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what's up everyone JC sense here we're gonna take a look today at the new arc 90 not to be confused with the old arc 90 I don't know if there isn't regular arc 90 but this is the new arc 90 from gamer storm this is actually a case designed by deep cool where they took the water cooling loop and built it directly into the case the new cooler master H 500 p mesh white provides maximum air flow sleek design and elegant tempered glass giving you the ultimate platform to show off your next build learn more about the new H 500 P by heading to Coolermaster calm this is probably one of the better packed cases I've seen in a long time it actually comes with this soft cell foam that is cardboard reinforced so even if the case gets dropped or mishandled by the lovely folks over at FedEx UPS and DHL and of course your local Postal Service then it's gonna be pretty well protected they also included this gamer mat I think this comes with every single case but check that out this is a wide gaming mat that you can put your keyboard in your mouse on gotta let it lay flat for a while to get some of the rolled kink out of there but this is kind of neat I don't recall the last time I've seen a gamer mat come with a case and it's something else that made this a pretty easy unboxing experience even for a dullard like me who's very bad at taking things out of a box it has this strap that's wrapped around the case you can easily pull it out of the box so it already tells us that this is a fairly premium product from a company that's taking a lot of pride into this so but you know obviously the most important part is build quality what is the loop like and then we'll talk about some of the features of this case as soon as I get this all apart alright first peel incoming alright right off the bat I can see we have got tempered glass yes and forget the front man see piano finish on plastic is a terrible thing because it always looks scratched when you try and clean it or dusty you wipe it down to try and clean it you scratch it but obviously tempered glass is not going to give you that experience because it is very very resistant to scratches so this is one of those side mounted radiators what actually goes on the back panel of the case and not the front or the top and remember this is a built-in water cooling loop unfortunately there is a and blade completely missing from one of one of the 280 millimeter fins so you can see the fan hub and everything right here even the LEDs obviously they're supposed to be a fan right there now it looks like we have a triple fan radiator but we actually don't down here with a bottom fan as there is no radiator it's just a 280 so that means there's two 140 millimeter fans here in here or in this case one and a half but you can see the hub where the fan was the LEDs that light up the fan and everything even the even the copper coil right there to make the fan turn thinking maybe it fell out in transit maybe I got dropped during shipping which could have knocked it out which you know would have kind of absorbed deep cool of any issue with that so it looks like we have quarter-inch rubber tubing running from our radiator over to our pump this is basically the same pump you'll find in there captain series a iOS and the way they get around the a Sutekh patent is the fact that they bring the fluid outside of the pump and then back in on top making this not an all self-contained unit which is how they kind of get away with not having to deal with a Sutekh which in my opinion is a good thing because we need more options besides ASA tech you can see on the back right here though this is where it exhausts the air from inside the case this is an exhaust so it is pulling fresh air from inside the case and blowing it out the backside right here kind of becoming a thing a lot more case manufacturers are doing now kind of utilizing this space on the back of the case to not not a captive thumb screw keep that in mind but they're kind of utilizing that space to keep the more open interior and I've not done any testing though whether or not that kind of a 90 degree Bend the air has to make in that open space could actually affect cooling but oh okay there it is found it but as I was saying I've never actually done a test to see if a radiator mounted on the side like this having to kind of pull air from the main compartment like this is more efficient or not obviously we have a more open configuration our hard drive cages go down here in the bottom and then you can put front side fans on there if you want but obviously there is no intake fans whatsoever on this case and only one exhaust fan in the back now we need to see if we can't pop this guy back on hey there we go good as new we'll just chalk that up to the shipping company so here's a 280 millimeter radiator right here don't confuse this with a standard AC textile radiator because this is a cross flow and not a double pass so the water comes in the top right here flows through all the rows at the same time and it collects down here at the outlet where it's actually routed to the front of the case where we have a very thin tube style reservoir with LED lighting behind it RGB lighting of course to light up the fluid on the front of the case this is purely an aesthetic it's not something you can actually open up and service we'll take a look at that closer in a second though but that's probably why we also don't have a 420 radiator version unless they switch this over to a double pass because you have to have room for this fitting right here on the bottom so even if you had a 90 right here there still wouldn't be enough room on the bottom of the case before impacts on the floor well they might be asking yourself Jay if there's nothing down here to cool no radiator why is there this fan well this fan is actually pulling air through where the hard drive cages are so this is giving you some active airflow over your storage but on the back of the case you have two SSD trays there of ample opening here for a large power supply if you need it plenty of room right here for your wire management to be able to pass through lots of rubber grommets making it easy to route cables away you need them too and then of course we have a lot of LED and fan controller functionality pre plugged in on this case so you provide SATA power to it and then you can actually power your LEDs and your fans off of this cable now the front of this is not coming apart nearly as easy as I had hoped there's some tabs here on the inside that hook on to where the fan is or the fans would go and the metal is just kind of flexing around in there and not unhooking like you want like it wants to so it's there we go pull it from the bottom so the plexi or the plexiglass the tempered glass is actually attached to this solid panel now if you're gonna be putting on front fans right here keep in mind the only place it's gonna be getting air it through is through an opening at the top right here these very restrictive slits on the side and this little bit of a cutout on the bottom otherwise you could actually put one two three three 120 millimeter fans right here I don't see any mounting holes for 140s so only 120 s are gonna fit in the front and then kind of the same thing on the top the problem is the metal just wants to flex where these are but it looks like these are obviously identical pieces for the top and the bottom so you got three hot-swap drives right here which is kind of funny there hot-swap on the front but you actually have to remove these three screws from the side in order to get the hot-swap portions to actually come out there and they're really tight right now though because all the case accessories are sitting in there like this box right here and this guy right here which is making them not slide too easily but once you take those out obviously any hot swaps are pretty easy to get in and out so in this black box here we've got a few things looks like we've got a mounting mechanism for our cooler we've got a thermal paste and of course our instruction manual now this big grey piece right here doesn't actually stay with the pump it's mounted down to the motherboard tray and the pump is mounted to it just to keep it safe during transport but this part gets removed you replace the pieces obviously using the manual the mounting bracket for your socket type and then you can obviously mount this down to your motherboard so you can see the block is full copper right here so it's a perfect size for stuff like a m4 until not going to be very good in my opinion for something like thread Ripper I don't even think this supports thread Ripper according to the manual nope it doesn't but it supports all your standard Intel and AMD sockets too small for thread refer though so the mounting plates pretty straightforward you've got these standoffs you push through based on the type of socket you're installing in so obviously use your manual for that RTFM push it through the backside and then you've got these retainer nuts that actually have a rubber washer on them to keep from grounding anything on your motherboard and these lock down to hold that into place so you take the crossbars mount these down on the standoffs that you just placed using the shorter screws you can rotate the fittings kind of up and out of the way and then you just mount the actual pump down on to those crossbars and you can't really screw it down too tight you basically go until the threads stop it is spring-loaded obviously you put down your thermal paste in this instance I'm just showing you the way it mounts so you can just screw this down and so it pretty much comes to a rest the spring will make sure that there's proper tension on there you can bottom out the threads just go until they stop don't over tighten just once the threads stop you're done then your pump is installed so you've got a complete water-cooled system now that's pre built into the case that's pretty neat one of the thing worth mentioning is it does have a vertical mount option for the graphics card you can see we got some standoffs here pre-installed for that option but the actual riser card meant for this case is an optional piece so it doesn't come with the case something you have to buy separately so the case rotated on its front now to show you the top I oh this is a 2 USB 3.0 headphone microphone jack power button but also your LED controller and your fan controller are on these little buttons right here on the side here's the 3 fan installation points on the top of the case that I mentioned so you can have 3 on the front 3 on the top for a total of 6 plus the 3 140 millimeters on the side plus the 120 or 140 millimeter exhaust on the backs there's a lot of fan options on this case question is whether or not those panels actually reduce the airflow so as mentioned all the fans have built in RGB there's even a little glowing RGB gamer storm logo right here rear fan and the front reservoir as mentioned also has RGB on there so definitely keeping with the RGB craze yeah so you can control the brightness of it you can control the fan speed as well on here but obviously the fans aren't turning and you can control the different modes with this button right here so they're pretty basic it'll cycle through the different colors it'll either give you a solid color and you can control the brightness of it but you get the idea you've all seen RGB and you know how it works so anyway that has been my first look here at the new arc 90 from gamers storm like I said I don't know if it's actually new that's just the name they call it the new arc 90 built-in water cooling loop taking a lot of the guesswork out of cooling your CPU again it's probably as good as any other AIO we do plan on testing this in the future we do a full build in here I just don't have the parts available to do this build right now but we will circle back I expect the results to be as good as any other 280 millimeter aao which means it's gonna be able to cool your eyes and chips be able to cool your case cute Intel chips all the way up to X 299 giving you some mild overclocking available depending on which chip you go with all your mainstream stuff you should be able to overclock with no problems as long as case airflow is good enough and that's what I plan on testing I'm still a little concerned that the front panels on this case are a bit restrictive not allowing enough intake into the case which can obviously affect the cooling because the cooler is pulling directly from the volume inside the case and not through the air being pulled in through the front or exhausted through the top like a traditional format so because it's mounted to this back wall it's dependent entirely of the air that is being brought into the case already which as I mentioned in the beginning this video is already a little bit flawed because there are no intake fans whatsoever on this case it is so relying on these 140 millimeter fans that are mounted 90 degrees perpendicular to the rest of the intake and exhaust on this case I think that's asking a lot of work so we will be testing that in the future but at least we got a chance to open it up and take a look at it a lot of you asked me to take a look at this case so when deep cool reached out and asked if I wanted to look at it I was like absolutely a case has water cooling built in why what night you guys tell me your initial thoughts on this and what kind of testing you want to see obviously we're gonna test things like thermals and acoustic we're gonna test it and it's as shipped format just like this but the case fans oriented as they are and then we'll add some fans to this and see how much of a difference it makes maybe guys we're gonna go thanks for watching as always I'll see you in the next room