 So I have been asked time and time again, Linus, where'd you get that like test bench thing? Meaning this thing. Okay, so I have a couple high-speed PC tech stations. Yes, that is what it is called It is called a high-speed PC tech station. This is a standard size. So it is an ATX size Top-deck tech station. I actually have one that's not a top deck tech station at home And on that one the motherboard goes on the bottom and the drives and power supply go on the top It's a lot less convenient. I prefer the top deck style So high-speed PC noticing that I use their product in my videos all the time Actually contacted me and offered to send me their new tech station So I am going to be upgrading my tech station to the top deck tech station Which is the same but this is the XL model so that is going to allow me and I need another prop here to install motherboards such as the G1 killer assassin from gigabyte and Test things like four-way SLI on my tech station, which I was not able to do in the past so high-speed PC tech stations cost anywhere from around a hundred bucks to up to about two hundred dollars for some of the higher-end models, but they are Incredibly convenient and I have easily gotten my hundred dollars worth out of my old one and I'm sure I will get my zero dollars worth Thank you very much high-speed PC out of the new one. I'm really really excited to try this one out So as you can see there is some assembly required I remember the first time I put one together my my first one it actually took me quite a long time To figure it out. That was a long time ago. That was back when When my core two extreme 6800 was a really high-end processor, so yeah, it's definitely been a while Okay, remember that was a dual core extreme edition Crazy okay, so wow okay the first thing I see is three included fans, so these are logisys fans They are black and red and they do not come with LEDs of any sort which is good because then I probably wouldn't install them What I've gone to for most of my tech station needs is actually the Noctua P-series fans because they provide good static airflow through radiators or whatever other coolers I use and they're not loud because I often have the tech station running behind me at work And I don't want anything loud and obnoxious because I'm trying to concentrate on things Other than my test PC worrying away in the background, so let's have a look at the included parts here All right a lot of people have actually asked me if I made my tech station myself and the answer is No, although you probably could it is so much more convenient to buy one of these kits from high-speed PC that comes with all the little bits and pieces that you need and And instructions on how to assemble them even things like fan guards, okay, so let's show you guys everything that we got here Okay, first thing how to get in touch with them missing parts questions or other problems contact us right away We'll do our best to have a solution for you within 24 hours awesome great Next we have the instructions, so this just comes on your typically for paper. It's like a laser Printed copy so nothing too sophisticated, but they're a fairly small company And there's lots of nice color pictures here that will help you to put together your tech station without too much trouble All right, I want to show you guys everything that's included So this is actually here if I show you guys a completed one that might actually make it a little easier to point out What everything is so this piece right here? You can see it's actually got 10 expansion slot holes on it, so this is the replacement for this So it's just going to be slightly longer than my old one all right these two right here These are the upright posts right here that support the PCI slot cover this Hard-drive mounting so on the bottom of the tech station down here You can see there are rails to mount a hard drive or two hard drives under the tech station itself All right, these are the four posts that keep the two the top and the bottom piece apart and supported okay, we've got motherboard standoffs I Love the motherboard standoffs that they use because they're awesome. I'm going to show you guys how you install a motherboard on a tech station here so First you take the motherboard off so basically you've just got these little rubber pieces right here That go right over where the holes are and then in order to get it lined up There's a couple that come with little plastic threaded spikes and the reason those threaded spikes are so great is because When you get them positioned push them on it's it takes a little bit of Fussing to actually lift the motherboard back up which is perfect so holds it in place a little bit But it also doesn't allow it to slide around Like this and it keeps everything from shorting out because you're using rubber to isolate the motherboard from everything else So that is what we have in there Next we have all of the mounting hardware required to assemble my new top deck tech station So we've got things like L brackets for here. We've got these caps right here which go on the tops of your posts We've got various different screws for fastening everything together And finally last but not least we have some fangirls We have the ATX control kit which for motherboards that do not have built-in power and reset switches is very convenient because you just throw that on the front panel headers and then Boom you have a built-in power switch or reset switch power LED hard drive LED and speaker So you can actually buy this separately as well if you don't want a tech station or if you already have a tech station You just lost yours or something got a nice little neoprene pad here, so the neoprene pad is on my own personal tech station right here Is mounted on the bottom where it belongs and then I've also supplemented it with some of these Non-slip things that I really like as well to just to make sure that my optical drive doesn't move around I don't have one under my power supply because my power supply has enough weight that it's able to not slip on the neoprene pad So the neoprene pad is there this appears to be the bottom piece All right, and then this with all of the motherboard mounting holes in it as well As lots of labels for where to put stuff is the top piece And I just want to show you guys one last thing before I finish up my unboxing and showcase here And that is the overall build quality of the tech station so in spite of having all this stuff on the bottom of it And this is actually a relatively light load for this particular one There is no chance of it falling apart at any time even though the way these are supported is with screws So I've been very very happy with my tech station over the last couple of years and big thanks again to high-speed PC For sending me an XL ATX one so I can bring you guys more benchmarking goodness Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos