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2019-06-06
fit wits coverage of copy text 2019 is brought to you by fantex Coolermaster gigabyte enter max team group NZXT and corsair to learn more about our sponsors click on the links below we're at the in win booth but you wouldn't know it it kind of looks like we're in a toy factory or a Toys R Us or something this is their Allis case very interesting concept here this is actually all made of plastic it kind of just looks like a storage crate or something but it's really just a sort of an open-air test bench type of chassis completely open-air however you can actually get these these these fun little covers for it these covers are gonna come included but I guess you don't have to really use them I kind of like it without it honestly this would be sort of like a lightweight testbed is what I would use it for but of course you could also use it sort of as a statement piece in your living room it definitely blends in with household items a lot more than your usual PC case if this is sort of a style that you're going for it's kind of an interesting layout here just really quick we've got a triple fan 120 so you could do a 360 radiator here at the bottom you might have to stretch those tubes a little bit to reach the CPU on your inverted motherboard layouts so with an inverted motherboard you would actually have your i/o your rear i/o coming out right there and there's no front I oh actually so you would have to plug things in from the top of the case which would technically be the back of your motherboard kind of an interesting design there you've got a couple SSD mounts right there looks like one two three at the front and on the back side we have a power supply now this is where the cable management area would go you can see the back of the motherboard tray there with a generous CPU cooler cutout cable tie-down points that's going to be very crucial in a case like this where you don't actually have a physical side panel because if any cables are sticking out ever so slightly you're actually gonna see them start to poke through or try to you know it's gonna look like alien coming out of your chest which is probably not very attractive you can see because of the inverted motherboard layout that we also have the GPU which is going to be mounted vertically not vertically in the in the sense that we usually refer to but you know kind of more up and down orientation another interesting quirk here is that we've got a power button right but once this once one of these sleeves is on it goes away you can't really see it so you kind of got a fish around for it I mean you know once once you're familiarize with it you'll know exactly where it is but I can't even I can't even find it right there so another little interesting quirk there they're going to target this at around $40 so very affordable actually I was expecting a little bit more then again it is just kind of a plastic frame obviously much cheaper material than aluminum or steel and I guess one of the many reasons this whole concept came about is because anyone was trying to look for an option that would be fully customizable and offer a lot of different color options that they were actually getting many requests for so people were saying hey make me a hot pink case or an aqua teal case and that's kind of difficult to do when you're talking about metallic materials but with this you can get a lot more fancy with it so it's a lot more cheap to design and eventually the goal is to have a ridiculous number of customizable options to pretty much do whatever your needs are just a side note here I kind of like the fact that you know you can actually use this as an ambient light you can see they actually put a light bulb in here and it looks looks nice it kind of like softly diffuses it with this sheet that's wrapped around it so it's you wouldn't even recognize it as a PC if you walked into someone's home and just kind of saw this sitting there you can see they're also getting creative with like their finishes we've got sort of a fake wood material it looks pretty nice I wonder like how sturdy this is like what the weight capacity is like if you could put objects on here maybe like another miniature PC or speakers or something it just kind of looks like you can take advantage of this this is this open space why'd you sauce also made a good observation that this would be perfect for like a children's bill like a kid you know like if it was there like first PC or fisher-price build or something like that it's very you know user friendly it's open there's no sharp edges or anything to like cut them on and it looks kind of fun right kid's gonna be more naturally attracted to something this colorful and whimsical then maybe your standard chassis so so this is the in win98 that they showed off at CES earlier this year which you're all pretty familiar with it houses like ridiculously large oversized boards like the asus rog dominus that they have in there right now insanely overbuilt case that runs for about a thousand dollars people love the look and the design of this chassis but didn't want to spend a cool grand on it so what anyone did was they heard their cries and they made us a relatively cheaper four to five hundred dollar case in the form of the nine to five which houses a more standard EAX motherboard definitely doesn't skimp on the water cooling options though you can do a 360 rad at the front as well as the top and the way they've actually brought the cost down here apart from just saving a lot of money on materials because we're literally shrinking down the side is for one the diamond cut accent here that goes all along the edges of the case is nowhere to be found on the nine-to-five and that saves surprisingly a lot of coin you know when you're talking about all the tooling and manufacturing that goes into it additionally certain accents like these corners are made of plastic now a very hard durable plastic as opposed to the aluminum pieces that were here previously on the nine to eight again saving a ton of coin bringing it down to pretty much half the cost of the original also if black is not your thing they have it in silver as well which is my pick I personally like this I love the contrast I think it looks great a lot of silver components on the market these days so I think a wifey sauce is pointing she's pointing to that one I think I think she likes the black one well she's