Horizontal Desktops are BACK?! - Cryorig Taku
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,167 words · ~5 min read
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oh hi I'm just admiring this
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uh I'm just admiring this new piece of furniture I had cryo rig send over I'm
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not usually that big on monitor stands but there's just something about this
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one that really grabbed my attention you know it's a nice size it stands up off
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the desk with these trendy little wooden feet and it even has USB but my favorite
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part is actually what's
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inside get yourself a cool t-shirt like this one through our merch store with
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designed by humans check out the link below to learn more so young kids out
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there did you ever wonder why we call desktop PCS desktops well Wonder no more
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and feast your eyes on the T
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a new take on an old idea having your
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computer lay flat on your desk by cryo
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rig ours is actually a prototype that
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they packed up and shipped to us after we saw it at computex the front of it is
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completely understated all we have is the relatively large Blue illuminated
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power button that also doubles as a drive activity light on a flat white
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anodized aluminum plate on the top and bottom of the case are ventilation holes
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that work with the slats on either side for some extra breathing room on the
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right side is our front IO and that's it
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it's a pretty basic layout so far around
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back though it gets more interesting there's a rear panel cutout dual slot
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GPU Mount and an sfx PSU Mount but wait
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a minute what's up with that hole on the top left and right of the power supply
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well look back at the front of the case there are two slits cut out just above
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the front plate with these you can run USB cables through the back of the case
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to your motherboard's IO making for a significant reduction in desk clutter
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for things like plugging in your phone or USB headset neat literally its legs
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come in four varieties light and dark oak and white and gunmetal anodized
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aluminum and even if they aren't to your style there's very little reason to
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leave them out because like other monitor stands stands the taku is also a
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great place to hide your keyboard when you're not using it extra wide keyboards
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like our g710 plus won't quite fit but
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any standard 104 key or 10 keyless keyboard will slide right in there no
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problem and speaking of sliding the tako's best trick is what happens when
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you press in on the front panel in here
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we've got space to mount the largest
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sfxlg TX 1080ti trays for up to 2 2 and
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1/2 in drives with a 92 mm fan mounted on top and a tray for a single 3 and 1/2
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in Drive considering cases like the dror
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Aber Sentry can pack up to eight 2 and 1/2 in drives into a much smaller ITX
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case this might seem a little bit limited but cryo rig felt and I actually
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agree that most people would prefer better air flow for a few drives to the
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ability to turn their small form factor case into a destination for a backup of
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the entire internet build time the slide out tray is not nearly long enough to
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access anything but the drive Bays but that's actually okay remove the tray by
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pushing in these two black plastic tabs from here each of the drive Bays comes
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out with a single screw and you can install the rest of your components run
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your cables through the cable cover and oh wait a problem our power supply
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actually didn't come with cables long enough to reach cryor rig did include
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extensions
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but they're sinfully ugly so we grabbed
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some cable mod cables and uh M that's
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better but getting back to practicality what about cooling performance whether
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we're looking at a synthetic CPU load a synthetic GPU load or a combination of
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the two to our temperature stayed
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completely within reason these are
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excellent results but that's kind of to be expected for such a large ITX case
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with that said though a case like this doesn't really need to be super small
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does it as monitor stands go this is both a good width and a good height and
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it's strong enough to handle pretty much anything that you can throw on it here's
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a shot of it with Dell's 8K 32in
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monitor but don't imagine you'll be
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buying one of these just yet cryorig is still working out some final details
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such as tweaks to Port clearances whether to have the included fan pull
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air in from the top or bottom and where
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to add the structural support that they need at the front and don't imagine
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you'll necessarily be buying one later either the build quality is amazing it's
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produced in Le and Lee's Factory the the layout should allow custom water cooling
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with some creativity and we love cryor
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rig's stylish and utilitarian new take
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on the desktop PC but on Kickstarter
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right now it's priced at anywhere from 300 to almost
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$400 depending on the options you select so yeah it's
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gorgeous but priced more like trendy
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Furniture than a typical beige PC box
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it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in
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the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts
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like this one and our community Forum which you should totally
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join the build quality is
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amazing and don't imagine you'll necessarily be buying one later the
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build quality is amazing don't imagine you'll necessarily
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be buying one L I think it's him right
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there yep