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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service what's up guys I'm Dimitri with hurricane axe welcome to a very special and interesting video about this little case here it's got a lot of very unique functionalities built into it and also this video is going to be a little bit unique because we have 1 camera 2 Camera 3 camera hopefully the rx100 is you know picking up some nice overhead shots and this is not going to be in a review video instead this is going to be an overview video of this case because this is the servers by Chimaera industries Sir Bruce case sir Bruce it's very interesting name for you know a chassis but I guess it's based off some creature so it would be very easy for them to you know label their future releases and stuff but this case has just launched on Kickstarter so you are able to you know if you like the direction the design the functionality the potential of what you can do with such an enthusiast case you can't support them on Kickstarter and we'll leave the link down the description below for you so the entire cool thing about the cerberus case is the fact that it's super tiny it's only 18 liters in volume on the interior yet it features so tax basically so much functionality into it and you can see design wise it's very reminiscent of the N case enclosure which was I TX but the end case you can check it out with the review over here on description and that was fantastic super space efficient and like you can do so much with it well cami Rhea my spawn Amelia industries is taking in the whole the design approach something that was you know very similar in the what they want to do with space efficiency and transfer it translated into something that works a very well in the compact enclosure but this time with a micro ATX form factor so that's awesome because you can see in the back we have not no not to PCI slots like you would normally have on my TX enclosure but we have five so that's awesome because if you want to do SLI you know you have the potential to do so so let's begin by talking about the exterior this is all steel with a beautiful powder coat on top so it's kind of matte black it doesn't leave much fingerprints now because it's steel and not aluminum like on the previous you know like on the end case competition almost enclosures this thing is freakin heavy you know just by itself but it also means that it's very solid and that I like although I do like the solidness and the lightness factor of aluminum so the panels here are all detachable with clips and they talk about their sort of philosophy behind this sort of integration of having these little clips to let attach into the panel so you don't have to deal with thumb screws or just screws in general and to me that this type of modular approach up and opens possibilities for future panels so you can maybe take the soft paint it modded you know potentially have different types of panels in the future and that's so awesome so everything on this enclosure is pretty much detachable so the front panel here the top panel and these clips are industry like some great industry grade very quality stuff there's a bit of stiffness to them sort of that they're now going to be popping out you know this is a glass table and Ebers gonna kill me if I break it but check this out so normally if you would have a poor panel that is steel that has quite a good have to it weight to it you know it will pop out but check this out this is actually very difficult maybe a little bit too difficult to take out but yeah so sometimes you just kind of got to get in there and they're really kind of not stuck in there but they're very tight inside their own joints yes here we go let me just get the bottom of this you guys got to get the nails in there and pull but I'm afraid for my nails man all right good thing this glass is steel proof but okay at least some panels are off and I'll show you in a second how cool these panels are okay this one I think would be easier to take off but if they could at least make something some type of removable process so it's not super difficult that will be fantastic but this is actually almost a production sample so I can assume they they can take this and refine it now the cool thing about this panel is you notice there's only three notches on each side top and the bottom this means that this panel is reversible so if you have a panel with ventilation holes on here you can position it either you know this way so that if you have a CPU cooler on the top part of the the case then it would intake air here but if you have GPUs here that need air you can simply flip the panel and sort of you know work with that but the cool thing about the top here so I was looking at this I'm wondering what the hell is this little bracket at the top which isn't it doesn't have any mounting points for a fan or anything like that but this is where you would be able to install a handle so once we install the top panel you guys can see that these holes align so you'll be able to mount a handle on the top without sacrificing anything on the interior so it doesn't bother any components on the inside and that's actually pretty awesome usually with you know installation of a handle requires like something inside the frame that you know may be compromising some interior clearance and stuff but here it's not the case you can simply mount the optional handle on the top and carry the case to wherever you go so you can definitely tell that this is a pre-production sort of non retail park packaging yet because all the little accessories or the metal accessories I arrived in a anti-static anti-static mat abort bag inside a very fashionable fantex toolbox so that's props to them for this type of implementation but this handle feels extremely solid like just it's a simple single piece of steel also powder-coated and just imagine how much cool customization you can do because everything is so modular and removable just have this handle on top like that and bam it's not intrusive it's solid it's attached directly to the frame because you have that interior structural support there then we also find a ATX power supply bracket for their rear so this is where you'll be able to install your power suit ATX power supply in case you have one lying around and that is one of the reasons why you may potentially use this if you don't have the means of acquiring an sfx power supply but still want to utilize the case for his system this is awesome and finally this is what we have this is your hard drive SSD slash little brackets so they have little holes on the side of them and they have little mounting holes at the bottom which means you can you know is move them around anywhere anywhere you want especially because both the floor and the front have those flexible mounting points so you can literally install them anywhere inside your case modularity exactly how I like it the entire sort of grid is modular you can position the fans in whichever way you want around where you want so this of course will be installed on the