NZXT PODCAST - #144 - The New H9 Series! (Ft. Andy)

Episode Date: January 14, 2023

On this week's NZXT Podcast, we have Andy, Global PR Manager, to help us answer some questions about our new products! We just launched the new H9 Series, RGB Duo Fans, and the C1200 Power Supply! Also, RGB = More FPS. Just saying. Follow Andy on Twitter! https://twitter.com/MrSlyGuyInDaSky Tune in live every Friday at 10AM PT on twitch.tv/NZXT and send your questions to: [e-mail]

and welcome to episode 144 of the NCC podcast, the official podcast of the NXT community. This podcast is recorded live every now Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on the official NCC Twitch. And is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike. And with me is Andy, since Ivan is out sick with the vid. So please give a warm welcome to Andy.

How are you doing? I'm doing better than Ivan. right now. I think anyone's doing better. Yeah, I heard him earlier in the week and he does not sound good. But he seems to be doing well, recovering, hopefully resting as he is watching this. But yeah, but me, I'm doing well. Perfect.

Happy to be here. It's always fun. Good way to spend a Friday. You're basically a third member of the NZC podcast. We have you so much at this point. It's like in sports like a super. utility player, like the ones that, you know, aren't the stars, but show up every now and again and, you know, fill in when needed. So, yeah, I feel, I feel like I'm the super utility

player. Yes, you are. As so, so for everyone here, two quick announcements. One, we have a lot of new products releasing. So please, this is a time to ask questions. So please ask questions all you want during the podcast. I'll be grabbing as much as you can. Sorry if I'll, I'm a little like out there because I'll be reading the chat trying to add questions to our list. And second of all, for the usual giveaway we usually do, it is a little bit different this time. We don't have the regular swag giveaway, but please stay tuned to the end of the podcast because there will be a very, very, very special announcement for only podcast listeners. So please stay tuned till the end. But first, I want to give, and he's in the chat right now.

Mr. Matt Lee has an amazing video that I want to show off just real quick before we do anything. That is Mr. Matt Lee's video. I'll go ahead and post the link in the chat for everyone. Please go ahead and subscribe to him. He has done some awesome content for us. Please subscribe to him. That video is hilarious. And also, the bill itself is beautiful.

So give a look, give a like, give a comment, do everything. Subscribe, hit the bell. Yeah, hit the bell. There you go. Hit that bell. No, but I really enjoyed that video a lot. I was, you know, conversing with him about it. And, like, I really kind of like what he did, you know, the all black and all white.

And I think I like the all white one the most because of the vert mounted, I think it's a 4090. With the white, the white ASUS card, it just looks so sick in our case. So. And those, like, cards, I think this is the perfect case to show it off. because it's a massive card inside of massive case and it frames it really well. And I think it's vertical mounted as well. And it just looks super cool in that, in that H-9. There's some talented people here.

I could barely, like, get a PC working. And I made a couple of PCs. So whoever has had my PCs before, I'm sorry. Like I've had, I did it for friends and family, but like, God, I feel bad. And then you see Mr. Matt's, like, built. and you just go, God, I wish. Yeah, whenever I build someone a PC and they have a problem with it,

I take it a little too personally. And I'm like, you have a problem with your PC? And then if it's with an NSXT part, I even take it more personally. I'm like, did your crack and fail? Oh, I'm so sorry. But yeah, no,

I get where you're coming from. So I guess this is a very special podcast this time because we are launching technically four new products but three series products right now so we have the H9, the RGB dual fans in the C-1200

correct? Yes. Yeah, okay, perfect. I was like, oh god, I did I lose? So I guess we'll start off with what is the H-9? Yes, so the H-9 is our newest case. It is

our largest case in a while Ivan would come here with the historical facts, but it is a dual chamber chassis, which means there's basically two compartments, one for all the components you show, essentially, so your motherboard, CPU cooler, graphics card, etc. Then the other chamber is where you put, you know,

all the power supply and cables. It's basically it's very spacious case, and it's also designed to be a showpiece PC we can say because there's so much glass in this chassis it's basically the perfect case to show if you want to show off all your cool looking components and RGB

and also because components are getting larger these days like with the 4090 it provides you with all the cooling capacity that you could ask for. The whole back panel is a mesh panel. If you get the flow version, the top is a mesh panel.

It can fit up to 10 fans. 10 120 millimeter fans, you can add 140s in there. But only could do 10 120 millimeter fans so it can provide all the airflow that you can ask for. I personally have one in my temps are really good. really good.

