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this video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner Nvidia welcome to my unboxing and first look at the blackhawk ultra from Roseville the case that is actually almost the size of a grown man at least a smallish and grown man like the one you see before you so we're going to go ahead and slice this bad boy open Roseville includes almost no information about the Blackhawk itself on the outside of the box so you can see that it's just a plain black box this is their flagship case and fits pretty much anything according to their well according to everything that I already know about this case which is some wow it's heavy okay so Roseville claims the gross weight is around eighteen point six kilograms with the net weight being sixteen point six kilograms so folks that add a conversion of about 2.2 kilograms per pound is about 35 pounds empty and you can see that I'm actually going to run into oh I almost ran into a clearance issue with the ceiling just removing the box from the case so you initially see a big box for a case and you go yeah but the case inside couldn't actually be that big for the Blackhawk ultra it it just is it just actually is they're using an extremely high quality foam which I love to see check this out more than an inch of soft durable closed cell foam around every side which is great their feet sit in little things here so they're not going anywhere this is expensive foam guys I cannot I cannot overstate that it costs Rosewell money to put foam like that around their case and protect it in the event of shipping however I understand why they're doing it because with a heavy large chassis like this especially once you start to load components inside it here's the the other one especially once you start to load components inside it the risk of something being damaged in shipping increases a lot compared two smaller cases alright so here we go the Blackhawk ultra which includes all of the cooling options so we'll start with you know what I'm going to remove all this plastic and then we'll be back in a moment okay well that actually didn't take as long as I thought it was one solid piece of plastic which as someone who opens up a lot of products I actually appreciate because it's frustrating when there's like a billion different tiny little strips of plastic that you can like peel off with your nail and you try not to actually scratch the finish on the product itself so the front of the case pretty bare I like that I like a clean look they've also gone with a mesh that has kind of a finer mesh behind it so you're not going to be too worried about a ton of dust getting pulled into the case by the front air intakes they've got four or five and a quarter inch bays one of which has a three and a half inches yep I'll be back in a moment oh there it is damn right let's take one of which has a three and a half inch adapter in it so you could put in like a card reader or something else like that so this is actually intended to be mounted from the back so we're just going to go easy on at this time so that you can get a better pressure mount anyway so that's for a three to 1/2 inch device in the front the sides of the front here are sort of a glossy plastic that I wish was matte looking at the case you know if it was for my own personal use however it's at least not a super fingerprint attracting black so you can see even though I'm touching it here many cases will it be a greasy disgusting mess immediately and especially things like routers have you ever actually like tried to wipe a fingerprint off a router you go you take your shirt you lipe it off and you're like oh now it's covered in micro scratches fantastic this doesn't do that so at least it's a good glossy plastic for what that's worth on this side we find a 120 or 140 millimeter fan note on the back of the motherboard tray this is great from other boards that do have like heat sinks and cooling components or even power phases on the back of the board itself so that's really cool to see included and on the top of the case which I have no idea how I'm going show to you guys here we go maybe we'll just later fall right ah there's our IO so while whopping 4 USB 2 2 USB 3 headphone microphone reset power this is kind of cool because so many times you see motherboards with like a ton of USB 2 headers and you're like ok that's fine what are you gonna plug those into exactly well you're going to plug them into this case so there you have it as well let's check that out that dock right there could be used for either three and a half inch or a two and a half inch drive and it's aw it's a little hot swappable dock so you just check your drive in there and you can use it for sort of mass storage without actually having a portable enclosure so it allows you to use the native SATA interface for maximum possible transfer speeds on this side you find that this case is all about the cooling so there's a 230 millimeter fan there but check this out you can put up to death that the 9 120 millimeter fans on the outside of this side panel which is sort of ridiculous wall of fans I guess you have to have somewhere to put those weird 9 by 120 millimeter rating you know I don't know if you could mount I bet you could probably get a mount it that'd be kind of cool I don't know if you'd get a fan on every slot just because of internal clearance but whatever still be cool look how big this thing is like it makes me look like a some kind of like homunculus alright power supply mount in the