Water & Dust Resistant PC Case - WHO NEEDS THIS
We don't really do case reviews anymore, because, well, if we're being honest, they haven't really changed much lately, other than some tempered glass here, and some RGB there. But, that's not the *wait for the voice crack* case with this one. HAHAHAHAHAHA! This... Is the Silverstone Mammoth MM01, a spec- -TACularly heavy black monstrosity monstrosity who's claim to fame is being really difficult to open the box up.*Insert sarcasm here.* Is being dust-proof, and splash-proof! So, things, are about to get wet. LITERALLY. We're going to spray water on a system in this case, with an extreme edition processor running inside it. But do you know what we're not going to spray water on? Brandon.
Because he deserves better than that, even if he did bung up the audio settings the first time we shot this. DIS SOME DOPE MUSIC! Corsair's Obsidian 500 mid-tower gaming case features premium tempered glass and aluminum construction, removable top fan trays, and more. Check it out in the link down below. This thing actually launched all the way back in 20- -15, completely flying under my radar due to its unprecedented level of niche-ness.
So you could think of the mammoth as kind of like the off road edition of, what would normally be a computer case. Like, designed for use in rough conditions. *Linus struggles to contemplate what he has done with his life* OWUGH! You know, its actually not that crazy big. But it's REALLY heavy.
OH, my gosh. That's pretty real. It is! Its... Kinda got a...
Plain... Sorta look to it... There's no tempered glass. That's pretty nice...
Yeah... It's magnetic! Yeah, yeah. Its magnetic, so it guess that's uh... The exterior is about plain, black box as you can get.
It sports a brushed steel finish, but in the age of tempered glass windows, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a little boring. But if you look a little closer - the entire top of the case is completely steel. Nice... So, no IO, or fan holes whatsoever up here so you can keep water from getting in, presumably.
And check out these. So, this is cool, these front louvers are not an aesthetic feature. Instead, they actually serve to prevent fluids, again, from getting to the internal components. Of the PC, and slipping around to the back, you can see, it has the same louvers here with a notch at the bottom, check that out.
To allow you to get cables to the rear IO. The design of the mammoth gives it an impressive IP43 rating. Meaning it's safe from not just drips, like if you were to spill a cup of water onto the table next to it, but even water sprays. Now I wouldn't recommend pressure washing your computer, and gaming at the same time, but if you left a with the sprinkler running, your computer should be okay.
It's just rest of the room I'd be concerned about. Let's crack it open! Well, yeah. Whoop.. Ooh.
Here, we find the MM01's second party trick. A full, fat 20-millimetre thick HEPA filter. Now, most fan filters are pretty good at mitigating dust buildup over the short term. But a filter like this is specced to remove 99.97% Of particles larger than 0.3 Microns.
That's smaller than all but the smallest bacteria. So I guess you won't have to worry about your PC getting the flu. Obviously compared to a regular filter, this one's gonna be a little more restrictive. Right, but it looks like Silverstone thought of that.
Because they not only have to push air through one just like that, but also the HEPA filter. And the solution? These things. Two MASSIVE. 180-Millimetre air penetrator fans.
At max speed, which you can control with these knobs at the front, these move a whopping 340 CF/M of air - about the same as a typical pedestal fan at medium. Pretty darn impressive. Then, to top it off, there's actually space to install a rear 120-millimetre fan, as well. So, while Jake builds a high-end system for our tests, lets get a little bit of preparation done.
MOAR SOME DOPE MUSIC. Okay, it's done, you wanna see? Yeah, let's have a look! All right! So there are a few things that stand out. A lot of cases these days are basically just the standard layout. With a different with a different bezel on the front.
So first of all, the layout is inverted. So the CPU is on the bottom, and the GPU is on top. Second, our powersupply, actually takes the page out of 2006's book, and is up on the top. But, still with no ventilation.
That's because the top was sealed to keep water from getting in, so the powersupply actually has to suck air from the inside, then blow it out the back. Fortunately, these fans that we showed you guys up at the front should keep it well supplied with fresh air. I'll, uh take a moment to show you this here CPU heatsink support thing there's actually one for the graphics card and the CPU which, if you think about the applications this case on, let's say something like a boat, makes a ton of sense, cause if, uh... This PC's a rockin', you don't want your heatsink goin' knocking about, on the inside.
Because of the design of the filtering system, nearly 40% of the space inside the case is taken up by the filter in the front, and the buffer in the rear, to prevent water from entering the system. It does limit your cooling options, but even with the relatively limited space, the MM01 can still fit four dual-slot graphics cards, and easily houses up to an SSIEEB dual-socket motherboard, if you're willing to limit your storage expansion to two 3-and-a-half inch drives. So this is all good in theory, but we wanna see what kind of thermals we can expect with a high end system, in this case. So you wanna throw that panel on there? And I'll get a stress test running.