been wrong before it's okay you're not always right so yeah that's the that's the 925 should be coming later this year keep your eyes out for it if you want something a little bit more reasonably priced you can go with the 905 they have the 905 with the OLED OLED display which they have cute little or they didn't have cute little Asian characters on there earlier but now they have something much more useful which I guess is good so you get an OLED display that's kind of cool you also have the option for RGB you could do addressable RGB right here it was doing more fun rainbow movements earlier but you get the idea so the 905 is basically just sort of a it improves upon the 904 you get triple rad or I'm sorry triple 120s at the bottom you can also do a 240 millimeter at the front you can mount those radiators simultaneously if you wanted to you can see that you can clearly pull off a really nice-looking custom water-cooled build inside of one of these chassis obviously that same beautiful brushed aluminum all over the front we have USB 3.1 gen2 type-c which is always nice to have here in 2019 dual USB 3 mic and headphone jacks power button there's kind of just very cool and modern contemporary design the sort of empty space negative space they're very nice-looking chassis so I think the prices they said was 275 for the adjustable RGB and then you step up just a little bit to $300 for the OLED so you guys let me know which wouldn't you would pick cuz you want the addressable RGB or the oleate I think I think I would go away not to not to make your vote bias or anything but I kind of like the fact that you my zit and actually put some useful information on there what's that okay wifey agree on that widely saw so she grew we agree on the oh let's see we don't disagree on everything out over here in this little dark corner of in wins booth we have the concept it's so new that it doesn't even have a name yet they're just calling it the new ATX case this is something that they're not even sure if they're going to be bringing to market or not they're getting a lot of press feedback right now including my own I give them a couple a couple of my thoughts maybe you guys can share your own down in the comments so this is an ATX chassis as you can see we've got tempered glass on the side there's also a glass front panel right here which is protruding it is sticking out a little bit so you do get maybe ooh I don't know five to seven maybe seven millimeters of space all around one of the suggestions I gave them was making this able to pop out if you wanted to pop it out like let's say half an inch or even a full inch to really open up the airflow why not look as clean but if you're targeting users of all kinds including ones who prioritize airflow that might be a good option also I was a little concerned that there's absolutely no ventilation on the top here they said the reason why is to keep it looking a bit cleaner and more modern but I don't really think that having a couple perforated or punched in holes at the top is really going to take away from that it is however going to potentially reduce your your temperatures quite a bit so I think that would be a good move they have two mounting points for fans 120-millimeter fans that are going straight to your GPUs which is kind of handy I suppose if you didn't have a second graphics card in here you can down to 240 millimeter radiator and do some liquid cooling that way ditional it looks like we've got three one 20s at the front so you could do a 360 red and it looks like a power supply shroud comes by default along with full size compatibility for CPU coolers however they have a low profile one in here probably just to give press a better look at the internals they're also trying to target this on the relatively entry-level side of things so anywhere from 60 70 maybe even $80 of course the lower the better for for consumers I think 60 or $70 price point would be fair we also have this kind of unique layout for our front IO the fact that it's slanted at a 45 degree angle is actually kind of handy if you think about it if you're sitting in your seats this feels the most ergonomic to I just kind of naturally plug in things that way or turn your turn your system on as opposed to attacking it from a right angle so you guys let me know what you think again this is just a concept right now so anyone will be listening very closely to use your feedback feel free to let us know what you think down below next up we have the in win at 3:09 this is building upon the same in win 303 chassis that we all know and love I really like the 303 I like the design I like how all the intake comes from the bottom of the case so they can you know make the front all seamless and closed off or whatever it's a relatively competitively priced case as well to 303 but here we have the 309 which kind of just explodes things to another level you can see we have this fully customizable LED panel and as you can see they've got a couple examples here exactly what you could do well they did until in wind but it's kind of fun we have the glow to software here where you can control and program everything you want you can even do individual per square lighting customization you can do whatever you want if you really wanted to sink that much time into it it does come included with three of these new fans you can sync the fan lighting with the front panel lighting it's all fully customizable they're looking at a price point of a hundred and ninety nine right now you guys let me know what you think of that you can also control fan lighting and things like that from a straight from the buttons on the front i/o and I suppose the side i/o your being technical the amount of customizability here is pretty limitless they were saying you can even add your own logo for example maybe even a gif of of you getting popped in the face with a bottle who knows I think there's gonna be a lot of mixed feedback on this chassis at first until actual reviews come out but you guys feel free to let me know what you think alright that's gonna conclude our coverage for the Inman booth here at Computex 2019 thank you so much for watching thanks to all of our sponsors who have allowed us to be here today feel free to check them out in the description below most importantly thank you you guys appreciate all of the fans that I have I'll show myself out right back
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