Gadgetory

our trip to the show this year is powered by Squarespace remember guys head over to Squarespace comm and build your beautiful website today so we're here in the cooler master suite where they've got a couple things on display number one is a 130 dollar air cooler less the justification for that I'm glad you asked because there are a couple of things that they're pretty proud of here number one is the performance obviously they're saying that it's competitive with even pretty good all in one liquid coolers which actually makes a ton of sense to me since it wouldn't be the only high-end air cooler that is competitive with high-end a i/os what's also interesting about it is they've actually redesigned the bottom plate to instead of just have a vapor chamber with some heat pipes kind of duct tape to it now it's actually got four heat pipes directly integrated into the vapor chamber something that they're calling a 3d vapor chamber now there's more though and it's that maker word that cooler master has been on a boat and on a boat over the last I don't know I guess ever since they launched the master case and that is the modularity of the design so in addition to coming with two of their pressure optimized fans you've got swappable shroud so you can be like oh it comes with 140s I actually want to use 120s I want a little bit more clearance for RAM or motherboard components or whatever else it's also got a swappable top plate so you can dramatically change the look of the heatsink if you're into that sort of thing but lioness will they support it with accessories and if you'd asked me this back when they launched the mastercase 5 originally I'd have said I don't know I mean we've had a lot of case makers promised us accessories and upgrades and it's never really happened but it looks like they're actually serious about this I mean look at all this stuff behind me for the mast the original master case 5 and mastercase pro 5 as well as the new master case maker 5 that they're launching here at the show so they've got the original normal and windowed side panels but boom now we've got a noise dampening side panel and my personal favorite a tempered glass side panel with a lock on the top I am really liking that one there's also a new top panel cover so instead of being stuck with just mesh now they've got one that gives you the choice between mesh and just a straight cover with a magnetic look look at that clipping mechanism this right here is the front panel from the new master case maker five and this one has this cool little sort of magnetic system where you can pop off that front flat panel you can slide okay I want more airflow but none of this is actually what I just said was happening which was accessories for those original cases here is where you've got my attention they are actually designing things to mount to that kind of like that rail clip-on system thing that they got over on the right-hand side of the motherboard trade so this guy right here is an airflow duct that allows you to control the length of the duct so depending on the positioning of your PCI Express power cot ports or whatever else the case may be as well as the position within the case so whether you're trying to aim at one top card two cards that are kind of spread out in SLI or even at the CPU itself if you have no need for optical drives this will take care of you and this one right here I've actually been a victim of the video card saying myself and while most of the solutions that I've ever seen to address this have been extraordinarily clergy this simple wire with a couple of little you know single thumb screw you know feet here actually looks surprisingly good when installed in a case that's you know done up and cable managed as opposed to some of the stuff I've seen before that's just like yeah here's like basically like a tripod leg that you can kind of put on the bottom of your case and kind of hope that it stays in place but I still wouldn't blame you for not being that impressed at this point I mean what is this a couple of accessories for a case that's been available for how long - no this is where they are starting to get my attention and where that whole Maker spirit thing starts to really actually make some sense coolermaster is working on developing a market place where they can enable modders to create their own accessories and sell them through cooler masters ecosystem to allow people who own these cases to continue to get a lot of mileage out of them moving into the future so this guy right here is got a custom top panel a custom power supply cover a custom front panel they're also showing off some custom cables this is from primo chill this one right here all man bill Owen does such mmm PC tech for those of you who aren't familiar with his name does such amazing like aluminum fan grill so we've got this right here we've got look at this custom power supply cover so it's got a four pin molex connector in the back furless like sick lighting effect and there's all kinds of amazing stuff that I would expect to be available through this store that would allow you to really get more out of this case if they can pull it off then you would be able to if there wasn't a manufacturer enabling this kind of a market if you just have to go through the forums and kind of hope for the best you'll have to find ways to manage the quality and the accountability of the whole process but if they can then they might have actually finally found the thing that makes the master case more than just another case so don't miss any of our CES 2016 coverage by the way by being subscribed to Linus tech tips and make sure that you check out our sponsor here at the show Squarespace if you want to build a website or even if you don't want to build a website but you really have to then head over to Squarespace comm slash Linus and start building your beautiful website from one of their awesome templates today