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so today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the half nine three two but this is actually a special half nine three two you can't tell from that side of the box but on this side you can see that this is the half nine three two Black Edition so the half nine three two is already a very well regarded well-established gaming case in its own right but the Black Edition adds a few features so you've got better or improved GPU cooling okay you have a transparent side window remember the half 932 has kind of a smoke style side window you've also got support for two SSDs and it comes with two 230 millimeter fans so let's go ahead get this box open and I'm just going to show you guys the packing materials that I'm going to unbox it and then I'm gonna kind of come back so we've got your standard kind of this is a semi soft kind of foam so it's not super brittle but it's also not a closed cell foam that you see on some cases so let me just dump it out and I'll be back in a sec since the half 9-3 to Black Edition isn't actually that different from the regular half this is going to be more of a look at the half 932 and with a special highlight on the features that are different about the Black Edition so we've got the large clear window here so that is one of the key differences other than that the case looks pretty much the same from the outside so we'll start on this side okay you've got side vents here you've got that half branding on the on the side of the case here you've got on the top actually on the top is interesting because you've got support for a 230 millimeter fan or you have support for dual 120 millimeter fans so that gives you the ability to add a liquid cooling radiator for example or to use two smaller fans if you want to use your own because it's hard to find aftermarket 230 mm fans here you've got a spot for a fill port which is awesome I mean everyone should include room for a fill part in their case because it cost nothing all you do is drill a hole and then the water-cooling guys are pretty happy and then you've also got a little rubberized thing here for putting you know screws up that's right screws or lens caps it caps so they won't move and he won't get lost you have a reset switch power switch on the front of the case we've got front USB to four ports we have firewire eSATA as well as a microphone and headphone jack we've got our power light as well as our hard drive LED so the five and a quarter inch bays are removed quite easily from this particular case you just press in the things from the side they pop out you're going to have to punch these out in order to install the drives but that's no big deal so one six five and a quarter inch bays so let me just go ahead throw that back in there there we are and then let's see if there's any trick to the front can't remember for the life of me how this works mm-hmm okay on the other side not really much of note vents here but that's about it actually I'm going to need a screwdriver to second at the back we see one of the features that's great about the half 9:32 that is the option to either install your power supply in the top or in the bottom so you can do whichever you prefer all you have to do is take out a plate here and then you have can move it down to the other spot install your power supply wherever you please we've also got a 140 millimeter / 120 millimeter fan mount so you can mount either kind of fan you desire and seven PCI expansion slots which is standard so the 1/2 X actually has more and is compatible with XL ATX motherboards whereas the 1/2 932 is intended for your standard ATX motherboards all right so why don't we start from front or rather from the side ok so the first thing we see here is a GPU duct alright that's fairly obvious it does come out if you don't want to use it so there's a couple thumb screws holding it in but it's there so I guess you might as well you might as well make use of it it looks like you can probably put a fan in there yep it's got mounting holes for a 120 millimeter fan so that's going to give you airflow directly over your graphics cards to make sure that they do not overheat in any way I mean you've also got a 230 millimeter fan here at the front of the case but what this does is it just it provides a push-pull scenario so where if you have a ton of drives here and it's a restricted space you're going to be able to force more air through the front of the case directly over the GPU by setting up both of those fans so speaking of drives we have support for five three and a half inch drives we have one SSD rail here and then supposedly support for another SSD somewhere but I'll have to figure out where that is a little bit later on in the process here because I don't see it yet interesting okay down here we've got our power supply mount we've got support for up to oh this is cool so we've got support for up to to 120 millimeter fans down here in the bottom of the case so that is if you don't put your power supply here you can have that as an intake on the case we have two lists oh yeah I should show you guys this tool is mounting for all of our for all of our drives so it doesn't look very solid but as soon as you put a drive in it it actually solids right up and holds the drive very securely it's actually one of the more one of the more impressive tool list drive holders that I have seen in my I guess I can say it years of unboxing products so there you go tool is five and a quarter inches so these are just the push button sort all right up here we've got all of those internal cables so you got your eSATA your front power your front switches your front USB audio firewire everything is all right there so here are some accessories I'm guessing we're going to find another three and a half inch to two and a half inch adapter inside here for the other SSD and we don't okay here is an 8-pin power adapter this is a very very thoughtful inclusion from Coolermaster because not all power supplies reach all the way from the bottom up to the eight pin on the top of your motherboard so they've included this just in case your power supply manufacturers made one with short cables here isn't a 5-bit of quarter inch two three and a half inch adapter so if you want to turn one of those front five and a quarter inch Bay's into a card reader or floppy drive you just still need a floppy drive then you can go ahead and do that here we have all the screws and zip ties you're going to need to build your system as well as wheels so this is a steel case it's a happy case especially once you load it up with hardwire hardware so it does come we have casters so that you don't have trouble moving it around all right other features let's see yeah we're getting pretty close so here's our other 230 millimeter fan this is not an LED one the one in the front however is we do have a CPU cutout so what that means is that you can swap your CPU cooler even without taking out the motherboard even if it uses a backplate you've got your standard spot for your IO here and you know what I'm going to do I'm actually going to take a break I'm going to find out where that other SSD mount is and I'll let you guys know found it it's in one of the five and a quarter inch bays right here so you've got one at three and a half to 2.5 inch you've got one five and a quarter inch to 2.5 inch so you can mount up to two SSDs natively in the case and then for our drives and one two three four five five five and a quarter inch devices all the same time so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the cooler master 1/2 9 3 - Black Edition don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos