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coverage at Computex last year and at CES at the beginning of this year and some people have asked hey when's it's actually gonna launch because it's a pretty unique design getting it out of the box it's actually it's still pretty large because it's got a pretty wide stance but it's not quite as huge as I feel like I felt like it was that probably doesn't make that much sense but basically you have metal frames that actually go around these are aluminum around each of the four quadrants and then you have tempered glass pieces that are affixed to each of those these don't remove they're actually fixed in place but I do want to point out that there is a small gap in between those so it is slightly open air and I'm losing focus here because I'm trying to use out of focus but just just something I I noticed that I don't think I had noticed when I first looked at this at the show so these are all not how they should look these are actually all covered with some plastic key bits and I can peel off slowly for you guys but the four chambers allow you to support the motherboard which just fits an angle kind of down here it also the power supply chamber in the lower left up here in the top right quadrant is where your graphics cards will go and it comes with some ribbon cables to connect those up to the motherboard and then this chamber and the top left is all for storage and this will make a lot more sense once I actually start to open up the different pieces leaving off more plastic so much fun this one here 201 felt different than the others weird as for packaging on the tempered glass they're basically held in with some tape it seems so I've put some actual pieces of foam under here too which probably it's just helping keeping those rattle around during shipping well that piece is really kind of stuck in Harry okay let's just pull the plastic off of these top tempered glass pieces and give me a sec to get all these off I can actually show you what the case looks like that packaging he's really her wedged in there okay I've removed most of the plastic and everything except there's plastic on the inside of these lower tempered glass pieces as well so I'm gonna need to get that in a second but now you can at least see how reflective this case is because you have reflective pieces on the front these are plastic pieces up here and then of course the tempered glass on the top and the sides as well while I'm up here you can point out the actual front panel I oh you got a couple USB 3.0 ports those little mic and a headphone jack as I've been stating since the end of 2017 we're really looking for USB C ports on these cases especially the high-end ones so that would have been nice to see here but you at least get the basics taken care of right there okay if I'm remembering correctly this is actually the power button right here as well although we'll need to test that once we actually get everything set up I believe there's a manual inside there too but we'll get these pieces these panels off in just a second real quick though just to show you guys another look directly from the back and here's where you can see where the motherboard sits sort of at a 45 degree angle right there with the i/o shield would be here the expansion slots would be here then you can also see how some of the cooling works on this since most of these individual chambers can be cooled by 120 millimeter intake and exhaust fans so that's pretty nice as well and then here you can also get a better look at where your graphics cards go ayuh would be right up there and then again over here would be storage and in the bottom right is where your power supply goes located the product manual never seen a product manual delivered in this format aha glorious okay as I managed to remove all of the aluminum panels on the four quadrants of the quad stellar and was also able to remove the manual scroll which is tucked in there and held with a few velcro straps and everything so this gives us a better idea of being able to look inside and see what the heck's going on in there as well as where everything's supposed to go as well as my a bit of confusion as to whether or not not there's actually a mechanical element to these pieces up front these little flaps up front are supposed to be able to open up a little bit and as messing with this one and I I loosened it I think we need to actually get the power connected up there so that we can actually mess with a little bit more so I'll come back to that in just a second here's a look at the lower chamber though where your power supply would go right there and as you can tell basically any like power supply will fit in there it also gives us a look at the back of the motherboard tray down here so first off you'll probably notice there's tons and tons of tie-down points all along here there's also this contraption which is a central control board unit which controls a bunch of the fans it can all be connected up through there there's also a digital LED input that you can do there to control the digital RGB LEDs aren't that around the case you also have PWM fan functions so they've also conveniently included a little chart here so you can point out which of those connectors are at which the case actually comes with five hundred and twenty millimeter fans that are pre-installed so for those fans are on the four of the intakes where the little flaps and the front go and then the only chamber that has an exhaust fan here is the storage chamber right here so your hard drives can stay nice and cool and that's definitely probably going to be a feature that people use for this case because given the size I imagine practically speaking you're probably going to want a system that you put a lot of hardware into including lots of drives over on this side we can see the other side of the motherboard tray and they have you know high-end features you would assume would come with a case that's a little bit more on the expensive side such as some rubber pass through for your grommets you can see like your just be three extension and that kind of thing or they're all black a little bit of color on the HD audio cable there but not a huge deal and you do have the option to either use this ribbon cable here to take your graphics card and put it up in the top section they've included one ribbon extension cable here so if you're gonna go for SLI you would need to get a second one of those but you can do two graphics cards an SLI or crossfire up there and then you just have this whole wide-open chamber here so if you're gonna do water cooling probably some decent amount of space right there since you will be able to get a view of this from in the top through the tempered glass panel and then of course you got that dedicated fan cooling this entire chamber so especially if you're just putting a single graphics card in there you should have plenty of airflow another thing I've noticed about this case as I'm looking it over and also as indicated in the manual is the entire thing can pretty