 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the AZA Genesis 9000 and this font is illegible. This could be a P or a D, this could be a Q, and these could all be used. This could be like the Genesis Q. It's really too bad they didn't call it the 9001 because then it could be over 9000 and everyone would love that of course. Alright, so let's move right along then. Our ATX, this is a little bit different. Reversible ATX, the ATX motherboard can be rotated 180 degrees, so we're going to show you that once we open it up. Vertical air, vertical airflow design to provide maximum cooling performance. Heat does naturally rise, although I think they've, okay, yeah, no, maybe the color coding is correct. So the heat goes like this, up through the case as opposed to through the front and out the back like a standard ATX design. Dual PSU compatible, you can install power supply either in the front or the back of the bottom of the case. Easy swap drives, up to a 480 millimeter radiator is supported, which is very cool. So you can put a quad rad in here, no problem. Screwless drive locks, two easy swap trays for easy tool-less installation without removing the side panel, two 120 millimeter fans at the side to provide excellent cooling for the hard drives. Vertical air, we've talked about this, two 140s at the bottom to take in cool air. Look at this, they actually put the patent number right on the box about how the power supply can either be at the front or the rear. Supports up to 400 millimeter graphics cards, that looks like a 6990 in there, so it's about as long as it gets these days. Reversible motherboard tray, two by 230 top fan supports water cooling radiators up to 480 millimeters. So let's go through the specs on the outside of the box really quickly before we open this up. XLATX, the ATX, full ATX, micro ATX. You know what, I think most of this can be covered once we open her up. So let's talk packing materials, using a hard foam rather than a soft foam, which isn't my favorite. However, they are using a double corrugated box, which is good, and they are using like two inches of packing material on the corners with more than an inch on the top and the bottom. So what that means is it's extremely durable. However, in the event that it did break, maybe it's loaded up with a 480 mil rad and all this other hardware, then the structural integrity would be gone. However, ours arrived okay, so take from that what you will. Now I criticize the foam, but there comes a point where you actually make it like rigid enough that it probably actually wouldn't break. Like check this out. Okay, it broke, but that's what it took. So trust me, it's strong. Moving right along to the Genesis 9000. This is the white version. There's actually a black version as well. So the white version is white and blue and the black version is black and red. Now there's a lot of stuff about this thing that we have to cover just on the outside alone. So why don't we start at the front because that seems like a natural place to start. So we've got a couple of thumb screws here. This is going to give you access if you have a screwdriver, which I will go get now to the front power supply mounting option. And then from the back, there will be an additional rear power supply mounting option. And right now, honestly, I am just so stalling for time while I go find a screwdriver. All right, so let's open this bad boy up and let's find an appropriate sized Phillips head. There we go. Oh yeah. Power tools. Wow. Those are some beastly thumb screws we got going on here. They are very serious about this staying in place. So let's see. Okay. Cool. This apparently came out. So there you go. There's your standard ATX power supply mounting as well as a built in cable so that you can easily plug the power supply in without any interference there. So it would be exhausting from the front of the case through the mesh here. And then you can also see, ah, yes, this is good. You can see from the front how the airflow structure in this case actually works because there's a filter here, right there. And you can see that all the air pretty much comes up through the bottom of the case using these vents along the side right here. So that's why it's raised a couple of inches off the ground so that it's actually going to have access to air from there. Which isn't to say that you can't get any airflow going from the front because you got nine 5 1⁄4 inch bays that are all mesh and all filtered and are easily removable just like that. And then you've got perforated panels behind them. Although you could completely remove those anyway. All right. Let's move along to the top. So up here, got a couple different things. You got your power and your reset. You got a fan LED switch. I love these because that way you can keep your fans on but actually not have the computer be bright. You've got your power as well as hard drive indicator LEDs, eSATA, two USB 2, front audio and two USB 3 ports. So that's pretty much all the ports that you could need. Now I would have liked to see a slightly less restrictive grill on the top. So you can see that there's ventilation holes here. This is where that quadruple radiator is