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so we're at the Silverstone booth now at Computex 2019 Silverstone is always one of the more interesting booths to visit at the show and it's because a lot of the time their performance focused a few of the cases here though and some of the fans have RGB and I I wonder if it physically pains Tony that's hard to do such a thing but it's not a bad thing to try and hit some of the trends in the market Silverstone is one of the one of the smaller K spenders we work with in terms of the volume in the US market but make some really good stuffs like the R l06 was probably one of the top cases on our charts along with the Raven O to the our v02 for a really long time and this kind of calls back to the rv0 to design and is what we're going to be focusing on for today before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte z 390 ARS master motherboard which comes equipped with one of the more powerful z3 90 V RMS for heavier overclocks on the new 9th Gen Intel CPUs the ARS master is also one of the few motherboards with a really heatsink this generation featuring a mix of high surface area fins and looks oriented cover blocks oh and it's also got updated our DV illumination learn more at the link below so this one is the alta s1 is Silverstone's new flagship case so it's been a little while since Silverstone's done big cases like this they've been working on a raven prototype for a while and we saw it at CES actually and that's here as well but this is like I said more so much the rb0 too so it's got three giant fans left in the bottom the rv0 2 was one of the best air cooled cases on our charts forever it still is we still retested every couple years and that one has 180 millimeter air penetrator fans on it so that's how it achieves the performance at the time and it didn't have too much to do with the top to bottom air or bottom top airflow because if you rotate in that case and put it on its side to perform the same so it's just because the fans were good this has a 120 at the top that's very high pressure shoots the air out of a fine mesh on top of it mashes removable it's one big piece right now I guess I'll mention as well this is like super prototype so I think they're a little bit nervous about like the glass for example being open but very prototype phase not final changes could be made if you have feedback on this like the other booths post your feedback below they'll read the comments they really do and if you have something like genuinely useful to say let them know you might be able to influence the design anyway so three two hundred should be included with it they think they are a RGB fans it's a new two hundred millimeter fan from silverstone and then the top 120 should be included and it's a pretty simple layout so the motherboard is rotate actually it's inverted i guess is the appropriate phrase but inverted it's on the opposite side of the case obviously amount to the left wall to the right and in inverting the motherboard you end up with a bottom the top cpu airflow as well with tower coolers which is really the proper way to use this style of case just like with the rb0 tube and then the video cards and i've been direct airflow path of the front or middle fan for the two hundreds the front of the case is glass so it's actually I mean it's irrelevant on this case that there's glass on the front because all the intakes on the bottom and unlike some of the other cases we've just seen coming from enter Max's view the bottom does have proper like spacing ground clearance we like to see about an inch for optimal airflow on most the cases we test and this has got that especially important when you have two hundred millimeter fans which have naturally lower static pressure than like the 120 or 140 you do need that extra space to breathe which is present here so we obviously haven't thermally tested it but based on experience if it's anything like the RB 0 2 it should be pretty promising there is no firm release date it's like a first half 2020 type of thing is potentially a target so maybe we'll see an updated version at CES if not a near final version other specs for the case so there's two sets of two by 3.5 inch cages in the back for hard drive cage that are there presently there's a a set of two USB type-c connectors in the front for USB type three there's a reset switch which I think might be our GB control on the back panel the case we haven't opened it because its prototype so maybe some SSD mounts back there or something the price that you've likely been considering while looking at it is probably going to be in the range of 300 but that's not final so that could change up or down and part of the price you know then obviously I mean the fans aren't cheap that adds the bomb a lot that adds the bomb but the glass panel is really what drives the price on a lot of these types of cases because and I don't know what the yields are for this but I do know the yields of some of silver stones can editor's for curved glass panels like this and it can be as low as 30% depending on the degree of the curve so this isn't like the steepest degree or grade we've seen but as you start curving twice on the tempered glass the failure rate gets higher which drives the cost of the product up so that's a that's a really tricky problem to solve and one that silverstone is still working on and figuring out right now but anyway that's the alta s1 it's probably the most interesting of the two cases or of the few cases we'll be talking about from a luke standpoint from a performance standpoint it also looks promising which I don't say often it shows but based on experience because I've basically tested this design before it should be good but wait for our testing obviously so overall I mean they're hitting the looks and and then it looks like maybe a bit of performance as well for the other cases so there's a Farah v1 that's suppose we got $70 more mainstream case than this there's a far up b1 but the B as in boy for $50 and the primary differences are RGB so B one's got RGB fans we don't have a firm answer on how many are included but it sounds like maybe three fronts a RGB and one rear 120 I don't know if the rear one will have a RGB it seems like seems like too much giving too much away for her Arg fans that's $70 so I don't think that's gonna hold true but but maybe we'll see the b1 will have one exhaust fan and it should be similar to the one that's in there now and our b-roll shots the front of the v1 is a mesh and then the sides of it are an acrylic presently so that acrylic will probably change so I'll just I'm still playing around with the looks of it and and and that could that's up to to how it goes through the show and feedback they get but the front smash on it so that looks good and then there's another case on the other side of the booth called the Isetta which has an aluminum front it's got some curves to it it's more of a looks focused case than anything else and steel panels for the rest so it's got a steel white top and side panel tempered glass on one side and and then I guess we'll just show b-roll for the rest that one because this looks focused not performance focus so I think oh the last the most recent prototype of the Raven is here as well I'll show some shots of that so we saw the prototype of the Raven at CES the big question silverstone asked which you all eagerly answered was have the clear acrylic or black or matte color and the the response I guess was deafening because the designs changed a bit and it looks better now so Raven is like a lot of these still TBD on some information will show you b-roll of it I'm not going to go through specs because they still might change a bit so the last part of the booth that we didn't look at would be the fans and this one is the one I was talking about with Raven zero to the original Raven oh - that was kind of similar to altar design where that case had three of the 180 millimeter air penetrator fans the bottom that's what made it perform so well because they're reasonably high rpm while being big and they have like a flow guide on the back of them but so they've got one of those on the wall but there's new high performance or high pressure street fan it's a fatter fan design it's actually kind of similar to some of the fans we just saw at the Chen Jenny market in China so we actually bought some that were similar to this that were like not wired yet I'll show this in a separate video later but anyway fatter design high pressure it's got two switches on it 38 millimeters thick so it's quite a bit bigger than like a 25 mil fan for example and a two-speed switch on it this one's got a switch on the back as well right there and it's a reversible airflow fans you spin it each way and I don't know if you like install and then you're lazy and don't want to take it out I guess you can do that and then the RGB fans are kind of new for silverstone where they are tentatively waiting into the the waters of of RGB LED over the past year or so but the difference is between them so hub illumination reign illumination and hub and reign illumination that'll wrap Silverstone's booth so thank you for watching subscribe for more as always go to patreon.com/scishow Khmers Nexus to help us out directly or stored on cameras axis net if you'd like to help us there by buying one of our shirts I'll see you all next time