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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the CM storm at Scout 2 this is the second scout and it brings with it some incremental upgrades and actually looks pretty freakin cool from the outside of the box anyway but we've yet to get it open so let's start with what Coolermaster has to say for themselves first of all there is one 120 millimeter red LED fan okay seven expansion slots so you won't be putting any XL ATX motherboards in here but 99% of the board's out there are standard ATX RM ATX anyway slide-out does filter large rubber grommets for improved cable management okay seven hard drive bays one two and a half inch bracket included removable hard drive cage for Lu long graphics card installation okay top exhaust vent release heat steel reinforced carrying an old carrying handles excellent tool free optical drives USB 3 ports for fast charging and file transfer dual 120 millimeter fan support and mesh design so let's open it up and have a look so Coolermaster has a number of different series of cases better specifically optimized for cooling and gaming and all of that good stuff so the Scout is more along the film along the value lines compared to something like you know a half ax or or whatever else like that which isn't to say that the scope just because it doesn't have to have a high airflow moniker is not to say that it is not perfectly capable of keeping your system cool so we've got some okay panel installation guys don't worry too much about that and let's get the case opened up here ooh I like the handle ready so if you guys do or don't attend LAN parties honestly it doesn't really matter because either way I handle is a really handy thing to have for your case because if you're unboxing it you might find that you want to pick it up at some point the handle is extremely sturdy actually I'm really impressed by that and it has a rubberized grip on it that makes it much more comfortable to use then plastics the straight planer out plastic handle so you can see the flexibility there but also the fact that there is no give to it what's ever so there's a metalcore here with a rubber coating on the outside it's actually great you can easily carry your system around like this especially if you're stronger than me it's not quite like the like the handles on the cosmos to have those those beautiful metal bars running down both sides on the top of it but I mean this is a more value oriented case again than the cosmos - so we can't criticize it too much for that so we've got fully stealth front i/o there's your power and reset switches as well as control for the LEDs right there is where you'll find your two USB 3.0 ports two USB 2.0 ports as well as your front panel audio okay on the front of the case full mesh so three five and a quarter inch phase and then filter it's easy you can see there's a filtered there's a filtered layer here as well as a honeycomb mesh layer so what full front of it is mash and the bottom actually has a little bit of room for intake as well we're going to try popping that off see what we find here just for just for the balls right okay so here we find another couple of 120 millimeter fan mounts so that will give us lots of airflow from that front honeycomb here we've also got all the cages for reviving a quarter inch base and not a whole lot else in the front one of the things I like about this is that it doesn't have any of the front IO pieces attached to it because a lot of the time you go to pull this off the case and you end up kind of tugging on those delicate whoopsie-daisy speaking of delicate there we go back on you end up talking on those delicate wires and potentially damaging them so I do I do worry about that this side panel is pretty straight forward you can see Coolermaster has bulged out via the right side panel a little bit in order to give you extra room for cable management this is something a lot of cases have started doing I didn't really like it at first but I've kind of gotten over it so I won't complain about it too much it looks like we lost a rubber grommet and shipping but it's probably on the inside of the case not a big deal that there side panel window shows you the good parts so I'm not a big fan sort of weird shape side panel windows I've seen like l-shaped ones and sort of bizarre stuff like that I don't mind this because it cuts off things like your optical drives which you don't want to see your hard drives which you don't want to see just show you the CPU socket area your memory you can also see you know from this kind of an angle right now when we be looking at it your graphics card but instead of taking their window and like drilling holes through it like this like Antec did with the 11-hundred they've opted to give you a smaller window and then just regular metal fangirls which i think is better actually because the great thing about these grills is if you do want to see through them you don't have to put a fan on it it's fairly you know fairly transparent see what army this is awkward um where is on those plexi ones you can't see through it at all because of how thick the plexi is so when they do the laser cutting on it it just makes it so no matter almost no matter unless you're looking at it like dead-on you just can't see through it at all taking out the side panel huh look at that not much flex to that at all actually nice build quality on this that's one of the easiest ways to tell if the case has has