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mm what case size should you buy so what's up guys in this video I want to discuss key sizes and what some of the things you should be aware of talk about some of the misconceptions when it comes to small or large cases and ground some my own expectations when it comes to case sizes moving on in 2017 so let's talk about all that right after cool and after master keys keyboard lineup is now available in three sizes to fit within your space with large medium and small boards with either beautiful RGB or pure white LED illumination a little something for everyone make it yours with the master keys pro by Cooler Master now we review a lot of cases one of the things that I'm starting to notice about myself is start to appreciate what companies are doing with regards to exterior and interior design on the exterior in particular to really minimize the footprint of paneling so the case isn't too large to sit on your desk and not too bulky and on the interior completely module amount so we have options with regards to our hardware but why would one choose a ridiculously large super Tower like the fantasy elite or its double wide monster the core w204 Thermaltake ware and motherboards really gets locked and to answer that question that's perhaps a topic for another video because in this video I want to talk about the mainstream case category so like the ITX mid tower and full towers and skip away from like the really really giant and double wide PC cases because they only serve the niche market those enthusiastic want to water cool and really put their heart and soul into the build and spend you know quite elaborate skiing around a case but in this video let's talk about the mainstream and the mainstream only and so let's start with the smallest ITX cases that are always super rewarding after build completion there are usually challenges though with cable management and needing to follow strict compatibility rules for hardware so everything can fit no problem and there's usually minimal storage options you get usually like dual SSDs and hard drive they're somewhere but pretty much all XCX cases support 11s GPUs and a low-profile CPU coolers and a good bunch of them also support 120 ml all in ones with an X effects power supply recommended but many icx cases still allow 480 X units to be installed with some science restriction the main drawback here I feel for ITX cases comes the perceived poor value because for ITX cases prices range from the affordable $50 mark rising all the way to like $100 and even reaching $150 without water cooling niche audience sfx power supplies also tend to be higher in price and by the time you're full icx system is assembled the total price may seem to compete with that of a mid tower and that perhaps may throw off people from going to the ITX direction but also keep in mind that with anything compact there is that inevitable price premium and that just something you know there's strings attached with the ITX direction and based on my small twitter survey majority of users utilize amis our chassis that's unsurprising that's very common then 25% use a full tower and only 9% are in a small I TX arena and I would really love to rerun these tests maybe a year from now just to see if the market trends carry over with these statistics and I feel like the hotel category will decline and we'd get more users in the ITX space definitely and maybe it's like increase in the mid tower category also and they say this is because space efficiency on mid towers has drastically improved allowing very similar cooling configurations as on full towers with the opening of the interior allowing that front portion that used to be occupied with drive gauges and five and a quarter inch drive bays to now be filled with the radiator as our needs shift to minimize hard disks and emitting optical drives completely which is why all these mid towers have very similar front cooling options accommodating dual 140 member fans by default in order to support the rise of popular 280 no matter all-in-one like the X 62 the new EVGA cooler and a bunch of coarser 281 offerings also and today you simply don't need a large enclosure to achieve good cooling in many instances the power supply shroud and other elements are modular allowing the removal of that front piece and relocation of the drive cage to fit triple 120mm fans at the front and radiator in there also which is something totally unique for a package this small Corsair 400 C is a good example the fans XP 400 has that removal plate on the shroud also and the defined C from practice design is by far my favorite implementation of this cooling potential the cooler master 5t is another great example in the mid tower category without modular space at the front with appropriate cutouts on the shroud so you can fit the radiator there plus the long forgotten 5-minute quarter inch drive bays are present here just in case but they are removable to accommodate triple 120mm fan setup mid towers also seem to work around the height limitation with clever cutouts on the power supply shroud to route cables from below which means motherboards can be as low as possible leaving enough room at the top for set of fans and most of time comfortable clearance for a top radiator - and it's easy to see why mid towers are so popular especially as this category offers the most choice with cases like s340 that is the perfect example of simple system with an AO in the front while slightly larger enclosures like the mastercase 5 the P 400 or the age of 40 try to accommodate for more cooling options and system options in general but all comfortably fit ATX motherboards dual GPUs at least to its aziz and two hard drives with minimum 5 fans for cooling and comfortable cable management without needing a thicker chassis which is defined see from fractal design being an amazing example of space efficiency by reducing the height with smaller case feet and making the case shorter in length to fit long GPUs but also allowing a radiator at the front and just really minimize that space in between them so then why would someone go towards a bigger full tower I think we know when the courser 800 D came out everybody really wanted that type of experience also because it was one of the first cases to offer anything that we wanted in a large spacious Tower and many cases now take the same concept of this open interior without being bulky on the exterior that's the brilliance of it but if you're going for a full tower then you are most likely needing that extra storage capacity that mid towers may not offer right now and also if you are going for more comfortable water-cooling loop and honestly it's a little awkward for me to work with full towers simply because my reference test system is too small to be filling such large and spacious interiors that are designed for water cooling it's like correctly lit if you go into a full towers you've got a water pool so take a look at this example with the core w200 is definitely a prerequisite to water cool in this case and the same goes to the fan fics elite that feels to be a showcase only case and not really for consumers then there's the EVGA DG 87 is a giant Tower but all the exterior panels kind of close off the openness that full towers are supposed to offer and then the dark base 900 from be quiet is the only traditional full tower that we've reviewed recently that expands the interior with fully modular option and water cooling and then there cases like the panzer max from cougar that is the size of a full tower with tall and bulky exterior elements but with the mid tower frame still allowing fan installation outside of the frame to create more clearance above the motherboard area where everything else remains almost identical in feature sets to something like the mastercase 5 t that has a much lower footprint and so it's important to recognize that larger case sizes may not be may not offer advantages when more compact enclosures can fit exactly the same configuration but you may ask how does that impact cooling and so to test this I used an overclocked 4690k at 4.5 gigahertz with a pretty standard CPU tower cooler with a reference GTX 1070 across the define mini C a slightly larger P 400 and the master case 50 and then the dark base 900 full Tower to see how temperatures would vary between a small the standard mid towers and the large full tower with their default factory cooling and here are the temps that reveal interesting results with the larger cases giving a slightly better CPU temperatures but with higher GPU temperature on the full tower most likely due to have a more resistance at the front and also being further away from those fans the 5 T is utilizing 140 more fans on both intake and exhaust that might explain cooler CPU readouts but notice the 2 degrees C difference between the mini C and the P 400 both of which utilized identical stand setups but on a smaller case the fan is closer to the GPU that results in better system cooling and so to take away with these temperature tests is that regardless of case size you might have to reconfigure your fan placement and fan size to achieve optimal cooling and it's just so interesting to see how their default cooling configuration these 4 cases at different sizes performs practically identical with like 3 degree Delta s which is not significant so guys this conversation is never over let's continue the chap in the comments down below I'm curious to know if you agree with me and my thinking of this decline in the full tower market and really the shift towards the compact space for ITX and mid towers and everything in between and let me know what case category size your main system is in and if you're thinking of doing it on the build which direction are you leaning towards doing something bigger or doing something smaller let me know in the comments down below I'm Dimitri how are connects thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next video