top water cooling grommets all over the entire back I've actually never seen one actually implement an external water cooling system though so I think these have a dubious value 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter fan in the back it comes to the 140 10 PCI Express slot so you can fit any kind of XL ATX form factor even the longest nine slot ones with a dual slot card in the bottom you've got another power supply mount this one has a foam piece right here which we'll check out once we open it up whereas the top one looks like oh yeah it does too so that will help dampen noise a little bit there on the top of the case you find more grills more - it's all about cooling up here as well so we're going to open it up and find out exactly what kinds of fans are in there but it's a more open mesh and then a much finer mesh so if you did decide to use this as an intake which isn't necessarily the way I'd recommend using them then you could you could not worry about bringing too much dust into the case that way that looks like an 80 mil fan belt bear just because on that other power supply plate but yeah let's go ahead and check out the bottom of the case oh my legs on the bottom we find ah I believe there's a fan filter on the bottom somewhere but at any rate there's more mesh and this really feels like it can be removed yeah I think it can so there's there's yeah there we go maybe you're supposed to remove it I don't even know let's remove it anyway Dooku due to voyage of discovery time it's my favorite thing about this channel voyages of discovery where we're just not really sure if we're supposed to do things what we do it anyway yeah there you go that's a filter it's probably supposed to remove I have no idea I'm going to get that back in but whatever rubber feet on the bottom keep it from going anywhere when you don't want it to mind you with how much this thing weighs I don't think it's going anywhere if you don't want it to and let's go ahead and open it up so the side panel mounts with the the classic little latches and you've got rubber grommets here that are going to prevent unnecessary vibration on the mesh side panel from the fans that are mounted here it should be noted that the side panel does have a fair bit of flex you can see that it's hard to avoid that when you have such a large mesh window so that doesn't give as much support a solid metal and when the panel is so large in general but I mean one strategy that you can use if you do have any vibration of the side panel that I've used in the past is a little bit of blue tack up here here down here down here down here and that will keep it from vibrating against the case so if you do run into trouble then you can do that I'm not I'm not saying that you will but to 140 millimeter fans here on the other side of the hard drive cages that looks like to 140 millimeter fans at the front of the hard drive cages this is a cool configuration because you see a lot of cases that have fans right at the front and at the back of the of the hard drive mounts and the reason for that is because these are extremely airflow restrictive there's actually not a lot of space I don't know if you can see that but between the heart you have to reinforce these because they're going to be full of what is one of the most heaviest component the most heaviest one of the heaviest components of your system so if you actually fill this thing up with really ten oh yeah with ten three and a half inch hard drives you would have a serious situation if this wasn't strong enough and it flexed and your hard drives all fell out so you can't leave huge gaps so what they've done is they've used a push-pull configuration to actually manage to move some air through this keeping your drives cool as well as providing more cool air to the rest of your system these are using a very thick steel construction so you can see there's almost no flex to them whatsoever and then they're using a rubber grommet it melt as well so that should reduce vibration as well as noise from your drives assuming you're using mechanical drives with SSDs and obviously not make any difference inside here things are just kind of ridiculous I love this so this is this is appropriate they include not one but two eight pin piece eight pin CPU power extensions so you could probably put them together but I think what they really intend is if you're using a super high end motherboard like something like an EVGA sr2 or SRX or something like that you can actually extend both of your eight pin connectors to make sure that they both reach so that's cool comes with wheels which is again appropriate especially with the kind of systems that some people will be putting in a case like this little locking wheels are very appropriate it'll otherwise be quite difficult to move around there are some looks like about five black cable ties in there that you can use for cable managing your system and it comes with one of the largest bags of screws I think I've ever seen any case come with ever and I think a big part of the reason is check out all these huge fan screws see that these are the biggest head screws I think I've ever seen full of it so there's 100 bajillion of those to correspond to be 100 bajillion fans that you can mount in this chassis alright more features inside so we've got a large CPU kado but honestly not that large given the size of the of this motherboard tray but think about it this way guys an ATX board is actually going to go from here down to here that's how big an actual amount you know what