Thermaltake Core P1 MINI ITX Build and Review -- LGH

**Thermaltake Open Air Case Review**

The price of these cases used to be you'd think that would have been included right okay guys well the build is done except for of course the computer components which we'll get to in another build again comment below if you want to know or want to see that whole build live and then after we can do a live water cooling custom water loop for this machine I've never done custom water cooling ever so this will be definitely a wondrous thing for all of us and you'll probably see me cry who knows anyway uh it's not a frustrating build it is a okay build.

**Build Quality**

The build quality that I expected from Thermaltake from like let's say my Mozart uh TX that's out from 2006 that thing is the size of a bar fridge that was Thermaltake build quality I find this decent it's not horrible but I mean for the small frame that it is you can't really make it that flimsy if you did you're really cutting corners now saying that I do find certain spots of it a little bit thinner well not I guess thinner but I guess the way the bends are not quite as strong as I would expect from Thermal tape.

**Fit and Finish**

The case overall is very decent now for fit and finish it was pretty darn good except for when I was putting the glass on I noticed after you put your first screw hole in well the second one you got to kind of pull on the bar a little bit to line it up for the next one now I get that would probably be hard to not have completely lined up based on the fact that there's going to be a little bit of warping I'm guessing within shipping or whatever the case may be so I'm letting that slide um.

**Riser Setup**

The riser setup I don't know if I'm going to call it flimsy it seems solid but two screws are holding the whole entire video card slot onto this bracket that's held on by two screws it could be perfectly fine it's pretty solid when I feel it and the way the brackets made the brackets definitely solid so that is just something over time we'll have to see if it holds up.

**Conclusion**

Other than that I have to say if you're looking for an open air case that gives you the look and feel of something very high end this case is definitely an answer if you're looking for an ITX build there are again bigger models so you can have an M80x and full ATX as well so there's definitely options for you I wanted an ITX for the custom setup I got in my game room that you guys will see after it's finally built and you'll understand why I went ITX.

**Price**

For 130 Canadians so what do you get right at that point maybe I'm asking too much overall I'm happy with it I'm excited can't wait to get it built I'm not disappointed in it in any way there's nothing so far that's caused me to have that grief but of course during a live build for example who knows who knows what may come but for 130 bucks if you're looking to wall mount or just have something standing and looking like an aquarium open air case I think this is your answer.

**Recommendation**

At least you got to stop people from touching the fans guys if you're here still thank you for watching the whole thing I wanted to have a full put together video for you so no one can say hey I don't know how to put this on I wish you didn't skip it so hopefully I did what I needed to do to help out anybody that's going to build this unit and overall right now at this point I give it a thumbs up till next time guys in the next video hopefully is building it game over.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys welcome back to another episode of the last game hunter and i'm going to build the thermaltake core p1 mini itx case now this case is a special thing that i wanted to do for my new game room renovation so it's going to be mounted on the wall and i want this it's got a little bit to it so i figured i'm going to show you guys the build of an open air thermaltake products so the core p1 and the p2 the p5s and the p6 or whatever they have and different marketing levels for atx m80x and so on for the open air case the build should be pretty much the same or in the general idea of so let's just get right to it i am not going to edit out any of the build so the video could be a little bit long but if you want to see how it's done and you are looking to get into this you'll find out how crazy it is or what is needed to do so so at this point all i've done is taking the styrofoam everything out of the box and it's sitting here in styrofoam and i have no idea what i'm up against so guys sit back relax if you're not subscribed to my channel well i would suggest you do for the simple reason i do stuff like this all the time i do video game pickups i do just about anything gaming online talk shows you name it i'm doing it we even i wrestle i don't but others do like the seaway valley wrestling back there so guys sit back relax let's just get right to it before it gets longer than it needs to be let's get this done let's start so as you can see i'm going to flip this styrofoam i've already cut the tape we're just going to take a look at what we are up against or what we have in here and oh look at this oh that's annoying so you have broken pieces that's a good start that's not good when part of this is glass so we have a oh i guess this is the one of the legs we're not going to be using the legs in this build because well it's going on the wall uh we'll guess i'll put the legs in the build just because i got to build the machine i guess it might be easier i'm not sure we'll see don't know what that is until we get to it let's get this stuff out so i can get rid of some of the styrofoam okay we pretty much know what that is i'm gonna say power supply shroud video card trout some part build your or our core core p1 thermaltake so there's our instruction manual i think something else that was what was really heavy well really heavy but you know there's weight in that i was pretty shocked not sure and we have a bunch of okay so those are rubber feet like things some screws zip ties and weirdly 3m stuff okay let's take this piece of styrofoam off and get rid of this piece all right this might have been looking more like a hefty build than what it is maybe it's not so bad so here's our base so as you can see here if you can take a look there oh maybe upside down oh we have power button i'm not sure if that's a button nope you two usb threes right here uh your headphone microphone not sure that could be just reset not 100 there thermaltake logo um other than that this is pretty basic it's like the whole base where i'm gonna put the board the i guess i'll say it radiator and everything because i'm gonna do a custom water cooling on this build yep that's right this will be my first custom water cooling ever in my life so that's going to be pretty interesting and there's our glass i don't think there's anything else in here i need to worry about but that's the case i'll leave the glass in the styrofoam as we're not going to need it right now i'm guessing there's something inside there we'll get to that when we get to it let's find out what's in here why is there so much weight in this for a little tiny box okay so these are the actual rods that are going to come out to the glass really nice touch actually i don't know if that's seeing it on camera where you can see the groove but that's actually the piece that goes on the outside right there it's the the bolt for it so i'm just gonna leave those in there and put them aside so normally i don't go to a manual to build a computer case but this isn't a regular computer case so let's see what do we have here yeah it looks like junk to me build your case yeah yeah contents hopefully there's something inside here i feel like there's a lot missing all right so right off the bat which is what i expected they want this off this is where be quiet has sponsored no i'm just kidding uh so this is how many screws here it shows four oh it's the back that's coming off all right now so the thumb screws pretty tight thumb screws they're supposed to come out all the way but they're going to because bad things will happen if they don't is there anything else for it to come off nope supposed to just pull off you see this is the type of thing that would have been edited out for sure why is it not coming off oh you see that it doesn't actually doesn't actually say to do that so if you slide it over you can take it off magnetic dust film or dust shield that may not stay there and if it does chances are it'll be on this side so i can easily take it and clean it because that just seems really dumb to have something on the wall and then have that yeah i can see a problem right there so my first con of the case of course is having that magnetic now maybe in the build it shouldn't be on the inside in the end who knows it was when i took it apart so that's what i look at now this must be the box for everything nice light box so you got a hard drive bay here for a five and a quarter i'm not going to use a five and a quarter in this build in fact i think all i'm using in this build is a m.2 or nvme uh 500 gig and you have an ssd slot right here as well so you can add two physical hard drives in here possibly i guess more on the other side or whatever at this point i don't know as i've never ever built or seen this case before in my life until now so this is as new to me as it is to anybody else that's never seen one oh okay so this is the uh the riser it's an addition so when you plug into your video card or video pcie slot and it'll give you a pcie if you're doing a side mount video card and in this case i believe it is a side mount it's sealed right now i'm going to leave it that way um that's really sad because that's all that was in that box so i guess everything that we need for screws and everything are all here in