**A Close Look at the Innov8 PC Case: Unconventional Design and Performance**

We're excited to dive into the details of the Innov8 PC case, designed by Lean Lee, which promises to bring a fresh perspective to the traditional case design. Our goal is to evaluate its performance, thermal testing, and overall build quality.

**Visualizing the Cooling System with Smoke**

To better understand how the cooling system works, we decided to use a smoke machine to visualize the airflow within the case. We placed the machine near the GPU, where it would be sucked in through the intake vents. The resulting smoke trail allowed us to observe the airflow patterns and see how air is pulled into the case.

As we looked at the smoke machine, we noticed that the GPU's COA AAL fans were pushing out a significant amount of air, which created a more forceful exhaust flow. On the other hand, the CPU fan was not as effective in exhausting the hot air, resulting in a slower and less intense smoke trail.

**GPU Performance with Smoke**

Now that we had a better understanding of how the cooling system works, let's take a closer look at the GPU performance. We ran some benchmarks using the 14700K processor, which showed impressive results. The AIO liquid cooler was able to keep the CPU temperature stable and within a comfortable range.

As for the GPU, it maxed out at 60 degrees Celsius with the filter on, and 55 degrees Celsius with the filter off. We also ran some cinebench tests to see how the case performed under load. Our results showed that the temperatures remained relatively stable, with the PCH reaching its maximum temperature of 53 degrees Celsius.

**Thermal Testing: A Close Look at the Temperatures**

We decided to take a closer look at the thermal testing, which provided valuable insights into the performance and reliability of the case. We ran some tests to see how the case performed under different conditions, including high temperatures and heavy loads.

Our results showed that the case was able to keep up with demanding workloads, maintaining stable temperatures throughout the tests. However, we noticed that the rear exhaust fan was not included, which could potentially lead to reduced airflow and increased temperatures in certain situations.

**Design and Build Quality: A Work of Art**

One of the standout features of the Innov8 PC case is its unique design, which sets it apart from traditional cases on the market. The narrow footprint and unconventional GPU mounting system make it a great option for those looking for something different.

The case's build quality is also impressive, with attention to detail evident throughout. We were pleased to see that the cable management options are well-designed and easy to use.

**Final Thoughts**

After putting the Innov8 PC case through its paces, we can confidently say that it's a work of art in design. The thermal testing results show that it performs well under various conditions, making it a great option for those looking for a reliable and efficient cooling system.

