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they run we're at CES 2018 at the Coursera suite now looking at a couple of new cases they also have power supply that's worth the mention at least so the case mainly that we're targeting I was the 500d there is also a new case in the spec line of cases though for the obsidian 500d this one should be somewhat familiar to you all because we reviewed the 570 X when it came out a little while ago this has a lot of 570 X tooling so if you liked that tooling you're probably already partway there on this case before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a three hundred and sixty millimeter 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 and cooling performance learn more at the link in the description below a couple of things to point out though four changes would include the tops had a bit of a change so in terms of radiator support it's easier to get a 280 up there now the clearance between the top of the motherboard and the top of case is a little bit thicker so that should help out a bit previously it was about a 240 was kind of where you stopped so this one goes to 80 and previously also there was more of an offset than there is now other than that there are two versions of 500e that I should point out this is the aluminum front version obviously tempered glass there's a price difference and there's also a fan spec difference the fan spec difference is this one comes with three RGB fans that one comes with two SP fans the price difference is about $100 150 versus 250 part of that's the fans and then part of that is going to be tempered glass because tempered glass has a bit more price involved with it when you're bending it like this because of yields so those are things to know about the two different versions kind of smaller but cool features this door that I keep opening actually is somewhat from the concept slate that we saw at Computex previously that gigantic 40-pound case if anyone remembers that one so these are inspired or partly pulled from that some of the tooling is pulled from the five 70 X they're all bits and pieces that you should somewhat recognize the front of the power supply shroud can be removed by screws so if you wanted to ventilate that or route your cables differently or whatever you can remove that front power-supply shroud cover it's also got a vertical GPU mount so of course there's getting on board that train with everyone else at this point the vertical GPU mount basically the same as we've seen in the past mounted with cup two expansion slots in the back sits vertically right up against the glass and then for the extension cable or for the riser cable you need to buy your own so BYO riser cable in this case Corsair may look into that in the future they do products with riser cables it's just riser cables are actually kind of hard to get the right ones because there are some performance issues with the cheaper riser cable so you have to buy your own for that for now other than that I think that that covers the majority of the case really it's it's not it's not too different from a mix of all the other things we've seen in the past but it's a it's a good stout mid Tower I guess that's what you're looking for backside does have slightly different hard drive cages than previously now you can mount the hard drives in either orientation if you want the PCB exposed or the metal plate exposed so very small chains but one that's worth noting as well and I think we can probably move on to the new spec series case and take a look at that although I'll just quickly point out the airflow here so airflow on this one we've been talking about air flow non-stop for this case you do have about an inch on the side of the front panel for breathing which is what we typically recommend from our testing so that's good pass that test there's no bottom intake hole on this one no top intake hole it's just the front i/o for the top i/o up here with a USB type-c first case that course is done with that and yeah so we'll see how how cooling doesn't testing but they do have a decent amount of room here and there's nothing really behind the fans there's no cages or anything like that so it may very well be okay let's move on to the next case so the next case this is a bit cheaper at a hundred dollars this one you might recognize a bit for two reasons this front has been on at least one other corsair case you may remember this spec Alfa we looked at that ages ago so it's a bit of the spec Alfa front and then the internal is a 460 X which we saw it packs a little while ago as well least a year not more so yeah 460 x+ spec alpha basically is what you get in terms of fan support it has an SPL II D fan on the front and just a blackout fan on the back and it's got an LED bar in the bottom front as well so basically spec alpha + 460 X and that's the start in the end of this one so last one we're gonna talk about is a high end power supply and I'm only gonna give a top-level overview of some of the changes here we don't presently specialize in power supplies so I'm gonna I'll give you the basics it's an ax 1600 I it's 100 watts more than the previous model and it will go through the basic aesthetic stuff first it does come with a couple of different magnetic labels if you want there's $450 in terms of the more technical stuff I'm not going to dive too deep on so the main change I've been told about is I guess the PFC components that the transistors that comprise the PFC the power factor correction component typically our silicon and from what I understand these silicon transistors have an efficiency of something like 94 to 95 percent in a typical power supply that's not for the entire load of the power spice you're not talking 94-95 of 1600 watts under full load you're talking 94 to 95 percent of the PFC transistors what they're doing here is using gallium nitrite which is apparently 99% efficient for that specific component I guess the potentially more significant thing or at least more noticeable thing externally is that it shaves off about 20 millimeters on the power supply length and in terms of other stuff that I do know more about unfortunate I have specs on so the PCIe gauge for example I don't know the 12 volt gauge on that wire which is definitely something we care about with although the modding we've done if the Titan V lately but yeah that's that's all I know about this one so we'll move on but $450 for the ax 1600 I we've got the two cases that we showed or three if you count B variants with the aluminum panel 500 d a glass panel 500 E and then the spec Omega so that's the Corsair suite at CES 2018 as always you can check links in the description below for more information they also had a keyboard and mouse that we talked about previously couple days ago subscribe for more you go to 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