- [Linus] The ultimate DIY gaming experience.
Set the airflow to 11.
Perhaps not sensible,
but extreme and awesome.
These are all things that Cooler Master
has said about the new HAF 700.
But is it just really heavy
or is it also all that stuff?
Oh God.
Oh my God, I'm gonna blow a sphincter.
To find out, we got the fastest
and hottest gaming components on the market
and we're gonna be putting this case up against
an open air test bench to see if it's claims hold true.
Or if it's like the other half of Cooler Master's products.
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Well, this is about as hungry as it gets these days
ain't it?
- [Alex] Oh, well, especially that GPU.
- Okay.
- [Alex] Have you noticed anything different about it?
- Well, what I noticed is there was a little bit
of goop on the P mode, Q mode switch.
- [Alex] I was thinking more so
you'd notice like the holes in the back plate, but.
- Okay. I mean, can this cooler even handle it?
- [Alex] No, it's slower than stock.
- Oh God.
- This isn't a video about the test bench launch,
just build a PC.
- Got my JerryRigEverything box cutter.
Now we don't have a price for this thing
but based on the fact that it weighs 25 kilos
that is about 55 pounds for our American friends.
I can tell you, it's probably not going to be cheap.
- Hey Linus, Linus, Linus, Linus.
There's instructions on the top of how to open it.
- Oh?
- Fortunately you did find the tool thing,
it's in a bad location from the factory in this one.
It's changing for the production unit.
- Oh yeah. It's like hidden.
Boom.
You wouldn't notice it if this got stuck in here.
There it is.
Holy crap. Are these all glass?
- [Alex] Yeah.
- Wow. That is a really aggressive looking design.
- [Alex] Oh my God. Yeah.
- [Linus] Look how fricking wide this thing is.
They were like, no, it's not wide enough yet.
Let's put the IO on the wide.
See, it's not really the side.
It's the wide.
The side of the wide.
Oh, this is gonna be tedious.
- [Alex] Oh, save a couple for later when they're lit up.
- [Andy] Or we can keep it.
- Oh my God. No.
Oh no and these middle ones are split.
We're at the point now
where computer cases are getting so complicated,
they're gonna have to start having like a PDI
delivery and inspection fee.
In terms of features at the front,
we've got our reset and power switches,
our microphone and headphone jack,
four USB 3 type A ports, USB type C.
And this display can show system information
like temperatures and RPMs,
kind of whatever you want to show on it.
It is so heavy.
Okay.
Is the paint supposed to be something special?
- [Alex] Yeah. This is a pre-production
and they found in shipping them to people
that the paint gets a bit scuffed up.
- Oh, got it. Okay.
You can actually really tell how engineering sample it is,
in spots like this.
One other change in the production version is
they wanted this to be totally toolless
but they're gonna add a screw here
because apparently they ran into issues
where people would pick it up
and it would pop off, which could be really, really bad.
You could kill a man with this thing.
Tempered glass side panels.
Vibration dampeners.
Magnetic filters.
Whoa. That's where the weight is.
- Ooh. Oh yeah. That is weighty.
- That is substantial.
That's what thick fricking tempered glass will do for you.
Wow.
Are these 180 mm?
- [Alex] 200.
- 200 mm.
- [Alex] They don't tell you how fast they go though.
So I kind of want to just try that right now.
- Two 200 mms in the front,
a 120 drawing in there at the bottom
and then two 120s at the back.
And it looks like holy shnikes.
You could load the top up with.
- [Alex] You can fit six 120s up there.
- [Linus] Freaking what?
Oh my God.
There's so many front panel connectors on this thing.
It's like a bundle this thick between all the fans
and USB and power switch and everything here.
- Oh.
- You wanna over volt them don't you?
- Yeah. I wanna see what they do at 17 volts.
- How did I know that was coming?
It's almost like we've been working together for five years.
Oh, this is cool.
They've got a cable management
or rather a don't bother cable management
panel on the back here.
And you basically just go.
Yep. I don't wanna see any of that anymore.
And you cover it up.
- We need to stick a sticker.
- I guess just like put it here.
- [Alex] Sure.
Wow. It takes a long time to ramp up at five volts.
- Give her some more juice. Let's see like seven volts.
Yep. So we ended up at around 7.50.
So let's see 12 volt now.
Now we're moving. This is over a thousand RPM now.
That is a substantial amount of air movement.
- [Alex] I guess that's what they call turning it up to 11.