gone sort of premium on the materials or if they you know trying to save a couple bucks on the thickness of the metal as well there's a lot of stocks even with that plexi window in there and all these holes cut out there's still not a whole lot of flex in there feels really good alright have a look at the inside of this bad boy we've got some included accessories whoopsie daisies we just grabbed that alright so cable management holes here they're using that very very very soft soft rubber here so almost no matter what you do in terms of bending it and sort of trying to ruin it it's going to pop right back into place and make it so that you won't see too much of what's on the other side remember guys there's going to be a black side panel on the other side along with all these black cables which is going to make it extremely stealthy unless you sort of like really go out of your way to wreck it like rip off one of these one of these pieces or something like that which I really can't imagine happening you've got access to all of your usual places so up here okay up here is going to be your eight and up here is going to be where I would run these down from so I wouldn't run these through here I'd run them over here and then bring them down up here we'll get you up to your optical drives here we'll get you to your video cards as well as your 24 pin and one of the things again okay this is smart so so often you see next to the power supply you see something this size and then you see like three cable management holes up to the top of the case that are also the same size which would logically be a bit of a problem because if there's enough cables to run through three of these then you probably need more space at the bottom because there's there's a lot of cables coming up so I've run into issues with builds before in the past but there's not really enough room to run all the cables I need through this bottom hole so they've gone with a much larger one compared to the ones up here now the removable cage is from here to here so that'll leave three three and a half inch bays even if you do remove it in order to install an extremely long graphics card and I can't think of any graphics card where you need anything longer than about this even something like a Radeon 6990 which was very very long the two and a half inch adapter can actually be moved around them then this is actually compatible with up to two SSDs so you came out one SSD in the top and then you can flip it over and mount another SSD on the other side using the bottom mounting holes side mounting holes bottom mounting holes actually very clever very clever little thing they did and then you're just using your standard three and a half inch drive rails pop in there and throw that back in wherever you want pull this mechanism for the five and a quarter inch base pretty bog-standard we've seen this before from Coolermaster and in terms of cooling on the top let's have a look at what they've got up here so hold on me never really we never really checked this out so it looks like there's a look oh I might need a sec to figure this out guys so I got it off just by taking out the plastic tabs and you can remove it for whatever reason that'll I can't think of any reason you'd want to so we're just going to put that back in there it looks like this case doesn't quite have the clearance that we'd need for a dual 120 millimeter radiator in the top you can see the your motherboard is going to be right about here with your vrm and all that so this is predominantly an air-cooled case and it's a very suitable for that so let's do a quick summary of where all the cooling is coming from here so we've got dual 120 s on the front with full mesh intake we've got another 120 in the bottom which should get some access to air these aren't the tallest feet I've seen in the past but we've got a nice rubberized grip most people don't use this anyway because your power supply cables are generally there you've got two 120 millimeter exhausts in the top and finally you've got a 120 millimeter exhaust fan in the rear and this one is LED lit and is wired into the casing so that you can actually turn the LED on and off right and last but not least your power supply which has that filtered intake which was mentioned on the outside of the box so you can if they remove that put it back in no issues there yeah hey check this up I got one of those auxiliary auxilary PCI bracket thing so if you have a fan controller or whatever else that hooks up to one of these you don't want to waste one of your valuable PCI brackets in the back then you don't have to do that now I wonder what happened to that doesn't that rubber grommet camera man pointing at it there it is all right so the rubber grommet was included with our case it just came out and shipping no harm no foul have a look at the accessories included and I think we're going to wrap this up more three and a half inch hard drives rails ah we've got some zip ties we've got a speaker we've got some screws and whatnots basically what you'd expect so what do you get with the Scout - you get a very capable air cooling case with a very very awesome built in steel handle making it extremely portable very comfortable to move around and you also get a pretty darn good looking case with side panel window that shows off the best parts without showing you you know hard drives and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this 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