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you don't really do case reviews anymore because well if we're being honest they have really changed much lately other than some tempered glass here and some RGB there but that's not the case with this one this is the Silverstone mammoth mm oh one a spectacularly heavy black monstrosity whose claim to fame it's been really difficult to open the box up is being bust proof and splash proof some things are about to get wet literally we're gonna spray water on a system in this case with an extreme edition processor running inside it but you know what we're not gonna spray water on Brandon because he deserves better than that even if he did bung up the audio settings the first time we shot this Corsairs obsidian 500d mid-tower gaming case features premium tempered glass and aluminum construction removable top fan trays and more check it out at the link below this thing actually launched all the way back in 2015 completely flying under my radar due to its unprecedented level of neatness so you could think of the mammoth as kind of like the off-road edition of what would normally be a computer case like designed for use in rough conditions oh you know it's actually not that crazy big but it's really heavy oh my gosh that's pretty brutal it is kind of got a plane sort of look to it there's no tempered glass that's pretty nice that's magnetic yeah the exterior is about as plain black box as you can get it sports a brushed steel finish but in the age of tempered glass windows you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a little boring but if you look a little closer the entire top of the case is completely filled right so no IO or fan holes whatsoever up here to keep water from getting in presumably and check out these so this is cool these front louvers are not an aesthetic feature instead they actually serve to prevent fluids again from getting to the internal components of the PC and flipping it around to the back you can see it has the same louvers here with a notch at the bottom check that out to allow you to get cables to the rear i/o the design of the mammoth gives it an impressive IP 43 rating meaning it's safe from not just drips like if you were to spill a cup of water onto the table next to it but even water sprays now I wouldn't recommend pressure washing your computer and gaming at the same time but if you left a window open with the sprinkler running your computer should be okay it's just the rest of the room I'd be concerned about let's crack it open yeah here we find the MMO one second party trick a full fat 20 millimeter thick HEPA filter now most fan filters are pretty good at mitigating dust buildup over the short term but a filter like this is SPECT to remove 99.97% of particles larger than 0.3 microns that's smaller than all but the smallest bacteria so I guess you won't have to worry about your PC getting the flu obviously compared to a regular filter this one's gonna be a little more restrictive right but it looks like Silverstone thought of that because they not only have to push air through one just like that but also the HEPA filter and the solution these babies to massive 180 millimeter air penetrator fans at max speed which you can control with these knobs at the front these move a whopping 340 CFM of air about the same as a typical pedestal fan at medium pretty darn impressive then to top it off there's actually space to install a rear 120 millimeter fan as well so while Jake builds up a high-end system for our tests let's get a little bit of preparation done okay it's done you want to see yeah let's have a look alright so there are a few things that stand out a lot of cases these days are basically just the standard layout with a different bezel on the front not so here so first of all the layout is inverted so the CPU is on the bottom and the GPU is on top second our power supply actually takes a page out of 2006's book and is up on the top but still with no ventilation that's because the whole top was sealed to keep water from getting in so the power supply actually has to suck air from the inside then blow it out the back fortunately these fans that we showed you guys at the front should keep it well supplied with fresh air all take a moment here to show you guys this here CPU heatsink support thing so there's actually wonderful at the graphics card and the CPU which if you think about the applications in this case on let's say something like a boat makes a ton of sense cuz if this pcs are rocking you don't want your heatsink going and knocking about on the inside because of the design of the filtering system nearly 40% of the space inside the case is taken up by the filter in the front and the buffer in the rear to prevent water from entering the system it does limit your cooling options but even with the relatively limited space the MMO one can still fit for dual slot graphics cards and easily houses up to an SSI EEE be dual socket motherboard if you're willing to limit your storage expansion to two three and a half inch drives so this is all good in theory but we want see what kind of thermals we might expect with a high-end system in this case so you want to throw the panel on there and I'll get a stress test fire it up here it's actually kind of amazing how much air these fans move through that HEPA filter yeah I mean they are a max speed rather than leave it at these settings though like this is quite loud I want to go with not minimum but quiet enough that it probably wouldn't bother anyone that seems pretty good and we're still getting like quite a bit of airflow back here let's give it some time to heat up yeah okay so these are not bad results actually GPU is tearing up to 17 80 or so at its 82 degree maximum and our CPU has only two cores about sixty degrees three not too shabby yeah I mean there's an NHD 15 in there so CPU temperatures are probably expected are you ready to run it through the gauntlet yeah let's do it all right so we're here we're gonna do the gauntlet lioness is a little busy with another video and I definitely am NOT doing this for the second time no this has never done this test before oh this looks Turner on get these fans to chin so there might be a little bit of dust in there but I kind of have an idea of how much was in there beforehand just like throw a little dust on there here nice and not nice I guess I don't know I really hope we don't have to do this again because I do not have any dust left all right so there's actually quite a bit of dust up here I'm not really sure how that got in there okay so let's let's turn it off this time and see what's going on inside I think for the most part it's gonna be pretty decent but I imagine there's going to be some leakage all right so that is a little more dust than was in there before so I don't think this system is perfect but it actually held up pretty good regular computer dust is not gonna be an issue for this thing maybe don't throw sawdust at it or use it in your woodshop okay so let's see how the filters doing oh no that's gross oh so the attacked side is pretty disgusting but when we flip it over pretty damn clean so it looks like a little bit of dust got in but I imagine it's probably just from the cracks around I don't think dust that big would get through a filter like this and then on this side pretty dirty here as well alright let's get to the water oh my god you think I should spray with a hose - I think we should spray it with those alright I should probably turn it on before we spray it with the hose is it on Oh I really hope this survives my test bench actually it would be really inconvenient if this died I'd be kind of upset to be honest there's a little water in there but for the most part it looks like it's dry Wow Wow completely dry inside sure there's a little water around the edges but inside the computer there's no moisture I think we should probably test this before I bring Linus over you know just in case it doesn't work display for this monitor even plugged in oh my gosh oh yeah it works okay let's let's get Linus and show them the carnage so to be honest I already opened it there is a little bit of dust in there no water no water I sprayed this thing down good this side is a little beat-up yeah I see that Wow but it caught it yeah so yeah there's a little bit of dust on the panel there and you can see some of the chunks did make it through but I mean compared to what you'd see in a normal case that is really impressive I think my dust abuse is a little out of the ordinary as well yeah no I mean this is obviously a torture test but you can see even where the water did manage to penetrate the design doesn't allow it to go any further than this yeah there's a little splash shield here too oh so it doesn't have the greatest cooling characteristics out of any case we've ever tried but it's utterly unique in its dust and water resistant design making it at what is it three hundred bucks 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