**The Cube Case Review: A Comparison with the Ebora Case**

I recently had the opportunity to review the Mcube case, which is an upgrade over the previous Ebora case. I was excited to see how it compared in terms of airflow and thermal management. However, my excitement turned into frustration when I encountered a problem with one of the features that I didn't expect.

**The Middle Two Slot Covers: A Nightmare**

One of the issues I had with the Mcube case was with the middle two slot covers. Unlike the top and bottom ones, which were attached at the bottom only, these middle two were equally attached at both the top and bottom. This made it difficult to remove them without damaging the case or my motherboard.

I tried using a set of pliers to bend and break them out, but it was like trying to rip a part of the case out. The Mcube case didn't survive the thrashing I gave it with the pliers, and by the end of it, I pretty much ruined the rear PCI Express bay. I googled it and found that this wasn't a massive issue many people had encountered, so it must have been a manufacturing default on the specific case I had.

**Why I Don't Think It's a User Error**

I don't think this is a user error because if it was meant to easily come out, it wouldn't have been able to survive the thrashing with pliers. The top and bottom slot covers were easy to get out, but the middle two were not.

**Comparing Thermal Performance with the Ebora Case**

Next, I tested the thermal performance of both cases using my Gigabyte M80X motherboard with a Ryzen 7 1700x CPU and an RX 570 graphics card. The system was playing Battlefield 5, and the temperatures were surprisingly similar between the two cases.

However, in a severe stress test situation with IDA 64 and Furmark running, the GPU temperatures were a little better on the Ebora case than they were on the Mcube. But again, for some reason, the CPU cooler temperatures were better on the Mcube.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, while the Mcube is an upgrade in many ways over the Ebora case, it has one potential downside: the middle two slot covers can be difficult to remove and may cause damage to the case or motherboard. If you want better GPU thermals, get an Ebora case; if you want a better everything else, the Mcube is a better option.

**Special Thanks**

I would like to thank Deepcool for sending me the Mcube case and having a good sense of humor about it. They took it really well, and I appreciate it.

