Entire Case Company Built on Literal Theft

this company likes stealing things like

it's hype not not the height this is the

hype which as you can see is a modern

aesthetic

case just like Height's modern aesthetic

case with the

y70 and the y60 uh and this it's

actually it's a very interesting

catastrophe of a case ignoring things

like the fact that they got their own

stock fan counter on in the specs they

also borrow slogans and quotes for

example the Asus inspired but definitely

grammatically wrong created for those

who dare to win be gamer and then again

modern aesthetic case even the

description text is literally copy

pasted it says chamfered molding on the

top and bottom of the Chassy ground the

case visually and allows for glass-free

displays but not every statement is

stolen game Max is nowhere to change the

world for good with over 15 years of

experience creating PC cases with over

10 years experience creating PC cases be

ready be gammer and finally Diamond what

the what the

f we've criticized designs that have

been clear ripoffs before but maybe

we've been spoiled because most of the

ripoffs we've criticized have at least

been legally distinct today game Max is

here to show us what a real ripoff is

with the hype hyp case that looks nearly

identical to the height hyt y60 it makes

the game DS nisso P1 look like a

respectful homage and actually the the

game DS gc7 and the game DS gc4 actually

also the game DS gc3 and the the gc2

actually maybe we need to look at game

DS

next but we're talking about hype today

and it really leaves us dumbfounded

because nearly everything in the game

Max catalog is at least a surface level

ripoff there's some be quiet style some

Jones bow or anad plenty of inwin a

touch of NZXT for style Cooler Master

Corsair cougar obviously lean Lee but

none of them crossed the line between

similar and blatant actual theft like

the hype does and some may be just

legitimate coincidences game Max has

made some cool designs with some strange

names but unfortunately we'd be

reluctant to review those in the event

that they are also stolen and actually

regardless we'd kind of reluctant to

review the

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below so this case has been somehow

