I Bought a Gaming PC from EPSON - Epson Endeavor Pro 9050a
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Epson, that company that makes printers and scanners and projectors and GAMING PCS? Well, they might not in America, but over in Japan, Epson is a jack-of-all-trades company with tons of offerings. What does a Japanese Epson Gaming PC have in it? What sets it apart from the others? Is there even a market for an Epson PC?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:28 Peripherals
1:56 The Chassis is a Classic
2:54 Optical drive? Why?
4:19 Rear and getting inside
5:46 GPU bracket
7:36 Motherboard is rebranded?
10:59 Securing the GPU
11:31 Close it up n Boot it up
12:29 Hotswap Bay
12:54 Booting up for real this time
15:18 Conclusions
I really love the sponsor reference from Japanese tv shows. Really spot on.
i kinda wanna know which ltt employee read that
Thought I was watching an anime! 😂
I needed to stop and head to comments, I am still laughing hahaha. really spot on reference. Thanks for the laugh
Maidenless
I think I need a Dennis sponsor but in Japanese now😂
I am Japanese. I was one of the handful of my people to become a PC gamer back in the early 90s. The hardware and software was very hard to come by. I vividly remember, while our every electronic store was advertising DVD using PS2, I was asking around for Sound Blaster Card. I also remember smuggling Half Life 2 close to launch. I may have been the few or if not, the 1st Japanese to create Steam Account. And now, I see that my people are catching up. And all I can say is, never late than never. Btw, we pronounce Geo (Gay-O). I'm serious.
I think you mean better late than never😅, but that's great to hear it's finally catching on there, more, and more. Living in a more rural part of the southeastern US all my life, my experience was more like yours in the 90's where a fair chunk of my friends where console only gamers, and outside of school use computer ownership was more scarce till even the mid 00's than a lot of places, but I grew up with my family having owned computers since I was 2 in the early 80's, and I was even working my butt off after school at my first job to build a gaming PC, and trying to get parts for good prices like Sound Blaster cards, so I was the tech geek in my town. 😅
@H Koizumi I know. Ne-yo G@y-yo (Neo Geo)
dude, sell these in the USA. I'd buy one just like a bought a honda over a chevy
im also surprised with how many artist, manga author, or actors turn out or become a pc gamer recently in japan. at least from what I've seen
Gay means happy
who edited this video because they need a raise right now
If they sold the case here I would absolutely turn it into a home server, it's giving me a heavy dose of nostalgia 😁
ikr? There are so few good (especially cheap!) case options for home servers nowadays it's almost criminal. I just want a simple case that i can dunk a whole lot of HDDs or SSDs into, put some adequate internals behind them and have a place to store all my data on that way. This case would quite fit the bill for that!
buy beige case cheap shut mouth zoomer
For some reason this tower give me ThinkServer vibes.
Not gonna lie, would seriously consider this case as an upgrade if it was available as a stand alone part. I love the retroness of it as well as the front hot swap HDDs as it could double up as a backup for my home NAS. I still have and watch DVDs and use the optical drive in my PC because I don’t want a TV and a PC in my bedroom. Also, that GPU bracket is essential in this day and age.
100% would be awesome for a NAS
The case looks amazing
How the world does someone add a dvd drive to their pc?
@@kiri3639 external
@@kiri3639 even better, add a blueray drive. Just like any other drive, they have power and sata connectors. You just need a case with an optical drive bay like Phanateks enthoo pro M
I really like that case tbh. I wish more companies would make cases like that these days
I have a lot of good old cases like this whole room full.
What even is air flow? Certainly not this case. How to roast modern hardware 101. i commented before i finished the video folks, the thermals arent terrible. its still not a good case though. sound aesthetics and space matter too. i would prefer my game to be louder than my case fans thanks
I totally want a case like that. rig up my own preferred hardware though (Gigabyte Intel Board, Samsung SSD's)
@@antanis They give you the performance chart, it's fine, much better than many of the modern case from Dell or HP
that case can survive an earthquake lol
I've been living in Japan for nearly 8 years now and I'm always amazed when I spot a brand that I know back in the states for something specific, but they seem to do 90 different things in Japan. EPSON's watches are far from the craziest. Yahoo! is a popular mobile carrier out here. And about a quarter of my students walk around with Konami backpacks because the thing most Japanese people know them for are their "fitness clubs" (gyms).