So we have two different types of H-9s, correct? We have the elite and the flow. Correct. What's the difference? What's the main difference between these two? The biggest difference is two things, there's two things that are the biggest difference, other than price. You get with the elite a top glass panel,

and the thing that's kind of cool about the top glass panel, and I think it's shown in Mr. Matt Lee's video is it's meant so you can see your RGB fans on top, but also probably the most important feature is it comes included with their new RGB duo fans, which means they're illuminated on both sides because historically with our F series and air fans, we had a ring around them and you only could see it in one area, or on one side, rather. But with the dual fans, duo fans, not dual, duo, they're illuminated on both sides because in this case, you have to put the fans in certain intake positions and you see the backside of it. So we want you to have that ring. So basically you're covered no matter what

orientation or position that you put these fans in. Which is honestly, I actually completely forgot that happens all the time for me whenever I play in fans I always play it the wrong way because I'm like, oh, I want the RGVita show but then I go wait, that's not the correct way

especially for the front because the front is the intake side so usually you won't ever be able to see that front side if you're trying to do like an intake or an exhaust. But then luckily we decided to go for it. We'll go a little bit more into RGB Dules after but I guess we can kind of talk a little bit more about

what does the flow and delete kind of come with. Are there any other parts other than just the fans? Can you repeat that? Sorry, it cut out. Oh, sorry. What else does the H9 flow and elite come with other than just the fans? That's it. Is the fans and obviously the case? It's not like the H1 where it comes with like a power supplier, a liquid cooler. But yeah, it's just the case and the fans.

RGB or not. It comes with four fans, though, a rear exhaust fan. So out of the box, you would have good thermal performance. It's just if you want to maximize it, you know, you've got to put three on top and three on bottom.

Or how I do it, two 140s on top, two 140s on bottom. Because in mine, I have Noctua fans and I didn't want to rebuy all of them. So I just did some fancy maneuvering.

Battlewark actually comes with a question that I was actually going to ask is can you vote vertical mount and does it come with the vertical mount? It does not come with the vertical mount. That is separate. That I believe costs $89 and it works through, it works with the H5 and its corresponding series, the H7 and the corresponding series and the H9. It looks like it's floating in the H9 Which

Which is it's kind of cool Here we go Yeah here Let me show the This is what it'll be like right here This vertical mountain kit right here This right here is how you do it And it's basically complete suspended in the air

Which is really nice And yes it is Gen 4.0 If I'm correct Yeah Yes PCI 4.0 Exactly I don't think there's Gen 5 graphics cards yet

even though certain motherboards have that capability Free thinker, I will add that question into our community questions down the road. So why should you choose between the H9 Flow versus Italy? Like what would you choose, why would you choose one over the other? It depends if you like RGB or not.

If you want RGB, the H9 elite is for you. It does some of the work already for you with having the duo fans included. However, if you just want more performance oriented or more performance, go with the flow because that will provide with you more cooling capacity. If you have like a 4090

or one of the AMD CPUs or a 13900K from Intel. There's so many numbers. numbers and acronyms. It's hard to keep track. I also need to show off that there are two colors. I forgot to show that off.

Black and white. There's pure black and pure white. So it's basically like, you know how some cases will have white? If you choose a white, it will still have some black. This is basically all white and all black, which is amazing. Because I always wanted, if I wanted a case, I wanted to make sure everything is that color, not other colors. So this is probably one of my favorite. favorite parts of it is that shows off every color there. So good.

Yeah, it's awesome. Like, because like you said, because in the past we've done white cases, but they had black accents. But, yeah, I like when you see, like with Mr. Matt Lee's video, when it's all black, it looks very striking. And it's all white. It looks very striking. It's a very cool aesthetic. Well, let me evict my puppy. Okay, that's good.

But yes, everyone, if you do the Exclamation point H9 in the chat, you should get a link that goes directly to it, or you can just go to nzixi.com, and then just go to the H9 from there. It is awesome. Like, honestly, I have the H5 flow, and I was not like, this was the best one,

then they come with H7, and then now the H9, I'm like, dang, I want the H9 so badly. The H9 is, it's pretty awesome. It's really cool. I obviously didn't hear what I said, but as someone who's built in it, it, the H9 flow.

I really enjoyed it. It was a very pleasant experience, and I think it's one of our best cases. So what's the, so I actually just talked about this, the H5, to H7, and H9. So what's the difference between H5, X7, and a nine? Without going into price, it's basically sizing, essentially,

in overall cooling capacity. If you want a more compact case, the H5 is for you, and it's more affordable. If you're doing a more, like, mid-level, like, $1,500 build, it's probably the case for you. It does have a lot of cooling capacity in it, but if you want to do a more higher-end builds, an H-7 or an H-9 is for you because they're larger

because graphics cards these days are, you know, like, I think I saw a size comparison in the 490. he's almost as big as an Xbox. Xbox series X, X, X, X. But you can, if you want more powerful components and you need more cooling capacity, the H7 and the H-9er

for you, if you want to be more inconspicuous and more traditional, I would go with an H-7. But if you want to create like an Instagram setup or just have your PC, have a light show, VH9, I think, is probably the case for you. And obviously, there's spectrums within those cases too,

because, like, for me, I like to show off my components, but I want to DRGB my life because also I build in a lot of cases. I'm in a unique position because I, you know, work for this company. But it's just when you transfer and upgrade your PC a lot, RGB is annoying to just contend with all the extra wiring. So I just decided

to DRGB my life and also like the flashing when I'm going to bed. I wanted to avoid that. But obviously it's awesome to see RGB and people love it. And it's just really cool to see it all showcased in that case.

