10 years ago Silverstone announced a case that was unlike anything we'd ever seen before and is unlike anything we've seen since designed in collaboration with Charles Harwood the creator of Murderbox the Xformer MBX Mark II was meant to be the ultimate marriage of timeless aesthetics and uncompromising performance the perfect case there was only one small problem at a price of $1,250 plus accessories it was out of reach for most mere mortals so even though Silverstone only ever made $250 of these so many of them remain unsold that Silverstone offered me a deal I couldn't refuse they would send me all the cases and in exchange they wouldn't have to be the ones to store them anymore i mean there can't be that many of them can there yes there can be oh lordy let's have a look at what they sent us shall we and let's have a look at this message from our sponsor looking to sell your old GPU don't take it to this guy ah a fascinating artifact you know it appears to be circa early 21st century you know this reminds me of another piece from take it to Jawa and get an instant quote for trading in your old graphics card simple excuse me it's probably worth noting that while I respect Charles's work as an artist and do think the case is incredibly cool I didn't actually want three pallets of them you shouldn't have asked for it then well it was less that I asked for them and more that if I didn't take them they were headed to the scrapper which I felt was not cool and I know that Tony from Silverstone who was the one who reached out to try to save these feels much the same way see the MDX Mark II is not an entirely groundup design it's actually based on an older Silverstone case the TJ07 which was gifted to me by my then girlfriend now wife and I used for my daily driver for many years it also happened to be a passion project of Tony's when he was a young project designer oh man look at how much dust is on this thing this has been in the warehouse for a very long time um this one was apparently for Joe so is this one so is this one dude you think that's the worst of it what color do you think this X is supposed to be woah probably closer to that red and I'm pretty sure some of these are scuffed on the inside too replace all screws damaged from flood how many of these do we have i mean they only made 250 how much of the total production do we have here we might actually have like a significant percentage like let's see there's nine per pallet no no let's count them we'll count them we'll make a pile let's make a pile okay okay so here's the sitch we've got 27 total boxes for cases but two of them are labeled side panel only and then we have five boxes of accessories these could include any number of things ranging from the case basically doesn't really function without it all the way to wow that is the most superfluous that I've ever seen most of the case boxes 23 of them specifically have similar markings something about being for Joe and needing a VV panel with a red tag those we piled up here the ones we're more interested in are these flood damage sample case side panel only and okay this one's also for Joe but it has a smiley face two of them actually what's the deal with that first up then this is for you Joe my case finally arrived i've been waiting a decade it's been 83 years one tricky thing about the TJ07 and its derivatives is because it uses a unibody design for the top front and bottom it's actually bent rather than being welded or riveted or stamped or anything cheap like that it's really heavy would that have also contributed to the high cost then absolutely even without the modifications that Charles made all of which made it far more expensive the TJ7 was a $300 to $400 case back in the mid200s oh it stinks does it oh oh wow yeah that's It smells like vinegar check this out have you ever seen one of these not in person we had one kicking around the office for a long time and Charles actually did a build in it for us personally but it got quite outdated for a showcase PC so to give it a chance at a new life we gave it away at the Christmas party and Colton won it this is it holy cow that's cool it's still beautiful wow the goal was timeless design and Charles and Silverstone nailed it wow the original case was full of 5 and a/4 inch bays in the front charles was extremely forward thinking and saw that 5 and a/4 in was going the way of the dodo replacing all those bays with this incredible looking machined light slit that's not to say he didn't want you to have the option for an optical drive this slit right here is that actually accommodates a slim optical drive loaded in through the top all right that's kind of cool even if it is dated tech it's kind of cool another ahead of his time touch is that because Charles's philosophy was that cable management meant making your cables beautiful rather than hiding them he actually had windows on multiple sides of the machine one on the front oh wow and one on the back of the motherboard tray i didn't even see that one at first this was meant to show off individually sleeved cables something that Charles was one of the key drivers of back when that first hit the scene oh that's cool got a lot of history behind this little guy it's a very cool case i mean even just this like one continuous like cut with a little bit of slits in it it look it just looks so stylish yeah too bad it was a nightmare to manufacture but these were Charles touches the original case had a couple of small exhaust fans here and actually accommodated dual power supplies which Oh that's cool is a cool feature but not really a necessary feature yeah Charles's impossible standards are both the reason that the case is so incredible and also the reason that it was probably always destined to fail that's so sad you can't build a super high-end boutique product in a commodity industry sure or rather you can but it's really hard to find commercial success with it why do you think every case is stamped sheet steel cuz it's cheap and then people will buy it because it's cheaper even just this piece is like got weight to it is this what goes at the front there oh it totally does that was a very satisfying click okay so that's what for Joe looks like why don't we put Joe aside and have a look at a couple of the other interesting ones what are you feeling next the sample one because if that was the production unit I want to know what a sample looks like sure this one has both side panels so that's something oh interesting oh and it's got stuff in it yep there we go oh comes off like that there we go okay dude these are in great shape so far yeah they look fantastic my understanding is that some of them are here because they didn't meet Charles's standards and he determined they couldn't be sold so maybe that's what for Joe meant like Joe had to like inspect them or look at them or something we need to find out who Joe is the great Joe mystery this is a diffusion layer with a gradient on one side the idea was that I think it goes behind these guys right here to give the lighting kind of like a diffuse look oh that's kind of cool kind of cool that's really cool one thing I'm noticing as well is you mentioned the stamp sheet metal before it looks like this whole case can just like come apart because of all the screws and everything was like each its own sheet everywhere screws no rivets oh that's so cool the model number is SST- CPF04 i give you three guesses what it is uh it is a bracket to hold