What are you working there? I wanna go back, i speak the language (N2) but don't know what i could do there professionally.
yahoo like the browser!? wow lol
I wasn't too surprised to hear about the watches - I mean they have some kind of close relationship with Seiko (as seen by references to "Seiko-Epson" in their printer drivers)
they suck so bad rofl
@@cyberking158 I'm an English teacher at N3, but most teachers here don't know much outside of simple greetings and reading katakana. N2 will get you some office jobs, but most prefer to hire N1 if they're going to bother with the visa process just because they can afford to be picky. But also, the JLPT scores will get you as far as an interview. But without having actual experience living in Japan, it might not be all you think it is. About half of newcomers only last a year before they go back to their home country. Those of us who have been here long term mostly consist of people who REALLY don't like their families, married someone Japanese, or turbo-weebs. A lot of companies will stay barely above the law with its foreigner employees and treat you as close to dirt and they can.
That's actually a good looking case. Dell and MSI cases could learn a thing or two about simplicity and rigidity on their cases.
My Dell Precision T3500 is also built like a tank. I currenly am browsing the chasis available on the market and I can allready tell I am gonna miss how solid it is. Not to mention 3.5 inch bay that Ive installed a card reader in.
Yeah I quite like the way it looks vs the most common cases that are popular nowadays
it just a case my guy. u ain't gone see how it will be holding up when u drop from the second floor...
it looks like an old case, like the first pc i bought with my own money had a similar case.
As someone who lives in Japan your intro made me laugh. I also live right next door to a Geo and can confirm, it's always got customers morning to night. Besides DVD and manga rentals, Geo also sells snacks, console/handheld games, and second-hand electronics too. Plus, their parking lot has an ice cream vending machine
its a reference to bill wurtz if im not mistaken
don't mind me just doing tachiyomi at geo/tsutaya instead of buying at bookwalker lol
Ice cream vending machine? I need one of those
@@dansdailyblogchannel8055 : You'll find them at basically every train station in Japan.
@@sherr6847 Thought I was the only one who noticed that good to meet another person of culture ;)
I love the fact that they use different colors of the case to indicate on which CPU team you are. Fascinating.
Absolutely how PC wars should be everywhere!!!
@@prysma2057 bonus points if the case has swappable parts or red/blue lighting in case you swap teams.
@@ashtonhoward5582never swap teams
@@RusticRonnie then you can be a spy instead. They'd never know.
I love sturdy and functional cases like this one. I'd need a tad more airflow to use it for anything modern, but as a NAS case or similar, these old style cases are sick!
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If they sold this case individually I'd absolutely buy it. I much prefer this kind of look and feel to the tempered glass gamer-cases you get at the moment. I don't care about RGB or LEDs, I don't need a transparent side panel. Handles are very useful. GPU support brackets would be INSANE to have. This case, with a bit more airflow would be a very quick purchase for me.
Just poke holes in it.
Totally agree, GPU suppport is a must have imo.
Oh my god, the Bill Wurtz reference is just ON POINT! Cheers to the writing team! 🎉
What did I miss? Seems like everyone is doing it.
Timestamp please
Brown nosing comment of the year
@@chetanvmalhotra it's the intro, first 10 seconds. Linus saying "beautiful" and the way it's edited is a reference to bill's video about the history of japan
@@nexsin4681 0:02 its a reference to history of japan by bill wurtz
Watching this from Japan gave me whiplash because my college is fully kitted out with EPSON desktops. Had no idea they basically don’t exist outside Japan anymore
Japan is doing their best to keep the local companies afloat
They actually exist outside of Japan just not as prominent in the west there are still plenty of Epson stores here in the Philippines and they also have an e-store in our biggest online market platforms
@Zaydan Alfariz yeah they still have those but their prebuilts in my country is more of the "modern style" with aesthetics and case. I wish we got more of the classic types like we get in the video
It's the same with other brands as well. I knew Seiko as a premium watches brand but when I saw a Japanese or Taiwanese series, there was a Seiko wall clock in one of the scenes.
we still have Epson Printer here in Indonesia
1:08 absolutely lost it tbh😂
man the approach to this case is really neat. I'd definitely trade some of the gamery stuff and pay more to have some of the QoL and rigidity features of this case.