I'm going to go get one we'll be back in a second so here's what a normal ATX motherboard I brought an Intel board because these are going to be a sort of dinosaur soon that's what a normal ATX board is going to look like in this case so it'll support pretty much any motherboard out there look at that you can get form factors all the way over to here I believe it's sports hptx but here's what this is just for lulz this is what ITX which is the sort of the smallest mainstream board form factor will look like in here so the CPU cut out alone will actually be wider than an ITX board so that's one PCI Express expansion slot so XL ATX it usually refers to boards that are longer than normal so they'll still be about this width but can go down to about here and then EA TX will be about here and there are maybe a touch longer than that I think somewhere over here and then you can go all the way way over here if you want so cable management this is kind of neat rather than having these bang around inside the case they're secured with a little velcro strap here you've got USB three for the front USB 2 for the front more USB 2 for the front front panel audio molex to power that that SATA Bay up there as well as a SATA cable that you can plug into your motherboard and finally your front panel connectors for power reset and all of that other good stuff the case doesn't have a built-in fan controller but what it does have that I think is kind of cool are a couple of little fan hub station things so you can plug five fans into each of them and this is just a convenient power redistribution sort of method I wish I'd I wish it was a little bit I wish it was a little bit more cleverly implemented though because some kind of a speed control built into the Power Distribution hub would be great and the other thing is particularly this one looks like it's going to be an issue to plug a molex connector in here without having clearance issues with this fan so there will be a little bit of kajigger that'll go on in order to actually finish a build in this case cable management holes I wish as well we're a little bit a little bit cleverer because they've got quite a small hole here so you can take some of your cables up through here so it's going to be your 24 pin your 8 pin your a couple of 6 pins for your graphics cards and then that's pretty much going to be full by the time you also bring up you know there's your motherboard connectors and stuff like that so I wouldn't have minded seeing this whole space down here open to bring cables up because it's it's a one-to-one relationship at some point right so if you've got all of these holes that means that it all had to come out again somewhere else and there isn't really enough space for that so there's that same same thing here so if the normal bother boards going to be about this width you're going to have to run your SATA cables away from the board all the way out to here in order to hide them and bring them back around to the to the hard drive cages there's your tool free mounting mechanism for your five and a quarter inch base you don't have to use it though there's mounting holes behind it and two 230 millimeter fans adorn the top of the case neither of which are plugged into these power distribution hubs so again there's going to be a little bit of configuration that goes on before you can finish with your your system setup motherboard tray I would have liked to see it a little bit more stiff but by the time you actually load components on it I think some people make too much make too much of the strength of a motherboard tray being a huge deal because especially once you throw a board on it it actually does stiffen up a fair bit so we're going to go ahead and pull the other side panel off here all right see how much room we got for cable management because if the intention is to mount a massive system with all the fixin's then they better have enough room for massive cables with all the fixin's so you got probably about an inch of space back here it cuts off a little bit near the bottom but that's fine you shouldn't be running any cables there anyway and there should be plenty of space to run things like here here's an example SATA cable you could run like an actual bundle of SATA cables probably about four thick by the time you run out of space between this and the edge of the side panel here lots of here we go huh maybe not as many as I actually okay yeah no there's a fair number of them so lots of mounting points so these little anchors these loops right here where you can route cables more permanently there's there's enough of them I'd say to bring everything over here keep it nice and tidy bring your 24 pin up so you can see they thought of that as well as to secure your eight pin in the correct place so this will run across the back of the board here that 140 millimeter fan was going to go right on the back of the motherboard tray there and other than that the other side of the case is fairly nondescript so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Blackhawk Ultra from Roseville don't forget to subscribe for this tech tips from boxing's reviews and other computer videos and I mean here's a fun challenge for you guys how many ITX systems could you actually fit in here 1 2 3 now there's a little Ashley hold on there's one more thing there's a little note here if your power supply is equipped with the single fan you have two ways to install it oh really you mean just like every other case ok don't forget to subscribe - tech tips again subscribe twice