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so a question I find myself asking is do we really need more quiet PC case options and cooler masters answer to that it was yes we have the Silencio 652 s and we will send it to you please do a review please and all I could really say to that is okay I guess so and while I'm randomly guessing at things I guess my review the LGG watch R is going to be coming soon so stay tuned for that but first this video cooler masters case mod world series is your opportunity to show off your modding skills and win great prizes entries close February 7th 2015 click now to learn more we'll start with a look at the outside I quite like the aesthetic of this case the front door is hard to even see that it's a door it blends in with the front of the case really well and Coolermaster just overall hasn't attempted to reinvent the already fairly functional wheel of quiet cases with simple elegant looks but has managed their own unique spin that makes this more than a me-too product the front door is lined with noise dampening materials and reveals three five and a quarter inch bays underneath and a removable cover for the two included 120 millimeter Silencio Series quiet fans and some rather curious design choices first I noticed that the bay covers and fan cover have a plastic patterned layer and another plastic mesh layer that gives them a very pleasing appearance but they both lack dust filters a bit of a given on mid-range too high in cases these days next I noticed that they might not need to be filtered anyway since the front door includes no gaps to allow air to be drawn in through the front of the case which means that for any filtration scheme to work it would actually have to cover the side vents on the front bezel so the third oddity I noticed then was that these also don't include any filters so the overall impression of the front is that it looks really good but leaves the primary air intake for the case completely open to infiltration by dust a design oversight that is particularly confusing when Coolermaster went to the trouble to filter the bottom of the case where only the power supply takes in by default let's move on though io is well laid out with anything vulnerable to being stepped on by a cat-like power and reset buttons on the front and everything else that is dual USB to dual USB 3.0 headphone and microphone and this is a really nice touch an SD card reader on the top also on the top is a vent exposure mechanism that feels a lot less like a bolted on afterthought than most silent cases looking at you define our v and from everywhere but the back appears to be just a stylized top panel very nice from the back though we can see that there are two sliding pieces that lock into place well yet are easy to remove if you know what to do the first one is a solid plastic layer that leaves the top looking stylish ly well vented just like the front when you open the door and there's a second one that reveals easy mounting for top fan so that's up to to 140 millimeter fans or a dual 120 millimeter radiator with fans the side panels use standard non captive thumb screws so be careful with them when you remove them and other than that they're only interesting features are the noise dampening lining on the insides and the removable panel on the left that you'll need to remove two screws from then pop off if you want to expose the vent that sits next to your GPU area moving to the inside we find very solid construction overall but I expect this from coolermaster so they don't get massive bonus points for it or anything sucks to be good at stuff hey guys so we'll continue the inside tour at the front the five and a quarter inch cage can accept a two and a half or three and a half inch drive in the bottom bay and is toolless which is good but riveted in which means no front triple rad mounting like the define our five with that said I suspect most people won't do that anyway so radiator support for the dual 120 millimeter front fans would have been enough for me and it has that but the implementation is really really bizarre kind of like they couldn't decide if and how they were going to do it so like I saw that with the front drive cages removed the red could go on the inside here with the barbed side down only by the way which means that most AIS won't reach the CPU socket or even a graphics card in the top slot at least that would've worked if coolermaster have the front fan screwed into these threaded stamped mounts that would require custom screws and very careful installation in order to do that then I noticed that it looked kind of like there'd be room to put the rat inside the front bezel only what no wait not quite enough room so at this point I finally consulted the manual and realized they expect you to buy an optional adapter to put a rat in the front not a good solution but given that the top and rear dual and single rad mounts are fine and how few people need three radiators I'd have actually given this a pass still if the air cooling fan installation method was really good and that's why water cooling was difficult but it's not these front screws are partially threaded presumably to prevent over tightening of the fence but unfortunately due to tolerances and manufacturing we end up with the opposite problem where my fans actually had some wiggle in them even when they were fully screwed in a big no-no for a silent case although in practice once we fired it up it didn't end up causing a lot of vibration really any that I noticed moving on towards the back we've got the drive base that most normal people will leave in that I was initially going to call over-engineered for no apparent reason until I figured out that they're actually surprisingly clever at the bottom there are three three and a half inch base that are screwed in and non adjustable although you can install two and a half inch drives in them if you want then the top four can actually be adjusted by relocating this piece right here which allows the plastic sleds to then also be resized these little wings to be lowered and SSDs to be screwed in from the sides in such a way that the SATA power connector doesn't experience any unnecessary strain like most other solutions very nice Coolermaster next to the drive cage there's a spot for a filtered 120 millimeter intake fan or another tune a half inch or three and a half inch drive to be screwed in from the bottom of the case then moving further toward the rear we've got anti vibration rubber feet for the power supply an extra auxiliary PCI slot to go with the standard ATX seven three water cooling grommets which I used to poke fun at but now use everyday in one of their other cases in our whole room water cooling setup and finally the third included Silencio 20 millimeter fen at the top we've got an AI o'doole 120 millimeter liquid cooler that we were able to install facing either way thanks to the mounting slot rather than holes and without losing access to any of our three five and a quarter inch bays very nice the motherboard tray features a cutout for easy CPU cooler installation yet another two and a half inch drive sliding grommet mount ample cable management loops unexceptional but functional cable management holes with equally unexceptional and actually barely good enough spacing in the back of the tray to run cables between it and the side panel if it weren't for the noise dampening material on that panel they'd have been fine but as it was I had to do the push down and slide in order to get the case closed up so its conclusion time the case accepts a ton of drives up to nine three and a half inch and a two and a half inch or ten two and a half inch or any combination thereof it looks great and is really well built but it loses some marks for its open mesh that's masquerading as a filtration system and poorly thought out front fan mounts so is that a recommendation for this case not directly but the 652 s is also not a bad choice it just could have been a little bit better one change in particular that I'd like to see on a V 2 of this would be the ability to completely remove the front door and stealth the hinge mounting points that combined with the already excellent silence to high airflow transformation that's possible on the top would turn this into possibly the best implemented versatile case on the market maybe at some point Coolermaster will start letting me look at this stuff before sending me a finished product and asking me to review it so I can send them helpful suggestions like that but for now we'll have to settle for just reviews and I hope you guys enjoyed this one thanks for watching like if you liked dislike if you disliked leave a comment if your feelings are more complicated than this as always there's a link in the video description to help us out you can send us a monthly contribution if you want us to keep making videos you can buy a t-shirt like this one if you want us to keep 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