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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital now my biggest criticism of Corsairs innovation in the case market has to be the fact that they still haven't come out with a four-door model they all have two doors now they moved a little bit more towards the direction of addressing the needs of people who want more doors on their cases with the 250d over there but this while it doesn't necessarily deal with that one complaint does address a complaint I didn't have and that is that cases need to be more see-through ok now I've given you a totally sarcastic intro here but honestly I love this thing George tell us about the 760 T with this full windowed side panel and you got to walk us through this a little bit here all right cool like you mentioned this is graphite series 760 T it's a full tower case it's based on the award-winning 750 one of the cool things about it like you mentioned is that full side panel window but that's just kind of the cosmetic part of it so it's hinged so you can just open it really easily and get into your parts access real easy real quick and it's hinged on a pin so you just want to pull it off it comes right off and you can take care of it and put it away so it doesn't get scratched while you're working on your system the nice thing about the inside of it so the nice thing about the inside of it is actually it maintains almost all the 750d features you have dual 140 millimeter front fans with a 280 or 240 millimeter radiator mount you have a 360 minute amount on top you have 140 in the back you can put a single 120 on the bottom those side mounted SSDs that everyone really liked on the 750 or back and then the removable and relocatable harddrive cages are there so this case has 9 expansion slots so it's a true full Tower as well it's really solid performance wise and it looks really good to that full window gives you the ability to show off your full system and we've just put some corsair league lighting stuff in there to show off the lighting capabilities now to be there's a couple things that I want to talk about that you didn't necessarily touch on and that is a I love 750d I think it's a great layout and the fact that it now has a more aggressive looking aesthetic I mean not everyone is going to like this better that's the cold hard truth but they don't have to now that there's a more aggressive looking aesthetic option for the people who don't like the clean lines as much as they like the blaze I think that's fantastic and something you guys can't see but we'll get you some b-roll footage of is the fact that there's actually an acrylic panel on the other side as well so that one's not see-through so you don't have to see all the cable management behind it but it gives it a more balanced aesthetic so how long has this one been in the pipe we've been working on this since about a year to 15 months so about a little over a little under a year and a half one of the things we thought of was we needed to come up with a new full Tower chassis so 750d was the basis for it but then we know we had to come up with a couple different variants tooling up a base chassis is very expensive so we know that not everyone likes the Obsidian style ID so we wanted to dress it up a little bit with some other designs so this is one of the other designs we've been working on is the 760 now normally I object to a very very large window but I think you guys are getting away with it here because of the excellent cable management and because of the good looks at the inside and you know what guys think about this for a moment when you see a really cool build how often is it that you know like say for example of a fractal define our for build how often is it that you see people do their finish shot with the side panel off because the cable management looks so good or whatever it is that they did well that's what this looks like all the time with the complete look at you kind of can't even tell we took the window after there's a little latch here and then because it's made of plexi it's obviously not that structurally strong compared to a piece of metal but there are magic pieces here and here also known as magnets that allow it to stay in place and still maintain that flesh that looks good I think you guys did a really great job on this one thanks very much George for walking us through it as there any other crazy stuff in here that you'd like to just kind of point out and say hey this might be cool as well just the fact that we have tons of clearance up here for taller radiators - I met that power supply power supply oh yeah by the way this is a prototype of the ax 1509 power supply the 1500 eye is kind of like the 1200 eye with a couple of big changes obviously there's more power to it but the other side of it is it's now what would be the draft of the titanium spec so the 80 plus titanium spec doesn't exist right now but there's kind of a draft of it and this meets that draft spec so kind of like you were mentioning draft end routers or you know draft a/c or whatever it was now it's it's kind of the draft spec of the Titan certified efficiency the other side of it is we went out and said we wanted power suppose to be even quieter with our M we got them down to a really low noise level by actually hand select the electric oh I get it so draft means you have air flow all the time rather than actually oh wait hold on maybe I misunderstood no exactly not that ya know basically the premise is that that there are other things inside your Paris way that cause most besides the fan and we had fanless modes and power supplies for a long time one of the things that people notice when the fan isn't spinning is you can sometimes hear an electrical buzz or coil and things like that so with our M series we actually spent a year figuring out how to hand select each little component so you wouldn't get electrical noise and that's been brought to this series as well so all new HX + ax level power supplies RM and up basically everything will have the hand-selected components to cut down on coil wah buzz whine and all that stuff like that so it's actually it's coil wine and and buzz stuff like that it's not actually usually coils sometimes it's a number of other components but it's being called coil wine by the industry because just kind of a catch-all term but we've cut it down to almost zero this system right now is running even though there's four or two ATS in it it's running only three of them in crossfire because one of them fried itself overnight so that's probably our fault but anyway it's running three systems and crossfire you just say that it's probably our fault yeah it's I think someone zapped it when they opened the side panel but uh so one of them is not actually running it's just there for cosmetic purposes like the fourth sack on the Titanic poor metaphor for immunity but anyway this is a running three to 80s and it's running a six core processor everything is running full load fur mark of prime95 is running crazy we're doing about six hundred watts of output right now so it's only about you know kind of a little between a third and a half of its max load and it's doing no fan at all right now so you're doing 600 watts completely fanless li3 to 80s and a fully pegged processor x79 sandy bridge-e fanless lee so that's kind of one of the nice features of a 1500 watt power supply is yeah it's expensive you have that Headroom for 15 watts but even if you're running what is a ridiculous system that almost nobody I know would actually build you can run that famously so pretty nice setup for the power very cool thank you very much George for taking the time as always it's an absolute pleasure and thank you very much for showing us this surprisingly interesting when it really caught my eye when I walked in the room alright guys don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage remember our trip to the show this year is powered by NCI XCOM as well as our other to show sponsors Corsair and Western Digital so huge thanks to all of those guys for allowing us to be here and see their products and talk about their products for them imagine them wanting us to be here and do that