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so today I've received one the most exciting deliveries I've had in last couple of weeks let me show you I mean look at this giant bag of potatoes on the new EVGA case arrived - we got a deal with these first another case all right so it's the new DG 7 from EVGA I have no idea what to expect all I know it's a mid tower and EVGA case history has not been extremely positive I mean they do unique things so let's see what this guy is all about that feels like a glass panel in the front all right okay not liking the model numbers sticker over here again all right so welcome to our review of the DG 7 now the thing is I'm excited to see how the market accepts the AVG's direction into the mid tower category and my initial impressions at the moment our labyrinth makes because I wasn't expecting so much branding to be slapped all over the place and you know just a few things like black fans included on a fully white interior exterior body and so I think the color mismatches a little bit present too but let's see what's under the hood right after this we capture our experiences to remind us of the past with fantastic visual quality but what about the sound it helps to piece together the moment and now you can with the Sennheiser AM be a smart headset that doesn't just record the audio it lets you feel and relive your environment because the microphones pick up sound just like you would the end result is a stunning capture of 3d audio so you can visit the past again check out son Heiser and be a smart headset linked below all right so the D g7 series is available in four configurations and two color options with the white being a $10 premium now this is a good move to diversify AVG's presence and different price points but they're also kind of on mine's the higher-end 76 and 77 cases because the frame itself is identical to the $59 model and that's an issue I have the GG 77 in white so that's the most expensive at $149 it is a mid Tower and it doesn't particularly stand out in any way and you can say the resemblance to the s 340 elite is present with its boxy frame and a relatively same size but here we have rounded edges and make no mistake this is an EVGA case with nots of the screen branding all over the place that over time has actually grown on me on paper this case has some unique elements like tempered glass on three sides a cool K boost button a bunch of colored stickers so no one is confused on the model name of your case but I really do appreciate that this is a sticker and not something more permanent and we even get all the tooling for a vertical GPU installation so that's very nice to see lower end models do not have these add-ons and therefore are much cheaper now the case comes in black color as well that I think would look better because the entire frame here is white so the four included fans plus all the cabling is black and I wish that we only had some white accents for that color coordination with the black interior instead because that always looks better when it comes to cable management and hardware so with regards to these three glass panels well unlike the usual transparent glass that we see the front and right side are solid and white so they don't even look like glass giving an impression of a glossy plastic instead and cheapening the full look furthermore the right side panel is semi-transparent and gives off this yellow cast on the interior of the case highlighting any openings and depending on the angle it might not look very good on top of this dilemma toe comes the build quality that generally is fine nothing is like falling out rattling but the top and the rear plastic covers really cheapen the feel among on the glass although the removable plastic cover at the rear is a good initiative to encourage different designs and it's not included on the lower tier models unfortunately like many other cases in 2017 the gg7 completely chokes the front intake area with only a small ventilation gap on the right side taking off the glass we see a perfectly reasonable space fans and up to a 360 movement radiator but add in the dust filter and that tiny gap for air and those fans are not going to breathe for very long and that is so unfortunate because it's become such a common thing to complain about with regards to front airflow and I'm honestly surprised it was launched this way up top after removing the panel we see a decent layout for fans as well but despite having room for three 120mm fans the front aisle cables will interfere a little bit with that third spot the mounting strips are centered and there's not enough height on the case so radiator up top is out of question and by the way there is no dust filter on here just a coarse mesh the IO is standard with USB 3 power reset and audio jacks and that K boost button that requires a connection to your motherboard and when activated it locks both the CPU and the GPU to maximum performance state now it only works with EVGA graphics cards so on my GTX 1084 the win it locked the frequency to 1960 megahertz regardless of the load while staying at about 17 20 megahertz with K boost off giving me a significant higher score in fire strike with K boost enabled so you can do this manually by enabling high performance mode in power settings and the maximum performance in the Nvidia control panel but what K boosts does is just doesn't allow the maximum frequency to drop below that so you're running on the hotter GPU but at maximum performance possible so I like this feature because it's kind of like an instantaneous overclock with a simple press of a button but it does require a little bit work on your end making sure there's nothing running in the background otherwise K boost will just lock up and not turn on until those applications are closed it's also an incentive to stay with an EVGA GPU ecosystem but for those without EVGA GPU these higher and tier cases are really not appealing up top we also have this RGB LED controller located in a somewhat awkward to access spot so you can line up any regular 12-volt RGB LED strips and match it to the case lighting now I would have suggested to relocate this controller to the back but as you can see with a fully white frame and almost no spacing for cables I understand why the controller is hidden the software is pretty basic it looks outdated tow and Windows Defender freaks out thinking this is malware but color is nice on the exterior although I wish that the EVGA text near the power supply didn't have that additional outline but what's weird is this LED text at the front that looks fine but it's completely covered by the front glass panel it's not even visible unless you look into the spacing on the right I think for the black version the glass is transparent and this text shines right through but not on the white model for storage we get duo three and a half inch drive caddies and two SSD caddies so drive options for 150 bucks are pretty limited and check out this fantastic quality dust filter this is probably the only upgrade they forgot to add to this higher tier model now the internal layout is also a bit disappointing the frame doesn't promote friendly cable management with spacing between the two metal sheets and no rubber grommets anywhere now I generally like a perforated power supply shroud but with all that white paint job everything underneath will be visible the one write feature thought they got is this large cutout at the front for radiator support but unfortunately the paneling is choking the intake anyway so a full airflow potential cannot be achieved now I did some airflow tests with the included fans on full blast at 1800 rpm running close to 70 degrees Celsius upload while dropping 10 degrees with that front glass panel removed and the one thing I would recommend for you to do to improve airflow is to just remove that glass panel entirely because without it the case still looks pretty fine and so here we have my system assembled that falls in line with the color scheme and you know the frame is not bad with proper cutouts below the motherboard tray and I keep thinking that a $59 case that DG 73 will deliver the exact same building experience as this and despite all the add-ons on the DG 7 and 7 I feel it's not a good value because the frame itself is more suited to the lower end because cable management is poor because this large opening doesn't really allow clean cable pass-through unless you use the space at the front but that's also where your three and a half inch drives are supposed to go it's not exactly refined with the i/o cables right in your face and the top fan mounts are centered so a radiator will not fit there are also no thumb screws on the see I slots and just for reference here's a fan tax and two pro-am special edition in white with a much better interior for any radiator installation a cleaner cable management job and much better quality fans - with RGB fan frames and the case feels sturdy as well and it's 30 bucks cheaper versus this DG 77 in white and the only advantage with the higher model is the vertical GPU bracket so you can show off that beautiful shroud installation of which is straightforward and the bracket does keep the GPU slightly off the frame but the end result looks fantastic alright so let me conclude with this I think variety is needed in order to accommodate certain features here and there and have a broader spectrum of price points so you can accommodate different markets but when you take a mediocre and sort of budget oriented frame and move it into a higher tier price point then none of bling or accessories can really improve that user experience and so we find ourselves in a bit of a lipstick on the pig type of situation I think they're pricing on the higher end is not competitive because we have the p400s the s340 elite the end to pro em all offer better features for less money but on their lower end that DG 73 at 59 bucks sounds like an excellent deal especially when you take into account this frame you know there has some issues but at that budget price point it is actually pretty excellent so I'm very curious to hear what you guys think about this full lineup of new DG 7 cases let me know in the comments below make sure to check out this other relevant conduct here subscribe for more we'll see you in the next video