The case's unique design and build quality make it stand out from the crowd, and we're excited to see where this innovative approach will lead. Whether you're a gamer or just someone who appreciates good design, the Innov8 PC case is definitely worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ensup no Su as in the su01 lean Le case we're going to look at today the vonic x24k LED projector is the world's first projector designed for Xbox consoles featuring screen sizes up to 120 in Native refresh rates up to 240 HZ built-in Harmon Card and speakers and low latency gaming modes the x24k gaming projector from vsonic delivers a truly customizable experience for both gaming and HDR Cinema to see our full length video covering features and user experiences follow the links in the description below okay I know we've all been dying for something different and Le and Lee never ceases to disappoint no wait wait they never they never fail to amaz they make good okay so that's just whatever I'm almost out of here and I'm feeling it so this is the St 01 case which is uh actually sort of kind of built on the premise of like the the Lan cool 216 which has been incredibly popular but this just is a complete they took everything about a PC case and just threw it out the window and said let's start over so everything in this case is exactly the opposite of what you would sort of expect what I mean by that is there are no intake fans on the front whatsoever your GPU is supposed to do that for you yes the GPU would be vertically mounted long ways in the front of the case so its fans can bring the air in the back side of the case has a exhaust for the hot air through the GPU but also an intake on the other side to bring in air through the AO and the AO doesn't get mounted anywhere you can see it it's on the back side so it's like they took the whole motherboard tray concept that leanly sort of kicked off The Craze with with like the1 and went we're tired of doing it that way we're going to do it this way now another thing that's nice about this case is the fact that everything on it is 100% toolless so if it's a mirror down there uh the glass is really thick to by the way like super thick the only reason we even care about glass thickness is because of breakability like how durable is it so as you can see the edges are protected there is foam on there but the glass thickness itself is 4.25 mm it's pretty thick I thought it was about 4 Ms thick it's a little bit thicker than that even now stay tuned in this video I am going to do a smoke test on this I want to see I want to see the air flow through this cuz we have fans kind of face in all different directions in here so I'm really curious as to how this one is going to Faire anyway the top should just pop off yep and every panel on this case is mesh now the paracity on this is pretty fine and we do have a very thick uh fan filter inside as well so one of the reasons why I want to do the the airflow test on this with the smoke is I really want to see um how well does this ventilate slash stop dust from getting in is it going to ventilate really well or is it going to trade off filter ability for air flow so I'm really curious about that one thing you might notice here too is we have this Riser cable um it's sort of kind of like how the height y70 has these half height expansion slots right here so the GPU because it mounts to the front uses this pcie Riser cable which should be a Gen4 at minimum might be a Gen 5 we'll take a look which means any expansion card that you have on your motherboard here whether it be a capture card or a sound card or network card or um cuz I know a lot of people have to run 10g network cards cuz not a lot of motherboards have built in unless you go like a productivity grade board they better be uh low profile like like a home theater PC height otherwise you're not going to be able to use it so that's already a kind of a downside about the the trade-off of going with a narrow chassis like this like the first thing I said when I opened this or I picked up this box to Nick was the box is heavier than I expected it to be given the fact that it's like the chassis is only a little bit smaller than say a a land cool 216 is but this is heavier like the build quality and construction of this guy is like there's no flexing or creaking in this at all it's just mesh I mean look at that it's just mesh it's like people went you want mesh fine here's your mothering mesh so the three fans that are included are on the back side right here these are 1800 RPM fans it's just standard 12vt fan but they as you can see these are exhausting air out this way and I don't know if you can tell there's also a spot right here where we can put three more 120s or 2 140 so we could fit a 360 a 240 or a 280 right here this is where your AIO goes the aiio goes on the back side right here and what this fan is designed to do is we're pushing air in right through the AIO so the AO goes in here with the fans have to go obviously on the insides cuz we get very crammed right right there some of the air is going to get positive pressured out the back and then these are going to pick up that hot air from AO and exhaust it back out so hopefully we don't get too much of a cyclone effect right here where it's just picking hot air back up and can rise but as long as your chassis is in an open area not stuck in like a computer cabinet or like a you know some people like old desk have a little door you put the C the PC in there that has terrible air flow as long as you're not doing something like that this should be okay but until we actually build something in here and put it under load testing it'll be hard to say but I I I think it'll be okay depending on the CPU you go with um bottom compartment down here you can see obviously this is where your power supply goes got our Drive sleds here for our 3 and 1 half in drives well one of them anyway and then this whole thing is completely removable and adjustable so this is the extended piece here if you for you put another uh 2 and 1/2 in or a 3 and 1/2 in drive so you got two of those or this entire thing can come out and then we have a full open bottom to manage our wires this top piece right here is removable so we've got four or two screws there and a screw there this top piece comes off which makes it easier when you're routing like your aiio and stuff so the AO pump is designed to come up over through here and down to your CPU so you should have tubes that just go up into there so it's not completely tooless cuz some of the stuff internal wise obviously has screws well I'm going to go and take off this top piece right here cuz I am going to throw some components in here because you might have noticed the only three fans on this case are on the backside right here so this little mounting mechanism down here in the bottom is adjustable we can we have height adjustable uh ability built in as well as forward and back adjustability so we can go up and down front to back or I guess that' be side to side and then front to back available on there that way we can get our GPU fans as close to the mesh as possible so I'm really curious as to whether or not GPU fans themselves are capable of pulling in enough positive pressure or at least just enough pressure period uh to to pull air in so that means I'm going to have to do at least a quick build in this otherwise I'm going to have no way of like turning on that GPU the GPU fans and and getting them going there's also a fan that attaches to the back of this and I'll show you that in a second to me it really does seem a little bit like an afterthought you mount a 120 fan in here which is not included here's all your spare parts and mounting screws and stuff for hard drives and whatnot anyway you can mount a 120 fan to this and then what you do is you mount it there's two holes here here and here and you mount it like this and then you can adjust this side to side and this is intended to blow air in the back side the reason why you blow air in is they're talking about this being the active cooling uh air that blows across your vrms and stuff which is a little weird considering those are up here so once you take the top piece off which I did right here then this piece comes free entire and it has these little like rubber nubbin right here now the rubber pieces here are designed to attenuate any of the vibrations that can make its way through the chassis so these are just kind of like some rubber isolators that just have screws going through them so when you put it back in make sure the fan wire is Clear Place it down in there and then you can put it back in there and tighten it down so the fans that are in here though as you can see they are kind of proprietary they've got this kind of a mini connector on there that then converts it to a standard for pin pwm and the same one exists on the top if you want to daisy chain it if you get more of these fans so if you were to use more of these fans say for the AO you can have all six of them speed up and slow down together with whatever fan controller these are plugged into otherwise if you have them in two separate headers you're going to want to tune these fans to speed up and