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hey Ron we are at the enter Mac suite now at CES 2018 looking at actually a case that was showcased last year but it's had a lot of overhauls revisions and it's finally coming to market this year and one of the revisions addresses a lot of the immediate concerns that I had so I'll be showing that off as we go through the case before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a 360 millimetre radiator with three ring RGB LED fans you can program the fans our custom lighting through software and then of course benefit from the larger radiator size in cooling performance learn more at the link in the description below this is the saber a enter max also has a couple of other new products and the liquid cooling division that we'll be looking at in a moment the savoury though so in the bureau you'll see mostly the acrylic front and I know what you all are thinking it's what I was thinking when we reviewed every case that came out in 2017 and that's how does it breathe how do you get air through literal glass or acrylic so they thankfully do actually have the front panel that can pop out so you can push on the front and it'll pop out and then the plan is what they tell me say brace should be shipping with two mesh panels as found on the top of the case so there's a mesh panel up here that you can pop out like this it's the same exact size and mounting mechanism as the front panel which means that you could swap them so you put the glass on the top if you don't have a top exhauster radiator and side chute but we found that that sometimes improves cooling performance if you don't have any top fans because it streamlines the air flow but either way you can do glass on the top and get mesh in the front so we can actually breathe it's actually a metal mesh with just a honeycomb plastic behind it so this is looking good and if you prefer both to be meshed the plan is to ship the case with two mesh options so very happy to see that that has been the biggest concern for cases for the last year now so that's that's good that's probably the thing that has made me the happiest so far the show so that people are listening for fans it comes with three front intakes that are going to be the RGB I think they call them TB RGB fans they're all 120s I think the plant is also to ship with a 120 non RGB exhaust fan the reason I'm saying I think in front of all this is because it's still technically in development it's towards the end of the cycle should be coming out in first quarter or end of first quarter of this year though some small changes could be made but the tooling is basically done at this point other changes from last year the lights last year I think we're single-color fixed now they are RGB of course and they can synchronize with motherboards so there's a button on the top that synchronizes it with the gigabyte board for example and that's really all it does other than that you can manually control them if you want to toggle between another thing that any of you who have watched our case reviews would probably be thinking is there are two fans internally pushing that way into a glass wall where does the air go so that's also something I asked and the glass panel on the backside it sounds like there is going to be an option to buy the case with a steel panel on the back steel doesn't breathe any better than glass but they're going to punch honeycomb mesh into it so hopefully if the honeycomb lines up behind the fans which it should then those will actually push the air somewhere other than recirculate into the case that's also good news pretty pretty ready to see case manufacturers doing stuff where the cases can actually breathe now so again pretty happy to see that that's most the case though it does radiators pretty much are you can do it I think of 360 on the top is the plan you can do a radio in the front it's got a cutout on the top of the power supply shroud to accommodate larger radiators which is also a good thing and then I mean aside from that lots of fan options there's a five and a quarter bay that's pretty rare these days two hard drives in the bottom and two SSDs on the backside if for your storage options and that is everything got it okay so that's that's the case inside the case there's a lick tech two cooler so we talked about these a lot with the lick tech 2tr for the thread Ripper version of the cooler it actually has been a leader in our benchmarks for thermals and noise normalized performance where we normalized 440 DBA so they brought that to Intel platforms now not just tr4 I think there's going to be support for AM for well and it's the same exact pump so it's obviously much smaller it's not thread Ripper coal plate smaller but as I understand it the impeller in there the the fat metal impeller that's pretty high-quality one and the tr4 unit should be the same in these smaller versions of the cooler so we'll be looking at that when it comes time to I think it's got some kind of LED synchronization or something as well that it syncs with the motherboard and everything else clearly so that's the the main cooler there's another one the fusion so they have a it's it's sort of interesting the pump on that one is actually located sort of branching off of the tubes it's not located on I mean the block the CPU where you would typically find them other than in cases where you're skirting around a tech patents that are being challenged actively but the pump block for that one or well I should say the CPU block since there's no pump in it has a flow indicator in it so if you're paranoid about the pump not working anymore you can look at the flow indicator the pump itself spins at 500 to 2,000 rpm and the cooler I think comes with the same TV RGB fans as on this it sounds like they're aiming for 240 and 360 for now for radiator sizes speaking of they are aluminum radiators not copper the cold plate is copper but it's nickel plated and I mean that basically wraps up the entire cooler so for prices case first quarter about $160 one of the two coolers is gonna be $120 the this one I actually don't like the or no the fusion will be $120 and the lick tech is going to be probably about $10 off of the tr4 I don't have an exact number but that's what they've told me so yeah that's the under max booth at CES 2018 subscribe for more CES coverage as always you can help us out direct on patreon.com slash gamers nexus thank you for watching I'll see you all next time