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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware Corsair sent me over this brand new case to do a video on so it is called the crystal series 570 X it is a completely tempered glass covered case a trend that I'm going to take complete responsibility for since I did my tempered glass side panel model with arctic Panther but I figured what better way to go over this case for you guys then to will take it out of the box first of all I'll run down the features i'll go ahead and build the system in it i've got all the parts for that right back here and then we'll come back and i'll give you my thoughts alright so i have removed all of the tempered glass side panels from this case i was originally going to show you guys like a first look of it with everything with nothing mounted inside but then I realized all those tempered glass pieces which are over on the table there I'll have like the plastic on him and I was going to like peel all that off and stuff but I decided no let me wait I'm doing that and build the system first because even though tempered glass is a lot sturdier than plexi it's still best to kind of keep that stuff on but there are four tempered glass panels one for each side one for the top and one for the front and they are all held on by these little screws out here which are pretty good quality and look pretty nice from the outside also of course you two pack of accessories in the box so if it's not obvious already this case is definitely designed for somebody who wants to have a good look at everything going on inside their computer not just from the side but also from the other side where the cable management goes even from up on top and of course from the front so let's quickly run down the features why don't we start with dust filters since they're covering things right now these are pretty easy to pop off at least once you remove the four screws for the tempered glass side panels these are just held on by magnets and look at that full coverage right there with the plenty of space for the air to flow through and then behind it the three 120 millimeter fans will come back to those in just a moment this top also moves again just with magnets like so so full coverage with dust filtration for the top and then we do have a dust filter down on the bottom it is a little bit more standard style at least from what we see in the past slides up from the back and a bit smaller one there for your power supply back to those fans up front though it comes with 320 millimeter fans included and these are all RGB which I'm sure will demonstrate once I get this case actually set up with the system inside and able to power on and everything they're all in the front so you actually don't get any at least pre-installed exhaust air filtration for the rear or the top of this case but you do have lots of radiator support so you can do 360 on the front you can do a 280 in the front of course you could do a 240 or 120 or anything less than those max radiator sizes you can also do a 280 or 240 in the top or 120 of course and then you got a 120 mount here at the back as well now the other nice thing about these radiator mounts at least the front one you can actually remove the entire fan mounts with these thumb screws so it's got thumb screws going up and down here you can pull that tray off and that will allow you to mount your radiator and the fans to it and then just install the whole tray which is a pretty convenient way of installing radiators and fans for a liquid cooling solution of course actually one quick correction here I mentioned that front tray is removable for mounting the radiators the top tray is removable as well and then there saying that this will fit a 240 millimeter radiator and it might fit a 280 millimeter meter mede millimeter radiator just depending on the size and bulb lessness at the end and how big the pieces are they come off of it and stuff but you do have some flexibility there but at least they are confirming 240 millimeter rad support I'm going to try to fit a 280 up here the power supply does have a cover down here it's maybe about 2/3 the lengths length of the chassis and it is open on this side so you could bring cables out through this direction or most likely you'll pass them back through there to use the cable management solution that's on the back there is a Corsair LED logo that will light up here that's also going to be plugged in didn't say RGB so I'm guessing this is just white but again I'll test that in just a moment and there is some ventilation on the top of your power supply cage just in case you wanted to put your power supply with the fan facing up if that something that you feel will work better for your airflow of course you got the little rubber mats down there for the power supply feet and then on the back you have your typical lay up seven expansion slots 120 millimeter fan match IO shield all that good stuff not a huge case a pretty standard ATX layout from the internal perspective but again I think the tempered glass and some of the cable management features are what Corsair is feeling makes this case unique as for clearance this direction you have up to 370 millimeters of length for GPU clearance so you can go with really long GPUs for your depth this way you have a hundred and seventy millimeters of clearance for CPU coolers and then for the power supply down here 225 millimeters so pretty much any modern reasonable power supply that you would put in a gaming system will fit in this case I also want to point out down here they at least have advertised some some mounting points for pumps air reservoir and reservoirs so I don't know if this is a standard layout for you know your d5 pumps or anything like that but there are some slots down there so if you would put a pump or a big tall reservoir or something you could mount it to the bottom there theoretically and that's probably going to be a popular suzhen solution for anyone whose water cooling in this case because well that that's where it would fit pretty much there's nowhere else to put it your buttons and i/o for the front are on the front and kind of off to the right so you've got a power button of course right there three buttons for controlling the RGB fans so it's nice to be able to control those manually with buttons rather than having to rely on software but you have a brightness speed and then cycling through the different available presets that can the built-in controller has available a headphone and mic jack of course and then we have two USB 3.0 ports and then here is the flip side so you can see that controller which is connected up right here and then there's a smaller piece right here so this actually has three of the fans already plugged in with space for three more so if you