Kinda digging the case design. Im a huge sucker for the top handles and sturdy case design. The hotswap bay and video card support built in are also extremely cool. Would love to have more cases like that to choose from
That case is lovely, tbh I would pay for such a tanky sturdy case.
I kind of love the whole thing. PITA to build in, and, you know, airflow, but I'd sacrifice a lot for that bank of hot swap drive bays.
It looks like a cross between a modern gaming PC and a 90s Compaq case
I have a Antec case from 2004 I got for $10 at a thrift store that’s been my main PC case for years and is more or less setup similarly to the case in the video, clip in back fan mount and all. One of the great things about having a standard like ATX is that you can absolutely go get old cases and still use them.
Came here to say the same. I love how secure the GPU is. Could jiggle the case by the damn GPU.
I've been living in Japan for 17+ years. Epson is still a really big supplier, particularly for local and traditional Japanese companies. You often see them in warehouses, banks, and hospitals/clinics. Its not really the spec so much that attracts buyers, it's the quietness, readily available stock, and "Japan-based" support. (Fujitsu is also another manufacturer who sells in the same space.) No real gamers in Japan buy Epson for gaming. They either build their own, or buy pre-built ones from local companies (like from Mouse Computers). I've never seen anyone say "I'm going to Akiba to get and buy an Epson".😂
What are you doing in Japan? I wanna go back but don't know what i could do there professionally. I can speak the language so there is no problem when it comes to that
Aren't mouse computers the ones who got really famous from that dance ad?
@@cyberking158 I work in IT (infrastructure). Lots of jobs available in the major cities in Japan, particularly if you speak Japanese to at least a business level.
@@saishowaguu2 too bad i suck at programming, thanks for the information tho
But what about the technical job there?
While I know there's a ton of stuff that the Japanese companies make in Japan purely for their own market, I had no idea Epson was still making PCs. That machine looks to have absolutely amazing build quality for something from the 2020's. Would be seriously interested in buying one of those cases if they or whoever makes them sold just the cases without any parts.
After living in japan for 2 years and being in multiple barracks rooms, I can definitely say you can have a desktop and an entertainment center at the same time
U can also put a horse in the house but it's not practical 😞
The military makes us creative with cramped spaces. Also tyfys 😉
Fun fact, Mitsumi also made some great vintage mechanical (and even nonmechanical) keyswitches
Not the miniature mechanical switches model they are horrible 🤣
@@alpzepta indeed. But the mitsumi standard mechanical "KAM" switches in the apple m0110a are fantastic as are their KKR KPQ and other varient hybrid switches.
@@alpzepta Some people swear by them, when lubed.
I think my first cd- ROM drive was mitsumi. Connected to Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 soundcard.
and OG optical drives
That EPSON case is so calming. It's retro and modern at same time.
This is a REALLY cool piece of in-depth reporting on a comparatively unknown topic. Well done!
The moment you mentioned Mitsumi I had flashbacks to the time my friend and I took apart our Gamecube controllers to clean them. Saw their branding all over the boards inside those things.
I live in Japan. Great job in explaining why this type of PC still exists. Japanese also have a high preference for domestically made products, hence the effort that was made to put the ‘Epson’ branding on the board. Well done video.
also Japanese are notorious on Brand Loyalty so if it's not branded they wont even touch a thing
@@yasunakaikumi That makes sense but hopefully it's always loyalty to a good brand!
@@yasunakaikumi The Japanese are notorious for knowing nothing about tech, which is why there are suckers paying $2000 for a tower with a 1030 and a floppy disk drive.
@harfgarflarf these towers are aimed primarily at older people, hence the optical drive and 3.5" slot if you need a floppy drive.
@@harfgarflarf UMM they know A LOT about tech; they live in the most advanced nation in the world; so stop it troll
Actually discs (mostly DVDs) still get a ton of use in Canada through libraries! We still get the latest releases and it's so helpful for people who can't afford streaming services or don't have internet at home which is not uncommon in rural and low-income communities.
Underrated comment!
The libraries in my city also stock new releases of video games, it's basically the only way to borrow/rent games anymore here.
USB storage: exists (regardless of internet and optical disks)
yea so current media needs to go back to the year 2005 and die where it belongs :P
@@gaweyn Ah, yes. Let's just convince all the media conglomerates to rerelease all their IP on non-rewritable, heavily DRM'd custom USB storage devices for use by public libraries. I can't anticipate any reason whatsoever for them to not want to do that. It's not like corporations are evil money-grubbing wankers who throw a temper tantrum about their profits at the drop of any hat anywhere. /s @ajhb17 Same thing here in Murica! My mom works at a library, and DVDs are their most popular items. We only have a Netflix subscription and no cable, so we pull DVDs pretty frequently ourselves. Also, I just like having physical copies of things around. My box sets won't up and vanish one day just because someone didn't feel like renewing their contract with [insert streaming service]. And our collection of random kids' movies paid for itself the first time the Internet went out while my nieces were here. DVDs are _great._
I really dig that case, would go nicely with my Sony E530 CRT, which I use as my main gaming display, OLED is still a ways of the IQ and performance of a top draw CRT monitor when it comes to gaming, especially when it comes to lag and motion clarity, and BFI is not the same thing as raster scan zero latency, in fact it adds a whole frame of lag (20ms).
I love it. Sorta reminds me older workstations, where price was a secondary thing, after reliability and durability.
Fun fact: SEIKO is a branch of Epson. Hence, SEIKO Epson Corporation They also use the same technology that their watches use (the piezoelectric crystal) in their heat-free "PrecisionCore" print heads as opposed to using a resistive heating element in each jet of the head.
Not quite, SEIKO is a completely independent company from Seiko Epson. Epson started out as a movement and watch manufacturer for Seiko (under the name Suwa Seikosha), and to this day makes movements and watches for Seiko and Grand Seiko, but they are completely independent entities. Orient Watches on the other hand is a subsidiary of Epson.
FURRY PROTOGEN UwU
Thank you... I was going to say... Uh Seiko-epson is one of the biggest watch companies in earth.....
@@OmairArif yeahhhh. Except my Seiko Solar watch was manufactured and warrantied through Seiko-epson... Ownership of the brand nonwithstanding
@@OmairArif as someone who worked for Epson I would like to correct you here. Epson own part of seiko.
I also appreciate the genuine hard drive activity light on the front of the computer. I feel like a lot of OEMs are going away from those and it is a real tragedy for someone trying to figure out if their computer has locked up or not.
Those HDD activity lights are just annoying for everyone having their PC in their bedroom.
@@Jehty21 It should only be on when you're using it and I think the monitor will be a lot brighter than the hard drive activity LED then. If it's really annoying you can always just put a piece of tape over it. It's one of those things that when you need it it's really annoying not to have it.
Given how fast and how many operations SSD's do I'd imagine it'd just be a solid light most of the time if they still had them lol.
@@DoRC my PC only runs while it's doing some form of work. Downloading stuff, rendering stuff, etc. All while it's doing that the light flashes. All of that doesn't need the screen to be turned on.
@@TalesOfWar most custom build cases still have them and the light is not solid it still blinks with even fast NVME SSDs.
While not the best internals I would no joke love a case like that as a stand alone. The hot swap front hard drive bay drawer, expansion card support post and overall rigidity of it is something that's hard not to appreciate specially in this day and age of GPU units that are heavier than the motherboard, i would say "add a few extra air intakes" but then there's the upper drive bays that can easily be taken out and replaced with fan meshes, absolutely lovely.
Reminds me of the first pc I ever built. Decades ago, when graphics cards had no fans and the more drive bays you had the cooler your rig was. Even had a 28.8 bps modem!
The surprise appearance of Arlo was awesome. Seeing all the dogs in the shoot on last Friday's WAN show, and then just Jake and Arlo appear was hilarious! He's such a chill kitty
For anyone who doesn't know, Delta is like the King of power supply OEM. Whatever power supply you have in your house right now, they could make a top tier variant of it, from small tiny ones like a 12V DC brick, all the way up to a Level 2 EV charger.
I can't imagine level 4 charger
now, imagine level 5
level 6 would be crazy
Actually Delta also is high-tier fan manufacturer. You can find PSU and coolers in Macbooks, top HP and Dell laptops. And they LAST. I"ve replaced several cords, but 15yo power supply still runs my 2014 macbook (home mediacenter). It's as reliable as this case.
@@pw5687 There have been many inhumane experiments to reach it, but none of them successful.