interior because on the on the exterior there is no room for a 120mm fan because the the cover would go on top and obviously because the cables here so you will be able to install the fans on the interior anywhere around the grid and the same goes for the over here this is a 92 millimeter fan on the on the outside for the rear also will be installed on the inside so moving on at the bottom it also has a very similar grid you know like ventilation holes as for the front so you'll be able to install like different types of configuration of fans or a hard drive cage that we don't we then receive but I know there's going to be like a duel hard drive cage that you'll be able to install on the interior with a similar mounting method where some holes will align with any of these openings a nice and simple stuff so very modular on the back not much clearance at all like if you were to install a panel here there is zero clearance and so all the interior cabling will have to be done well all the cabling will have to be done on the interior which is actually kind of a cool way to approach cable management and here it can be a fun challenge and it has been well it can also be a frustrating challenge as well power supply support would be s FX + s FX L which is the new standard from from silverstone and it would be installed on the top here so the power supply would be sort of at the front of the case occupying the top front portion like here s FX on s FX l are preferred but like I said earlier if you want to use an ATX power supply in here you can get a separate low piece that would allow in the ATX power supply to be installed this way right above the motherboard so there's a little bit of compatibility and some compromises to be had with a larger power supply but of course the whole idea of this case is to make up your mind about what type of build you want to do first and then sort of you know go ahead and assemble the system so now when we move on to the interior of the case this is where things get interesting lots of modular options here and especially of course the the selling point of this enclosure would be the 5 PCI slots for SLI now the side bracket is awesome because it's on the hinge so you can easily mount things outside of the case sort of and you can easily access the interior interior once the system is assembled especially if you have let's say like an all-in-one cooler here you can simply open it you don't have to remove things and it's super simple and it's attached with two screws on the side the thing is this side bracket does not support it to 40 mm in radiator it does support dual one 120 millimeter fans but for some reason they don't list compatibility with a 240 member radiator on the side bracket which was weird to me because the you'll be able to install two 120mm fans but I guess maybe some interior clearance issues might arise but this is weird because the MKS m1 which is a more compact enclosure does support a 240 number radiator on the side bracket so not sure what's going on there but the fact that you know it's using similar mounting points over here so you can move things around you can you know maybe put a 140 or 120 meter all in one cooler in here for the CPU and then the other side of the portion the other side of the bracket can be occupied by maybe a drive cage or something like that so there are some options in here but I don't know I was a little bit disappointed the fact that we cannot mount a 240 ml rad on the side bracket you can only do that on the bottom and in the front and that again comes with its own challenges so you cannot install an SF X power supply here if you're installing any radiator in the front and the same goes for the bottom if you are installing it 240 ml rather at the bottom then what's the point of having you know all the height clearance because if you're not going to be using both GPU slots for this enclosure then you know you might as well go for something a little bit smaller that can support a 240 radiator on the side now the one thing that I really wish that Camaro industries would realize and you know maybe solve is the fact that see all these IO cables why are they so long the motherboard view will be right here so it would be fantastic for them to realize that and give us you know sort of almost cut to the length cables because they add eio new is diverse to USB 3 is very very quality power button in audio jacks but come on the cool thing though like I said earlier is this micro ATX format so the case is just a tiny bit bigger has 5 PCI slots and so you can sort of go to town and how you want to set it things up inside dual GPUs in this very tiny fact a form factor that can also support a hand that's fantastic I think the enthusiast community will be very happy with something like this entering the market especially because well it's taking a lot of those same same concepts and same format ideas as the N case m1 enclosure but taking a step further with adding to PCI slots adding three PCI slots actually and having very similar modular approach with regards to the power supply so ATX sfx on sfx l cooler possibilities you know either with a radiator or an actual cpu heatsink if you'd want to do that to go that route and airflow options seem to be diverse even though you have some compromises here and there so if you have a power supply in the front like an SF X or an F s FX L then the top portion of your of this area will be occupied but you still be able to install a bottom fan here so it delivers cool air for your graphics cards and that's awesome and so my ideal configuration here if this was an SLI sort of rig would be to so to hook up an SF X L power supply because it has a bigger fan and silverstone has released them super efficient high wattage so you have no problem powering you know to graphics cards and you know a very powerful micro ATX system in here have a fan here so that delivers cool air for two graphics cards I would definitely want to handle for my enclosure the case side panels also comes with a little window if you know you want to show off those graphics cards so that definitely would want to do that I don't know what else to say about this case I'm very happy with this direction I'm sorry about this rambling type of video delivery but I hope you guys enjoyed it and let us know if you know this is something you guys are interested in like I said earlier link will be in the description to their Kickstarter page so you can check it out for yourself see if it's something you want to support but we hope that you know this goes further into the future right now they have only a few days left and they're not yet close to the goal but at least I hope that you know regardless of what happens with the outcome of the Kickstarter campaign that this type of enclosure nation and the concepts move forward so we can have better enthusiasts sort of you know builders out there thinking about crazy things to do in such compact packages so guys I hope you enjoy this video I'm Dimitri with Howard Canucks thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video