The Most Badass PRODUCTION Case?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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595 words · ~2 min read
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Thank you to AMD for sponsoring our CES 2017 content. Check out their new Ryzen
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processor in the link in the description down below. Back at Computex 2016, InWin
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held this epic competition between modders from all around the world to see
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who could make the best mod on one of their platforms. Our friends at BS Mods
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were there, Bob and Rod, and they had a really interesting submission. I made a
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video about it. You guys voted, and they are one of the winners to have their mod
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turned into an actual production purchasable case. When I walked up to
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the booth at InWin, I seriously thought it was the modded version from before. I
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was like, "Oh, cool. They brought the one that they made at Compyex to the show floor at CES." I was wrong. That is
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the final product. That is a purchasable, expensive limited edition
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product that looks absolutely legit.
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Upon closer inspection, while staying true to the original build, they have
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done some upgrades. The sword itself does look a little bit better. And on
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the pommel, there's this really awesome power button that feels really nice. And
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then along the side of the blade, there's your IO. So, they have two USB
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3, two USB 2, and audio headers. All of
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those scallops are on 3 mm thick aluminum panels, which is super legit.
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And the shield on the right side of the case has an LED backlight behind it. The
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giant rivets all throughout the case are all real. They actually sourced rivets
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that big specifically for this build, which is not something Inwind normally
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uses at all. for the cross on the front,
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that mesh pattern that goes behind it. They had to find the original material
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that they actually used for the first mod, and buy it in bulk, which was
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actually a complicated process. But either way, it looks great and it
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probably should considering it costs so much that if you actually care how much
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it costs, you probably shouldn't buy it. I actually don't know right off the top
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of my head. That wasn't really a variable that mattered. But to make sure
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that you actually know that it is fully legit through and through, there's a
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signed panel on the lefthand side from Bob and Rod themselves, which is
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awesome. This build that you can see right now weighs 65 lb without the water
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in it. So, it actually weighs a little bit more than that. And when they
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display it, they take two people to pick it up. All of this was built on an
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In-Win 509 frame. So, if you think you can do a mod that's cool as well, you
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can pick that up. And if you're thinking of other things, maybe try to give them
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a name. atbsmods on Twitter. They're trying to figure out a name for this.
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One that I thought of was sword and board, which is kind of like the knight
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thing, but it's not a board for the shield. It's a metal thing. So maybe you
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can think of something more creative than I did. And speaking of creativity,
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thanks again to AMD for sponsoring our CES 2017 content. Their Radeon Vega GPU
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will introduce a new memory architecture that sports high bandwidth cache. You
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can learn more about Vega by visiting ve.ga, GA clever URL or visiting after
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the uprising on this YouTube link right up here.