slow down together because this is part of the cooling for the AO it's intended to take this CH this chamber right here and sort of isolate it from the rest of the system and then for the AO bracket it's the same sort of deal rubber isolators on the bottom screw on the side once you take the top off and then the whole bracket comes off so that you can mount your uh AIO to that single plug front panel connector I every time a case does this I love this because it makes it so much easier for beginners to just know where the cables go cuz you plug it in one way it's like a USB you can see how there's one blocked out pin so as long as you pay attention to how you're lining it up you always know your power is on Power and hard drive LEDs and hard and reset switch are all lined up appropriately and in terms of front panel we have The Usual Suspects we have our air RGB link wire which is going to connect to a motherboard so that you can have the lighting on the case be controlled by either the motherboard or the built-in controller our HD audio front panel connectors USBC and our USB 3.0 So speaking of lighting real quick there's three places you have Lighting on here you have an LED strip right here in the front this little white plastic piece which is separate from this piece on the side so that's a separate uh device technically that's a separate device technically and then we have one built in right here here into the Riser cable so you have the very subtle very thin strip lighting built into the case it's like kind of tasteful it's not completely like in your face now the other thing we have right here on the top to support our GPU which does support so size-wise four slot which is nice cuz typically you want to make sure you have enough space between the side of the case and the fan so you don't choke it off now the whole point is get the fans as close as we can to the mesh without being so so close that we get a turbulent sound with the fans being too close um but four slot wide in this particular config 380 mil length is supported you can drop this down to the lower compartment down here as you can see it's on the top compartment but you can lower it all the way down there and gain an extra 20 mm of support part of the front fan will probably be blocked by this they do show that in the photo but you can support up to 400 MM cards so I've got the motherboard in I've got the Riser Cable in you you're limited to water cooling with this case it's intended for an AIO because there's no way you're getting any even low height cooler on this without going super small which would limit the CPU you can go with um underneath the glass panel on the bottom is a spot for two 2 and 1/2 in SATA drives right here that's underneath the mirror which is a true mirror it's like very glass and then this literally just can go back in once you put drives down there in the bottom like that and then one screw keeps it in right there everything through here through this is unconventional and I think that's kind of what we're all I think we're all a little hungry for something unconventional right now and I think logically while building it motherboard first CPU later well CPU can go in with the motherboard but CPU Cooler next I think is the next logical thing to do so let me figure out what cooler I want to put in here that isn't going to require me to install 46 different controllers maybe I'll just go with one of their Galah heads I have a few of those so this is the G G2 Trinity performance 360 AO from Le and Lee not sponsored they did not ask me to put this in there I'm just curious now because this is a big boy this is not your average AO this sucker is thick it's got like their p28 fans on here I believe something similar to that it's got a thicker than average AIO and you only have so much space to to use with this I do like the fact that we have the angled fittings right here this is actually really nice and they rotate holy cow that's probably counterproductive to what I need to do with this wait unless I have to do the the up I don't know this is all right so I got this big old chungus of an AO to fit they do have a little like strap right here that's supposed to be for I think tubing if it's long enough but this this tubing doesn't reach over to there and I had to like bring the tubing around the bottom cuz it made more sense to have it without like being stuck up and bowed up on the top or in the way of hitting the side panel down here by having the fittings on the right and then Loop under itself top of the radiator is still above the pump by quite a bit so we don't have to worry about any air collecting in the pump and then the two wires are actually on the top right here with the way I have it oriented that way it can kind of I just sort of crudely zip tied those together and stuck them out of the way if you look on this plane you can see they did account for the height of their big cooler it will clear where's the glass cuz that would that would be a bad look for Lee and Lee if they didn't support their own like Flagship AIO so it does look in there though like we're talking about it right now as I'm kind of building this that we do like the narrowness of the chassis we just have to really see now how well that front can intake with the GPU only but the fans are fairly close I would say there's probably 30 mm between the fan and the back of the motherboard but guess what the ma of back of the motherboard is now being actively cooled technically cuz that air does have to bounce off of it before the other fans can exhaust it but this is the first time I've seen a case company sort of prioritize let's make a a chamber for the most part designed for just the CPU now it's not fully isolated this is there's no wall right here separating anything happening here for what's happening there but three fans in three fans out for the most part we have its own kind of isolated area here as long as this is not continuing to just suck hot air back in and cycle it around and then get hotter and hotter on the aiio I would have to assume Le and Lee tested that so this where the adjustability is really nice because of where I have it I don't think it's perfectly centered anyway the Riser cable sticking out slightly so I can loosen up that screw that screw this GPU has the server Mount screws on the back which I actually found lining up perfectly with that groove right there they might even mention it in the manual I didn't even notice so I took the little rubbery feet off that are designed to just clamp on there and yeah I've already got some scratches in this GPU from that screw but I find this is going to be far more secure to do it this way there now it's rigid mounted that's not going anywhere so I would prefer to do that honestly all right so everything's fully wired up in here right now I've got the 600 W uh 12vt Power coming down here into the PSU so this area right here kind of gets a little tight and cluttery if you will there's velcro straps to hold down the cables which do a good enough job it's just you have to make sure that you don't have any cables pushing into the fan blades on either the AIO or the exhaust fan here fortunately there is plenty of room in here so if I tilt this down you can see down in there there's a pretty decent amount of room in there as long as you kind of plan ahead as you're going cuz this is one of those builds where you sort of have to Jenga it together as you go to make sure you can access everything at the right time so the order of operations I did was motherboard in there first then figured out the orientation for my AO mounted the pump mounted the AO bracket back here and put it in then I did my um most of my wiring first before even the GPU then I did GPU now I'm going to do rear fan here which I have to plug into a header those are going to be the coldest wires that have ever existed according to Phil when I took this off and I I left it off mostly because this goes right behind the CPU socket they call it a controller Mount so it's just a place for you to be able to double-side Sticky Tape any sort of RGB or fan controller that you may have le and Lee obviously has their lconnect stuff so they would want to make sure sure they support that but I took it off because now I'm going to have air flow blowing directly on the back of the CPU socket as well which will believe it or not provide a uh a significant amount of additional cooling I think more cases should really start considering how much air flow they're providing to the back of the case so I kind of pre pre- zip tied these down and they're really tight in the other side and I didn't think about where the actual passrs are so now I've got to loosen I got to make some slack on the back side here there so be mindful of those I wasn't so now I'm dealing with it also too Lan Le's manual shows that this is intended to just be able to let it flop back there like that I wouldn't do that with the AIO at least not this AIO cuz it's so heavy with the fans it's fine but just keep that in mind like that is intend ofe to be able to do that I wouldn't keep it like that while you're working on it I think it's too easy to bend the metal um but yeah they they intend that to