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Linus tech tips coverage of Pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries welcome to the Coolermaster booth here at pax 2013 they've got a ton of stuff on demo but it's all kind of one thing this is the half stacker system and this is what them I mean this is the most monstrous computer I think I've seen here at the show how do you configure one of these you don't get the whole thing in one box so you start with a half 9:35 so to be clear a half 9:35 is kind of a normal sort of half looking case so it's an ATX case it supports an ATX motherboard has got your usual sort of eight expansion slots and then it has a half 9/15 which is actually available as a standalone purchase with either a rear-mounted power supply or a front-mounted power supply so it comes with a half 9-15 stacked on top of it they've got little guide rails so you can actually stack them on top of well the 9:35 unit that comes preassembled or you can even buy multiple 915 s on your own and stack them together as many times as you wanted so you can push on there we go that one you can open up the second one and it's a standalone MITx case so you can either have the power supply mounted in the front by default or in the rear that's the R SKU and the advantage of the front mounted power supplies that it gives you more room for tall tower coolers where the ITX motherboard would be or if you don't really care about front mounted power supply rear mounted power supply or putting a motherboard in it at all you can use it as strictly a storage box so this one right here has everything pulled out of it with the stacker system they are trying to avoid using rivets pretty much entirely and focus on allowing them to screw together so you're actually able to pull out all the mounts for everything and throw nine hard drives in there hey maybe you don't want to go that route maybe you want to go completely different route use it as a rad box that's where the half nine forty five comes in so to be clear you buy a half nine thirty five which has a regular sort of normal Tower with a nine fifteen on it you can buy additional nine 15s you buy an additional fifteen for your 9:35 you have a 945 and the way this one's configured with nice tight screws so I can't open it up and show you guys if there's actually two three hundred and sixty millimeter radiators in the bottom two three hundred and sixty millimeter radiators in the top also in the bottom is a pump and fan controller and all of that is supporting one beastly water-cooled system here so there's a 4770k 16 gigs of dual channel ram from kingston full liquid cooling from coolants including two gtx 690 so those are running in Quad SLI and of course if you have all that radiator surface area for cooling you're going to be able to I'm gonna be nice and I'm not going to touch the back of their cards but I will tell you they are definitely running extremely cool so we're expecting this to be available on shelves October 15th or so because I mean you never know these aren't even finished samples right here but the last thing I wanted to point out is that the way that they are going to align is going to allow you to see that this with the tubing here or the wiring is going to give you so much flexibility you want your power supply in the bottom unit go for it you want your radiators in the bottom unit you need to pass your cables and your tubes in between them go for it one other thing I wanted to show off since we're here at the booth anyway is they're cherry MX key switch sampler so it comes with reds greens clears blues Browns and blacks it costs fifteen bucks on their store twenty-five twenty-five bucks on fifteen on the store and you get a fifteen dollar credit from the CM storm store to buy a mechanical keyboard after you buy it so effectively you get it for free if you're committed to getting a mechanical keyboard and you really want to try them out ahead of time so that pretty much wraps it up for this booth guys remember our trip to the show is powered this year by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries huge thanks to you guys for allowing us to be here