**Building with the NZXT H60**

The process of building this PC was a great experience and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. As I mentioned earlier, the case I've chosen to build with is the NZXT H60, which has a lot of features that made the process of building it very straightforward. One of the main reasons why I chose this case is because of its ample room for cable management, which is something that's really important to me when building PCs.

The first thing that I did was mount my motherboard to the case using the provided screws and stand-offs. This was a relatively simple process and one that didn't take too long at all. The motherboard tray itself came with a bunch of pre-installed screws, which made it easy to get everything lined up and secure quickly.

Next, I had to deal with the installation of my GPU, which is a very important part of any PC build. The GPU I've chosen to use in this build is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, which is one of the most powerful consumer-grade graphics cards available today. Installing the GPU required me to remove the side panel of the case and connect it to the motherboard using the provided screws and stand-offs.

The real challenge came when trying to get everything aligned with the expansion slots on the motherboard tray. The NZXT H60 has a really clever system for mounting GPUs vertically, which allows for more clearance between the GPU and the expansion slot above it. This was achieved by removing some of the screws that hold the side panel in place and using the provided screws and stand-offs to mount the GPU directly to the case.

As I mentioned earlier, one of the things that I really like about this build is how much cable management there is available. The case has a bunch of pre-installed cable ties and zip ties that make it easy to manage cables and keep them out of sight. This was especially useful when trying to get everything organized in the front of the build, which required me to use some of these cable management tools.

**Cable Management**

As I started working on the front of the build, one of my first tasks was to install the power supply. The NZXT H60 comes with a 650-watt power supply that's built into the case, which made it easy to get everything connected up quickly. Next, I had to deal with installing the fans, which is another important part of any PC build.

One of the things that I found most useful about this build was the use of sleeved cables. These cables are not only really cool-looking, but they also make it easy to manage cables and keep them out of sight. The cable combs that come with these cables are pretty easy to work with, even if they're not the softest.

**Final Steps**

After getting everything installed on the front of the build, I moved on to the final steps. One of the things that I found most challenging was trying to get all six fans connected up to this little hub. This required me to plug in a fan splitter for each set of fans and connect them all together using some cable ties.

Once everything was installed, it was time to think about cable management. As I mentioned earlier, one of the things that I really like about this build is how much cable management there is available. The case has a bunch of pre-installed cable ties and zip ties that make it easy to manage cables and keep them out of sight.

**The Finished Build**

After completing all the final steps, my PC was finally complete. I have to say, I'm really happy with how everything turned out. One of the things that I appreciate most about this build is how clean and organized everything looks. The use of sleeved cables has made it easy to manage cables and keep them out of sight.

Overall, building with the NZXT H60 was a great experience and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. The case has a lot of features that make it easy to build PCs quickly and efficiently, including ample room for cable management.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to the build of the month video for march 2022. if you guys watched my builds and deals video a week or two ago you probably know that i am building a system that is intended to be given away kyle's going to be building a system too but he'll be covering that on his channel my build today is already going to be featuring an rtx 3080 ti and asus rog strix liquid cooled version as well as an asus rog strix z690 motherboard i still haven't figured out the case and a few other components when what should arrive to my door but a brand new case that is launching today from height which is i buy power's brand of cases they sent it to me because i'm doing some ad spots for them later this month but i was like you know what this is a cool case maybe we should do this build in it then i contacted ibuypower and they offered to provide a few more parts so for starters today we are headed to i buy power to pick up the rest of the components excellent and here we are we've got the rest of the components so a big big thank you to ibuypower for helping provide a lot of the parts for this build and if you're interested in i buy power assembling a system for you in the new y60 case or a variety of other case options that they have available check the link in the description and that will take you over to their website before we start going over all the parts though i just wanted to say i'm excited to put this build together because it's a new case and we're building a high-end pc right now which has been out of reach of a lot of people due to stuff like gpu pricing for quite some time but now that we're almost done with the first quarter of 2022 things are looking up there has been a positive move or i would say a negative move in gpu pricing and if you watch my monthly build for february you know that you can assemble a pretty reasonably powerful gaming pc right now for about 800 to a thousand dollars the highest end stuff like a 3080 ti is still really expensive right now this card itself is retailing for over two thousand dollars right now so if a build of this caliber is out of your price range i completely understand i am going to be assembling it today and talking about the