Phanteks Enthoo Luxe, Pro, and Primo variations - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus tech tips coverage of ces 2014 is brought to you by ncix.com your source
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western digital hey guys we're here at the fantex booth checking out a few
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cases one of which Linus should have reviewed by now but hasn't that's the
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enthu primo and he will be getting to that hopefully shortly after ces but for
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now we have the lux and the pro and a few extra options for the primo that
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should be coming soon on the front panel of the lux we have two usb 3.0 two usb
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2.0 mic and headphone in a reset button
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a light changing button which i'll show you in one second and a power button up
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on the top which is not behind the hidden door within the hidden doors that
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light changing buttons so as you can see there's led bars around the case which
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are not going to shine directly in your eyes if this is almost anywhere because they
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shine down onto the case which is nice because it won't annoy you way too much
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because the rest of the case is all black and black matches quite literally
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everything so as long as you go with black and then change to whatever color you want it's going to match the rest of
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your build moving to the top of the case you can fit up to 420 millimeter
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radiators with this nicely removable fan filter which is actually quite solid
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sometimes with fan filters i'm worried that they're going to warp if i take them off too many times but this one
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seems quite solid moving into the case we have our reservoir quite nicely
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displayed here more closer to the front of the case mounted quite nicely on that
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bracket but you could also put it in the back just in case you have a really long
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graphics card so they have a spot right here which would work very well for you
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with a just nut and bolt to be able to bolt on a radiator right there moving to
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the back just so we can see it easier but you can access this from the front too right in the middle of the front
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here they have a nice plate for some pumps so it's you can mount quite a few
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different pumps there and that's really easily accessible in a nice because it
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has a rubber mounting for the pump where you're mounting the pump and it has
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rubber mounting on the bottom of the feet of the mount for the pump so it's
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nice vibration dampening they also have a radiator here in the front which you
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can mount there or lay it down at the bottom and if you mount it here you
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can't have any hard drive cages but if you mount at the bottom you could have a hard drive cage
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hanging from right here so you have a ton of different options just in that small little area then moving to the
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back of the motherboard tray you have a pwm splitter at the back which comes
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with it it's quite nice it supports up to 11 fans which is solid and you can
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get additional if i think you just have to buy them as accessories and then you
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could split out to different areas and have different temperature zones so say
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this top radiator you only want the fans going at certain speeds depending on
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what temperature it is you can set that area different than the radiator that
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you have down here whatever you want to do if you get different modules for that
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they also have SSD mounting spots so if you do like their configuration here where you
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don't have the hard drive cages you can mount ssds just right on the back of the
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motherboard or down here as well they also have an adapter plate to hide the
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power supply in the basement in their current configuration it wouldn't work
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because you'd hit some of the tubing and some of the fittings and stuff but if
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you felt like being crafty and going along with this configuration you could
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cut this guy a little bit and then make it fit and it works really well with the
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case because it looks exactly the same and there is rubber grommets built into the side which is really fancy Linus's
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full featured coverage of the anthu primo is coming so we'll just be kind of
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going over the newer options that they have here first of all they have a
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standard white one now and then for special editions they also have orange
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and white and red the orange and red will all of them to be completely honest
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have a sandblasted aluminum style not a brushed aluminum which i like quite a
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bit because your fingerprint burn-in is not nearly as bad there's been cases in
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the past where i've built them wearing those like weird white gloves just
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because i have fingerprint burning problems like mad so i'll leave like a
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crime scene across the case which is terrible so this is a much better style
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in my opinion and finally we have the pro this is a cost of down version of
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the lux and it is very aggressively priced when you come to the inside it no
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longer has the basement it no longer has the reservoir plate on the kind of front
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inside area it no longer has the pw pwm splitter on the back of the motherboard
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tray and it no longer has one of one of
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the 140 millimeter fans that come stock on the lux but like i said it is costed
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down and all of these things can be added later you could buy the accessory for the basement and the reservoir plate
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and you could buy another fan to go put in there so if if you need something
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that has an initial lower investment it's definitely not a bad idea on the
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outside in comparison to the lux you you lose a few things as well the most
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notable and what you'll obviously see first is that the lighting features are
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not there so on the i o plate everything is the same as well except for the
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lighting button and then at the top you lose that extra shroud that you had so
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you could fit fans there and the super super easily removable fan filter but
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you can still remove this fan filter to clean it elsewhere thank you for watching our fantex content be sure to
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