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hey guys what's going on J here bringing you a review of a product that's pretty unique in that it is a computer chassis brought to you by a graphics card manufacturer that's right the folks over at EVGA are given their hand or giving a shot at making a mini ITX chassis here that they think is pretty unique and pretty cool and we're going to go ahead and see if that's true or not we're gonna go ahead and give it the old J's to sense I just made that up actually I've never said that before I might say it again I'm not sure but I just made that up okay I didn't want to waste any time taking the damping out of the box because quite honestly it's pretty boring box it's just a brown box it says EVGA had drawn on there that's right this is the EVGA hadron Air they have come out with the hadron hydro which is a little bit bigger to allow for a little bit of water cooling in there but we are taking a look at the had drawn air not to be confused with the hard on air which seems to be the most common joke people come up with when it comes to this chassis now if you can't tell right off the bat this thing is really freakin small I mean quite honestly when I took it out I thought it was gonna be a lot bigger than it was it's not what she said entirely okay before we talk about the case let's just talk about some of the accessories that come with it because you know all cases come with accessories you've got a sled here which looks like it is for not entirely sure to be honest with you looks like it could be a two and a half inch drive or something pretty neat nifty looking manual here most of its in another language anyway you've got some more short SATA cables which is good for a small case like this you got your power cable you've got a had drawn a or sticker some screws and you've got a pretty cool looking case badge well I like stick this on my other build and then you got some cables twisty thingies to keep your cables in place anyway it's enough about that stuff let's go ahead and talk about the things that really do matter about this case and that's the fact that the style in this case is really awesome I like the style now it's got a piano finish on the front a single button right there I mean it's there's nothing cluttering up the front you've got EVGA emblem right on there now the bad thing about the piano finish and mine's a perfect example we'll have to clean this up is it just attracts dust really bad now why is there already a dust on it well I've already done this video twice this is the third time because I'm having a really hard time with not making sure the audio is working making sure the camera is actually recording you would think I just started doing this anyway yeah you would think I've never done this before huh on the side here you've got a pretty nice looking window um it's very cloudy looking because I did leave the film on that in fact we'll go ahead and ick the film off now the side panel is held on by three thumb screws pretty basic nothing too interesting there but the side panel when you take it off there is a film in here keeping everything nice and pretty alright there we go so now we got a nice clean window it is not smoked or tinted or anything like that it is just plain clear as you can see right then when you open it up you can see you have a jumble of wires as I mentioned it's already been opened I apologize guys this is not a virgin unboxing it's been looked at and played with and fondled so but what's cool about this is it's kind of a chassis but also kind of sort of the right direction towards a bare-bones kit because it has a built in slim low-profile 500 watt gold rated power supply kudos on that guys wish it was little bit bigger but I guess 500 watts is more than enough power if you were running something like a Titan Black Edition or a 780ti or something or even a 290x which is pretty power consumption if miss Cistus and it sits down here right on the bottom of the case not taking up too much room which is pretty awesome because that allows them to keep a nice small profile now moving on to the harddrive portion here you do have a sled you just pinch that you can slide those out and it also does have a portion in there where you can mount a an optical slim slot load drive which is not me I mean nobody's really using a slot load or even any optical drive anymore so it's what's cool about that is they put the slot over here on the side where it's kind of out of the way so if you're not using it it's not taken up into space on the front now the power supply cables going back to the power supply the runs of the cable are perfect and proprietary to this case they pretty much are already cut to the right length that makes perfect sense for installing inside of this case so you don't have to deal with the standard ATX power supply with a huge amount of cables that's designed for an ATX or full tower trying to cram it in a small form-factor like this if the runs already are there and makes sense you do have USB 3.0 cable you have a HD front HD audio and then you have your front panel LED and power switch right there cool so when it comes to the top of the case in fact you have to use a screw driver to get this off and I'm an idiot and I didn't grab a screwdriver if only I had a screwdriver on hand haha Leila there you go okay guys so the top is held on by two Phillips head screwdrivers and they're really small you don't want to lose them in fact there's no real reason to ever have to take the top off this thing unless you're trying to change out the fans I don't know how good the fans are I've not really tried it yet but I do really appreciate the style of the top grill because as you can see here it is on there really tight now on the top you can see you've got two 120 millimeter fans making pretty much the entire top of the case and exhaust kudos on that airflow should be good now on the back of the case here you've got this really interesting looking panel on there I don't know what actually mounts up to that I'm assuming it might be their pump that mounts up to that for their hydro series because I know that that's where the the tubes come in right there and then on this side of the case you have another solid black panel with perforation for airflow USB 3.0 two of them over here as well as your headphones and microphone jacks and then that brings us background on the front of the case now oh and then when it comes to PCI expansion PCI Express you do have a room for a dual slot card as well as room for a long card I mean you could fit a Titan in here without any problems now this isn't all peaches and cream I don't know why I just said peaches and cream I've never said that in a review before but now I'm just going to say it's not all peaches and cream as I mentioned in beginning this video this is EVGA z-- first attempt at making a chassis because of that there are some things about this that don't quite sit well with me and I'm going to go ahead and name those the first one being you have this amazing satin anodizing or powder coating on here it's not an ax that's powder coated it is steel it's an amazing quality finish when you've got had drawn err itched into there it looks gorgeous when you flip it over you can see it's not complete it's bare metal on the inside okay fine you don't really see that it doesn't matter too much maybe it's not that big of a grey but if we move to the inside of the case here I'm sure you guys have already noticed there's no powder coating here there's no powder coating fair not on the top and you can see through the inside of the case where the back panel is also not powder coated on the inside so you can see the bare steel through the back which doesn't make any sense to me I don't understand why they did that okay fine so I can get past that but what I am honestly feel is kind of a cardinal sin when you take something as beautiful as this chassis because I'm just going to say I love the design of this chassis the aesthetics of this are gorgeous and I would build out my ITX system in this chassis to Knight wasn't for one thing stuck using this power supply and these ugly cables that came with it quite honestly guys it feels to me like they ran out of time and what I mean by that is you've got this black jet black chassis piano finish front very elegant with a window mind you remember guys it does have a window right here so it's intended for you to see the inside of this case so the one on earth do we have a blue USB 3.0 in 1996 looking tan HD audio cable a green white and black power switch and LED cable and then thin sleeving over mesh mesh leaving over the top of every color of the rainbow inside of these power cables if they had just gone with black cables then this would have been a big deal or if they had just gone with high-density sleeping it wouldn't have been a big deal I've never seen a case for the blue USB 3.0 since 2.0 3.0 has become more of the mainstream I saw them in the beginning when 3.0 first launched to kind of grab your attention like hey guys this is 3.0 I don't get it what's up with that but the tan HD audio cable is like blasphemy as far as I'm concerned so anyway guys I'm going to go ahead and get on out of here this has been the EVGA hand-drawn err reviewed by J's $0.02 and as always I hope to see you guys in my next video or maybe even go and check out the website WWJ s2 CENTCOM register to day you