build process and then in about a week i'll be doing a follow-up video testing this system out and also launching a giveaway so you might have a chance to win it that said we have a lot of work ahead of us so let's go over all the parts i love this part of the build where all the retail boxes are arrayed out here in front of us and i'm going to talk about the parts that i already had first and these are provided by asus we have the asus rog strix rtx 3080 ti lc that's the liquid cooled version that has a 240 millimeter all in one liquid cooler attached to it it's also got plenty of rgb as you can probably see and i believe tom's hardware said that this was the fastest card that they had ever tested 12 gigs of gddr6x on this card as well and then we're pairing that with a motherboard that should match very nicely with the rg strix z690-e gaming wi-fi which is an lga 1700 motherboard for intel's newest 12th gen core processors this board is both well designed with excellent power delivery and also a quite pretty board i will say as well i like all the different variations that asus has come up with for integrating like rgb elements into their motherboards because i feel like they've come up with some pretty unique solutions for that and then since this is a ddr5 motherboard we're gonna be pairing it with this g-skill trident z5 rgb kit this is the black version of this memory i actually have some more of this memory on the way from g skill so i might be swapping that in but it will be literally the exact same kit pretty much or i guess i might just leave this in there but it's got rgb across the top and this has been some of the fastest ddr5 memory that i have come across so far in my experience all the rest of the parts you see here were provided by i buy power so i gave them some sort of rough parameters for what i was looking for so for example with the storage i said i'd like a one terabyte nvme ssd for a main boot drive and a two terabyte sata ssd for storage games and that sort of thing so we have the wd blue sn750 over here and the 870 qvo from samsung and the sn750 from western digital goes up to 3500 megabytes per second reads not too shabby i almost forgot our processor which is a core i7 12700k that's actually the retail box from my wife's build that i did the white build that i did back in january since i buy power is a system integrator they buy tray cpus which just come with the cpu itself so there's our actual 12700k and we're going to be keeping that cool with the deepcool castle 360ex all in one liquid cooler with a 360 millimeter radiator and we're going to power everything with this power supply from corsair which is the rm850x which is 80 plus gold rated for efficiency and also fully modular now the cables that come with this power supply are all black so they're not bad by any stretch but i decided i wanted to finish things off kind of nicely since this is a white case with a black interior so we kind of have a black and white color scheme going so i ordered some more antec sleeved cable extensions that i'm hoping to pop in although they haven't arrived yet they're supposed to arrive today but i'll show them off to you hopefully here once they do arrive and we'll be pairing those up with the power supply to give a little bit more of a white accent internally with this build since most of the internal components are going to be black and then the last part here is our case the brand new y60 case from height and this is the version that's white on the outside and black on the inside they also have a version that's pretty much all blacked out and this case launches today so i'm excited to take a first look at it those are all the parts we're ready to get started a quick reminder i'm not doing a full tutorial on how to build this system today so check the description for a link to my beginner's guide to building a pc playlist that has a bunch of walkthroughs for lots of different builds let's go there is our y60 case nice and unboxed and if you guys didn't already know the kind of cool feature of this case is that it's got this wrap around tempered glass so you can see the entire interior of the case from well at least about 180 degrees if you're standing on this side of it other than that the layout is similar to the one popularized by the liam lee 011 dynamic with a mounting point along the back panel for an additional radiator and more airflow that way and it comes with three installed fans two at the bottom directing air upwards and one at the back for exhaust but i forgot a couple things when i was going over the parts one was that we also have these fans here from corsair the ql 120 rgbs i have found that with a system like this that's very visible and especially if you want to integrate some rgb having fans that match across the whole thing is a great way to sort of complete the look so we're gonna have two fans right here for the radiator for the graphics card the top is where the 360 is gonna be so there's gonna be three more fans there and then there's that rear exhaust and although i am dreading connecting all the rgb connections for these fans it should look a lot nicer once it's all assembled also though it may seem strange i wanted to read the side of the box because there's some marketing material here that i found to be like slightly amusing even why we made this case a new build should feel new that's reasonable three-piece panoramic glass with three times more satisfying plastic wrap removal they are pandering to me here with that and i'm going to remove that after the build's done i'd say this one is the most poignant at this point we know how much you just spent on that gpu so we threw in the riser cable as well this has a pcie 4.0 riser cable and you can only do a vertical graphics card mount in this case more on that in just a second cold floor structure keeps cooler than a partly cloudy day with a light breeze and you without your jacket you know maybe like a light jacket is that what they're referring to check out this crown molding right there i feel like this is referencing a meme that i'm not aware of but crown molding like along the top all right let's take a closer look at this case and