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what's up guys I'm Dimitri with our economics here at Silverstone booth and I am so happy to see more micro ATX options available in the market and these guys are coming very soon in 2018 so before we get into that this trip is sponsored by fan tech school master and Corsair all right so what we're looking at here are the new lucid line the LD o one the bottom here and the LD o - so they've done some major changes based on what we saw at Computex and actually a lot of the feedback that you guys provided to to them in the comments was taken into account when designing this so the LD L 1 is the more premium out of the two which has a dual tempered glass side panel and as you can see this very beautiful stainless steel corners there like those little perimeter around the glass that makes the case really stand out but it's not just a little full-frame thing inside it's actually part of the side panel so it's not there just for aesthetics it's actually there for structural purposes - the tempered glass panel is blacked out I actually prefer this look so it's not completely transparent and if you're going for that elegant approach in the first place you wouldn't want to be showing off your entire interior so this type of thing with some interior illumination allows you to basically showcase just your only the most important components so the LDO one as you can see at the front is glass and the only sort of Air Flow Intake is at the top and the bottom so you are a little bit compromised on the airflow but with a focus on building a more beautiful system so just keep that into account when deciding on how to cool your interior and that's for the LDO - the design structure is a little bit different on the exterior we might have a tempered glass on the side but the front panel still has tempered glass with more airflow options with the ventilation on both sides with this really unique sort of kind of open frame that is white I like this it's a little bit different so the glass doesn't spend the entire panel and then has that nice kind of industrial design and so the most important thing about this enclosure is its micro ATX layout and it's pretty compact and allows for sort of future expansions if Silverstone decides to go that route because on both cases we have a 240 millimeter all in one support at the front and a five and a quarter inch drive Bay that on these model is currently not occupied but potentially we'll see something in a future that will take advantage of that slot they are dust proof as you can see that's removable of course there's a dust filter at the back behind the power supply and a magnetic filter at the top the i/o fits the 2018 standard with dual USB threes and a type C port that is connected via the USB 19 pin so the older standard but you will get gen 2 speeds from a Gen 2 compatible source if your motherboard supports it so the interior layout is quite interesting because we have this inverted layout with a power supply shroud at the bottom that underneath houses a drive cage for three three-and-a-half inch drives or SSDs and we also have the dual SSD caddy at the back and they're also experimenting with GPU support brackets because the graphics card will be mounted at the top so it's nice to have a little bit of support and because the graphics card will be inverted the GPU support bracket will make contact with the PCB instead the motherboard is recessed which helps with Ko measurement and they will have rubber grommets so that's awesome you can move the hard drive cage a little bit further away from the front panel to accommodate the radiator there the cutouts look ok here and I'm guessing the only thing that you would need to kind of take into account is the height of your GPU and its proximity to the top panel because you can install dual 140 or dual 120 Miller fans and so just take into account on how close they are to the GPU for that extra airflow now the one thing that they're still unsure about is the branding on the power supply shroud so we've had a little conversation none of us liked it from the hardwork Knox crew but they are discussing on how to make this a little bit more attractive so let us know what you guys think about this branding and how you'd like to see it changed and in terms of the price so we're looking about 70 to 80 dollars for the LDO - so the slightly less fancy version and then about a hundred dollars for the micro text version of the LD oh one which is the more premium black out temper glass panels the stainless steel edges I absolutely love this thing and I loved they went with a squared approach that makes the cases look so elegant and so 2018 and another interesting case that I didn't think I would get excited about is the cs3 81 so this is taking a storage approach to the next level and kind of like the story nadir whole thing where you can build your own nas you can build your own server you can build your own you a security system device and so this is the cs3 81 C S stands for case storage I might add 381 because you can fit three and a half inch x eight and the one is because it's the first of its kind so this is a micro ATX motherboard layout as well just like the other cases but we have eight hot-swappable three and half inch drives we have a nice lock of the front you can also lock the power button so you don't accidentally press it for example if you're using it as an ass I think that's brilliant we have dual SSD caddies up top so probably most likely using that for your OS in terms of cooling so we're looking at dual 120mm fans so you can round a 240 all-in-one cooler for your motherboard of course there's very little height between the motherboard and these driving closures so that means that you can mount water cooling which is awesome we have four PCI slots and more room above them for 120 millimeter fans so you can mount some extra cooling here if you're using like a long rate card which you'll probably need to use for the hot swappable drives here in terms of power so this case is designed specifically for sfx power supplies only because if they were to design it with an ATX power supply it would have been much longer and taller so this is going for that really compact and space-efficient enclosure so the only sort of space that isn't occupied properly would be in front the power supply but you can use that space for cable management for cables so they don't have to be like cramped in and overall this micro ATX direction looks very promising and overall I think it's a very good direction for them to expand their case offerings because they have an ITX system that can house eight hots Popple drives now a micro ATX system and of course an ATX system as well so this thing is awesome the CS 381 let us know if this is something you guys are interested in and we can obviously check it out there alright guys so that's all for the new cases from silverstone let us know what you think of this layout and the micro-atx direction i know we've covered as rocks new micro ATX motherboards so this is very fitting in terms of silverstone is listening to the market and i'm hoping that we see more of these types of cases in the future thanks so much for watching I'm Dimitri with hurricane XM we'll see you in next CES video