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welcome to the Corsair showcase at CES 2013 guys I have with me today the man you guys are a fan of this man whether you know it or not this is George Makris from Corsair he is the the mastermind behind the 800 D in pretty much every case that's followed it so he's the guy who's responsible for their cases basically just rocking the house and this right here is the house that every other case rocked inside George tell us about the 900 D super tower PCK welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is Linksys all right well when we launched 800 about three years ago three and a half years ago we got a lot of people really interested it was our first case we made a lot of changes that everyone kind of like so like rubber grommets and cable routing stuff things like that people really dug but then you know if you're any kind of a creative person or perfectionist at all all you see on like forums is the criticisms like the thousand guys who love it that's fine that's great but they're like two guys who are like ah it's you know it should have more radiator space or or whatever so since we launched that I've been like you can give me a mental checklist of the things that I wanted to fix based on like people that said online like oh it should have more radiator space or should be a little bit bigger or whatever and so that's what this is it's basically that's it's a hey I've listened to it I fixed it these are all the really cool things you guys wanted and then some other stuff we thought of that maybe you didn't know you wanted so first off the first complaint a lot of people said well you know until we got seven or eight slots when we put ten slots here so you can put a bigger motherboard in it fits hptx motherboards like the SRX or any dual processor board still get the standard cable routing stuff with even more space behind it it's got room for a 480 or a 420 up top and then down here if you take these cages out you can put another 480 or 420 on this side or you can put a dual power supply in here with that power supply installed you can actually put a 240 or 280 on the outside as well as the 480 or 420 over here okay so hold on a minute I'm going to stop you here for a minute because I think we need to clarify this point I can put a 480 in the top a 240 here and a 480 here and probably one back here yeah and that is all but you can do a 240 or 360 also so and that is all native that's all native you don't have to drill any holes or anything like that so it's all taken care of for you it's a little bit goofy but we kind of I don't really expect too many people to load up every spot where the radiator space someone well but we'll see yeah there's going to be someone I know who did because we did it we're doing a photo of it but there's going to be guys who wanted maybe to put a 480 but they don't necessarily want to put it up top they want to put it on the bottom or maybe two guys once you know I want to put three to four tees in one case but I want to choose where I put them so this gives them that flexibility so kind of my mindset is let's give people the flexibility to do a bunch of different different things and see how they do it and like give them that that chance and I don't like mandating how you do stuff so that's what this case is really designed to do well that's one of the things that made the 800g so special was that there was one way to do it that was really really good yeah whereas what we're doing with the 900 Deven is is taking it to the next level kind of so for example we had a hot swap a on the 800 II that was fun accessible a lot of people like that some people say they didn't care about it but a lot of people did like the idea of hot swapping drives so we still have one of these cages has hot swap connectors on the back of it so you can do three hot swap bays and they're real easy access so you can just pop this open pull this out and you take your drive out and put it back in unlike the 800 D the hot swap drive trays are tool free now so you don't have to screw the drives in like you did with 800 E so that's even better the other side is that hot swapping is relocatable so if you don't want it down here and you want to put it up here instead you can remove it and move it around and the water cooling guys will love that because now they have just a ton of options yeah exactly and then the other thing we did is on these cages you have the air flow in the front from the front three 120s that are there by default but each cage has fan mounts on the back so you can do push-pull on your hard drive cage as well so you can keep better airflow across guys so we've done that at some of our smaller cases like a/c 70 or the 400 or 500 are but this takes it kind of let's take those features that people really liked about those cases and put them up in our flagship so that was one of the things that was kind of funny as you sat down and wrote a feature list out sometimes like the 400 or 500 had better features than like the 800 e it had eight full slots which the 800 II didn't have I have seven and kind of an eighth slot that was a dongle slot but this is designed to be kind of okay let's take all that cool stuff and add it up to the next level and make it more ridiculous do you want to show us the front of the case yeah let's show over here real quick so you get the nice aluminum fashion still this is a cast aluminum surround it's a complete piece of cast aluminum it's done for structural rigidity and a little bit of weight savings over steel if we had done this had a plastic it would have been a little bit cheaper but it wouldn't been anywhere near as rigid and I think if you see a lot of cases that are plastic and steel they have a lot of flex to them because especially full towers and bigger