Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This case has DLC!”.
This is the brand new mod free PC case from inwin, looks pretty nice huh, but maybe it’s a little big. Well, don’t worry about that, because the whole top just comes off. Actually this comes off too um. This also just kind of comes off, but we expect that and uh this comes off and you can actually take the whole front off if you really want to, because the whole computer is modular, that’s right. Every single prism in this whole Beast of a machine can be just totally removed completely tool-less completely simple. Let’S take a look over here. The whole idea behind this case is that you only have to buy what you need when you need it, so you don’t have to fret over being like. Oh, I want to get this small case, but what, if I want more storage in the future, I don’t have enough Drive mounts well at any point. You can just get yourself an expansion module that toollously attaches right at the top or at the bottom or at the sides. Even with the base version of the case. You get two modules, the motherboard module and the PSU module you would put them. I don’t know. I guess together and like this kind of you know a traditional format that the bottom mounted power supply and then you would be able to put any side panels or top panels that you want on it and you can get a 280 millimeter rad.
That can be mounted at the top or at the front. It also comes with a mount for your storage, so you can have two 2.5 and a half inch drives or one three and a half inch drive, and the cool thing is that you can kind of put it wherever you want. You want to put it up here, you can you just got to screw it in you want to put it further back. You can do that too, and here at the bottom, you can even put them at the front and the storage module will hold to eight three and a half inch drives, which will allow you to basically transform this into your Nas.
If you want – or you can put a whole other computer in just the expansion, module currently supports an sfx power supply and, as you can see, an mitx motherboard. So if you’re a streamer and you want to have a dedicated stream computer or if you’re, somebody who wants to have network attached storage, but you don’t want to have to have another computer sitting somewhere else, you can literally just I don’t know, put this on the Side put this on the front, maybe not probably on the best airflow configuration to put a whole other computer on the front of your other computer. But hey! I don’t make the rules you do and that’s the beauty. You can just have your base computer with a bottom mounted PSU or you can actually put the module on the top.
If that’s what you prefer and if you go uh. Oh, maybe I need more cooling for that new 40. 90. I’M getting well! You can add another module or two modules or even three more modules, which is this is the mod tier that inwin is also going to be selling.
There’S an extra expansion module in the back. You can see three fans, another module down there, another module in the front each of the expansion modules can hold up to a 420 millimeter rad and you don’t have to worry about compatibility because you’re not going to deal with your radiator blocking going over your motherboard And blocking some of the ports or whatever you just have this whole extra section. One thing that’s interesting is that currently all of the modules that they have here at CES are longer than the horizontal length of the case.
So if you want to add something on top, it’s going to look a little weird, it’s gon na have a bit of a pompadour, but you can always add it to the front right for that again that better rad support one thing. I would also like to see is that maybe a change to this mechanism right now, it’s just kind of a piece of metal. I think, if they added maybe just some like rubber around the edges, that would really make it nice.
This is pre-production and they’re. Looking for feedback, so if this seems like something that you don’t really care about, then maybe they won’t change it or do a favor for me and tell them to put rubber on it. That’S enough about the modules. Let’S get back to the main case and look at some of the features that we have. You have some rubber grommets for cable management. You also have a lot of options for cable manager.
This is great because you don’t know where your cables are going to go. You can put your PSU on the front top or the back, so they have to give this kind of extra space to accommodate any configuration, which is a pretty unique design challenge, because a lot of times when you’re making a case, you have something in mind of How it’s supposed to go and that allows you to be like we only need these options. You have about an inch of clearance on the back end for cables uh, you have some tie down points. Here’S some mounting points for like your RGB controller. If you’re going like full RGB, one thing I would like to see is: maybe a mounting point for a two and a half inch Drive in the back, because this is probably going to be the core of your system. I want this part to have as much flexibility as possible so that I don’t feel like I’m forced to upgrade, rather as opposed to just having the opportunity to upgrade. Also, this can support up to eatx motherboards. You see the mounting holes up here, so you can go really big with your motherboard.
If you’re trying to do a crazy system like that one over there, we’ve mostly been showing off their frosted acrylic side panels and stuff, like that, but they’re actually going to be offering various different types you’re going to have good old-fashioned metal tempered glass mesh panel holes. So really it’s going to be whatever you prefer and they’re, also interested in hearing what you guys want in terms of like materials. Do you want to maybe see like some wood grain? I don’t I like a wood grain on my PC personally and I wouldn’t mind that okay, I like the white and orange Motif it uh. Oh, we got ta, do a d brand segue, don’t we so our sponsor for CES 2023 actually dropped out, but dbrand footed.
The bill the only catches they want me to come out onto the streets and offer Tech tips to random people for free it’s. I I’m not optimistic for how this is going to go. Excuse me guys: do you want a tech tip detective, a tech tip sure yeah yeah uh, you know when you plug in a USB yeah and it won’t go in all the way. Yeah uh don’t keep pushing because there’s a reason. It’S not going. You want to flip it over probably okay, yeah yeah. Did that help yeah super helpful. Okay, great yeah! That’S awesome! Wait. Can you do one more thing for me, yeah go to shortlineus.com, yeah, sure man, you will yeah you promise yeah. Do you want a tech tip? Have you ever swapped a processor a lot of times? Okay, you know when you take the thermal paste off of the processes. Small is better. You know the isopropyl alcohol.
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I follow that guy, I’m not the shoreline. It’S on the tall, Linus! Okay for front. I o you have two USB 3.1 ports and a USB type-c it’ll be 3.2. You also have a combo headphone microphone, Jack power button stuff like that.
Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t really want wires, sticking out the side of my computer case. I’M more of a top or a front kind of guy, but you will. You will actually be able to position this where you want, in the case so long as it’s kind of with this side panel. So if you want to have it bottom mounted, because it’s a square motherboard module, you could mount it at the bottom.
What I’d like to see is probably i o that’s more traditionally like at the top or at the front. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to it, maybe I’m being close-minded, who knows potential for future modules. Well, as we said, there’s a storage one coming one thing that might be cool to see would be like something with like maybe an integrated Reservoir or just really strong water cooling support. Again, you can just give yourself more space, so you can find a reservoir that fits in there.
This isn’t going to be the thing for everybody for a lot of people, especially if you’re like really new to computers, and you just want something to Game On. You might want to go with something: that’s a little bit more basic, not that this is hard to use, but you’ll be cheaper, going with like a high volume case from I don’t know. You know your fan text, Corsair kind of stuff like that, but for somebody who goes, I know what I want now and I have an idea of what I want in the future. I think this is really exciting, because you’re not going to be tied down to that case, and then you also when you do want to upgrade your computer.
You don’t have to throw the rest of the case away or sell it. You can just add what you need. Inwin is going to launch this in Spring 2023, no price has been announced, but what would you pay for it? Do you think it’s cool? Is it for you? If you liked what you just watched, then we’ll get subscribed to Short Circuit, we’ve got lots of more CES coverage coming uh in win. Neat .