And I guess we'll kind of talk a little bit about the fan since it comes with the fans, what is the RGB duo from like just a broad perspective? It's just a double-sided fan. Double-side, a fan

with double-sided RGP. Because like we alluded to earlier, our fans historically only had one side with RGB. So, and because this case needs, because how our fans worked in the past, we had to change them in order

to get that full RGB effect. I'm showing it off, which is so cool. I actually never even thought about this. I was just like, you know, you're just going to have to deal with, you know, one side, only being, you know, colorful one side and not, but then you show that off and you go, no, you can have both of them. And that's actually really awesome that we could do something like that. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a necessary step for us to make. Because the way we do RGB, because people, other companies have RGB within the blades, but we like to have the RGB around. the ring of the fan. Yeah. Yeah. It was the main reason. But obviously if you...

Look over. No, what I was going to say, like, if you love having the fans illuminated, obviously you could buy those fans and put them in these cases as well. That's the beauty of PC building. It's you're the artist and you can, you know, design your PC to whatever fits your setup. your personality like me.

I have Noctua fans, the brown ones, because I want to maximize my cooling performance, but, you know, people love having a light show on their PC and you can put whatever fan fits, and it would look great in the H9 no matter what. So I don't know if you know exactly, but was the main reason why you made the dual-sided RGB fans, like was it for the H-9,

or was it because there was a large, like, people asking for it? I think I could be wrong, but my understanding it was for the H9. Oh, I did not realize that. I didn't realize that we decided to do that just for it. I mean, it makes sense, though, right? RGB gives more performance. You are right, Manno. Makes sense.

Oh, yeah, RGB. Get five extra frames in every game per fan. Oh, also, for the, since you have two rings, how much can you customize those rings? Is it only each color, or can you do like each size? like a different color. That I don't know off the top of my head. But in CAM you can customize the color.

I don't know. It would be cool, but I don't want to say an answer that you could customize both sides. But we can figure that out and then get back to them. Yeah, I think you can, but I'll, yeah, I'll also just double, I just want to triple check to make sure that I'm a yes you can customize the individualities but not

the individual sides there we go perfect thank you master I was like I think you can do like the actual customization wow who hired it is a front glass there's a lot of products it's hard to keep track yeah there's so we have so many that we're releasing I mean before we had like three main cases and now we have like four or five main cases and then now we're just like, and then we're just so much variations

between them and everything is just crazy. I know. Oh, but we manage. For an RGB duos, what sizes are available and then what packs are available? You can give them in 140 or 280, or sorry, 120 and 140.

And you could buy them individually or in a pack that comes with a controller because you need a controller or an N7 motherboard in order to use them. In order to use our RGB. You can use them as a fan, but that would be pointless because the whole point of it is to use the RGB. So you need an RGB fan controller, and some are included in cases such as the H7 and the H5 elites,

in the elite versions. Then you have to buy our RGB fan controller if you don't have one. So if you had a flow and you just want to, wanted to buy a controller in a bunch of fans individually, you could do that. And then we have double and double packs for the 140s and triple packs for the 120s. I also, there was a question. I don't know if you know, but I assume the reason why we stopped making the 200 millimeter fans is because there's almost no market available for a 200 millimeter fan, correct?

None of our cases support it either. I can't think of a case, current case, that supports that size. And we're primarily a case company. And we make, obviously, we make fans for our cases. So it wouldn't make sense for us to make a 200 millimeter fan. Yeah. A lot of people ask for about 200 millimeter fans, but I'm like, I don't think there's that much of a market for it anymore. since a lot of cases right now are like 280 360 at most or but um the sizes though are 120 and

140 because yeah but they 280 adds up to 2 140s yeah exactly so it just makes more sense no piece your car just keep yeah 200 millimeter fan would be amazing just for like a natural fan just like you have a little like handheld 200 millimeter fan that's pretty cool it push a lot of air let's see uh what else oh oh Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I guess for the third product that we're also releasing, which is crazy, is the C-1200 or C-1,200 power supply. So what exactly is it?

It's our newest power supply. It's a 80 plus gold certified power supply, and it uses the new ATX 3.0 standard, because a lot of graphics cards these days, like with the 40 series, have just new plugins that provide it power and it needs a lot of power.

I think a single ATX 3.0 PCIE plug goes up to 600 watts or something like that. It's just to accommodate that standard. And I see here it says that there's ATXV3.0.

