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my coverage of CES 2019 is brought to you by Corsair enter max deep cool and cooler master all right guys I'm a cooler master now at Palms place they are a sponsor so big thank you to cooler master for sponsoring my CES 2019 coverage they have a ton of stuff to show so let's get right into it let's start off over here with the Q 500 series which is being upgraded and expanded with a new Q 500 case which they have added a power supply bracket to so you can mount the power supply at the front of the case and that allowed them to expand the motherboard compatibility so it now allows a full sized ATX motherboard in there not just micro ATX this has been a very popular case for Coolermaster largely due to its flexibility as well as this very reasonable price here's a look at the white version of the case the power supply Mouse would be up here now and then you can see full sized ATX motherboard support as indicated by the brackets there at the back now these are super flexible when it comes to what you can do with them so original design had airflow coming in the front lots of mesh so there was tons of airflow basically but if you're putting a power supply up there that does limit the airflow a little bit so they've redesigned so you can have air flow in taking from the bottom and then exhausting at the top by the way this side panel is rotatable so your i/o which is part of the side panel can be moved so you can put it in the front here or in the top or you can even flip it over and put it on the back side of the case if you're going with the vertical orientation you'll probably want to put some of these handles on and that will allow it to sit up off of the ground to allow air flow in taking at the bottom and then we also have accessories including handles so a variety of those so you can find a handle that meets your needs and then here's a couple little accents that they have been working with just to give the case a little bit of pop distinction person eyes ability and then those of course these mesh panels which you can add to the case and coolermaster actually designed a special one of these for me they put my logo line which is pretty cool of course they also did it for gamers Nexus which is you know obviously their logo is vastly inferior to mine so Steve and I got in a little bit of a fight over whose logo should go on the case I think I what other accessories include swappable panels I like this one that has sort of a fabric overlay to it and that's mainly because if you're having your airflow come at the bottom of the case you can add these panels to the Front's to again give it a more distinct look we have a more standard steel panel as well as a aluminum panel as well next is the control pad we actually talked about this awesome hardware at the live show this was a Kickstarter that Coolermaster put together because they wanted to gauge interest in a product like this the control pad itself has a wrist rest down at the bottom it is magnetic it's got a couple scroll wheels at the top and then it's got a set of keys so you can use those for left-right up-down or of course you can reprogram them however you want because coolermaster anticipates that there might be lots of people interested in something like this like my editor Joe to that end we also have a bunch of different key caps that you can put on there these are actually etched with different logos on them for different functions they're also talking about other options that allow you to swap out keys if you switch between different control modes and that's all real nice but the main thing about this keypad is that it is analog or at least it's accepts analog input so they're also making a large one for people with very big hands that's the demo they have here that's not actually true this is just a demo to show how it actually works it's infrared so there's an infrared sensor on the bottom and that will determine how far down the key cap is pressed and that gives you analog control so it's not just an on/off it registers pressure in between and to demonstrate this they have super hot going on and this is actually a very good example of it because of super hot you can just die immediately because in super hot you can move very very slowly because time only moves when you move in super hot so pushing the keys down just a tiny bit moves you just a little tiny bit it definitely gives you a lot more flexibility and control more of a gamepad experience in some ways I would say but you can see how this would be useful for gaming as well as lots of other stuff too with the various key cap sets they have for Illustrator Premiere Pro FPS gaming what's this one Oh Photoshop if you're not aware Coolermaster makes a ton of products not just for you the consumer at home but also various OMS this is just a close-up of some of the technology I wanted to show real quick for instance keep pipe design like they did but the original hyper 212 flattening that and putting it right up against the CPU so you can have more efficient transfer I've also done a lot of work with vapor chambers here which is more horizontal flow then flow along the form of a heat pipe this is a 3d vapor chamber and they've actually taken the vapor change chamber and added vertical heat pipe sort of give you a hybrid design they've integrated this into a bunch of products so I just thought it was kind of fun that they had these breakouts here where you could see the internals and I wanted to show you real quick let's move on though at this demo we have a couple products the master box and our 400 new cage on the left and then the XG advanced which is a power supply over on the left that's the right that's low now coolermaster has gotten a lot of critiques on the airflow from that guy right there hi Steve hi you you've made coolermaster make better products that's just really good timing so the NR 400 over here features a new version of mesh that allows air flow through but also blocks dusts and of course this will need to be independently tested in the future but what they're telling me is that when you have this on the front of a case it's going to act as your dust filter but it's right on the front so it's actually kind of presentation worthy to which was because it's a very fine mesh it actually looks pretty clean so if you're using your system over time you'll probably start to see dust buildup right on the front and that's will be more of a visual indicator that you should probably clean that keep your system clean give yourself better airflow so I think that's a good solution of course we'll need to test it other than that this case also features a flush tempered glass side panel over here and of course a power supply basemaps oh and look a cooler master local power button here's that XG 750 power supply it has a logo on the side it has LED lighting and this one is 80 plus bold rated does a digital power supply cool masters finally getting ready to launch these and they're actually anticipating them coming out in like 550 and 650 watt versions which will be much more reasonable for people who are just building a standard gaming PC here's the big brother of that NR 400 this is the NR 680 ex we also have that micro dust filter going on on the front which is also wrapped around the entire front panel there which is pretty cool and it actually kind of does an interesting RGB effect the RGB fans behind it kind of projects onto it and it gives you kind of an interesting overlapping look with that which was kind of here here is look at those front panels only real difference between these is that that one has a cutout for an optical drive because there is space for an optical drive bay at the top of this case they also have a unique implementation with these three front fans just to simplify things for connecting up front fans especially if you have fans and RGB they have wired all three of these fans up to a single set of cables so two cables and one is a four pin PWM so you can just plug it in if you just want the fans to spin and then the secondary one with three pin addressable RGB so you can plug that in if you want the offense to light up to pretty damn it Steve so obviously take your pick of what design or logo you wanted here coolermaster custom printed these for us they're not going to necessarily be offering these to everyone out there but they just wanted to show some of the options that are available and of course to butter us up by showing us our logos on their products and yes there's the gamers Nexus logo as well you know it's missing here we don't have a bit wit logo obviously that one didn't make the cut was wasn't high-quality enough and last thing I wanted to talk about here is this fan fans are important for cooling cooling is what Coolermaster does they're doing their best to reinvent the fan and do it in their own special way so first off instead of a rifle bearing this fan uses double ball bearings this is a prototype by the way there's no name for it yet or estimated release date but I like how it looks because it's sort of different it's got some brushed metal accents on the outside which does look pretty cool I think the Coolermaster logo hexagon is right there in the middle too they have a swept fan blade design with a ring around the outside that allows the fan blades to get very very close to the outer ring of the fan and then I think one of the parts I maybe like the most is that the actual cables on this are detachable you can unplug it it does still have separate cables for RGB and just the fan which is also very nice but that's gonna help with daisy-chaining connecting up multiple fans together and cable management in general so guys that's gonna wrap it up for my coverage here at the cooler master suite Palms Place Las Vegas Nevada thank you so much for watching a big thank you of person my sponsors for this event Coolermaster of course as well as 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