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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and this is a package that I have been anticipating now for months and it's finally here what we're going to look at right here is in my opinion probably one of the most exciting small form-factor cases that I have well been anticipating and you know what I don't usually have anything to do with Kickstarter's or startups but when I was initially approached about taking a look at this one months ago and I said contact me when we're closer to a production model well I didn't expect to hear anything back obviously I was wrong JSU sense is sponsored by precision camera and video Texas largest photographer and video retailer located in Austin for over 40 years they're giant twenty thousand square foot showroom floor local workshops and worldwide shipping are just a few reasons why you should head right now to precision - camera calm I mean if I make a mess it's okay and it has to clean it so what we're gonna be looking at today is the ghost s1 case from lope I think it's how you pronounce it links in the description below definitely worth checking out it's a Swedish company so I could be mutilating the name I'm sorry if I am if you give me an idea of how small this is this is a box in a box and then it's inside the box so as you can see the case just keeps getting smaller and smaller one of the few times in life were smaller is sometimes better ask me how I know now I'm gonna go ahead and just start off by saying that this case right here on the surface to me looks an awful lot like the n1 but don't let that fool you because this right here is quite a bit different vexy make sure not missing anything if we got some screws it's also important to point out that this is a pre-production model but they are really close to doing production on this so so if you guys want to learn more about it though definitely go to the description box below or you can learn more so this is the ash gray and this to give you an idea of its size is not even big enough to hold a pair of my shoes that you can like see straight through that there is so much ventilation on this comes in two colors ash gray and arctic white oh man so everything on this is milled out of a solid block of aluminum or aluminium 1320 individually milled holes in each side panel which is pretty amazing look at that man we're gonna do a teardown here we're gonna mock up a couple of parts on there we've got some fingerprints I was kind of hoping for the white one because the white would have showed a lot less fingerprints but that's okay yeah I don't even know where to start this is so cool so one of the things that makes this quite different is the fact that it is modular so I just took the top off for here this is referred to as a top hat I mean it comes with three different size top has a small medium enlarge but the base dimensions on this are 183 millimeters high 140 millimeters wide 320 millimeters long so that is it right there like I said this is about the size of one of my shoes I feel like taking my shoe off just to compare it for size but then you guys are see how big my feet are and I don't want y'all to get jealous so but that said this is the extra large or the large top hat right here which adds an additional 65 millimeters on here so that we can mount things up here like radiators extra fans they sent me the larger top hat so that I could kind of go balls to the wall with cooling because this is water cooling friendly now that's what makes this quite a bit different than other small form-factor cases like this is the fact that it is completely modular one of the struggles of building and small form factors are in this one here significantly small form factor we'll call it s SF F is the fact of space constraints and what that usually have to make quite a few trade-offs in terms of what parts can you fit in there it's very streamlined in that only a few parts on the market to fit like small form-factor graphics cards you know you guys have all seen the short stubby graphics cards there is of course you know small form-factor power supplies or sfx which is gonna be needed in this case right here as well but building in it has always been extremely difficult because it's hard to get a hands on especially if you can only build from one side like typical small form-factor cases are but what's cool about this guy the ghost s1 all the sides come off you build onto the spine which is the main structure and then you put everything back on around it this comes off this is actually the bottom right here you can tell that it's got the rubber feets but you can see on there you've got your mounts for your fans and radiators because the cool part is the top hat you just saw me take off the top you can also put on the bottom so you can extend the bottom of it you can extend the top of it so you could have fans on the bottom pushing air through all the way up I think I'm gonna I'm gonna ask for another another top hat so that I can do that because I really want to sort of experience that oh yeah so I did do it right see this guy slides out that's one of the side panels right there there's that this is one of the other side panels and now you can see we've got what we are dubbing here our spine so we have also got in here our front panel connectors because it has an aluminum button right here let's get satisfying click sound to it quality buttons but as you can see we also have our PCIe 16x Gen 3 riser card because as you can see your graphics card mounts on you know right here on the opposite side of where your motherboard goes so your motherboards gonna go here your graphics card is gonna go on the back side over here and I'm gonna actually kind of mock that up right now so you can see unfortunately I don't have an SFX power supply I could have swore I did maybe what to check the inventory but this is the spine this is what you build on and then like you saw you just put all the side panels back on when you're done now the riser card is also 100% shielded so that's gonna be nice no interference there and the riser card is also rigid mounted so yeah let's go and see how it looks when we start putting a few parts in there so I think a Titan XP would look pretty damn good in here considering the fact that it's black and it matches the case but I want to show you how much room you actually have for custom graphics cards even in this ultra small form-factor build here so we just mount it right onto our riser car you would actually clamp it down with this piece right here but look at all the extra room you have you've got your PCI Express power cables right here which just line up with this knotch plenty of room between the side panel slide this back on just to show you BAM and then that pulls in fresh air through this part right here and exhausted out the back as you can see fairly separated from where the motherboard and cooler are gonna go so the graphics card has its own compartment which is very vain nice to keep it from interfering but what if you have a custom graphics card so if it's greater than two slot and longer than 305 millimeters it's not going to fit it will fit higher cards so let's test that let's push that to the limit with the 1080i kingpin look at the size of this card versus the case that is massive okay we got this we got this point out so close get in there go to your home so unfortunately with the kingpin we're also impacting right here it's about a quarter inch off but it impacts right there it's this piece that we're hitting on and even with this angle we're talking millimeters off so here's the thing if I were building in this today and I really wanted this to fit I would Dremel that a little bit not the cooler the case because it's barely barely barely not fitting so when we go to building this I'm actually gonna be doing a