your GPU it's a repurposed box full of a whole bunch of other random stuff oh oh we have number 169 we have a label for 169 let's go i'm confused mhm mhm mhm neat like what is it not sure okay oh I'm even more Oh wait no this is like a fan so you can power your GPU off your fan headers no I think it's it's got to be for one of the accessories okay okay i'm so confused and the last baggie here which has two standoffs and this ah yes this do you know what it's for no okay but I know what this is for this is for slimline optical drives oh okay so you could use the front one here yes cool oh we missed something oh did we this has a quad radiator mount in the bottom and a giant fan filter ah so you could put a quad radiator down here i actually modded my TJ7 to fit a quad radiator in the bottom but seeing all those accessories honestly uh raises more questions than we had before dude I don't even know if we have enough of the accessories to build systems in them yet yeah that's actually very true what were all those cables and why did we need them if we need them for all of I Okay let's just Okay take a step back you know what I'm feeling next Elijah side panel only that looks heavier than the other boxes no you I'm I'm just hamming it up go for it okay my back oh my lord whoa i see some color okay well that's not a side panel holy crap we have a lot of radiator mounts what a weird way for it to ship with just the one side panel and then the other side panel which you definitely totally need be like this maybe that's just how Silverstone shipped it to us but this wouldn't exist if that hadn't been part of the idea behind it but like this is so jankily made there's no way it shipped to you like this well no it actually does kind of make sense because the way that you bought this case was through a configurator there was no just the case i see okay yeah you had to go through a whole almost PC builder level process to determine what all the options you had were so there might be other side panels that I forget about that were not this so that's why they're not in there i see that makes more sense then and for a low volume thing you'd be surprised how janky stuff can be is that all that's left in there the only one I noticed is this one's white oh but I think the rest of them are just the exact same nope nope what's that say loose grill okay maybe it means it didn't pass QC m oh my god this failed over this gap that's insane dude tesla Tesla' be like "Send it." Logo plates 10 pieces let's go this is the flood damaged one that's right it was there when the Master Chief was defeated it looks totally fine huh little water mark there oh and it's off what else is Is anything wrong with this okay you know what there is some corrosion this one just flooded i think this thing got hit with like salt water check out some of this corrosion it's good enough for our customers tell you that much what customers i don't know maybe we'll build systems ooh that'd be pretty cool maybe we can like auction them or something and make some premium systems for some people see what happens i don't know i don't know i'm thinking i'm I'm cooking let's each pick an accessory box and we'll let the audience vote for who picked the coolest one i want the small one well someone was bound to want the small one i want the heavy one oh yeah what are these is this just a bag oh no no it's literally just a box of these there's hundreds of them i on the other hand have what appears to be the entire shipment supply of those random brackets that we found earlier i have one you got one i got some cable management clips okay all right that's something oh oh those those are the front grills oh my god this is an accessory box oh sure this is what would go with each case then good good now things get even more interesting cuz I have sub boxes look at all of these O-rings what would they be for like reservoirs yeah buddy they did a custom resz for this case okay what else we got is this more these are bottoms oh yeah you'd be able to really beat me to it damn it wa SATA back plane would this go in like the 5 and 1/4 in bay area yes are these not in the cases do the hard drive bays of any of those even work hey I answered your question uh this is what those random fan headers and four pins are for cool so they're doing What the What the crap is all this look at all these three pin fan headers so this is like a janky old school fan hub and then even more SATA ports is that that yeah no these are the input and then there's your optical and your three hard drives that's Wow i kind of speechless cuz I I didn't expect it to look like that i see one in here wait no this is this is a different one it's like a mini version oh that's PCB 1 you compensating this is one man's something and one man's something else but am I the guy who got the trash or the treasure well it's cool the value of these it might be treasure is it though the last one apparently sold in April of this year for $2,200 on eBay what so like if we actually have as complete of a system as that one was we have like 40 grand of cases extra hard drive cage something oh that's the fan grill for the top there was an alternate one oh I see so these weren't installed in all of them there was a way cooler one i don't know if we're going to have any here though here's a new cable just little tiny three pin fan extension male to mail sure what have you got this ah yes a okay here comes another accessories box ah yes more SATA cables uh uh uh you ain't seen nothing yet oh my these are all the slimline ones for optical drives oh my dude you can tell these weren't a hot seller no they had to make so many cuz they sold so many what do you got what do you got oh this is what was like a a checklist of what was included in the accessory box oh excellent we are not going to have a lot of this stuff like this acrylic light block that's supposed to be in the included accessories we got one of those the Duratrans media strip we got two at least it'll help us maybe complete some of the other boxes or shift it around wow it came with a lot of cables well yeah oh these are like LEDs yeah no no they're not like LEDs those are LEDs oh and then here's your all of your like shrink wrap I think 382 someone counted these not good use of time should we get someone to count that to verify no okay grommets jeez grommet oh okay cable management majigs even more oh oh we got more oh buddy we got different colors we got different colors okay okay that's cool okay we're back in business we can sell these now because I don't know what to do with them to be honest with you oh there's the acrylic pieces there's all our acrylic pieces we're back in business the only question that remains then is what do we do with them pitch one we start a boutique system builder that sells only to people named Joe we might be able to sell one i mean there's a Joe who works here he needs a PC is there float plane support Joe oh I was going to ask Joe who what about option two maybe we make some of these the whale PCs for our whale land event assuming Whale Land is able to go forward still pending some details that's not bad we could save at least a couple specimens for our next charity stream just an idea they might take forever to build in though that's kind of my concern oh we can do it our last stream was like 8 hours we've got nothing but all day or maybe we just need help from you guys yeah let 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