the first thing you'll notice of course is that wrap around tempered glass that is three separate pieces one here one here and one here and they actually say you can remove this piece and this piece to have sort of more of an open air setup if that's your thing but they do recommend that all of these pieces are installed if you're going to ship the case at all and in particular this more narrow piece here does provide a little bit of a support so they recommend not pushing down on this corner of the case if you've removed all the side panel pieces and you're assembling the system so keep that in mind for anyone who works with this height has completely acknowledged that this has a bit of a fish tank look to it and in fact one of the early pre-launch videos that they did with uh justin roby of robitech they basically installed a fish tank inside of it which was kind of a unique build i should also point out there's a red version of this as well that has red accents wherever you see white on this case which i think looks pretty cool too and here's a quick look at the front panel connectors on this you've got your power button right there a couple usb 3.0 is a usb 3.2 gen 2 that has an internal connector and a mic and headphone jack this case is a thick boy as you can probably see from this side the atx power supply vertically mounts right there so that's wide enough to handle the power supply as well as some 3.5 inch storage which is accessible from the back that also means there's going to be plenty of room for cable management over on this side and then the other thing you might notice back here is the expansion slots it has six expansion slots here that are half height and then three full height expansion slots over here and that's where your graphics card is going to go you actually can't horizontally mount a full-size graphics card in this case it's meant to do that over here and that's why a pcie 4.0 riser cable is included removing a thumb screw here lets us pop off this side panel and here we can give you a little bit better look this is uh some styrofoam just to hold that riser in shipping but on top you've got a little bit of a plastic trim that's going to match the color of the case and that's again just to complete the look and sort of mask off a little bit of that area then the cables come down right here and the amount for your graphics card is pre-installed and that means behind these cables which will probably be more evident once we get the motherboard installed you can still install half-height expansion cards behind that so that still gives you accessibility for a lot of the video capture cards that are on the market or if you want to drop in a riser card that gives you additional m.2 slots or something like that you still have that ability there radiator support as mentioned is up to a 360 millimeter rad and the top and then you can do a 240 or a 280 in the side and because this mount sits so far back you can actually do a really thick radiator the radiator and fan configuration there can be up to 150 millimeters thick and then right here you have grommeted pass-throughs for all of your cable management i'm gonna have more to say on this case as we start building but the last thing for now is i really like some of the design elements that they have come up with like the lines you can see they sort of wrap around like this and follow the shape of that front panel and back here again for both ventilation and aesthetics the lines sort of come here they go up to the top they continue across the top and to the back of the case and again just having that same look both on the bottom on the top i found it to be quite striking and like i said in the intro i wasn't originally planning to build this system in this case i needed to choose a case but when i took a look at it and the features and everything i was like you know what this is what i want to go with oh and in case you're wondering the retail price for this case is 200 us dollars and while i can't say i've tested like air flow and cooling in it i will say with the feature set included fans and especially that pcie 4.0 riser cable that actually seems pretty competitive to me at least at first glance i have now removed everything from the retail boxes and i noticed something very specific when i was taking this rtx 380ti liquid cool graphics card out of the box it had so much packaging there was a plastic cover around the outside and then there was another plastic cover and then there was a bunch of plastic pieces over there so if i can ask a favor from joe the editor uh joe can we toss up a quick peel montage that sure was sexy thanks joe now we're going to set up the motherboard so we're going to install the cpu the memory the ssd and also this retention bracket for the all-in-one liquid cooler which is going to attach to the back of the motherboard so our motherboard is pretty much set up there were only two things that stood out to me one is that i've realized this trendy memory kit has the stickers one of the sticks has a sticker on the wrong side which confused me at first but it was okay i figured it out what's going on here sticker backwards oh my god the sticker's backwards what whoa the sticker's backwards oh my god then for the m.2 ssd there's three different places we could put it this top slot has a pretty decent heat sink on it with sort of a supplemental floating heat pipe that sticks out above it so that would be a good place to put a high-speed pcie 4.0 or even pcie 5.0 ssd the lower slots down here are pcie 4.0 as well and they have a heatsink across the top the one on the left has dual sided heatsinks the one on the right only has one side and since our sn 750 m.2 ssd only has elements on one side of it i decided to pop it in right there that will leave the other m.2 expansion slots open for the eventual owner of this pc to add more m.2 ssd storage if they want and now we have the question of the order of operations for installing everything into the case the power supply we can mount pretty easily by itself in the back the motherboard i will probably opt to pop in there first i did use the adhesive on the back of that cpu cooler bracket so it will stay