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I really liked the last fractal case that I covered on this channel the

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fractal Bridge it was a great console style case that was nice and thin but

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here is the fractal Terra a beautiful

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wood clad 10.4 liter small form factor

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case that I don't know first impressions from here looks pretty dang good but it

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doesn't look as good as this

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that's right green the best part about green is that it's a color which is

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pretty crazy I mean we've seen tons of silver and black cases even white cases

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getting a case that's actually a different color is a amazing change of

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pace which is why I'm getting rid of this guy he's got a texture to him

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this one has like almost a painted texture on the outside and it seems like

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it's very prone to scuffs we just took this out of the box and we've already

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kind of scoffed it up what you get inside the box is not a whole lot you

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get a manual and a card that says thank

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you for buying it it's very sweet and nice

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oh that's the warranty stuff fractal has always done a really great job of their

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manuals and a lot of the time when you're building these small form factor cases that have unusual layouts you're

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actually going to want to read the manual because it will include a lot of important tips and features that you

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might not immediately discover so we're going to keep the manual I know

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that seems unusual for this channel I will probably look at it once and then forget about it and then screw something

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up and this will take half an hour longer than it needs to but

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heck yeah case dimensions are 343 by 153

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by 218 millimeters we have a USB 3.0 for

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a USB a that's USB 3.0 so 5 gigabit per second and a USB 3.1 Gen 2 which in case

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that means nothing to you because it means nothing to anybody that's about a 10 gigabit per second Port USBC it

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doesn't say anything about power delivery that's a premium feature that I would love to see in more cases is

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getting a power delivery Port so you can like charge your phone or quick charge your controller or something out of the

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front of it but that's asking for a lot on the back of

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the case that's where you plug it in there is nothing obvious on the outside

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of the case for mounting fans looks like at the bottom there are spaces for 120

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millimeter fans so for two

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but this one's blocked by your power extension the entire case is made of

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incredibly well machined aluminum par for the course for fractal they've

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always been really really great like all of these little rivets not a there's not

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a sharp edge in sight so really really well done side panel release

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okay instruction manual so ah okay so at

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the bottom right there you pull out there there's a couple of

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detents and this slides up like that that's actually really interesting

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I think geez Tesla nerd instead of taking off the entire panel using

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detents across the entire structure you have these hinges thankfully if they are

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anyway they've just included some Phillips screwdrivers to remove them from the hinge unless what is this oh

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now they have the case open we can get a really good look at the inside layout so

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it's a typical sandwich layout where you're going to have your GPU here connected with a riser cable this is a

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included Gen 4 Riser cable on this side you have your mini ITX motherboard and

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your sfx or sfxl power supply then we

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have a bunch of nice cables for our front i o now one interesting thing

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about this case is you can put it into two modes you have Max CPU or Max GPU

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mode so basically you can adjust where this midline is in Max GPU mode you can

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fit a three slot GPU but you're limited to just 43 millimeters of height on your

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CPU Cooler if you move it to Max CPU you get 77 millimeters of height for your

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CPU Cooler but are limited to a two slot

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GPU it's a really smart way this is the

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first time I've seen this kind of feature in a mass-produced case it's been a boutique small form factor

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feature for a while and the great thing about it is that it allows case manufacturers to build for more people

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when you get to these really really small sizes you start really limiting

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your audience because if I'm somebody who cares a lot about CPU performance

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I don't want to sacrifice that and have to do a very very short cooler 43

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millimeters is Tiny and if you're a gamer maybe you want the bigger GPU with

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this solution they can serve both audiences and also it allows you flexibility in the future if you ever

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decide to upgrade which is always great I forgot to talk about the accessories

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inside we get a bunch of mounting screws a cleaning cloth that's kind of nice

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cable ties velcro spacers and an SSD

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tray that's right this has support for up to two two and a half inch ssds or 2

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two and a half inch hard drives however there's no three and a half inch mounts

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to be seen I mean I don't know where you'd put it and that's one of the

