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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store antim glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so we're here in the silverstone suite these guys gave me a really hard time because i did not show up to their suite last year they were like linus bro you missed all the way cool stuff and you should really make sure that you come by in 2015 so i I went yeah yeah definitely definitely I will come and I was not disappointed so as you guys probably know if you watch my channel I love small form-factor machines I actually recently checked out a lien lis case that I really wanted to based on the initial picture I saw really wanted to be kind of a console killer type box and then I sort of pointed out a bunch of stuff that I really didn't like about it and so summer storms kind of like yeah just a reminder you should probably come to our suite this looks absolutely fantastic now there were some complaints about the rv0 one that it was a little bit too big but in Silverstone's defense the RV's eo1 supports a dual 120 millimeter liquid cooling radiator and you can actually do a custom loop in the thing in addition to supporting two and a half inch SSDs and three and a half inch hard drives but some people crave smaller and are willing to sacrifice that stuff and for those there's the rv0 2 so in the front you've got a slimline optical drive and really not a whole lot else you've got a couple front USB 3 as well as front panel audio beside behind a little sliding door then on both sides this is kind of wow this is the only one in the world isn't it I will try not to break it any further than I already have so then on this side you find a plexi window right here that's got ventilation holes cut into it right above the CPU the the CPU area of the motherboard as well as the SFX power supply and then on the other side well she made it this guy's this is a very early prototype so don't don't judge the the fit and finish of the case based on what I'm showing you here on the other side you've got the actually the same panel they are reversible so you can switch them around if you want and this one has the ventilation holes over the video card so we'll start by taking this one off since it happens to all ready be off because I'm a genius and we can see that this is you can actually install up to what is this like 13 inches 11.5 inches okay well I'm not I'm not real good with the Imperial system so you can put up to an eleven point five inch graphic card which it's pretty much anything you'd want as long as its dual slot and they've actually left an additional bit of space in the top just in case you have heat pipe sticking out the top of your graphics card or you've got these right-angled mounted PCI Express connectors as well it's something I might personally prefer to see reduced in height and just kind of push people towards reference cards but I understand why Silverstone did it this way because reference cards are becoming less and less common all the time also on the back here you see the CPU cut out for the motherboard so you don't have to worry about remembering to install that first and let's go ahead and have a look at what's on the inside so I'll just slide this off try not to break it any more than I already have and the internal layout here is extremely compact so you can see the slimline optical you can see there's two tooless two and a half inch drive cages up here at the top we're using a PCI Express it looks like yep so that's a PCB base so that's like a hard mounted PCI Express riser coming out of the PCIe 16x slot on the ITX motherboard that's mounted in here you can fit any standard ITX board although the zotac one they've gotten here is a little funny it's got like sodium memory and then the power supply now it takes an SFX power supply but this is a bit of a unique power supply mount in in this way now silverstone has a whole range of sfx power supplies with these little you know 80 millimeter slim fans and sometimes they can be a little bit loud especially once they start working harder but they've actually developed for this additional space above the unit here a new form factor power supply called sfx l so this is their 500 watt SX 500 LG and now we get a 120 millimeter fan and a fully modular interface on a power supply that has the same rear footprint as an SFX power supply it's just a little bit deeper so for some of their cases our v01 is another example of one that will work with it for some cases you will actually be able to install these new only sort of a standard SF XL power supplies in order to in order to get potentially quieter cooling as well as I guess that's probably just about it about the only advantage alright so now let's move on to the SG 13 in this case if there were a couple places on the RV co2 that I kind of went yeah you guys could have probably squeezed another inch here another two inches there this one that is not that is not the case at all the entire front of the case is mesh you've got 2 USB 3 ports as well as front panel audio the power switches on the top and then I can't show you guys too much from the outside but I'll go ahead and get this open in a minute on the back you can see this one supports full sized ATX power supplies you've also got the i/o cutout for the motherboard as well as up to a dual slot graphics card right here the sides are all pretty much mesh so there's your intake for your graphics card on that side there's more mesh on the top so that's going to I don't know be I guess passive exhaust would be my guess based on that the front of the case supports a 120 or 140 millimeter fan on this side you've got a little bit more ventilation near the graphics card and then let's go ahead and open this bad boy up they did not waste as far as I can tell pretty much a single millimeter on this case also a very early sample so don't judge it based on that I can't get it apart so I'm going to show you guys like exactly what's going on here so you've got two two and a half inch drive mounts on the top so you go ahead and put a screw through the top here and they sit on the underside here just above the graphics card and just to the side of the power supply you've got another three and a half inch drive mount on the bottom so this is got the holes here you go ahead and mount that on the bottom right next to the motherboard so there's it looks like there's almost no space it's almost touching the motherboard right there in the front you can see that 120 millimeter 140 millimeter mount and then you might be looking at this going one second if the power supply goes all the way down to here I'm not going to have any room for a decent CPU cooler that is exactly why they wanted the extra space for that 140 mm fan in the front you can actually put an AI o liquid cooler in here there's another little funny thing about the front as well so there you can see the dust filter here you can also see a cutout in the front to allow this case to a cept up to a ten and a half inch graphics card so you could feasibly put a gtx titan black edition into a case that has the same internal volume as the Coolermaster elite 110 a case that's limited to i think it's a seven and a half inch graphics card max not a tiny bit of wasted space and but just in case you know you need a little bit of help with cable management given that there's almost no space in it they've also updated their Strider S series so last year they made them shorter than ever in spite of the fully modular interface this year they're making them even shorter than that okay so it's not the most exciting sounding thing in the world but another centimeter here is another little bit of more cable management room you're going to have to fit your system into this case so I think that pretty much wraps it up for the highlights of the Silverstone suite here guys I do want to do a special call-out for 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