**First Impressions of the Loki Enclosure**

My experience with the Loki enclosure was a mixed bag. I was expecting to have a more refined and polished experience, similar to what I've seen with the Ghost series. However, the shell's rail system, while functional, felt extremely tight to the point where I was nervous about handling it due to the risk of damaging my fingers.

The real system is indeed very tight, but I was concerned that if I were to insert one section smoothly, I might damage my finger or experience some other negative outcome. This level of precision and attention to detail is typical of enthusiast-grade enclosures, but I felt that the Loki enclosure fell short in this regard.

**Price and Design**

The Loki Enclosure will launch at €299 (approximately $329 USD), which is a competitive price for a high-end enclosure designed and manufactured in Sweden. While the price may not be the most attractive feature for some users, it's worth noting that the enclosure is part of a niche market, and €300 is a significant investment for those who want to build a custom system.

The design itself is sleek and modern, with clean lines and a minimalist aesthetic. However, I did notice some imperfections in the aluminum edges, particularly around the handle, which were not as refined as they should be. Additionally, some of the plastic components felt a bit cheap, but this is likely due to the high cost of manufacturing.

**Components and Compatibility**

One of the standout features of the Loki Enclosure is its tool-free GPU mount. This makes it easy to install and remove graphics cards without having to deal with unnecessary hassle or screws. The only limitation on component compatibility is the CPU cooler, which must be under 75mm tall in order to fit inside the enclosure.

I tested the Loki Enclosure with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which is a large and powerful GPU that requires careful cooling. Fortunately, the enclosure performed well without throttling or overheating, even when running at high temperatures.

**Noise and Airflow**

As for noise, the Loki Enclosure can be quite loud when running at full power, but with some tweaking of fan curves, it's possible to manage the noise levels. The enclosure also features an optional 120mm fan, which is louder than the CPU tower heatsink but still manageable.

One notable design choice is the lack of dust filters in the case. While this may seem like a small thing, it's actually a significant consideration when it comes to airflow and cooling performance. By removing any additional barriers, the Loki Enclosure allows for better airflow and more efficient cooling, which can lead to improved system performance.

**Conclusion**

Overall, my experience with the Loki Enclosure was mixed. While it offers some impressive features and is designed with enthusiast users in mind, it falls short in terms of refinement and attention to detail. The price, while competitive, may be a barrier for some users, particularly those who are accustomed to higher-end enclosures.

However, I do think that the Loki Enclosure has its strengths, including its massive GPU support, cable management options, and sleek design. With careful tuning and configuration, it's possible to get excellent performance out of this enclosure, even with more powerful components. Ultimately, whether or not the Loki Enclosure is right for you will depend on your specific needs and preferences.

**A Word from the Author**

If you're in the market for a high-end enclosure and are looking for something that offers impressive features and design, the Loki Enclosure may be worth considering. However, if you're accustomed to more refined and polished enclosures, you may want to look elsewhere.

As someone who's already tested several similar enclosures, including the Ghost series, I was expecting a bit more from the Loki Enclosure. That being said, I do think that it has its strengths, and with careful tuning and configuration, it's possible to get excellent performance out of this enclosure.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwow guys i am so excited to finally experience a low key enclosure now they are the guys uh responsible behind ghost s1 which is super popular and i would say successful in the itx space for its modularity for its flexibility for really good high quality enthusiast components and a really tiny enclosure and the raw s1 this new enclosure tries to follow in the suite uh but still offering like raw power raw compatibility raw power density in this 12 liter enclosure i got to be honest my expectations for the ross one are super high just because of everything the company has done with the ghost series but i will say that the raw series the s1 in particular i don't think is as flexible in terms of adding components and adding water cooling like the ghost series with their little top hat that you can install a 240 radiator there here with the raw s1 it is what you get without any additional dlcs so come along i hope you experienced my journey working with my very first low-key case the raw s1 right after this productivity is choosing to get things done on time and finding the right tool for the right task is important you want a display that's big enough to accommodate your content but also color accurate to put a smile on your face build quality that defines exceptional craftsmanship but also light enough to accommodate you during travel performance that speeds up your workflow with intel's 11th gen core series processors and the battery life that lasts you for an entire day thanks to intel's evo certification along with flexible connectivity like thunderbolt 4 and hdmi to expand your lifestyle meet the racerbook 13 the ultimate productivity laptop all right so first of all i love the towering itx form factor for two reasons number one it minimizes footprint on your desk because the case is vertical not horizontal and number two that vertical space allows for massive gpu support so you don't have to expand the case in any other direction but in height so here uh it looks very similar to my corsair one in terms of size and actual dimensions too very similar in size to the meshalicious as well and slightly smaller than the now recalled nzxt h1 in terms of materials it is thick aluminum so one solid shell on the exterior with those beautiful ventilation patterns that look kind of random but also fit exactly where ventilation needs to happen there are some plastic pieces both on the top and the bottom of the frame which kind of eliminates that premium feeling of an otherwise really solid enclosure and once you remove the shell you can see there is a bit of flexing going on in that middle spine where your hardware sits and the base floor which actually is mainly plastic like the surrounding bits uh just i think it would have been really difficult to mold that part to the shape of the shell overall though the case feels very solid especially because we have a handle at the bottom and that's kind of cool brings portability to the next level my only complaint with the design and that is totally subjective is the exterior rhodium gray color of the aluminum it has greenish and warmish tones instead of the neutral dark gray tones that like we find with apple products and other dark gray aluminum as for the kcio we have a power button in the front and the usbc extension that can be installed on either corner at the rear this is an extension so you have to plug this directly into your motherboard backside instead of the internal usbc connector so keep that in mind otherwise you won't have usb on the case whatsoever unless you go directly into the motherboard now to get inside that's a straightforward process but a little bit more complicated than like removing a simple side panel so low key does include a torx key with which you have to remove four screws then you have to pop out the usbc connection and the power button both of which are easily done and only then you have access to remove that interior from the exterior shell you can see it's basically a rail system for the interior frame and the exterior shell my sample here was extremely tight and that is something that i was not expecting for such a premium enthusiast niche market i was hoping for the build quality especially of those rails to be slightly better now we have the interior shell open and here we have the full specs cpu towers up to 75 millimeters in height are supported triple slot gpus up to 320 millimeters in length sfx or sfx l power supplies are supported with an optional 120 on their fan in front of the power supply set to exhaust so unlike the ghost s1 which had that radiator expansion for the top hat i don't see how that's possible with the raw s1 because that exterior shell that's one solid piece and i don't see how they could mount something on top of it to expand its cooling potential you can see the interior here is red which i found to be odd since it might peak out through the ventilation and reveal itself but the case is really dark inside when you close the shell so it really is not a concern and i kind of like the look of it now the riser cable this one is really important and i'm happy that loki did it right so it's a pcie gen 4 riser cable if you haven't seen our video on the issues you might experience with ryzer cables check it out over here but here you can plug in the gen 4 gpu with a gen 4 compatible motherboard and everything should work just fine the riser cable is blue but it is wonderfully flexible allowing you to pass it underneath the motherboard and plug it into the pci slot on the motherboard without any issues whatsoever this might be my favorite riser cable experience as of yet now for the main assembly i was kind of dreading the part where i have to do cable management because i absolutely hate cable management and tiny itx cases but here because the shell is out everything is exposed so you have full access to 360 degrees around the enclosure letting you route the cables in a completely zero stress matter because the motherboard and the gpu are separated