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my coverage of Computex 2017 is brought to you by be quiet cable mod verda gear and EVGA go ahead and check out the links below for more info alright guys we are at the cryo rig booth here at Computex 2017 floor and my voice is pretty good right now but I'm joined here with white Gustav so first off we've got the tacos this thing might look a little familiar I actually talked about this last year at Computex they had sort of a prototype well it's come a lot further along since then and they're actually they just launched a Kickstarter for it you can go ahead and check that out if they can actually get the funding on Kickstarter for this case then we're going to start to see samples ship starting this year which is pretty exciting it's finally almost ready first of all you'll notice that it's pretty minimalistic right the aesthetic is pretty gorge it might be a little bit Apple s may be too much for some of you and it kind of does a couple things it sort of hides your peripherals when you're not using them see the keyboard and mouse is sort of tucked away underneath and we've also got a really a stand for your monitor and it's a you know made of a really nice I think I believe it's aluminum material very sturdy and you can probably put a pretty heavy monitor on this thing without worrying about you know the wooden legs the nice wooden legs giving out or anything like that another thing I want to mention before we crack this guy open is that right now the early bird special on Kickstarter is two hundred and fifty dollars to back for one of these units and it goes up to 300 if you are not lucky enough to be one of the first to back this project now that is pretty see for a small form-factor mini ITX case but you're always going to have to pay sort of a premium for these really niche products but for those of them for those of us who actually need something like this there really are a few options if that being so let's go ahead and crack that guy open first of all leave just that sort of effortless push that wipe results just demonstrated to really kind of pull out this tray and reveal all of your basic components so you can see sort of the internal layout that we've got here we'll just go across the board here starting from left to right you've got support for an f of X or death effects out power supply looks like they've got a modular unit here with the pretty decent space for cable management doesn't look like any of the cable so far or getting cramped here and then we've got sort of a drive cage here for I believe a single three and a half inch drive it looks like you could maybe fit a second one there if you did some modifying but I believe they said the only one at the moment but then over here you've got full-length graphic support looks like they've got a founders edition in here some sort of GTX 10 series car which is you know 10 11 inches long and it looks like it's fitting just fine and obviously it looks like based on how this is oriented you look you've got a PCIe riser card which is going from your motherboard to your graphics card I ask that is included of course with your motherboard here's a shot of that and the CPU now you don't get a ton of CPU cooler clearance obviously but cry rig does make the amazing c7 which I did do a build with quite recently it's a fantastic little cooler if you're not going to be doing much overclocking and then over here you do get a little drive cage for two and a half inch drives I believe you can fit two of them in here with an included 92 millimeter fan that is in house from cryo reg goes up to 2200 rpm it is PWM and it's black sleeved which is always very thoughtful even though you know there's obviously no window wouldn't it be cool though if there was a window at the top or at least the option for a see-through window so you could kind of glamorize the internal components that would be pretty sweet over here you've got front IO two USB 3.0 as well as your audio and microphone jacks and you can really see that there's a ton of ventilation just throughout this entire chassis not not just the bottom but the top as well the sides are well ventilated and in the back is two so honestly even though there's only one of these included fans you're going to get a lot of decent pass passive cooling just flowing through this case overall before we move on to the next good thing really quick in the comments let me know which color scheme you guys like the best because cryo eggs still sort of going back and forth on which one they're going to be offering and you know or if they're going to offer all of them so here first off we've got white face plates on all the models regardless of the the color of the shroud the difference will be the shroud color and the the leg so the sort of leg finish so we've got a light wood on the legs black on the outside I know you guys light like black it's actually not not a bad-looking one I think this might be no this isn't my favorite one but this is silver on the outside you got some darker wood legs and then over here you've got black on black over here we've got silver for the for the chassis body and then darker wooden legs next to it red on the outside which is a bit more aggressive a little bit more flashy with some nice sort of a subtle gray legs and then finally at the end I think this is wifey sauces favourite we've got a silver silver body white baseplate and those light wooden legs which which definitely looks pretty freakin classic which one do you guys like best let me know so over here guys we've got the new Cu lineup of CPU coolers from cryo rig and Paul and I actually talked about this on awesome hardware not too long ago when it first came out or when it was first announced this is still sort of in the works you know this isn't a finished product by any means it's still sort of conceptual but basically what you have is all of cryo rigs very popular or most of their popular CPU coolers being given sort of a copper treatment with the fin stacks themselves and this is actually not just copper plated but is full copper construction and materials through and through not just the heat pipes but the whole entire fin stack as well which of course means much better heat conductivity than aluminum which is what they're originally made from and not only is that going to lower the thermals quite a bit actually they were saying this one gets you know on their first initial test lower temperatures by about 10 degrees Celsius we're not sure how repeatable that is but it's still kind of an impressive first impression but it is also going to make these coolers a bit more expensive if they do come out simply because it's copper material it's much it's a bit pricier than their aluminum brethren so bear that in mind you will be paying a price premium but hopefully getting chillier temps as well the other big difference between copper and aluminum heatsink construction is the weight factor so aluminum SEO as we all know I'm knocking things over here is very very light whereas copper is not it's super heavy and in fact this I think this cooler alone right here which is not terribly big weighs over two kilograms it's actually really heavy you could hurt you could kill someone with this easily wifey sauce will demonstrate no no no I take it back I take it back so what that also means is cry rig still maybe has a bit more Rd to do to find a way to mount these coolers to it's a little tiny CPUs and make sure that they're on there sturdily and not going to damage any part of the CPU the board or the cooler itself the one that they said that have the most confidence in so far is this one the c7 simply because it's already just so tiny and even though it is still way heavier than than any other cooler this size that I've ever held in my hand it shouldn't be too much of an issue to mount this to a motherboard so on that note stay tuned for more information as it comes to light let's thing to talk about here at the cryo rig booth we've got the r5 cooler this is sort of a follow up or sort of a revision I guess a response to their existing our one which is a fantastic cooler but there are some things about it that weren't super great for example ram compatibility issues with the r1 particularly on the x99 platform where you had RAM modules on either side of the CPU socket which did post some clearance issues for certain people for for certain situations this is going to have full memory compatibility whether you're talking X 99 X to 99 which I did just confirm with them and it's also going to support a.m. for motherboards right out of the box so that is really cool price point for this cooler is about $70 check it out it's going to be coming out later this year now one thing I'm really disappointed about not seeing here at the Craig booth is their new h7 quad Lumi that they announced the collaboration project they've done with NZXT to build upon their existing h7 but with RGB LED supported by the cam software so that's actually been a real bummer not being able to catch one of those what the heck hey what the hell is that is that it is it seriously it oh my god oh my god this is it this is this is it guys just just follow my lead all my lead I'm I don't know what I'm doing I don't know what I'm doing just follow my lead oh my god oh my god oh my god oh hello