buy more of those RGB fans that are compatible with this then you could put them elsewhere in the case and control them all with this unit this has a little piece that goes off over to here with sort of a breakout box and here you can again control speed color and mode and then that's got another lead that goes up to the top so you can control it via those buttons up top that I just showed you as for drive support you basically have four drives bays two of them are 3.5 inch drive mounts over here on the side with the typical pop in from the side I'm not a fan of this drive mounting method these are also plastic trays I want to point out so that definitely could have been better but I guess they are a bit lighter if you want to look on the bright side and they are all black so they're not going to stand out as noticeably glaringly plastic or anything like that these look at 3.5 inch drives and 2.5 inch drives then 2 more 2.5 inch drive mounts right here again plastic trays but they'll get the job done all of these are tool lists for the most part at least they're all held on with a thing Ingle thumb a single thumb screw lastly over here we have this cable management brackets thing which is basically just like kind of a u-shaped piece of metal that is held on to the motherboard tray again with a couple thumb screws not the most elegant solution I would say but again you're just using it to pass cables through and we're going to see as far as access goes because there's some space up here at the top and then of course this covers the actual grommet mounts in there so you'll be able to pass them through from that little thing through there I'm going to see if this is easy to work with or if this is a pain in the butt to work with I think maybe it might be a little bit of a combination of both but in the end hopefully it will lead to pretty looking cable management because this is definitely the kind of case you're going to need to pay attention to cable management with all right enough talking let me build this okay so the build is complete everything's on really didn't have too many issues as far as the build process goes everything was fairly straightforward apart from the slightly more delicate use of these tempered glass side panel windows the tempered glass itself I would describe as gray glass rather than that ultra clear glass which I believe is slightly less expensive at least in my experience purchasing tempered glass but it does give a little bit of a tint so you can kind of see anything that lights up and shines inside peeking through so you can see I used the same MSI motherboard and graphics card that I used for build in the 760 T recently and everything looks pretty nice also we have a red and black color scheme going on and then of course the three fans up in the front all shine through right now they're all white I can change the color though the color cycle goes from white to red to orange to I believe yellow to green to blue to purple and then it will do a cycle and it'll just kind of jump from one to the other of course you can also change the speed so that first button was for changing the color the next one changes the speed so that will change the speed at which it changes colors or what effect you might choose so right now I have just chosen the effect for its it's going to glow it's going to breathe very standard RGB lighting LED effects and then of course I can cycle through those so we have the flashing one which I hate and should never be used and then I believe we have a more soft fade effect that it goes through as well very cool anyway and then of course back to solid color so if I switch this to all-white let's do red for example and then I should be able to change it to like pulse red pulse flash breathe and right now it's going very fast so if I was like that's too fast for me I hit the speed button and then it slows down a little bit gives me something a little bit more reasonable now apart from those lights there are also a couple highlight lights so down here at the very bottom we've got the Corsair logo has a white LED behind it so that shines through the front of the case I thought that was a nice touch and then of course that Corsair logo on the power supply so even if you're not using a Corsair power supply you've still got a Corsair power supply those are both white it's kind of a shame that those are so also aren't RGB with everything else but if you're going to have it be any colors white would be the best choice since you have different colors going on okay we had a brief emergency with the dogs but everything seems to settle down now continuing on though just some final comments about the fact that everything is tempered glass on this case all right one is going to be that you are going to be dealing with fingerprints now if you have used plexi yes flexi will get fingerprints as well nice thing here is that you can just wipe them off with the with a nice cloth and you shouldn't get any micro scratches or anything like that again since its tempered glass but it also kind of makes it a little bit more difficult to find good places to pick up the case I noticed like for instance I almost grabbed it down here a couple times which would not be a good thing I really you want to grab from underneath and just lift on the bottom like you would with a with a box or something like that mainly because these mounts specifically for the front one here and the top one here have kind of standoffs from the actual panel that they're connected to and those are plastic and then the like the I'm sorry the tempered glass is mounted to the plastic those seem like they might be a little flimsy over time they were at quit but I would want to be delicate with them and you definitely want to like lift by right here because that would put some serious strain on those and you might snap off the little mounting points a nice little touch though that I noticed was that the tempered glass pieces are either a bit more squared or a bit more rounded and that is so that they will go up flush nicely with the different parts of the case like this little connective piece right here you want the squared off one so that stays clean same thing with right here and then whereas at the bottom this one has the rounded corner because it's kind of floating out in space and that makes more sense same thing on this one more squared corner down here at the bottom where it meets up with the other elements of the case whereas it's got the rounded corner up here at the top which Jen yeah it just looks nicer I think it's a nice touch as far as airflow goes you are going to be dealing with a mainly open air type of chassis you're not going to really have much in the way of pressure building up in here pretty much because everywhere that these tempered glass pieces sits