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I'll be honest in the past that wasn't exactly all that enthused by be quiet cases they were kind of boring and simplistic in my opinion I'm not saying they weren't good and if they were your thing I mean hey you do you man I'm here to review not judge and this may be the most modular case that I've ever seen like seriously everything moves but I'll get into that later I would guess judging is kind of part of the reviewing process but let's not worry about that just roll the intro Intel skull Canyon nook features a 6th generation Core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link in the video description down below ok so as with all of my case reviews let's start with the front and it's brushed aluminum door which opens by simply pressing the top left hand corner so I suggest doing that with some sort of cloth or even sticking an adhesive pad on the corner so you don't stain it with your finger oils its brushed aluminum that is a problem it is quite frustrating to deal with as with all brushed aluminum but it does look great as David has said they should almost call it be careful instead of be quiet I thought that was kind of funny but and that's why I'm wearing these gloves it makes handling the case much more easy on the reverse side of the door there is also some noise dampening materials which does kind of fit the be quiet name a little better revealed by the door and starting at the top is a fan speed controller switch and an LED switch featured only on the pro model two five and a quarter inch bays so you can stall optical drives to use as drink holders an easily removable fan filter for your front fans and a giant pull tab to remove a the fan filter for the entirety of the bottom of the case including the power supply way at the back also note that you need to remove this large fan filter in order to take off the front of the case or you'll end up in a funny situation the top features a Qi charging area on the pro model and in terms of i/o you've got two USB 2.0 two USB 3.0 ports headphone and microphone jacks a large set power button and a small reset button along with a drive activity LED the bottom is a continuation of the brushed aluminum and features some large feet to pick the case up off the ground which at first seems a little weird because there's no venting on the bottom but it is intended to get the side mounted venting up out of the carpet so that the bottom of the case can breathe that way the left side panel is the now surprisingly common one giant piece of tempered glass and is buffered from some scratches by mounting on rubber wrapped thread points the right side panel is basically one large blank surface of plastic that features some awesomely captive thumbscrews but there is a removable panel that features a fan filter and two 120 millimeter fan mounting points just in case you really love buying fans and that brings us to the inside the back of the motherboard tray features a satisfactory amount of cable management zap strap loops a single two and a half inch drive mount which is too narrow for comfort as fitting in a few different SSDs was legitimately problematic for some of them the pro version of the fan and LED controller which features for three pin fan connectors and for four pin fan connectors along with two LED strip connectors to go along with the two included rigid LED strips and then everything else moves oh my god even the previously mentioned side panels can swap which side they're on the motherboard can flip over to the other side of the case or even be raised or lowered to the hard drive cage which features up to seven drive slots each of which can hold one full-size hard drive or two SSDs if you are so inclined and yeah it can even change what side it's on to even the at first weird looking internal power supply mount makes more sense once you realize it can slide back and forth hell yeah anyways almost nothing on the inside of the case is in a permanent position this would allow you to have your computer on the other side of your desk or have the front pointed away from you but still have the internals shown in through all of their glory through that tempered glass side panel two gripes that I do have though are one due to the excessive amount of thumb screws on the back of the hard drive stack you'll have a hard time properly using a right-angle SATA cable here and due to the cable management hole positioning and standoff height for the motherboard they're not great to use there either which might cause some problems and installing the power supply is a pain four screws for the side panels four screws for the power supply itself and then an additional eight screws for the side mounts for the power supply and if you're doing a PSU swap and have a tall screwdriver potentially another two for your graphics card or even more if you have other various add-in cards this totals to 32 screw operations compared to the standard 16 seems like not a big deal but it's kind of annoying moving on once you decide where it all goes out of what I think is a total of six logical positions you can then get to cooling it it comes with three silent wings three 140 millimeter fans but you can expand on that with a up to 360 or 420 millimeter rad in the top and front of the case a 120 or 140 millimeter rad in the back and a 140 or 280 rad in the bottom and the fan mounts to boot you've got basically whatever options you may want which may be a little overkill considering modern computer components don't even really generate that much heat but you do you man a note here as well is that in order to remove the top of the case you will need to as it says on page 49 of the manual frist remove the front panel wherever they could they included more of that noise dampening foam quality construction from a German computer hardware company insanely modular computer to the enth degree ability to house pretty much whatever you want especially on the cooling side of things and speed controls and lighting features to match a bit of an advanced case that will take some time and planning and maybe a little bit of frustration but I say it's a step in the right direction although I do think a power supply basement of some sort may have won over a few more hearts as seeing all of those cables just laying there feels a little like the old days although you might have gotten some more mileage out of it with some black sleeved cables alright guys thanks for watching liked it if you liked it dislike if you disliked it and you were like whoa that was a lot of sarcasm and one don't worry about it I don't really know why that happened it just did actually it looks beautiful once you're done it is just a little bit frustrating to build in anyways if you're wondering what to do next you can go to the forum and discuss this case or various other thing with a plethora of other internet people you can check out this product or others on Amazon and you can buy t-shirt which isn't this one this one's kind of cute and stuff but we don't sell it so that's probably fine check out this video up here which is something else from be quiet which will mean that it's probably an old video hmm I'm gonna just leave now