in place even though these front brackets aren't on there yet to hold it in now we've also got a couple radiators to mount and we need to mount the fans to the radiators so plenty of work still to do one thing i will say is that the two pre-mounted fans on this asus liquid cooled rtx 3080 ti i am gonna swap out this is primarily an aesthetic choice so feel free to give me a hard time in the comments that said these two fans that are pre-installed have two cables coming off of each one one is for rgb and that just connects via a standard 3-pin addressable rgb connector at the top the other one is your standard 4-pin pwm fan plug but those are then fed into the sleeved tube here for the reservoir and they feed all the way up to the graphics card so that you can get power and fan control and lighting all controlled directly by the graphics card itself since these corsair fans also have two plugs but one of them for the rgb is a proprietary plug that needs to plug into a corsair control box i'll be mounting these fans to this radiator plugging the standard fan pwm plug into these existing plugs here so that the graphics card can control the fan speed but then routing that corsair rgb header over to the corsair rgb box which i will also install hopefully somewhere back there by the cable management anyway that's my plan for the next steps so let's continue the build so the interest of completely disassembling this system i removed this uh sort of corner piece for the glass right here as well it's a little bit harder to get off there's four screws two at the top and two at the bottom that you need to remove and this is the part where they recommended not putting any weight on this corner of the case while that's removed because it does provide some vertical support there it also seems like a piece that maybe you don't even need to remove during the build process if you can get away with it so i just mainly pulled it off here to show you guys i'm going to reinstall and try to leave it there to prevent or reduce the risk of any frame bending if i accidentally lean on this and incidentally this is also the orientation they say if you wanna if you want to you can just leave these side panels off and have sort of more of an open air chassis i prefer the tempered glass myself so there it is four more screws reinstalled and yeah that's the it's like a premier feature of this case is this sort of angled tempered glass side piece so real quickly i wanted to show you guys the half height add-in card feature of this case uh this is an elgato 4k60 pro the newer version that's a little bit smaller it is a half height card it ships with a full height pci bracket so we're going to remove that and it also ships with the half height one so we'll pop that on like a so so now if we move this riser cable out of the way uh we can line this up with our expansion bracket or expansion slot i guess i should say pop it in just like that i'm not going to screw it in because this is just sort of a temporary example but then this cable will be able to go around it and then we should be able to plug that in right there this motherboard also has the quick pcie q release the asus motherboard feature that i like so much so that's convenient there it goes and there you go i should note that the top pci express slot on this motherboard is actually one slot down than the top slot on the case that was just the decision that asus made and the design of this motherboard as a result there's a little bit more slack on the riser cable right there that sort of tucked in at the bottom still plenty of room to make it around that adding card and do bear in mind that once i remove the look more appealing plastic but just to give an idea uh the graphics card is going to go right there so nothing that's behind there will be visible but i approve that height was able to make those expansion slots still functional even with a vertical mount gpu all right a bit more time has passed and the front of the build is actually like almost i think pretty much finished i don't want to say like finish finish because there's probably still going to be a few things it's also day two of this build now part of that was because these sleeved cables didn't arrive until well into the evening of the shoot on day one but that's what i've been working on mostly today is getting those sleeve cables installed and trained up a little bit and while these aren't like the softest sleeve cable extensions i've ever worked with the combs that they provide are pretty easy to pop on and although i had to get two sets in order to accommodate the uh dual eight pin cpu power connectors up there as well as the triple uh eight pin power connectors that the graphics card requires that did mean that i had a few extra cable combs and stuff so for example the three eight pins coming off of here i was able to use 12 pin combs on to sort of you know keep that a little bit cleaner and nicer looking also matches pretty well with the 24 pin coming off the motherboard the main point of conflict with these is in the upper left corner here because they need to make a pretty tight turn there and it's going right up against this fan so once i get things sorted out behind the motherboard tray i'm going to need to come up here push these out of the way and bend them as much as i can to make sure that they're still clearance with that top fan but here on the reverse side you can probably see i still have a fair amount of work to do i need to wire all six of those fans up to this little hub the fans themselves for the fan power i'm plugging all those directly into the motherboard and i used a couple fan splitters for that but moving on to the final steps here i need to install the power supply this 2.5 inch ssd as well which should go right about there and then of course cable management which is always the most fun part of any pc build right of course so so and the system is complete you guys might have seen for the cable management part i did take advantage of this cases sort of extra wide cable management area and i just stuffed some of the cables in there fortunately though the part that's still visible on this side looks very very nice