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hey everyone we're at Computex 2018 at the Thermaltake booth now so they have three new cases we're gonna focus on today along with a thread river block which is a w6 block thread river blocks this year a bit popular likely because of the impending threader for to launch targeted for around April so August rather August well go with that one sorry talking about those today before that this video is brought to you by the cable Mod vertical GPU adapter a universal kit that lets you add a vertical GPU mount to almost any enclosure the vertical GPU adapts our positions video cards further back from the glass than most stock vertical GPU mounts aiding in thermals and also easily sockets into the PCIe expansion slots of compatible cases the after kit is brand new and makes it easy to show off video cards even in cases that don't include a stock vertical GPU map learn more at the link in the description below the first case to bring up here is the level twenty GT so get the housekeeping out of the way all of these are branded level 20 the one behind me is kind of the og level 20 got a couple of updates like the paint and these ones are new but they follow the same design narrative we'll call it so the level 20 GT right here the first main thing I want to talk about is the rotatable PCIe expansion slots so the expansion slots in the back you can actually flip the bracket and do horizontal or vertical GPU mounts if you want and it does support multiple PCIe devices when horizontal obviously multi-gpu not the most popular these days and yes obviously you will have kind of thermal limitations at some point but if you want to do single GPU which is a bit more common you can rotate the entire bracket and because it's a wider bracket and a wider case able to set the GPU back a bit so this is something that we've commented on a lot in the last year where vertical GPUs that are not open-loop cooled basically suffocate and by setting the card back significantly from the glass several inches back it will actually be able to breathe I don't probably horizontal will always perform better but as long as you're not killing the performance in terms of thermal rewards which chokes the frequency then it's fine so we have to give props if they don't take their for setting back the GPU further from the glass which some vendors are starting to figure out as that actually will allow it the card to breathe a bit so props there for that level 20 GT is still kind of TBD on some of the specs but they're looking at a potential $190 option with one 140 million fan and an alternative is 290 bucks so $100 Delta there let them know what you think I suppose of the two options but the hundred extra dollars would be to two hundred millimeter fans in the front and then a 140 millimeter fan in the back all RGB I believe of course it wouldn't have it any other way these days so to hundreds in the front there can be two to hundreds in the top as well and then in terms of air flow this case is probably a little bit more concerning than the others I guess it depends on what you're going for if you're going for an open-loop you can kind of hand wave some of that stuff in terms of air cooling so there's a radiator mount where typically your hard drive cages would go back in the old days and radiator mount there it exhausts basically straight into a glass panel not the best but for the front there is a bit of a cutout here I've asked that they consider potentially cutting back the glass even more because of contrary to what you might think the view 71 which does have all glass everywhere is able to cool pretty well and they were able to do that by making bigger gaps in the paneling so it is possible to do this look and not suffer for it thermally this one does need a bit of work I'll be honest I need to cut back the last a bit and the exhaust with the side mount radiator is really just going into a wall so a bit of a problem there but otherwise it's a showroom piece I do really like the flippable PCIe expansion slots on it because that is something that is genuinely a bit different and should help with thermals on the GPU if you want a vertical card so that's the level 20 GT as noted end of July target launch and not 100% sure on price but 192 to 90 depending also brand new tooling and I'll just throw this in as well 360 millimetre rent radiator support for mounting rads the next one level 20 xt so it's just super wide basically it's kind of like the old w9 if you remember that or the x9 rather so it's the core x9 tooling for this case with the level 22 xt and this one is currently outfitted with two to hundreds in the front they're all takes how high percent sure again on the stock fans back there trying to figure out what people want if they want it bare-bones and you fill it with your own fans or if you buy it with fans and use those let them know something that a lot of vendors are actually very unsure about other than that so it's got dual power supply support it is also basically compartmentalized so they've got kind of a split level going on we're straight across the middle or 2/3 about 1/3 up 2/3 down there's a tray for the motherboard full ATX support and then you can orient the GPU so it faces out of the glass on the side panel and then separately the top up here still kind of being finalized what the radiator support is but it'll be big so can fit a lot of radiators very large size is a showcase that looks I mean it's it's the size of a fish tank so you can fit a lot in there if you want us to do like a super custom open loop or something like that so that one level 20 XD pricing TBD and core x9 tooling end of July target for 140 millimeter support at the top so you could maybe something like a 380 or something like that the next case is the level 20 bTW this is the most interesting one to me this is a micro ATX case a lot of you have expressed interest in micro ATX cases lately and we saw it at Silverstone this one's kind of the it's it basically instead of vertical they're going with a wider kind of original v21 as sizing for it so b21 super match set up v1 very much set up this one's going for glass they still sell the V 21 in the v1 so in terms of mesh if you want it's already out there so the VT has gone glass on that and the VT has a set up of pricing TBD probably July availability for this one as well micro ATX it is all the paneling to the glass panels the glass is attached to steel which is attached to the chassis so if you want to invert or change the layout move the panel's of different size you can do that pretty easily just like the V 1 V 21 it's all modular so if you want one on the other side you can do it if you want to do and in terms of the rest of the case currently setup for a 200 millimeter intake probably stock and then also a 120 or 140 in the back two hundred eighty millimeter radiator support on the side and thermally they've got a bit of a gap on the side panel closest to me on the right side of the case for air flow to exhaust out from the radiator so the doing the most you can with glass I guess obviously we love Matt options I guess the argument is if the v21 still out there they have a mesh option already so that's that's kind of the argument against that but the front they've cut back the glass as far as they can so it does have a decent amount of side intake I'd love to see some more by either setting in the curves on the borders or setting out the glass I think you kind of sacrifice the looks there though so not the best approach if if I were designing the case but if you have ideas again let them know and then finally there is there's one more case so this one is still prototype phase it's the a500 if you haven't had enough 500 so remember eh 580 500 pH 500 MMH 580 500 I then they have another one it's the a 500 also 500 D I should know 500 some very popular number this year so a 500 is an ATX case new tooling 360 rad top and front power supply shroud is included $229 probably the target with three fans no LEDs on those and they're considering doing an LED option but it would have to be more expensive so a very difficult trade-off to make you'll have to let them know what you think aluminium and tempered glass for the paneling absolutely no plastic on the outside at all no plastic I think in the case so it's all metal mostly aluminium and steel no time frame for release and finally two more things that is a thread ripper a i/o plan so if you want to close with a liquid cooler thread ripper probably coming out eventually don't know any specs on it yet turner for two is for august this year as noted and then this is zw6 for the four threader for cooling so we haven't seen inside the block but it is full coverage on the plate and then I can see the microphones in there I just don't know where they line up with the thighs but keep an eye out for it probably launching flow straight to thread Ripper twos launch and that's the 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