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hey Ron we are at CES 2017 at the thermaltake booth and we'll be looking at a Sandia style cooler which is pretty interesting it uses a much different design than you used to looking at an RGB illuminated AIO cooler and we'll mention some of the P 3 and P 1 series cases while we're going through here before get into that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber XL gaming PC which has an invertible motherboard tray layout learn more at the link in the description below so starting off with the AI oh this is really not too different fundamentally from what we've spoken about a million times at this point it's an AI o liquid cooler there are three 120 millimeter fans and they use the rain version to RGB LED fans that we talked about previously when visiting thermal takes studio and offices in Southern California what is different is the pump so I can't lift this up too much but we've got some b-roll of it and the pump is actually just a prototype there's no confirmation that this will ever come to market but the idea is to at a very top level at least create illumination on the pump that will be controllable theoretically the through software just through the board something like that and you may have seen that on the kraken series coolers that we reviewed recently the x2 so x 40 - 50 - 60 - same idea this just comes down to will it be made basically but same idea that would be a pretty serious competitor to the kraken coolers will look at thermals if the time comes but for the sandia style cooler this one is the engine 27 and this is a small form-factor cooler it can cool somewhere around 70 75 watts of power so it's not built for hi I'm stuff obviously you throw it on something like one of the new i-5 non-case cue CPUs which have about a 65 watt TDP something like this would work for that the difference from this versus normal coolers as you'll notice in our b-roll is that the unit does not use a traditional fan so it's actually got aluminum fins in the center and a kinetic bearing in the middle for the rotation in these aluminum fins work as a normal heatsink they sync the heat but as they spin they're pushing the air out through an outer aluminum arrey and so then you're getting the additional surface area and you're also cooling it at the same time the bottom of this one there are two versions one is an aluminum base plate or cold plate one's a copper cold plate the one I have here is a copper cold plate and if we look at the side it's got two layers of copper with a layer of what looks like aluminum in between and in this model I'm told there's a heat pipe inside the cold plate but it's not confirmed if that will be final and make it to production or not as far as the plate itself that contacts the CPU that is a protruded piece of copper which we've generally found to perform at least a little bit better than a flat piece of copper so that's what we have for the engine 27 no price on most of these things and in 27 a prototype but will probably come to market this is an existing case it's got tempered glass on it p5 there's also the p3 and we'll be talking about the p1 next so I'll move over there and now we're next to the core p1 T G this is a mini ITX version of the p3 in the p5 and in that and to that end it has the same feature set for the most part with obviously just being a bit shrunken the p1 TG can mount to your wall just like the p3 the p5 could can't mount it to the wall in the Venetian maybe get pretty mad but it is wall mountable otherwise the main feature set is a semi modular layout for the chassis the frame itself and that starts here with the video card where you've got the framing and a PCIe riser cable so that the video card can be facing it with the front plate out which is really just for visibility there's no other functional add to that other than just being able to see the front of the card if you don't like that just with as with the other case you pull that out switch the card mount into the PCIe saw on the motherboard just like normally and in terms of fitment it can fit any size wheel cart because really there's no side panel to the case it just shoots straight out but any cards should be contained within that space there are the stainless standoffs here for the glass and then the tempered glass mounts straight to the front of that though we've removed it for video purposes this has a full custom loop mounted to it and there's a plate down here where you can actually adjust in terms of z-depth how the reservoir is in the case there's a radiator in this particular build it looks like about a 240 millimeter radiator mounted in its own compartment back here and then the tubes are routed to the CPU GPU all that stuff has expected cable management happens behind the board tray and then for power supplies there can be a full ATX form factor power supply that about covers that there's no price that I have right now for this case we'll have more information and the article linked in the description below as always subscribe for more patreon like the postal video house that directly thanks for watching I'll see you all next time