going to go if you so desire. And let's just go ahead and remove this. So we'll show you guys the whole process of taking this apart. But again, we've got some serious business thumbscrews going on here. I just got to do two more. All right. They have done a lot of custom stuff for this case though. I can say that much. I mean, this is not your standard cookie cutter OEM case going on here. All right. So there's the LED strips up at the top. Remember they're red on the black version. Here is where all the fans are plugged into the integrated fan LED controller doodad right there. Doesn't look like there's an actual fan controller at the top, which is kind of a shame. That would be kind of perfect actually. Here's those dual 160 millimeter fans at the top. And you can see that there's lots of other fan holes, lots of other mounting options for up to that quadruple 120 millimeter radiator and four 120 millimeter fans that you can install at the top of the case. Since we're at the back, you can see that the motherboard tray is an inverted ATX right now. This handle right here is for the removable motherboard tray. However, that can be rotated 180 degrees should you see fit. Now personally, I'm not a huge advocate of the whole removable motherboard tray thing because I find it to be more of an impediment to cable management than a convenience factor for me. However, if it has a useful purpose such as allowing me to rotate the motherboard tray and build my system the way I want to build it, then we're having a different conversation. And I'll have to figure out how this comes off off camera. At any rate, there's the other power supply mounting hole. Here is the pass through for that front power supply. So you would actually plug in two power cords if you had dual power supplies, which makes sense. There's your 120 millimeter back cooling fan, which you could use for an additional 120 millimeter rad, and there you got nine PCI expansion slots for XLATX compatibility with even some of the biggest boards that I've seen. On this side, you've got two 120 millimeter fans for your drives. And on this side, you have room for two 120 millimeter fans for your drives. You've also got a what looks like sort of a filtered mesh, but it's actually just two different kinds of mesh layered on top of each other as well as a small window. So let's go ahead and get this baby opened up. So we do have to remove the handle from the back in order to pull the motherboard tray out, which is sort of an oddity to me. But there's also a few more thumb screws here that need to be removed before we can remove the motherboard tray. So we're going to take these out and we'll show you the internals before we flip it around. So okay, we took this, sorry, we took this side panel off off camera. So the side panel looks to be reversible because see the holes are in exactly the same place on either side. This is the same. This is the same. So you should in theory be able to switch them to either side that you prefer. Hence the reason that both of them have those cutouts for the 120 millimeter fans. Also you can tell from the way it bulges and the way that the five and a quarter inch base here are recessed a little bit that you would have no difficulty installing your standard 25 millimeter 120 mil fans on the side here. So there it yes, it's free now. So let's go ahead and turn it around. Here we go. This is a beastly case. It's really big. I mean, it's not big like Cosmos too big, which was sort of ludicrous, but it's big like this is a really big case big and look at all these screws we've removed from it just to like open it. Okay. So on the inside here we find two 120 mil fans pre-installed. We find the there's don't worry. There's like a plastic coating on this protecting it. So it's actually a lot more see-through than it first appeared to be. And this is the like dual layer mesh I'm talking about where this looks like fan filter and the other layer looks like mesh. So you could probably remove it if you wanted to. If you wanted to see through it a little bit better, which I personally would be down for. And now we are finally inside the beast. So few things here. There are all of the tool is five and a quarter inch bays, some of which as you can see have been converted to three and a half inch bays. So we're going to have to have a look from the front and see how exactly that works. So let's say starting about here. Let's just go ahead and move these. Okay. So some of these are tool lists and look like they go in on rails to a back plane. However, I don't see an oh yes. Aha. So you do have to do that. Okay. So there it comes with five of these. So you can mount a three and a half inch drive, a two and a half inch drive or a five and a quarter inch drive and then slide it in on the included rails and it toollessly goes in. Now you can actually screw it in. There are screw holes and you can reposition these back plane doodads should you see fit. So these guys right here. Sorry guys, we're having some microphone issues today. So these are movable anywhere where there are mounting holes for them. So you can make your hot swap bays wherever you see fit. Now these are good for three and a half