Do you have a quick explanation on to what 3.0 is? It's just a power supply standard. I believe it's created by Intel. Yeah. So yeah, that's the, that's the biggest thing is 600 watts of power from this power supply, which, especially with all these new graphics cars coming out from AMD and Vividia, you're going to need a lot of power into it.

And please also try not to cheap out on your power supply when you build PCs. Please. Yeah. I've seen way too many, way. way too many PCs to get destroyed because someone decides to cheap out on the power supply. And also efficiency.

It's one of those components where, yes, you can cheap out now, but it can lower your power bill in the future. And also just better to use less electricity than more electricity to do the same thing. Exactly.

I guess the final question that we have for this specific one, then we'll get into community questions, is what regions are these products sold in? It's available now in the U.S. I believe Europe is available in some retailers, and it's going to be available soon within our own retail channels on nzac.com. And then I'm not too sure about the Asia-Pacific region, but I assume very shortly, if not. Oh, oh there, perfect. Sorry, you're breaking up a little bit.

Yeah. Uh, yeah. The connection's a little inconsistent, but we'll soldier on. We'll soldier on. It's all good. Maybe we should make Wi-Fi router soon. That would be cool. That actually would be pretty cool.

And I have like a little Wi-Fi adapter for NSXE. That's pretty thing. All white, too. All white. Um, I was to say, I heard there's a new Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 7 that was announced yesterday, which is cool. Oh, my God. There's a new one.

I was already getting used to six. I think it's 6E even. There's like within six, there's a sub-division or half iteration. Like USB standards too, like I think on one of Linus's channels, they talked about like, because they're like USB 4.0 Gen 2.

It's like, I think USB 4.0 is they're talking about like how the naming convention is just so, out of control. Go, you know, learn something and go find that video. All right. I guess we'll go into, since that's the question that we had, we guess we'll go into community questions. If you guys have any questions, please leave it to the chat.

I've been kind of grabbing a bunch of questions and putting into the chat, so you guys may have already, I may have already grabbed it. But I guess we'll go into the first one from JX, JX height. What about selling the case without the fans to lower the price? point will that occur anytime soon i think we actually have a perfect answer for that can you say the question again so make sure i understand it have we ever thought about selling a case without the fans to lower the price point i don't believe i mean we in it's been discussed but um like i i don't have any information on that whether we are have or have not made that decision it's going to be kind

of an interesting one. It just depends, but I think as of now, probably not, but I think down the road, maybe we'll decide if there's a lot of community outreach for it. So if you have any opinions, please tag us on socials and then tag us and be like, hey, I have an idea or something like that. We always look at mentions and DMs, so please, if you have any inquiries, send them our way. Yeah, we do genuinely, because I've been in those meetings, listen to community feedback. And it does inform our opinion on going forward. Oh, okay, so we have two questions about the fans and the cable management of it. So, like Belgium, asked, you should make fans without cables per fan.

And then WPNX33 also asked, why are we moving away from Daisy Chained fans as the rest of the world is moving into, or sorry, Why are we moving away for Dacey Chaining when a lot of people are Dacey Chaining? That's a good question. I believe it's, I don't, again, I don't know the full answer to that. I believe it's a cost to make the fans more affordable. It's one of those things where it's hard to make products in adult, like we have to hit certain price points. And it's just one of those things where in the calculus, in order, to make them more affordable,

you have to you know, make tough decisions in order to hit a certain price point. And yeah, I think that was probably the reason why. If I had a guess. There's a lot of

stuff that goes into basically pricing and getting things done with cost. Maybe down the road, as we make more of these, the cost of it will go down, but since these are new products, probably not as of now, but we should be pretty good.

Okay. Oh, and Free 3379 asked, what about the air filters? The air filter? Oh, you mean the dust filtration? Yes. Does any, just, there is dust filtration on the back panel, because the back panel is basically a giant mesh panel. And I believe there's one on top.

Yep, there's one on top and one on bottom. Okay, perfect. Oh, Mr. Matley, actually wanted to give some clarification. I just want to say that Gear Seekers release a video with a rather voice opinion about cable management. I didn't have any such issues. My cable management was very clean, tidy, and we'll care for. As is anything, take your time and do it right. I agree is that almost anything, it's going to be to the user.

I mean, for me, if you see the back of my cases, you don't want to see that. I just kind of shove everything in the back. And if you do care about the cable mention, please just take some more time. on to it. It should still work. And if you have any issues, like, if you physically are having issues with it, send us a DM or send a customer service ticket and then let us know. Chick-Dan, is NCC looking to make any cases without glass panel? Not to my knowledge. No.

I think we, one of our focal points is we like balancing design with function and people you know, like seeing their components. But if obviously, you know, there's a new type of design that calls for no glass panel, or again, if the market dictates that glass panels are not in vogue anymore, that's something, you know, we'll consider.