this bag actually it's a lot more than i thought there was so all right i guess we're back on track i thought there was screws and stuff inside here but there is not so away we go oh i see we can take out these plates by the look of it are they removable they are removable and you can put your radiator here which is what i was wondering because i thought well that's going to be kind of weird if you're putting a radiator in here and these things are in the way just it just didn't add up but they're removable so that's what's going to happen so i believe in this case you're looking at i guess it's a little bigger than a 120 but or a 240 uh you're not getting a 360 in this but at the same time it is a itx case so we've got to keep that in mind so i'm gonna show you guys as we go along not in this video but you're gonna see everything when it comes to the build also comment below i put a disclaimer out asking if you guys want to see me do a live build of this pc when i start doing the rest of it so when i start putting it all together as a first build and then maybe a live video so it's completely live on my first time ever doing a water cooling video so we can separate that and and just you know keep the fun going because that's what it is lots of fun uh sometimes so let's pour this out all right nobody needs bags are screws zip ties i don't normally use if i don't have to i use uh other things i don't know if this is going to be a spacer off the wall is it that's another thing we got to figure out the wall mounting because if there's a radiator going on here is it going to physically breathe i don't want to be in here this piece on and against the wall and this is the only air intake there's no air flow here there's no holes there's no nothing although it is an open air case it still doesn't make sense so that's something i gotta figure out how is this mounting to the wall and doing so is it going to stop airflow of this radiator which is really important so it is looking like if i was going to mount it to the wall i would mount it with the back plate and then this would just slide off the back plate and then you'd be able to take the pc down work on it put it back slide it block it although at that same point in time another problem arises so if i do mount this and that's how it mounts what's stopping me from knocking it off i won't be able to put the screws back in so there must be another way of doing this so we'll figure that out as we get there so i took a little break and i wanted to check out how this unit was actually going to mount to the wall because it was actually bothering me and this is another i guess con to the thing um you have to buy a mount like a tv mount to put it on the wall and that now makes a lot more sense to me for the cooling aspect and breathing that i was worried about so i'm going to leave a link to that of course in the description as well as the link to this case or any other needs that i have at that point just case oriented and i thought the wall mount was a very important one because not only did it have to be a tv wall mount had to support the weight that you're going to put into this computer and i'm going to guess this computer is going to hit around 55 pounds just saying it it it could be lighter but with the glass and everything and the metal uh rods they're actually a decent weight to those rods by the time you put your power supply in and so on you're gonna have some weight so you had to have something to do that but also needed a wall mount that not only was going to hold the weight but was not visible so that's the other thing this case is only a 15 by 15 square inch well that's shorter than your studs all wall mounts or at least two studs unless it's the center one but i didn't want a center one because the center one i thought would be not a good idea when it got to swing out and i don't think the swing out can hold the weight and there was nothing there to hold more than about 35 40 pounds worried about that so anyway in the link description below we'll also have the tv mount that i used for putting this on the wall if you wish to be doing that so a coffee you know later because i needed to have something again i it hasn't been a great day but i want to get this done because this is the i guess sore thumb of the whole build moving forward and if i want to do a live build i have to have this done and i thought this was the kind of thing that people would want to see especially if they're looking at doing something kind of cool and you'll see the end result of course when i'm finally done this and see if it's something you're looking at doing so at this point we're going to flip this over i haven't decided uh i guess i'll be taking these out um might need to do that now that might make sense and what is this this is just the cabling i'm not worried about that anytime soon so oh some pretty stiff they're in there pretty good i almost want to be using a powered screwdriver so one thing i try not to do too often is use power tools on my computers but wow that how flimsy is this okay it's not as flimsy as i thought it was just then i thought i felt like it was a bit flimsy that's pretty decently solid actually now with this thicker frame here i know that i don't have to worry about uh bending or shifting or warping or anything like that so taking out some brackets like this is not going to affect me in any way i should probably put the screws back in these plates just so i have them unless they're also no i guess yeah maybe a rad might mount with them who knows yeah i don't think the red will mount with these probably gave spruce for grab mountain there's a lot of screws here so i'm guessing they kind of compensated for some of that so i'm going to put these screws out of the way for now and if i don't need them i'll bolt them back into the plates so i have everything original for any time that i want to make that change okay so let's now tip this again if you're going to mount ssd or a five and a quarter heart or three and a half card drive or anything like that then this would be your spots and i would probably recommend doing it now so at least that part's done i'm not gonna be doing that in this build i do not need it so we're going to take it and we're going to put it the way i would look at it if we were looking at it with the motherboard in it which i think this is right yes so motherboard will go here and keep in mind this is another little thing that i just noticed that is a bit of a problem and that is here there is no big cutout for getting at your cooler or cooler mounts so anything that you're going to bolt onto here needs to be done before you mount your motherboard so just keep that in mind needs to be done if you're going to mount a motherboard so it looks like we have a d b a um i'm guessing this probably supports a i'm not sure 100 if it supports a dtx but we know this is an itx and that's what i bought it for so that's what we're going to consider it as now there's another thing about this too if i mount video card mount to come out let's say it goes like this or whatever the case is i'm not 100 where it actually goes right now but let's say it was probably not there let's say it was wherever anyway let's say it was here my concern now is the video card is not going to light up this way at all so there's no aesthetic to having the video card in this way now this case gives you the option to mount your video card normal or to mount your video card vertical now vertical is going to look cool but here's the downside to it you're not going to see your motherboard because it's a mini itx so the mini itx you're going to hide anything that you've done to it for example i don't want to spill the beans yet but the water cooling block that i got to go on there i want to see especially for the money spent on it so that is very important to me so i think i'm just going to mount the video card like i would mount it in a normal system so i'm not going to go with the vertical mount but if you wanted to this would be the piece i believe that you would mount and then you would have your cabling come over and everything and some supports and that is in here so that is an option of course with this to do your vertical mount i don't know if you can see that that or that sorry that's your normal mount and then if you were to mount vertical then you would be building this piece here to do that mount now i can put that piece together and show it being built but that's not what i want to use which i am vertically challenged apparently because why does it show backwards interesting oh i get it that makes a lot of sense in the world so now all of your card uh things would be down there now now that makes sense so you would mount it like this okay and then you would mount this piece like this so now we have the vertical mount so the vertical mount now your video card would go in like this it'd be all fans show and if you have any bling like maybe i could put led or rgb down in here and you won't see it and it'll bling it right up light the card up which is actually pretty cool idea not going to lie but i don't want it to cover and it may not so i guess i'm going to wait till i put the board in to see if i'm going to go with this setup or not uh my car does have rgb at the end but it's not enough to like really be a whoo but if i put rgb down in here you got yourself a bit a little bit of a show boat so that is pretty simple and then you have another bracket right here and this is for that pci extension so this mounts to this and mounts the pci extension in now um i might off camera fit the motherboard so you're not going to see what board i'm using yet because i don't want to show any of that yet and see uh what's which setup i'm going to go to so i will be right back and i'm going to find out if we're going to go vertical