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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is Linksys three cases that are actually designed around the same chassis in spite of the fact that they look completely different from each other in pretty much every possible way so the concept with this chassis design was to take a proven design that that we've seen from Silverstone's 90-degree rotated motherboard concept where they have the where they actually have all the isle coming out the top and take that performance that cooling performance and put it in an upright design so in this case we have an inverted motherboard so the i/o is down at the bottom and the expansion slots are up here at the top with the power supply at the top back you are expected to have your power supply fan facing the top of the case there's a filtered intake right here at the back it's got room for six three and a half inch drives it's so you know your standard ATX eight slots so ok ok ok so you don't see the work that went into it yet but here at the front so this is the rvo 4 we've got this is the plastic design case guys these are prototypes so don't mind the manufacturing sort of anomalies here so you've got a plastic front with an open side so this is what makes the air flow so strong in this case completely open here it's not as good for noise cancellation as what you're about to see with the FTO 4 but it does give you the airflow you need so here they've also redesigned the grilles and I hope I can figure out how to get it out there we go I'm going to pretend that's the right way to take it off so they've redesigned the grilles the older ones allowed 60% airflow transmission these newer ones are 90% so that again is how they are able to achieve that they've used AP 181 m so these are high pressure fans and able to create that positive airflow or positive pressure inside the case and as well as moving air through a restrictive grill although in this case the grill really isn't that restrictive now we're going to move over to this guy right here the FTO for takes everything that's good about the RV o4 and steps it up a huge notch in terms of the quality so it's using Illuma unibody aluminum here on the top and here in the front check this out from the side this is a single piece of aluminum that's actually been like I don't even know how they did this with the folds see this shape here this is a single piece this is not a manufacturing trick and it is not made of plastic we've also added noise dampening to the FTO for on all the panels so front top and side panels and they're using a higher quality AP 181 fan so instead of the raven case series cases switches here where it's got a high in a low speed setting this one has a dial so you can take it all the way from 500 RPM to 2,000 RPM to fine tune the case for how much noise you want to hear versus how much cooling performance you want to have the way that they achieve the airflow that they need in this one is to have these vents here don't worry I'll reposition the case to have these vents at the back so these point to the back this is also part of what makes this case more silent because instead of directing air towards the user sitting in front of the case rather air rat noise towards the user it directs the noise out the back of the case so there's noise dampening noise dampening noise redirection but still plenty of airflow because this is quite open and free-flowing which leads us to the internal nickname is apparently the mammoth this is the MMO one so they took this case and they went okay we got these high pressure optimized fans we got this great cooling performance this is all really cool and sweet but not everyone needs that much cooling performance so why don't we take this optimized design and turn it into a total beast that is dust free so yes this is a dust free case and I'm going to show you why in just a moment so this is obviously very early prototype this is just like basically a hunk of metal that comes down and reveals your i/o so you got your USB three your front buttons all this kind of cool stuff so I'm going to put that away this right here is if I can figure out how it comes out oh there we go check this out guys I know right basically they've decided to put a car air filter into a case now because they're using a P 182 fans which as I said before are optimized for pressure they're still going to be able to deliver enough airflow to the inside of the case to take care of a reasonably sort of mid to high-end system so no I wouldn't recommend running for GTX 680 s in here but running something like a single 680 you're going to be fine so there's those this is where you see the resemblance to the other chassis a little bit better than what you were able to see before so it's not only dust proof but they're also saying it is spill proof because of the fact that the top is one solid piece and all of the vents on the front and the back are directed downward so if you were to spill a cup of coffee on the top of this case it would all go down it would get on your carpet but at least it wouldn't wreck your computer I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to try and turn the scram okay we're going to go to the other side of it so that I can show you guys what the back looks like so the back is a very similar design and what they've done is they've put a space between the i/o and the back of the actual enclosure outside where you can run all of the cables that you need just like that last thing we're going to check out in the Silverstone suite is over here and this is very very cool and I'm not going to reposition these too much because then you'll see my entire production crew through the the mirror that's behind it actually if you guys want to move over here a little bit and you can get an angle that's more like from that direction so I'll take the mic and let's go right over here this is a dual monitor stand that is capable of 360 degree rotation it can move in pretty much any direction you could possibly want check this out it is built out of there you can hear that solid aluminum and it is extremely robust feeling so it can take that move it all the way down here move it all the way back up here there's no there's no force required to move it around just like that we can rotate it as much or as little as we want to in whatever direction we want align the monitors this one right here is a touchscreen and I am just very very impressed with this particular product I don't think I've seen anything for that allows this degree of flexibility so there's no pricing available for this one yet because I'm sure you guys were going to ask but remember I don't know I kind of geek out when I see stuff like this oh yeah I had forgotten these we're back here so there's an ITX enclosure this is the mlo five using an SFX power supply they've done away with three and a half inch drives entirely to save on space and it accepts ITX with low-profile expansion cards and you got two 80 millimeter fans over there on the right for cooling the last case over here on the right so I'm just going to sneak past you here and move this monitor out of the way ha so convenient is the mlo 4 so this is a continuation in there me low series and basically it adds a lockable front panel just gorgeous thick aluminum front panel - and otherwise sort of very very plain very elegant looking home theater case this is the kind of thing we're used to seeing from Silverstone don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage and as always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips thanks for watching Linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair Seagate Technology and Lynx's you