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sacrifices that you make from going with a 10.4 liter case back to that

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adjustable Center that's what these transport locks are for this is just

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positioning it oh I didn't realize it was modular I didn't realize there was

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this is not ex well explained on their website you don't just have two modes

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you can actually switch the center piece between

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up to seven different settings so you can if you have like a two and a half

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slot card and you want to squeeze in a taller CPU Cooler this gives you that

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Advantage I thought that this was going to be like a flipping mechanism that meant that you could only use two

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different spots this is even better than what I thought you can also remove the

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PCIe this will probably be great for when we

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install our GPU removing these two screws by this Riser board and this one

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screw on the back you can take out the entire

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GPU bracket

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so you can get a little bit more space to work

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install it on your card and then plunk it in one of the problems with PCIe

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Riser cables is that these traces that go all the way from your slots back to

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your motherboard are very delicate and bending them too tightly can just break

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them and then you have you've lost 40 50 so what they've done is that they've

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actually put these little brackets that allow it to Round the Corner nicely

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without kinking so to reduce the odds of you bending this cable Beyond repair I

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just want to talk about this front panel for a second this is really cool so it's

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like one thick hunk of metal right but they've milled out some recesses to

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allow you to route your power supply extension all the way around here and

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reducing the amount of space it takes up it also that depth provides you room for

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your two and a half inch drives oh cool yeah so you can fit two in there

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you just sandwich them together and then you strap them in with the included velcro tie downs and

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away you go depending on your stated cables getting this bottom one here

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could be a little hard to mount that will will burn that bridge when we come

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to it also something that I appreciate is that it looks like everything is screwed in there's no rivets anywhere in

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this case as far as I can see which means you can kind of totally take this

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apart if you need for any reason whatsoever yeah even the standoffs are

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screwed in so if you want to replace it with different standoffs or if your motherboard has like a thick backplate

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or something you can do that it's getting hot in here I'm getting hot and bothered by this case yeah take off all

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so we're going with the theme of last gen was better uh we got 5800x3d but

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most of all we get to use this cool Halo edition green

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that's going to go right with our color scheme really well I also had to get a different power supply than I wanted

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because white I was worried was going to show through and look weird

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so we're trying to keep things uh mean and lean and

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not RGB another interesting thing is that they say that they have room for a

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120 millimeter rad I am not sure where

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so there is space for a 120 millimeter rad it's on the opposite side of the

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power supply and what you do is that there's some standoffs that you can plug

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in there and then this would go right along there

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um what that causes problems with is uh

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one you're blowing heat directly into your power supply which might not be a big issue because your power supply is

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mounted this way so intake from your power supply is going to take that heat

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and pump it out the exhaust the real downside is that it really really limits

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the length of your GPU to just 200 millimeters and as you can see that's

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not that's not very long I'm going to save myself a headache and not use this

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yeah even a 7600 isn't going to fit you're gonna have to use a small form

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factor GPU but hey it's cool that they give you the option

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so credit where credits do they didn't have to do that

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I wanted to use this ID cooling is55 it's a really really great CPU Cooler

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for the price and for the size but

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um I uh made a boo-boo with selecting RAM and uh it fits really great if you

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want to run single Channel you don't want to run a single Channel luckily I

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brought some alternatives like the NHL 9A this is the very small

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low profile cooler that you would have to use if you're using the max GPU mode

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of the case as you can see very different size

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uh do you know what's gonna suck I fell for the great I fell for the

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age-old mistake of not plugging in my CPU cable before I got my motherboard

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mounted oh it won't be so bad hooray so I was

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worried that I'd have to Route this under the motherboard but because the

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power supply is there I do not like I just kind of have it here

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there you go might as well get the 24 pin plugged in

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this is unusual oftentimes this is a very important part of building in a

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small form factor case is figuring out what step you need to plug your cables

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in they tell me to not plug my cables in

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and I didn't trust them but I should have

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no they actually never tell you to plug your cables in I trust nothing I trust no one I hate this world okay this is a