or horizontal then we're back and after lining up the motherboard and the vertical so i can have my video card standing it looks like my water cool block that i want to see will be fully visible so what you want to do here i want to show that i put these four posts i didn't i just finger tightened them so now i'm going to give them a little tighten with the post screwdriver and if you don't have one of these a little adjustable wrench or uh pliers or something if you you know you hook them decent in dope markets i don't like to mark anything also these are uh this is a 5.0 if you go to your local hobby store this is a 5.0 mill that you would use from any hobby like if you're building rc cars or whatever we used these back in the day and that's what fits the posts and computers so i'm keeping tools like this around from my hobby days just to build computers it was better than what we used to have back in the day so i'm happy to have that kind of thing now i think some of those old computer kits used to have something like it as well but i'm not sure so we're going to build this as a vertical mount so now i'm going to need these two pieces for sure um another thing i noticed too when you're mounting your board it looks like they have these little sponges to go right over the top of these either to not mark the board or to go on the board maybe i'm not a hundred percent i'm going to look into that and see what they are they're just these 3m sponges little mini holes and it came out of the same bag that had these posts and it's funny that there's four and for an itx there's four posts and there's only four posts that came with this build so it would lead to belief that either you put them on first so you didn't mark your case which i doubt because whatever or they go on top of your posts to not mark your board or they go on top of the board when the screw goes down to not mark the board one way or the other i think that's what these are for i've never seen that before so i want to know and it doesn't seem to show it anywhere in here to be honest it doesn't really show much of anything in here which is kind of interesting what is that power supply unit installation okay so that is what this and i believe this is for and because i'm wall mounting i do not want to see that so that's why they put the legs on first it made it easier to do that i am not going to do that so it doesn't look like it's rocket science to do it outside it the only thing that's bothering me now is place the psu in proper location adjust the psu support bridge the proper whatever we'll get to it when we get to it we'll see what it does when we do it i'm skipping it and moving on because i always thought it was kind of odd to mount a psu in your system while you're just trying to mount your frame out and add all that weight and problems and headache if you need to tip it over or flip it so even in here they don't show the psu mount anymore how funny is that even though they showed you mounting it in the beginning so don't go by the book go buy the book for what you're doing at that point in time that is my opinion so again even now they're showing uh just mounting the liquid cooling thing with nothing else mounted so it's just a guide a simple guide for each piece that you're doing so we're going to mount okay i see how that works all right so this piece here is about to get opened apparently i need a knife so now so far you know the tools a good phillips a good hex and a blade just for one thing or cutting the tape on your box be careful of course not to cut the ribbon cable because that would really suck for what you're trying to do and go cut your fingers all right so here we get to see this let's get rid of that snag bag can use later okay so here we have a flexible uh cable here for your motherboard and your video card so motherboard side very easily picked out as it would just drop in the motherboard has the lock so you see that there part with the cover on it and it's got the part where your motherboard will lock into so this looks like your video card then you have the piece that you're going to mount which has a lock on it as if it was the motherboard okay so let's mount this up so i'm going to mount these two pieces together so we'll take this beautiful thermal tape thing and put it right here it's nice that it came in that static bag all sealed and everything gave you that whole fresh new car smell at this point now we're going to mount these two pieces and as i showed you before you want the lip here as the camera might be picking it up and you got these little grooves here anyway you want the lip to be inside not on the outside that will actually make things not mount proper because it mounts like this and that's part of your shroud to go around the motherboard so it looks like it screws from the inside on i would think according to the the reading was there a part where it showed it before nope nice so lovely so lovely and bubbly so let us again now you literally get to see me with my frustrations how instructions are made versus what you're supposed to do so let's try these screws i don't want to just on the other thing too this is magnetic so this really helps out when you're doing this and clearly that is not the right screw so now we try this screw because it doesn't actually explain what screw is what so the the typical case screws that you would use for your computer case are the screws you use for this and this was definitely not the right bag because it didn't have two of them so whatever let's open up another bag it's not using thumb screws is it using thumb screws for the bottom for the riser but not for this so what else is in here i believe those are long screws for the case and this is probably the screws i need for this so there's three bags of screws and each bag is going to have its different sets of stuff based on oh wow there's lots of neat stuff in this one okay just trying to make sure there's no other fancy screws for this because like it doesn't tell you what screws to use but at this point you would have this part mounted now with two screws one here and one here to now be able to mount it on here now it's a no-brainer this is going to line up there's only two holes it can line up with here and there's actually only two holes that it can line up with here so it looks like it's got to take a little bit okay bending is very easy there as it is what it is so now we need to screw those screws onto there which i'm going to guess are going to be the same type of screws that you would use for your case very nice so okay so now we're technically set for vertical mount so if i put the case the way it's supposed to be the case would be like this and now you're seeing how far out you're actually going to be going onto the whole build so at this point now i want to mount the riser card now the question is where do i want the riser card so you don't want to be too close to your board of course because you don't want the heat from the video card hitting that either so you probably want to come in maybe one it's going to take two slots so i'd probably come in yeah probably come in here leaving this spot here open and that is where you're going to if you want to run some led or rgb lights right here if you uh so wish to have that look which i'm probably going to do as a mod to this case um and of course gotta hide that wire but should be okay so now what we're going to do is we're going to mount the card riser according to this which i thought it looked a little bit odd but we'll go with it this piece will mount on this side and this is going to mount to these two posts right here i hope you can see those so the card riser is going to mount here that's the only screw holes that it lines up to and this is the brace that mounts to this piece here so let's get that done first and way we go okay so if we're going to do that then this would go this way so lining it up pop pop and it pushes it out a bit too so that's interesting i'm not sure how well i like the strength of that idea but we'll find out i guess the overall idea is not to uh put stress on it there's my first camera or on camera this is where you get to see the did that just happen one person doing this is not exactly all right so that's not going to work the way i want it so we're going to do it this way sorry take the odd break i just finished my coffee because one it gets uh awful warm in here and i turned my fan on for a little bit got some ventilation so this actually goes this way am i right yes i was going to do that wrong so i flip this over this way line it up screw it in i'm not going to screw it tight yet because i got to get the second one in and make sure it is right and that's interesting why isn't that going in oh there we go never force a screw when you're doing this kind of thing especially when it doesn't tell you what screw to use just in case you never know what's going to happen so now in this case this here is going to you're going to want to bend it like that for now just so it hits here and you're going to mount it to where you feel comfortable to where you want your card to be so oops i have that backwards that way so this one calls for a couple thumb screws so i'm going to take a couple thumb screws and i said i wanted it in this hole here i believe those thumb screws aren't going in as nice as i want them to it's showing thumb screws in the picture those are really long thumb screws so i'm going back to these ones they probably just need to be worked in that's probably all it is and then once they're worked in the reason why i guess your thumb screws is to line it up proper after you get your video card mounted because it may not line up over here so there is your mounted video card as such that does line up yep so of course we'll find out in the very end when i finally put it together but there it is as a riser ready to go to put my card in this way i may have went up too far with it but that's fine i still have lots of space here but we'll see i don't know it's just a mount for now we'll we'll make the final adjustments in the build video this is getting the case ready so i can actually do that video okay so the last thing to do before i do the power supply shroud i guess is the water cooling brace and does that actually go in there isn't that interesting where does it show it screwing in here yeah i guess so so this screw has to be removed weird i guess it's an important screw to have there if you're not using it regardless and then this piece will screw down like this now the cool thing about this mount at first i thought okay it's going to be very thermal take but this has multiple ways of mounting any type of pump or any type of reservoir going up so you can mount just about any configuration on this so i wouldn't worry about custom or anything like that because this will take care of it no questions asked i don't know if it's using i don't like using different screws but anyway so that is now mounted so for the sake of this video i probably will put the legs on just to show you guys the finished product at the very end because it's kind of hard to show you this case build if it wasn't just a regular everyday your build you may not want it on the mall on the wall and i do so just because i want it on the wall doesn't mean i shouldn't show you the full build and that's what i'm going to do so now at this point i want to mount the power supply shroud i'm not going to mount the power supply as it's showing in the picture i'm just doing what i need to show the build of this case and we'll go to power supply options later okay pretty straightforward of course this is your power supply piece at the very end i think we're still on camera here so this piece here of course is going to go hmm maybe it's going this way that makes more sense all right so a couple course screws when i say core screws they're your case screws like you would use if you're putting a back on your case the old cases i guess you still use them most of the time now it's thumbscrews this build isn't actually that bad i have to say i'm not uh overly upset but i'm not amazed at the same time so then this is going to be our brace to make sure that power supply does not fall out and i'm guessing the brace would go oh isn't that interesting so no this doesn't make sense nepal may sense that goes up like that yeah and then that piece screws up oh okay okay so what they've done is they want you to have more bracing power so that this isn't going to be weak on you and bend like this so they actually made a piece to go in between the two and that is what this piece here is so what you need to do now is you need to actually take a another i'm guessing coarse screw i'll do a test before we try there we go and that screw is gonna be a pain in the butt because i'm gonna end up wanting to take this off after when i go to put my power supply in but such is life it's really cool because we actually have a really cool sponsor for the build of this computer when i finally get to start building it and i thought that was really really awesome so i'm excited about that and their product is actually going to be in the system as well i'm just going to put this so a piece a screw goes in through the side here and screws into the case for that bottom brace and then a screw and this is all still case screws it goes down through here nice to have this long screwdriver actually thank you be quiet and no they're not the sponsor coming up so now we're going to move this like this so we can put the screw in through here into that brace and look at that it pretty much just lined right up okay that actually was very impressive so there we have it there's our motherboard mounts this case is actually starting to come together or start to look like a case not like what i was thinking it looked like in the first very beginning just a tray or what i would call a test bench not a bad idea if you lay it down vertical or lay it down flat like this you have yourself a nice test bench not gonna lie but i think you'd want the bigger ones for that just because so i'm going to put the legs on as i said i wasn't going to do but for this video i'm going to so that i can have the finished product shall we say very nice thermaltake very nice so it doesn't tell you what to use i'm going to guess that it's these just for the simple reason that this might be thick and it looks like it is so let me go with my guess and there's four longs are eight long screws that are in the kit i believe there's eight one two three four yeah so it only makes sense that they're the legs and that is what i'm going with i'm just going to put two in on each part because i am going to take them off just so we can have this thing stand on its own two legs huh oh no pun intended there am i getting it in the hole there we go so because thermaltake doesn't show you the screws i will you would use these longer ones they're the only ones like it there's eight of them and that is what you would use for the legs if you're going to put the legs on because they do not show it and i think that's ridiculous but it is what it is easy to start the first one sort of until that happens again don't really tighten this one down because you need to move it around to get the next one in once you have two in you should be pretty good going to stand it up on its own two feet that's funny again i can't get enough of myself okay so now we have everything here put together what we need to do now is apply these posts that were supplied in that brown box i said that was like the heaviest part of the whole entire package and believe it or not one piece is probably the heaviest part of the whole entire build it's really weird so all of them had a screw right here already in them so i had removed them on three i'm just showing you the removal of one here and of course the end piece is actually the amount for the glass so what we've got to do now we're going to turn this around and mount these posts so we'll take the first post need my screwdriver of course there's only one hole for these there's the biggest hole that's in the whole entire case and these you definitely want tight considering they're going to hold all the glass gotta admit they're probably the nicest part of the aesthetics for the case so definitely i really added nice touch so i do like that sorry if you get in the back of my head here but anyway you can't make a mistake on these because they're the biggest holes on the case and they're laid out perfectly as it cannot be mistaken and these screws were not in the bag they're actually already in the units wow great they'll take forever to put on those are not the kind of screws you want to be taking off and on that's for sure holy cow they are long i guess they're meant to have to be too little threads so your glass don't fall off and shatter on the floor because that would really suck and of course what sucks too is when your screw goes down behind there and this thing is not exactly the easiest thing to move so that sucks so let's get the rest of this back on so we'll have the glass mounted soon which is very easy you're just going to put the glass in place through these thumb screws back on and your case is actually as far as case goes built depending on how you wanted it if you want to put legs on this other back plate that goes on the back here here's your rubber feet for doing that so if you want to have a lay down case it is supplied it's funny they supplied the lay down case they supplied the stand up but they did not supply the wall mount honestly the walnut wasn't expensive i ended up finding the wall mount again i'll put a description below for around 13 14 canadian it wasn't that expensive but for that price and the price of what these cases used to be you'd think that would have been included right oh okay guys well the build is done except for of course the computer components which we'll get to in another build again comment below if you want to know or want to see that whole build live and then after we can do a live water cooling custom water loop for this machine i've never done custom water cooling ever so this will be definitely a wondrous thing for all of us and you'll probably see me cry who knows anyway uh it's not a frustrating build it is a okay build the build quality that i expected from thermaltake from like let's say my mozart uh tx that's out from 2006 that thing is the size of a bar fridge that was thermaltake build quality i find this decent it's not horrible but i mean for the small frame that it is you can't really make it that flimsy if you did you're really cutting corners now saying that i do find certain spots of it a little bit thinner well not i guess thinner but i guess the way the bends are not quite as strong as i would expect from thermal tape but the case overall is very decent now for fit and finish it was pretty darn good except for when i was putting the glass on i noticed after you put your first screw hole in well the second one you got to kind of pull on the bar a little bit to line it up for the next one now i get that would probably be hard to not have completely lined up based on the fact that there's going to be a little bit of warping i'm guessing within shipping or whatever the case may be so i'm letting that slide um the riser setup i don't know if i'm going to call it flimsy it seems solid but two screws are holding the whole entire video card slot onto this bracket that's held on by two screws it could be perfectly fine it's pretty solid when i feel it and the way the brackets made the brackets definitely solid so that is just something over time we'll have to see if it holds up other than that i have to say if you're looking for an open air case that gives you the look and feel of something very high end this case is definitely an answer if you're looking for an itx build there are again bigger models so you can have an m80x and full atx as well so there's definitely options for you i wanted an itx for the custom setup i got in my game room that you guys will see after it's finally built and you'll understand why i went itx one of course by any means size i put the legs on for the video for you guys to see they're coming off of course because it's gonna be wall mount that was the other con you get everything right down to the rubber feet to go side down you get the feet to have it vertical but you don't throw in the cheap 15 wall mount that part to me just seemed a little i don't know flimsy again the case is only about 130 canadians so what do you get right at that point maybe i'm asking too much so overall i'm happy with it i'm excited i can't wait to get it built i'm not disappointed in it in any way there's nothing so far that's caused me to to have that grief but of course during a live build for example who knows who knows what may come but for 130 bucks if you're looking to wall mount or just have something standing and looking like an aquarium open their case i think this is your answer at least you got to stop people from touching the fans so guys if you're here still thank you for watching the whole thing i wanted to have a full put together video for you so no one can say hey i don't know how to put this on i wish you didn't skip it so hopefully i did what i needed to do to help out anybody that's going to build this unit and overall right now at this point i give it a thumbs up till next time guys in the next video hopefully is building it game overhey guys welcome back to another episode of the last game hunter and i'm going to build the thermaltake core p1 mini itx case now this case is a special thing that i wanted to do for my new game room renovation so it's going to be mounted on the wall and i want this it's got a little bit to it so i figured i'm going to show you guys the build of an open air thermaltake products so the core p1 and the p2 the p5s and the p6 or whatever they have and different marketing levels for atx m80x and so on for the open air case the build should be pretty much the same or in the general idea of so let's just get right to it i am not going to edit out any of the build so the video could be a little bit long but if you want to see how it's done and you are looking to get into this you'll find out how crazy it is or what is needed to do so so at this point all i've done is taking the styrofoam everything out of the box and it's sitting here in styrofoam and i have no idea what i'm up against so guys sit back relax if you're not subscribed to my channel well i would suggest you do for the simple reason i do stuff like this all the time i do video game pickups i do just about anything gaming online talk shows you name it i'm doing it we even i wrestle i don't but others do like the seaway valley wrestling back there so guys sit back relax let's just get right to it before it gets longer than it needs to be let's get this done let's start so as you can see i'm going to flip this styrofoam i've already cut the tape we're just going to take a look at what we are up against or what we have in here and oh look at this oh that's annoying so you have broken pieces that's a good start that's not good when part of this is glass so we have a oh i guess this is the one of the legs we're not going to be using the legs in this build because well it's going on the wall uh we'll guess i'll put the legs in the build just because i got to build the machine i guess it might be easier i'm not sure we'll see don't know what that is until we get to it let's get this stuff out so i can get rid of some of the styrofoam okay we pretty much know what that is i'm gonna say power supply shroud video card trout some part build your or our core core p1 thermaltake so there's our instruction manual i think something else that was what was really heavy well really heavy but you know there's weight in that i was pretty shocked not sure and we have a bunch of okay so those are rubber feet like things some screws zip ties and weirdly 3m stuff okay let's take this piece of styrofoam off and get rid of this piece all right this might have been looking more like a hefty build than what it is maybe it's not so bad so here's our base so as you can see here if you can take a look there oh maybe upside down oh we have power button i'm not sure if that's a button nope you two usb threes right here uh your headphone microphone not sure that could be just reset not 100 there thermaltake logo um other than that this is pretty basic it's like the whole base where i'm gonna put the board the i guess i'll say it radiator and everything because i'm gonna do a custom water cooling on this build yep that's right this will be my first custom water cooling ever in my life so that's going to be pretty interesting and there's our glass i don't think there's anything else in here i need to worry about but that's the case i'll leave the glass in the styrofoam as we're not going to need it right now i'm guessing there's something inside there we'll get to that when we get to it let's find out what's in here why is there so much weight in this for a little tiny box okay so these are the actual rods that are going to come out to the glass really nice touch actually i don't know if that's seeing it on camera where you can see the groove but that's actually the piece that goes on the outside right there it's the the bolt for it so i'm just gonna leave those in there and put them aside so normally i don't go to a manual to build a computer case but this isn't a regular computer case so let's see what do we have here yeah it looks like junk to me build your case yeah yeah contents hopefully there's something inside here i feel like there's a lot missing all right so right off the bat which is what i expected they want this off this is where be quiet has sponsored no i'm just kidding uh so this is how many screws here it shows four oh it's the back that's coming off all right now so the thumb screws pretty tight thumb screws they're supposed to come out all the way but they're going to because bad things will happen if they don't is there anything else for it to come off nope supposed to just pull off you see this is the type of thing that would have been edited out for sure why is it not coming off oh you see that it doesn't actually doesn't actually say to do that so if you slide it over you can take it off magnetic dust film or dust shield that may not stay there and if it does chances are it'll be on this side so i can easily take it and clean it because that just seems really dumb to have something on the wall and then have that yeah i can see a problem right there so my first con of the case of course is having that magnetic now maybe in the build it shouldn't be on the inside in the end who knows it was when i took it apart so that's what i look at now this must be the box for everything nice light box so you got a hard drive bay here for a five and a quarter i'm not going to use a five and a quarter in this build in fact i think all i'm using in this build is a m.2 or nvme uh 500 gig and you have an ssd slot right here as well so you can add two physical hard drives in here possibly i guess more on the other side or whatever at this point i don't know as i've never ever built or seen this case before in my life until now so this is as new to me as it is to anybody else that's never seen one oh okay so this is the uh the riser it's an addition so when you plug into your video card or video pcie slot and it'll give you a pcie if you're doing a side mount video card and in this case i believe it is a side mount it's sealed right now i'm going to leave it that way um that's really sad because that's all that was in that box so i guess everything that we need for screws and everything are all here in this bag actually it's a lot more than i thought there was so all right i guess we're back on track i thought there was screws and stuff inside here but there is not so away we go oh i see we can take out these plates by the look of it are they removable they are removable and you can put your radiator here which is what i was wondering because i thought well that's going to be kind of weird if you're putting a radiator in here and these things are in the way just it just didn't add up but they're removable so that's what's going to happen so i believe in this case you're looking at i guess it's a little bigger than a 120 but or a 240 uh you're not getting a 360 in this but at the same time it is a itx case so we've got to keep that in mind so i'm gonna show you guys as we go along not in this video but you're gonna see everything when it comes to the build also comment below i put a disclaimer out asking if you guys want to see me do a live build of this pc when i start doing the rest of it so when i start putting it all together as a first build and then maybe a live video so it's completely live on my first time ever doing a water cooling video so we can separate that and and just you know keep the fun going because that's what it is lots of fun uh sometimes so let's pour this out all right nobody needs bags are screws zip ties i don't normally use if i don't have to i use uh other things i don't know if this is going to be a spacer off the wall is it that's another thing we got to figure out the wall mounting because if there's a radiator going on here is it going to physically breathe i don't want to be in here this piece on and against the wall and this is the only air intake there's no air flow here there's no holes there's no nothing although it is an open air