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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM so we're kicking things off at the Thermaltake booth with a pretty freakin cool set of case mods here so this one right here is an a 30 case but you'd hardly recognize it with the World of Tanks mod that we got going on so a rotating turret has been placed on the top of the case with a little gunner guy here and a big gun right here now the a 30 is actually an N ATX case is optimized for air flow you've got a couple of frosted windows on either side as well as ventilation for your graphics card as well as for the CPU memory area on the other side other than that it's a pretty standard layout you got a couple five and a quarter inch base on the front though you can hardly see them with all of the you know enormous you know tank extensions that we got going on on the front here USB to USB 3 s8 I still like to see eSATA it's still a faster standard now my understanding is this thing actually moves can you please take it down for the audience and and all right thank you this is going to be this is gonna be pretty cool we asked them to take them down and drive them around for us they were kind of like yeah okay so here we go guys we are gonna be we're gonna be firing firing my laser so to speak show us show us how it's done whoa oh there we go check that out so the treads actually move one of the you got a Turner turn that around so one of the other cool things about this case is it has a very modular design allowing you to take it apart completely and oh no this is what happens at trade shows should we try the other one hey there we go all right we're moving so you can take the whole case apart build your PC and then put the whole thing back together due to the modular design now it doesn't have quite the same terrain climbing ability as an actual tank but without further ado I think we'll show you some actual case designs that you can buy from thermaltake as opposed to crazy modded ones oh yeah we didn't see this before but the gun the gun kind of fires here which is pretty cool oh oh they're aiming at me they're aiming at the camera aiming at the camera okay so they're not tanks but the urban series is getting a serious overhaul so the C series is getting aluminum front panels these are all the urban cases are quiet optimized with that said you can get them with windowed side panels however if you wanted the ultimate in silence obviously you would lean towards the one with the plain side panel that has noise dampening material on it there's a full line of of different cases here so everything from larger tower cases to m8 the X tower cases as well as even over here you've got between the s1 and the sd1 2m ATX versions one of which is a tower and one of which is a more of a desktop case ER or a cube case moving around to this side we've got again more urban cases so available in multiple colors now multiple designs but again all with that quiet optimized design and of course these are brand new cases so you've got all the updated feature sets such as things like front USB 3 ports and let's move all the way over here I just want you guys to check out this is the s71 Snow Edition this is here we go lots and lots of room for all the hardware's inside this one now of course you're gonna need cooling for all that stuff whether you want silence optimized or performance optimized and this right here is their new NIC series of coolers so this is the Nick c5 inside here and what Nick stands for is network interface card however that is not what we mean in this context you can see there is some higher profile of X CRM next to this cooler and they are demoing see how the wave the shroud actually overlaps with the fan rather than just building a bulky cooler and then strapping a fan to it they're going for a slimmer profile that allows you to use high profile memory right next to your CPU cooler without running into any random interference that causes all kinds of problems even with something like an X 79 motherboard where you can have four dims on each side another side effect of this is that if you have very high memory modules such as corsair dominator Platinum's you're actually going to get some incidental cooling for them as well because that 120 millimeter fan is going to be sitting right next to it so let's go over to where the rest of the NIC series is on display over here we're gonna move as quickly as we can so there are a wide variety of these coolers some of them with high performance looking shrouds some of them that are more more basic options but of course you guys watch Linus tech tips so you know we're all about the liquid cooling the water line of products is getting an update already so water 3.0 extreme the changes here are tuning to the water block itself as well as to the design of the fans that have allowed Thermaltake to maintain that same performance that we were so impressed with with the water 2.0 extreme but with a slimmer radiator which is going to improve case compatibility so I've really looked forward to seeing if they did pull that off because that was one of the things that I really liked about the extreme 2.0 was just the fact that it did outperform other dual 120 millimeter liquid coolers and then there's of course the pro series as well as performance line so that's a slim rad single 120 millimeter and then the so that's the performer and then the pro is a thick rad 120 millimeter and they all feature two fans either in push-pull or simply in a pole or push configuration for the extreme so this has been our coverage of the thermal take booth from Computex 2013 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips so you don't miss any of our coverage of the show