our second meeting of the day feeling chill deepcool here we come
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Macube 550 why Macube you might ask I have the same thing because well
maybe it's magical you know on the front it's all minimalist but there's some
magic on the back side panel the ventilation design that they've
implemented there I would say really good stuff there but the Macube 550 is
all about minimalism so in terms are like branding you know it's not visible
it's not in-your-face and this is part of game or storm division so not deepcool
gamer storm and it's really interesting to see you know their logo
in the front for example it's white on white so it's discrete the same thing
with this handle on a TG panel that is black on black so it's again not
in-your-face and I definitely appreciated that and you guys will too
so there are no lighting effects it's just plain either white frame or a black
frame we have a TG panel over here with this chrome accent handle for a magnetic
TG panel so this we we've seen that with the quad stellar the magnets are super
strong and I was actually personally worried about let's say what if you're
carrying the system and accidentally tip over something but no the magnets on
here are strong enough so you don't have to worry about this thing popping out to
me the Macube 550 is kind of a combination between like the H700 from
NZXT in terms of this like almost unibody front panel and on the interior
taking a little bit elements from let's say the case of the year the olam
dynamic because let me remove the front panel on the interior we have dual sort
of intake and fan configuration so you're a traditional 360 rather the
front you can do or now the side installation of the fans so you can do
either three one 20s or three one 40s and up to a 360 rather than there and
there's a little bit of spacing behind the frame so you can still install a
radiator or a fan behind the frame so that it clears up all the space on the
front so you could do fans on the front and fans on the side without them
interfering with each other and that's for the interior there are many cool
elements starting off with a power supply shroud we have a tempered glass
side panel over here to reveal what's inside so they're still not finalized
with the actual design hopefully they'll carry over from the ventilation of the
rear pen something over here so the design is
cohesive and over here this front section of the shroud is open but
they'll close it maybe with another TG panel so it reflects any illumination
that you might have on the front here which is cool as for the standard ATX
motherboard support EATX is not here rubber grommets and because of the side
ventilation you can do like 360 and 3 140 Miller fans the frame is quite tall
but since there are no fans about the frame its it gives you a little bit
extra space to breathe but then this all that space is a little bit wasted if you
are not populating a really tall radiator on the side as for storage we
have one SSD mount on the power supply strap we have two more in the back and
we have two of these hard drives included so you can install two three
and a half inch on each caddy and the cool thing is you can install this guy
on to any of the fans thoughts on the on the side or the front and you can either
rotate them whichever you see fit for cable management or the way you are
trying to display your hard drives so I find that really awesome and so this is
that really cool ventilation pattern that I was talking about it's got
multiple angular elements and depending on how light hits it it creates the
shadow on that internal structure has a little ventilation pattern on the
opening spaces so I find that quite unique and hopefully we can find this
pattern somewhere else inside the case for a little consistency and the one
minor concern for us would be of course airflow since the front panel is so
close to the frame but depending on our based on their own testing they say
there's about 25 percent difference in air flow with the panel completely
removed versus the panel installed so I really want to see this whole thing
slightly expanded for better airflow but of course once we get the Macube 550
info review will do all the air flow testing and this thing is going to be a
hundred and nineteen dollars for the white edition and 110 dollars for the
black one so I think it's a pretty good price territory and only one fan is
included for the rear and it will be black and now let's talk about the gamer
storm assassin three of what they call within the company in the king of air
coolers so it's going to be competing with the Noctua NH-D15 so it's got this
whole 140 member form but the assassin 3 has an advantage in
size because it is 165 millimeters in height but it is much thinner at the
only 140 millimeters so the actual thickness of the fence aligns with that
of 140 the more fan making it a slimmer package that would you know allow you to
you have just generally more clearance above the motherboard and below the
sockets ah now visually I love what they've done with the assassin iii and so
it's a black design with chrome accents and you can see these top plates that
actually have functionality behind them they're like these air channels that
make sure that air flow flows directly from the top of this fan all the way to
the back of this fan you can actually feel that and a little extra Tim bit for
us Canadians is that you can remove the gamer store logo from this black portion
if you want to go all black and go a little bit you know more low-key now
what about actual performance of this thing so we have 2 140 Miller fans that
have been specifically designed for this type of heatsink so they go from 500 to
1,400 rpm and right now they're spinning at full speed and the noise profile is
quite pleasant it's not too loud it's not too frequency and that's for the
heat pipes themselves they're using groove center structures so the heat
transfer is 15 percent better than your traditional heat pipes which is awesome
and they have solder flow through so the heat pipes make that makes direct
contact with the heatsink which again improves the overall cooling efficiency
I would say for 99 bucks the assassin 3 is going to be a really good contender
from a visual perspective from a purse for performance perspective and the
noise profile - one more thing is that and one more thing a screwdriver is
included for installation I love this thing be quiet actually includes them
and they're amazing now Ram compatibility is usually an issue with
such big air to air coolers so right now we have 30 millimeters so your standard
low-profile Ram will fit in the full configuration but of course you can move
the 140 Miller fan slightly up so to make up more room or you can remove it
completely for that whole clearance to be completely open
that's hot and that's high mean that's high the coolness the the temperature is
cool you did you know I don't know why I do that and
lastly the matrix 70 it's a $69 a case from deep cool now and I find some
really interesting elements inside this budget and closure like a temper glass
ceiling on the power supply shroud so it has many cool elements like if you have
a graphics card that has some LED illumination now you can have that
reflection element and actually see those lonely LEDs that otherwise don't
see any eyes and number two I find this a graphics holder a pretty unique
addition so it is going to be sold separately for $15 it has its own cable
routing channel on the internal now internally because it's light a little
bit thick of course addressable are jovial nation too so let me know if this
is something that you buy for your next case alright guys so that is all the
things that we saw today deep cool and gamer storm let me know what you think
about the Macube 550 the titled maybe has to change me signing off and these
guys right here