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Silverstone is one of the companies that shows off prototypes at basically every show and they are so prototype II that they often get changed in significant ways before coming out and sometimes we see multiple iterations of the same prototype over multiple years of trade shows the Lucid series of cases would be the latest example of that with the LD 0 1 and LD 0 2 going through a bit of an existential crisis since there Computex unveiling when there are many ITX cases they are now micro-atx and that's what we're talking about today before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a 360 millimeter radiator with three ring RGB LED fans you can program the fans or 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 so the LD 0 1 & LD 0 2 are fairly straightforward cases except for one feature a pipe or something we'll talk about that later the rest of it though it's an inverted motherboard layout and so this is building on we've seen it with the 600 C now which came a bit after Silverstone's own inverted layouts they've done rotation and inversion for things like the Raven 0 to case that we liked a long time we go actually so it's back its inverted layout which means that the video card is facing up and that you access the main compartment from the right side of the enclosure rather than the left the video card facing up is supposed to solve some GPU thermal concerns or challenges Silverstone tells us and it makes sense because they are also suggesting placing intake fans on the top which is also not that crazy we've tested it before and a lot of people like to say but but Steve how do I rises yes well generally air moves in the direction that the 2,000 rpm fan pushes it also so kind of irrelevant that hot air rises if you're putting intake fans on the top in this case and it makes sense for this layout it would definitely help keep the GPU cool you have it closest to the coldest source of air ambient temperature for the room and then the front of the case has a dust filter it's got options for intake fans if you wanted to place them there as we understand it now the case will not ship with any but it does have the option there's a bit of an odd five and a quarter inch sized cutout above the dust filter in the front which again is filtering dust without any fans behind it in its stock state but there's a hole with no filter in front of it so we're not sure if that's just unfine alized maybe they lost the cover of it during shipping or something like that but we'll see what happens for that but while we're at the front of the case let's talk about the the pipe as we're calling it the mystery pipe there's a normal front panel with right side ventilation just kind of get that in your head right side ventilation just like normally and then on the left side there's a squared edge I think we might do an illustration of it it's a square edge that kind of comes out past the front panel mesh and or glass in this case and it's a hole that goes from the top to the bottom and then there's ventilation on the left of the front panel that goes into the pipe so I don't I think it's modern art basically is what it comes down to there is zero thermal advantage doing what they're doing here so not really I I do not know why that exists why not just make the front panel wider so we'll we'll try and talk some more about that it's just a design thing as I understand it right now that's the most interesting feature of the case these cases they're the LD 0 1 and LD 0 2 there will be 120 to 130 dollars the difference between them is tempered glass basically one of them has tempered glass on pretty much all sides and that there's at least one blackout panel on it and then the other one has traditional steel so those are the main differences for the basics the fans again it should ship with probably zero maybe one in the rear otherwise cooling mount support up to two 140 s in the front door 280 and radiator that is radiator support in the top might be a bit challenging because there's limited space between the motherboard and then there's support for up to a 140 in the back filters include the the front filters is filtering the bottom and that pretty much wraps it up silverstone had one other case as well this was the cs3 81 and it's basically an 8 hot swap drive bay and closure that's kind of a lock box so just kind of looks neat not allowed to say about it really it can fit a couple expansion cards it can fit a lot of hard drives and that's kind of the start and end of that one so that's it for Silverstone for now we will be visiting them again on Friday I think so we might have more information for you from the booth including some more information on the pipe but thank you for watching subscribe for more as always you go to patreon.com/scishow he next stops out 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