around since September of 2023 according

to internet archive it's a over a year

after the y60 original came out which is

this case the one that has really gotten

critical Acclaim it's been wildly

successful for height the box was

already just an obvious enough ripoff

but that isn't even worth talking about

when we start looking at how bad the

case actually is this whole thing is

this monstrosity where it's like gmax

they didn't understand why height did

the things they did

this is kind of the the start to the

problems it's just this giant bulous

steel panel uh that kind of floats

around up top

here like that for the slotting

mechanism they're just using Phillips

head screws which is creative you

normally see more refinement from a case

that cost $150 though and again this is

even if you buy it cheap it's

10 or so on

AliExpress it's kind of expensive ripoff

inside they've got these kind of nasty

standoffs with screws to hold all the

glass panels in place Amateur hour stuff

disposable one-time use pcie slot covers

afterthought slapped on magnetic dust

filters that cover the holes we showed

earlier the top panel on our unit was

visibly caved in the screws holding the

cable bar were stripped to varying

degrees and the dust filter at the

bottom of the case is impossible to fit

correctly into the vent massive gaps in

between uh the glass paneling it's just

really uh not not form fitted okay there

we go now back to the incorrect spec

table it also notes that front IO

features quote buttons cool reset is

wired to the RGB controller out of the

box the lighting can also be controlled

with a remote or a motherboard header

but it frequently fails to respond to

the remote for mysterious reasons the

reasons are it sucks but my favorite

feature was there's some screws down

here and my first thought was maybe this

is like a dust filter or something but

no actually it does

this wait I didn't want it to go like

that there we go it does

that look at that the case has just

become 4 in

shorter and uh

it looks like we could maybe even hack a

little more off still it actually looks

nicer yeah I agree it does kind of look

better this way getting getting rid of

all the misaligned metal this whole

thing is just going to be an extended

piss take by the way the height y60 was

designed with vertical man that is so

much easier compared to what I've been

doing for the other one uh it was

designed with vertical gpus in mind you

can see that here they include a riser

they built it and shaped it in a way

where the card is out of the

way hype also has vertical mounting

unfortunately this is very close to the

glass so this is going to produce about

the worst possible result additionally

it is located so close to the fan Mount

that gpus of any modern height conflict

with it so we couldn't fit uh our own

testing card in here it's unnecessarily

tall they don't include a riser and even

if it had worked the performance would

have sucked just because the vertical

Mount is as close as possible to the

glass panel restricting GPU air flow and

pulling the PCI Riser cable across the

bottom case vent to also completely

block it and the best part is game Max

cells drop in mounting kits that aren't

compatible with this case because the

bars between the expansion slots don't

allow it to fit the y60 meanwhile has

only low profile horizontal expansion

slots in order to keep its width down

the hype has full size horizontal slots

making it even wider than the y60 which

was already wide the hype doesn't take

advantage of this extra width and any

way and it actually has reduced fan

support versus the y60 with exclusively

120 mm mounts in all the locations

according to the spec sheet but the spec

sheet is wrong uh again they actually

have a set of 140 mm mounts under oh

these some of the ctive one that's nice

look at that the screw stayed in there

all right it has some 140 mounts for

fans uh in these rails over here now we

get to the front panel

which game Max says is up to date with

USB type-c and the the best part of this

is they say that's capable of 10 gbits

per second which they say is quote 20

times increasing versus 5 gbits per

second and I don't know what that

means but if it's supposed to be for the

rest of the front panel this USB 3

header is singular it stands alone

despite using a

full usb3 cable to connect to the

motherboard so uh you can get two out of

this

but why why do two on the game Max

product page the hype is listed as

having three pre-installed 120 mm argb

Vans two beneath the floor and one at

the back of the case and it's not true

for the hype that's the stock fan

configuration of the y6d whereas the

hype shipped to us with two side and one

rear exhaust so that's all three as

exhaust fans and it's not a mistake cuz

we bought the case on Amazon and new EG

actually has the same product

description and that's all repeated

there are also small ripoffs too like

game Max uses the phrase premium

midtower ATX PC case which isn't unique

to height but it is the title of the y6s

product page let's find some positives

though there's a generic GPU support

that looks sturdy enough the metal side

panel is technically ventilated and the

infinity mirror fans look nice although

you can find similar fans at very low

prices on AliExpress also there are

touches of construction quality in

sparing places like snaps on the side

panels and some captive thumb screws

sometimes rubber washers but not all of

them are captive they also ship a decent

number of loose velcro ties in the

accessory kit and that's pretty much it

the case has some neutral aspects

nothing worth calling out for PR though

building in this case felt like a

throwback to 10 years ago but that's

partly because we don't often scrape the

bottom of the budget Barrel at least

other than the DIY PC z o we reviewed a

while ago and weird one-offs like the

cool man 3body and the seot tap EDI the

EDI is maybe the best comparison because

although hype is built cheaply it's not

cheap but at least the z o had going for

it that it was like $23 at the time and

the seot EDI is cool and different The

Cool Man 3 body is as the name suggests

also cool otherwise it'd be illegal you

can't just name it that if it's not cool

uh but those were different and this

just isn't but this is a new case and it

must have required brand new tooling to

be able to mimic the y60 this way which

just seems like it'd be more expensive

and difficult than designing an original

product I'm going to throw this over to

Patrick now who worked on this review

and has some additional thoughts some

aspects of the hype seem like they were

copyed without actually understanding

the original case so for example we have

a typical two chamber case design here

with the height y60 which means that the

power supply goes down here and two 3.5

in or 2.5 in drives can go here and in a

lot of dual chamber cases you can maybe

swap these or have two power supplies

meanwhile in the hype we have power

supply down here and nothing this is

just empty space there's a slot for a

single 2.5 in drive to be mounted to the

back of the case the only drive mounting

in the case other than that is on this

cable bar here um this is something that

it shares with the Leon Lee family of

cases this cable bar with mounting on it

and it just sucks there's not enough

space there's not enough space for the

drives or the cables crucially the o1

family of cases the 11d uh the newer o

11d Evo they have other Drive mounting

options in the hype this is all you get

cable bar and 2.5 inch on the back now

we're going to get into the testing so

uh this is going to be fun it'll be kind

of like a workout for our new case test

bench uh I'll get to experiment with

some numbers see if if our new bench

methodology allows for enough range for

a truly terrible case to still show its

full potential of how much it sucks and

uh that's what we're going to get into

now so we'll be going over to thermals

