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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 hey guys we're here at the fantex booth checking out a few cases one of which Linus should have reviewed by now but hasn't that's the enthu primo and he will be getting to that hopefully shortly after CES but for now we have the luxe and the pro and a few extra options for the Primo that should be coming soon on the front panel of the luxe we have two USB 3.0 two USB 2.0 mic and headphone in a reset button a light changing button which I'll show you in one second and a power button up on the top which is not behind the hidden door within the hidden door is that light changing button so as you can see there's LED bars around the case which are not going to shine directly in your eyes if this is almost anywhere because they shine down onto the case which is nice because we want to know you weigh too much is it the rest of the case is all black and black matches quite literally everything so as long as you go with black and then change to whatever color you want it's gonna match the rest of your belt moving to the top of the case you can fit up to 420 millimeter radiators with this nicely removable fan filter which is actually quite solid sometimes with fan filters I'm worried that they're gonna warp if I take them off too many times so this one seems quite solid moving into the case we have our reservoir and quite nicely displayed here more closer to the front of the case mounted quite nicely on that bracket but you could also put it in the back just in case you have a really long graphics card so they have a spot right here which would work very well for you just not in bolt to be able to bolt on a radiator right there moving to the back just so that we can see it easier but you can access this from the front to right in the middle of the front here they have a nice plate for some pumps so it's you can mount quite a few different pumps there and that's really easily accessible in a nice because it has rubber mounting for the pump where you're mounting the pump and it has rubber mounting on the bottom of the feet of the mount for the pump so it's a nice vibration dampening they also have a radiator here in the front which you can mount there or lay it down at the bottom and if you mount it here you can't have any harddrive cages but if you met at the bottom you could have a hard drive cage hanging from right here so you have a ton of different options just in that small little area then moving to the back of the motherboard tray you have a PWM splitter at the back which comes with it it's quite nice it supports up to 11 fans which is solid and you can get additional if I think you just have to buy them as accessories and then you could split out to different areas and have different temperature zones so say this top radiator you only want the fans going at certain speeds depending on what temperature it is you can set that area different than the radiator that you have down here what if you want to do if you get different modules for that they also have SSD mounting spots so if you do like their configuration here where you don't have the hard drive cages you can mount SSDs just right on the back of the motherboard or down here as well they also have an adapter plate to hide the power supply in the basement and their current configuration that wouldn't work because you'd hit some of the tubing and some of the fittings and stuff but if you felt like being crafty and going along with this configuration you could cut this guy a little bit and then make it fit and it works really well with the case because it looks exactly the same and there is rubber grommets built into the side which is really fancy minuses full-featured coverage of them through primo is coming so we'll just be kind of going over the newer options that they have here first of all they have a standard white one now and then for special editions they also have orange and white and red the orange and red will all of them to be completely honest have a sandblasted aluminum style not a brushed aluminum which I like quite a bit because your fingerprint burnin is not nearly as bad there's been cases in the past where I've built them wearing those like weird white gloves just because I have fingerprint burning problems like mad so I'll leave like a crime scene across the case which is terrible so this is a much better style in my opinion and finally we have the pro this is a cost of down version of the lux and it is very aggressively priced when you come to the inside it no longer has the basement it no longer has the reservoir plate on the kind of front inside area it no longer has the PDF PWM splitter on the back of the motherboard tray and it no longer has one of one of the 140 millimeter fans that come stock on the lux but like I said it is costed down and all of these things can be added later you could buy the accessory for the basement and the reservoir plate and you could buy another fan to go put in there so if if you need something that has an initial lower investment it's definitely not a bad idea on the outside in comparison to the lucky few you lose a few things as well the most notable and what you'll obviously see first is that the lighting features are not there so on the i/o plate everything is the same as well except for the lighting button and then at the top you lose that extra shroud that you had to get fit fans there and the super super easily removable fan filter but you can still remove this fan filter to clean it elsewhere thank you for watching our fan text content be sure to rag online is to get that review out faster as always thank you for watching and please subscribe to Alanis tech tips and thank you to our sponsors NCI xwd and Coursera for sending us down here to CES 2014 this year