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hey everyone we're at the Silverstone suite at CES 2017 this video I'll probably go up after the show we've had a ton of coverage this year we're talking about a few of the things they have cases of course pretty plain and obvious what they are but Silverstone always brings an entire table of extra stuff that we don't really cover at all so I'm gonna try and go through some of that at this time before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber excel gaming PC which has an invertible motherboard tray layout and some other cool features hit the link below for more information on that so starting off with I'm gonna start with something different because I'm tired of talking about the same components all week this is just a thermal pad kit for SSDs and it's now on the table so the thermal pads for SSDs we found to be a pretty big issue and some drives depending on how they're built the Plextor m8p II as an example has its own sort of heatsink built into it and that was done as a response to high temperatures on the stick sized SSDs and those temperatures can reach in some of our testing 70 to 90 C if you cram it into like an SF F box and that's a problem that throttle is just like with a GP or a CPU you're now throttling your data throughput on the drive so to solve that the there are a few options on the market coming out this year or end of last year one was the MSI motherboard that we just showed for the z2 70 series that's got sort of a heat shield to protect the drives from the GPU heat but it also has a thermal pad so it's it's a weird heat shield and heatsink I'm not sure how well it works yeah we'll test it but this is just a simple thermal pad they are I believe 1.5 millimeters and yes 1.5 millimeters for watts per meter Kelvin which is a bit better than some of the EVGA thermal pads we tested for that whole vrm issue so a bit better than that you need to connect it to something really to be of much value of course because if you're just sinking the heat into the pad it doesn't go anywhere but that's a good start and then this is just an adapter so it's just an expansion card it has it's a by 4 expansion card now of course the question is well if you connect to m dot 2 SSDs in it which you could do what's the the throughput limitation you're gonna how you assigning the lanes the bottom one gets all four lanes and the top one or well the bottom one gets the PCIe and the top one gives to say that so top is SATA 6 gigabits per second or SATA 3 bottom is the PCIe interface and that is for up to 110 millimeters for the MDOT to sort of gum stick style as as these goes into your motherboard other accessories before getting to the case as coolers this is just a fan grill the only reason I'm mentioning this is because we've been talking about RGB non-stop since last year and everyone's doing it and it's not special anymore this is a fan grill so the lighting here on the front is we probably some b-roll shots but you'll see it's actually the snowflake Styles grill lighting up and that can plug into your standard RGB fan controllers so if you have for example one of these 4 pin layout like the hue plus has I think maybe the SP fans have it I'm not sure then you plug into there it should sync with that or in theory plug with plug into some of the motherboards that have the RGB LED capacity I like the Auris and mystic lighting and all that stuff so that's a little different worth mentioning probably be a couple bucks ten dollars less something like that this is probably less than twenty or thirty bucks no hard price not any of this yet that general pads are wherever they went probably a couple bucks as well this is an NT o 8 1 1 5 XP I believe is the name of the cooler so the only reason I'm mentioning this it is a small form-factor cooler it's one of those 27 millimeters or smaller type coolers it goes into a box something like this maybe for an Intel nook or one of those unit it's very tiny box obviously that's ok but it's been done they are the things that I'm happy about is just having the Intel connectors because dealing with a backplate all the time when you don't have to is dumb and it adds cost and it adds configuration time and the Intel clips if it's not a heavy heatsink they're fine so that makes me happy to see a very simple thing getting to the case is this is the PMO one we've talked about it a few times before it's been in a few of our case roundups is in our Computex coverage in the summer of last year it's changed a bit so some of the changes include on the top panel that is now support for 140 millimeter radiator so that's new and then inside it's well I guess outside there's tempered glass like everyone else so a tempered glass four screws around the side you've seen it before it's tinted if you like the PMO one and you like tempered glass I guess there's a solution for you now $150 is the jumps up to 150 for that and the side panel which will have b-roll has a painting on it and that's an extra ten bucks on top so you get tempered glass with no painting or you get both and it's 160 those are the main changes here there's toggles for controlling the LEDs and all that stuff I think these are what's hooked up right now these little fan grill cover things so PMO one mostly the same case other than the major difference with the 140 and then the colors this is the SG 14 it's part of the Sugo series which I have just been informed being super go so we finally have an understanding of what that means so that the SG 14 has currently in its very prototype form acrylic tinted windows on three sides so one two three like that front panels off in the production model probably part polycarbonate like most other panels that are not tempered glass and it's got a bow to it which is kind of unique it's a mini ITX box it can support a full ATX power supply there's a smaller power supply in there SFF or something like that as effects and then the video card just 10.5 maybe 11 inch support depending on the final model we've got a toggle button up here that's kind of hot wired right now for switching the LEDs the LEDs are a big question mark for silverstone so if you have a strong opinion the question for you is would you rather buy it for a cheaper price without LEDs or get the LEDs at a higher price leave a comment below and let them though but that's the SV 14 basically a small form-factor box looks pretty easy to build in just because you pull the side panels off and you have full access to everything in the case and cooling is handled entirely by a 140 millimeter fan on the bottom that's part of the air penetrator series we've seen them before and I think in the Raven case actually was probably the last time we looked at it so those are pretty good historically pushes all the fan up at the air up and then you exhaust at the top as expected I think that about covers it there's plenty of other stuff here but I think that 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