Most Modular Case Ever??
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,051 words · ~5 min read
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Thank you to Corsair for bringing us to Computex 2016 this year. Check out their
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lap dog. It allows you to game on the couch with a keyboard and mouse. It's
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pretty cool. Description down below. Also, thank you to MSI. They have a cool
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AUS desktop here and their GTX 1080. So,
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this is the Dark Base Pro 900. And instead of starting with the outside and
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slowly going in like I normally do with a case, I'm going to go right to the juicy stuff. This is the removable
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motherboard tray. Uh, as you can see, it's in my hand instead of like in the
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case. That's natural. that's supposed to happen. It has stuff like rubber bumps
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on the back so you can actually put it down on a table and it can rest nicely
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without scratching anything. So, you can build your computer almost entirely
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outside of the case and then slot this guy in and go from there. We recommend
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in all of our build guides to build outside of the case first. This allows
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you to do that but not waste all of your
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work. The two other adjustment points for the motherboard tray are vertical
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adjustment and inversion. So vertical adjustment makes it so you can either
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bring it down to be more compatible with thicker radiators or bring it up so you
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can get above the power supply and show off your entire motherboard. Inversion
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makes it so you can flip it over, put it on the other side of your case, have
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your graphics cards pointing up, all that kind of fun stuff, and move the
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windowed side panel to the other side to have your have your case in like a
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switch configuration. It has a ton of cable management loops for Velcro straps
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or zap straps or whatever else and a fan controller. It has three PWM and three
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nonPWM plugs, although this is the nonpro version. The Pro version has four
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of each. I'll get more into the differences of those later on. Also, on
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the back of the motherboard tray is a single SSD slot if you only want to have
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one SSD. You can kind of tuck it back there. It's all nice, clean, and tidy.
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And a massive CPU cooler cutout so you can easily install whatever you have.
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Speaking of CPU cooler, if you want to go with water cooling, you can naturally
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fit a 360 or 420 mm rad in the top. And
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if you want to go for the front, if you remove the 5 and a/4 inch bay, you can
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fit also a 360 or 420 mm rad. Or if you
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leave it in there, I believe you can fit a 240 or 280. All of the fan intakes are
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filtered with removable filters, which is great. And when you get the case, it
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comes with three Silent Wings, three 140 mm fans. Another cool thing about the
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cooling is that the air doesn't actually come in from the bottom of the case. It
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comes in from the side of the bottom of the case. You don't have to worry as
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much about the computer being on carpet or something like that where you might
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pick up different debris, which is never fun. Next up in the modular fun, we have
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the hard drive trays. So, the computers pro and nonpro come with seven of these
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different immodular hard drive units. So, you can fit seven hard drives or 14
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SSDs as one can be mounted in the top and one can be mounted in the bottom.
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You can also buy two additional if you want to remove that 5 and a/4 in bay
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that's up there, which I expect you probably will anyways, although I don't know if you need that many drives. That
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means theoretically you could have 19 total SSDs in proper mounting positions,
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but we all also know that you could just dangle them around and that would be
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fine, too. The inside of the case is lined with sound dampening material. And
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the nonpro version, which would have a solid panel on the left hand side
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instead of a window naturally, unless you inverted the motherboard tray,
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whatever, don't worry about it. Would also have sound dampening in there. although the Pro version wouldn't
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because again naturally it's a window. Moving to the outside on the top you
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have your IO which is two USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, a mic and headphone jack
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separately, power and reset buttons, hard drive LED, PWM controller switch,
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so you can have it go through the motherboard or through the PWM
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controller that B Quiet supplies. And then last but not least is an RGB
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switch. So with the Pro version, not with the non-pro version, it comes with
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a bunch of LED strips. And I'm sure if you got the non-pro version, you could
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add your own as well. On the Pro version, not on the non-pro version, at
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the very top of the case, there is a key charger to charge your phone, just in
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case you don't want to plug it in through USB or whatever. So, the
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differences between the Pro and the nonpro is that the Pro has a window, has
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lights, and has a key charger on the top. The nonpro has no window, no
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lights, no key charger. That's the only differences. Let me know what you guys
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think of the Dark Base Pro 900 in the comments down below or on Twitter or
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wherever else. We're we're pretty easy to contact. Thank you to Corsair for
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sending us here this year. If you want to game on the couch with a keyboard and mouse, check out the Lap Dog. That's
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pretty cool. Also, thanks to MSI. They'll be showing off their AUS X
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desktop and their MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X8G graphics card at the show. We'll be
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checking them out later on, so stay tuned for that and stay subscribed to Line of Tech Tips for all of our
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Computex 2016 content.