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welcome to my video here of the Coolermaster elite 110 as you can see this thing is extremely tiny and this would be appealing to you if you're looking at building some sort of a really tiny form-factor case or maybe a home theater PC maybe some sort of a really inexpensive home server or maybe a steam box so if you're looking for something really tiny that you can still fit some powerful componentry in that you don't want to miss this now coolermaster has put a decent amount of design into this but they've also made it extremely affordable and I don't like talking about price but at the time of shooting this video this is only $49.99 to make the power supply unit fit and to give you as much room as possible you've got this bracket here that kind of extends out the back of the case as you can see it extends out about one inch so it gives you the ability to use standard size power supplies without protruding too far into the case taking up encroaching in the amount of room that you have in there so this is a pretty neat design since on the back of the case it doesn't really matter that it kind of looks a little bit funky the way it sticks out but hey you have four thumb screws here that remove the outer shell and where you go ahead and remove that because its face it everything guys want to know about is on the inside now when you deal with such a tiny form-factor he is certainly your number one concern now they have vent vents on all three sides of the case so it doesn't really seem like heat is giving too much of an issue if you are smart about the components that you put in here I mean I obviously wouldn't recommend going and putting the hottest components you can find in such a small case like this now you're going to find on the top and on the side this is where you have your brackets for mounting your hard drives as well as optional 80 millimeter fans on here if you want to do that you can put 80 millimeter fans right here to create a little bit of a cross flow as well now on the top of the case here being held in by four Phillips head screwdrivers you have a plate here for mounting additional accessories you can mount two SSDs on here you come out to full-size three and a half inch hard drives on here as well as you have some other screws that just kind of give you the ability to mount other things that you may find necessary now removing this plate brings us to full access of the inside of the case now the bottom of this case is pretty much going to be filled in entirely by the eight ITX or mini ITX motherboard so you know you're going to have very limited room on the bottom there so which is why they kind of stacked everything up I mean the power supply as you can see would extend over the top of the motherboard for the graphics card it can only fit a 210 millimeter or 8.3 inch graphic card now that really limits your choices I mean you're going to end up having to go with something that small form-factor like the 760 ITX from msi or the old-school short PCB 6 70's or something along that line or maybe a 660 or 650 something that is shorter in nature what I have right here is my r9 270 gaming Edition here from MSI and as you can see the cooler extends out quite a bit past the PCB now had that not been the case this card would have barely fit and I mean barely but as it is right now this card does not fit inside of this case so that's something you need to be mindful of so if you guys are hoping to use like an hour 90 to 90 or 280 X or yes 780 or even a 770 it's not going to happen in here unless you go with some sort of a shorty PCB version which some of those cards do have but unfortunately the powerhouse cards typically do not have a shorty version so definitely keep that in mind now when it comes to the power supply it says on here that you could use 180 millimeter 7.1 inch long power supply with less cable management you know friendliness or you could go with a 142 millimeter 5.6 inch with full cable management capabilities so basically the shorter the power supply or something designed for a small form-factor like this the easier the cable management is going to be now when it comes to front panel on here you do have two USB 3.0 you have your headphone you have your microphone jack reset button and hard drive LED and the power button is right here on the front which is actually the Coolermaster logo that's the button and that illuminates as well when the power is turned on now behind the front panel you will also find a 110 20 millimeter fan pre-installed for you there it is right there but it also can accommodate a 140 millimeter fan now when it comes to cooling options on this if you want to put a all-in-one cooling unit in here it has to be a 120 millimeter radiator 140 in here just simply is too big it does not fit that's what she said now the maximum heat sink fan height that you can use on this if you want to go with a cooling tower is 3 inches or a 76 millimeters so keep that in mind now but it has all the connectivity right here with black cabling so it's a lot more stealth you have your USB 3.0 cable on there and you also on the side have more options here for mounting hard drives so you could potentially mount four hard drives total in this thing as well as a small 120 millimeter radiator plus a short graphics card and ITX well PSU everything would just fit nicely into this nice one cubic foot footprint here now as with all things that I review nothing is perfect there are some things that I don't like about this number one obviously I wish it fit my longer graphics card I believe the elite 130 does I would have to verify that information so don't quote me on that but I think the elite 130 does fit a longer graphics card in there as well as maybe a larger radiator now on the bottom the feet are plastic they're not rubber which I kind of feel like they could have just gone ahead and put the extra few cents in there but then again when you're looking at a $50 ITX solution you really can't complain too much well guys there it is tell me what you think about the elite 110 I just I think it's a cool little package that's that's not what she said no no no but I think that you could do a lot with this especially if you were looking at doing a Kaveri build with something like the gigabyte f2 a 88 X end ITX motherboard and using a apu built into this you could get a lot of power out of this and have a lot more room in there so guys there it is tell me what you think what would you change about this case what do you like about this case as always I hope you guys have enjoyed this video it's helped you become smarter buyers turning you into prosumers and as always I will see you guys in my next video