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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the silverstone Tenjin series TJ 10 the perfect combination of legendary styling and advanced chassis engineering now this isn't the newest case in the world but I needed this for a particular build that I wanted to do and it is still one of my favorite cases ever although it's not quite my favorite case the silverstone TJ o7 holds that crown and I guess I'm starting to sound like a bit of a Silverstone fanboy over here but I do like metal aluminum cases I do like large cases and Silverstone does make those things so let's go ahead and is over oh man it's I mean okay it's light compared to a steel chassis but it's heavy compared to some of the more recent silver stone creations we've checked out like the FTO three mini so let's go ahead and have a look at what Silverstone has to say for itself premium all aluminum chassis for extended ATX ATX and SSI motherboards 120 millimeters only so that was back 120 millimeter fans were a big deal unprecedented air duct dedicated that'll show you advanced structural engineering okay you know what let's just put this down and have a look I just hit the mic okay let me fix that okay so let's go ahead and open up the case so the first thing we find is closed cell foam love to see that a good two inches of closed cell foam around the sides of the case and then about an inch and a half on either end and then up at the top you can see Silverstone custom builds their foam so yeah your case will not get damaged even if it has a fully fledged liquid cooling system inside it love to see that attention to detail because there are system builders that do integrate in these things so they will ship it in the original shipping box alright next up we've got all the little accessories and whatnots that you may or may not need to put your system together and we've got a destroyed box trying to get it open there we go so working out pretty well for me so in here we find a piece that it never used to come with before that looks like I have no idea okay figure that out later and then we've got all the mounting hardware we need for drives and motherboard tray and all that good stuff and finally a manual that probably says something about that other thing but I don't know I've built in the TJ ten a number of times but not not for a while so I like I said I don't recognize that part and I've actually built in its predecessor the TJ O nine a number of times as well the only real difference between the TJ o 9 and the TJ 10 is this front door that's here on the TJ 10 and is not here on the TJ o nine so just a beautiful beautiful case and I will be back with white gloves because I don't want to mess it up so I'm back with white gloves so we can thoroughly investigate there's a beauty of a chassis so the front has a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish that I would not recommend touching with your bare hands because the oils from your hands could H of thumbprint or fingerprint into it and it just looks so good we've got a reset switch and power switch in their sort of customary stylized metal finish we've got an indicator LED for the hard drives as well as a power led silverstone logo up here at the top on the front very very classy looking sort of a black background with a shiny silver front although you can pop that out and put something else in there should you so desire the front door opens up to this side although i believe it can actually be reversed yes it can so you can take out this mechanism and you can have it open the other way if you want that reveals four or five and a quarter inch base and one three and a half inch bay these covers even are fully aluminum so you don't have to worry about any ugly plastic being anywhere on your build oh I should show you guys this because this is just awesome check out the great of the aluminum being used here ok so you hopefully you can see that but look how thick that is it is extremely solid extremely ruggedly built and you don't get some of that flimsiness that you get on cheaper aluminum chassis so up at the top here you can see the front bezel overlaps a little bit and then the rest of the top is taken up by the i/o which is hidden away in a little there we go compartment there two USB 2.0 ports firewire front microphone in front headphones there's a USB 3 version coming but I specifically said I didn't really care about that so this is the older USB 2 version of the case also on the top two 120 millimeter fan mounts that are tooless fan mounts you just go ahead and pop the fans in there most people use them for exhaust however there's a radiator adapter that I've also gotten my hands on that you can use to mount a dual 120 rad there this is the VGA venting that was talked about on the front of the case so it actually pulls air through the hard drive cages and then so that's with a separate fan in here so there's a fan in there that can pull air through this mesh here and then this right here is its own mesh that actually has a fan on the other side that I can show you if I actually just take off the side panel the other side panel that that pulls air directly from the outside and then vincit over top of the graphics cards now there's only a couple graphics cards that this cooling setup wouldn't be ideal for things like a GTX 590 where it needs to exhaust air out the back of the card in order to keep that second GPU sufficiently cool but most