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what's up everyone amateur vlog style video today well at least for part of it we're gonna be talking about the dark bass 700 ition we're going to build on it I'm gonna show you guys some of the features of the case if you haven't already seen our original dark bass 7 I review because it's basically the same chassis just painted almost totally white I think this looks significantly better than a black model the black model already looked pretty darn good so I'm gonna give you just a quick tour of the chassis and then we will be building in it we're actually going to keep the same system for every case review from here on out at least for this year so that we have a baseline we can compare things and keep a high degree of consistency seeing as though you know we're using the exact same internals it's really just gonna come down to the case the the style of case the airflow preferences how things are laid out that will determine our core temperatures both for our CPU and a GPU but we'll get to that more in a second I do want to walk through the case and its features so here we go this video is brought to you by Skillshare an online learning community with over 25,000 classes and business design and more so my favorite classes include those pertaining to web development and coding software is not my strong suit by any means so I take classes like this one a beginner's guide to Python programming to get my foot in the door and learn on my own time with my favorite instructors I'm especially excited because skill shares offering viewers of science to do a full two months of premium access totally free for you to try out and explore and have a feeling you will enjoy it click the link below and get started today first up in case you're wondering this is a limited edition model so you can get one of the 3,000 available this one that was sent to me randomly is 2742 there's nothing particularly exciting about that number at all I was hoping for like two to two to dad have been pretty cool and while we're up here it's go and go through the front I oh we have a fan controller here on the far left USB 3.1 microphone jack headphone jack power button pretty hard to click very sturdy button we have a reset button we also have a LED changer we'll get to them on a second and then two USB 3.0 ports as for the front of the case see it's pretty straightforward very bare that's what they were going for a minimalistic look we have to be quiet logo down below it's slightly reflective and then we have grills on the left and right side these are black this time around so it provides a great contrast again that white frame also led bars running down both the left and whites the right side and they also wrap underneath the legs as well at least the front leg so it's definitely a unique looking case and when the LEDs are all lit up it looks even more unique as for the top of the case you can see it's very minimalistic again I've been disappointed with the air flow properties of the top panel I emphasize that in my previous review of this case we do have slightly more grill space back here but it's just it's not going to allow air to naturally radiate easily and that's really the only reason why I'm disappointed with this now in case you've never seen this chassis before the entire thing is pretty much totally modular which means you can remove all these panels here you can slide those all out you can completely pull them out if you want and you can replace those with hard drive cages one extra one is included you have two more spaces down below with which to use to mount hard drives you also have an SSD bracket behind the motherboard tray great use of extra space you can basically pull out the entire basement you can flip the entire case actually upside down we're not going to do that for this bill just because we want to keep things consistent I'm not really a huge fan of inverted builds but it is possible in this case so if you like the kind of modular support that some case manufacturers throw in to their different SKUs I mean this this could be one for you it's not my cup of tea but it's something that's worth mentioning because not many cases allow you to do this now the attention to detail with respect to the painting it's pretty top notch for the most part everywhere there were a few places where you could see that the spray just wasn't as thick so over here toward the front it's gonna be difficult to get on camera but you can see that the original black chassis underneath this wasn't sprayed very well the good thing is this toward the front it's kind of secluded so when you have that glass panel on which I'll show you guys in a second this really isn't easy to see everywhere else though the paint is pretty uniform throughout and you're not gonna get the idea this was just like DIY painted overnight in a backyard you can see there are three large rubber grommet cutouts here these are good for 24 pins you know SATA all that good stuff you do have a thin slit down here as well this is good for a USB 2.0 for your front i/o connections maybe even HD audio there's no dedicated HD audio slot over here so you're gonna have to and I run it through there it's kind of difficult to get some of the cables to fit through here so you might have to push on the motherboard tray just a little bit but that's kind of what they expect you to do and then up top we have a similar thing a bit more space up here again you get a route that 8-pin ups from the top so it's it's gonna be a tight fit again but it's I mean it's enough space to work with I would say it's it's nothing really to complain about just something that you should know going into it again I talked about these these are module you can slide these further out if you want you can even route cables through these or you can remove these altogether and place them with hard drive trays like a Pepsi girl she's tired she was playing a lot earlier today or you can use a hard drive trays like this one here and you can mount it from the back and then you can actually purchase more of these and have them stack all the way up if you got for whatever reason like eight hard drives off of the back you can see the seven dedicated PCIe slots horizontal orientation and then we have two vertical slots as well I don't recommend putting just an air-cooled card up here because you can see there's not much clearance between these and the left side panel so airflow is going to be fairly restricted in that case but it's something that you could use let's say if you had like a graphics card with a water block on it get a custom loop in here this would be perfectly fine used because it's a closed system so it's not really going to matter how close it comes to that left panel we have the power supply bracket down here it's not a removable bracket you have to load everything in from the right side and then further up you can see we have a 120 or 140 ml fan mount as well as the rear motherboard IO cutout now behind the motherboard tray things get pretty fancy this is a fan hub and it does support looks like one two three four five six four pin fan headers so that means they support PWM the two fans included by the way our silent wings three fans are top-of-the-line from be quiet they're very very quiet even their full load and they are PWM supported so that is nice and they're both pre-wired into this hub quite a bit of support here you can even control whether you want it running on silent or in performance mode if you want things to kick up when it's especially hot further down just some more attention to detail aspects I'm going to point out there are rubber vibration mounts here for your PSU to sit on that's great your power supply has moving parts than it right the fan prominently the fan actually should be the only moving part but that could cause your power supply to rattle let's say it gets pretty hot under load so you have these vibration