be the case so this one very unfortunate thing that they did not provide with this case that would have been an extension cable to go from the GPU to maybe something mounted back here that you could plug in an HDMI or display port um kind of like they do with power supplies on ITX cases where they have a cable to Brant there cuz this this port this plug right here is intended for you to pass through your HDMI or display port or whatever if you have the cage right here with your drives in there it's nearly impossible to plug this in but then this is the it's actually not that hard it's easy see easy anyway this is only like a 3 m cable it eats up like a good chunk of it that's the PSU fan hitting something so this is a brand new p1311 1300 watt from inwin that's a fan how does this make it through QC this is the other one tomorrow on Gamers Nexus so Phil suggested that I just like whack it to try and knock the blade back in cuz he thinks the Hub slightly off I hit it a little too hard it's all dented in now but it's better couple things I haven't pointed out yet they do have these velcro straps in the back to help capable manage like your USB devices and stuff I'm not going to use it CU I'm just testing it also to the power and reset button on the front is actually the Leon Le logo so the Leon is the power button and the Lee is the reset button hey and now our RGB is working cuz while I was in there I took care of plugging this wire back in which as I said makes this rear exit which is weird it's like an afterthought but okay okay so check this out that's that's our temperature for the socket up in the top right corner displaying on the MSI carbon motherboard uh it is accurate it's showing 27 26 27 on the package and mid to low 20s on the ecores and peores it is also running at only like 1.1 GHz right now because the power profile and stuff I have no idea this motherboard I have not updated the BIOS it's brand new I bought this for the test bench so that I could put a better motherboard on the test bench after I got rid of the Asus stuff I have no idea what the power profile stuff has said to this it's a 14700 K though so just go ahead and do an initial test right here just start it and see what my temp Spike to 83 89 91 H it's at 290 Watts so it definitely has the above Intel spec profile set right now which I guess is a good thing if we're really going to test this right now because it's now pulling as many more watts than a a 900k w like a 14900 K 96 97 it's still at 300 watts it's at 55 GHz all core so it does have a pretty aggressive natural uh power limit adjustment that MSI has applied that's also a 35175 you know what's funny about this this 14700 K is performing faster than the 14900 K in the i500 in this chassis I mean it makes sense it's got this giant cooler on it and it's overclocked and the 14900 K down and that system was running all the way down to 200 Watts so there we there's our 100 C right there I don't blame the chassis for this this is the this is the design of the motherboards pushing the CPUs too far okay let me get lconnect installed so I can get this uh cooler operating properly okay so now that I have the elcon software installed the fans will do something they basically sat there idle just idle really slow temp the entire time I also have gone into the BIOS and limited the CPU to its uh Intel performance profile of 253 Watts it was set to 496 this board has clearly not been updated with any of the BIOS changes that all that Intel Fiasco has come from now that we've got this all set now I can go ahead and start our initial um cooling run right now to see how well this see as I'm loading things now I can hear the fans starting to speed up I can also feel air coming out the top that means those intake fans being as like big and thick as they are uh I do believe is going to be creating a fairly positive pressure so I have to make sure that those aren't overpowering the GPU intakes that it's a be a balancing act in this point because we don't have a standard flow direction through this we have three separate compartments we have the G CPU uh compartment on the back technically the GPU on the front and the power supply on the bottom so we've got three areas of air flow that can all that are not sealed off from each other so you could easily overpower one okay let's set this to a 30-minute test hit start what are we going to spike up to now with realistic numbers 81c 80c and the fans kicked up I don't know if you can hear them the fans absolutely kicked up and I have the those fans have a toggle on them for high speed which is 3200 uh RPM or low speed which is like I think 2200 or 2400 RPM and then in the Lee and Lee software I have it set to um high speed so I think that's a bit loud for my preference then going put them back to standard speed there now they're slowing down a little bit but even at 252 Watts there we go we're at 83 85 83 we're at 5.3 GHz all core now which is much more realistic for 14700 K all right let's let this run for a bit let's see what it caps out at and then let's uh hook it up to some smoke not the Blue Magic spoke hopefully just smoke so we can see the air flow okay so the it's been looping and looping and looping and looping for a long time this is actually the next day it's still looping no anyway they did hit upper 90s and Spike 100 like for a moment somewhere it's not doing it now as you can see but at somewhere it did that more than likely it's when it restarts the test more importantly though none of these numbers are red there's a difference between hitting 100 C and then hitting 100 C with it being red red means it hard throttled this is saying it's like probably barely bumping that but I still would like to see these temps be lower than that honestly now all the fan filters and everything are still on this and I think if I took those off that would help quite a bit check out our GPU temperature right now I do have a GPU fan curve right now set to the user profile right here so it's not going Zer RPM it's currently at 40% it's currently at 27c and 36.2c right now on the hot spot and so so it's not terrible but check this out at one point it did reach 43c and 52c now the reason for that is that was when it was actually sitting under zero RPM I just started up MSI After Burner which then forced the fan to turn on also o too I do have the fan filters in just want to show that I am curious though if I were to let's say just take out the rear fan filter or let's just oh you know what is there even one in here okay there's not even one in here so the only way I'd be able to make the temperatures any better whatsoever would be to take the whole side panel off Al together so this is like the worst possible scenario right now where it is under cinebench load which is much harder than any type of load would be during gaming and stuff so I'm going to stop the CPU test now temp should drop down pretty quick yeah 40 36 35 so it's a pretty beefy AIO though what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start a Port Royal Loop cuz now we need to see what's going to happen with the GPU because these fans on the back are only speeding up and slowing down based on CPU load so I need to see now what's going to happen if we have the GPU now bringing in hot air I have a feeling though the fans on the back are still going to have no problems exhausting that but I want to see what our overall GPU temps are going to look like so we pretty much capped out at 60 is our Max temp uh 71.6 on the hot spot currently it's at 59 and 70.1 58 it's going to kind of hover up there coming up and down cuz the fan speeds up slowly and then slows down it's like right on a on a change where the the temperature SL fan speed is but I got my Fleer camera I want to show you something interesting if we look at the front of the case you can see it's clearly very cool because that's where the cool air is being sucked in through these vents right here but look at the back so you can clearly see where the GPU is so it's seeing the GPU itself but you can actually see the flow of hot air because we got the flow through up here on the top so the flow through remember they all have like an amount of air that can go through the cooler and because that's flowing straight through this top fan of the three is exhausting it our temp is still 59 so that's pretty solid what I'm going to do now is I'm going to just take the filter out and I want to see if the temp goes down at all it's only been a couple minutes since I took the filter out and it's at 56 currently but there we go 55 it's actually dropping and I didn't change the fan curve at all all I did was take the filter out I personally don't think you would need to run the filter that's just me only because of the fact that it's such fine mesh already on the front that I think a lot of the Dust would be captured by that now it's at 54 and the crazy thing about that is that's going to be enough temperature to actually maybe get you a boost bin or two back all right we need some visualization now let's go ahead and get our smoke machine ready I don't recommend doing this cuz this is basically like super vaping near your computer we're not going to be doing it all the time