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what's up guys a few cents here if you've ever shopped for a case then you know that they could range from inexpensive and crappy build quality that wants to cut your fingers off to massively expensive where one chance you can cost more than people's entire systems well today we're going to take a look at a chest that gives you kind of everything you really need but it doesn't even cost a hundred bucks US comes in at $89.99 and it includes tempered glass side panels Wow cooler masters master key pro series of keyboards offer sixteen point seven million color RGB genuine carry switches a variety of sizes as well as surface mounted controls allowing full customization without the need for stand-alone software learn more by following the link down below ok so this has actually been my editing rig for the chat we got a new sketch on the desk that face you just gave me I'm sorry let's gonna start with the tempered glass panel you can see right here it is tinted which is nice you got tempered glass on both the front and the back of the case but because it's tinted does a good job of hiding wiring in the back it even does a really good job of hiding the logo which is I think the very first thing people see in this case is like oh my god I don't want to see that big giant orange cougar logo the nice thing is though I mean as you guys saw it definitely covers it up quite a bit but you know you can also cover that up with paint if you want you to paint it you could put like 3m carbon fiber wrap material on it that's what we were going to do until we put the side panel on and what you don't really not that bad problem this is not a decal so you can't like can't peel it off it's actually painted on there so that's unfortunate but anyway this case right here it's hard to find a case that really meets the needs of both water coolers and air coolers because water cooling has a whole different set of requirements in terms of what you'd look for in a case then something like air cooling now let's go and start with some of the water cooling trending features here because you guys know that's kind of my thing we've got 360 worth of fans on the front of this we've got three 120 millimeter Corsair Maglev fans so they're mounted on the inside of the case right now but you can actually mount those on the outside of the case underneath the grill if you want which leaves plenty have room for push-pull 360 rad config on the front you can actually go all the way up to like a 60 mil rad and still not interfere with your graphics cards it just makes it hard to find a place to put your reservoir in your pump but could technically fit it now on the top I'm running to 140 millimeter maglev fans on my Kraken X 62 and I have the radiator mounted on top of the chassis underneath the grille but unfortunately you can't do push-pull on the top because there's simply not enough room as you can see between the fans and the motherboard and there's not enough room on top of the radiator before you hit the grill and this is only a 30 mil rad now in terms of length of graphics card support if you have the fans mounted on inside like with you here you could fit a four hundred and twenty five millimeter graphics card I don't know of any doubt of that long I mean that's a massively long card that be filling out the length of this entire case practically but once you put the fans on the inside it drops down to 400 mil but you can see we are nowhere near those fans now there's still plenty of room for a radiator and a reservoir and still have full-length long graphics cards like these without any issue now in the front of the case for connectivity we have two USB 3.0 two USB 2.0 a mic and a headphone jack as well the power button that's pretty standard these days none terms a motherboard support it fits up to ATX it doesn't really fit dat X like a true EA TX the one we have in here right now this is a gigabyte X 99 SOC champion it's a little bit wider than an ATX but it's still considered an ATX but the reason why it can't fit larger motherboards is because there's an offset on the motherboard panel so the motherboard is actually reset slightly from the rest of the chassis which gives you on the backside a little bit better room for when it comes to cable management so that means you can't have a motherboard that is wider than where that gap is and as you can see the SSE champion barely fits in there but most motherboards these days are ATX or that 80 X plus e ATX is somebody not really run into an issue with and to start going into the extreme platform and the enthusiast platform X 99 X 299 and whatever possible X 399 stuff comes from AMD it's probably going to be ATX as well something else it's nice to see though is this case is friendly for both tabletop placement as well as placing it on carpet and still having your PSU fan facing down so that doesn't draw in dust or whatever from the rest of the case because it's facing down and this chassis is raised up as much as it is it pulls an air from right on the sides and it's not going to actually be choked off because there's more than enough height to put this on carpet not have it choke off your system so that's nice now in terms of storage support that's probably where this chassis is lacking just a little bit because it's a four plus two config so that means you can fit four SSDs into three and a half inch drives but you can also mount two two and a half inch drives or SSDs where the three hats go for a total of six two and a half inch drives for support so you put a lot of SSDs in the same plus whatever m2 is on your motherboard but unfortunately it's not very friendly with three and a half inch drives so this is not a very ideal chassis for like an AZ or something like that now unfortunately there is no five-and-a-quarter bays expansion based support for this so if you've got five and a quarter maybe a reservoir like bay reservoir or card reader fan control or whatever unfortunately this case does not offer any support for that loved chassis seemed to kind of be going the way of getting rid of those and lieu a better airflow because a lot of people are going to digital downloads and stuff so need optical drives which is what those are always intended for unfortunately accessory support goes out the window as well when they lose all optical drive support so that's something worth keeping in mind for sure now this chassis is also perfect for those that are interested in air flow because both the top and the front is nothing but big open wide ventilation so right now with these fans on the front only running at 50 percent there's a massive amount of airflow coming in same thing on the top right here even with 140 millimeter fans which have a little bit less static pressure than one 20s and a radiator in between the fans and the vent right here there's a lot of airflow actually coming out of the top so that's something worth keeping in mind now unfortunately when it comes to air cooling support though it only has a max supported cooler height of 160 millimeters and I know a lot of air coolers like naktu a lot of cooler master coolers are taller than that start like 160 to go to like 170 180 but hopefully with the improved airflow of the chassis as a whole so the smaller coolers will be more efficient now something else that was a problem with this case when I was building in it is unfortunately the feet where it touches the table it narrows in and it tapers in which means your motherboard and stuff is off to the side a little bit outset from where the feet actually touched the table and when I was building this I almost knocked several times because unfortunately until you get the graphics cards in the power supply in which kind of weights it down a little bit it really wants to fall backwards very easily I mean you can kind of see right here just how narrow the feet are on this so I turn this like this with it it definitely I get certainly tippy I'm not putting much pressure on that whatsoever anyway this was actually just a temporary build it wasn't even meant to stay together I was just using this to do video editing here at the office it was meant to just kind of be literally let me get up and running and I liked it so much I kept it together and I kind of want to do a full custom water-cooled build in this but I don't know we might see also what their pans are Max has to hold or has to offer because it's the full tower version of this chassis unfortunately no tempered glass side panels but it's bigger overall which might also give us even more radiator support I believe that I can fit a 360 on the front and on the top on that chassis as well but this one right here the price of performance and the value you get for 89 bucks it's absolutely amazing tempered glass size now two of them for 89 bucks with a chassis like this that fits water cooling most air coolers and actually has plenty of air flow where I can have my two air-cooled for the win three graphics cards in here not starving for air I definitely couldn't have asked for more value for 90 bucks that's for sure anyway that's time to go guys thanks for watching today's video let me know what you guys think of this chassis what mid-tower chances are you using if you think there's one better or one that you want us to take a look at make sure you comment down below or better yet head on over to social media Twitter Instagram whatever pictures of this build happened on Instagram as I was building it so it's definitely some value to following there and if you're new around here once you hit that subscribe button it's absolutely free and we'd love to have you stick around because we we have an amazing community here a PC enthusiast and we'd love to have you so with that said I'm gonna go thanks for watching guys and as always I'll see you in the next one you