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what's going on everyone time to review another PC case this time the deep cool Baron case liquid this has a 120 millimeter integrated AIO also a built in flow meter upfront RGB everything and some really cool features that maybe you just find quirky I think that they're pretty cool I think it's it's a derivation from the typical mid 80 X chassis this is technically a micro ATX Chasse even though it looks the bigger than that because it's kind of built around a micro ATX motherboard and you'll see that shortly but I want you to keep the price in mind this comes in up to 120 to 130 US dollars so convert that however you need in your country but this is I don't know I don't really know how to rank this like in terms of like value because there really isn't anything else like this on the market I want to dive into its features right now so every time I attempt to group this case to a certain chassis category I have to rethink my decision mainly because there is like I said no other case like this on the market so I really don't have a benchmark or a standard with which to compare I will say though that 130 bucks I think this is a decent value for what you're getting just strictly from a feature standpoint starting first with the popularized IO this is the deep cool captain AO from the captain 240 X that ever viewed extensively you can check out this video right here by the way if you want more detail on just the i/o itself this is the 120 millimeter variant so the radiator and the fan are mounted both up top it's kind of weird because they could probably a fit a 240ml right up here but I think they stuck with the 120 just because they did incorporate the flow meter and they wanted to keep the price down just a bit now the fan mounted to the radiator is actually an RGB capable fan and that in tandem with the a IO and the flow meter LEDs along with also the LEDs up front that illuminate the gamer storm logo and kind of give the front panel sort of like back glow are all controlled via these three buttons integrated into the chassis which will allow you to turn on or off the LEDs you can also change the mode and the colors of the LEDs apart from that the only other cooling source you'll find in the case is a single 120 millimeter fan it's very cheap it's pretty loud it's actually possible to power in via molex directly you know that it's just one of those and I run-of-the-mill base-model fans if you can I recommend you throw it away and replace it with something much quieter I've used it in this bill just to prove a point it is pretty loud you can probably still hear that I do have two other fans that I threw into the case down below because one fan at the back and then another fan rad combo up top isn't gonna cut it especially for the graphics card you won't have any fans up front out of the box like I said those are the only two you get so you're not really gonna have much of a source of like you know air intake you're just gonna have to exhaust fans at the rear so I don't really agree with that config out of the box I think that people should have you know an extra fan at least one more fan up front if you can't fit the fan up front then maybe you should have some sort of dust filter or something at their rear so you can at least give you a case a bit of fresh air otherwise you're just creating yourself a negative air pressure system in the center of the case and that's no good for the graphics card because then it will star for air now back to what I said about this technically being a micro ATX chassis like when you look at this thing you know I'm sitting right beside it it's pretty big it's not as small with most micro ATX cases out there I would say this follows a mid 80 X like a mid tower form factor but it does benefit those who decide to use micro ATX motherboards because then you'll have space down below for the conventional power supply lay up where your basement essentially would be but in this case because I've used two full-on ATX motherboard the x99 taichi from as rock I have no choice but to place the power supply up front that's right behind the flowmeter panel if you remove this handle here you actually have access to four mounting points conventional power supply mounting points that will allow your PSA to hang from the top of the chassis which is really weird that means your cables are just kind of hanging below that behind this little flow meter bracket but it's actually I don't know it's it's just like a regular old basement except everything's gonna turn 90 degrees upwards and shove to the front of the case otherwise I mean what else would use this for maybe optical drive layouts if you've had that option you don't know in this case the difficult ascent to use it instead as a makeshift a vertical basement pretty cool though I guess it doesn't make it a basement any more than that now if you're wondering about whether or not you can see the power supply from this side over here right if you're looking into the front panel if you will you can you can see the power supply hanging down kind of shift this around here and off you can see it in the camera very well and I will say that it's not too bad I mean even if you look at it from the front this little front panel here removed you can tell that a power supply is there but the power supply itself takes up about half of the total height of the case so you know it just looks like a boxes there looks like it's being taken up by something at least and the cables that are hanging from the power supply don't look too bad even from that side just because there are so many of them you just kind of stuff that any of the extra you know cable wings back there and it looks pretty clean also you have the a/o running there because the the loop has to connect to the flow meter somehow so there are two other tubes that run to this flow meter and those are also invisible from the back but I will say if you just look at it you know head on from the left side it's all gonna be invisible and I'm ok with that now speaking of which if you were wondering whether or not you could mount fans up front there is an option to do so I will say however that if you want to mount a power supply up front if you want to use a full-on ATX motherboard which will give you no choice but to mount your power supply up front then you're really only going to have access to one of the two fan mounting points and even that is gonna be a pretty tight fit actually it looks like yeah you can only fit one fan here and that's only if you decide to rid yourself of the hard drive cages down here and even then you've got some parts of the that's weird just turn it off and even then you got some parts of the chassis that are gonna be impeding that that air flow right because it's not just a very thin grill so I don't recommend putting fans up front it's really weird what I do recommend doing instead is placing two intake fans at the base of the case or they're mounting points for two 120mm fans you probably fit like a radiator now if you wanna get really weird with it and mount some kind of like graphics card rad down there but having two fans at the base of the case I would say is essential because it pulls in fresh air not only for the graphics card but also for your motherboard for the VRMs you don't really need it for the CPU because that's all a closed system but four just in cooling you know the parts of your PC that normally aren't active cooled it's nice to have a couple intake fans at the base I just wish the deep cool had included them out of the box by the way it's super easy to remove the front panel and also reinsert it that's it's a piece of cake that's how all front panel should be no I like that there isn't any dead space in the case especially when you fill it out with a very beefy graphics card you get a full on ATX motherboard in there there's there's no empty space on utilized space inside the case it's really