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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2016 is brought to you by Squarespace build it beautiful so we're here in the ibuypower suite and for the second time in only three years they are launching something truly revolting here at the show so if you're not familiar with them I buy power is a boutique system builder they make all kinds of custom rigs and this is the revolt - I didn't actually mean it was disgusting I meant it we had revolt in the name what did you think I was talking about three years ago they launched the revolt it had that you know riser card and it was super tiny it had the GPU shown on the it's through the window in the case there this is that this is a totally different thing so they've changed pretty much everything about it except for that concept of it being a very compact machine and one that puts the GPU at the forefront of the industrial design so the first thing you notice looking at it is that GPU it's illuminated by RGB lighting so you can go I want solid colors I want breathing colors I want a freakin rainbow over my graphics card and regardless of whether you want to go all the way up to something like a gtx 980ti or a tight necks if you're into spending too much for no additional performance you can put it in here and they've got the thermals all figured out although we'll go over that in more detail once we actually open it up inside the other thing I wanted to show at the front is they've got two two and a half inch mounts for SSDs or even hard drives I guess if you were really into that sort of thing as well as front USB three front audio and a front power button that I'm gonna try not to accidentally press again on the side panels you won't find a whole lot of much of anything unless you're cool like me and in addition to the little ventilation holes and stuff yeah you showed up for ibuypower to reveal that they had actually done up a custom side panel for you with the Linus tech tips and when logos overlaid pretty cool stuff they've actually got a number of neat ones on display here in the suite just to kind of show off what can be done and then around the back you'll find well ventilation holes and different i/o depending on what kind of a configuration you choose because that's what I buy power is they are a custom system builder and build a system in it they did so now that we've got the side panel off we get a pretty good look at how this whole thing works inside it's funny because from the top the only thing you really see is the graphics from the side the first thing that really grabs your attention is the power supply so they've inverted the ITX standard motherboard that they're using inside this case they have done away with the PCI Express extension and they are plugging the graphics card directly into the motherboard what that means is that pretty much the only place to put the power supply is actually smack in the middle of the chassis overtop of the CPU area where the fan should actually help draw a heated air away from the vrm on the CPU because the CPU itself is a non concern in this case because they've made enough room down in the bottom of the chassis for up to a dual 120 millimeter radiator or even a single 120 with a single 140 if you're going to having both your cpu and your GPU connected to an a i/o cooling loop now it looks really cramped for this power supply and you might think oh well what if I want to expand in the future personally I don't think it's a concern they've got a thousand watt power supply in here and realistically for a single graphics card system you are unlikely to ever need more than that but of course those are always famous last words on today I really don't think it is in this case in the front we find a single three-and-a-half inch hard drive cage if you want something to go along with those sexy SSDs and quite frankly I don't think there's a whole lot left to say about it that can't be said without completely disassembling it and having a look at how they're handling cable management say for example but the good news is that you may actually have an opportunity to see me do that because I by power will be working with us on something we've never done before an actual a deconstruction video rather than like like a build guide it's gonna be like a disassembly guide anyway leave a comment letting me know what you want to see me do when I put the revolt 2 through the paces a little while from now so thanks for checking out our coverage of the iBUYPOWER suite here at CES 2016 don't miss any of our coverage by getting subscribed and a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show remember guys if you're building a website whether you want it to look good or look really good or look even better than that you can head over to squarespace.com slash Linus use one of their awesome templates to get started today and if you use offer code Linus you can save 10% on your website for first-time use