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hey everyone we were at CES 2017 this video might be going up after CES but all the same we're here at the Inman booth now looking at two new cases primarily there's a third I'll thrown at the end though that's kind of special this is the 301 we'll also be talking about a modified version of the 303 called the 303 type see before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber excel gaming PC though to be relevant they also have some in win cases in the rotation so for the 301 this one is basically a shrunken down version of the 303 if you've seen our 303 coverage you already know that in terms of the outside it's basically the same thing but just smaller the front has red LEDs in the i/o and the nameplate on the side still has the single button push to lower down the window and that is a tempered glass window the one thing I really liked about the 303 that I wish would be applied to more cases is that touch button to release it had some thermal concerns but in terms of design that was pretty good because you're not dealing with the thumb screws for everything inside for cooling the case supports to 120 millimeter front fans or you can put a 240 millimeter radiator there there's absolutely no way for the front of the case to breathe and instead the air has to come in through the back side there's some ventilation matching in the rear panel I would have to test it to see how effective it is but that would be where your air would come from if you front mounted cooling there's also an option to do to 120 millimeter bottom fans one of the very back that would hit your GPU core one towards the front if you have a bigger GPU that'll probably hitting the VRM or if not it'll go up and hopefully get to some kind of CPU cooler the CPU cooler height is up to 158 millimeters before you hit the side panel of course and in terms of cooling again 240 in the front there's also support for a 120 millimeter rad or you can put a 120 millimeter fan in the rear for exhaust or whatever you might want to do power supply is top mounted obviously because we've got two fans at the bottom so top mounted PSU and then in front of that is a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive cage so it is technically 3.5 on the spec sheet but could be 2.5 back side supports 2 2.5 inch SSD trays and we were not able to take the back panel off because first purposes they didn't want us to just because it's a trade show and they probably built it last minute and I'm sure the cables were not managed because they'd have enough time so we won't be able to see that but moving on next to the type-c version of the 303 and now moving on to the 303 type see this is again pretty similar to the 303 same tooling all of that but they've added a type-c connector to the front and then some pretty obvious changes to the side panel there is it's not a laser etching but some kind of other logo display on the side and the cool thing here is that this is actually illuminated on the panel itself but rather than using a cable if you release this lever you'll see it loses the lighting that's because inside it's just the direct pin contact - a little very tiny PCB on the side panel so no cables are required for that functionality other than that it's the 303 so it's the same thing we reviewed a while ago three 120 millimeter fans supported up top right here which is a unique way to do it you would basically have to have a radiator there for those to be effective so you mount your three 120 s or two 120 s and do a 240 set up and then the power supply mounts here behind the back 120 millimeter fan I'm not sure if the cooling support has changed to adapt it has not so that was one of my wishes with the 303 review was that I wanted a 280 millimeter mounting point because it could actually fit one in terms of the size it was just there no mounting points but you could force it if you wanted to so that hasn't changed still the 303 side panel is a big change the type C port on the front is a big end relevant change with a m4 and z2 70 on the market still 120 in the back still put 120 s in the bottom and that I think pretty much covers it because it's still the 303 case there to view our review for that if you want to see how it works functionally but in terms of price no price yet on this there's no price on the 301 if you think of a price that you would pay for this please leave a comment below because anyone's looking for feedback and that would probably help them figure out what market they best belong and and now for the final case we're going to move over to one it made by Bob Stuart and rod Rosenberg the monitors from PS mods we saw this in Taiwan at Computex 2016 it's actually a real case now so let's go check that out so the final case like I said combi tax we covered something like this almost the exact same actually this was done again by BS mods the case is built on the frame of the 509 but the entire body is obviously completely different three millimeter thick aluminum for the paneling and rather than retool the entire chassis which would of course be a huge expense they've used standoffs so in that regard it's pretty smart because they've got standoffs to mount this plating on the outside off of the original frame that way there's no retooling required the 509 specs are pretty much the same you can still figure 140 in the back power supply still in the bottom all that stuff but with the medieval metal that's never the case styling of the case this was done by in one's factory they're now actually going to at least somewhat mass-produce it rather than just be a one-off mod for the contest that was hosted in Taiwan last year the sword is a machined on both sides and it obviously serves as the i/o which is kind of cool and then the power buttons right here in the pommel of the sword with the cross guard being actual just thick aluminium it's all the way through aluminum which is probably a significant cost but it looks at damn good the styling here these little divots they are calling scallops and that is all going to be CNC do I believe the name of the case like I said medieval metal is kind of a working name you can go to the BS mods Facebook page and I think they're going to be hosting a contest there at some point to potentially rename it and then the winner will receive one of the cases which is significant because the price is about a thousand dollars it's very expensive case but that is sort of what anyone does with their cases so if you know and when you know what to expect for price this is not something that I would probably review for function it is definitely a forum type of case it comes with no fans like most of the other ones we've looked at you buy your own fans buy your own components set it up how you like you'd probably want a liquid coil at your intakes on the front and there is a sort of Templars cross in the front with LED illumination from the setup that they have but you could set that up on your own if you wanted to the mesh for the Templars cross is some kind of punching from their factory which we did a factory Torrance all the machining was pretty damn cool if you want to check that out we have a video from the factory tour in Taiwan last here so that's it for the in one booth for CES 2017 you can find all our coverage on the channel gamers and axis on the website gamers exist on that patreon link the poster old video it helps that directly subscribe for more thanks for watching I'll see you all next time you