case it still doesn't make sense so that's something i gotta figure out how is this mounting to the wall and doing so is it going to stop airflow of this radiator which is really important so it is looking like if i was going to mount it to the wall i would mount it with the back plate and then this would just slide off the back plate and then you'd be able to take the pc down work on it put it back slide it block it although at that same point in time another problem arises so if i do mount this and that's how it mounts what's stopping me from knocking it off i won't be able to put the screws back in so there must be another way of doing this so we'll figure that out as we get there so i took a little break and i wanted to check out how this unit was actually going to mount to the wall because it was actually bothering me and this is another i guess con to the thing um you have to buy a mount like a tv mount to put it on the wall and that now makes a lot more sense to me for the cooling aspect and breathing that i was worried about so i'm going to leave a link to that of course in the description as well as the link to this case or any other needs that i have at that point just case oriented and i thought the wall mount was a very important one because not only did it have to be a tv wall mount had to support the weight that you're going to put into this computer and i'm going to guess this computer is going to hit around 55 pounds just saying it it it could be lighter but with the glass and everything and the metal uh rods they're actually a decent weight to those rods by the time you put your power supply in and so on you're gonna have some weight so you had to have something to do that but also needed a wall mount that not only was going to hold the weight but was not visible so that's the other thing this case is only a 15 by 15 square inch well that's shorter than your studs all wall mounts or at least two studs unless it's the center one but i didn't want a center one because the center one i thought would be not a good idea when it got to swing out and i don't think the swing out can hold the weight and there was nothing there to hold more than about 35 40 pounds worried about that so anyway in the link description below we'll also have the tv mount that i used for putting this on the wall if you wish to be doing that so a coffee you know later because i needed to have something again i it hasn't been a great day but i want to get this done because this is the i guess sore thumb of the whole build moving forward and if i want to do a live build i have to have this done and i thought this was the kind of thing that people would want to see especially if they're looking at doing something kind of cool and you'll see the end result of course when i'm finally done this and see if it's something you're looking at doing so at this point we're going to flip this over i haven't decided uh i guess i'll be taking these out um might need to do that now that might make sense and what is this this is just the cabling i'm not worried about that anytime soon so oh some pretty stiff they're in there pretty good i almost want to be using a powered screwdriver so one thing i try not to do too often is use power tools on my computers but wow that how flimsy is this okay it's not as flimsy as i thought it was just then i thought i felt like it was a bit flimsy that's pretty decently solid actually now with this thicker frame here i know that i don't have to worry about uh bending or shifting or warping or anything like that so taking out some brackets like this is not going to affect me in any way i should probably put the screws back in these plates just so i have them unless they're also no i guess yeah maybe a rad might mount with them who knows yeah i don't think the red will mount with these probably gave spruce for grab mountain there's a lot of screws here so i'm guessing they kind of compensated for some of that so i'm going to put these screws out of the way for now and if i don't need them i'll bolt them back into the plates so i have everything original for any time that i want to make that change okay so let's now tip this again if you're going to mount ssd or a five and a quarter heart or three and a half card drive or anything like that then this would be your spots and i would probably recommend doing it now so at least that part's done i'm not gonna be doing that in this build i do not need it so we're going to take it and we're going to put it the way i would look at it if we were looking at it with the motherboard in it which i think this is right yes so motherboard will go here and keep in mind this is another little thing that i just noticed that is a bit of a problem and that is here there is no big cutout for getting at your cooler or cooler mounts so anything that you're going to bolt onto here needs to be done before you mount your motherboard so just keep that in mind needs to be done if you're going to mount a motherboard so it looks like we have a d b a um i'm guessing this probably supports a i'm not sure 100 if it supports a dtx but we know this is an itx and that's what i bought it for so that's what we're going to consider it as now there's another thing about this too if i mount video card mount to come out let's say it goes like this or whatever the case is i'm not 100 where it actually goes right now but let's say it was probably not there let's say it was wherever anyway let's say it was here my concern now is the video card is not going to light up this way at all so there's no aesthetic to having the video card in this way now this case gives you the option to mount your video card normal or to mount your video card vertical now vertical is going to look cool but here's the downside to it you're not going to see your motherboard because it's a mini itx so the mini itx you're going to hide anything that you've done to it for example i don't want to spill the beans yet but the water cooling block that i got to go on there i want to see especially for the money spent on it so that is very important to me so i think i'm just going to mount the video card like i would mount it in a normal system so i'm not going to go with the vertical mount but if you wanted to this would be the piece i believe that you would mount and then you would have your cabling come over and everything and some supports and that is in here so that is an option of course with this to do your vertical mount i don't know if you can see that that or that sorry that's your normal mount and then if you were to mount vertical then you would be building this piece here to do that mount now i can put that piece together and show it being built but that's not what i want to use which i am vertically challenged apparently because why does it show backwards interesting oh i get it that makes a lot of sense in the world so now all of your card uh things would be down there now now that makes sense so you would mount it like this okay and then you would mount this piece like this so now we have the vertical mount so the vertical mount now your video card would go in like this it'd be all fans show and if you have any bling like maybe i could put led or rgb down in here and you won't see it and it'll bling it right up light the card up which is actually pretty cool idea not going to lie but i don't want it to cover and it may not so i guess i'm going to wait till i put the board in to see if i'm going to go with this setup or not uh my car does have rgb at the end but it's not enough to like really be a whoo but if i put rgb down in here you got yourself a bit a little bit of a show boat so that is pretty simple and then you have another bracket right here and this is for that pci extension so this mounts to this and mounts the pci extension in now um i might off camera fit the motherboard so you're not going to see what board i'm using yet because i don't want to show any of that yet and see uh what's which setup i'm going to go to so i will be right back and i'm going to find out if we're going to go vertical or horizontal then we're back and after lining up the motherboard and the vertical so i can have my video card standing it looks like my water cool block that i want to see will be fully visible so what you want to do here i want to show that i put these four posts i didn't i just finger tightened them so now i'm going to give them a little tighten with the post screwdriver and if you don't have one of these a little adjustable wrench or uh pliers or something if you you know you hook them decent in dope markets i don't like to mark anything also these are uh this is a 5.0 if you go to your local hobby store this is a 5.0 mill that you would use from any hobby like if you're building rc cars or whatever we used these back in the day and that's what fits the posts and computers so i'm keeping tools like this around from my hobby days just to build computers it was better than what we used to have back in the day so i'm happy to have that kind of thing now i think some of those old computer kits used to have something like it as well but i'm not sure so we're going to build this as a vertical mount so now i'm going to need these two pieces for sure um another thing i noticed too when you're mounting your board it looks like they have these little sponges to go right over the top of these either to not mark the board or to go on the board maybe i'm not a hundred percent i'm going to look into that and see what they are they're just these 3m sponges little mini holes and it came out of the same bag that had these posts and it's funny that there's four and for an itx there's four posts and there's only four posts that came with this build so it would lead to belief that either you put them on first so you didn't mark your case which i doubt because whatever or they go on top