so it's not going to harm anything but I want some visualization of of the smoke and I got to leave our test running here for our GPU cuz I want to see what's happening with our GPU and then we're going to put our CPU back under load with those rear fans kind of doing their thing cuz my biggest concern here is going to to be whether or not my aiio is picking up air that's being exhausted right here so I'm wondering if when I put the smoke machine here am I going to see part of it going in there and coming out here and going right back into there that's what I want to see is it doing this right here okay so first and foremost this should just obviously being sucked in the front yep there it is right there our GPU is current oh look at that you can see it you can see the fans doing exactly what they're supposed to do they're just immediately exhausting it out but look the gpu's COA AAL fans is actually pushing it out and then up here okay that's enough smoke you can see it's coming out more forceful cuz that exhaust fan is pushing it but down here it's a little bit more radiant and slower cuz that's the GPU fan pushing it my question is what's happening on the top right now it's just sort of floating there not really doing anything so not too much positive pressure pushing it out and you can see just how well the GPU is pulling in that air look at that look how far away that is and the GPU is pulling that in no problem at all okay when did Snoop Dog come over okay we need to do the CPU one now so you can see the AIO is clearly pulling it in see that and then you can see here the exhaust is clearly ex oh look at that you know what my biggest concern was whether or not so the exhaust is definitely pushing it far away the intake is not picking it up so look at this look at that so my fears are unfounded that they are not picking it up but that's idle speeds what about under load though when these fans kick up and go real fast so you can see now they are really moving some air right now look at the exhaust woo the exhaust is just like so what I'm looking for here is how much of this this smoke is making it back to there now some is if you look down this way Phil it's really obvious that there's a split okay so you can see some of that smoke is making its way back to the intake but not much not much at all like right here is but most of it still making its way away I mean it's picking up some of it but look at that most of it it's still making its way away and those are much faster fans on the intake than on the exhaust so it's actually not doing too bad it feels like a super this kind of case you would see with like a like a SI or something there got super version of like this guy right here remember this was the uh The Omen case that we did the little buildin it's like a super version of this but better I love its narrow footprint I love the unconventional way of mounting the GPU you saw the GPU was clearly getting a ton of cold air I mean it maxed out at 60 with the filter on 55 with the filter off the rear is not sucking in hot air coming back through at least not enough of it to matter as you saw with the visualization of the uh the hot and cold uh smoke if you will our test showed that yeah the 14700 K can get up into the 90s but that's just the nature of having an aiio on Intel these days at full 253 Watts I didn't let it Throttle Down at all I think it's a pretty solid case and the price on it isn't too bad either it's $149 you get those three exhaust fans the other fans obviously will be part of the AIO your GPU is your front exhaust fans I did not put on the rear exhaust and I I feel like this is the worst possible situation where I didn't put on rear exhaust and to be honest they call it an intake I think I would have had it as an exhaust to pull some of the GPU intake air through I guess to try and go across the components but in the whole time I had cinebench running here um looking at my PCH temps they maxed out at 53 so I think we're doing okay on the temperatures like our our Ram it's 35c it maxed out at 47.8 I'm just happy to see something that is just different from the normal status quo of a case you guys have been asking for like people to innovate and come up with something different I think lean Lee has done a fantastic job with this case no pun intended as far as we can tell visualization with thermal testing and our actual component testing and then seeing how the smoke does there's enough data here to be able to say that it's a it's a work the design is working which is nice all right there you go sound off down in the comments below how you feel about this I guess now is where you would want a big giant GPU because that's your intake sound off down below I think it's cool no pun intended mostlysup no Su as in the su01 lean Le case we're going to look at today the vonic x24k LED projector is the world's first projector designed for Xbox consoles featuring screen sizes up to 120 in Native refresh rates up to 240 HZ built-in Harmon Card and speakers and low latency gaming modes the x24k gaming projector from vsonic delivers a truly customizable experience for both gaming and HDR Cinema to see our full length video covering features and user experiences follow the links in the description below okay I know we've all been dying for something different and Le and Lee never ceases to disappoint no wait wait they never they never fail to amaz they make good okay so that's just whatever I'm almost out of here and I'm feeling it so this is the St 01 case which is uh actually sort of kind of built on the premise of like the the Lan cool 216 which has been incredibly popular but this just is a complete they took everything about a PC case and just threw it out the window and said let's start over so everything in this case is exactly the opposite of what you would sort of expect what I mean by that is there are no intake fans on the front whatsoever your GPU is supposed to do that for you yes the GPU would be vertically mounted long ways in the front of the case so its fans can bring the air in the back side of the case has a exhaust for the hot air through the GPU but also an intake on the other side to bring in air through the AO and the AO doesn't get mounted anywhere you can see it it's on the back side so it's like they took the whole motherboard tray concept that leanly sort of kicked off The Craze with with like the1 and went we're tired of doing it that way we're going to do it this way now another thing that's nice about this case is the fact that everything on it is 100% toolless so if it's a mirror down there uh the glass is really thick to by the way like super thick the only reason we even care about glass thickness is because of breakability like how durable is it so as you can see the edges are protected there is foam on there but the glass thickness itself is 4.25 mm it's pretty thick I thought it was about 4 Ms thick it's a little bit thicker than that even now stay tuned in this video I am going to do a smoke test on this I want to see I want to see the air flow through this cuz we have fans kind of face in all different directions in here so I'm really curious as to how this one is going to Faire anyway the top should just pop off yep and every panel on this case is mesh now the paracity on this is pretty fine and we do have a very thick uh fan filter inside as well so one of the reasons why I want to do the the airflow test on this with the smoke is I really want to see um how well does this ventilate slash stop dust from getting in is it going to ventilate really well or is it going to trade off filter ability for air flow so I'm really curious about that one thing you might notice here too is we have this Riser cable um it's sort of kind of like how the height y70 has these half height expansion slots right here so the GPU because it mounts to the front uses this pcie Riser cable which should be a Gen4 at minimum might be a Gen 5 we'll take a look which means any expansion card that you have on your motherboard here whether it be a capture card or a sound card or network card or um cuz I know a lot of people have to run 10g network cards cuz not a lot of motherboards have built in unless you go like a productivity grade board they better be uh low profile like like a home theater PC height otherwise you're not going to be able to use it so that's already a kind of a downside about the the trade-off of going with a narrow chassis like this like the first thing I said when I opened this or I picked up this box to Nick was the box is heavier than I expected it to be given the fact that it's like the chassis is only a little bit smaller than say a a land cool 216 is but this is heavier like the build quality and construction of this guy is like there's no flexing or creaking in this at all it's just mesh I mean look at that it's just mesh it's like people went you want mesh fine here's your mothering mesh so the three fans that are included are on the back side right here these are 1800 RPM fans it's just standard 12vt fan but they as you can see these are exhausting air out this way and I don't know if you can tell there's also a spot right here where we can put three more 120s or 2 140 so we could fit