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our coverage is brought to you by a two-time case of the Year winner fantex the always incredible Corsair and NCIX so I'm sure you guys are aware of how much praise Silverstone receives for their innovative and space-efficient designs so at CES they showcased the Raven rv0 to build wood even slimmer layout but surprisingly without too many compromises in fact they've improved on many internal brackets to make the assembly process even smoother you can see just how thinner the re Co 2 is compared to the rv0 one so what they've done is remove the intake fans on both sides so now your GPU and the CPU coolers are left completely on their own but because they're so close to the side panel they should not need any additional airflow support only problem you can see is the plastic window on each side that doesn't allow for a fan filter to be installed and that in my books should be fixed somehow for the final consumer release the rv0 2 of course being part of the Raven series looks the part now with the subtle angular shapes on the exterior with a pair of USB 3 ports along with audio jacks hiding behind this raven cover so stay tuned for our full review of the rv0 2 when we finally get a sample silverstone also showed off some other mini ITX iterations of their new storage cases built extremely well out of full aluminum that's really thick so pricing is to be expected to be really high we're talking about high niche cases for very specific use the chassis itself though is beautiful with a single power button in the front along with activity lights and a muted embedded Silverstone logo in the corner that's barely visible and those that want that Macintosh feel for sure will find these spinning the main difference between the two versions of the case would be the storage component as both require and Mini ITX boards both have the same GPU compatibility that require a low-profile PCI adapter so one of the cases comes with 6 hot swappable 2 and a half inch drives that you simply pull from the top and you can see the hot swappable module underneath plus there are two additional two in half inch drive brackets behind the main cage while for the other version we're looking at two three and a half and two the half-inch drive supported that isn't much so you can make up your mind about what Silverstone is trying to do here perhaps some HTPC or a kick-ass looking server machine there is a single fan at the bottom the channels airflow up that is dust proof but from what we can see this is a beautiful aluminum chassis but with very specific and you can say limited functionality