video cards will definitely then the benefit from this kind of an intake so you can actually see the construction here again all aluminum mesh gorgeous the panels are a little bit are a little bit wobbly but it doesn't really affect it much once they're installed on the case so here now you can actually see it a little bit better there's that vent right there it's probably the one piece of plastic on the case these two thumb screws right here hold that 120 millimeter fan all 120 millimeter fans on in this case that cools the drives you can put up to three hard drives three two and a half inch drives per cage in this bottom cage here and the top cage up here and I'm trying to get this screw out so I can show you guys this once I get around to the other side cable management is pretty rudimentary in this case though so you can see here that the motherboard tray has an enormous cutout so even if you have a dual socket setup and I found out that this is for Zeon's so that's that's just a backplate but even if you have a dual socket setup you're going to be able to access both of the CPUs and install aftermarket coolers or whatever you want but there's not much room down the back for routing something like a 24-pin ATX cable so you are gonna be a little bit limited that way on the rest of the back of the case we don't find a whole lot so we're gonna go ahead and turn this back around again those just the construction of it these solid pieces of aluminum that hold it together this is the kind of thing I appreciate I mean have a lot of people ask me Linus why didn't you just use a switch 810 for your personal build to which I replied well because it's made of plastic that's why love metal construction so on this side we find that same vent that we had on the other side right here and then we've also got a nice big side panel window which was one of the requirements for the build that I have upcoming because I wanted to do an ice-water cool build that you can see all the gorgeous components inside for so we're gonna go ahead and remove the other side of the plastic cover here so you guys can see more clearly what will be visible inside so the entire motherboard tray area is pretty much visible in a TJ 10 build and I'm trying to figure out how to get yeah that's right that's how it goes in there you go so the entire motherboard will be visible power supply two radiators so 120ml on the back dual 120ml on the top and then maybe another 120 mil on the front here if I can remember how to mount one there there is a way though alright let's go ahead and pull this off okay and that leaves us with hard drive cages so again a couple more pieces of plastic here but sort of an on a non-factor there's anti vibration mounting here here and here for the three drives that you can pop into this cage and put that in the wrong way and it yelled at me there you have it okay this fan can be replaced in here so it's a 120 millimeter fan but it is a bit of a chore it has a nice big guard on it that will actually prevent any sort of that lined up with it no I don't think so it has a nice big guard on it so that'll prevent any problems from getting into the fan blades and then there's the fan connector itself this is one of the reasons why I would want to replace the fan in there because it does not use sleeved cables we'll be back in a moment all right we're almost done here guys but I wanted to show you the rad support bracket so it's part number rad support oh nine very creatively because it was originally brought out for the TJ oh nine so basically it just takes this top fan mounting mechanism here which is meant to be toolless so you just actually clip the fans in and you replace the whole thing with two metal brackets that are designed to hold a radiator because unlike its earlier generation cousin the TJ oh seven the TJ oh nine has a ton of room in the top above the motherboard which will be here to put a dual 120 mil rad and some fans although I don't know if you'd get away with push-pull I guess we'll find out once we get it opened up the feet on the bottom are in Silverstone tradition very very nice so there you go there's a look at that and I think we've pretty much wrapped up what there is to say about this case sitting does include Silverstone's arrow slots so those are eventually added PCI covers and that's pretty much it I mean yeah it's an older chassis but especially for an air-cooled build or for I mean even for our water-cooled build it's held up against the test of time extremely well thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Silverstone TJ 10 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos I forgot the most important feature of this case which happens to be the removable motherboard tray so I'm going to go ahead and remove these thumb screws and show you guys just how a removable motherboard tray might make your life significantly easier now you can see here in the bottom of the case where the power supply is actually securely anchored to the chassis itself so when you do your cable management and you route everything and you tie it all down what's going to be really easy to do is to pull the motherboard itself out and have all those cables be still attached to it so that's going to be a big problem for you if you do any sort of cable management whatsoever so the removable motherboard tray goes a little something like that but I would definitely recommend using it if 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