Maybe they meant 1100 RPM.
- [Linus] All things considered, it is not loud.
- No, not at all it.
- Hit a current limit again. It doesn't wanna go to faster?
- [Alex] Really?
- It's going down.
- Oh, it's smoking.
- It's dead.
- I think when we started it with 17 volts.
- Oh crap.
Oh, it stinks.
It's a good thing it doesn't turn on.
It'll blow its smell towards you.
Here you go, Alex.
- Ugh. - This is your doing.
Can you start helping me build this thing?
Because it's pretty clear this is gonna take a team effort.
- I do feel kind of bad.
We don't have any more Cooler Master fans
and using these Lian-li ones instead.
But they do clip together. It's pretty nice.
- Yeah, those are super cool.
- Yeah.
- [Linus] Power lead just barely reaches
the integrated power hub.
Wow. This thing has two integrated RGV hubs?
One here, one here.
- [Alex] Damn. - Holy crap.
It's loaded for bear.
Oh, I'm gonna leave this for now.
That looks like an absolute fingerprint magnet.
We're gonna take that off last.
Oh my goodness.
It's still heavy.
Now's probably a good time to take a closer look
at our test bench.
We've got a 12900K on a Z690 Maximus Extreme
that hopefully has the capacitor on the right way.
You know with how many motherboards still have
5.1 analog outputs.
We should just do like an AliExpress
surround sound speaker setup.
Get subscribed if you guys wanna see that.
These cable management grommets
don't appear to be compatible with the back plate
on this motherboard.
Oh. Oh my finger.
Holy crap. Even without the grommets
it's still right up against the motherboard tray.
- Look at the cooler compatibility from the side.
- Is this supposed to be coming off like this?
- Oh the whole thing's moving
- Now a really cool feature of this case, by the way
we've gone with a 1300 watt power supply from SeaSonic
because our GPU now draws about 800 watts on its own.
It's that Cooler Master set out to make
the power supply installation completely toolless
so two of what would normally be screw holes
have been replaced with pins
that go into the back of the power supply.
And the other two, are thumb screws.
Like really hold it in place.
How the freak many hard drives can go in here.
At least two, three, another four that's seven.
There were two more on that mid plate. That's nine.
- [Alex] Apparently the hard drives are all toolless too.
To put those in of course.
- Oh really?
- [Alex] Yep. They have rubber instead of screws.
Do you want to go horizontal or vertical in the GPU?
- I think we should let at the people decide.
Let's just have them use the thumbs up
and thumbs down on the video.
Thumbs up, if you want vertical.
Thumbs down, if you want a conventional mount.
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They're all thumbs up.
- Wow. - Wow.
Let's go vertical.
- So this also has toolless GPU mounting.
- Ah. How are those toolless?
They're just posts.
- Including with the case, is this fairly nice
Gen 4 PCIE riser. Smells kind of weird though.
- Oh, that's super weird.
- [Andy] Can I smell it?
- Sure, Andy.
- We got some weird kinks around here.
Thunderbolt 4. Like what the hell?
What would you connect via Thunderbolt
that you would want inside your computer?
Oh, I had a fart. But I feel like if I let that one go,
I'd get some solid so.
I love that the theme of this build is abused hardware.
We've got the shunt modded GPU,
the motherboard that was prepped for subzero.
- We've got the fan.
- That's not abused. That's dead.
This is ridiculously easy to cable manage.
Basically just cram all the stuff in the thing
and then close up the latches and then, cover the thing.
- Do you think that six fans is enough?
- No.
- We can add two more in the bottom.
- Let's do it
The hell am I looking at here?
Triple reservoir pump combos using these brackets.
Just in case you're into it.
- I really, really appreciate these radiator mounts
that just come out
and you're able to attach the fans and stuff.
All of our sleepers
and a lot of the custom work that I've done.
I've just stolen these from Master cases
and this one's even better.
- Alex. I have some concerns
about negative static pressure here.
I think we need more fans.
- Yeah, I'm already working on that Linus.
- Yes you are. All right.
Okay. I don't actually know how to wire this thing up.
I just put this on the middle pin of the bottom one
and it just completely snapped off.
- I got pricing from Cooler Master,
how much do you think it is?
- I'm guessing $3.49 US.
- The global price is $500 US
and in the US because tariffs, it's $650.
Yeah. That's more than I thought it would be.
And I thought it would be really expensive.
- So this is like a 10000D competitor in the way
that they're looking at it.
