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excellent what's up guys welcome back to my coverage of CES 2017 I want to start off of course by thanking my sponsors for this event gigabyte OCC a Toshiba company as well as deep cool now I'm over here at fantex because they invited us to share their case that they've been working on for the last two freaking years they've had this in development they were almost ready at Computex last year and we actually gave you guys a sneak preview of it then it is ready they have said it's launching and available for sale it might take a little bit of time to see it in at retailers but you should be able to buy this case the end to Elite for $900 coming towards the end of q1 so February March timeframe now I'm going to kind of try to go down as many of the features of this case as possible bear in mind this is a quick overview but it's still going to take several minutes now first off it's huge of course this thing weighs about 72 pounds and it's designed so that you can actually install everything while it's sitting upright because you don't want to take a case this large and have to lay it down and bring it back up and all that kind of stuff so for instance a lot of the trays in here and brackets that can hold radiators can be removed so you can still install everything outside and then put it back in this beautiful build that the folks at fantex put together they said they put together with the entire thing sitting upright so that was pretty cool now going over just some of the general features you of course are probably noticing the LED lighting they have a really awesome look and strip going down the right side kind of tucked away underneath and down across the front it has sort of a extra piece down here that seems to be holding the rest of it sort of hovering out over the rest of it at rest of the the bracket which is the base stands on which I think looks pretty cool and then of course a massive tempered glass window here which can now be opened via a simple hinge you can also lift it up and off that hinge if you need to which is also pretty cool there's a bit of ventilation across this piece of the tempered glass side panel as well and then inside you can see there's two main chambers a lower chamber down here an upper chamber upper chamber above of course and then on the bottom you can fit massive radiators I'm going to forget the radiator support I'm gonna have to look off to the side and remember on the bottom you can fit a 480 millimeter radiator you can also fit a 480 on the top you can also fit a 560 on the front which is a 4 or by 140 which is not a radiator size as I work with very often which is what I can't just rattle that off but anyway now all the RGB LEDs on this case are in sync as you may notice and in fact you have not only the strip's that are on the case themselves but you have the motherboard you also have elements inside the case including the new fantex water blocks which also have LEDs that are integrated into them you can take all those LEDs feed them back and be a splitter connect them all up so you can have one plug to go into a motherboard that way you can control everything in synchronization or you can use a front panel right up here to control everything via this little flip up panel now front panel IO you actually have two sets because you can potentially install two systems in this in this chassis you can do a large full-size ATX or larger size motherboards also supported up top you can also do a mini ITX system down in the lower part and for that you just need to swap in this little tray gives you a mini ITX mount now because there's two potential computers inside you actually have two sets of i/o so a couple USB 3.0 s for each potential system HDMI in front so your V already if you have a VR headset a USB type-c connector up there which is just really handy to have and then of course mic and headphone for both systems you also have reset button and then you have an LED controller up here too which is one of the fanciest ones I've actually seen not only can you control all the different potential colors that the LED might be via this top section but then you can tap through this and go through some different effects you can possibly put together so if you don't have the ability to control the LEDs behave your motherboard or software you can simply write it up to the case directly and control it all from the front now I already told you about radiator support for the top front and bottom but you can actually this is a multi-use crossbeam panel here I already said you can swap in a mini ITX motherboard tray you can also swap in a radiator right there so you can fit an additional 480 and then you might notice back behind the reservoir right there there's a bunch of little panels those are little individual panels like this and they can be swapped out independently depending on how you want to configure it you can use them as SSD mounts and they have one right there or you can just use it to cover up if you're not actually utilizing that area just to give it a cleaner look overall there is another bracket you can swap in there fact I have it right here this will allow you to add an additional 360 radiator as well so obviously you can install all of those radiators I mentioned at the same time but it does give you the flexibility if you want to do an insane water-cooled system as you see right here to put them wherever the hell you might want to the other cool thing about those back panels there is on the opposite side the rear panel which is actually fairly easy to remove and put back on actually designed it so you can just set the panel down on the same level plane that the cases on and it just sort of lines up and you pop it to the side and then you can secure it with some captured thumb screws there's also a removable panel right there that you can pop off to allow for exhaust if you do happen to install a radiator going that way and that is a pretty cool look because you can put the fans right on there and if you have LED fans or something like that well you could route those up to the system as well and have more RGB LEDs because lord knows there's not enough of them top panel here also has a swappable piece so you can have a complete all-in-one unit that kind of covers everything and prevents noise from getting out but of course blocks air or you can use the one they're using right now which has a magnetic removable dust filter that easily fits over the top for your exhaust up on the fronts there is a power switch that's also dual sided so of course two systems so that power switch needs to go either way now you might also notice that the GPUs here are angled 90 degrees so you can get a better look at the fluid flowing through them and of course there's a beautiful fantex GPU blocks that they have on there that can be done via this somewhat elegant panel but basically it's just the