if i do say so myself the element of this build that i wasn't totally sure was the aio tubing and right now i've just used two of the asus rog velcro strips to kind of hold those all together i had an idea to flip the radiator for the aio for the gpu upside down and have the tubes go over the back and then down along the bottom but after shifting them around a little bit and tying them up with the velcro i'm okay with it it's a little bit utilitarian but i'm okay with that too because the rest of the build just looks so pristine with the sort of black and white aesthetic and then rgb of course comes into play too once the system is powered on and overall i'd say my impression of the build process in the height y60 is very positive and that is in part due to the ample room for cable management also in part due to just some little details here and there that i appreciate like not having individual front panel connectors it's got the block of them that makes it much easier to plug that in even the radiator bracket across the top of the case help me out because i was able to loosen those screws to lift it up a little bit to help me route the cable extensions that are in the upper left which are just just ever so barely making clearance and allowing all the fans to spin for that top mounted 360 millimeter radiator but that is going to wrap things up for this video just a reminder that all the parts i used in this build are linked down in the video's description and yes i'll be doing a follow-up video in about a week going over system performance so there's anything specific that you guys would like to see tested or lighting configurations or anything like that leave those comments in the comment section down below also down in the description you can find a link to my store at paul's hardware dot net where you can buy shirts mugs pint glasses and all sorts of other high quality merchandise to help support my channel and get some high quality merch at the same time thank you guys so much for watching this video hit the thumbs up button on your way out if you enjoyed it subscribe to my channel if you're not already for more tech videos like this one we'll see you guys all in the next videowelcome to the build of the month video for march 2022. if you guys watched my builds and deals video a week or two ago you probably know that i am building a system that is intended to be given away kyle's going to be building a system too but he'll be covering that on his channel my build today is already going to be featuring an rtx 3080 ti and asus rog strix liquid cooled version as well as an asus rog strix z690 motherboard i still haven't figured out the case and a few other components when what should arrive to my door but a brand new case that is launching today from height which is i buy power's brand of cases they sent it to me because i'm doing some ad spots for them later this month but i was like you know what this is a cool case maybe we should do this build in it then i contacted ibuypower and they offered to provide a few more parts so for starters today we are headed to i buy power to pick up the rest of the components excellent and here we are we've got the rest of the components so a big big thank you to ibuypower for helping provide a lot of the parts for this build and if you're interested in i buy power assembling a system for you in the new y60 case or a variety of other case options that they have available check the link in the description and that will take you over to their website before we start going over all the parts though i just wanted to say i'm excited to put this build together because it's a new case and we're building a high-end pc right now which has been out of reach of a lot of people due to stuff like gpu pricing for quite some time but now that we're almost done with the first quarter of 2022 things are looking up there has been a positive move or i would say a negative move in gpu pricing and if you watch my monthly build for february you know that you can assemble a pretty reasonably powerful gaming pc right now for about 800 to a thousand dollars the highest end stuff like a 3080 ti is still really expensive right now this card itself is retailing for over two thousand dollars right now so if a build of this caliber is out of your price range i completely understand i am going to be assembling it today and talking about the build process and then in about a week i'll be doing a follow-up video testing this system out and also launching a giveaway so you might have a chance to win it that said we have a lot of work ahead of us so let's go over all the parts i love this part of the build where all the retail boxes are arrayed out here in front of us and i'm going to talk about the parts that i already had first and these are provided by asus we have the asus rog strix rtx 3080 ti lc that's the liquid cooled version that has a 240 millimeter all in one liquid cooler attached to it it's also got plenty of rgb as you can probably see and i believe tom's hardware said that this was the fastest card that they had ever tested 12 gigs of gddr6x on this card as well and then we're pairing that with a motherboard that should match very nicely with the rg strix z690-e gaming wi-fi which is an lga 1700 motherboard for intel's newest 12th gen core processors this board is both well designed with excellent power delivery and also a quite pretty board i will say as well i like all the different variations that asus has come up with for integrating like rgb elements into their motherboards because i feel like they've come up with some pretty unique solutions for that and then since this is a ddr5 motherboard we're gonna be pairing it with this g-skill trident z5 rgb kit this is the black version of this memory i actually have some more of this memory on the way from g skill so i might be swapping that in but it will be literally the exact same kit pretty much or i guess i might just leave this in there but it's got rgb across the top and this has been some of the fastest ddr5 memory that i have come across so far in my experience all the rest of the parts you see here were provided by i buy power so i gave them some sort of