some Acoustics and then we'll we'll wrap

this thing up

the conclusion will surprise you if the

hype has a chance anywhere it's here

because being a ripoff doesn't mean it

has to have bad throwing performance and

the real height y60 was weak in this

area we did some tests with the two side

fans moved to the bottom as intake in

Imitation of the y60 but we weren't able

to completely copy the y6s layout

because the vertical GB amount and the

hype is not designed in a way

unfortunately that's compatible with our

hardware and we had to supply our own

Riser cable we'll start with noise

normalized thermals which puts all cases

on the same plane Feld by reducing their

included fan RPM until the total system

noise hits a 31 DBA threshold in our

heana coake chamber this is done with

the included case fans only the first

result is for CPU thermals in a torture

workload the best case on this chart was

the torrent at 46.4 De CI over ambient

the height y 60 shows a massive increase

in thermals as compared to the best of

the best on this chart allowing almost a

10° climb from the torent that's a huge

Swain but we already knew that the y60

only ever achieved acceptable

performance previously and was rarely

among the best the hype however uh is

actually terrible it's officially the

worst case we've tested with our 2024

methodology we debuted a couple weeks

ago so congratulations this case is the

reason why we had to so carefully tune

the testing it actually helps us to have

a case so bad because any hotter and

we'd be in throttling territory which

limits how much visibility we would have

into its suckitude because it would be

capping The Thermals at 66.6 de over

ambient its result is appropriately

numerically representative of the

temperature inside the case which is

hell for the CPU at about 89° when

including ambient even for a copycat

this area of performance has no excuse

for being so bad the GPU thermals on the

same test have the hype down at 54 degre

over ambient the range for these tests

is generally fairly tight between the

average cases with most in the 45 to 48

degree range and the best in the low 40s

the open air testing shows just how

restrictive modern power Splash routs

and panels can be the GPU intake but the

hype result is at the bottom Heights y60

the real one is predictably limited here

as a result of the vertical mount

something we talked about in our review

of the case but it's still at least

acceptable for seeding a card back as

far as possible but the hype case just

completely drops the ball especially

considering this is one of the key areas

of change from the y60 this chart

includes one of our new tests that we've

been excited about with our case review

rework includes vrm thermals so that

helps show the top of the case and gives

us insight if it becomes a hot spot it

also shows the ddr5 ram thermals with

the SPD Hub the hype continues to

impress it manages once again to be the

absolute worst performer on the chart

despite copying a case that was at least

near the average in this test the mosfet

we measure ran at 38° over ambient in an

absolute sense that's fine it's not bad

for that mosfet but in the relative

sense that makes this case 10° worse

than the best on the chart and nearly

six degrees worse than it's inspiration

the y6d memory temperatures are also

massively increased here with a

ginormous jump from the previous worst

on the chart to the pop air to 31° over

ambient that's about 10° hotter than the

y60 that means if you're running

particularly hot memory or you were

trying to overclock while buying a

ripoff case for some reason then you

actually might limit the head room for

the memory now will increase the fan

speeds of the case fans to 100% on all

tested cases leaving the GPU and the CPU

fans controlled looking at GPU thermals

the hype case despite having absolutely

terrible CPU thermals in this test not

shown here managed to at least tie with

the height y 60 for GPU thermals moving

to bottom intake instead resulted in a

better outcome for the GPU which makes

sense since it gets it closer to the

card for intake and we actually get some

fresh air flowing into the case in a

controlled way but even still as the

hype fails to even understand the

mechanical attention to detail of the

height case to smaller details it also

fails to deliver better performance but

it still costs 110 to $ before shipping

and shipping was as high as $200

depending on what site you buy it from

for us it was just 150 total but there's

simply no reason to buy this case it was

however a great workout for a new case

testing methodology one note we found

was that the Hypes fans in the bottom of

the cas caused an audible rushing sound

of wind because of all the layers of

Steel and mesh the conclusion won't

surprise you this was an extended piss I

said earlier and uh the case is not

something we can recommend it's too too

expensive to be a worthwhile knockoff

even if they sold it for 80 bucks you'd

be better off buying a legitimate $80

case or a different knockoff for $80

that at least tries to do some things

kind of well so uh this it's weird

because it's not our job to defend the

honor and the intellectual property and

the Integrity of the IP of the companies

whose cases we review and it's not your

job either but even in a vacuum this

case is just bad enough that you

shouldn't buy it anyway if it were the

first of this design type it still

wouldn't do well uh and actually it

appears to be getting scrubbed from

retail sites at least in the US that we

visit as we've been working on this

review and maybe for a good reason but

even still with regards to the literal

copy and pasting of marketing text and

everything else in the US at least it's

definitely theft of intellectual

property and there's probably an

argument for being confusingly similar

but they don't operate in the US and

it's extremely unlikely height would

ever pursue a company internationally

especially when that lawsuit is unlikely

to yield anything that matters but

there's a lesson here there is actually

something valuable that comes out of the

end of uh relentlessly making fun of

this thing for the last 20 minutes or

whatever this has been and the lesson is

that we really do mean it when we say

the effort put into this copy is still

high enough that that same effort should

have been put into making anything else

that that's at least somewhat original

and and then trying to make a name for

game Max that isn't based on someone

else's name because and we really do

mean this it's actually unfortunate now

that because of this experience with

this case and seeing some of the other

blatant ripoffs uh we don't feel

comfortable reviewing any of game Max's

products because we can't be certain

that they haven't just stolen it from

someone and if it's not a design that's

extremely wellknown like the y60 is it's

possible you stumble across something

you go oh wow that's actually a pretty

cool design maybe we'll give them

another shot uh up

until the fact that again we have to

consider based on their history they are

probably just stealing the ideas the

line with copycats and follow on in the

industry is pretty gray and murky you

see it all the time with the and all the

Clones that came after that and the ones

that are now following the Y6 but in

this case the line uh game Max has gone

so far past it that is 100% clear

exactly what this case was trying to be

and so anyway uh the the take-home

lesson if we try to apply one to

something like this

is just just try if you're going to do

anything like this just just actually

make something new so that's it for this

one it was kind of fun to work on just

because I I don't know I I feel like I

uh I went back in time about 15 years so

uh if you have other cases like this you

want us to look at at post them in the

comments and we'll buy

them whether it's worth the money or not

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