much be broken down into its constituent pieces everything is held on by Phillips head screws like you can see up here for these top cross beams that just help from support the case you could take the entire thing apart I haven't found any rivets on the entire system and that is definitely a good thing looking over at the storage area here's a single spot for you 2.5 inch hard drive so if you have a nice SSD that would be visible through the top glass panel and then of course you've got these removable trays here support 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives and that will give you lots and lots of storage another thing about the storage tray is you have four Phillips head screws one two three and four right here and then there's a few thumb screws that hold it on down at the bottom so plenty of support but you can remove that and pull this entire tray out so you can set up all your drives in it how you want to get things wired up especially if you're doing a nine drive configuration that's a very convenient feature to have and speaking of removing everything again all these little brackets that hold everything together can be removed with Phillips head screws down at the end each little tray can be removed and that means that yes even the motherboard tray there if you completely descent disassemble the whole thing the motherboard tray is free-floating kind of itself so you could pull that out to get your stuff installed on it if you want to I guess I'm getting my hard work together but I've realized there's a couple more things I wanted to point out about this case really quickly one is continuing along the water cooling support theme which is where do you install radiators in this thing the most practical place to install like a CPU radiator and CPU would be right in this area there's gonna be along these two brackets right here this will support a 240 millimeter read install in it it is a little bit longer actually and the same brackets exist right up here so I wouldn't be surprised if some modders maybe are able to wedge something lengthier than 240 but basically you have support for a 240 here a 240 here up on this bracket and then you could also do another radiator down here in the power supply area if you were so inclined again that's probably moving more towards custom water cooling configurations but good to know you got plenty of support for your rads and the fans wherever you might put them I also wanted to real quickly show you guys the accessories that come in the box other than the screws I've been removing I do want to point out they're not all captive thumb screws the ones in the back do pop up but some of the internal ones are a captive some some screws so I don't think that was neglectful it's just something they decided not to do for the main chambers anyway I've got a couple extensions here for your pwm fans so depending on where in the case you want to route those we've got those available so you can connect those up to that included smart hub and then you've got this baggie with a bunch of extra stuff here including some zip ties and then individually labeled fan screws hard drive screws fan extender screws for going to radiators or going through fans into radiators power supply screws all the accessories that units as well as a couple velcro straps there as well ok let's move on to the build I'm about to put together this was kind of hastily chosen from the parts that I have lying around here in the garage for storage is gonna throw in a single SSD so we're doing kind of the bare minimum of hardware in here but this is the Samsung 850 pro 512 gig over here we've got our power supply slightly used EVGA 750 watt g3 with the sleeved extension kit from EVGA we've got a 16 I'm sorry 32 gig kits of Trident z memory for our quad channel memory can figuration for our processor the asus strix Radeon Vegas 64 just very nice card that's too bad they're all overpriced everywhere but what can you do right now then finally for some cooling for the CP you've got the NZXT Krakens ex 62 I think all that's gonna make a damn fine build so why don't I go ahead and put it all together well guys I've decided I need to pull an audible here and change up some of the hardware that I have chosen for this build main reason is due to compatibility with a cooling solution here now of course I originally chose to do a thread repair build with the 1950 X right here an ace you seen it's extreme which I thought was a good option because it's a higher-end configuration this is a higher-end case costing about $400 399 MSRP and it's e-atx which means it's gonna you know this is a case that supports bigger motherboards so that was a good solution now what I realized is the 1950 X doesn't ship with a cooler it ships with this little bracket that you can use with an ace tech based cooler so you can get an a liquid cooler on there now unfortunately the NZXT kraken X 62 that I was originally going to use actually has a two hundred and eighty millimeter radiator two hundred and forty millimeter fans in this case actually only supports hundred and twenty millimeter fans everywhere the intakes the brackets for radiators that are in positioned in different areas so that meant I needed a all-in-one liquid cooler that had a turn in 40 millimeter radiator that was compatible with this ace tech mount and I basically don't have that anywhere here so what I've done is rather than changing up my liquid cooling solution well I am doing that too but I needed to change up the liquid cooling solution to be compatible with these brackets and I'm also changing up the actual foundation of the entire build by switching over to the rampage six extreme going with an Intel build X to 99 chipset and I have swapped in the 79 80 X key the extreme edition 18 core Intel processor in there so it's still gonna be a ridiculous high-end build super fancy high in a CA TX motherboard and everything it's still gonna use quad channel memory I guess that's what the swap these dims over but difference is the socket here the actual mounting solution for my cooler which I'm not going to be using a deep cool cooler as well since I've switched over the captain's here for TX which does have support for LG LGA 2011 socket so let's finish I'm ready to have this thing put together okay guys I'm about ready to put the external shroud the cast aluminum pieces back over the four quadrants here but I wanted to show you guys at least a quick look internally at how I've got everything set up before we move on there I want to point out at least for this main chamber down here where the motherboard tray goes and everything there is both the 240 Mountain down here for a couple 120 millimeter fans or a 240 millimeter radiator you can also do a 360 at an angle going up that way so 3 by 120 it's again narrower so lonely if it's hundred 20 millimeter fans but if you've got a bigger radiator or if you're going for more expansive water cooling project or just to know what's it's capable of supporting 360 rad Mountain goes right up there as well and that