It's actually kind of amazing how much air these fans move through that HEPA filter. Yeah I mean, they are at max speed. Rather than leave it at these settings, though, like this is quite loud. Um, I wanna go with not minimum, but quiet enough that it probably wouldn't bother anyone.
That seems pretty good. And we're still getting like quite a bit of airflow back here. Let's give it some time to heat up! Yeah. Okay, so, these are not bad results, actually.
GPU's turboing up to 1780MHz or so at it's 82 degree maximum, and our CPU has only 2 cores above 60 degrees! Not too shabby! Yeah I mean there's an MHD-15 in there, so CPU temperatures are probably expected. Are you ready to run it through the gauntlet? Yeah. Let's do it! Alright, so we're gonna do the gauntlet, Linus is a little busy with, another video, and I am definitely am not doing this test for the second time. No, this is- never done this test before.
Oh, let's - let's turn 'er on, get these fans choochin' so there might be a little bit of dust in there, but, I kinda have an idea of how much was there beforehand. Let's just uh, throw a little dust on there, get 'er nice and- not nice, I guess. I dunno. I really hope I do not have to do this again, because I do not have any dust left.
Alright, so there's, actually quite a bit of dust up there, I'm not really sure how that got in there. Ok, so let's turn it off this time I think for the most part, it's gonna be pretty decent, but I imagine there's going to be some leakage. Alright! So, that is a little more, dust than was in there before, so I don't think that this system is perfect, but it actually held up pretty good. Regular computer dust is not going to be an issue for this thing.
Maybe don't throw sawdust at it or use it at your woodshop. Okay, so let's see how the filter's doing. Oh, no, that's gross. OWAH! *Crying* So, the attacked side is pretty disgusting, but when we flip it over...
It's pretty damn clean. So, it looks like a little bit of dust got in, but I'd imagine its probably just from the cracks around. I don't think dust that big would get through a filter like this. And then on this side...
It's pretty dirty on this side as well. Alright, let's get to the water. Oh, my God... You think we should spray it with a hose, too? I think we should spray it with a hose.
Alright. I should probably turn it on before we spray it with a hose. Is it on? Whoop! *Ahahahaha* I'm like where's - where's the water? I really hope this survives... This is my testbench, actually.
So, it'd be really inconvenient if this died. I'd be kinda upset, tbh. There's a little water in there, but for the most part, it looks like it it's dry. Wow.
Wow. Completely dry inside! Sure, there's a little water around the edges, but inside of the computer, there's no moisture. I think we should probably test this before I. Linus over, y'know, just in case it doesn't work.
DisplayPort, okay. Is this monitor even plugged in? Oh my gosh... Oh yeah, it works, ok, let's - let's get Linus and show him the carnage. Uh...
So, tbh, I already opened it. There is a little bit of dust in there. No water. *No water, really?* No water.
I sprayed this thing down good. Ahhhhhh. Ahh... There's a point of intake here.
Yup! I see that. This side is a little beat up. Yeah, I see that. Wow! But, it caught it.
Yeah! So yeah... There's a little bit of dust on the panel there. And you can see some of the chunks did make it through, but... I mean...
Compared to what you'd see in a normal case... That is really impressive! I think my dust abuse is a little out of the ordinary, as well. Yeah, no, this is obviously a torture test, but you can see, even where the water did manage to penetrate, the design doesn't allow it to go any further than this. Yeah, there's a little splash shield here, too.
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Trying a $100 PC from Amazon...
- Hey, guys, this is Austin. I set out with a simple goal, to find the cheapest, brand new computer that I could find on Amazon, and well, this is what I've got. And big shout out LastPassfor sponsoring today's video. This is the Guleek GPC Wintel Mini PC.
As you can see, it's pretty mini. So the main idea here is that for $100, this is going to be a
fully functional computer. It's not going to be bare bones. You don't need to install Windows.
Everything should come all ready to go. Oh, here we go. We've got the technical specifications. The quad-core Intel Atom Z8300, Windows 10, two gigabytes of RAM, and 32 gigs of storage.
For $100. As I was saying, this guy is
about as small as it gets. So what we're getting here is a full fledged desktop computer. You're gonna be getting USB ports, HDMI, really, really rattly plastic, but it actually does come in
this nice, aluminum chassis.
We get a HDMI cable. Wow, that's actually really nice. We also get what looks like
to be the power adapter! So one of the nice things about this guy is that even though it's
included in the box, it just runs off of a
standard five volt micro USB. So in theory, you could
run this off of something like a battery bank or even
like a normal phone charger.
Hardware-wise, there's really not a lot to the Guleek Mini PC. So it does have that aluminum build, but if you come around back,
what you're going to find is a full-size USB 3.0
Port, a USB 2.0 Port, micro USB for power, HDMI out, as well as a headphone jack
and a micro SD card slot. That micro SD card is
going to be important because with only 32 gigs of storage, you're definitely gonna wanna expand that. I will say one thing, it
immediately recognizes that I'm using a 120 hertz monitor, and it's actually using
the full refresh rate.