in those two chambers the cables don't really mix so you can do a really clean job on the main chamber and only then route the cables behind the motherboard for the graphics card i am very proud at how everything turned out in terms of cable management even though i am using the shorter itx cables for my sfx power supply the only downside in the entire user assembly and the user guide is the optional 120mm fan mount in front of the power supply based on the user manual you mount that last but there's no way to access the screws in from the power supply because there's no clearance for your screwdriver because the power supply is right there so you can either use rubber screws like i did here with knock to us or mount the fan first and only then mount the power supply but then also you have to deal with that really tiny amount of space in front of the power supply and the fan for all your cables so luckily they were able to jam in there just fine but it did require some force to kind of mount that bracket back in the good thing is that we have lots of room between the power supply and that middle spine to stash your like 24 pin cable like all the excess cables in there and also route the pci cables through it into the back chamber you really have to make sure all your cables are collected and as tight as possible especially because you'll be populating that interior back into a really confined shell i would recommend turning on the system before inserting the shell back on and just as with the beginning that whole process of reinserting the shell into the frame was extremely tight to the point where i felt nervous of having my fingers around the frame because the real system is really tight but what if on one section it just goes in smoothly and like i damage your finger or something and that is not something you want to experience on such a enthusiast high level niche expensive enclosure and so let's talk about the price shall we so this thing is going to launch at 299 euros or 329 us dollars it is designed in sweden and also made in sweden so that will give you the low price premium but i was expecting to have slightly better experience overall not just because of the rail system but because of some imperfections on the aluminum edges especially around the handle that were quite sharp and not as refined as they should be i also don't really like some of the plastic pieces but i understand why they're there because molding that shape in aluminum would have been even more expensive the gpu mount here is completely tool-less just requires you to uh screw back that big thumb screw at the bottom that holds the gpu in place and really the only limiting factor with components and compatibility would be the cpu cooler because like the best one right now under 75 millimeters would be like the an noctua lh12s which i installed and it does perform very well in like a default non-overclocked scenarios but i am using the same system as i test with all my itx systems and you can see with the shell and without the shell temperatures for both the cpu and the gpu so let's ignore the cpu temperature because i have overclocked the cpu to 5 gigahertz so it is going extremely out of bounds for what this tiny cooler can handle but it's still performing very well without throttling which i was i found to be very impressive but the gpu temperatures here are really impressive overall there's plenty of room between a dual slot gpu and the shell to not create turbulence for airflow but as soon as you go into like the two and a half slot three slot cards then that fan will be right against the shell that might create turbulence and might create additional noise as a result as for noise at full power it's going to be loud but with some tweaking with the fan curves especially for the cpu tower and that optional 120mm fan which is actually louder than my cpu tower heatsink um it's totally manageable but take a listen for yourself by the way there are no dust filters anywhere on the case because that would worsen your cooling potential because that would be another barrier for airflow also since the motherboard is facing down all your io will have to be routed from there and i don't like that especially with the really massive displayport cables that don't flex very well but this layout does give you the cleanest cable exit from the bottom of the case uh near the surface and not like cable sticking out from somewhere in the middle all right so my first experience with the loki enclosure i kind of mixed i was expecting to have a bit more finesse and like refinement as what i've seen with the ghost series and i hope that this will carry over into the raw s1 series because it's priced just as high but the refinement especially on the rail system on some the some of the edges of the aluminum are not refined uh are just a little bit all over the place especially with my sample to explain the price a little bit more the riser cable alone cost a hundred dollars that is a third of the price for the rawest one let that sink in for a little bit but it's also approaching that really enthusiastic niche really small market so 300 for people who want to build in this vertical tower probably won't be like such a deal breaker especially when you have to consider the limitations with cooling both for the gpu and cpu versus something slightly bigger that can accommodate like a 240 radiator but the ghost s1 already does that so i get that they want to do something different with the raw s1 at the end of the day i feel like they've checked off the mark about massive gpu support uh cable management was surprisingly simple despite having such compact dense package and it also has a built-in handle that's actually built into that spine so it's not like attached to something so it won't go anywhere and gives me confidence of carrying the system around without any issues but on the other hand it does lock you in a certain path for your cpu choice and your cpu tower heatsink of choice as well because of that small 75mm tower clearance but it's something that many low-key users have already accepted and i feel like they're just continuing with that trend all right guys so i hope you enjoyed let me know what you think of the low key raw s1 down in the comments subscribe check out this other relevant content i'll talk to you in the next video you\n"