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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital hey guys we're here at Thermaltake right now and you know me so the first thing I had to do was stop by their mechanical keyboards I was introduced to something interesting they're going to be releasing their own switch in the next coming while and as you can see by the spec sheet there isn't a ton different that's because Cherry lost their patent a little while back and now other people are able to make those kind of switches but one thing you will definitely notice is that big golden badge that says five-year warranty that's quite bold and really interesting and I'm really excited to see what that's going to do to the market so what they have here which is what I was actually first introduced when I came into the suite is their blind taste test of keyboard so they've got going on is their own switch versus a cherry switch completely on March so you're unsure which one is which I find that really cool because I like blind taste test because it takes away all the other variables that could affect your results so I'm not exactly sure which one I picked but to be honest I've felt cherry switches that feel these are both blues I felt cherry switches that feel the same as both of these before due to some manufacturing tolerances that I've noticed we're different years of cherry switches might feel different so it's actually quite interesting that they're doing this test although I'm just happy that they're doing a five-year warranty and overall we'll see where that goes from there on the other side of the room we have their urban t81 and while this case was described as a hybrid air-water case my favorite way of seeing this is just a crazy water build one see one thing I see a lot with case guys that want water cooling systems or they want to be able to strip it down really easily I've seen a ton of mods where people are drilling out rivets to replace those screws so they can tear stuff down so they can put in more radiators and in this system I find it just really really easy and simple to strip everything out that you don't need and don't want and fit in a ton of radiators up in the top here they've got a really easily removable fan filter which is great because that's really easy to take out like I just said and also clean because that's actually quite important when you're pulling a crazy amount of air in through there and then the top comes off completely you're probably going to be mounting your radiator under in the bottom but you can fit huge massive fans up here in the top which is great because it's really easy to set up a push-pull configuration in this case other than that aesthetically it looks great with their brushed look all across it and it has a or in the front here which I can't really show too much because of the pool table but all their i/o and buttons and stuff are at the top and then the door hides euro DD slots and all that kind of stuff because not that many people are using drive bays like that anymore so it's actually kind of cool because you can still access all your buttons without having the door permanently open which is great on the other side of the table we have the core v71 and internally these two cases are actually quite similar but this one has some pretty cool drive mounting options so you can take one of the three and a half inch drive bay slots and mount it on the back very quickly and very easily and it's it's actually kind of sleek because I like mounting drives on the back of motherboard trays to get them out of the front of the case and open up compatibility with different radiators and stuff and that's great but a lot of times you've only fit SSDs back there so it's quite nice to see a three and a half inch drive be able to be mounted back there and two and a half inch drives thanks to our sponsors NCIX WD and Corsair for bringing us to CES 2014 this year and as always if you want to see all of our CES content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips