 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom Glass. Visit store.phantom.glass for the best on-screen protectors out there, as well as HyperX. So we're here in the Corsair Suite with everybody's favorite Corsair PM for cases. George, how many case PMs do you have at Corsair? Uh, I'm the only one. Alright, so you're definitely, definitely our favorite, but also the worst. Yes, also best and worst at the same time. So show us what travesty you're showing off for this show here. No, I'm just, I'm just messing with you. These look like an improvement to me. What, what are they exactly? Yeah, these are the horrors we've unleashed upon you. Um, so we released last year the Spec01, Spec02, and Spec03, which are kind of gaming focused value price cases. I'll hold this. And, uh, they were designed basically for, uh, South America, uh, Asia, some gaming focused stuff. We had a lot of people that liked the chassis, but said, can you do like a more refined and cleaner design? And so that's what this is. It's the same exact chassis as the Spec01, but we put kind of a 200R style front on the front and called it a 100R. So it's a very clean, minimalistic black front. It's textured to look like aluminum, dual USB three ports, room for two 140 millimeter fans in front, two 120s on top and a 120 in back. And then, uh, you've got a seven slots, power supply on bottom, dust filter on the bottom. The mesh is intake from the side here. And then four hard drive bays inside for SSDs or regular drives, cable routing holes, all that stuff. So for 49 bucks, it comes with one 120 millimeter fan, two USB three ports. It's pretty, pretty solid 50 bucks. Um, for $10 more for $59, you can get the 100R silent edition, which, well, it is plugged in and that probably broke. That's all right. It's the only one we own. Um, this is the 100R silent edition. Same exact chassis inside, but it gets rid of the window. Um, and it gets through the top mesh because we wanted to make it quieter and the windows and top mesh actually hurt noise level production. So what we want to do is take that out, put sound damping, top sides and front. We added a three speed fan control switch right there. And it comes with a second 120 millimeter fan, so you can get better airflow through it when it's quieter. So that is $59. So for $10 more, you get the silent version. So there's the 100R and 100R silent edition, both available in February. Uh, and here's your mic back. So, I mean, my feedback on the spec, it was the spec 01, the red one that I checked out before. So my feedback on that was actually surprisingly good for a $50 case. There was one thing that I kind of wondered about, and it was that little piece that, uh, covers the, the, the, the access for the PCI slot covers. What was the deal with that? Is that like a cost saving measure or, or what? Absolutely. Yeah. So if you look at the back of most cases, there's a second piece, it's a single piece of steel that's stamped and there's a second piece that's inlaid into that. And actually to get down to kind of $49 and maintaining other features like USB three and SSD compatibility, we wanted to make that a single large piece in the back, but you can't stamp that depth in easily. So what you do is you stamp it all flush and then you have the video cards pop out and then you have to have a separate card adapter on that. So you see a lot of lower price and value cases will do that. Um, and sometimes even guys that are a little bit less scrupulous will use a cheaper chassis that has that feature and add a couple other things and charge 99 or a hundred bucks for that. So there's some other guys out there that do that, but we use the basically on our value price cases, budget price cases like this one. Well, so basically I had to choose between sort of rolled edges in here and slicing open my fingers or having an ugly piece of metal in the back. And you guys went with, well, we'll go with the ugly piece of metal in the back and the saved fingers. Yeah. If you got to do something ugly, put it in the back. You know, that's kind of how I feel about it. That's why I sit in the back of restaurants. So you're, you're a boobs guy. The ugly can be in the back. All right. Let's let's move on to the cooler. All right. We got another product from George here. This is the HG 10. Is that correct? And so the idea behind this is you take an all in one cooler. Presumably you guys would like people to use a Corsair one, but will it work with other ones? Anything that is a Stixx source that I've tried it will work. So some of the NZXT stuff works, but of course our products are superior in all ways. Right. Okay. Got it. And so the idea is they take a Corsair liquid cooler, bolt it to their video card in a way that's a little bit more elegant than what we've seen in the past with zip ties or whatever else. But what, what are, what are the results look like for an HG 10 versus a stock card? You guys have got them running side by side here. Yeah. So the important thing is, is unlike just kind of having a bracket that attaches the GPU, the hydro core to a GPU, this is actually a heat sink too. So it hooks up to the VRMs, it hooks up to the memory, which means that it needs to be made specifically for that card. So this is the M780 edition. And this is the one for the Nvidia 770, 780, 780CI, Titan and Titan black, which all use the same layout for the VRMs and the memory. So that's what this one's for. Um, it'll allow you to work with any of our coolers. And what it really does is right now it's cooling the GPU and the memory and VRMs much better with an H75 cooler. It's kind of our mid range cooler with some very low speed, uh, SP 120 LED fans on it. And what we have right now is it's running at a 58 degrees C on the GPU at full firm arc load after about half an hour of firm arc here. And on the standard reference card on the 780, it's running at 83. So there's a 25 degree difference here. Uh, importantly also the RPM of the blower fan is 2,700 RPM here and we're down at 1,700 RPM there. So it's significantly quieter as well. And then that means something significantly. We are actually thermally throttle. So the Nvidia reference design cooler is throttling itself down to 823 megahertz. Ours is running at the full speed and that adds another five or 6% performance, even in just firm arc. So, I mean, and five to 6% doesn't sound like a lot, but if it's a free five to 6% then, you know, I'll take it, but it's not free, is it? It's not free. It costs $39 for the bracket because it's an aluminum bracket. Um, you reuse the blower from the stock card because it cools the VRMs and the memory, you have to use a reference design board because these other guys are doing kind of custom boards. But if you're buying a custom card that has a big custom heat sink on it, you bought that specifically for that heat sink, you know, so this is really for guys who have a reference board and want to use a new way of cooling it. So if you, you know, you have a 780 or a 770, you want to squeeze a few extra, you know, drops of performance out of it. This is a good way to do that. You throw an old hydro cooler on it and you know, you can get a lot of performance out of it and spend a whole bunch of money and buy a whole new card. So you guys aren't really pitching this as the kind of thing that you expect someone to buy a hydro cooler, buy the HG 10 and, and cool their card. This is more like if they, you have a hydro kind of sitting in a closet somewhere and you're not really using it, you've upgraded to something else. That can work that way. Uh, I mean, a lot of people, even though it's counterintuitive, a lot of people will still kind of use the best cooler in their case to cool a CPU, even though the GPU produces much more heat. Um, so realistically, you know, you're at two, 300 Watts of heat on some of these graphics cards and only, you know, a hundred or 89 Watts or whatever on the the CPU and people will still use a hundred dollar CPU cooler and some generic or run of the mill thing that comes with a graphics card, but if you want to, you can go buy a new cooler for this. You can use whatever you have in your closet. It'll work with, you know, an H 55, H 75, H 100, all that stuff. Um, we do have versions for the N 970 and N 980 coming out very soon. So you'll see those in the next few months. Um, but this one's going to be hitting the market first because there's a ton of 700 series cards out there and there's a lot of people who would like to get a little bit extra performance out of it, but they don't really want to buy a whole new nine 70 or nine 80 because the performance is only, you know, 10, 12, 15% difference. Um, and they might as well get a bit of extra performance out of the cards they have. Fair enough. All right. So thank you very much for sharing with us about the, uh, sleeker edition of the spec. Oh one, a case that I actually liked surprisingly a lot, given that it was a $50 case as well as the upcoming liquid coolers guys. Uh, give a shout out to George in the comments below. You guys know you love him. He's the best darn case PM at Corsair and don't miss any of our CES coverage. Make sure you guys are subscribed. Also huge. Thank you. Shout out to our sponsors, Phantom glass. They make the best darn screen protectors that have sponsored us here at CES. 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