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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and today we're gonna be taking a look at what is going to be my new chassis for my land rig that I'm building I bet you can't guess who makes it can you before we talk about the XM - I want to take a moment to talk to you about a documentary hosted by Norton security called most dangerous towns and it actually follows a few hackers in an area of Romania that's actually known as being kind of ground zero of some of the most notorious hackers in the world my story is simple I hacked a email account George Bush Hillary Clinton so much accounts of the Rockefellers but I am not sorry for never never in my lifetime I think what stood out to me most during this documentary was the interview with gusoff er who has absolutely no remorse for hacking into the email accounts of some of the highest-ranking politicians in the United States and we're talking the bushes the Clintons even hacked into pretty much all of the Rockefellers I mean it's just absolutely fascinating what some of these people can do and I actually had no idea that the internet in Romania was typically faster than here anywhere here in the United States I mean we're talking like complete fiber optics throughout the entire city so anyway why don't you go ahead and head to the link in the description or the annotation here on the screen and watch the documentary presented by Norton security in search of the most dangerous town on the Internet okay so today's video is all about the new chassis I'm using for a land rig that I'm building you guys know I did the Parvin build but the parvum case itself was not very portable friendly it was made all of acrylic and I wasn't a huge fan of that now back in December December guys oh six over six months ago case labs teased me about an upcoming chassis that they were doing called the x2 which was a completely redesigned micro ITR mini ITX with the micro ATX variant new chassis for a small form-factor builds now they currently have a chassis that's already a mini ITX but it's a horizontal design and I'm not a fan of that so we're taking a look today at the brand spanking new I think I have one of the very first ones xm2 chassis we're gonna go ahead and dive into this chassis and show you how it's modular how you can set it up it's one of the things case labs is really known for is it's completely modular designs where you can definitely make it your own and kind of set it up for your needs you don't have to up your build to the case you can set your case up to the bill that's one of the things I love about case labs now obviously it has a huge side window on here and it's got a protective film on there which I'm going to be leaving on simply because I do not want to scratch it up but the entire thing the entire case is made out of a heavy grade aluminum now I went with white on this chassis even though I could have done even a custom color they offered to do a custom color for me I stuck with white because I've always wanted to do a white and green build I've always liked white and green so that's what I'm gonna be doing with this one here now the first thing you can see here is you have your cutout for your motherboard which is so easy maybe because of the fact that it's mini ITX it's so small in fact you've got all this open space over here which kind of leaves you wondering well it's a pretty decent sized chassis for being a mini ITX what gives well guys you can configure this any way you want like I said you can put in a whole row of drive cages there if you want you can put in optical drives you can put in water cooling obviously we're doing water cooling you have plenty of room here for reservoirs and radiators on the top and on the front and pumps and tubes and pipes and all that other goodness you got plenty of room up top here for LEDs I mean the list just goes on and on I've already put the feet on this thing and don't worry guys I'm not gonna hit my monitor I know you guys are freaking out there's actually a lot of space between the back and the monitor is just a optical illusion but anyway I've already put the rubber feet on the bottom as you can see so I guess we'll start on the bottom a better place than ever you do have a 140 millimeter fan cut out on the bottom so you can bring air in if you want just keep in mind case labs cases at least at the time of making this video still are not fan filtered so it's gonna be pulling in any dirt and debris that's right on your floor or on your desk or on your carpets you're gonna want to keep that in mind maybe install a fan filter on the inside but they just it doesn't come with any filtration options built in now up here you also have a honeycomb design for the power supply fan intake so that you can pull in air from the bottom of the case again same thing regarding filtration keep that in mind and so you can exhaust that right out of the back now on the back you can see here is your power supply is going to mount and then you do have a rigid mounting system for your graphics card now one of the things that I really didn't like about the Parma build was that it had a very poor at least in my opinion a very poor mounting mechanism for the graphics cards on the back right here you also have a honeycomb design for the exhaust fan or it could be an intake technically as well so it's 120 millimeter and then you've got your cutout right here for your mini ITX motherboard now on the front I've got an optional piece installed on here and this is the radiator mount which gives me a place to be able to mount either to 120 or to 140 millimeter fans as well as a radiator on the front now the top is already as you can see it is already pre-cut for mounting of either to 120 s or two 140 millimeter fans and/or radiator but the top piece at least as far as I know only comes in one size you can't actually add the thicker top piece on here like you can with like