of your posts to not mark your board or they go on top of the board when the screw goes down to not mark the board one way or the other i think that's what these are for i've never seen that before so i want to know and it doesn't seem to show it anywhere in here to be honest it doesn't really show much of anything in here which is kind of interesting what is that power supply unit installation okay so that is what this and i believe this is for and because i'm wall mounting i do not want to see that so that's why they put the legs on first it made it easier to do that i am not going to do that so it doesn't look like it's rocket science to do it outside it the only thing that's bothering me now is place the psu in proper location adjust the psu support bridge the proper whatever we'll get to it when we get to it we'll see what it does when we do it i'm skipping it and moving on because i always thought it was kind of odd to mount a psu in your system while you're just trying to mount your frame out and add all that weight and problems and headache if you need to tip it over or flip it so even in here they don't show the psu mount anymore how funny is that even though they showed you mounting it in the beginning so don't go by the book go buy the book for what you're doing at that point in time that is my opinion so again even now they're showing uh just mounting the liquid cooling thing with nothing else mounted so it's just a guide a simple guide for each piece that you're doing so we're going to mount okay i see how that works all right so this piece here is about to get opened apparently i need a knife so now so far you know the tools a good phillips a good hex and a blade just for one thing or cutting the tape on your box be careful of course not to cut the ribbon cable because that would really suck for what you're trying to do and go cut your fingers all right so here we get to see this let's get rid of that snag bag can use later okay so here we have a flexible uh cable here for your motherboard and your video card so motherboard side very easily picked out as it would just drop in the motherboard has the lock so you see that there part with the cover on it and it's got the part where your motherboard will lock into so this looks like your video card then you have the piece that you're going to mount which has a lock on it as if it was the motherboard okay so let's mount this up so i'm going to mount these two pieces together so we'll take this beautiful thermal tape thing and put it right here it's nice that it came in that static bag all sealed and everything gave you that whole fresh new car smell at this point now we're going to mount these two pieces and as i showed you before you want the lip here as the camera might be picking it up and you got these little grooves here anyway you want the lip to be inside not on the outside that will actually make things not mount proper because it mounts like this and that's part of your shroud to go around the motherboard so it looks like it screws from the inside on i would think according to the the reading was there a part where it showed it before nope nice so lovely so lovely and bubbly so let us again now you literally get to see me with my frustrations how instructions are made versus what you're supposed to do so let's try these screws i don't want to just on the other thing too this is magnetic so this really helps out when you're doing this and clearly that is not the right screw so now we try this screw because it doesn't actually explain what screw is what so the the typical case screws that you would use for your computer case are the screws you use for this and this was definitely not the right bag because it didn't have two of them so whatever let's open up another bag it's not using thumb screws is it using thumb screws for the bottom for the riser but not for this so what else is in here i believe those are long screws for the case and this is probably the screws i need for this so there's three bags of screws and each bag is going to have its different sets of stuff based on oh wow there's lots of neat stuff in this one okay just trying to make sure there's no other fancy screws for this because like it doesn't tell you what screws to use but at this point you would have this part mounted now with two screws one here and one here to now be able to mount it on here now it's a no-brainer this is going to line up there's only two holes it can line up with here and there's actually only two holes that it can line up with here so it looks like it's got to take a little bit okay bending is very easy there as it is what it is so now we need to screw those screws onto there which i'm going to guess are going to be the same type of screws that you would use for your case very nice so okay so now we're technically set for vertical mount so if i put the case the way it's supposed to be the case would be like this and now you're seeing how far out you're actually going to be going onto the whole build so at this point now i want to mount the riser card now the question is where do i want the riser card so you don't want to be too close to your board of course because you don't want the heat from the video card hitting that either so you probably want to come in maybe one it's going to take two slots so i'd probably come in yeah probably come in here leaving this spot here open and that is where you're going to if you want to run some led or rgb lights right here if you uh so wish to have that look which i'm probably going to do as a mod to this case um and of course gotta hide that wire but should be okay so now what we're going to do is we're going to mount the card riser according to this which i thought it looked a little bit odd but we'll go with it this piece will mount on this side and this is going to mount to these two posts right here i hope you can see those so the card riser is going to mount here that's the only screw holes that it lines up to and this is the brace that mounts to this piece here so let's get that done first and way we go okay so if we're going to do that then this would go this way so lining it up pop pop and it pushes it out a bit too so that's interesting i'm not sure how well i like the strength of that idea but we'll find out i guess the overall idea is not to uh put stress on it there's my first camera or on camera this is where you get to see the did that just happen one person doing this is not exactly all right so that's not going to work the way i want it so we're going to do it this way sorry take the odd break i just finished my coffee because one it gets uh awful warm in here and i turned my fan on for a little bit got some ventilation so this actually goes this way am i right yes i was going to do that wrong so i flip this over this way line it up screw it in i'm not going to screw it tight yet because i got to get the second one in and make sure it is right and that's interesting why isn't that going in oh there we go never force a screw when you're doing this kind of thing especially when it doesn't tell you what screw to use just in case you never know what's going to happen so now in this case this here is going to you're going to want to bend it like that for now just so it hits here and you're going to mount it to where you feel comfortable to where you want your card to be so oops i have that backwards that way so this one calls for a couple thumb screws so i'm going to take a couple thumb screws and i said i wanted it in this hole here i believe those thumb screws aren't going in as nice as i want them to it's showing thumb screws in the picture those are really long thumb screws so i'm going back to these ones they probably just need to be worked in that's probably all it is and then once they're worked in the reason why i guess your thumb screws is to line it up proper after you get your video card mounted because it may not line up over here so there is your mounted video card as such that does line up yep so of course we'll find out in the very end when i finally put it together but there it is as a riser ready to go to put my card in this way i may have went up too far with it but that's fine i still have lots of space here but we'll see i don't know it's just a mount for now we'll we'll make the final adjustments in the build video this is getting the case ready so i can actually do that video okay so the last thing to do before i do the power supply shroud i guess is the water cooling brace and does that actually go in there isn't that interesting where does it show it screwing in here yeah i guess so so this screw has to be removed weird i guess it's an important screw to have there if you're not using it regardless and then this piece will screw down like this now the cool thing about this mount at first i thought okay it's going to be very thermal take but this has multiple ways of mounting any type of pump or any type of reservoir going up so you can mount just about any configuration on this so i wouldn't worry about custom or anything like that because this will take care of it no questions asked i don't know if it's using i don't like using different screws but anyway so that is now mounted so for the sake of this video i probably will put the legs on just to show you guys the finished product at the very end because it's kind of hard to show you this case build if it wasn't just a regular everyday your build you may not want it on the mall on the wall and i do so just because i want it on the wall doesn't mean i shouldn't show you the full build and that's what i'm going to do so now at this point i want to mount the power supply shroud i'm not going to mount the power supply as it's showing in the picture i'm just doing what i need to show the build of this case and we'll go to power supply options later okay pretty straightforward