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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cuba tech mini ice you can see that it was sent from new taipei city in taiwan okay there's some sort of yeah sort of okay box are going on here but i think where we're really going to enjoy this unboxing is once the box is actually open because this is a case that i think looks incredibly cool this is a mini ITX chassis with ok as you might imagine based on their mini ice name and the fact that the tagline for it is frozen solid with their this is a mini ITX case with fairly advanced cooling features that can also support some pretty advanced hardware so the first thing we see when we open it up is an accessory box but we'll get to that later we also see the packaging now they're using a hard foam i would prefer to see a soft foam however due to the aluminum construction of this case it really doesn't weigh a whole lot so it's a lot less likely to damage its packing materials during the shipping process and I mean it's honestly if it managed to survive an air shipment from Taiwan to here and it's not probably about as much of a of a stress test as you're going to need for it however once it's loaded up with components having a different conversation because it does support some pretty high-end internal components including a full sized ATX power supply as well as a graphics card up to 340 millimeters there's a bad boy up alright so actually give me a second to get acquainted here guys so I'm just kind of checking things out here it arrived a little bit dusty but it's nothing that doesn't come off with the old sleeve wipe so to speak so let's have a look at the outside of the case before we go too much further here so on the top you're gonna see a 140 millimeter fan that is set up as an exhaust fan so this is only compatible with 140 ml you can see the holes are hard drilled around the outside of the growth in terms of i/o we have front USB to two of those two front USB 3 as well as front headphones and microphone the overall look of the case actually reminds me a little bit of mighty jo7 in that it has this single piece aluminum thing going on on the front sorry I guess I'm trying to be really careful with them touching it too much because once you touch brushed aluminum basically the finishes ring forever so you can see it's a solid piece going all the way up the front and then it's another solid piece going all the way up the back and the meeting right here so it's 2 pieces going around the whole outside of the case which i think is really cool you've got an optional VGA cooling intake here as well as feet on the bottom of the case giving it a little bit of space to breathe on the front of the chassis let's just lift it back up we've got a five and a quarter inch optical drive bay as well as our power and IDE or Russian called IDE like so a hard drive activity indicator we've got power and reset buttons as well as a stylish cuba tech logo going on here alright let's move around to the back of the case where we find our standard ATX power supply mount so you can see that's done with just a couple thumb screws you screw your power supply into the plate and then slide the whole thing into place this is much like the pc qo7 that i have in for my media pc downstairs water cooling holes if you wanted to externally water cool it i hope you're not going to do that with a configuration like this though because you do have a fair amount of room included for an air cooler so you can see a lot of boards going to right about beyond so any air cooler that'll fit within here actually I think the dimensions hold on maximum of 90 millimeters or nine centimeters from the from the motherboard itself so we've got two expansion slots yes this is mini ITX and we also have a very unique system for attaching the side tunnels so these are little thumb screws that have Holland key spots in them so if you wanted to use an allen key to and I'm if it comes with an Allen wouldn't surprise me that much if you're gonna go ahead and you know make your case open up with an allen key and guess you'd better include one there it is haha allen key slash buzzer so it does come with a a speaker which is what I think they mean by buzzer alright there we go then we cut another one here or these how this isn't so bad I could I can dig it okay and there we go so solid aluminum haha I'm totally gonna do it the iPhone thickness comparison BAM now you know how thick the panel is it's a fairly thick actually it has a very rigid feel to it so this is in theory to reduce the overall vibration of the case so the overall noise level the case they also have anti vibration rubber dampeners here on the side panels this can be a real problem for aluminum cases if you don't have some way to to isolate the vibration because they're much lighter weight than there's steel counterparts which has the advantage of being well lightweight attractive easier to work with you can make more beautiful aluminum cases than you often can out of steel and and plastic but the drawback is that well it's not as strong so you have to use thicker material which can be marks ten and then also that it's not as notice not as heavy these side panels off here all right here you can see the other one if you want basically looks the same like the same thing and also has the rubber noise dampening solution implemented on the other side as well you can see that can also see the motherboard tray as well as the interior cables look at that all black cables very nice touch like to see that alright so inside here we got a few things we have oh this is kind of neat hold on I'm gonna have to go find a hard drive so I can install this entry basis right so here are the rubber noise isolation fasteners as well as some included hard drive screws and of course once you've installed them you have a nice little truck to play with see how the wheels realistically turn just like a real vehicle would mom for know so here's how you actually install your hard drive you go ahead and you slide this bad boy into whoops no ah first you need to take this off there we are and then this slides out of the way pretty cool I guess you don't have to take it all the way off either yeah slide those guys in there and then you slide it in the right way if you want to have an optimal user experience and then you click this over here which will prevent the wheel from moving and continue to isolate the vibration from your hard drive so that's pretty cool hey I certainly think so they also include and for a lot of companies this is sort of optional stuff but they see how this one already has the sliders installed and it has a dual two-and-a-half inch SSD mount included so you can do up to three three-and-a-half inch hard drives and two two-and-a-half inch hard drives in spite of the fact that this is an ITX enclosure check that out there's your 140 millimeter internal cooling fan with an included black three pin cable what else we got in terms of interior ah yes so let's show just what kind of space there is for installing graphics cards this is cool so I'm gonna grab the longest graphics card that I happened to have handy which also happens to be the longest graphics card that anyone happens to add handy probably this is a Radeon HD 6990 so if you wanted to build yourself an extreme little gaming box with tempest Ahsan extremely little you could throw even a Radeon 6990 in here with room to spare and you can throw a 120 millimeter fan down here which you can use either as an exhaust or as an intake depending on the configuration of your card so if you're using a blower fan like this guy right here I would probably use it as an intake so that's really cool I'm about five and a quarter inch Bay is pretty self-explanatory in fact I think the rest of this case is mostly pretty self-explanatory very cool little enclosure so for a size comparison I mean here it is next to a fairly bog standard mini tower also next to the mangos that I was eating that I'm no longer eating and will take downstairs shortly so you can see it's quite wide for an ITX enclosure and the reason for that would be so that they'll have all the space that they allocated for things like coolers as well as the full-size power supply but it is very very short compared to mid Tower so it'll look right at home on your desk without without that looking weird ah yes the internal connectors so pretty standard stuff here - so we've got our front panel connectors you know your LEDs your reset switch power switch your front HD audio as well as your front USB wah USB - and your front USB 3 so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the cuba tech Wow I just completely drew a blank what does it even call mini ice forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos