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welcome to an unboxing that I've actually wanted to do for quite a while and I've received a number of requests to do now I know that I unboxed the FTO 3 mini a long time ago and I promised at the time of unboxing it that I would do an ITX build guide in that case and it took like months to get it done but I would like to remind you guys that I eventually did get it done so when I'm committing now to do a micro ATX build guide in the SGO 9 I don't know how soon it'll get done but it will get done at some point so there you go I am committing that to you silverstone has to be one of the most under appreciated case manufacturers in a lot of ways so number one is you guys have no idea what it costs in terms of the tooling and design costs to bring a new case to market it is a boatload of money and silverstone releases new case designs all the time trying to constantly innovate and constantly do things differently they also do a lot of stuff that only has niche appeal where they'll be like okay let's build like the craziest smallest ITX enclosure that can hold a ball and graphics card like they did with the FTO 3 mini and also cools exceptionally well like they did with the FT 300 ft or 3 mini or they'll take something to be like let's turn like the motherboard on its side 90 degrees and so they do like this crazy stuff and they take they take Gamble's because it costs them even if they never actually sell a case it still costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring that case to market which has nothing to do with even so so let's say even they sell a hundred case a hundred cases are a thousand cases like they the margin doesn't justify the development cost in a lot of cases unless it really takes off so they take Gamble's they bring things to market and I think we have to appreciate that because they do unique stuff so there's your sort of history lesson on Silverstone and what they do and this folks is the SGO nine which is intended to be a super small super awesome airflow micro ATX case so you can see airflow is the name of the game with this guy we've got huge vents on the front huge vents on the side all down the bottom here all up the top here huge vent on the top these look like very very large fan fan holes once we get it opened up we'll have a better idea what's going on and a 120 at the back so this is like an air cooling box so let's have a look at what silverstone has to say for themselves and then we'll move on to the case itself so dual speed fan switch on the rear pane 120mm fan included independent harddrive and SSD compartment behind the motherboard tray love it supports full sized CPU coolers up to 165 mils air penetrator ap 181 fan is included very nice very good fan slim optical drive bay is included right up at the top detachable front power supply fan filter so your power supply goes right in the front full-size ATX power supply is supported dedicated triple GPU fan slots with removable filter and four expansion slots accommodate top-end graphics cards up to thirteen point three inches long which is about as long as they get these days guys full graphics card ample fans love bubble you do Boo Boo's you okay yeah let's move on all right the case itself so that is the front that is your power supply intake so I have a feeling we're going to find a very very unique internal layout here when I go get my screwdriver and I can take off the thumb screws on the back so exterior first the front is plastic so that is a plastic bezel however they're using that brushed plastic that I happen to really like so it's got kind of a like a brushed feel to it the place where it's missing that finish is up here on that power supply intake as well as here where the slim slot loading optical drive goes so that's a little bit disappointing but it's not the end of the world it doesn't look too bad I'd love it if it was a metal front but this would be very expensive to do at a metal Silverstone logo here power and reset buttons on the left and the right two USB 3 front ports as well as front headphones and front microphone I already kind of showed this but it's okay so the is probably something to do with the motherboard tray back mounted SSD mounts you can see how much room there is behind the motherboard tray so I'm expecting to find pretty good cable management in there this up here looks like it has a little like handle here so you can yeah there you go you can get batt get that whoopsy daisies get that over there so it was an included 180 millimeter air penetrator if I recall correctly yeah that's a 180 millimeter air penetrator that's blowing air down onto the CPU area as well as down onto the back of the graphics card where it'll be exhausted this way so they're going for a little bit of a different air flow layout with this case go ahead and snap that back into place then on this side there's that triple fan thing that they set up so it looks like a 120 and dual 80s that's going to be dedicated to cooling the graphics card as well as more ventilation here so these were a little bit tight from the factory but loosening them with a screwdriver has got that taken care of and this is something that I haven't really seen before it looks like we can remove pretty much every panel except for a little bit down here to almost completely open up the case for for installations so you know what let's just see if there's any documentation I mean with the oh I think it was the gdo 8 as well as the fto 3 mini a couple Silverstone cases I've looked at recently they specifically said in the instructions this is a unique case don't even bother trying to assemble your system in here without some help so yeah something something carefully prepared by yet and they do such good manuals so they're like yep here here's all the different things here's a little addendum this is how you disassemble it blown-up view of it how it goes back together so eighty or ninety two mil fans on the side there reset button 180 mil sent okay I'll be back in a moment babies crying okay so I removed all the screws from the back but I realized there's actually one more that you have to remove here to get the top cover off so we were in the middle of figuring out how the whole thing comes apart so this is sort of one big u-shaped piece that all comes off and I see much like the FT o3 this case could present some challenges even for experienced builders because of the you Niq way that it all fits together so this guy is done with two separate screws so you can either take it off or not take it off it's totally up to you and by two separate screws what I meant to say was three separate screws because there's one more on the bottom here there we go so let's take those off and then so we can either remove those or not remove them and we are going to do that just for the sake of getting this going here so you can do either a 120 and you can see there's an air penetrator included a 120 and two 80s or 92 s or you can do three eighty s or three 92 s it's totally up to you I hope that I'm correct about that and I'm totally wrong so it's a 120 and and one 120 Bubba bla bla bla backwards compatible with 92 and then 280 slash not yeah it claims to be yeah okay oh there they are there they are I see the holes but it doesn't do 80s so you can do 92 92 92 or 