rough parameters for what i was looking for so for example with the storage i said i'd like a one terabyte nvme ssd for a main boot drive and a two terabyte sata ssd for storage games and that sort of thing so we have the wd blue sn750 over here and the 870 qvo from samsung and the sn750 from western digital goes up to 3500 megabytes per second reads not too shabby i almost forgot our processor which is a core i7 12700k that's actually the retail box from my wife's build that i did the white build that i did back in january since i buy power is a system integrator they buy tray cpus which just come with the cpu itself so there's our actual 12700k and we're going to be keeping that cool with the deepcool castle 360ex all in one liquid cooler with a 360 millimeter radiator and we're going to power everything with this power supply from corsair which is the rm850x which is 80 plus gold rated for efficiency and also fully modular now the cables that come with this power supply are all black so they're not bad by any stretch but i decided i wanted to finish things off kind of nicely since this is a white case with a black interior so we kind of have a black and white color scheme going so i ordered some more antec sleeved cable extensions that i'm hoping to pop in although they haven't arrived yet they're supposed to arrive today but i'll show them off to you hopefully here once they do arrive and we'll be pairing those up with the power supply to give a little bit more of a white accent internally with this build since most of the internal components are going to be black and then the last part here is our case the brand new y60 case from height and this is the version that's white on the outside and black on the inside they also have a version that's pretty much all blacked out and this case launches today so i'm excited to take a first look at it those are all the parts we're ready to get started a quick reminder i'm not doing a full tutorial on how to build this system today so check the description for a link to my beginner's guide to building a pc playlist that has a bunch of walkthroughs for lots of different builds let's go there is our y60 case nice and unboxed and if you guys didn't already know the kind of cool feature of this case is that it's got this wrap around tempered glass so you can see the entire interior of the case from well at least about 180 degrees if you're standing on this side of it other than that the layout is similar to the one popularized by the liam lee 011 dynamic with a mounting point along the back panel for an additional radiator and more airflow that way and it comes with three installed fans two at the bottom directing air upwards and one at the back for exhaust but i forgot a couple things when i was going over the parts one was that we also have these fans here from corsair the ql 120 rgbs i have found that with a system like this that's very visible and especially if you want to integrate some rgb having fans that match across the whole thing is a great way to sort of complete the look so we're gonna have two fans right here for the radiator for the graphics card the top is where the 360 is gonna be so there's gonna be three more fans there and then there's that rear exhaust and although i am dreading connecting all the rgb connections for these fans it should look a lot nicer once it's all assembled also though it may seem strange i wanted to read the side of the box because there's some marketing material here that i found to be like slightly amusing even why we made this case a new build should feel new that's reasonable three-piece panoramic glass with three times more satisfying plastic wrap removal they are pandering to me here with that and i'm going to remove that after the build's done i'd say this one is the most poignant at this point we know how much you just spent on that gpu so we threw in the riser cable as well this has a pcie 4.0 riser cable and you can only do a vertical graphics card mount in this case more on that in just a second cold floor structure keeps cooler than a partly cloudy day with a light breeze and you without your jacket you know maybe like a light jacket is that what they're referring to check out this crown molding right there i feel like this is referencing a meme that i'm not aware of but crown molding like along the top all right let's take a closer look at this case and the first thing you'll notice of course is that wrap around tempered glass that is three separate pieces one here one here and one here and they actually say you can remove this piece and this piece to have sort of more of an open air setup if that's your thing but they do recommend that all of these pieces are installed if you're going to ship the case at all and in particular this more narrow piece here does provide a little bit of a support so they recommend not pushing down on this corner of the case if you've removed all the side panel pieces and you're assembling the system so keep that in mind for anyone who works with this height has completely acknowledged that this has a bit of a fish tank look to it and in fact one of the early pre-launch videos that they did with uh justin roby of robitech they basically installed a fish tank inside of it which was kind of a unique build i should also point out there's a red version of this as well that has red accents wherever you see white on this case which i think looks pretty cool too and here's a quick look at the front panel connectors on this you've got your power button right there a couple usb 3.0 is a usb 3.2 gen 2 that has an internal connector and a mic and headphone jack this case is a thick boy as you can probably see from this side the atx power supply vertically mounts right there so that's wide enough to handle the power supply as well as some 3.5 inch storage which is accessible from the back that also means there's going to be plenty of room for cable management over on this side and then the other thing you might notice back here is the expansion slots it has six expansion slots here that are half height and then three full height expansion slots over here and that's where your graphics card is going to go you actually can't