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lot of cable that I have to contend with now and I gotta figure out where I want to put it

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all the cables in and then I'll just cry later that's that's going to be the plan so while I talked about you can have

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this except some of the heat from the GPU and exhaust it out we're gonna go

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this way because we don't really need to do that and because we're not using a

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flow through cooler like a we're not going to be using a Founder's Edition

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card that's going to have air that passes through and needs to go somewhere

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we're just gonna have normal computer we're going to be using the 6900 XT

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which blows things out the sides I appreciate that they give you additional

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power supply screws in the fractal case because sometimes you lose your power

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supply screws and it sucks got the GPU in there and then it slots in like that

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wondering and the power's on the top this is a very very clever I like this

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whole mechanism so now we just we'll get our thumb screws in on top

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here so that our GPS fastened in our bracket and then installing the case and

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then there's a bunch of cable time one thing that yes I admit I've made a

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mistake is that I didn't plug in my cables before installing the power supply but I do kind of wish I could

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remove the bottom of this that was a feature in the Dan Case where you could

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take out a little bit of the bottom just so that you could route cables

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easier and it really makes them building a lot more accessible and easy

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as opposed to now where I'm just kind of trying to jam things in and it's kind of

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frustrating I know it's my fault I could just take

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it out but uh I don't want it the nice part about the

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included straps is that there's lots of places that we can loop our cables

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thanks to the way they've done cutouts in this case so I'm gonna be able to tie

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my cables kind of down along here on the bottom

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and uh that'll be a that'll help keep some of the mess out of the way though

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it doesn't really matter because it's like it's how visible are the cables when the side panels are on I guess

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we'll find out yeah you don't even really need to do the cables I think it

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looks pretty slick and the layout of the case does uh hide a lot of the uh a lot

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of the mess is there no uh

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there is no thing on the back which is kind of interesting

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um so there's no way to seal it

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and I think it also will allow just for some more free airflow one thing that's

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also of note there's not a single dust filter on this this is all just these

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slits so this might be a higher maintenance than you'd want if you live

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in a dusty place like if you have like a couple of cats like I do there'll be

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lots of dander and stuff that gets inside of it but

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is a pretty cool system and

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I found it surprisingly easy to build in and it's very feature Rich

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what I would consider doing is maybe putting slim fans at the bottom

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yes you can pass through cables through here I have it in the middle position right now I have it at four so that's

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why we have gaps on both sides it's

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actually pretty cool man and I really do enjoy the fact that I could give myself

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a little bit more CPU Cooler height and I probably would do that if you were

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doing a dual slot GPU there's no reason to not push it all the way up it would

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have been nice if maybe we got a little bit of extra room on the top

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to get maybe like a 240 millimeter Rad

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but it's just it's the kind of decisions it's the hard decisions that you have to

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make when you are making a 10.4 liter

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case but yeah oh man it looks slick let's let's see if it boots and if it

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doesn't boot uh I will cry but we and we'll just go to lunch

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I heard something's been we got some lights

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it's a good sign green and gold on this master chief Edition GPU looks Stellar

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in the build and I would actually push it towards the side to make it more

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visible if I was building this myself so it costs 180 US Dollars and for that price

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you're getting a really premium build quality with lots of like nice thick

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machined Parts you're getting a cool color you're getting a nice wood accent

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a very flexible building space for being

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10.4 liters I do think they might have been able to get away with some fan

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mounts on the side you're very very dependent on the

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airflow of the components in your case and your CPU

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Cooler and stuff but all in all I think this is an awesome case and I know I was

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very enthusiastic about the Dan Case in our video on LTT

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but this might be where I go thank you so much for watching if you like this watch check out my video for fractal

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Ridge you can fit a 40 and 90 in it you might be able to fit a 49 you can probably you can fit a 490 Fe in this

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too but yeah fractal axles keeps killing it I

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love it fractal uh this video fractal uh cool

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keep going yeah keep going the video