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what's the first thing you think of when you see this picture if it's not Tonka or Lego then you've probably seen the marketing for the land Boyer already this is an Tech's latest and greatest chassis it is fully modularized and we're gonna talk a lot in this unboxing about what exactly modularized means and it is really unlike anything else we've seen on the markets yet so the land boy air the land boy series has been dead and buried I thought for the longest time I actually owned an original land boy and then there was the super that came with the smart blue 350 watt power supply and then there was the super land boy that came with that weird grille at the front and since then there's been not a whole lot but this is it pantech has revived the land boy product line with the land boy air so there you go that yellow is not quite the same as it looked it's not quite as Tonka like as it looked on the picture on the front but ok here we go so the first thing we find in here is a little instruction manual and based on all the things you can customize on this case I'm gonna go ahead and venture a guess that you're probably gonna need it land boy air grounding ok to show you how to ground the case that's good how to mount your two and a half inch SSDs ok so there's a little manual on that how to install USB 3.0 ok cuz it does have one USB 3.0 port at the front as well as a quick product overview so here's a little product overview shows be a bunch of stuff about it ok and then a little survey that you can take to win PC accessories Thank You Man tech alright now I want to go through let's take the case out of the box typical forensic cases extremely well packaged with good quality double wall box as well as a high quality closed cell foam packing material so you can see that's not going to be a problem in terms of shipping and then I wanted to go through here and maybe I'll point at the case while I do it or something honestly I'm a little scattered because I can't wait to get this out of the box I've been looking forward to playing with one of these in person since I first heard about this case just because like I said from anything we've seen on the case market ever Wow actually looks a lot better in person than it does in photos I can see why ntek really wants to do a lot of video coverage of this the laws they've actually got a pretty good video on their site right now that shows off the land Boyer so first thing we see here carrying handles even with a fully loaded computer in there there's no way these are gonna break off and I'm really glad they didn't because that would have made for a very anticlimactic test of the land boy hair so they fold down just like that and then let's have a look at the back here so you can see you've got support for a dual 120 millimeter fans right here at the top of the case and speaking of fans the land boy air although it comes equipped with five 120mm fans supports up to 15 and Antec is really encouraging users to use every fan as an intake and because the case is so covered in mesh and airflow non-restrictive materials you can see the whole other side of the case is completely mesh what that means is by using every fetes and intake you can create positive pressure inside the case which means the air will naturally blow out of anywhere that you don't have an intake fan so what that means is you're able to keep dust out of your case because everywhere where there isn't a fan drawing air in there's air of just blowing out of all the little nooks and crannies of the case so it's very very difficult to get dust buildup in a case like that so there you go that's why ntek encourages you to take advantage of the positive airflow design of this particular chassis now the finish on this is just phenomenal actually look at that it's a very glossy black finish on the top of the case looks like we're gonna have support for up to a dual 120 millimeter radiator here in the top although don't quote me on that I'm not a hundred percent sure now in the front of the case this looks like it should be something what is that well why don't we run through these marketing bullet points so that we can get a clearer idea of what we're dealing with here so the modularity optical drives can be mounted in three different orientations you can actually mount an optical drive facing out this side of the case or you can mount it facing out the front or you can mount your optical drive facing out the other side of the case same thing goes for your hard drives the hard drives use a new system called air mounting and I'm gonna go ahead and take this off these panels are modular like many aspects of this case so the hard drives use a new system called an air mount which you can see it's like a a rubber elastic thing and then you screw your hard drives in and what that allows you to do is reduce vibration and it also allows you to mount it also in any orientation so your hard drives can be mounted with the connectors facing your motherboard facing this way or facing towards the other side of the case so that's pretty cool - so you can mount hard drives optical drives whichever orientation you want but wait there's more you can actually move around the optical drives to be down here or you can move them here and you can put hard drives in the top if you feel like it yeah you can actually customize where all that stuff sits down here in the very bottom you can see there are two spots for two two half-inch SSDs so you can do up to a raid zero with two two and a half inch SSDs right down there on the bottom of the case now let's go ahead this is gonna be kind of a long unboxing I've got I've got that feeling that it's gonna take a lot to cover this particular chassis okay modular motherboard mounts yeah okay we'll get into those a little bit later okay so we've taken off the side panel now so here we'll have a look at the construction of the side panel as I mentioned there's a lot of mesh on here that's very conducive to good airflow it's got metal pieces here but it's a mostly plastic construction so what that means is with the metal mesh and the metal bars it actually retains a good degree of rigidity okay so then you've got your little an tech design sticker there which is very very nice and then okay well we took that off let's keep on going then shall we here is the back of the motherboard tray so the motherboard tray is modular let's find out exactly what that means you can ah yes you can move the motherboard tray down so you see these screws here here here here and here you can move the motherboard tray down to the bottom and then you can actually move the power supply mount up to the top if you'd prefer that you don't have to use a bottom mounted power supply that's what they mean by modular and the motherboard tray I should also mention does support up to eight PCI expansions lost so that means you can mount a four-way SLI motherboard in this chassis once