Gruntled, will the H-9 be available in pre-built at some point? I do not know I think we have to follow up on that sorry some of these questions we want to answer but the thing is we kind of have to give a little bit more of a like a PR answer because we don't want to just promise something

and end up not working so we may just have to kind of give like a little bit of a we'll think about it or we'll check back in down the road because there's some things we just have to kind of keep quiet for a little bit. Yeah. And don't want to give anyone false hope. Or wrong information. Let's see.

When do you suppose you'll have PCI Gen 5 supporting riser cable to buy separately? I think we can answer this one. This one will be, it depends on whenever the market starts getting into Gen 5 specifically. We're going to have to do a little bit more research and product research into that because as of that. I don't think any graphics cards are Gen 5 at the moment. In a hypothetical when Nvidia's next gen, I assume, would be, and AMD's next gen. But it's, I don't, I mean, I'm not aware of any Gen 5 riser cables that are in the market

because there's just no use for them at the moment. But again, when that does arise, we would modify that in order to, support it. Everest Yeti. Does the front glass panel of the H9 elite come off? I believe both they do come off, yes. Yes. Actually, I think they're on the actual product page.

Let me see. Yes, here it goes. Let me see if I can show it out. And it would be on both, not just the elite. Yes. But when building in it, I did not need to take it off at all. Um But obviously if you want to for whatever reason you can

WPNX333 Another question Will NSIC ever consider getting into custom Water Cooling components Um It's one of those things We just have to see If we can do it

The way we would want to do it And if it makes sense for us We would consider it But we don't have any announcements right now I would absolutely love that though that would be so cool we can have like a custom water cooling like you know you can change like the compartment change the tubes change the fluid color that would be such a cool thing but it would also be cool if we made like a crack in z like pump for custom water loops oh that would be cool just for the

just for the CPU oh that would be cool so that people can customize it to anything so they don't have to use like the after crack and they can just have the z like the LCD display basically and then build their own loop Ooh, that would be really cool Or like a graphics bat plate with some L like have you seen that Final Mouse keyboard No I have not

Final Mouse has a keyboard Where it's essentially a crack in Z And the key caps are Translucent So what would be cool Is if we had a backplate for water cooling With something similar where we can have it, like say if we vertical mount it.

And it would be like that keyboard on a GPU backplate. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, so if we could do this for something for like a Cracken for like the CPU, that would be insane. Or the GPU rather. So you can have a Cracken Z for, you know, the CPU block. Then for the GPU block, a custom screen. Ooh, that would be cool.

Actually, I kind of hyping myself up about that. That's actually, I kind of, now I kind of want one right now. That's actually really nice. Yeah. That would be cool. There's so many things that we could do for, like, any, like, there's so many things that we can do just because we have some of the right places. I mean, yeah, like, light Belgium actually says we can make, like, a GPU screen that we can put on. I know, what's the, oh, I forgot the name of it.

What are those screens that people put in the back of their cases? I can't remember. I mean, is it similar to like a Cracken function? Yeah, it's basically just like a flat screen. They put in the back of their cases. I can't remember the exact name of it. But if we could do that just for like almost all around, that would be really cool. There is actually a case made by Eye By Power, which is pretty cool.

The Snowblind. And it kind of essentially does. Oh, like a raspberry pie. monitoring. I've seen those. Raspberry pies are cool. But there's this one case that I Buy Power makes called the Snowblind and it has like a LCD

or like image displaying capabilities on the on the glass. When I was at BlizzCon like God knows when they had a bunch there and it like they had like May doing some ice stuff on the case which was it was pretty

cool. But I just want that localized on a GPU block. Then call it a day. Yeah, actually, S-O-9, X-U-X-A-G-E. I do not know how I'm pronouncing it. Sorry about that. And Light Belgium actually said, what if we put like an OLED panel or they can make an LED tempered glass panel?

That would also be a very interesting thing. I just don't know if that would be feasible just because I wonder how much power it would eat. That's what the snowblind is. Oh. Essentially. Yeah. I mean, that would be cool. That would be very cool, especially on a case like this where it's all glass, at least or half glass on the places that you want glass.

I'm really excited to see the H9 and how many people like customize it. Because we already see a lot of people with like really crazy cases and stuff. like that. But since this is basically a full, like, you can see almost every side of it, especially for an elite, I'm very curious to see what people will do with it. Because, you know, you can just do like a standard PC, but I'm also curious for the people that are... The modders. Yeah, like they mod it up. They do something crazy with one part of it. You know, they change it up. That was... What was cool about when the Cracken Z first came out, because, you know, with that screen was one of the first...

mass market products that could do that. And it was cool seeing it, like, grow in all what, like, people have done with it. And then obviously, at least for me, the peak was with Harry Cavill used it in his build. You know, everyone was freaking out when he built his PC during the lockdowns. But, you know, it's also cool just seeing who uses our products and how they use them. And you're like, oh, that person uses a cracking. That's awesome. Oh, Matt has a...