inch, two and a half inch devices. It has five and a quarter inch holes, but because it'll sort of change the spacing a little bit, you wouldn't actually be able to install a five and a quarter inch device in it and they're not threaded so they don't think you could actually screw something into it. Although it could be like self tapping screws or something. At any rate, we're going to go ahead and slide this back in just to show you guys. Sorry, I got my head totally in the way here, but just to show you guys how the tool is drive enclosure device works. So you just pull that to pull it out and then it's all good in the hood. Okay. Moving right along this right here appears to be graphics card support of some sort. It's not the kind of thing I would typically use, so I'm not going to go too far into it. Most of the time the encounters I've had with these support structures is that they're probably not something that you actually want to use. However, some people like them so you can see it actually goes in this way. That's where that extra screw we found was from. So that must have fallen out, which I don't know if that would be related to the packing materials or anything like that, but at any rate, that's how it goes in. So let's just kind of put that in so you can visualize it. So what that does is it supports the cards. You can move them around wherever you want. So you can give the cards as much or as little support as you want. You just loosen this with a screwdriver and not with your hands. And then remember guys, the motherboard tray is kind of upside down here, so you have to bear that in mind while you're visualizing. So you can move that around wherever you want. And there is a piece on the back that makes sure that the screw doesn't just sort of randomly fall out at any given time and keeps it in place. And we'll be back in a second here guys, which brings us to why I usually don't use these. I find they're just sort of a little bit more trouble than they're worth for me. Okay, so the rest of the internal layout is pretty straightforward. You got your cable management holes for your power supplies, which can be located. Okay, let's go ahead and turn this back around so that you guys can see. So power supply can be here or here. And based on the positioning of these fans, I would probably recommend putting it in the front in the stock configuration. However, if you turn this around, then we might be having a bit of a different conversation. And then in terms of cable management space, there is lots of the back. So you can see they've done some of the cable management for you already with some of the fans as well as the front panel connectors. But there's ample room back here for things like your 24 pin connector, anything going up to your drives. I wish this sort of had some pass throughs at some point, but that's not the end of the world either. Here you've got lots of cable management holes as well. You got this one for your eight pin or eight pins or four pin plus eight pin or whatever it is that your motherboard happens to use. And now for the most exciting moment of all. Ah, yes. The reason I don't really like removable motherboard trays. Because when you cable manage anything, you usually use the motherboard tray. So I'm going to go ahead and remove these and then we'll show you the removable motherboard tray. And we're ready now. Oh, I thought we were ready. Yeah, I got this. Uh huh. I hope I don't have to remove these. There we go. All right. We are rolling now. Okay, so how simple is it to change the orientation of your motherboard? All you got to do is take this whole structure right here and slide it in this way. Okay, this fully reversible case. And hold on. Oh, I see it. And there we go. So now it is using a standard right side up motherboard tray. You can still do the front mounted power supply. Nothing really changes. It's just a matter of how you want your computer set up. So in summary, bottom to top airflow, 180 degree flippable motherboard tray. You got the supports for your graphics cards. Should you see fit? You got your hot swaps. You got your... Oh yeah, there's a couple more 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch... I don't know what these are for. They're going to put a power supply there anyway, so don't worry about it. So you got five 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch bays, four 5.25 inch bays by default. Did I say FUD? Because what I meant to say was six. And XLATX compatibility. Basically you got everything. This is kind of like the Swiss army knife with cases because you can fit absolutely anything in it. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the AZA Genesis 9000. Not over 9000, exactly 9000. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips from our unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. We should clarify a point about the handle. We were wrong. The handle actually doesn't have to have the screws removed in order to take the motherboard tray out, so it is fine. Also here we are putting the packing materials back on the case. You know what? It will actually kind of be okay once we put it back in the box. We'll see how that goes.