If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one. Until next time, bye-bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlast year at some point i did a video having a look at this deep cool matrix case and i referred to it as an ebola case just because of how terrible the building experience is in it well deepcool saw that video and decided to send me a new m80x case to show to me how much better their their new line of matx cases are so today we're going to compare the mccube 120 to the ebola case let's put these two cases head to head in the age-old death match arena of death deathmatch arena of death but before that there's a sponsor for today's video video is sponsored by lenode which is a powerful and affordable linux based cloud computing service which is very easy to use lenode has a large marketplace with fully configured one-click apps for whatever use case you need linux-based web servers for be it wordpress development and hosting if you're new to self-hosting apps check out cloudron which is like a marketplace inside lenode's marketplace some tasty marketception right there cloudron comes with over a hundred cloud apps to test on your servers all installed through a simple web ui they also have a variety of game server hosting options for you scrubs out there and considering that we're currently mid skull apocalypse and physical hardware is very difficult to get your hands on if you have heavy compute applications lenode offers affordable options for that be it cpu intensive ram intensive or gpu intensive workloads and when it comes to gpu compute loads the node's not messing around they're using nvidia quadro rtx 6000 series gpus for the max horsepower possible if this sounds good to you sign up using the link in my description below for a 100 60 day credit now straight off the bat they aren't entirely comparable like for like yes they're both m80x cases but the mcube is a bit more expensive than the matrix ebola but you do get a lot more case for your money and it looks a lot better although it has the standard modern case issue of having pretty much no front ventilation there are these gaps on the side of the front but they have a very restrictive mesh on them and then behind that mesh there's another plastic lip which introduces more resistance yeah it's not looking good considering the fact that the pretty much the only thing that i liked about the ebola case was its front airflow so they didn't carry that over into the cube unfortunately other than that when it comes to the interior the mcube is again a huge upgrade you can see that there is an open plan design with a power supply basement which makes hiding cables and stuff significantly more easier as supposed to the inside of the ebola case which is just a nightmare to cable manage in a way that looks nice and because it's a really small case everything just about fits in it which adds to the frustration of building with the case another big improvement with the mcube is the fact that it has one of the nicest tempered glass mounting systems that i've ever seen on a case it's magnetically attached and you just kind of hinge it off and then lift it out which is amazing i really like that um whereas the ebola case has a pretty bad tempered glass mounting system although it is better than that pink case that i had a look at a while ago because the side panel doesn't immediately drop off the moment that you remove the screws other mccube improvements includes just a whole bunch of radiator mounting space although i wouldn't recommend mounting a radiator in the front of the mcube again because well there's not much airflow going on there now like i hinted to earlier in the video the building experience on the mcube is significantly better than the ebola case if you want a lot of detail about why i didn't like building in the ebola case go check out the original video i'll have it linked in the description below but yeah the mcube pretty much fixes all of those problems it passes with flying colors the david case hand test which means that you can easily plug in the cpu eight pin power connector in the top with a tower cooler and it all mounted in the case there's there's plenty of space there whereas the ebola system really doesn't pass that test cable management again was a breeze in the system because you know it's got a modern interior of the case so everything worked well although i had a really weird issue with the case and i don't know what it is with me and deepcool i i kind of think that deepcool cases are a bit cursed for me because every single deepcool case that i've built in i've had some weird massive issue while building in it and the problem that i had with the mccube is something that i almost don't really want to tell you about because initially i was just assuming that it was a david user error but it can't be a david user error and i'll explain why but when it comes to the rear pci express covers on a case you get two kinds first there's the good kind which is held in by a screw when you unscrew it you can remove it easily and then you can just put it back when you don't need to use that slot anymore and then there's the bad kind which isn't held in by a screw but it's kind of still attached and then you have to bend it out and break it off now i've seen these on a lot of cases and i never like them very much because you can't replace them if you're not using that slot anymore but i've always been able to easily get them out whereas with the mcube it was a complete nightmare like i ended up savaging the case with pliers to get those two slot covers out now the top and the bottom ones were okay because again they were just attached at the bottom which meant you could easily bend them and break them out whereas with the middle two they were equally attached at the top and the bottom so it was basically like trying to rip a part of the case out now the reason that i'm saying that i don't think that this is a david user error is because if it was meant to easily come out it wouldn't have been able to survive the thrashing that i had to give it with a ply with a set of pliers to get the damn things out and by the end of it it i pretty much ruined the rear pci express bay in the mcube case now i googled it and it seems like this isn't a massive issue that a bunch of people have had so it must have been just like a manufacturing default on the specific case that i had but it was really hard work to get that crap out there and i ended up scratching the inside of the case and scratching my motherboard a bit and stuff so yeah i'm not entirely sure what what happened there let me know in the comments down below if you have one of these cases and if you had a tough time getting the middle two slot covers out like i said the top two were really easy to get out it was just the middle two that was the problem so now we've seen how the mcube is an upgrade in a lot of ways over the ebola case but let's test the one potential downside of this case which is the fact that they didn't carry over the front airflow now the system that i used for the tests was my gigabyte m80x motherboard with a ryzen 7 1700x in there now remember that motherboard doesn't like eight core cpus very much so it's not going to boost above like 3.5 gigahertz but you know it'll still dump a reasonable amount of heat out into the case the cooler that we're using for that cpu is a deep cool cooler that looks like this and then the graphics card is an rx 570 which is a fairly high tdp budget graphics card so i think it'll be a good test for these two cases while playing battlefield 5 the temperatures are actually surprisingly similar although for some reason the cpu temperatures in the ebola case are quite a bit higher i'm not quite sure what happened there i did retest it after i kind of re-tightened down the cooler and stuff so it doesn't seem to be a mounting issue i'm not entirely sure what's going on there but the gpu temperatures in the ebola case are a little bit better and then when it comes to a severe stress test situation with ida 64 and fermark running the gpu temperatures are a little bit better on the on the ebola case than it is on the mcube but again for some reason the cpu cooler temperatures are better on the mcube the ambient temperature between the two test situations was identical yeah i mean the only variable is the cases between the two so it has to have something to do with the airflow patterns in the cases so yes if you want better gpu thermals get an ebola case if you want a better everything else the mcube is a better option which brings me to the end of the video thank you very much deepcool for sending out them a cube and having a good sense of humor about the whole ebola case thing they took it really well uh so i appreciate it you all seem to be very