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hey Ron this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and we are looking at the best cases of 2015 this is a roundup of all the gaming cases and enclosures I saw at CES 2015 these are brand new products that we'll be shipping soon or have just begun shipping recently and there's not quite as much in the mid-range market this year as there was in the previous year there's been a shift in the market but we saw a lot of really cool budget cases and some pretty fancy high-end $800 cases that you probably won't be buying but they're pretty cool to look at very quickly all this content brought to you by cyber powers cyber vapor gaming PC the first case we're looking at is silver stones Raven rvz 0-2 which is a brilliant innovation in Mini ITX cases we were huge fans of this one The Raven zo2 is a new version of the Raven 0 one very obvious there with a naming but it's actually smaller than previously it has zero case fans and instead it uses slotted design in the acrylic windows they are acrylic windows on the top and bottom on opposite sides so your side panels are actually mirrored you can install either side panel on either side and the reason that works is because this case is using a PCIe riser card so you're your plug in a riser card to the PCI Express slot on the motherboard and the motherboard faces the right side and then the video card actually faces the left side so this exposes the video cards faceplate to the outside of the case which given the focus on high quality and sort of artistic faceplates lately with video cards this is a very cool thing in my opinion so you've got on one side exposed video card the other side exposed CPU cooler and then you need a high end CPU cooler that's lower than 60 millimeters in height in order to adequately cool the thing because it has no case fans but it is meant for mini ITX and a home theater year so if you're putting some 87 want intel cpu and there you'll be just fine with something like the AR 0 6 CPU cooler so that is the Raven 0 2 pretty darn cool and it uses a completely coolest design for the optional slim optical drive Silverstone's raven zo Tilley priced at less than $85 there 100% sure the final price but it will be less than $85 moving on to the next case in the budget range is coarser is 100 r and 100 our silent Edition these two cases are very similar to the next Silverstone cases we're talking about because they both have the same idea at the same time the 100 R is a $50 case and the 100 are silent is a $60 case the only difference between the two being that the 100 our silent Edition uses very thick foam padding in the deep side panels so that's sort of a big deal with this case is the side panel bezel is very deep allowing more cable management and allowing the foam if you get the silent position to be somewhat thick very few factories are able to stamp a bezel this deep without cracking the side panel so only a couple case manufacturers actually make cases this way the 100 are priced at $50 is capable of mounting to 140 millimeter front fans and to 120 millimeter top fans allowing room for some growth but includes a single 120 millimeter rear exhaust fan so you'll probably want to throw a fan on there almost immediately if you buy this case I would suggest a 140 front fan to get some use out of that surface area but it's it's a very good starting point for budget gaming systems and is sort of in the spirit of the 200 R which is one of our most recommended budget cases from a few years ago silver stones at PS 11 be probably not the most user-friendly name in the world is actually almost an identical case to the 100 R and at CES Silverstone noted that they had this idea a while ago and they felt that it was very validating that a company as large as Corsair had a similar idea with their 100 R so the PS 11 B is effectively direct almost identical competition to the 100-hour it's priced strictly at $50 even the silent edition of the PS 11 B and it uses the same type of side panel stamping it's a very deep bezel allowing for a lot of cable management allowing for thicker foam the lion major difference is that the foam and the PS 11 B isn't the same type of foam as in the 100 are silent edition so that may be worth at your $10 price difference kicks in moving on to the mid ray cases the best mid-range cases really are actually ones that came out at the very end of 2014 they snuck into 2014 but looking at two of the cases that were from last year first the BitFenix pandora has come out now with a 2.4 inch LCD on front of it the LCD is actually customisable by the user you can put your own logo in it you can put your face in it really you can put whatever you want as long as it fits in that 2.4 inch LCD and allow some customization of the case this is one of the most affordable aluminum using cases in this market it's not all aluminium I say it that way for a reason but it is the most affordable at $120 with the window or 110 without the window so that is the pandora by a bit phoenix worth looking into doesn't support full ATX though the fractal define r5 is able to mount ATX micro ATX and mini ITX so it supports all of the form factors that are really relevant to gamers it has fully modular hard drive and optical drive cages so you can actually remove all of the optical and hard drive cages if you wanted to and then mount your SSDs to the rear side of the motherboard which supports two SSDs in a concealed fashion Thermaltake score x9 it came out alongside the core x2 and x1 at CES the x2 and x1 being smaller and cheaper the core x9 is priced at about $170 so really it's sort of in the enthusiast side of things the core x9 uses horizontally mounted motherboards and then the rest of the trays and rails can be moved around or removed as you see fit so if you'd like to use one of these enclosures strictly for a liquid cooling setup and then pipe all the liquid down to a system below it where the motherboard rest you can do that because these systems will allow pass-through if you stack them vertically using the magical powers of gravity you can run tubing from one to the other so that is the cortex line the x2 is a bit more affordable it's closer to 120 dollars and then the x1 is $100 and those two are just smaller enclosures with more limited motherboard form factor support but they are definitely way easier to fit in your house all three of these cases are very wide so a lot of you probably won't have room to fit this sort of thing than a normal computing space that you're used to so do keep that in mind it does require more square footage now for the best enthusiast cases these are the most interesting ones by far in one's ass box at $300 is a somewhat affordable arguably piece of case art in one's s box uses an aluminum sheet a single sheet that's been bent a few times by hand by two employees using a press and then it has a big sheet of tempered glass covering the enclosure so that's some high-quality glass that anyone is not afraid to use they used it with their D frame last year and the S box uses a single piece of aluminum so it gives sort of a more pristine design appearance it's somewhat practical to build in but you're definitely buying this more for the artwork side of things then for practicality at this point especially at three hundred dollars deep cool and CyberPower work together on this next one it is the Trinity and it's effectively eccentricity in case form it's a 350 dollar 50 pound triforce like Star Wars lambda shuttle things so if you want a case that is very different this is probably something to consider it has three compartmentalised shells that are made of steel and they're in the sort of effectively the bottom left bottom right and then top Center so it looks sort of like a triangle in effect and to that end the case installs the motherboard and power supply and video card all three in separate compartments so they are not in the same compartment together in a clever fashion deep : cyber power have routed all the cables through the center of the case and because of this pre routing the wires are much easier to manage you just connect the power supply to the extension and then you connect the extension to the component in the receiving compartment in one zest frame is $800 it is a showroom case it uses a single piece of aluminum folded 15 times by hand and with the press so it's a very expensive and time-consuming manufacturing process hence the price being passed on to the user but because of this it's a very unique looking and it's got a more hand crafted appearance to it the case does not include any fans that will support them and the company recommends using all liquid cooling instead as it looks a bit better in a case like this again it like the S box it uses a big tempered sheet of glass on the left side panel so that is the S frame very worth looking into just for the fact that it's cool I wouldn't really recommend buying it from really even the people who can afford it but it's very cool and all of these cases are worth looking into for 2015 we will have more case roundups as the year progresses and more cases are launched we expect something from NZXT and expect more from Corsair in the future so that is the best cases of 2015 check the link in the description below for more information subscribe to the channel if you like this video and I will see you all next time peace you