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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so we're here in the Corsair suite with everybody's favorite Corsair PM for cases Jorge how many case PM's do you have a Corsair I'm the only one all right so you're definitely definitely our favorite but also the worst yes also best and worst at the same time so show us what travesty you've you're showing off for the show here no I'm just I'm just messing with you these look like an improvement to me what what are they exactly these are the horrors we've unleashed upon you so we released last year the spec a1 spec go to inspector 3 which are kind of gaming focused value-priced cases all oldest and they were designed basically for South America Asia some gaming focused stuff we had a lot of people to like the chassis but said can you do a like a more refined and cleaner design and so that's what this is the same exact chassis is a Spectre one we put kind of a 200-hour style front on the front and called it a 100-hour so it's a very clean minimalistic black front it's textured to look like aluminum dual USB 3 ports room for 2 140 millimeter fans in front to 120s on top and 120 and back and then you've got a seven slots power supply on bottom dust filter on the bottom the mesh is intake from the side here and then for hard drive bays inside for SSDs or regular drives cable routing holes all that stuff so for 49 bucks it comes with one 120 millimeter fan 2 USB 3 ports it's pretty pretty solid 50 bucks for $10 more for $59 you can get the 100 our silent Edition which well it is plugged in and that probably broke that's alright it's the only one we own this is 100 Islanders and same exact chassis inside but it gets rid of the window and picture the top mesh because we wanted to make it quieter and the windows and top mesh actually hurt noise level production so what we want to do is take that out put sound damping top sides in front we added a 3-speed fan control switch right there and it comes with a second one 20 millimeter fan so you can get better airflow through it when it's quieter so that is $59 so for $10 more you get the silent version so there's the 100 our and 100 our silent edition both of you available in February and here's your mic back so I mean my feedback on the spec was the spec oh one the red one that I checked out before so my feedback on that was actually surprisingly good for a $50 case there was one thing that I kind of wandered about and it was that little piece that covers the the the the access for the PCI slot covers what was the deal with that is that like a cost-saving measure or or what absolutely yeah so if you look at the back of most cases there's a second piece it's a single piece of steel it's stamped and there's a second piece that's inlaid into that and actually to get down to kind of $49 and maintaining other features like USB 3 and this is D compatibility we wanted to make that a single large piece in the back but you can't stamp that depth in easily so what you do is you stamp it all flush and then you have the the video cards pop out and then you have to have a separate card adapter on that so you see a lot of lower price and value cases will do that and sometimes even guys that are a little bit less scrupulous will use a cheaper chassis that has that feature and add a couple other things in charge 99 100 bucks for that so there's some other guys out there to do that but we use that basically on our value price case as budget price cases like this one well so basically I had to choose between sort of rolled edges in here and slicing open my fingers or having an ugly piece of metal in the back and you guys went with what will go with the ugly piece of metal in the back and the saved fingers yeah if you got to do something ugly put it in the back even that's kind of how I feel about it that's why I sit in the back of restaurants so your your a boobs guy the ugly can be in the back all right let's move on to the cooler all right we got another product from George here this is the hg 10 is that correct and so the idea behind this is you take an all-in-one cooler presumably you guys would like people to use a Corsair one but will work with other ones anything that is a stick source that I've tried it will work so some of the NZXT stuff works but of course our products are superior in all ways right okay got it and so the idea is they take a Corsair liquid cooler bolt it to their video card in a way that's a little bit more elegant than what we've seen in the past with zip ties or whatever else but what weather what are the results look like for an HD 10 versus a stock card you guys have got them running side-by-side here yeah so the important thing is is unlike just kind of having a bracket that attaches the GPU Heydrich or to a GPU this is actually heatsink to so it hooks up to the V RMS it hooks up to the memory which means that it needs to be made specifically for that card so this is the M 780 Edition and this is the one for the nvidia 777 87 80 i tighten and tighten black which i'll use the same layout for the V RMS and the memory so that's what this one's for it'll allow you to work with any of our coolers and what it really does is right now it's cooling the GPU and the memory and VRMs much better with an H 75 cooler it's kind of our mid-range cooler with some very low speed SP 120 LED fans on it and what we have right now is it's running at 58 degrees C on the GPU at full fur mark load after about half an hour from rec here and on the standard reference card on the 780 it's running at 83 so there's a 25 degree difference here importantly also the RPM of the blower fan is 2700 rpm here and we're down at 79 RPM there so it's significantly quieter as well and then that means something significantly we are actually thermally throttle so the Nvidia reference design cooler is throttling itself down to 823 megahertz ours is running at the full speed and that adds another five or six percent performance even in just fur mark so I mean and in five to six percent doesn't sound like a lot but if it's a free five to six percent then you know I'll take it but it's not free is it it's not free it costs $39 for the bracket because it's an aluminum bracket you reuse the blower from the stock card because it cools the VRMs in the memory you have to use a reference design board because these other guys are doing kind of custom boards but if you're buying a custom card that has a big custom heatsink on it you bought that specifically for that heatsink you know so this is really for guys who have a reference board and want to use a new way of cooling it so if you you know you have a seven eighty or a seven seven you want to squeeze a few extra you know drops of performance out of it this is a good way to do that you throw an old hydro cooler on it and you know you can get a lot of performance out and spend a whole bunch of money and buy a whole new card so you guys aren't really pitching this is the kind of thing that you expect someone to buy a hydro cooler by the hg 10 and and cool their card this is more like if they you have a hydro kind of sitting in a closet somewhere and you're not really using you've upgraded to something else that can work that way I mean a lot of people even though it's counterintuitive a lot of people will still kind of use the the best cooler in their case to cool a CPU even though the GPU produces much more heat so realistically you know you're at 2 300 watts of heat on some of these graphics cards and only you know 100 or 89 watts or whatever on the the CPU and people will still use a $100 CPU cooler and some generic run-of-the-mill thing that comes with a graphics card but if you want to you can go buy a new cooler for this you can use whatever you have in your closet it'll work with you know an 855 875 each 100 all that stuff we do have versions for the N 970 and an 980 coming out very soon so you'll see those in the next few months but this one's going to be hitting the market first cuz there's a ton of 700 series cards out there and there's a lot of people who would like to get a little bit extra performance out of it but they don't really want to buy a whole new 970 or 980 because the performance is only a 10 12 15 percent difference and they might as well get a bit extra for most of the cars they have fair enough all right so thank you very much for sharing with us about the sleeker edition of the speckle one a case that I actually liked uh surprisingly a lot given that it was a fifty dollar case as well as the upcoming liquid coolers guys give a shout-out to George in the comments below you guys know you love him he's the best darn case p.m. at Corsair and don't miss any of our CES coverage make sure you guys are subscribed also a huge thank you shout out to our sponsors phantom glass they 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