bracket that holds it can actually be removed along with pretty much all the panels in this case all these supporting beams and everything or I'll hold on by phillips-head screws so you can really disassemble this entire thing if you wanted to for example get at the motherboard tray individually or any of the brackets for mounting the radiators and that kind of thing I for example mounted this radiator with the bracket still on there but you could remove these pieces not the radiator to it and then screw it back in over here if you wanted to as well just your option for however you want to put the system together I've got the deep cool captain 240 X down here at the bottom it's the white version which doesn't blend in quite as well but that's how its installed and that's how I've got it configured I do want to point out that there's a little bit of a lack of space here I mean it's just pretty tight in there I've got a single just a push configuration going on with this radiator so if you want to push a pole you probably wouldn't be able to fit it there you'd conflict with the motherboard up here but that's not too much of a critique just sort of a planning thing to keep in mind because obviously there's a lot more places in the case where you could fit radiators but if you all in one you're pretty much probably gonna be only gonna be able to fit here or in the front space right over there beyond that though our Vegas 64 Strix Edition is installed up here in the upper chamber and I've got everything wired for power as far as LEDs I've pretty much gone with the default configuration for this case this case doesn't ship with a separate LED strip but I did at least wire up the RGB LEDs to connect to the motherboard on the deep cool captain and then I'll see if I can connect the controller board up to that - here's a look at the cable management area and it's pretty simple to cable manage just because there's lots of space down here and they have included tons and tons of tie-down points which I definitely appreciates and here's the controller board as well all of the pre-installed 520 millimeter fans are all pre wired up to this board - so that's nice and you can connect to this board and control it with an app so I'm gonna get that app installed and also give you guys some footage with this completed build and while I'm getting ready to put these side panels back on there is protective plastic on the inside several the tempered glass pieces as well alright here goes oh my god alive well guys at this point it is time for me to wrap up this video because honestly I've spent way way more time on this case and this build than I originally intended to and all that said I don't even have like a full-featured final review for you guys so I apologize but I'm gonna quickly go down the pros and the cons that I have come across and determined for you today so pros it's got a unique eye catching lookin design for sure it's a very different case it's a very different sized case shape case you don't immediately know it's a computer case looking at it and it definitely could fit a ton of hardware in there EA tech support for the motherboard you can support up to three graphics cards in the top cage here and if for whatever reason you wanted to do a four way solution you could fit that in the lower area but I don't think that's really practical for how its design also tons of space for hard drives and SSDs up there in the drive area finally you can definitely tell that this is a flagship case from deep pool because the build quality is very top-notch not only do they have these very hefty and pretty sturdy cast aluminum pieces for all the four quadrants but the entire thing is held together by screws Phillips head screws screws for the most part so it's really cool that you can get in there and disassemble the whole thing if you so desire now that's not to say it's perfect case by any stretch so let's go over the cons there's no 5 and quarter inch bays probably not a big deal for most people but it is a larger case sometimes people look for those 4 reservoirs and that kind of thing does have some full built-in LEDs on the front here in the gamer storm logo up on the top but we don't include an additional LED strip along with it that is something that they include with like the the cooler for example so so I thought an extra LED strip might have been a nice add on the CPU cooler height limitation is kind of surprising it's 110 millimeter total Heights so it's not the best solution for air cooling kits it sorry if you're building in a case like this you're gonna go for water cooling but it is important to know that higher and air coolers won't fit in there it's also worth pointing out that you have only 120 millimeter fan support wherever you can put fans in this case they're all 120 which isn't a huge deal but you don't have the massive radiator support in various different configurations 420 140 millimeter fans like you do with some other high ends more expensive cases like the quad stellar this case is four hundred dollars and in my opinion once you get beyond the 150 to 200 dollar price point you are getting into the realm of I'm paying more money for special unique features that maybe aren't so practical so from that perspective the quad stellar does make sense it stands out it's well-built and it's got support for the hardware you need that said practically speaking I was actually pretty frustrated with this case over the past day or two just trying to get things finalized in here for one thing the ability to just open up your case get in there to do something real quick if you like to tinker a lot is very challenging with this case you've got to remove these panels which can only slide off from the back so if the case is positioned somewhere you'd have to probably pull it out from where it wherever it is to get at that I was having issues connecting the deep cool app which you can use to connect to the controller board that's in there in order to control this lighting and do various effects I had zero luck doing that since I wasn't able to connect with my smartphone I had to pull the side panel off in order to get at the PCB and there's a button on there that you can supposedly hold in for six seconds in order to reset it I did that didn't work still wasn't able to connect so after I wasn't able to get the app to work I hardwired it up to the direct connection for the digital LED control from the motherboard to the controller PCB and I'm not sure that's working either but like I said guys I am completely out of time for this video so I have to leave it here I hope you guys learned a little bit more about the deep cool quad stellar case in my build and assessment of my building experience video here if the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it also leave me a comment in the comment section down below let me know if this case piques your interest at all and of course subscribe to my channel for more tech videos coming at you really soon thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time