That's kind of cool. Oh, God, what? Did I crash it? So, one quick monitor swap later, we have a fully-working PC. All those weird issues
actually had nothing to do with the computer, and
once we get in here, I mean, everything seems
to be working fine. One of the big issues
though is that we're running a full Windows 10 PC with
only two gigs of RAM.
So say you wanna do something simple like watch some YouTube. Well, if we come over to the channel and try to load up a
page, you're going to see that things slow down quite a bit. Most of that is because we
only have two gigs of RAM. The Atom processor is not helping.
However, once you actually get it to load if you're a little bit
patient, it does totally work. Oh, also, our video's on trending. That's kinda cool. (Laughing) We might not have speakers,
but you can see 1080p video, especially on YouTube,
does play back just fine.
Now what's cool is is that even though this is going to be a lower end PC, you're actually getting a
GPU that is theoretically capable of pushing a 4K display. Although, that's probably
not the greatest idea. You know, I actually think there's a lot that we can do with this
PC, but before we do that, I wanna give a huge shout out to LastPass for sponsoring this video. It's almost like it's
a perfect sort of fit.
When you get a brand new
PC and you wanna have all your passwords and all
your logins in one place. Funny how that happened. Not like we planned it or anything. I personally have been using LastPass for over five years now at this point.
And what you're getting here is something that's gonna allow you to
get all of your passwords all under one, secure umbrella. So say, for example, that
you use the same password on lots of site, which of course no one would ever do
who watches the channel. Right? What LastPass allows you to do is to create a completely
random generated password for each and every site that you visit. So even if say one site gets hacked, that doesn't mean that someone can get into all of your other logins.
Now what's cool is is that LastPass keeps all this super secure underneath a master password. What's nice about that is there are multiple ways of getting into it. You can add two-factor authentication. It actually is a really
secure way of doing things.
The best part is that you
can get LastPass for free. Now they do have a $2
a month premium plan, which is what I've been on for a while. But regardless, you should
be using a password manager, and I legitimately use
LastPass every single day. If you guys wanna check it out, the link is in the description,
and huge, huge shout out to LastPass for sponsoring this video.
Now sure, having a mini
PC is fine and great. What's the fun if you don't actually take advantage of how small it is? Everyone knows that a
cheap PC is not going to be the most powerful thing in the world, but this is where things get a
little bit more exciting. This is the Gechic On-Lap
1102H portable monitor. Now there are lots of
portable monitors out there, and most of the time,
they're pretty decent.
What makes this a little bit different is it has its own
dedicated battery built in. So with pretty much just
a single HDMI cable, we can get a fully portable setup. See where I'm going with this? So first of all, we have
the actual display itself. So we're looking at an 11.6 Inch...
(Crinkling) (clears throat) We're looking at a 11.6
Inch 1920 by 1080 panel. Plenty bright enough and
especially plenty sharp enough to be able to handle our Guleek Mini PC. So, with our Gechic
monitor up and running, this is our questionably useful setup. So, first of all we have the Guleek PC.
Now connected to that
is our Samsung T3 SSD, which is going to have all
of our Steam games on it. It's being powered by this Mi power bank. We also have the monitor, which normally would be running on its own power, except that it was not charged. So we have it connected
to another battery bank, and with all this, we have
only one spare USB port, and I'm trying to get games set up, so I'm having to hot
swap mouses and keyboards and controllers to try
to get something to work because we really planned
things out solidly.
There are definitely some cool things about this setup though. The Gechic monitor is really nice-looking. So you're getting that
full 1080 resolution, and not only is there going
to be a matte display, but you know, in theory when
you remember to charge it, it is going to be a really
nice portable setup. It even has some things on the backside to be able to hook up
something like a compute stick so you can have a fully
portable little setup, but none of that matters if
I can't play CS:GO in a park.
Because that's the whole
premise for this video. Please, please tell me that this is actually going to let me load it. So we're into the menu, I
cranked all the settings down, and it looks like we're actually loading, and it should work in theory. I've done a lot of testing with CS:GO.
Usually when we have a
really low end system, that's sort of the first game I go to actually see if it will work, and while I've never
done it on an Atom chip, that should, in theory, be able to run. It's gonna be on low settings
and not a great frame rate. Initializing game data. I don't think I've ever seen
CS:GO take five minutes to load but that's fine, who cares
how long it takes to load? Just matters if we can
actually play the game or not.
Oh, no! No! CSGO.Exe has stopped working. Right before the load finished. Ugh, I feel that right here. So what did we learn? We learned that the Guleek
is a pretty decent PC.
As long as you don't ever
try to play a game on it. So I'm curious, what do you guys think about the $100 Guleek Mini PC? I'm sure you will have lots of very insightful comments
about this entire video. So be sure to let me know
in the comments below, and of course, definitely
be sure to go check out LastPass with the link in the description. There guys, thank you
so much for watching.
I'm going to go cry myself to sleep over not being able to
play a game right now..
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