horizontally mount a full-size graphics card in this case it's meant to do that over here and that's why a pcie 4.0 riser cable is included removing a thumb screw here lets us pop off this side panel and here we can give you a little bit better look this is uh some styrofoam just to hold that riser in shipping but on top you've got a little bit of a plastic trim that's going to match the color of the case and that's again just to complete the look and sort of mask off a little bit of that area then the cables come down right here and the amount for your graphics card is pre-installed and that means behind these cables which will probably be more evident once we get the motherboard installed you can still install half-height expansion cards behind that so that still gives you accessibility for a lot of the video capture cards that are on the market or if you want to drop in a riser card that gives you additional m.2 slots or something like that you still have that ability there radiator support as mentioned is up to a 360 millimeter rad and the top and then you can do a 240 or a 280 in the side and because this mount sits so far back you can actually do a really thick radiator the radiator and fan configuration there can be up to 150 millimeters thick and then right here you have grommeted pass-throughs for all of your cable management i'm gonna have more to say on this case as we start building but the last thing for now is i really like some of the design elements that they have come up with like the lines you can see they sort of wrap around like this and follow the shape of that front panel and back here again for both ventilation and aesthetics the lines sort of come here they go up to the top they continue across the top and to the back of the case and again just having that same look both on the bottom on the top i found it to be quite striking and like i said in the intro i wasn't originally planning to build this system in this case i needed to choose a case but when i took a look at it and the features and everything i was like you know what this is what i want to go with oh and in case you're wondering the retail price for this case is 200 us dollars and while i can't say i've tested like air flow and cooling in it i will say with the feature set included fans and especially that pcie 4.0 riser cable that actually seems pretty competitive to me at least at first glance i have now removed everything from the retail boxes and i noticed something very specific when i was taking this rtx 380ti liquid cool graphics card out of the box it had so much packaging there was a plastic cover around the outside and then there was another plastic cover and then there was a bunch of plastic pieces over there so if i can ask a favor from joe the editor uh joe can we toss up a quick peel montage that sure was sexy thanks joe now we're going to set up the motherboard so we're going to install the cpu the memory the ssd and also this retention bracket for the all-in-one liquid cooler which is going to attach to the back of the motherboard so our motherboard is pretty much set up there were only two things that stood out to me one is that i've realized this trendy memory kit has the stickers one of the sticks has a sticker on the wrong side which confused me at first but it was okay i figured it out what's going on here sticker backwards oh my god the sticker's backwards what whoa the sticker's backwards oh my god then for the m.2 ssd there's three different places we could put it this top slot has a pretty decent heat sink on it with sort of a supplemental floating heat pipe that sticks out above it so that would be a good place to put a high-speed pcie 4.0 or even pcie 5.0 ssd the lower slots down here are pcie 4.0 as well and they have a heatsink across the top the one on the left has dual sided heatsinks the one on the right only has one side and since our sn 750 m.2 ssd only has elements on one side of it i decided to pop it in right there that will leave the other m.2 expansion slots open for the eventual owner of this pc to add more m.2 ssd storage if they want and now we have the question of the order of operations for installing everything into the case the power supply we can mount pretty easily by itself in the back the motherboard i will probably opt to pop in there first i did use the adhesive on the back of that cpu cooler bracket so it will stay in place even though these front brackets aren't on there yet to hold it in now we've also got a couple radiators to mount and we need to mount the fans to the radiators so plenty of work still to do one thing i will say is that the two pre-mounted fans on this asus liquid cooled rtx 3080 ti i am gonna swap out this is primarily an aesthetic choice so feel free to give me a hard time in the comments that said these two fans that are pre-installed have two cables coming off of each one one is for rgb and that just connects via a standard 3-pin addressable rgb connector at the top the other one is your standard 4-pin pwm fan plug but those are then fed into the sleeved tube here for the reservoir and they feed all the way up to the graphics card so that you can get power and fan control and lighting all controlled directly by the graphics card itself since these corsair fans also have two plugs but one of them for the rgb is a proprietary plug that needs to plug into a corsair control box i'll be mounting these fans to this radiator plugging the standard fan pwm plug into these existing plugs here so that the graphics card can control the fan speed but then routing that corsair rgb header over to the corsair rgb box which i will also install hopefully somewhere back there by the cable management anyway that's my plan for the next steps so let's continue the build so the interest of completely disassembling this system i removed this uh sort of corner piece for the glass right here as well it's a little bit harder to get off there's four screws two at the top and two at the bottom that you need to remove and this is the part where they recommended not putting any weight on this corner of the case while that's removed because it does provide some vertical support there it also seems like a