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So this is the era I t X computer case from fractal design, a case that we have known about for like a year and 1/2 now that's been delayed upon, delayed upon, delayed for I guess, the right reasons because manufacturing tolerances changes, tooling things that didn't quite meet the standard.

So I guess if there's ever a reason to delay something, it would be for something like this.

But this?

This was originally supposed to be Phil's I t X case, and that, unfortunately just got delayed so many times we enter the building of something else.

Unfortunately, you could see why I wanted to maybe use it in my space, right?

Not the website, but the one I'm working on.

The only problem with this, and you'll see once it's on the case, is this really restrict air flow?

So if you would you like a home theater PC type of bill, baby something, It doesn't have a lot of heat.

You could leave this on the top.

Otherwise, they do give you a mesh panel, which gives you airflow.

I kind of just feel like drilling.

Um, a jillion holes in this, which wouldn't look very, would not look pretty at the end of the day.

But that's that's all right.

So we will, until the accessory box is not a lot here, just screws.

But this is the part we all care about.

Trust me when I say this is unlike anything fractal design has ever made in the past.

And I'm glad to see them taking some risks and some chances of coming out with something else.

I sort of wish this were available and the same aesthetics in, like, a microwave.

A fractal.

You do this to me every time perspective.

Ah, all right.

This case, this stupid light, they'll hold out one hand.

It's really light.

Right?

So that was an indication of how light this is.

I'm sure this is making Josh nervous.

There it is.

There it is.

Right there.

So this is their gray.

They're available in a bunch of different colors.

Gray, blue.

We have one of the cobalt ones here, which is blue like a gold silver black Phil.

Keep it up.

All the colors on the screen.

So they asked.

My two favorite colors were an ass for the blue ones and the grey one.

Um, so it's kind of take a walk around.

Obviously, this isn't I t X chassis, so that means you're going to be able to fit 90 x motherboard in here.

It also is going to be using SFX power supplies, and you could see they clearly we're gonna have a power supply mounted somewhere else because we have a relocation power supply cable right here.

So it's probably somewhere in the middle.

You could see you could fit your graphics card.

It's got like it needed a biddy 80 millimeter fan right there.

So obviously you're gonna want to put some top fans on this, whether your water cooling or not.

But it is also water cooling friendly, and I will be honest here.

I have no idea how this comes apart, okay?

Comes apart like that, so he just pull on it.

But this shows you why it's so light.

This is all milled aluminum.

Look at that curve that, like in terms of just aesthetics, this is so pleasing.

This one should pop off in the same manner.

Yes, So it's just it's got these little kind of push nipples, if you will, that go right into the side, right?

That's how we get this right.

You got the filter material here, which I guess you could cut out if you don't want.

Because if these air exhausts, you don't really need the filter.

In my opinion on exhaust fans um, that's just gonna slow down your airflow.

And you have to worry about dust falling in nearly as much as being sucked in.

And so that means it's gonna pull in through those vents on the side.

You have the exhaust fan on the back.

It could pull in through the bottom as well, because you could see you have these gaps right here.

So, you know, you just have this little warmer feet that keep it from sliding around.

You do have filtered side ventilation there so it can pull in exhausting at the top of pulling through the side, the side panels which you saw already and then moves up that way.

All right, so you came out drives this way.

I don't think they mount on this side, because if they did, yeah, hits the metal first so they would mount on the inside like this.

So if you were just running like all em not to storage, which I kind of feel like a lot of I t X people would do these these days to try and keep cables Tidier.

Now, having to have any say does run to their state of connectors or say the power running to their drives.

So the power supply obviously mounts right here.

Vertical in the front.

So you have another mid mounted cage right here.

That's for the power supply.

Which, as I said, is SFX.

But plenty room for SFX.

Orin SFX L, which is the longer version so we can take off this bracket.

You can fit 22 and 1/2 inch drives or a single three and 1/2 inch drive to this cage is once grew there.

There's two in the back, right here.

So once we remove this, we should be able to remove that piece, which would give us just a little bit more of an open layout in the front.

Looks like you can also change the height adjustment of this.

So that's a Dr Cage right there, which also doubles as a standard a T X amount.

I just noticed that.

So that is awesome, because if you don't want to run and SFX power supply, you can run a full sized power supply, something like a 600 or something short.

So here's the full size 80 ex bracket right there.

And then here is the SFX bracket right here.

So these are fully adjustable height wise, at least with as many screw holes as you see you've got there.

So 123456 different height.

Adjustability.

Oh, look at this Bill USB 3.0, flat cable, which I feels really long forthis size of this case.

Front panel connector is just a power switch and the power led.

And then this is your HD audio guys.

Okay, anyway, so there long.

But that's nice, because you can then have length to rout them around the way that you see fit.

But if we pull off this bottom cover here, which I think comes off based on what I see right here their screen, thanks for saying that.

Otherwise you things blew so on the bottom here, notables.