because you really need that rigidity of heavy metal at that time so on the front you have a floating bezel that just pops right off like a speaker grille would so you have these four mounts here and then just like the the 600 to your 650d you just have the removable dust filter on the front so you can really easily access that so it's a pretty easy setup by default this case will come with three 120 s in the front and a 140 in the back for cooling and it's got really good air cooling performance as well which is the other thing people with 800 e said you know it's great for water cooling but I want to air cool my system for a while and you know if I put two or three GPUs in there it's kind of hard to get good cooling on that this probably this case doesn't have that problem now those don't appear to be standard five and a quarter inch bays up there so these are these are bigger than five and a quarter inch bays and we did it because not many people are using optical drives anymore so we figured okay look you know for the width of the case and look at case we had to get something that was able to hold those drives if you wanted them but not necessarily kind of the same thing so this pops out and you get a bezel we'll see if I can get this to work here so again like I said it's a prototype so so this pops out and it gives you we've textured this and made this look pretty nice and when you put a drive here or a drive here or drive here they look pretty good but yeah you will notice it's not the same width as the rest of the case so you know this is one of those things that I think that people immediately the modders and stuff are going to find ways to stealth this piece so they get a stealth optical drive or a stealth fan controller and like I said this is tool free but that's optional you can just put screws in it and go to town on it however you like that's just really one of those things people are going to love yeah that's that's actually that's fantastic I mean to clarify I don't think George believes that few people use optical drives but few people buying a case of this caliber need an optical drive anymore I don't haven't had an optical drive in quite a while in my case and to be honest I don't really miss it so everything I you know install a game it's off steam or whatever so I haven't I haven't actually purchased software on CD for probably two or three years so lots of front I oh yeah there's a two USB three and four USB to Zhan there we didn't want to add stuff like a lot of cases have fan controllers or like a card reader something like that that adds cost to the case and to be honest whatever we put in there wouldn't be the best in the world if you want if you're going to buy a three to fifty dollar case my guess is you probably also did a lot of research on your frame controller and care very deeply about what Fame controller you buy and whatever faint controller I put in there you guys wouldn't find is good enough and if I did put the best frame control in the world and there would cost me an extra 20 or 30 dollars to do a really nice DC fan control method thing and I don't know that you would want to pay 380 or 390 or 400 bucks for that case because it has fan control over it so my guess is I'll give you guys the freedom to put whatever card reader or fan control you guys want and keep the cost out of it so this case is only fifty dollars more than 800 es350 instead of 300 and the reason we were able to get to that so reasonably with adding all the size and other features is because we took out like fan control and some of the other stuff and the hot swap a is a lot less expensive of version so the old 800 II had a kind of a server hot swap baby just stuck in there this is a much more user friendly and actually more compatible version than you guys to see so cable management wise do you have just as much room behind the motherboard tray or is it even more than the 800 D it's a lot more than under D so this is about an inch and a quarter in depending on what area you're in so you actually have room to fit more like I mean I don't have the words I don't have the world's smallest fingers and I can get my hand back there pretty easily so let's go let's get a good let's get a good shot of that there we go very very nice so it's a it's a lot of space back there and we took the if you've ever seen the back of our c70 we have these plastic latches for cable tie down we have three of those back here too but we made them a little bit bigger a little bit more robust a little bit stronger for the more cables that the guys who have a case like this would have so almost everybody who buys through $50 case would have SLI or something like that and this we know that you're gonna have more cables and as you can see with the power supply here the cables go up underneath that motherboard tray through a cable routing cutout that's down there so you can just kind of stealth it and go up straight up so it's a pretty nice way to restrict that all right well I think that covers it pretty much as well as anyone could thank you very much George guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips so you can check out all of our CES 2013 coverage and guys leave a comment for George under the video to show your appreciation for his hard work and the way he has out knobs I'm serious man I've been reading those comments I'm like looking for you guys to say mean things about me that's always nice I love the internet like 90% you guys are totally cool and like the other 10% like you know you know click this if you liked Corsair and there's a thousand thumbs up under the in lettuce video guys and alien makes a bad comment about my hairstyle so alright guys thanks guys thanks for watching Linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair Seagate Technology and Lynx's