Well now I feel stupid that this is our first kind of
case review in a hundred years.
And that's one that nobody's gonna actually buy.
Don't put that video, but look at this space here.
- [Alex] Yeah, I almost feel like
we should have water cooled it,
just to fill up that void.
- We ready to fire it up?
- Are we?
- We did a little bit of cable management.
- Yeah. Lot of cable management.
- It's good looking. I gotta give it that.
- I wanna do this the dirty, like in my Intel upgrade
where instead of like doing it properly,
you just put it straight through and tie it.
- Yeah.
- It's terrible.
- I think you mean tight and perfect.
You know, they say that beggars can't be choosers.
- What? I'm not a beggar. I could buy my own PC.
I'm an influencer now, Linus.
- I'll cover it. No one will ever know.
- Oh, nice.
- Right?
- Oh. That's my favorite kind of cable management.
- Oh crap, this isn't gonna work.
Oh, there's a little arrow indicating where it goes.
If these were data cables, we would not do this.
Oh shoot. There's an RGB lead here.
Wrap. It's heavy now.
- You're saying that like it wasn't in the first place.
- Well, it's more now.
I forget how this worked.
Oh, there, there we go. There was another step back.
Okay. Yeah. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
Oh, we never put this hard drive cage back in.
Bye. Bye.
Moment of truth.
I didn't even show the cool little block
that it had for all of the front panel connectors.
- Yeah. You also didn't turn the power supply on.
- Oh, well.
That looks really cool.
- [Alex] But why are none of our fans working?
- Ah. - Like actually none of them.
- This one is working.
- That's the one that we plugged into the motherboard.
- [Linus] Okay. So maybe we didn't plug in the fan hub.
And all the panels are coming off.
Let there be light.
- Is it okay to plug in USB headers when the system's on?
- I mean, no, but yes.
Awesome.
- Okay. Ouch.
- Screen's on? - Yep.
- Yay.
- [Alex] What's the screen showing?
Make it yours.
- What? The $500 isn't enough to make it mine?
If you look here,
you can see they probably wanted to do curved glass here
but like Corsair probably discovered
that it was cost prohibitive.
Remember that early prototype of the 10000D?
- Yes. - [Alex] Oh yeah.
- [Linus] What's the resolution of this display?
- [Alex] I don't know, it looks pretty good.
- [Linus] It looks great.
This is why you should never give your friends
your computer's password.
Should we get the smoke machine?
While we wait for the smoke machine to fire up,
why don't you talk me through what we're doing here?
So we got Prime95, FurMark running concurrently.
I see what you mean about the GPU.
How high did the thermals go on this?
So it's power limited then.
- No, it's thermals limited.
Probably the memory is at 112.
That's probably what's limiting is right now
or 110 at the temperatures of the CPU or the GPU,
we're going to be looking at four o'clock.
Yeah.
- This top exhaust doesn't even feel like it's heated up,
rear exhaust, yes.
Coming right off the CPU cooler here.
Is it over clocked?
- Nope. This is stock.
It's doing 4.9 GHz.
- Let's get fogged up.
(machine buzzing)
Hello?
Do we have fluid? Yeah.
(machine buzzing)
Bang. Oh.
I told them, order the good one
and they came back to me with this.
- [Alex] I have an idea. Do we still have LN2 here?
(container squeaking)
- Sorry.
- How are we looking?
- [Alex] Well, I'm not able to see like anything.
- You can't see anything?
- Just immediately disappears. There's so much airflow.
- Okay.
- It looks like it's going in. And then probably up out.
- Damn. I wish our smoke machine was working.
How do our results look?
- Marginally worse I would say.
- Turns out fans work, but there's no substitute
for just drawing completely fresh ambient air in.
- I'm actually surprised.
- Oh, I'm not. I mean, it's like damn.
- As for the GPU. It's identical.
The clock speeds.
Temperatures are both effectively the same.
- And you should know it's about a half a degree cooler
in here now in the case than it was before.
So for an air cooled build,
is it as good
as literally putting your motherboard on a cardboard box?
No.
Meaning it's not the best
bang for the buck case on the market
but I don't think that's what Cooler Master was going for
with the HAF 700 Evo.
As for the looks,
maybe polarizing personally.
I think it looks really cool.
And I think especially for a water cooled build.
Man, could you ever do a cool loop in here?
- Two radiators up top.
- Use this to feed them with fresh air
another radiator in the bottom. Man.
- Loads of pump spots.
- Dead silent.
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