The first PC I bought was from Escom in the UK in the early 90's. It arrived with the CPU socket hanging off the motherboard. it was returned to them, when it arrived back to me the socket was held on with a cable tie. It was at this point I got a refund and built my own PC, which cost me half the price. Thanks Epson, without that poor experience I may never have started building my own. 🙃
I think you have got confused with Escom (the budget computer brand we had in the UK). Epson were most famous in the UK for printers. (I am from the UK).
@@cliffhulcoopofficial8075 OMG how funny. Must have been a typo or autocorrect. Thanks for bringing it to my attention though. I'll edit now lol
5:57 Servers if they are 3U or 4U usually STILL have those "GPU support brackets". TODAY. 1u and 2u, usually not - but smaller GPU cards don't need them. And don't forget OTHER cards.
Bro give the editor a raise! That intro and sponsor segue was awesome and hilarious 😂
bro calm down, it was bound to happen given the context of what they came with 😅
I’d have said the same but the first time he opened the case it had the founders edition card in it and then magically swapped back to the shit card again lol
Take away more than you raise though, the damn low frequency hum he keeps in is driving me mad. Especially from 12:56 on, dont these people have subwoofers? This has been a thing for a long time now.
@@kealke calm down child. It's free media and no one is forcing you to watch.
Now I'm curious--WHO DID THE VOICE OVER?
The sponsored segment intro was the best there ever was and ever will be
it wasnt spot on the normal music intro need to be played first then using the same audio but eqed a bit to say the sponsored
ok bret hart
I still use optical drives. Love it. Externally of course, usb to dual sata and a neat converted external dual 5.25 scsi casing.
damn that case is better than most gaming PC cases these days (unless you want water cooling). the rear IO and pci panels are reassessed so that you can properly screw in pci cards and push the pc further against a wall without kinking the wires. Also the strongest part of modern cases these days is the glass side panel, I don't like seeing the top of my case bend when I put something heavy on it if the panel is off.
I 100% want that case, love the aesthetic of it and as someone who recently got a 5.25" 4k blu-ray player I could actually fit it in the case instead of an enclosure.
I love that case design. the handles, the optical drive bays, how it looks "gamer" but doesn't look like someone's taken a circular saw to some car panels that have had cheap aliexpress LEDs stuck to them - I would buy this PC just to gut it and put my own hardware into it
it really does look like it has a utilitarian philosophy to the design, with minor changes to make it more gamer as an after thought I guess this is the result or Japan getting more into PC gaming lately, going from an industry that would have been more focused on office use, hence how industrial it the build of the case seems to be
every case from 2000s looks same. it can be yours for 5 bucks
I'd love to have this type of case especially because of the space for an optical drive... wish that was still standard on big cases instead of big side windows... I DO have a Blu-ray drive in my computer which I really like
Those handles and the nice clean exterior look make me legitimately want that case! It's pretty sweet if you ask me.
That's actually a surprisingly handsome looking case! And I kinda love the front-loading removable drive bays. Far easier to deal with than opening up the opposite side-panel to get to them! I do wish they had the option to replace the front optical drive bays with like a fan mounting option, but other than that this looks like it would last _quite_ a long time. And no RGB or glass side panel - yay!
How often do you change your drives? I mean with how often I do that (at most every few years), no easy access to them really isn't a big deal at all.
@@Jehty21 I'm a digital artist, as well as a bit of a habitual short story writer (with a seeming inability to actually _finish_ a bloody story I start before starting the next one), so I actually tend to fill up hard drives quite quickly. And unfortunately my finances don't stretch to being able to afford the larger capacity drives - so I have a collection I usually rotate through and occasionally add a new drive to. So yeah - this feature is actually useful for me :)
@@DavidStruveDesigns hm, interesting. I would have never thought about physically swapping a drive when it's full. I would've just moved the files 😂 But I guess both options work.
@@Jehty21 Given that it's a workstation, removable drives are a security feature as much as anything else.
I wish more PC makers start revisiting this style of cases. This one is slightly edgier than I'd like but I'd love retro looking cases that actually has more thought out, modern cooling features integrated into it.
Yeah if you want fans louder than your headphones
@@alexstromberg7696 I'm sure there are sleeper builds on customized retro cases that are actually quiet. That's why I added the part about "modern cooling features." :)
I'm just going to say it: I miss front bays and everything you could do with them. Drives, fan hubs, pump/res combos, etc. Was such good usable space.
