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the inner max saber a full tower chassis features premium RGB sync lighting included RGB strips and three pre-installed twister bearing RGB fans enjoy a tempered glass window power supply shroud and extensive water cooling support with two included front panel options for prioritizing silence or airflow compromise nothing with the enter max a beret you can learn more by clicking the link below what's going on guys Cal bet wood here welcome back to the channel today I am taking a look at something that I knew was coming years ago and I feel like it started out as a joke when the RGB craze initially hit the PC market but now that joke has become a terrifying reality that I'm very glad to share with all of you today so this is a prototype emphasis on prototype from Lian Li which is basically the world's first RGB cable cable extension to be exact and they're calling it the strimmer STR imer I feel like there should be two M's in that word if it's pronounced strimmer streamer streamer just doesn't doesn't roll off the tongue anyway it's a 24-pin ATX extension for your motherboard and we'll be taking a closer look at it today so let's open this guy up now I have actually unboxed this already and tested it out but I'm just unboxing it here on camera for you guys for theatric purposes and there are some things to note here about this prototype right off the bat actually I tried shooting this review earlier today and in the middle of shooting it the wire that was soldered on to the cable came undone oh this just fella it broke so it's broken which is why the b-roll that we have for this video is going to be pretty limited because we didn't actually get to shooting every get around to shooting everything before it broke so let's just carry on with this review as if it's a normal review now there's still much to learn about this cable there's a lot of information that Liam Lee left out when they sent me this sample such as pricing availability I'm hoping that we find out more during Computex which is right around the corner though taking a closer look at the cable we get some White's leaving there's no heat shrink it's not fraying so it's fairly high-quality it's not the best I've seen but it's certainly decent enough for most purposes and on the other side we have what looks to be our 5 volt addressable RGB fiber optic lighting housing array or whatever you want to call it this is where the illumination takes place and it's basically consisting of these twelve sort of transparent wires that go across the entire extension and it looks like it's fixed to the to the the wires of the cable by the the cable combs there's some custom cable combs here that it sort of latches on to and it's a little bit loose in certain area so hopefully that's something that they iron out for the final retail model as well this can also be flipped it looks like you can actually flip the the LED housing to the other side of the cable based on whatever motherboard that you're using as not all boards have the ATX clip on the same side so that's really nice that they give you that sort of option and then there's also let's let's talk about the cable that fell off assuming that this was connected it would actually connect right here which is the closer to the side of the connector that your power supply cable would plug into and from here you get a couple different options on how to connect and control the LEDs so for starters you have a three pin connector that can connect to the included controller that takes the form of an expansion bracket which we'll take a closer look at later and there's also a three pin connector that you could hook up to your motherboard assuming your motherboard supports addressable RGB devices and from there you can use software like asus or sink msi mystic light to control the LEDs still no word on what softwares will be supported but I guess more on that later let's take a look at the actual controller here which comes the form of a PCI expansion bracket and it's got three buttons on the back one for LED mode or color mode another for the effect speed and then one for memory which it didn't really describe what that was I'm guessing that's if you want to create a memory profile or a lighting profile so that when you reboot your computer it remembers the the profile that you were using last but I'm not sure don't quote me on that and then we also have the PCB that it's connected to with a molex connector which is where it gets its power in the spec sheet the very limited spec sheet that Langley gave me it actually said that this was supposed to be SATA so I'm guessing for the retail model we'll see say that in place of this terrible hideous molex connector and then you've got your cable obviously for connecting it to the cable itself so the other thing that I wanted to say about this bracket is that when we tried installing it we were running into clearance issues with the PCB and the PCI Express slots on our motherboard had they just mounted the the PCB just maybe an inch or so or even a couple centimeters this way then that wouldn't happen but we actually had to bend the PCB quite significantly to go underneath one of our PCIe slots in order to get this installed flush with the case but that's pretty much it guys again there's not much else to say here it's nerdi bko I think the most interesting thing about this whole product is the way it looks so without further ado here's some of the b-roll that we were able to get before it broke enjoy well there you have it guys it's an RGB cable it does RGB things now it's time for you guys to sound off in the comments and let me know what do you think is this something that you would spend your hard-earned dollars on how much would you pay for an RGB 24 pin ATX extension like this one or is this just something else you know just another RGB gimmick that that should be shunned publicly and and burned in a valley of fire I don't know but thank you guys so much for watching this video again let me know what you think about it in the comments toss a like on the video if you enjoyed it and also get subscribed so you don't miss any more tech stuff coming at you really soon you can also follow me on Flo playing for three bucks a month if you want to catch all my videos a week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description till next time guys thank you so much for tuning in have yourselves a good one and I'll see y'all in the next video