water-cooled version of this this case will be water-cooled graphics card and CPU it's definitely gonna be worth checking out honestly though if I was gonna be going with an air-cooled graphics card in this I would rather just go with a Founders Edition or a blower style card simply because then the case isn't responsible for taking any of the heat out if you haven't noticed there's no fans anywhere in this case yet we can mount fans to this especially if we're going with air cooling or water cooling but you can mount fans to the top and the bottom to kind of force a top-to-bottom airflow which is what I would do but ultimately the graphics card then won't be relying on the case to exhaust the air and especially if you're going with like a massive three fan cooler like and that kingpin card then it's gonna have well the case is gonna have its cut work cut out for it to exhaust it so once you have the bracket actually you know mounted down in the back and then with the rigid you know riser card right there mounted to the chassis you can see you could actually hold and move around by the graphics card that's how sturdy it is so that's kind of a nice thing now I'm using a z97 board here just as sort of a mock-up but I think I'm gonna go with I kind of want to throw as much power into this as I can this might be where I actually put my either my 7700 K or maybe even my 8700 K simply just for the like over-the-top ridiculous factor so the standoffs are pre-installed I'm not gonna bother putting the i/o on here's again this is just a mock-up but it's that so motherboard and graphics card are installed I love the fact that they're separated when it comes to CPU coolers though you've got a maximum height of 66 millimetres clearance before you hit the side panel right here so small form-factor coolers are going to be a thing that you're gonna have to go shopping for I know quite a few brands and make them so it would basically have to clear this as you can see that's the amount of height that you have to work with but the nice thing is that especially if it's a down fire because most of the small form-factor stuff that you flying is gonna be a down fire but because you have all of this ventilation right here it's gonna be pulling the air directly from the cool side blowing it down on all the components you're VRMs your memory your south roll your chipset once at Southbridge going backwards there your chipset as well as your CPU and components so that's gonna be a nice feature to have and I do wish that we had a little bit longer sleet or cord right here for our front panel simply because I'm not convinced like if I was running I guess it would barely fit like I would fit underneath the power supply right here this is where your sfx power supply would go they recommended that we go well they recommended the Celsius s 24 or then the NZXT mostly because of the rigid rigidness the rigidity think rigidity is the word I want right the rigidity of the tubes because the problem here is going to be if you have really stiff tubes and if you've got really stiff cooling pipes then it's gonna be hard to get it in place because once you start adding like this is where a custom loop would actually be kind of nice because then you can have the length be exactly what you need it to be so you won't have a bunch of excess if you're dealing with a IO then obviously you've got a length of K of tubing here that's meant for like a much bigger case which means you've got way more than you actually need in fact it looks like I might need to slide this over slightly too because there might be too close to the end right here I see this though being a bit of a challenge to build in I don't think they're denying that this is a challenge even though they're making it a lot more friendly because of the fact that you wouldn't a components today they're designed for bigger cases you've got longer fan cables you've got longer cooling pipes the power supply cable length fortunately SFX is usually very short because they're like well this is not going in a full tower so we don't need all that length but you know you're still gonna have a lot of cables to have to deal with inside here so that's something that you know tends to be a little bit of a challenge when you're building in cases this small take the top hat and put that into place so there you can see we have two fans right here what's cool is the fans are kind of split between compartments you've got some on the radiator or the the CPU side some on the GPU side but you can see that this is creating obviously a negative pressure situation only but then I see about the top hats is you can stack them you can add more top hats on this so I could go with the medium top hat which will add about another what is the 25 or 26 millimeters around there to be able to put two more fans on here for push-pull if I want it or likewise I could put it on the bottom put two fans on the bottom pull an air through pushing through the bottom of the case up to the top creating a very neutral cross flow which would be really good for the cooling of this case but because all of this all four sides top bottom and sides but are fully vented like as you can see we definitely are not going to have a problem when it comes to cooling now what about things like cable management and such so cable management on here is pretty well thought out as well right because we've got our tubes running right here now they did mention that there's some stuff that they're still working on to make this a little bit more friendly for water-cooling they're gonna have points here to zip tie down your tubing especially if you're going with a custom water-cooled loop the length on this appears to be perfect though the NZXT Kraken anyway they recommend the Kraken or I think I already said the Esther the 24 from fractal design because of their much softer tubing and that allows you to actually be able to bend this tubing as you need it so your ram and stuff goes right there it's going to clear this cable as you can see routes around this is the extension wire for the wall plug so it routes around they're actually upgrading this part right here to be a screw in instead of a snap in like it is right now so that's going to be changing but then all of your cables will actually come out your modular cables hopefully they're modular will come out this side that's why you have this big notch right here so then you can easily have everything wired up and that's kind of what it would look like too if we had the well there's feet right they go on the bottom is feet to get it up off the ground so it would end up looking something you know sort of like this if we had the top hat on the bottom I kind of think I'm gonna do a top hat top and bottom when I do my build that way we're getting good airflow through the case but you know what guys I'm gonna head and go this has been pretty exciting I was looking forward to this they've contacted me months ago I very very rarely get involved with any sort of startup or crowd fund campaign or any of that but this one caught my attention fully modular small form-factor ultra small form factor that's modular expandable looks good and the build quality is insane these guys are in Sweden and they're this is a this is a passion for them and obviously it shows in their level of craftsmanship right here so tell me what you guys think in the comments below I'll put links to where you can learn more about this and when it's going to be fully retail available and ready I'm glad to see that they are still tweaking the design a little bit to make it you know a little more appealing but yeah I'm excited to build in this guy I might go for a white one though I think the white would look really good especially when it comes to dust and stuff but all right so what'd you guys think thanks for watching and I'll see you you