piece that maybe you don't even need to remove during the build process if you can get away with it so i just mainly pulled it off here to show you guys i'm going to reinstall and try to leave it there to prevent or reduce the risk of any frame bending if i accidentally lean on this and incidentally this is also the orientation they say if you wanna if you want to you can just leave these side panels off and have sort of more of an open air chassis i prefer the tempered glass myself so there it is four more screws reinstalled and yeah that's the it's like a premier feature of this case is this sort of angled tempered glass side piece so real quickly i wanted to show you guys the half height add-in card feature of this case uh this is an elgato 4k60 pro the newer version that's a little bit smaller it is a half height card it ships with a full height pci bracket so we're going to remove that and it also ships with the half height one so we'll pop that on like a so so now if we move this riser cable out of the way uh we can line this up with our expansion bracket or expansion slot i guess i should say pop it in just like that i'm not going to screw it in because this is just sort of a temporary example but then this cable will be able to go around it and then we should be able to plug that in right there this motherboard also has the quick pcie q release the asus motherboard feature that i like so much so that's convenient there it goes and there you go i should note that the top pci express slot on this motherboard is actually one slot down than the top slot on the case that was just the decision that asus made and the design of this motherboard as a result there's a little bit more slack on the riser cable right there that sort of tucked in at the bottom still plenty of room to make it around that adding card and do bear in mind that once i remove the look more appealing plastic but just to give an idea uh the graphics card is going to go right there so nothing that's behind there will be visible but i approve that height was able to make those expansion slots still functional even with a vertical mount gpu all right a bit more time has passed and the front of the build is actually like almost i think pretty much finished i don't want to say like finish finish because there's probably still going to be a few things it's also day two of this build now part of that was because these sleeved cables didn't arrive until well into the evening of the shoot on day one but that's what i've been working on mostly today is getting those sleeve cables installed and trained up a little bit and while these aren't like the softest sleeve cable extensions i've ever worked with the combs that they provide are pretty easy to pop on and although i had to get two sets in order to accommodate the uh dual eight pin cpu power connectors up there as well as the triple uh eight pin power connectors that the graphics card requires that did mean that i had a few extra cable combs and stuff so for example the three eight pins coming off of here i was able to use 12 pin combs on to sort of you know keep that a little bit cleaner and nicer looking also matches pretty well with the 24 pin coming off the motherboard the main point of conflict with these is in the upper left corner here because they need to make a pretty tight turn there and it's going right up against this fan so once i get things sorted out behind the motherboard tray i'm going to need to come up here push these out of the way and bend them as much as i can to make sure that they're still clearance with that top fan but here on the reverse side you can probably see i still have a fair amount of work to do i need to wire all six of those fans up to this little hub the fans themselves for the fan power i'm plugging all those directly into the motherboard and i used a couple fan splitters for that but moving on to the final steps here i need to install the power supply this 2.5 inch ssd as well which should go right about there and then of course cable management which is always the most fun part of any pc build right of course so so and the system is complete you guys might have seen for the cable management part i did take advantage of this cases sort of extra wide cable management area and i just stuffed some of the cables in there fortunately though the part that's still visible on this side looks very very nice if i do say so myself the element of this build that i wasn't totally sure was the aio tubing and right now i've just used two of the asus rog velcro strips to kind of hold those all together i had an idea to flip the radiator for the aio for the gpu upside down and have the tubes go over the back and then down along the bottom but after shifting them around a little bit and tying them up with the velcro i'm okay with it it's a little bit utilitarian but i'm okay with that too because the rest of the build just looks so pristine with the sort of black and white aesthetic and then rgb of course comes into play too once the system is powered on and overall i'd say my impression of the build process in the height y60 is very positive and that is in part due to the ample room for cable management also in part due to just some little details here and there that i appreciate like not having individual front panel connectors it's got the block of them that makes it much easier to plug that in even the radiator bracket across the top of the case help me out because i was able to loosen those screws to lift it up a little bit to help me route the cable extensions that are in the upper left which are just just ever so barely making clearance and allowing all the fans to spin for that top mounted 360 millimeter radiator but that is going to wrap things up for this video just a reminder that all the parts i used in this build are linked down in the video's description and yes i'll be doing a follow-up video in about a week going over system performance so there's anything specific that you guys would like to see tested or lighting configurations or anything like that leave those comments in the comment section down below also down in the description 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