again it wouldn't be customizable in modular if you can't know whatever you want in it am i right okay back in the case we've got a 120mm fan we got water cooling grommets the aforementioned 8 PCI slots as well as your PSU modular mount all right let's keep turning it around I'll use the convenient carry handles because remember this is a land boy series case it is designed to be moved around to lands presumably or to your mom's house if she has a faster internet connection than you and they want to download something quickly the point is you can move the computer around I don't want to hear about it okay so I'm just undoing screws here I really wish I'd remembered my screwdriver but I never do that's how I roll camera man's gonna help me thank you cameraman for contributing at the very last minute and there's only one more screw to remove cameraman I can't even do it because he has Mac hands and they're not strong enough I'm using a Mac all day oh wow that one is pretty tough okay well give me a minute off-camera then so we've opened up the other side panel you can see here there are two 120-millimeter an Tek two-speed fans mounted and the ones on the front are tri cools the one in the back is a two-speed in case you were wondering so that means you can switch them between high or low airflow mode with this convenient low high switch look at that the medium is actually there's still a spot for it but it's like blanked out okay so that's not a tri cool it is a too cool now you can mount up to another two 120 millimeter fans with the pegs here and here and the holes here in here so an Tek includes presumably all the mounting screws you would need for that so it means you can throw up to four 120mm fans on the side panel you can orient them like this and then you can put the side panel on I hope now that I've said it I know you can okay so you are into it like this and then you just put the fans wherever you want okay let's keep it rolling here we'll keep looking at all the different aspects of boyer so here's our front panel connectors which are secured with a little to sky and let's go ahead and have a look at those so because this is not a very conventional chassis as I mentioned ntek has instructions on how to round out the case so you're gonna want to attach that where Antec tells you please do that you don't want static build-up on your case because that is bad static in computers bad not grounding very very bad okay here is USB 3.0 and alright so you run that out the back of the case you plug it into the back of your USB 3.0 compatible motherboard you've got USB 2.0 right there reset power hard drive LED as well as a power LED then you've got front panel audio no firewire fire wires I mean does anyone use fire I think I said that once and then I had a bunch of comments on the video I use firewire yeah I know someone does but still not very popular so here we go let's have a look at what we've got in terms of random mounting accessory so it looks like I'll have to take out the power supply mount for that alright I pulled out the power supply mount which as I mentioned before you can move up to the top should you so desire and then I've also got the box here which I was surprised to find contained not motherboard mounting screws or anything else like that but rather only more air mounts so they've gone and they've thrown in one air mount for you just so you get the idea but then there are enough air mounts here to mount up to an additional however many hard drives I think it's eight that I could be wrong here let's count them one two three four five six seven eight nine I guess you can mount as many as nine hard drives if you feel like it but then you'd have no optical drives so it's completely up to you it's modular and then it took me a little while here to figure out where are the mounting screws well they're in a little tool box here at the front so I'm gonna go ahead and oh no way you have to unscrew it okay well I don't know how to get the toolbox out now but yeah okay here there's a toolbox in the front of the case and that little box is gonna hold all of your extra mounting hardware for whatever it is you could possibly need to mount in the land boyer and you could never lose it because it'll always be there and I think that's getting pretty close to everything there is to talk about here why don't you just get some more internal shots of the case overall the fit and finish of it is uh much better than the mock-up that I had seen before it feels quite solid despite the fact that it's almost like a framework construction here like you can you can see there's holes in the case like there's not a whole lot to it but because they're using these solid metal square bars it has a lot of rigidity to it and then they've got mostly things like metal mesh or others like connecting materials that are just giving it overall a pretty good pretty good strength to it so I think that's pretty much all there is to say but no no come have a look at the front and have a look at the front we haven't looked at the front enough here alright so at the front we find a bunch more interesting stuff we find a great antique shiny logo there which i think looks terrific and then we also find buttons so there's our reset switch our power switch USB 2.0 front audio as well as USB 3.0 we just haven't had enough of a look at the five and a quarter inch bays it really is a unique design like I almost wish antec had like a like a stealth five and a quarter inch bay cover that looks like this because it's really kind of cool-looking it stands out fits with the aesthetic of the whole case like I said before these can be moved around so you see these extra mounting holes here at the front you can what the camera man don't get don't get distracted you can see these extra mounting holes here at the front so you can move these up move these three down move them around however you want and these at the front are stepless adjustable try cool fans so you can change the RPM in infinite increments however you desire and then there's that yeah you've got screws in so that's that toolbox at the front let me to see if I missed any points yes it supports video cards up to 16 inches without hard drives installed across from them or up to 12 inches without or with hard drives installed there you can airmail the hard drives three different ways USB 3.0 built-in handles infinite cooling up to 15 fans plus a top mount for water cooling and I think we've pretty much covered it thank you for having a look at the enttec land boy air with us and I hope you have enjoyed it uh cable management here on the back of the motherboard tray you will find little hoops for routing cables you will also find adequate space between the side panel over here and the motherboard tray to mount even thick 24 pin cables and now I'm done cameraman wants me to do something else he wants to see what's at the bottom of the case 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