Mr. Matley. Also for those curious, as you see, did remove a darker tinted glass found out of the black version to H5 and H7. Meaning, if you opt out for the black H9, the glass is only very lightly tinted. Could be excellent news for some, especially those looking for minimal RGB or no RGB. Yeah, exactly. That was a good point. and thank you for bringing that up. Mr. Matt Lee,

we lowered the tint on our case because we realized it was too dark on previous models. So we toned it down a bit. So, well, the reason why it was heavily tinted was because on the H510 elite, it was to hide wires to make it, you know, not look as ugly. Just seeing all these,

like wires flying around. I believe both of the models, the both white and black ones were tinted on the H510 Elite, but we realized it was a bit too much. I personally really love because I used to have an H510 elite.

I loved the tinted RGB look because it's like one of those things, it's like when you see like a dark box and all of a sudden it's illuminated, it just, I just like that effect. And it kind of makes it a less intense light. But, I mean, I do think it was a good move on us to detint it a little.

Yeah. I think for like cases, like for me, like when I built in my H510, since I had darker glass panel as well, when I had it, I did not have parts that looked good. honest like try to be honest like it did not look good so when he had a darker tint it helped a lot to kind of hide all that stuff uh like the really you know mismatching colors of like the motherboard and the graphics card and stuff like that and when you just have like a crack in it looks really good but i think when you have like an h9 you are probably going for like a premium build where you're

going to be making it look as good as possible so you probably don't want to hide away some of those products we kind of want to keep and show those off yeah i think in a lot of the literature we wrote. It's like a showpiece computer. It's like you want, you're not putting this under your desk, even though you shouldn't. But this is a computer that you want to show off and you want to look good. I do want to point out that Mr. Matt Lee also wrote, no RGB equals swag. Come at me. And I, I agree with him. I take offense to that. I, like I said, I've purposely bought Noctua fans to do. G.RGB my life. Why did you pull away from not

RGB? Like did you not like? Because I look. It's it's not because I didn't like the look. It's because I, again, I'm in a unique position where I have to try out all our cases and do a ton of case transfers. And it's just an added step that I, like if you're not moving your PC case all the time, yeah, by all means, because you just have to you know, you just set it once and let it enjoy the lighting effects. But I've had like six cases while working here. So it just was one less step.

That's why like air cooling is a lot easier to build and maintain than water cooling when you live the upgrade or life. Because there's just less cables you have to manage. I will agree. But I prefer water cooling. But I like my air cooling. No, yeah. I like water cooling. But when I installed an air cooler, it was a lot easier.

And it's like, oh, I'm done. I don't have to like do three more cable runs. But again, I prefer water cooling because I think it looks better. That's actually a question that I was going to ask soon was, Do you prefer, like, this is going to be a thing I was going to post on social about, like, water versus air cooling. And, you know, both of them are pretty much the same in general. At least, you know, I think air cooling is slightly better in some aspects of it, but it also depends on the case. It depends on, it depends on what your needs are and your budget.

Like, air cooling is easier to set up. It basically lasts as long as the fan. you know, it's less failure points, but water cooling, I believe, gives better performance. And you don't have like a radiator sticking out. You can do things like the Krakken Z. Yeah. In some instances, you have to water cool.

Like in the H1, you can't do an air cooler in that. I'm pitting Weapon X's. comment of RGB equals more FPS and swag it's common knowledge I'm pinning that you have the pin

of facts correct I I like I wish I I love the graphics card that I have but I like

I wish I could just pull the RGB away from it I get it but also it's very like you can barely notice it but still it's just like

I just want I want to look inside my PC, but I don't want the bling anymore. Let me show you. I guess we'll finish this off as the last one since I can answer this real quickly. Mike Kim, what's your PC components? I actually got, luckily,

my work sent me an amazing PC to work on. So thank you, by the way, for everyone that's helped me. Loran, Ivan, probably all this stuff. I have an I-9-3-900K. I have an Nvidia 4090, motherboard. Oh, wow. Yeah, I got a whole brand new setup

because when I was doing the Marvel Spider-Man stream, for those some of you are here, I barely could run at like 720P with everything going on. And that was in a way to showcase a new game when I'm trying to, you know, show off this. So I had to be like, hey, I need

something else and everyone pulled some strings and got me this amazing PC. I actually pulled my specs real quick. Yeah, I got like 64 giga plus RAM of a N7s, Z-60-40-90, $1,300K, $1,000 power supply. Like, I, it's amazing, and I'm so grateful for them. Oh, H5 Flow, obviously, is a new flow that came out. When are we going to get a full setup tour?