120 92 92 120 80 80 and this case uses extremely fine fan filters so they're almost more like a nylon than an actual plastic you can see there's some act like there's some shiftiness to them here so these should be doing a really good job of us right it's just going to check the direction there these should do a really good job of filtering even very fine particles out of the air that goes into your case which is important for that concept of positive air pressure so you can see the way they've configured these fans this guy's an intake this big guy up here the big 180 millimeter is also okay baby is also an intake and then the only exhaust is this 120 at the back as well as the power supply itself so that means you're going to have overall positive air flow combined with filtered intakes you should have a very dust free internal environment very solid construction on this guy overall like you can see there's no there's no flex to the materials given that there's not a whole lot to speak of here so it's quite a thick steel all the corners are rounded like that so you're not going to risk cutting yourself or anything I remember when I used to work with cheap cases all the time I always used to have the cuts just all over my hands and you know people ask me what's going on and I'd be like no no I'm fine don't worry on the back we've got to by two so for total two and a half inch drive mounts then we have some additional optional accessories which I'm just going to have to go ahead and cheat and look at the manual and I'll be back in a minute as I said before the guide included is so detailed it goes through and gives you a mean it gives you great little tips these are the kinds of things you never find in installation guides it has a dedicated step called we recommend deciding whether or not to install the right side fan now and then there's another one that's like awesome as well because it basically just says this is this is the point where you need to start thinking about cable routing before you before you keep going make sure you're doing things tightly I don't remember where it is anyway on the back you mount two three and a half inch drives here and you can see they've given ample thought see you right there little bit of air flows coming right over the hard drives so that they're going to be positioned in such a way that they're going to get cooling and then the bottoms of the hard drives have a little bit of space down here where you can route the wires that you need around here these guys right here hold those for two and a half inch and again it doesn't really matter that much whether you have that much airflow over here so I personally wouldn't I really like this design it's great so you can put that 80 mil fan here that is not a filtered intake however it's yeah is not so it's probably one that I wouldn't really recommend using let it be like a passive exhaust or install an exhaust fan there as another option so it gives you instructions for removing the power supply cage itself so you can see the way the power supply is going to be positioned will have this plug right here which is a right angle plug plug into the back of the power supply it'll intake at the front of the case and then it will exhaust out the side of the case right there so it'll come right out the side and none of that air is ever going to affect the cooling of the internal components your slot load DVD drive goes up here and guys remember we are going to be doing a build guide in this case so don't worry if you're if you're missing any of these steps now that it's down to the bare skeleton you can see our internal connectors so we've got an internal USB 3 as well as all your usual front panel connectors including front audio we've got fan connectors for the included fans and you can also see here just how much space there is they also give you fantastic tips like a lot of people ask me this and the answer I usually give is well depends on your case they say oh I have a I have a case fan over my graphics card area should I use it as an exhaust or as an intake Silverstone gives you examples of a variety of different fan configurations that you can find on graphics cards which hopefully I will component size limitations they cover all of that as well as here we go more component size limitations types of cables that are optimal so they recommend using straight cables they show you types of CPU coolers how to recommend it there you go so they say ok this this is how you do it this kind or this kind this is how you do it and they let you sort of make your own best judgment that way they also tell you you know don't use two cards in SLI or crossfire that are sandwich too close together so the way that they recommend is say for example you go to GTX 590 which is going to exhaust some of the back and out here so you'd want to use a couple here as an intake and then this one has an exhaust and let the passive exhaust go out the back of the i/o for that side motherboard tray is fairly solid about what I'd expect from Silverstone and I think that pretty much covers it so the idea was for them to do a micro ATX case which is capable of an SLI or crossfire configuration within I think they set out a design spec for themselves of 23 litres total internal capacity remember guys this case is probably smaller internally than a bit Phoenix prodigy and actually accommodates a pretty high-end configuration now it doesn't have those same liquid cooling options available but you would still be able to get away with a thick 120 millimeter radiator here and with some more creativity you could probably do like an 80 mil rad there and who knows you could even maybe ceiling mount something if you put it sort of over here on the side and figured out a way to mount it so there's a lot of room in here for all kinds of cool stuff thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the SGO 9 from silverstone don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and I'm going to have hard time putting this back together and other computer videos I think there's one more thing I haven't showed you that I would like to show you before we do wrap things up here's at the back how do you actually connect your power supply via the outside it goes right there so that's that pastor that I showed you that connects to internal power supply which goes here and then you can see from the front so you better make sure you pick a power supply that's not you know like great and I actually did end up forgetting a couple things guys so they even include things like a little duct if you want to use a 25 millimeter thick fan on the side so yeah you can bridge the gap so that it gets a little bit closer to your GPU delivers the air right to it includes rubber feet for the bottom so those are super super grippy which is good all your included screws I can't believe I didn't cover this mine did the actual unboxing USB 3 2 USB 2 adapter if your motherboard doesn't have front USB 3 some cable ties this is cool so single molex to 3 3 pins for those 3 fans right there as well as one'd it's a bracket for converting from 180 to 140 millimeter and this is for the slim obstacle okay now don't forget to subscribe oh yeah in these these are evidently for adhesive spacers for nine and a half inch slim optical drive installation so you get four of them