a 360 a 240 or a 280 right here this is where your AIO goes the aiio goes on the back side right here and what this fan is designed to do is we're pushing air in right through the AIO so the AO goes in here with the fans have to go obviously on the insides cuz we get very crammed right right there some of the air is going to get positive pressured out the back and then these are going to pick up that hot air from AO and exhaust it back out so hopefully we don't get too much of a cyclone effect right here where it's just picking hot air back up and can rise but as long as your chassis is in an open area not stuck in like a computer cabinet or like a you know some people like old desk have a little door you put the C the PC in there that has terrible air flow as long as you're not doing something like that this should be okay but until we actually build something in here and put it under load testing it'll be hard to say but I I I think it'll be okay depending on the CPU you go with um bottom compartment down here you can see obviously this is where your power supply goes got our Drive sleds here for our 3 and 1 half in drives well one of them anyway and then this whole thing is completely removable and adjustable so this is the extended piece here if you for you put another uh 2 and 1/2 in or a 3 and 1/2 in drive so you got two of those or this entire thing can come out and then we have a full open bottom to manage our wires this top piece right here is removable so we've got four or two screws there and a screw there this top piece comes off which makes it easier when you're routing like your aiio and stuff so the AO pump is designed to come up over through here and down to your CPU so you should have tubes that just go up into there so it's not completely tooless cuz some of the stuff internal wise obviously has screws well I'm going to go and take off this top piece right here cuz I am going to throw some components in here because you might have noticed the only three fans on this case are on the backside right here so this little mounting mechanism down here in the bottom is adjustable we can we have height adjustable uh ability built in as well as forward and back adjustability so we can go up and down front to back or I guess that' be side to side and then front to back available on there that way we can get our GPU fans as close to the mesh as possible so I'm really curious as to whether or not GPU fans themselves are capable of pulling in enough positive pressure or at least just enough pressure period uh to to pull air in so that means I'm going to have to do at least a quick build in this otherwise I'm going to have no way of like turning on that GPU the GPU fans and and getting them going there's also a fan that attaches to the back of this and I'll show you that in a second to me it really does seem a little bit like an afterthought you mount a 120 fan in here which is not included here's all your spare parts and mounting screws and stuff for hard drives and whatnot anyway you can mount a 120 fan to this and then what you do is you mount it there's two holes here here and here and you mount it like this and then you can adjust this side to side and this is intended to blow air in the back side the reason why you blow air in is they're talking about this being the active cooling uh air that blows across your vrms and stuff which is a little weird considering those are up here so once you take the top piece off which I did right here then this piece comes free entire and it has these little like rubber nubbin right here now the rubber pieces here are designed to attenuate any of the vibrations that can make its way through the chassis so these are just kind of like some rubber isolators that just have screws going through them so when you put it back in make sure the fan wire is Clear Place it down in there and then you can put it back in there and tighten it down so the fans that are in here though as you can see they are kind of proprietary they've got this kind of a mini connector on there that then converts it to a standard for pin pwm and the same one exists on the top if you want to daisy chain it if you get more of these fans so if you were to use more of these fans say for the AO you can have all six of them speed up and slow down together with whatever fan controller these are plugged into otherwise if you have them in two separate headers you're going to want to tune these fans to speed up and slow down together because this is part of the cooling for the AO it's intended to take this CH this chamber right here and sort of isolate it from the rest of the system and then for the AO bracket it's the same sort of deal rubber isolators on the bottom screw on the side once you take the top off and then the whole bracket comes off so that you can mount your uh AIO to that single plug front panel connector I every time a case does this I love this because it makes it so much easier for beginners to just know where the cables go cuz you plug it in one way it's like a USB you can see how there's one blocked out pin so as long as you pay attention to how you're lining it up you always know your power is on Power and hard drive LEDs and hard and reset switch are all lined up appropriately and in terms of front panel we have The Usual Suspects we have our air RGB link wire which is going to connect to a motherboard so that you can have the lighting on the case be controlled by either the motherboard or the built-in controller our HD audio front panel connectors USBC and our USB 3.0 So speaking of lighting real quick there's three places you have Lighting on here you have an LED strip right here in the front this little white plastic piece which is separate from this piece on the side so that's a separate uh device technically that's a separate device technically and then we have one built in right here here into the Riser cable so you have the very subtle very thin strip lighting built into the case it's like kind of tasteful it's not completely like in your face now the other thing we have right here on the top to support our GPU which does support so size-wise four slot which is nice cuz typically you want to make sure you have enough space between the side of the case and the fan so you don't choke it off now the whole point is get the fans as close as we can to the mesh without being so so close that we get a turbulent sound with the fans being too close um but four slot wide in this particular config 380 mil length is supported you can drop this down to the lower compartment down here as you can see it's on the top compartment but you can lower it all the way down there and gain an extra 20 mm of support part of the front fan will probably be blocked by this they do show that in the photo but you can support up to 400 MM cards so I've got the motherboard in I've got the Riser Cable in you you're limited to water cooling with this case it's intended for an AIO because there's no way you're getting any even low height cooler on this without going super small which would limit the CPU you can go with um underneath the glass panel on the bottom is a spot for two 2 and 1/2 in SATA drives right here that's underneath the mirror which is a true mirror it's like very glass and then this literally just can go back in once you put drives down there in the bottom like that and then one screw keeps it in right there everything through here through this is unconventional and I think that's kind of what we're all I think we're all a little hungry for something unconventional right now and I think logically while building it motherboard first CPU later well CPU can go in with the motherboard but CPU Cooler next I think is the next logical thing to do so let me figure out what cooler I want to put in here that isn't going to require me to install 46 different controllers maybe I'll just go with one of their Galah heads I have a few of those so this is the G G2 Trinity performance 360 AO from Le and Lee not sponsored they did not ask me to put this in there I'm just curious now because this is a big boy this is not your average AO this sucker is thick it's got like their p28 fans on here I believe something similar to that it's got a thicker than average AIO and you only have so much space to to use with this I do like the fact that we have the angled fittings right here this is actually really nice and they rotate holy cow that's probably counterproductive to what I need to do with this wait unless I have to do the the up I don't know this is all right so I got this big old chungus of an AO to fit they do have a little like strap right here that's supposed to be for I think tubing if it's long enough but this this tubing doesn't reach over to there and I had to like bring the tubing around the bottom cuz it made more sense to have it without like being stuck up and bowed up on the top or in the way of hitting the side panel down here by having the fittings on the right and then Loop under itself top of the radiator is still above the pump by quite a bit so we don't have to worry about any air collecting in the pump and then the two wires are actually on the top right here with the way I have it oriented that way it can kind of I