@@jackalclone1 You do realize that you can still do all that right?
A thing around the world: 💀 The same thing coming from Japan: 😨🤯😍
really wanted to know if the disc drive was a bluray or a dvd, in japan blu-rays are WAY more common (fun fact the majority of anime gets bluray releases and the majority of those have PCM audio, no truehd or dts hd or any fancy stuff, literally PCM, and no subtitles lol), if it had a blu-ray drive (with backwards compatibility with dvd and cd of course) it could be VERY useful for many people ngl
Carrying handle. Awesome. I really like that, because I don't have big enough spaces to hold case easily.
I wish there were more cases on the market with tis design: just simple, robust and functional!
Old rosewill cases are like that. I had an fbm 01 for my first PC. It looked and felt like an old prebuilt case and I loved it. Never did anything with the 5.25 in bays when I first built it.
Fractal does that - LianLi as well. Okay they don't lean as far into the 2000s for the design, and they don't have the cool 3,5 inch tray ffor HDDs.. but otherwise..
the intro referencing Bill Wurtz History of Japan video is just....
0:48 Epson is actually Seiko Epson, formerly known as Suwa Seikosha. They made the first ever production quartz watch in 1969.
I absoluttely love that hatch that houses the hard disks and the weirdo style. I can totally see myself using this case for an Unraid server with two BD drives to rip BDs/DVDs
Somehow Linus never runs out of ideas and content in this crazy tech industry. Thanks Linus for keeping the industry alive.
Or thank the industry for keeping linus alive. Can you imagine that guy in a desk job lol crazy serial killer vibe
Looking at the random shit coming out via Aliexpress, I can confidently say they won’t run of of random things to test
They have website where you can tell them what great ideas you wanna see on youtube
they have multiple writers...
@@xamnition wait.....no, really???? -.-
The Bill Wurtz reference is the only thing I live for
Same
thank you sooo much for the anime-spoonsor ship. You have no idea how home this hits
I want that case. Just a little bit of modding to the air vents and it's just perfect.
Bro, on point reporting. I’ve lived in Japan here for 11 years. They are so sloooow to adopt new tech and ways of computing and communicating. They still use fax machines, transfer data via CD/DVD, etc. But there’s a lot of other crazy things cool things here as well, but I don’t want to turn a book into a series
unbelievable. in other things they are lightning years ahead of others, with computers, its like they still stucked in pentium 286 386 era
Well hey. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
@@whytho1690 no it's definitely broke
@@armitx9 if its broken then how are they getting by as well as they are?
I actually really dig this retro look. Built my own gaming PC in a very old case from 2005.
1:35 wow, I LOVE that keyboard and mouse
4:37 I was so confused to see this RTX GPU change into a much weaker one a few seconds later.
I really *really* want to see built like tank no frills cases back. Corsair did do a few around 2015, but then just started making everything too fussy again. Kinda like a sleeper machine, but also because I don’t need all the other fancy stuff :P
What exactly do you consider fancy stuff?
@@bobbyb1647 Anything that is purely for aesthetics. For example, most cases are designed now to be completely clutter free as most have clear side panels to show off GPUs etc. When in reality, a solid GPU bracket like this case has is more practical than RGB. I want tonnes of airflow and bare bones but with modern USB headers. I don’t want a crazy angular ‘gamer’ case with tempered glass.
@@BBROPHOTO God yes to all of that. Hell, I'd love to have the case from the system shown in the video. The mounting bracket, the optical drive bays, and the hard drive bays would all be perfect for my "do everything" system project.
@@BBROPHOTO im with you but somewhere in the middle. I want a window but want the front to look more like a traditional computer with drive bays... in white.
but most people especially while building their first PC want that frill! mine has a bit but its clean
I love this freaking case! i wish it was a standalone thing. The white, the handles, the 5.25 AND 3.5 bays....god this would be an amzing thing for us that have 1 foot in the olden days and 1 in the modern era.
I have an HP z400 and Dell 3500T. those chassis are freakin solid just like this one and same plain jane looks. Heavy as hell, but designed to last. both of my machines are about 13 years old and still going strong
As someone who likes sleeper builds, although in my case probably better to say reverse-sleeper builds, i.e. retro systems in modern cases, I really love this case. Even has spots where you can put extra COM ports. That's certainly not something you see every day these days. Very nice.
