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so for quite some time now my mom has been following the channel and she's seen some of the nice builds coming out with RGB and tempered glass and she's asked me Brian why don't I have a PC like this and then it occurred to me that the last PC er built her was quite a while ago with a PC case called a vent oh and that's not to be confused with the Japanese bento which is like a lunch box although they kind of do look similar both being very plain and simplistic however the computer case that I have here not only looked pretty bad it also needs a serious clean it's got cobwebs in it and when I saw this thing I was like damn I'm gonna have to do a techie ICT cleanse on it and then also install it into a brand new case and this brings us to the Cougar Panzer which is a tempered glass case that comes in at 89 USD or if you're in Australia ninety-nine Australian dollars so they got the pricing right there however it doesn't come with any fans in the front however when I go to Aliexpress I can then get a three kit of fans RGB with the controller for under 20 US shipped to your door and of course while we're at it we wires will put in some custom cable mods and make this thing look absolutely pronto welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with a video on how to get a cheap cosmetic upgrade for your pc so we've got three parts here that have talent in it around about 150 USD now i know you think that's expensive and definitely in the past i have built some computers that perform pretty well for even this price for the total build however they don't look the best although for some people they actually do look pretty good but that's besides the point we've got here RGB tempered glass and a pc build that's going to look very clean and will suit a modern house so from here on in we're gonna take all these old pc parts out put them in the new pc case but if they're too old we may even upgrade them even though the purpose of this build is not for any performance upgrades it's just simply cosmetics my mum is the type of person who will literally just use a computer to use word excel check emails or even place spider solitaire and the graphics card that we have in there is a seventy eight seventy which of course is perfectly fine for a constant smooth 60fps in spider solitaire so now it's time to get this whole process in motion when it comes to cleaning out my builds I always use a combination of brake cleaner and wd-40 the brake cleaner really tends to give those parts a really deep clean and then the wd-40 gives it that nice new look shine however some of the parts are just simply too old for instance we've only got four gigabytes of RAM and it's not even a symmetrical configuration so we're gonna change that upgrade it to eight gigabytes of RAM and also change the graphics card from a 78 70 to a GTX 670 and the reason for this is that I had this exact GTX 670 same model from Galaxy before they became Galax and I was using that to produce my earlier content on tech yes City so it's kind of a sentimental upgrade if anything even though it's not such a big performance upgrade so gonna be inserting that into the build and then for the custom cables we're using game of chief cables in Australia you can pick these up for a whole kit like this for around about 50 Australian dollars shipped to your door so it's very cheap they also come with pre combed cables to save any hassles and they'll fit on a relatively inexpensive PC and now the fans for under $20 you can get a really good kit of RGB fan three fans also comes with an RGB controller and now onto the last component of today's build which takes up most of the budget this is the Cougar Panzer which is a mid-sized ATX case with tempered glass it also has support for three hundred and sixty millimeter rads both on the front and the top and on the rear you can have a 120 mil rat and on the bottom as well you also have support for two 3.5 inch hard drives for 2.5 inch SSDs and on the top of the case there's two USB three outs and also two USB 2 outs so all in all great case with a lot of expansion however let's get on to building this PC and seeing how it turns out so I've got this bill beside me it is complete it is looking really good and I managed to give it a trial run in spite of solitaire and for some odd reason it just took me such a long time to win a game of four suited spider solitaire and I don't even know why I kept playing but anyway let's get back to this build really good cosmetics and of course tempered glass if you're into that 2017 vibe this case will give it to you on a budget but not only that it was just really easy to work with I've really nothing bad to say about this case keep in mind though you don't get included fans which is why at the start of the video I showed that Aliexpress kit of three fans for under 20 USD and it's also RGB and they do a great job of cooling and of course giving you a bit of bling of course they are limited by the controller I'm sure if you had a better controller you could get more colors and modes unlocked but seriously for under $20 great Buy and then of course we've got the custom slave cables from Game achieve they do a great job I'm not only making this build color-coordinated but also extending the cables on the power supply so they could fit the sockets with ease so we've got great expandability in this case and we've now got great cosmetics for literally a hundred and fifty US dollars it is that cheap to get something that's tempered-glass RGB and will just completely look awesome if you're into building new computers or if you want to update your old specs and in the case of this build here even though we're running some older parts like a b85 asrock motherboard and also an i3 and eight gigabytes of ram it's all my mum will need for doing microsoft word and also browsing the web and of course playing her favorite game which is spider solitaire so from here on we're gonna show off this build to my mum and see how she reacts to it hey mom I got something to show you do you want to come into the office please look at their lives oh that mine yeah and mine with the light oh nice so you said you want a better cosmetics and you better come inside hmm well that's nice it's got all the fancy lights and they're in the glass all right exactly see now the longer have to use the bento the bento are the one I was using yeah hmm oh this is lovely can you there's the lights change like there we have it I showed her this computer and she absolutely loved it and also got a big thank-you kiss so you can't go wrong so onto this case beside me the Cougar Panzer I absolutely loved it and the reason being is because it's for pretty much everyone out there especially for people just getting into PC gaming and the reason is is you've got that case shroud over the power supply so you can put in inexpensive power supplies but generally have ketchup and mustard cables and then non-modular so you can hide all the cables behind this shroud and also get some cable extensions and make your build still look aesthetically pleasing and you've also got tempered glass to really bring out any lighting that you put inside the build now with cable management so much room to work with you're gonna have no problems doing any cable management you also get some included zip ties and things are going to be extremely easy drive bays for 2.5 inch SSD bays they come out and install the drives with these 3.5 inch drive bays you got 2 of those and again very easy to work with and then with the case itself there was no sharp edges the installation instructions were extremely easy to follow and the case came off very easy at the front so it was very simple to install three fans and also very quick then what about negatives with the Cougar Panzer and seriously for this money $89 I could not fault one thing about it of course you will have to add your own fans I think the one exhaust fan isn't enough though the tempered glass if you are coming into PC gaming and this is your first build to be very careful with tempered glass if you do break this stuff you're gonna have one serious mess on your hands it's also a little bit heavier of course then something like acrylic now when it comes down to it this is one case that I can easily recommend to anyone so spacious especially for a mid sized ATX tower and then we the Aliexpress fans we dropped in three of those under $20 they did a fantastic job of giving airflow to the case but also giving it a bit more bling the controller was a little bit limited in its color range and also its modes however I'm sure with a better controller you could up your RGB game if you so wanted to anyway guys that's about it for me today if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what was your favorite cosmetic upgrade of this PC today I'm seriously liking all three parts especially for the value that you get out of them if you're upgrading and want that really good look on your PC and also sorry I haven't made a video in a little while I've been quite ill I got a flu again and I was moving and I put my back out twice so it's been really rough and also the new studio is coming along as well I will make some progress updates on that at the meantime I will be recording from here and recording some videos for you guys and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye