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hey Ron we were at CES 2017 I'm in the iBUYPOWER suite looking at the final version of the snowblind we've covered this maybe two or three times now but it's finally here and it will actually be a shipping product so this is and exiting the prototype phase before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber exile gaming PC which has an invertible motherboard tray check the link in the description below for more information so getting back to the case the enclosure is based it's a Noctis 450 so this is an N txt enclosure for the most part it is unchanged other than this custom side panel to catch everyone up this is a display so it's actually an LCD and when you you'll see in our b-roll when we open it that it's actually got the backlight super-bright LEDs all around the perimeter in the b-roll there will be kind of a tone difference back here that'll be fixed for production but if you look closely the LEDs the display all hook into this controller in the bottom that does not connect to the PCB for the motherboard but it does just connect into a normal expansion slot in the case out of the controller comes a display or a DVI connection to the video card so this video card routes into that and it's a extended display just like you would do through Windows normally so this is functionally a desktop you wouldn't use it as a desktop though it's not perfectly opaque like a monitor is you can kind of see through the point of the white background with the intern internal for the case the back of the piece of the backplate for the video card and even the pump and the radiator which is new by the way and the tubes which is new White's leaving the point of all that is to give better contrast so that the display is more clear when you're looking at it and what's different this time from previous iterations is now rather than just having a video playing on loop there's also a rainmeter overlay so you can see the CPU load this is all just through rainmeter this is not any special proprietary software anything like that so CPU loads down here we've got a time overlay a date and then whatever else you can do with rainmeter you could throw it on there it's pretty standard functionality but it works here now and because we've got this hard drive scaffolding behind that's all just white it's pretty easy to see so that's the newest version of the snowblind the biggest changes functionally this is a much thicker panel now so rather than being the custom cut side panel that came out of the factory previously it is now a tempered glass panel it's quite thick looks like maybe five millimeters or something like that and the backside has been kind of reinforced the cabling is all concealed in the panel so that's no longer visible and a mess like it wasn't the very very first prototypes and the price is bit lower than I thought it would be so originally the cost to build the early prototypes was was much higher than would be sellable on market but it's been brought down so the sale cost of the case with the side panel should be in the 200 to 250 range and it'll be available in February so that's one month from now so I think I think that covers it the rest of the coverage from before is still accurate it still got the light guide in there to increase the contrast it's still like a 5 by 4 display with a 12 1280 or 1024 1280 wide by 1024 high a resolution and that helps with the clarity actually better than the smaller resolution where you get the the high pixel density because that messes with the contrast so if you're interested in more information links in the description below as always thank you for watching I'll see you all next time