So there's six screws that hold this bottom piece on.

However, it looks like there is room to put two 120 millimeter fans on the bottom as well.

Which means you can have a nice updraft style builds, although it's got that 80 mil in the back, which is really small and on its own is not gonna move much air.

And for a gaming PC.

If you built a gaming PC in this is not gonna get the job done, you definitely would be able to get the proper airflow for a gaming rig.

If you do two on the bottom two on the top.

So the bottoms pulling air up the top is exhausting air out.

I'm kind of curious what the airflow is gonna be like with the maple on the tops.

Woman do right now is I'm gonna kind of rigged this up with four fans and a power supply.

So, as you can see there with just the chassis now, this is what you get.

There's no removable front on this that is riveted in.

But if you needed to remove this piece here for some reason, then you can undo these four screws.

There's four screws that held it to the front, and then you can get to this.

Now it is space and perforated a little bit.

So what's gonna happen there is it's gonna pull in air from this gap on the bottom and from inside the chassis for the power supplied.

Now, in terms of graphics cards, you're not gonna fit any large style card in there, you're gonna be stuck to reference PCB or smaller.

So once it's in there, you can see the fans also push right against this ventilated bottom.

So the it's gonna have to pull air in through that gap on the bottom that I showed earlier.

So a couple things to show right now while I'm doing this Mock a big C.

I have a nest effects power supply in here.

It's not a nest effects.

L.

Ellis is a little bit longer.

I've got a 28 e t.

I say it's a reference card in there.

Got the motherboard in there.

The top panel actually comes off.

It's, um, threaded on there with four screws, which is kind of nice, because any additional sides that you can get to for, say, cable management in such is gonna make it that much better to try and get things all wired up.

Speaking of cable management, this, uh, this power supply right here this is the F.

S s f 600 from Corsair.

This is Phil's old power supply.

He has, like, the short cable set that's, you know, braided and whatnot.

It's got the sleeve on it pay record is probably like the 24 pins.

Probably.

Okay, As you can see for PC, I express, we don't have to go from there to there.

So this is one of those things were like getting a custom cable set from something like maybe cable mod or mod one or whatever would make a lot of sense in terms of cleaning this up.

On the flip side to that, there is no side panel, no glass panel for this.

So you're not gonna see the inside anyway, So it's one of those things where it all depends on how anal you want to be in terms of how nice.

You know, it looks inside when you can't see it.

Which is kind of a disappointment, considering how good these parts look like even the Z 3 90 I, um I t x motherboard from a sues.

The gunmetal matches this case perfectly.

And I'm like, Imagine if I was to do a tempered glass side panel build in this case with the nickel, how that would have looked if it had a glass panel.

Now, that's not to say that you can't somehow customize this in some way and make it work.

I mean, nothing's impossible, but I just think that would have looked so so good.

So women do for the market right now is I'm not going to do like an actual system boot and generate any heat because I don't have a no es or anything ready to go.

But what I can do is I can throw in these easy D i y fab fans that I showed you in our last one of our last videos, like last week, and I can mock them up to move air so I can at least measure the airflow coming out of this chassis.

So we're doing to 200 or 2 120 millimeter fans on the top, so you could see I've got the power supply space down just enough to clear this.

First, I spaced it for the bracket, and that's not gonna work because I've got the the extension cable here that I have to account for.

So that's barely fits.

But the nice thing is taking this off meat a lot easier, although I could slide it in there if I needed to.

I could fully custom loop this and I kind of wanted to take take on that challenge into a full custom loop in this case, although I'm not committing to a customer on the graphics card because the height of the terminal in terms of putting the fittings on there, will not allow it with the side panel, so it would only be a water cooled CPU loop.

This'll is one of those things where, although I'm not building a full system in this right now, I still say that when it comes to case reviews and such, you never, ever get the full story until you start building in it.

Because things might look great on paper and they might look great as you're going.

Oh, you could put this here and you could put that there.

Oh, look at what they did there.

Sometimes it might not work out as practical as designed.

So that's one of the things that were at least able to test by doing a mock up with graphics, card and fans and power supply and motherboard, which is why I was able to say immediately, like custom cables on this would certainly make the job easier.

It's not impossible I mean, it would just be a little bit of a cable management nightmare.

There's plenty of room here that you could coil up cables and just kind of jamming back there.

So we are running this test right now with the top fan filter in place.

The side filters are in place, and then we're going to start first with the maple top right here.

Now with the maple top on, all you get is the gap around the edges in terms of air flow.

So I do expect airflow to be impeded quite a bit.

By that, we are using my easy D I Y fans to control well, the remote control to control the fans.

I can do low, medium and fast, and then I'm gonna have the 80 mil fan running at 100%.

It's such a slow rpm fan anyway.

It makes like no noise.

You are going to make it go now.

I'm literally sticking my ear to it.

And although it's turning and I can feel a little bit airflow, that fan alone, this is not gonna get the job done.