminum and it is extremely robust feeling so you can take that move it all
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the way down here move it all the way back up here there's no there's no Force
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required to move it around just like that we can rotate it as much or as
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little as we want to in whatever direction we want align the monitors
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this one right here is a touch screen and I am just very very impressed with
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this particular product I don't think I've seen anything before that allows
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this degree of flexibility so there's no pricing available for this one yet
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because I'm sure you guys were going to ask but it's just I don't know I kind of
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geek out when I see stuff like this oh yeah I had forgotten these were back
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here so there's an ITX enclosure this is the M5 using an sfx power supply they've
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done away with 3 and 1 half in drives entirely to save on space and it accepts
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ITX with low profile expansion cards and you got 280 mm fans over there on the
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right for cooling the last case over here on the right so I'm just going to
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sneak past you here and move this monitor out of the way ah so convenient
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is the M4 so this is a continuation in their Milo series and basically it adds
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a lockable front panel just a gorgeous
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thick aluminum front panel to an otherwise sort of very very plain very
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elegant looking home theater case this is the kind of thing we're used to seeing from Silverstone don't miss any
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