mounts just a yeah it's not necessary but it keeps things especially quiet in a case like this from a company like be quiet I mean come on you gotta have that right so it's nice it's there we have the two hard drive trays here they are removable via thumb screws that's convenient and there's plenty of space you can see you have a huge power supply and you'll still have space to pack those extra cables and even more toward the front if you're just dying for some extra space now as for cable management you see we've got a whole bunch of cables here stashed and there's about an inch worth of clearance which means that you're really not going to have an issue you even with custom cable extensions which will add significantly more bulk to this side of the case you're not gonna have an issue trying to pack that right side panel on the other things to point out you can see they made use of the extra space behind the motherboard tray by including an SSD bracket that is removable via a single thumb screw it's very convenient I also have an extra SSD tray down here next to the fan controller and that's pretty much it trying to make sure I cover everything I know this is a very rough review before we get to the thermals but I want to build that system so we can throw it in here and start running some tests because I don't believe I've actually run official temperature tests with it maybe I did but I didn't keep it consistent so it's gonna be interesting to see how this compares to other cases in the future that's why I want to start with this one first so let's go ahead and build the the system we're gonna throw in here it's not going to be a white themed build I'm not gonna put as much effort into making this look like you know absolutely mint like I try to do with my other builds and that's just because we want to test thermals that's all I'm worried about I want to see how restrictive these front grilles are and I also want to see how loud the case gets when the system is under full load so not further ado I've got this diluted 8700 k here I know it looks like absolute trash long story short I was using liquid metal underneath the IHS and above the IHS which is why it looks kind of messy I've tried my best to clean that up but it is deleted I am using thermal grizzly compound underneath but we'll be using just you know regular old thermal paste between the IHS and the CPU cooler we're going to use I have a gigabyte a Z 370 or ass motherboard right here this is going to look really nice with our CPU cooler which is going to be the B quiet dark rock for now realize this is the first time to actually see my face in this video but I'm going to get the rest of the parts ready to go I'm gonna give you just a quick little build long just kind of speed things up and then we will run the test and that be basically the conclusion of the video showing you guys how we built the the test bench if you will for all of our case reviews going forward and then also revealing the temperatures of this case which we'll use as our baseline for case reviews here all right so hope you guys at least uh enjoyed the build process now it's not the prettiest looking building I think this is look significantly better when we have black chassis to build in so if you want to buy a white case I recommend pairing at least something else with it that maybe has like a white accent or that is white in its entirety white motherboards will look especially good in this because the internals are also white but anyway we're more or less focused on the thermosphere and we're gonna keep this again very consistent going forward I still wanted to show you guys how we actually ran these tests I know some channels won't tell you exactly how they run certain tests because they want it to be their own things kind of proprietary in a sense but I want to tell you guys exactly how I run all these tests so that you can go out and do them on your own and then double check my results and compare them with cases you may have laying around cuz I might not get around it testing every case out there right so I want to be very upfront and disclosed exactly how I do this I used the burnin test I linked it down below and then I only ran the 3d test the 3d graphics as well as the CPU I didn't touch any of the internal settings there I just ran both of those for 30 minutes each actually they run together so both the graphics card and the CP are being stressed simultaneously which will put the heaviest load on the case and that's where air flow will truly matter so with the front panel on the CPU reached 72 point 2 degrees Celsius under load and the GPU reached 57.0 and then with the front panel off the CPU touch 68 point 3 C and the GPU was at 56 so only a 1 degree Celsius drop with a graphics card by removing the front panel has to be expected that card is placed to the back and it has access to to air from the back of the case because it is slightly porous and then for the CPU it was about a four degree reduction this is pretty run-of-the-mill nothing too exceptional means that the front panel is it is definitely reducing the amount of air that gets to the case or the amount of uncharged air that reaches the cooler but it's nothing too significant I would say it would be a big deal if this was an 8 degree Delta but 4 degrees isn't too bad seventy two point two versus sixty eight point three and again the front panel is going to be the the prime determiner therefore how hot and CPU gets because that is where most of the air that is fed to the CPU cooler comes in to the case apart from that I wanted to show you a few more shots of the case with the build in it also with the RGB Zhan I think this is one of the best implementations of RGB in a case to date that I've seen fantex does it very well as well now the dark bass 700 black will be the one that I list down below unless I can find links to the white one it goes on sale today or at least I think today is the NDA lift so it should be on sale soon and if it's not linked down below I will definitely link at least a dark base 700 black model and you can get that and I think a few different trims I'm not sure if they're offering the orange grey and black trims but I know the one that I have is silver so that that one definitely isn't one you can buy in terms of price I don't think it's gonna be too overboard it's it's one of those that you're really paying for the premium like the sound damping material right you're getting that tempered glass panel I love that on the white it's trimmed in white a lot of white cases will have this trim on the tempered glass in black and it just doesn't look very good when the rest of the components are white when the rest of the frame is white so be quiet its attention to detail here is top notch you're paying for it it's not gonna be cheap by any means but I still think it's a contender out there and that sub $200 price range it's not gonna break the bank but at the same time it's not gonna be something I would want to throw a bunch of budget parts in just because it wouldn't really make sense I'd rather you allocate that extra money there's something that's going to really matter when it comes to gaming and content creation either a better CPU more RAM or a better graphics card with that I'd like to know in the comments below what you guys think about be quiet its new take on the dark bass 700 we saw it at Computex and I think Kyle built in it so I'm excited now that I finally got a build in it I mean it's basically the same case of 700 black model but the white one just to me it just looks so elegant and then when paired with these RGB accents as well going all the way around the front panel it's just top-notch anyway I know my opinion is the only one out there so let me know what you guys think in the comments below if you like this video the thumbs up I appreciate it thumbs down for the opposite feeling or okay I hate 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