Oh, man, that's the thing, though. I have, I consider myself I have a pretty decent setup, but my desk is incredibly messy, and it's like one of those things are, was it? Same here. Yeah. I I I you would y'all be horrified if you'd looked at my desk right now like and I have yeah I just know yeah I tour never I want to have those really cool aesthetic videos like you ever see those like on Instagram where just like you know someone's like sitting down putting a cup of coffee they have like a

nice backlit LEDs and everything like that but oh my gosh it's almost like ASMR art our A.m R our A. where they just like, like you say, pour the coffee. There's some like lofi chill beat in the background. And they have like this really fancy keyboard

and they're just typing like pro and you know it's like it's very cloudlike. A lot of like a lot of aesthetics I see with these types of videos are like they have like a bunch of cloudy. I don't know it's kind of a weird

descriptor but like like cloud based setups. I don't know. They're all over TikTok. Yeah, it's all, because like, the thing that was like, I definitely would love to have that aesthetic, but for me, I'm like a functional person.

So as long as it works, sometimes I just need to put this in this place and I remember where it is. Like, my desk is a cluttered mess. I'm going to need to do cleaning sometime soon, but that, that will be down to the road. Yeah, my desk, I have. Magic cards all over, games all over. Obviously, my computer, my PS5. It's just a mess.

All my headsets that I just accrued through the years. Cats on top of, like Belgium, cats on top of the case provide water cooling, as well as, which at least a higher FPS as well. There is, one of our partners, Headshot Chick, check, has an, hilarious video of Loki, her cat, just completely falling all the time. So let me see if I can pull up

the video because everyone should watch this video as well. Here it is. Stream cat fails. Everyone go watch this video over quick whenever you have a chance because cats on top of PCs are my favorite things, but also the most terrifying thing in the world. I feel that.

well it's also like a warmth i assume they just like it's the fan feels nice and it gets to sit and tie up you know it's literally a perfect cat tree yeah we should make a cat tree that like filters hot air from a pc puts it onto like a cat tree you know i think actually linus did a similar video but he used his pc to heat his pool oh my god because he has like a cert like an intense server room and like he basically is siphoning off the heat from his surfer room to to warm his pool which is a brilliant use of um you know energy like because you know you're not double dipping so to speak and i think he's using solar too so like oh my god she is oh my god here i think there's an nzxte ad in that video actually so yeah so all this from solar to the pump to the pool the radio to servers all going to the pool oh my god yeah

I think he's probably the only one in the universe who does this but that's like the most the most lightness thing you could you could do like with your computer I've seen some people what they do is they have like a vent

that goes from the top of their piece here of exhaust fans and it brings to like a like a little blanket like a snuggy i've seen that before that's hilarious and i'm like that's so funny it's always funny because like my room gets a lot of heat because i have a you know a giant computer and the sun in the morning so right now um just beats down on my room but like i'm used to the heat in my room and especially during the winter it's It's nice. But when my, like, anyone in my family comes into my room is just like, why is it so hot in here? And I'm like, is it?

Like, it seems normal to me. But that's one reason why I work on my laptop versus my giant computer. Because it's not, it doesn't heat up my room as much. I think we'll go ahead and call there. Do you have any announcements? Any shoutouts before I get to the announcements? Andy? No, I think I'm good.

Just get better, Ivan. You know, just rest, ignore us for the whole weekend. Yes, please. And, you know, enjoy Martin Luther King Day, which is going to be here in the U.S. on Monday. We have a very special announcement on Monday as well. I can kind of say it now is that we are having, we at NXT are making Martin Luther King Day a paid holiday

for employees to kind of reflect on, you know, the actual atrocities of what happened during the civil rights movement, but also to learn and be better ourselves. So that's an awesome announcement that we're going to be doing on Monday. So we will not be in the office on Monday, but please, if you have any questions or anything, well, me and Ivan are always on social, so you have any questions or anything like that. Just keep DMing us. I guess we'll go into the announcements real quick. And then for those that are still here, please stay tuned in a little bit after I get down those balances. I have a very special thing for everyone for being a podcast listener. So first, like we said, we have the H9, the flow delete, the RGB duo fans, and the C-1200 on

our website at nccc.com. Basically, for the commands in the chat, you can see the exclamation points in the title, but go to ncc.com and you should be all good and check out those products. As you saw, we just released a bunch of new cases and stuff, like new cases, coolers. We have air coolers now, monitors, keyboard, mice, everything. Go ahead, check out at nzix.com. We're releasing more stuff every time we will. And we listen to the community. Anytime that you guys have a thing of like, hey, I want this, I want that.

Send us a DM or a mention. We always take note of it. and for us to send it over to our product team. So please let us know if you guys want something. Oh, we also have some amazing handcrafted limited edition Rainbow Six key caps. There's one of a drone and one of a nitro cell as a big avid R6 fan that's been there since the day that was launched. Please check it out at nzac.com or estimation point R6 in the chat. They are super cool.