the SMA 8 and the SM eights and stuff to be able to do push-pull so as far as I know this is the only piece available maybe they'll have other options I'm not sure I didn't actually order this case this is one they configured and sent to me based on what I requested so maybe they will have a thicker panel but as of right now I'm not too sure but to give you an idea of just how rigid this aluminum is this this sucker is freaking phenomenal and it's all one piece of aluminum that's been cut stamped out and then the edges are press break bent to give it so much stability in fact I took a tour of the case lapse facility and it's really amazing how much work goes into the quality of the panel's now on the front here once again we do have the cutout here the little front panel that you can pop off and as you can see it's got the cutout here on the bottom for the power switch audio options in USB again this is all configurable so you can pretty much I just put a stick around there and s in it whoops you can order this based on your needs you can get it with just the power button with just without the audio without the USB I mean there's a bunch of different options that they actually have but here's what I think is really neat let's say you're not a fan of having this on the bottom like this maybe you want the power buttons on the top well you simply unscrew these two screws pull the thing out with all of the wires put it in the top right here take this guy flip it over and then you've got your top mounted buttons so you guys can actually put it however you want bottom or top to be honest I haven't decided how I'm going to do it probably on the bottom because of the fact that I'm gonna have so much water cooling in this stuff that seems like it would make the most sense but in any case again as I mentioned the modular aspect of these cases is certainly what gives case labs you know one hell of a a name in the modding community now let's go ahead and take a look at behind the motherboard tray now in order to keep this thing price pointed at a place where more people can afford it they've gone ahead and omitted the removable motherboard tray which case lives you know has integrated into their cases so there's no removable motherboard tray but you do have the ice it's not a slide-out you do have these four screws on the back so you can unscrew those and you can take the backplate here for the motherboard off and then you can work on the motherboard and install it back into the case and then over here you also have some mountings for your hard drives you know SSDs and things of that nature I don't believe that this is actually going to fit a three and a half inch drive on the back it's just simply not thick enough but you are gonna be able to fit quite a few SSDs on here and the cool thing too as well is all of these holes that are drilled they could work for either SSD mounts and they could even work for mounting reservoirs and such on there so you could use these as kind of hole guides and then drill through on the front here you've got these four screws holding in this cover plate so that you don't actually have to do any of the measuring for where the reservoirs and stuff would go you could just put a mark on there through the holes on the back and then drill through this plate directly as well in terms of cable management you've got some pretty large cutouts here these are actually strapped in I can't get them out of the way but you have some pretty large cutouts here to be able to run your cables through you got slots for your fans and you've got a slot below and above the motherboard to cable management should be pretty easy these are not grommeted there's no grommets on here another thing that they did to be able to accommodate you keeping things a little bit more price friendly although you could put rubber grommets in there without too much problem but this case was actually designed with all-in-one coolers more in mind but still flexible enough to be able to put a complete custom loop in here and large enough to put a complete custom loop in here if you wanted and obviously that's what we're gonna be doing with this build so there you go guys that's a quick look here at the X m2 from case abbs or brand new mini ITX chassis that I'm going to be doing a green and white build in I might end up putting my 980ti reference in here I haven't decided I still have the six seven or how do I keep saying 670 I still have the 970 g1 gaming from gigabyte with ek waterblock on there but I kind of feel like I want to go with as much power in this thing as I possibly can so putting the 980 TI reference in there might make a lot of sense so anyway guys oh and you know in terms of depth as well I might as well mention that so here is the wind force card which we already took a look at the g1 gaming 980 TI and you can see for being a mini ITX chassis just how much length you actually have in this thing but you can also see how you have to be careful when it comes to how you set up your your water cooling config because you're not going to have a lot of extra space now granted the cards got about an inch and a half of extra length on it which is gonna add up but yeah you can see it's gonna be a tight fit no matter how you go about it so it's gonna be a challenging build but I think it's gonna look really good and I mean shoot with how much stuff that crammed in the part of them this is gonna be a piece of cake so anyway thanks for watching I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video follow on social media if you have any questions I don't know exactly when this video went live to be honest with you I've kind of shooting a bunch of videos because I'm going to e3 in fact by the time this goes up I may have already went to e3 it might be past tense I don't even know I don't even know anymore I'm just gonna go ahead and get the heck on out of here guys thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one