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everyone we're closing out our CES 2018 coverage now at the inland booth so they have a couple of cases for us one is more practical and one is more of a showpiece we'll start with the showpiece the practical case is a finalization of the a1 small form-factor PC that we saw at copy Tech's around June of last year so that's finally beginning to enter production should be pretty much the final design at this point we'll look at that one there's also the in one nine one five that we're looking at here and we'll start with that before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly makers of the conductor hot liquid metal that we recently used to drop 20 degrees off of our coffee like temperatures Thermal grizzly also makes traditional thermal compounds we use on top of the IHS like cryo not and hydro not pastes learn more at the link below so for the nine one five I'll just get the flashy piece out of the way immediately there's a button that has a mechanical raised for the top panel so this is something we haven't seen a lot of this I the last time I can remember seeing a mechanical top for a case was like 2009 or 10 for some Alienware case when I worked at Dell I don't even know if it ever made it to the market so that's probably about the last time I saw it so yeah it's just a it's a button press raises lowers automatically in the back there's a belt drive so it's a rubber belt drive just like you'd see it's a smaller version of what you'd see for any other drive belt and there's a motor of some kind back here as well and it's just three spindles with the belt wrapping around it push the button they spin and raise the top the entire piece is one module so it's semi modular and that if you wanted to remove the top so that you can get a radiator in there it's all one piece the radiator secures to the chassis rather than this top bit that raises and lowers so they are somewhat isolated now of course this is a showpiece it's not really meant for consumer use but half of in winds products are in that category so nothing new for any of you who've seen their stuff that doesn't make it less cool to look at though so yeah it's a I think an acrylic panel on the top they've got tempered glass on the side tempered glass on the other side the other side is non-final so that may change the design currently has in logos all over it that's still kind of in flux whether that's gonna be final or not other specs for the case it does have a power supply shroud and it's got fan mounts that can be repurposed as SSD sleds if you prefer in the bottom of the case on top of the PSU shroud and then the chassis wall for the motherboard tray is presently not final either but it's kind of looking like this is what its gonna be so a couple more mounting options there and it can fit EI TX motherboards if you prefer just kind of as a side note for components if you're interested there's an ek Phoenix quick-release cooler in here so this is a QDC valve from ek and means that you can make a semi open-loop if you want it to cool the GPU as well for example not really related to the case but just kind of a cool thing to show and it's got the HyperX memory in there as well that we showed previously if you want to check that out so that's the main feature for the case we will move on to the a1 next a bit more practical more affordable for consumer but other than that there's one more thing to point out I guess so this is all aluminum it does have a lot of space in front of the fans that's just kind of empty space that's always good to have static air just sitting there ready to be used the idea is you would do a full custom loop anyway so not that relevant but the intake port is basically just on the bottom for all of the intake for the front the back panel is about the same design with a bunch of ventilation holes in it and then they're both aluminum panels is actually a 100% of aluminum for the most part for the case and oh yeah also the top panel when you shut down the system it will actually stay open for about 10 seconds before shutting again so there's some time for the warm air to get away from the radiators in the top so let's take it over to the a1 case now and look at the small form-factor option now that's been finalized so this one is more practical the previous case the 911 five I don't even have a prize for which should pretty much tell you where it's gonna land it's one of those if you have to ask maybe not for you the this one though this is the a1 it's the final version of what we saw many months ago and it's a small form-factor case it fits Mini ITX motherboards in terms of course specs you can see that there is kind of an acrylic side skirt here at the bottom there's a marginal amount of breathing room underneath and that gives some level of access although not much but enough to the fans for pulling in some air because there are actually two fans mounted in the bottom here they are 120 millimeter fans they have them set up as in taking this booth both of them basically push air straight into the GPU so GB is gonna be the heaviest component in the system as far as cooling goes there's also options to mount a 120 rear exhaust fan in this instance and then 120 side fan which you can configure however you want if you have a cooling issue for your CPU you just throw in a side intake and that should pretty much circulate the air in the side out the back and then the video card just receives the air directly into it video card pushes the air around the case out of the heatsink as usual so other features on it it's got a I think this might just be an acrylic side acrylic side that has push-button pins to mount to it the power supply is included so that's mounted top front of the case and the PSU is a 600 watt power supply 80 plus bronze it is in one branded I don't know the supplier but that's included and I guess the primary reasoning for that was because it's a mini ITX case so they want to make sure they eliminate one compatibility concerns with the larger ATX power supplies because it does fit standard ATX but not the big ones and then - because installing Barriss wise into small case is kind of sucks so they do that for you but yeah that's that's most of it there's a Qi charger on the top acrylic top acrylic side skirts acrylic pretty much everywhere and then ventilated steel side panel so that is the in win a 1 case and I think that wraps up in wins booth so as always you can subscribe for more coverage go to patreon.com/scishow sexist to help us out directly if you like this type of coverage I'll see you all next time