They're all handcrafted. Like every single one is by hand. Super awesome. And they're limited run. They're limited run too. Exactly. Limited run. So check it out.

Take a look at them. There's different colors and different types of it. So just take a look into them. All handcrafted limited edition. Yeah. They're pretty sick. Yeah. As someone that's been an R6 fans since before they released.

And I think when Hibona and Echo came out, that was like the first DLC character that I remember. Oh, it was Frost and Buck? I can't remember which one was the first one. I have been in the game very minimally. There was like a hot second where I was playing it a lot, but I haven't picked it up in a couple of years. But I love the game.

Yes, Operation Black Ice, which was the buck and frost era. I was there when the first thing came out, and now there's like so many operators out, and I'm like, I can't even keep up at this point. So I've been there since the era, and I will have to say these are awesome. Like these are so good. I saw them in pictures too and stuff like that.

And like if someone showed me a video of it, super cool. I saw the packaging while at work the other day in our warehouse. I mean, obviously they're tiny, and I didn't get to open them because obviously they're not for me. But yeah, they're pretty sick. NCC laptop bags and laptops. I will send out over to product team. I've always wanted an NCC laptop because, like, right now I just have, like, a Mac that's just old.

And I, you know, whenever I need to do work, I have to be on this desk because, like, my Mac cannot do that. I would love an NCC laptop so badly. That would be dope. Okay. So, this is what a lot of people have been waiting for. So thank you for 232 beers. Actually, this is one of the most viewers we've had in a long time. So thank you for joining us on this podcast.

So, for as a thank you for joining this podcast, we have a very special surprise for the podcast listeners. So most of, so for most people here, uh, we usually do like a swag giveaway. Like we do a hoodie, a shirt or a like a stickers of lanyards. You know, it's just something simple. Um, this one we're doing a very special giveaway. Uh, today later, we will be announcing a H9 giveaway. So you guys are the first one to hear about it.

We'll be giving an H9 of your choice, either delete or the flow and whichever cover you want. So we are being a very special way of way, but for the podcast listeners, since you guys are, don't tell anyone, but you guys are our favorites, we will be giving you guys a small code. So I'm going to go ahead and first post the link in the chat right now. It is, and for those that are listening, it is nzxc.com slash h9 giveaway. I'm posting the link in a chat right now. Go ahead and click on it.

There's a very special code there. It is a secret entry. Only podcast listeners get this. So you guys, because we love you so much, and as I thank you, we're going to give you the code. It gives you a thousand extra entries. I think the highest,

like the average entries is like 10, and then like some of them like 50 to like, I think like the highest one is like 500. You guys, because you guys are podcast listeners and how much we love you, we are giving you a code that gives you a thousand. This is just a thank you for everything. So let me go ahead, go ahead,

and take a look at that link. And let me grab the code. Let me just make sure. We actually changed the code earlier. So let me just make sure that it is good. Yep, okay, cool. The code for the secret entry, as a thank you for the podcast listeners,

is Aquarium. The code for the secret entries is Aquarium, because this thing basically looks like a crazy fish aquarium, and it's amazing. So the code is, Aquarium, A-Q-U-A-R-I-U-M. That is for a thousand extra entries. You guys are also the first ones to get into the giveaway as well

so that you guys kind of, you guys are a little bit of our special viewers. So thank you for joining us on this podcast. Thank you for joining us. Oh, oh, actually, let me just double check real quick because I think you may need to refresh. Well, let me just double check. It was not working on.

Hold on out real quick. Let me get it. I think it because I accidentally refreshed the page before I click enter. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. Hold on. Let me go ahead and do this real quick. Update it. That was a good call out.

Good call. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I changed it before. Now refresh. Refresh the page. Try it now. This should work.

This one should work now. We cracked the code. There you go. Thank you guys. I was making sure that it was... There you go, there go. It was working. Okay.

Thank you for calling that out. I completely forgot I had to refresh the page beforehand. man. H9 is nccc.com slash H9 giveaway, no caps. Code is Aquarium as a thank you for joining us on this NCC podcast. We love you guys. Thank you so much. And if you guys have any questions or anything like that, please DM us or tag us on all social media platforms.

We'll go ahead and go to the outro real quick. Thank you guys for joining us. Remember, tune in live every now Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official NCC Twitch. And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Pocket. Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Please leave us a positive review if you like what you hear, or even if you didn't. Got any questions for us?

Send an email to podcast at n66.com and tag at NZC on all social media platforms. Last call, nzxc.com slash h9 giveaway for an H9 of your choice. NZC.com slash H9 giveaway. Code is a query of as a thank you. And that is it. I'll see you guys next time. Thank you, Andy, for joining us today. And Ivan, please get better.

Goodbye, everyone. Bye. Thanks for having me.