@Zaydan Alfariz Well, a sleeper build is usually modern tech in retro/vintage cases. Reverse sleeper is just the opposite: retro/vintage tech in a modern case. :)
@Zaydan Alfariz You're welcome. :)
Revere sleeper builds .... Now there is an idea, I can actually put my original IBM PC motherboard (with cassette tape support) to use, as I've kind of given up ever finding a proper case for it.
@@paulstubbs7678 im currently in the process of doing this! with a at socket 7 mobo and a 75mhz pentium 1 cpu for DOS gaming
@@paulstubbs7678 but i think LGR is ahead of all of us XD kzhead.info/sun/o9uzeNmqsYaEh5E/bejne.html
the japanese sponsor throw was genius lol
anime pc
that is one solid block! retro looks too! I know they're making high quality projectors and printer, but i didnt know they produce CPU too !
I love the design, looks really retro with the white case and 5.25 bays
There is something about the combination of gaming themed colours and old-style IO & Optical drive of this PC that feels very mesmerizing.
A relic of better days.
Back in the 80's in Japan EPSON manufactured a clone of the highly popular NEC PC-9800. In these times IBM was not super popular in Japan due to their lack of support for Japanese Characters (Kana and Kanjis) NEC and their PC-98 had support for this. On some model you had to buy expansion ROM board to include more characters.
I love the mounting hardware for the GPU it's amazing we need it to back a comeback
I love this case. All it needs is the old Dell car door handle for the side panel. But seriously, that GPU support is awesome.
That case is some Japanese engineering indeed, I would actually love that kind of sturdiness in more modern cases. Sometimes I even miss the grey look, but I used to use cases with that look for a long time.
You needed sturdiness in that chassis due being its japan and earthquakes are the norm
Fractal Torrent with black metal sides, no glass. 👌👌
Funnily enough, Epson was also one of the first together with Leica to make a digital rangefinder camera, the RD-1, which has become quite rare.
I'd love to try one of those some day, but they are impossible to find :/
man i love the way this case look. better than A LOT of modern ones IMO.
That case is just perfect!
I dig it, though I also still keep an optical drive bay as a core requirement for my case. I like playing older games that came on disc, plus gives access to these mysterious 'DVD' things
A place near me went out of business and I just grabbed like 40 DVDs for free. Burned them onto 2 blueray discs.
Whoever made that classic anime ads (Goran no suponsaa no teikyou de, okurishimasu) deserve some praise 😂, man I haven't seen that for a long time, it's been 8 years I think the last time I saw it on anime called 'Charlotte', maybe it's the effect of watching streams instead of the usual pirated stuff from Japanese TV.
I remember having a couple of Epson printers years ago and they always worked really well 😁
12:39 wow when he hit the escape hatch my mouth dropped. Its weird to see such cool features have fallen to the wayside over the years
I kinda have a fondness for computer cases that are just honest computer cases. Like, a box with all the functionality of a box that has a computer in it. Never been overly fond of the showcasing aspect of cases.
Check out the Antec VSK-4000 it'd probably be right up your alley.
@@atomicskull6405 I've heard that Antec case is a bit thin and cheaply built, plus it's a bit _too_ bland for me. I'm a fan of the discontinued NSK-4480B II. It has a simple two-tone styling and also has a touch of front ventilation. I love that you can put it up against a wall or put things on it without ruining the cooling.
I'm not a particularly big fan of RGB, so this chassis is quite attractive to me. Take out the disk and floppy drives and I'll choose this over those with side glass panels.
1:50 That number means nothing to me, would appreciate also supplying a conversion to real units.
They never stopped making PCs, their super low end endeavor PCs are very common in city hall offices in Japan... Though the motherboards on those are actually made by pegatron.
Who said they stopped?
that bill wurtz reference at the beginning got me
I would have never expected them to make PC's, definitely interesting.
They made since the 80s. :D
i was shocked to see TWO disc drives holy shit but very strange how they did not include ps/2 ports but have firewire? odd decisions there.
That's actually a pretty cool case, from a pure functionality point of view. Put a card reader/usb c port 3.5in header unit in the floppy drive bay. Implement SSD boot. My first gaming machine (yes I'm old - this was back in the 2000's) with RGB lights (had their own controller - boards didn't come with rgb support then) and Perspex view panel was white. Tbh flashy cases never appealed to me that much. I kinda like the sleeper nature of this case. Very cool. Good work Epson.