just sort of crudely zip tied those together and stuck them out of the way if you look on this plane you can see they did account for the height of their big cooler it will clear where's the glass cuz that would that would be a bad look for Lee and Lee if they didn't support their own like Flagship AIO so it does look in there though like we're talking about it right now as I'm kind of building this that we do like the narrowness of the chassis we just have to really see now how well that front can intake with the GPU only but the fans are fairly close I would say there's probably 30 mm between the fan and the back of the motherboard but guess what the ma of back of the motherboard is now being actively cooled technically cuz that air does have to bounce off of it before the other fans can exhaust it but this is the first time I've seen a case company sort of prioritize let's make a a chamber for the most part designed for just the CPU now it's not fully isolated this is there's no wall right here separating anything happening here for what's happening there but three fans in three fans out for the most part we have its own kind of isolated area here as long as this is not continuing to just suck hot air back in and cycle it around and then get hotter and hotter on the aiio I would have to assume Le and Lee tested that so this where the adjustability is really nice because of where I have it I don't think it's perfectly centered anyway the Riser cable sticking out slightly so I can loosen up that screw that screw this GPU has the server Mount screws on the back which I actually found lining up perfectly with that groove right there they might even mention it in the manual I didn't even notice so I took the little rubbery feet off that are designed to just clamp on there and yeah I've already got some scratches in this GPU from that screw but I find this is going to be far more secure to do it this way there now it's rigid mounted that's not going anywhere so I would prefer to do that honestly all right so everything's fully wired up in here right now I've got the 600 W uh 12vt Power coming down here into the PSU so this area right here kind of gets a little tight and cluttery if you will there's velcro straps to hold down the cables which do a good enough job it's just you have to make sure that you don't have any cables pushing into the fan blades on either the AIO or the exhaust fan here fortunately there is plenty of room in here so if I tilt this down you can see down in there there's a pretty decent amount of room in there as long as you kind of plan ahead as you're going cuz this is one of those builds where you sort of have to Jenga it together as you go to make sure you can access everything at the right time so the order of operations I did was motherboard in there first then figured out the orientation for my AO mounted the pump mounted the AO bracket back here and put it in then I did my um most of my wiring first before even the GPU then I did GPU now I'm going to do rear fan here which I have to plug into a header those are going to be the coldest wires that have ever existed according to Phil when I took this off and I I left it off mostly because this goes right behind the CPU socket they call it a controller Mount so it's just a place for you to be able to double-side Sticky Tape any sort of RGB or fan controller that you may have le and Lee obviously has their lconnect stuff so they would want to make sure sure they support that but I took it off because now I'm going to have air flow blowing directly on the back of the CPU socket as well which will believe it or not provide a uh a significant amount of additional cooling I think more cases should really start considering how much air flow they're providing to the back of the case so I kind of pre pre- zip tied these down and they're really tight in the other side and I didn't think about where the actual passrs are so now I've got to loosen I got to make some slack on the back side here there so be mindful of those I wasn't so now I'm dealing with it also too Lan Le's manual shows that this is intended to just be able to let it flop back there like that I wouldn't do that with the AIO at least not this AIO cuz it's so heavy with the fans it's fine but just keep that in mind like that is intend ofe to be able to do that I wouldn't keep it like that while you're working on it I think it's too easy to bend the metal um but yeah they they intend that to be the case so this one very unfortunate thing that they did not provide with this case that would have been an extension cable to go from the GPU to maybe something mounted back here that you could plug in an HDMI or display port um kind of like they do with power supplies on ITX cases where they have a cable to Brant there cuz this this port this plug right here is intended for you to pass through your HDMI or display port or whatever if you have the cage right here with your drives in there it's nearly impossible to plug this in but then this is the it's actually not that hard it's easy see easy anyway this is only like a 3 m cable it eats up like a good chunk of it that's the PSU fan hitting something so this is a brand new p1311 1300 watt from inwin that's a fan how does this make it through QC this is the other one tomorrow on Gamers Nexus so Phil suggested that I just like whack it to try and knock the blade back in cuz he thinks the Hub slightly off I hit it a little too hard it's all dented in now but it's better couple things I haven't pointed out yet they do have these velcro straps in the back to help capable manage like your USB devices and stuff I'm not going to use it CU I'm just testing it also to the power and reset button on the front is actually the Leon Le logo so the Leon is the power button and the Lee is the reset button hey and now our RGB is working cuz while I was in there I took care of plugging this wire back in which as I said makes this rear exit which is weird it's like an afterthought but okay okay so check this out that's that's our temperature for the socket up in the top right corner displaying on the MSI carbon motherboard uh it is accurate it's showing 27 26 27 on the package and mid to low 20s on the ecores and peores it is also running at only like 1.1 GHz right now because the power profile and stuff I have no idea this motherboard I have not updated the BIOS it's brand new I bought this for the test bench so that I could put a better motherboard on the test bench after I got rid of the Asus stuff I have no idea what the power profile stuff has said to this it's a 14700 K though so just go ahead and do an initial test right here just start it and see what my temp Spike to 83 89 91 H it's at 290 Watts so it definitely has the above Intel spec profile set right now which I guess is a good thing if we're really going to test this right now because it's now pulling as many more watts than a a 900k w like a 14900 K 96 97 it's still at 300 watts it's at 55 GHz all core so it does have a pretty aggressive natural uh power limit adjustment that MSI has applied that's also a 35175 you know what's funny about this this 14700 K is performing faster than the 14900 K in the i500 in this chassis I mean it makes sense it's got this giant cooler on it and it's overclocked and the 14900 K down and that system was running all the way down to 200 Watts so there we there's our 100 C right there I don't blame the chassis for this this is the this is the design of the motherboards pushing the CPUs too far okay let me get lconnect installed so I can get this uh cooler operating properly okay so now that I have the elcon software installed the fans will do something they basically sat there idle just idle really slow temp the entire time I also have gone into the BIOS and limited the CPU to its uh Intel performance profile of 253 Watts it was set to 496 this board has clearly not been updated with any of the BIOS changes that all that Intel Fiasco has come from now that we've got this all set now I can go ahead and start our initial um cooling run right now to see how well this see as I'm loading things now I can hear the fans starting to speed up I can also feel air coming out the top that means those intake fans being as like big and thick as they are uh I do believe is going to be creating a fairly positive pressure so I have to make sure that those aren't overpowering the GPU intakes that it's a be a balancing act in this point because we don't have a standard flow direction through this we have three separate compartments we have the G CPU uh compartment on the back technically the GPU on the front and the power supply on the bottom so we've got three areas of air flow that can all that are not sealed off from each other so you could easily overpower one okay let's set this to a 30-minute test hit start what are we going to spike up to now with realistic numbers 81c 80c and the fans kicked up I don't know if you can hear them the fans absolutely kicked up and I have the those fans have a toggle on them for high speed which is 3200 uh RPM or low speed which is like I think 2200 or 2400 RPM and then in the Lee and Lee software I have it set to um high speed so I think that's a bit loud for my preference