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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm guys were here at the BitFenix booth where they have an unbelievable a number of two of two more than two unbelievable number of cases on display so this right here is the Ronin it's also got what is possibly one of the most cool things that they're showing off this is an updated version of their fan controller so it's touch screen you can change the color you can adjust your LED brightness on the fans you can adjust your LED brightness with alchemy strips you can adjust your fan rpms whoa check this out there's actually an open-source software utility that lets you also do all that stuff in the windows OS itself so you can change the color to whatever you want you can also go ahead and see ok LED brightness control mange its turn ziggy's the little dial very cool not only that but check out this case so from the side you'll notice it looks extremely clean so that's because they've added like a stealth sort of cover here so even though it's got a large window you don't have to stare at the side of your hard drive cages with all the heck cables hanging out the back and I'm probably doing this wrong but thank you I appreciate that so once you move that out you've got what looks like otherwise a fairly standard interior full support for a 240 millimeter radiator in the top and then you've got your five at plus-2 but it looks like six hard drive cages these top ones are removable so if you need to put in ridiculously long graphics cards or anything like that you won't have any difficulty this guy right here doesn't have a name but you can sort of see the prodigy heritage of it and there you go see this is totally totally pre-production sample so you can see that's that side I oh who knows if that even makes it to the final one but it has a really classy looking chromed strip all along the top and the bottom it's got a very very clean front so single five and a quarter inch Bay again you see that prodigy heritage here and then on the left side again with the chrome strip as well as the ventilated side for your graphics card who knows when we're going to see this what it's going to cost or what the features will be nobody knows which brings us up to the Fen mmm this one's quite a bit more finalized this is going to be an ITX case that is going to be very very clean-looking optimized for something like I don't know you know file server or if just someone who wants a much more a much more clean looking computer it's got again so prodigy based so you see that same interior with the five drive cages as well as full support for long graphics cards if you really wanted to go that route by removing the top drive cages which brings us to the Colossus end this is going to be an M ATX case so this one right here is going to use you all hold on a minute so this looks an awful lot like that sort of that prodigy heritage as well matx case that's kind of confusing what in the heck you've also got adjustable art you've got adjustable LED so go ahead and see if I can figure out how to do this can't tell if they're can't tell if they're working it's sort of the disadvantage of how there we go there's a blue LED in the front there's some different brightness levels there might be different versions of the colors who knows but that brings us to this guy right here so people have been saying for a bit fair fair while here well prodigy is a pretty big for an ITX case why don't you guys try and put an M ATX board in there bitfenix has pulled through and they have done exactly just that so 2 120's in the top matx inverted motherboard in the back of the case as well as what appears to be able to set a 230 millimeter cooling fan 200 millimeters oh yeah no 230 millimeter down in the bottom 230 works this is a 200 thank you okay we've also got a 120-millimeter cooling fan in the back 140 might end up being in the back hard to say remember guys these cases are not finished yet and then that mesh front that we've seen on the black prodigy already so here I'll just give you guys another look at that SSD mounts on the back of the motherboard tray gives you a fair bit in terms of options for mounting your drives and I'm actually not a hundred percent sure where hard drives are going to go to hard drives on the bottom of the case you can actually and I just dropped something no idea what it was but thank you if you want to remove that magnetic strip right there you can actually mount hard drives with anti vibrational rubber mounts down there on the bottom and one more in the back of the pc so this one right here this has no name this arrived on Monday so to give you guys some idea how last minute it was computech started on Tuesday so it has no name it has no price what it does have is a very beautiful ID so ID for those of you don't know isn't always identification sometimes it means industrial design it kind of reminds me of a seuss's vento chassis from way back in the day but much classier that thing was like it kind of bulged out at the bottom and it was like glossy bright friggin colors whereas this uses bit phoenix's classic soft touch feel on the top as well as the front I don't know if this front panel even opens like guys this is there will be a door but this is a very very early sample absolutely nothing about it is final but I think it looks pretty darn nice which brings us finally to the shadow this one is an entry-level quiet case so you've got noise dampening material right here in the front and you've also got check this out turn the LEDs in the bottom on and off and you can also change the color between red and Lee very very cool stuff now cases we were expecting from bitfenix but headsets threw me for a bit of a loop because that is actually not something that I was expecting this is the BitFenix flow headset and what they've done what they've attempted to do here is they wanted to build a headset that is optimal for gaming but without blowing out the base without creating that that inevitable problem that we seem to have with 99% of gaming headsets out there where they're optimized to make explosion sound really rothman really manly but they actually don't deliver a very satisfying music listening experience so trying to move away from that and deliver a more balanced sound with an ID that you're going to be comfortable wearing outside of your house and away from your pee-pee see where it doesn't really matter if you look like a total dork now if I didn't want to look like a total dork there's a good chance that I shouldn't have picked the pink one and don't worry the chain is an optional accessory you do not actually have to have that no I'm just kidding this is an anti-theft device they don't want people walking away with these so the main features here are you've got your inline volume as well as microphone mute and you might say oh but minus there is no microphone on that headset well this again is in line with the concept of having it be possible to move away from the pc so see if I can do this not looking at it that'll be the test of how good it is there you go so you can attach the microphone like that it has a limited amount of adjustment wouldn't mind seeing something that you can like really snake around but honestly for me the problem is that a lot of headsets have such long boom mics that they end up sort of right in the middle of your mouth which is actually not the optimal placement for them you want them instead by the corner of your mouth and that does happen to be where this ends up on me the headphones themselves are self adjusting which means we're normally I would show you guys the adjustable headband I I can't really because you put it on your head and it say I can't even like figure out how this works without the without actually putting it on so you put it on your head and it adjusts to where it's supposed to sit I like the approach they've taken with the headphone strap here because so many times you see lightweight headbands that compromise on the material or they compromise on the amount of padding in order to achieve the lightweight pneus instead they've gone with a flexible strip with a little bit of padding on the inside and kept the structural integrity parts right here which are actually made out of what feels like are these metal with plastic on the outside yeah metal with plastic on the outside so you maintain that lightness without actually adding sort of like you know chains to them live without actually adding any bumps that are going to dig into your head it comes with a two-stage cable which means you can leave one end plugged into your PC so you can see this has quite a short cable on it I'm going to see if I can like steal their their ipod here so it has a short cable but there's another cable that acts as an extension and plugs into the back of your PC so you can just plug it in and go away as you see fit personally I love these two stage cables because I don't actually plug anything into the back of my computer ever when it comes to headphones there you go guys there's the two-stage cable so that means you've got your split microphone and headphone jacks here and then you've actually got eight and then you've actually got a four pole that's on the microphone itself that goes into the single adapter on the other end I prefer this because I use ah here we go so I'll get you good look at that I use a DAC as well as a headphone amp at my computer so having the option to not have this long cable loop because I'm never going to actually run it around to the back of my computer anyway is really convenient for me thank you so much for checking out this computex 2013 video don't forget our trip to the show this year is powered by western digital corsair vengence gaming peripherals sorry guys as well as NCIX calm as always 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