there is a gap to some degree so it's pretty much just open between those which is fine but I actually think that the intake configuration that they have with three fans just up front is going to be just fine okay remove the side panel windows to give a few comments on the interior the first thing you might notice is my 280 millimeter radiator here at the top was not it was a little too big mainly I was dealing with a space clearance between the heatsink for the vrm on the motherboard and the fan here so I'm actually still running it but I only have a single fan attached here I was able to get enough clearance by removing that second fan what I was going to do is just grab a 140 or 120 millimeter rad and put it up here up there then I realize that I can still fit this so I'll just do it just to show you guys that's a 280 millimeter radiator it does have some shift shift ability this way and that way but not forward to back so you definitely will have some issues with certain motherboards with clearance particular up particularly up in this area and there's no space up above here to mount fans or anything like that so I would say stick with a 280 up top for most people unless you're really trying to figure out how to wedge something in there or you really have a lot of clearance for your motherboard up top beyond that you do have tons of space up here in the front for like you know 242 8360 so that would be probably a better option if you really needed a lot of radiator space in here or again just stick with that 240 on top now I also want to say for the power supply shroud area down here you can kind of see through it back there a little bit and this is really one of the main areas to tuck away extra cables so you can see a little bit through there but I find that it wasn't really too big of a deal I'd much rather have the shroud there than not of course one thing I found particularly annoying was the lack of any cable routing areas through here on this side of the motherboard in this corner there's really nothing so all these cables you pretty much have to run across here and then get back to tuck back into the cables this direction it's not that big of a deal but there's nothing to really tie them down to so I was dealing with this situation where I just had to try to lay them as flat as possible and tuck them back there a minor gripe but something that I've gotten a little bit more used to on some other cases there is fortunately a pass-through up there at the top for your Aitken CPU connector and finally a look at the ever-important cable management area here at the back I invested a decent amount of time in cable management but definitely wasn't as incredibly thorough as I could have been because they have done some nice things like putting tie-down points all the way around the edge of the CPU cutout on the motherboard tray and they've given you a decent amount of options given that you're really limited on where you can hide stuff again most of your extra cables are going to need to be tucked away in here as best you can so that might mean that I not quite as long power supply it would be a better option to at least give you a little bit more room back there I like how you can have fancy nice SSDs displayed right here or even mechanical drives if you're into that or SSDs even right there and that people can actually see your storage which is often tucked away and then the cable management's routing kind of bar thing here I like that it's removable it does a good job keeping everything tidy and tucked away in there but it was as kind of would be expected a pretty decent amount of work to get everything routed properly to really have it mostly through there and then any excess cable kind of doubling back in there and whatnot but the fact that you can remove it with those thumb screws and then pop it back on once you have everything routed was definitely a bonus a benefit and I I liked that method and as you probably saw as I was doing the there are velcro straps at least in a couple places behind here so as you're writing stuff you can kind of cinch it down and get it to the point where you can actually put that piece back on oh and I also shouldn't go without mentioning this the fan hub is not technically necessarily a fan hub so don't consider using it as a fan hub this controls only the LED lighting and although it can control up to six fans those fans need to have these plugs which are proprietary I believe from Corsair coming off them to go into the controller that's just for the LEDs and they also have three more individual three pin fan plugs coming off of them that you will need to plug into the motherboard or some other source of power so bear that in mind if you're planning on using this as your fan hub know it's only for the LEDs so that that's not a bad thing but don't don't be buying this thinking it has a fan hub integrated okay actually one final final thing and that is that this does not have a reset button so bear that in mind as well no reset and actually no hard drive led connector either so all you have is the power button and when your system goes to sleep like mine is right now that will flash which is pretty normal for a system that has gone to sleep and just so you know this little LED down here is connected to that too so that will also act as your flashing power LED and that just about wraps it up for this video guys once again this has been the corsair 5 70 x from their crystal series featuring tempered glass on RGB fans as well as a lighting controller this case cost about a hundred and seventy nine dollars MSRP i don't think i've mentioned that yet so let me know in the comments section what you think of that price if you think it's worth it for this case also let me know what you think of the tempered glass thing it seems to be a trend that's been gaining some steam much like the RGV thing started to gain a bunch of steam last year I don't mind the tempered glass but I'm certainly still warming up to having tempered glass on every side of the case but it does provide a little bit more of a challenge when you're doing a builds and you know that you're going to have a very clear view of that opposite side with the cable management so perhaps a case for people who have done this a few times and are confident and their cable management skills once again they'll leave me comments in the comment section let me know what you think of this case and the tempered thing also down in the description you can find links to my store where you can buy shirts mugs and pen glasses to help the cause and of course hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video and I'll post a link to this case as well down in the description as well as a list of all the parts that I used thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time