cool but a downside to this being so compact is that if you want to use an especially wide ATX motherboard you're going to limit yourself in terms of cable management because the cable management grooves these rubber grommets that are white on the white chassis and black on the black one are actually covered by a full ATX motherboard which is a shame it means you'll have to kind of route things around a few of the the grills little slits in the chassis that aren't a part of the rubber grommet system it's not Orthodox it's it doesn't look as pretty and I assume that most boards will cover these up I just wish the deep cool it made the case a bit longer so that we can actually utilize his rubber grommets a few more things I want to talk about and bring up with this case you'll find with the front i/o just two USB 3.0 ports no 2.0 ports or type-c so I'm gonna dock it to that also you'll find your audio jack your microphone jack and then a dedicated reset switch and a power button these are shaped like triangles to follow just the little grille cutouts in the front panel here they're also triangles running down the side also something I didn't notice especially in the pictures but I think is really cool the tempered glass which is included with the purchase of this case on the left side panel is slightly tinted not too tinted to where you can't see what's inside you can see so it actually looks decent I don't like the very tinted dark glass and it's like what the heck all you see is your RGB LEDs and then what's the point really can't show off Hardware just the lighting but you also have the this kind of weird dot pattern on the edges of the tempered glass so kind of blend things into that like black frame that you really want to look for around tempered glass some cases especially if they're like chassés that have been reused by multiple companies we'll just include the glass but no like black frame around the edges so you see where you know typical conventional panels were just slid into place looks a bit messy here Dave Koh decided to fade it with a bunch of circles in terms of drive support you'll find a single two and a half inch tray up front actually above the flow meter the the drive if you decide to put one there will actually kind of sink into the flow meter a bit the hub there so it's a little weird looking but at the same time I'm okay with it because it doesn't look like anything else on the market there's also a second SSD tray around the back against the motherboard tray and there are also two dedicated harddrive three and a half inch trays below the power supply up front now in terms of branding this case is very subtle in fact there are only two locations where you'll even notice the logo it was a third of the rear but who's looking back there the first is just above this flow meter it's RGB eliminated and the second one is spelled out up front it too is RGB eliminated these aren't very big I don't think that companies that are very confident need big logos that's just my rule of thumb and overall in terms of value and give this case an 8 out of 10 if you want to separate the AO from the actual chassis then we're looking at maybe 50 to 60 bucks for that so dock that off the price of 100 to 20 and let's say 130 bucks worst case so 130 bucks - 60 bucks right left with $70 that's a $70 tempered glass chassis with RGB integration which is pretty it's pretty good bargain now and it will support up to ATX motherboards knotty ATX just because it's it's not a very deep frame then that sends it's not very wide either but for the features that you're getting inside for the CPU cooling capacity that you also have it's already pre-installed ready to go out of the box I'd say this is a pretty darn good value at 130 bucks there are however two things I would change about this chassis that's current price point I'm telling you these things because you need to know as a consumer what you're gonna get yourself into you decided by this chassis also who knows deep come and actually take these critiques to heart end up implementing these changes in future revisions so here goes first off I would change that fan at the rear its total trash if it's mullux power to get rid of it shouldn't belong in a $130 enclosure especially but I would completely just ex that thing out I would even put a fan at the rear to be I would just put two decent fans or it's my phone and put two decent fans at the base of the case and give the case just a fresh supply of air from the bottom there is a dust filter down here so don't worry about dust buildup and that should give not only your graphics card a fresh supply of air but also passively cool your motherboard and give your radiator a fresher supply of air with which to exhaust into the atmosphere the second critique it seems like a lot of cases have this critique especially from me because when I'm building it I noticed that there just there's not enough room right I think that the dimensions are a little too narrow I don't think there's any harm done by making the case maybe an inch longer or an inch deeper and then also maybe half an inch wider especially for the right side panel so you have a bit more room back there for cable management things look really nice you got the velcro straps you've got you know optimal mounting points for hard drives and SSDs and what-have-you and you do have plenty of space in the front I guess that run basement of sorts to stuff any extra PSU cables but making the chassis just a bit bigger by volume overall would really lessen the burden on the Builder it's just a new experience and it takes some time getting used to in fact it took me about 30 minutes figure out how to even install the power supply up front thank God for the manual probably the first time I've ever used a case manual ever because I didn't know exactly how to mount the power supply up front I've never done anything like that before but it worked out you follow directions I recommend you look at the manual at least once I still think they should widen the case by maybe half an inch or so and then it stretch the length of the case out or the depth of the case by maybe an inch and then I think you'd have adequate breathing room for your graphics card especially lengthwise because this card kind of sticks into the flowmeter chamber if you will and then cable management at the right side is also a bit restrictive you know I really took my time but if someone's just throwing stuff into their case ready to go they're gonna have trouble fitting that right panel on I will admit it so maybe changing the volume of the case is a bit difficult to do right without completely redesigning it from the ground up but swapping the fans is something I do hope that they but they at least take a look at in future revisions off the bearing case liquid because as of right now airflow is not the greatest I'm not an airflow Nazi okay I don't need you know three fans up front and like a mesh front panel with every case but at least try a bit harder than you know putting one exhaust fan at the top and one exhaust man at the rear and calling it a day that's not gonna work for any graphics card you decide to install but enough with that I still think deep coal did an excellent job differentiating the baron case liquid from its competitors does it even have competitors I mean really like this case doesn't compete with much anything on the market mean come on what case has a built-in flow meter than like you know RGB everything it just looks so harmonious it's not overkill by any means and at 130 bucks I think it's a great value now what I wanna know next is what you guys think about it it's so weird I mean I don't even know how you guys are gonna are gonna real receive this case do you think that it's something's gonna do really well is something you would consider for a future PC build let me know in the comments below give this video a thumbs up 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