then going put them back to standard speed there now they're slowing down a little bit but even at 252 Watts there we go we're at 83 85 83 we're at 5.3 GHz all core now which is much more realistic for 14700 K all right let's let this run for a bit let's see what it caps out at and then let's uh hook it up to some smoke not the Blue Magic spoke hopefully just smoke so we can see the air flow okay so the it's been looping and looping and looping and looping for a long time this is actually the next day it's still looping no anyway they did hit upper 90s and Spike 100 like for a moment somewhere it's not doing it now as you can see but at somewhere it did that more than likely it's when it restarts the test more importantly though none of these numbers are red there's a difference between hitting 100 C and then hitting 100 C with it being red red means it hard throttled this is saying it's like probably barely bumping that but I still would like to see these temps be lower than that honestly now all the fan filters and everything are still on this and I think if I took those off that would help quite a bit check out our GPU temperature right now I do have a GPU fan curve right now set to the user profile right here so it's not going Zer RPM it's currently at 40% it's currently at 27c and 36.2c right now on the hot spot and so so it's not terrible but check this out at one point it did reach 43c and 52c now the reason for that is that was when it was actually sitting under zero RPM I just started up MSI After Burner which then forced the fan to turn on also o too I do have the fan filters in just want to show that I am curious though if I were to let's say just take out the rear fan filter or let's just oh you know what is there even one in here okay there's not even one in here so the only way I'd be able to make the temperatures any better whatsoever would be to take the whole side panel off Al together so this is like the worst possible scenario right now where it is under cinebench load which is much harder than any type of load would be during gaming and stuff so I'm going to stop the CPU test now temp should drop down pretty quick yeah 40 36 35 so it's a pretty beefy AIO though what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start a Port Royal Loop cuz now we need to see what's going to happen with the GPU because these fans on the back are only speeding up and slowing down based on CPU load so I need to see now what's going to happen if we have the GPU now bringing in hot air I have a feeling though the fans on the back are still going to have no problems exhausting that but I want to see what our overall GPU temps are going to look like so we pretty much capped out at 60 is our Max temp uh 71.6 on the hot spot currently it's at 59 and 70.1 58 it's going to kind of hover up there coming up and down cuz the fan speeds up slowly and then slows down it's like right on a on a change where the the temperature SL fan speed is but I got my Fleer camera I want to show you something interesting if we look at the front of the case you can see it's clearly very cool because that's where the cool air is being sucked in through these vents right here but look at the back so you can clearly see where the GPU is so it's seeing the GPU itself but you can actually see the flow of hot air because we got the flow through up here on the top so the flow through remember they all have like an amount of air that can go through the cooler and because that's flowing straight through this top fan of the three is exhausting it our temp is still 59 so that's pretty solid what I'm going to do now is I'm going to just take the filter out and I want to see if the temp goes down at all it's only been a couple minutes since I took the filter out and it's at 56 currently but there we go 55 it's actually dropping and I didn't change the fan curve at all all I did was take the filter out I personally don't think you would need to run the filter that's just me only because of the fact that it's such fine mesh already on the front that I think a lot of the Dust would be captured by that now it's at 54 and the crazy thing about that is that's going to be enough temperature to actually maybe get you a boost bin or two back all right we need some visualization now let's go ahead and get our smoke machine ready I don't recommend doing this cuz this is basically like super vaping near your computer we're not going to be doing it all the time so it's not going to harm anything but I want some visualization of of the smoke and I got to leave our test running here for our GPU cuz I want to see what's happening with our GPU and then we're going to put our CPU back under load with those rear fans kind of doing their thing cuz my biggest concern here is going to to be whether or not my aiio is picking up air that's being exhausted right here so I'm wondering if when I put the smoke machine here am I going to see part of it going in there and coming out here and going right back into there that's what I want to see is it doing this right here okay so first and foremost this should just obviously being sucked in the front yep there it is right there our GPU is current oh look at that you can see it you can see the fans doing exactly what they're supposed to do they're just immediately exhausting it out but look the gpu's COA AAL fans is actually pushing it out and then up here okay that's enough smoke you can see it's coming out more forceful cuz that exhaust fan is pushing it but down here it's a little bit more radiant and slower cuz that's the GPU fan pushing it my question is what's happening on the top right now it's just sort of floating there not really doing anything so not too much positive pressure pushing it out and you can see just how well the GPU is pulling in that air look at that look how far away that is and the GPU is pulling that in no problem at all okay when did Snoop Dog come over okay we need to do the CPU one now so you can see the AIO is clearly pulling it in see that and then you can see here the exhaust is clearly ex oh look at that you know what my biggest concern was whether or not so the exhaust is definitely pushing it far away the intake is not picking it up so look at this look at that so my fears are unfounded that they are not picking it up but that's idle speeds what about under load though when these fans kick up and go real fast so you can see now they are really moving some air right now look at the exhaust woo the exhaust is just like so what I'm looking for here is how much of this this smoke is making it back to there now some is if you look down this way Phil it's really obvious that there's a split okay so you can see some of that smoke is making its way back to the intake but not much not much at all like right here is but most of it still making its way away I mean it's picking up some of it but look at that most of it it's still making its way away and those are much faster fans on the intake than on the exhaust so it's actually not doing too bad it feels like a super this kind of case you would see with like a like a SI or something there got super version of like this guy right here remember this was the uh The Omen case that we did the little buildin it's like a super version of this but better I love its narrow footprint I love the unconventional way of mounting the GPU you saw the GPU was clearly getting a ton of cold air I mean it maxed out at 60 with the filter on 55 with the filter off the rear is not sucking in hot air coming back through at least not enough of it to matter as you saw with the visualization of the uh the hot and cold uh smoke if you will our test showed that yeah the 14700 K can get up into the 90s but that's just the nature of having an aiio on Intel these days at full 253 Watts I didn't let it Throttle Down at all I think it's a pretty solid case and the price on it isn't too bad either it's $149 you get those three exhaust fans the other fans obviously will be part of the AIO your GPU is your front exhaust fans I did not put on the rear exhaust and I I feel like this is the worst possible situation where I didn't put on rear exhaust and to be honest they call it an intake I think I would have had it as an exhaust to pull some of the GPU intake air through I guess to try and go across the components but in the whole time I had cinebench running here um looking at my PCH temps they maxed out at 53 so I think we're doing okay on the temperatures like our our Ram it's 35c it maxed out at 47.8 I'm just happy to see something that is just different from the normal status quo of a case you guys have been asking for like people to innovate and come up with something different I think lean Lee has done a fantastic job with this case no pun intended as far as we can tell visualization with thermal testing and our actual component testing and then seeing how the smoke does there's enough data here to be able to say that it's a it's a work the design is working which is nice all right there you go sound off down in the comments below how you feel about this I guess now is where you would want a big giant GPU because that's your intake sound off down below I think it's cool no pun intended mostly\n"