That case is gorgeous 🤩. Sick design for a sleeper PC 👌
Geo is pretty cool because most of the Japanese TV broadcasters are incredibly slow/outright unwilling to make their back catalogues available for streaming. Even when they do, there's often giant holes in their collections for annoying "compliance" reasons so DVD rental places like Geo and Tsutaya are often your only choice if you want to watch a particular show.
Even here in Canada, some of us still want 5 1/4 drive bays for an optical drive. It's getting really hard to find them as streeming services push us as hard as they can toward the subscription services where we NEVER stop paying and our favorite content may or may not be there.
@@surferdude4487 I live in old neighborhood with shoddy electric grid and internet connection. I keep decent disc collection and break out PS3 to watch them when there blackouts
It doesn't matter because we have this thing called the INTERNET
Yeah, and no one ever ripped a single DVD from the rental shop, because it's THE ONLY place you can find that TV show at duh
This was kind of interesting to watch because we use mostly Epson computers at work (spoiler: I work in Japan). It's usually 3 generations old stuff sold as new, with a markup comparable to buying last gen parts off Amazon. Their laptops are really funny, because the display is some of the crispest stuff I have seen on a laptop, but paired with a nearly 10 years old i5, and 4GB(!) of memory that keeps paging to the ancient HDD boot drive. It's also funny about the CDs, because I'm planning my wedding right now, but the wedding planner requires us to bring all music and video on physical CDs/DVDs. I was shocked when they mentioned it, and they just went like "this is the same anywhere, bruh".
Love all the references in this video
I like the design, almost looks like a sleeper build out of an old 90's case, good for those that aren't huge fans of constantly changing RGB lights everywhere.
THAT BILL WURTZ INTRO CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD VERY NICE
That case kicks ass, it’s kinda Gundam-ish too, if you’re not into RGB but still want something very different this is it
how i hope there's more of these kind of cases... ain't too much in the RGB game...
Man real talk you splash some gold and blue on there it's a gundam case. Maybe even a tasteful graphic on the side.
Great episode. Please do more like this❤😊
You can find hot swap bays - but usually in rack cases. I have one on a monster tower case I have - in the TOP of the case - but that's the only non-rack case I've seen with one, other than "adapters" that turn 2-3 5 1/4 drive bays into 2-4 3.5" hot swap hd bays - but I have seen listings for them occasionally in desktops/towers.
I'm so glad to see a case made to high quality and durability standards. I'm even more glad to see Arlo. Cats win the internet forever.
8:15 PosiDriv screws are used by IKEA and most if not all of Europe, so it really would be a good idea to include those bits! Japan does have JIS, or Japanese Industrial Standard screws though, and the bit for those works better in Phillips screws than even the Phillips bits do.
Well, as a Dutchman from the Netherlands (which is also in Europe 😉 ), I can't confirm that for my country. Pozidriv is almost exclusive here for woodscrews, anything non-wood is either Phillips (note the 2 L's) or sometimes more recently Torx. Unless you guys build your PC's from wood ? 😉
@@MrBlafhert JIS screws normally have a dot on them
Antec still makes the VSK-4000 case and apparently it still sells well, in fact it's doubled in price in the past couple years. Apparently there is a big market for oldschool but modern PC cases now.
That 90s case is a breath of fresh air. I want one.
I went to Japan a few months back, and I loved the big chunky laptops they had there. Modern specs with all the IO in the world. It was honestly refreshing to see more functionality over form for once. I defs want to buy one next time I'm there.
Closest you can buy with all those ports is the newer Vaios. They're thin, but they have all the ports you could ever want.
Ports are fine, but that's definitely not what I look for in a laptop.
@@LouisSubearth Wait, they are still manufacturing VAIO?
Whenever I look at the laptop market, it always surprises me that essentially nobody seems to be going after the "I need something I can carry around in a laptop bag, but I don't need to pretend it's a sheet of paper" market. Something that weighs one to three pounds, with plenty of room in the chassis for airflow and larger parts at the same performance.
@@redbuIIracing33 VAIO is now an independent brand after Sony stop manufacturing them, so yes they're still around