rear PCIe expansion or PCI expansion bracket that you install and it gives you a riser bracket that will allow you to stall and still I believe two-way SLI configurations or crossfire configurations and make them look all pretty like that with the ninety degree rotated orientation here is the cable management area and it is fairly dark here so sorry for that but hopefully you guys can get a look another thing that fantex wanted to do with this case is make sure that every bit of space even though this thing's massive is used in some way and if you're not going to use it you can cover it up and make it look aesthetically pleasing but they really want everything to be functional so massive CPU backplate cut out like that for wide range of CPU sockets there's also a panel right here which I believe is multi-purpose they've added some additional cable tie downs in various places so you can keep everything looking nice and clean there's a fixed pump mount down here at the bottom so you can put a fan Tech's pump as well I believe it has compatibility with other pumps as well okay but there's they're shaking their heads like no don't use other pumps use Fanta these fantex pumps the power this isn't a fantasy level it's alright don't worry about it it but fantex pumps are good to EVGA power supply I'm sorry EVGA this is a power supply back here at the back of course there's two mounts for power supplies here at the rear area and then you can shove some cables up in here there's actually plenty of space for that as you might expect then you also have a couple more SSD mounts over on this side that's what those are right okay double-checking and then I don't think I mentioned but there are two fan hubs that are also included here both the PWM both can control up to six fans so basically unless you are doing more than twelve fans in this case you should need to add an additional splitter or anything like that now while fantex was working on the end to elite obviously they had tons of free time so they decided to develop this prototype case this is currently known as project two one seven the one we're actually looking right here is the two one seven s which is slightly smaller but the two one seven they have actually over there by the TV it's kind of dark but we do have some nice footage of it this is kind of geared towards more being I don't say it's like a home theater PC but it's meant to integrate seamlessly with a home theater environment so if you want to take your games out of your your man cave or wherever you sit and play video games all the time bring them out into the living room possibly set up something like a VR configuration or anything like that you might want a much more powerful system out in your living room so the basic concept from our understanding of this design is that you can sort of move it around any way that you want and it will still look good so only at the back here they actually have a couple routing holes for the cables to come out beyond that the top here is tempered glass piece opposite side is also a tempered glass piece they have a nice clean finish with grey here across the front I asked them and they said yes they're also to potentially do a black version of this so if you want it to really mesh with your entire home theater system and you have all black which is very common with that sort of thing it will now these are both mini ITX cases the larger size over there in the two one seven is going to support larger radiators I believe a 280 radiator well it will support so they are geared towards water cooling so you can make a really cool looking system water cool it overclocked it make it whatever you want to do and then put it in your living room and have a really cool showpiece but I mean not just your living room I can imagine lots of people having this onion on their desk for example and the fact that you can take the whole thing and make it vertically oriented instead of horizontally oriented means you got a much smaller footprint like on your desk with a really cool looking case now there's not a whole lot of other details about this right now they have shown us in some of the design aesthetics that they have done as far as like taking the mini ITX motherboard put in at the top they have sort of our horizontal bar here right across just below where the ITX motherboard sits that's we're going to write your cables pass them through to some channels that are going to go that back here which are pretty much completely covered up and you can't see them they have a couple SSD mounts that are also hidden on either side of this and that's that's for the most part what we know there are some more details but I'm sure this is going to be forthcoming they're expecting this to come out right around Computex time this year so maybe if we go to Computex in Taiwan we'll be able to show you guys just like the m2 elites the finish version of project two one seven and two one seven s as well so let us know in the comments what you think of these new concept cases let us know how many of the enthu elites you're going to buy Kyle's recommendation was five I think that's perhaps I think that's one too many I think you should buy four and two elites and two elites at minimum now I can't leave you guys without at least pointing out and giving some homage to the 8-pack version of the anthalie that's back behind me that he actually built this in one of the earlier prototypes of the enthu lead and we showed that off at Computex and it should it's it's a ridiculous system it's got a 3-way SLI configuration it's got three separate water cooling loops it's got a ton of like custom acrylic work with channels for all the fluid to go through and he's using Mayhem's forget what to them the mayhem is one that has that texture to it so it looks really cool and you can actually order these and have them made and sent to you for the low low price of what set 30 mm 30 mm US dollars so if if 900 bucks for the or you can spend just the low price of nine hundred dollars which seems very reasonable by comparison and build your own but I mean honestly what a pack did with this thick thing behind me is absolutely insane so hope you guys appreciate that as well finally how are they going to ship these big old and delete cases that look like you could fit a human body inside or perhaps just maybe more sensible use as a footlocker after you move the remove the case out of it but very premium in every respect and I really like what enthu has done with I'm sorry what fantex has done with the m2 elites anyway it's the end of the day at Computex so we're getting pretty tired I'm going to end this video and ask you guys to hit the thumbs up button if you if you enjoyed it also big thank you to my sponsors once again gigabyte deep cool as well as OCZ a Toshiba Company thanks for watching guys and we'll see you very soon with more Computex I'm sorry CES 2017 keverage from Las Vegas Nevada