of course this is your power supply piece at the very end i think we're still on camera here so this piece here of course is going to go hmm maybe it's going this way that makes more sense all right so a couple course screws when i say core screws they're your case screws like you would use if you're putting a back on your case the old cases i guess you still use them most of the time now it's thumbscrews this build isn't actually that bad i have to say i'm not uh overly upset but i'm not amazed at the same time so then this is going to be our brace to make sure that power supply does not fall out and i'm guessing the brace would go oh isn't that interesting so no this doesn't make sense nepal may sense that goes up like that yeah and then that piece screws up oh okay okay so what they've done is they want you to have more bracing power so that this isn't going to be weak on you and bend like this so they actually made a piece to go in between the two and that is what this piece here is so what you need to do now is you need to actually take a another i'm guessing coarse screw i'll do a test before we try there we go and that screw is gonna be a pain in the butt because i'm gonna end up wanting to take this off after when i go to put my power supply in but such is life it's really cool because we actually have a really cool sponsor for the build of this computer when i finally get to start building it and i thought that was really really awesome so i'm excited about that and their product is actually going to be in the system as well i'm just going to put this so a piece a screw goes in through the side here and screws into the case for that bottom brace and then a screw and this is all still case screws it goes down through here nice to have this long screwdriver actually thank you be quiet and no they're not the sponsor coming up so now we're going to move this like this so we can put the screw in through here into that brace and look at that it pretty much just lined right up okay that actually was very impressive so there we have it there's our motherboard mounts this case is actually starting to come together or start to look like a case not like what i was thinking it looked like in the first very beginning just a tray or what i would call a test bench not a bad idea if you lay it down vertical or lay it down flat like this you have yourself a nice test bench not gonna lie but i think you'd want the bigger ones for that just because so i'm going to put the legs on as i said i wasn't going to do but for this video i'm going to so that i can have the finished product shall we say very nice thermaltake very nice so it doesn't tell you what to use i'm going to guess that it's these just for the simple reason that this might be thick and it looks like it is so let me go with my guess and there's four longs are eight long screws that are in the kit i believe there's eight one two three four yeah so it only makes sense that they're the legs and that is what i'm going with i'm just going to put two in on each part because i am going to take them off just so we can have this thing stand on its own two legs huh oh no pun intended there am i getting it in the hole there we go so because thermaltake doesn't show you the screws i will you would use these longer ones they're the only ones like it there's eight of them and that is what you would use for the legs if you're going to put the legs on because they do not show it and i think that's ridiculous but it is what it is easy to start the first one sort of until that happens again don't really tighten this one down because you need to move it around to get the next one in once you have two in you should be pretty good going to stand it up on its own two feet that's funny again i can't get enough of myself okay so now we have everything here put together what we need to do now is apply these posts that were supplied in that brown box i said that was like the heaviest part of the whole entire package and believe it or not one piece is probably the heaviest part of the whole entire build it's really weird so all of them had a screw right here already in them so i had removed them on three i'm just showing you the removal of one here and of course the end piece is actually the amount for the glass so what we've got to do now we're going to turn this around and mount these posts so we'll take the first post need my screwdriver of course there's only one hole for these there's the biggest hole that's in the whole entire case and these you definitely want tight considering they're going to hold all the glass gotta admit they're probably the nicest part of the aesthetics for the case so definitely i really added nice touch so i do like that sorry if you get in the back of my head here but anyway you can't make a mistake on these because they're the biggest holes on the case and they're laid out perfectly as it cannot be mistaken and these screws were not in the bag they're actually already in the units wow great they'll take forever to put on those are not the kind of screws you want to be taking off and on that's for sure holy cow they are long i guess they're meant to have to be too little threads so your glass don't fall off and shatter on the floor because that would really suck and of course what sucks too is when your screw goes down behind there and this thing is not exactly the easiest thing to move so that sucks so let's get the rest of this back on so we'll have the glass mounted soon which is very easy you're just going to put the glass in place through these thumb screws back on and your case is actually as far as case goes built depending on how you wanted it if you want to put legs on this other back plate that goes on the back here here's your rubber feet for doing that so if you want to have a lay down case it is supplied it's funny they supplied the lay down case they supplied the stand up but they did not supply the wall mount honestly the walnut wasn't expensive i ended up finding the wall mount again i'll put a description below for around 13 14 canadian it wasn't that expensive but for that price and the price of what these cases used to be you'd think that would have been included right oh okay guys well the build is done except for of course the computer components which we'll get to in another build again comment below if you want to know or want to see that whole build live and then after we can do a live water cooling custom water loop for this machine i've never done custom water cooling ever so this will be definitely a wondrous thing for all of us and you'll probably see me cry who knows anyway uh it's not a frustrating build it is a okay build the build quality that i expected from thermaltake from like let's say my mozart uh tx that's out from 2006 that thing is the size of a bar fridge that was thermaltake build quality i find this decent it's not horrible but i mean for the small frame that it is you can't really make it that flimsy if you did you're really cutting corners now saying that i do find certain spots of it a little bit thinner well not i guess thinner but i guess the way the bends are not quite as strong as i would expect from thermal tape but the case overall is very decent now for fit and finish it was pretty darn good except for when i was putting the glass on i noticed after you put your first screw hole in well the second one you got to kind of pull on the bar a little bit to line it up for the next one now i get that would probably be hard to not have completely lined up based on the fact that there's going to be a little bit of warping i'm guessing within shipping or whatever the case may be so i'm letting that slide um the riser setup i don't know if i'm going to call it flimsy it seems solid but two screws are holding the whole entire video card slot onto this bracket that's held on by two screws it could be perfectly fine it's pretty solid when i feel it and the way the brackets made the brackets definitely solid so that is just something over time we'll have to see if it holds up other than that i have to say if you're looking for an open air case that gives you the look and feel of something very high end this case is definitely an answer if you're looking for an itx build there are again bigger models so you can have an m80x and full atx as well so there's definitely options for you i wanted an itx for the custom setup i got in my game room that you guys will see after it's finally built and you'll understand why i went itx one of course by any means size i put the legs on for the video for you guys to see they're coming off of course because it's gonna be wall mount that was the other con you get everything right down to the rubber feet to go side down you get the feet to have it vertical but you don't throw in the cheap 15 wall mount that part to me just seemed a little i don't know flimsy again the case is only about 130 canadians so what do you get right at that point maybe i'm asking too much so overall i'm happy with it i'm excited i can't wait to get it built i'm not disappointed in it in any way there's nothing so far that's caused me to to have that grief but of course during a live build for example who knows who knows what may come but for 130 bucks if you're looking to wall mount or just have something standing and looking like an aquarium open their case i think this is your answer at least you got to stop people from touching the fans so guys if you're here still thank you for watching the whole thing i wanted to have a full put together video for you so no one can say hey i don't know how to put this on i wish you didn't skip it so hopefully i did what i needed to do to help out anybody that's going to build this unit and overall right now at this point i give it a thumbs up till next time guys in the next video hopefully is building it game over