nice if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye-byelast year at some point i did a video having a look at this deep cool matrix case and i referred to it as an ebola case just because of how terrible the building experience is in it well deepcool saw that video and decided to send me a new m80x case to show to me how much better their their new line of matx cases are so today we're going to compare the mccube 120 to the ebola case let's put these two cases head to head in the age-old death match arena of death deathmatch arena of death but before that there's a sponsor for today's video video is sponsored by lenode which is a powerful and affordable linux based cloud computing service which is very easy to use lenode has a large marketplace with fully configured one-click apps for whatever use case you need linux-based web servers for be it wordpress development and hosting if you're new to self-hosting apps check out cloudron which is like a marketplace inside lenode's marketplace some tasty marketception right there cloudron comes with over a hundred cloud apps to test on your servers all installed through a simple web ui they also have a variety of game server hosting options for you scrubs out there and considering that we're currently mid skull apocalypse and physical hardware is very difficult to get your hands on if you have heavy compute applications lenode offers affordable options for that be it cpu intensive ram intensive or gpu intensive workloads and when it comes to gpu compute loads the node's not messing around they're using nvidia quadro rtx 6000 series gpus for the max horsepower possible if this sounds good to you sign up using the link in my description below for a 100 60 day credit now straight off the bat they aren't entirely comparable like for like yes they're both m80x cases but the mcube is a bit more expensive than the matrix ebola but you do get a lot more case for your money and it looks a lot better although it has the standard modern case issue of having pretty much no front ventilation there are these gaps on the side of the front but they have a very restrictive mesh on them and then behind that mesh there's another plastic lip which introduces more resistance yeah it's not looking good considering the fact that the pretty much the only thing that i liked about the ebola case was its front airflow so they didn't carry that over into the cube unfortunately other than that when it comes to the interior the mcube is again a huge upgrade you can see that there is an open plan design with a power supply basement which makes hiding cables and stuff significantly more easier as supposed to the inside of the ebola case which is just a nightmare to cable manage in a way that looks nice and because it's a really small case everything just about fits in it which adds to the frustration of building with the case another big improvement with the mcube is the fact that it has one of the nicest tempered glass mounting systems that i've ever seen on a case it's magnetically attached and you just kind of hinge it off and then lift it out which is amazing i really like that um whereas the ebola case has a pretty bad tempered glass mounting system although it is better than that pink case that i had a look at a while ago because the side panel doesn't immediately drop off the moment that you remove the screws other mccube improvements includes just a whole bunch of radiator mounting space although i wouldn't recommend mounting a radiator in the front of the mcube again because well there's not much airflow going on there now like i hinted to earlier in the video the building experience on the mcube is significantly better than the ebola case if you want a lot of detail about why i didn't like building in the ebola case go check out the original video i'll have it linked in the description below but yeah the mcube pretty much fixes all of those problems it passes with flying colors the david case hand test which means that you can easily plug in the cpu eight pin power connector in the top with a tower cooler and it all mounted in the case there's there's plenty of space there whereas the ebola system really doesn't pass that test cable management again was a breeze in the system because you know it's got a modern interior of the case so everything worked well although i had a really weird issue with the case and i don't know what it is with me and deepcool i i kind of think that deepcool cases are a bit cursed for me because every single deepcool case that i've built in i've had some weird massive issue while building in it and the problem that i had with the mccube is something that i almost don't really want to tell you about because initially i was just assuming that it was a david user error but it can't be a david user error and i'll explain why but when it comes to the rear pci express covers on a case you get two kinds first there's the good kind which is held in by a screw when you unscrew it you can remove it easily and then you can just put it back when you don't need to use that slot anymore and then there's the bad kind which isn't held in by a screw but it's kind of still attached and then you have to bend it out and break it off now i've seen these on a lot of cases and i never like them very much because you can't replace them if you're not using that slot anymore but i've always been able to easily get them out whereas with the mcube it was a complete nightmare like i ended up savaging the case with pliers to get those two slot covers out now the top and the bottom ones were okay because again they were just attached at the bottom which meant you could easily bend them and break them out whereas with the middle two they were equally attached at the top and the bottom so it was basically like trying to rip a part of the case out now the reason that i'm saying that i don't think that this is a david user error is because if it was meant to easily come out it wouldn't have been able to survive the thrashing that i had to give it with a ply with a set of pliers to get the damn things out and by the end of it it i pretty much ruined the rear pci express bay in the mcube case now i googled it and it seems like this isn't a massive issue that a bunch of people have had so it must have been just like a manufacturing default on the specific case that i had but it was really hard work to get that crap out there and i ended up scratching the inside of the case and scratching my motherboard a bit and stuff so yeah i'm not entirely sure what what happened there let me know in the comments down below if you have one of these cases and if you had a tough time getting the middle two slot covers out like i said the top two were really easy to get out it was just the middle two that was the problem so now we've seen how the mcube is an upgrade in a lot of ways over the ebola case but let's test the one potential downside of this case which is the fact that they didn't carry over the front airflow now the system that i used for the tests was my gigabyte m80x motherboard with a ryzen 7 1700x in there now remember that motherboard doesn't like eight core cpus very much so it's not going to boost above like 3.5 gigahertz but you know it'll still dump a reasonable amount of heat out into the case the cooler that we're using for that cpu is a deep cool cooler that looks like this and then the graphics card is an rx 570 which is a fairly high tdp budget graphics card so i think it'll be a good test for these two cases while playing battlefield 5 the temperatures are actually surprisingly similar although for some reason the cpu temperatures in the ebola case are quite a bit higher i'm not quite sure what happened there i did retest it after i kind of re-tightened down the cooler and stuff so it doesn't seem to be a mounting issue i'm not entirely sure what's going on there but the gpu temperatures in the ebola case are a little bit better and then when it comes to a severe stress test situation with ida 64 and fermark running the gpu temperatures are a little bit better on the on the ebola case than it is on the mcube but again for some reason the cpu cooler temperatures are better on the mcube the ambient temperature between the two test situations was identical yeah i mean the only variable is the cases between the two so it has to have something to do with the airflow patterns in the cases so yes if you want better gpu thermals get an ebola case if you want a better everything else the mcube is a better option which brings me to the end of the video thank you very much deepcool for sending out them a cube and having a good sense of humor about the whole ebola case thing they took it really well uh so i appreciate it you all seem to be very nice if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye-bye