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at Silverstone suite at CES 2018 this year we encountered a case that has some of the most airflow we've seen in the past year and it's not any of the larger ones in front of me it's actually one of the smallest cases we've ever seen it's a micro STX case and this product will probably never come to market at least not DIY market and there's a good chance it might not come to any market so yeah they've added ventilation since we saw it at Computex but there's a sad story behind this case it's the RV's e04 and there's also this one the VT 0 3 so we'll talk about those after this before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a three hundred sixty millimeter radiator with three ringed 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 for these cases these are micro ATX form factor it was more or less created by asrock who make still some complete systems so you can buy micro STX systems you can get them with MXM GPUs but the form factor is kind of going away at least for the case industry and a lot of that is because of well there's a few industry forces that don't necessarily make this happen one of them is on NVIDIA side the MXM form factors kind of vanishing they have good reasons for it if you wanted to get an M X M card previously it kind of made sense because you bought laptops that had to make some cards in them but these days desktop GPUs are more or less just straight on the PCB for the laptops motherboard so why would you have an MX M card that adds height so those are kind of going away which also means that Silverstone's MXM a cooler they showed at Computex will also not make it to market which is another very sad story because that was actually a pretty interesting product as well so this is more or less a graveyard of products right now silverstone does have stuff that's coming out and we showed it previously but i wanted to give some history on this so for these cases the micro STX form factor is 5 by 7 as I said you can still buy complete systems from asrock but that the future of that's kind of nebulous and you're not gonna be able to buy a separate case for it you have to use theirs silverstone has the Raven look on their case that we showed ages ago and the Ravens zero to one of the best cases we've ever reviewed so they had that here and they also even since Computex added ventilation to the top it's a bit higher up there's some more breathing ports on it it still fits the five by seven form factor it looks pretty sleek it's got plastic on it and yet still manages to have air flow which is more than we can say for nearly every case last year that was I don't know about eight times larger than this one not that I hold a grudge but yeah so it's it's just that it's not going to make it out that's the RBZ zero four and this one I just gives us a good example of what a complete system would look like so this has a micro-st export in it it's got an Intel cooler on it you can fit small profile coolers like some of Silverstone zone low profile coolers and then the MXM card you could technically run integrated graphics for it but MXM is definitely more power for you the motherboard in this one it's got two sodium slots so if you wanted memory in there using so dims just like on a laptop and then on the backside of the motherboard there are three m2 SSD slots you actually get a lot of performance out of one of these smaller 5x7 motherboards and you can fit a lot of storage on it you can fit two RAM sticks in it so it's a fairly complete system overall in this case even has a slot for antenna to come out for wireless connectivity and finally just to show that this actually was planned to come to market it has an RGB header on it so there we're going to be LEDs I think on the front of the enclosure yes there's actually a kind of a v-shaped front visor for RGB LEDs so they were ready silverstone stepped out of there their norm went with RGB went with a gamer look and it's just not gonna happen so yeah we'll see what happens with that Mike some in the future as rocks gonna keep trying to make their version of complete system micro STX devices but kind of sad for for these cases we will have more coverage of silverstone but a poor went out for the RV z0 for and the vt0 three because this is probably the last time you'll be seeing them unless we find something to do with it later but that's it for this one subscribe for more as always you go to patreon.com/scishow and razaaq's it stops that directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time