the colossus mini itx and matx borrow
from a couple of other popular bitfenix products first they borrow their style
from bitfenix's very first case the colossus and second they borrowed their
interior design from the prodigy and the prodigy m
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more you'll be used to this form factor if you've ever used a prodigy but of course
it does like i said borrow from the colossus in terms of the styling so it
has a bit of an upward angled shape to
the top cover here and then it has a bit of an angular helmet-like shape to the
front that gives it a more aggressive look than something like the prodigy
ventilation is handled through just these vents on the top for the front
giving access to fresh air to the five and a quarter inch drive bay that has
been turned into ventilation as well as the 140 millimeter sized vent in the
front so the airflow is not going to be exceptional compared to some versions of
this type of case that have larger vents but it should be adequate for what most
people install in an matx or mini itx system also on the front we find a piece
of plastic as well as a bit phoenix logo more on the piece of plastic in just a
moment on the right hand side we do not find that same nice uh soft touch finish
that's on the top and the front but just a more standard painted steel finish two
usb 3.0 ports microphone headphone jack reset and power switches then on the
left hand side we find not a whole lot of anything on the top not only that
soft punish touch finish that i talked about before but also a dual 120
millimeter fan mount with a removable filtered mesh right there on the bottom
we find another removable fan filter this one for the power supply so you can
just pop that out the back if you want to go ahead and clean it and then finally on the back we find a 120 or 140
millimeter fan mount two expansion slots and then a removable plate for the power
supply that allows you to take that out and slide it back in now there are two
interior layouts for this case the one we're going to be talking about mostly
in this video is the mini itx layout
that is the one that is based on the original prodigy but we actually did a
build guide not that long ago in the
matx version of the phenom so that'll
have the same layout as an matx version of this case would have now before we
move to the inside of the case let's go ahead and show you what's so special
about this little plastic what did he just do
the little plastic strip has what bit phoenix is calling light track
technology and it's an unbroken line of light that wraps around three sides of
the case it allows you to change the colors completely anything from blue to
red to green and you can even add pulsating effects to give it a bit of a
breathing effect in the dark or if you don't like any of that you can
just turn it off now because we have two of these cases we were in a pretty
unique position where we can show you one that has nothing installed in it and
another one that's been decked out and has a pretty high-end gaming system
installed so first of all i take off the side panel and this gives us some
insight into how that whole lighting effect thing works the ones on the side
panels don't actually need to be plugged in independently they just have like
little looks like fiber optic tubes that are
yep not carrying the light around the case and then delivering them here you
go to these pieces like this just like that so the
whole thing illuminates very cool actually
then taking off both side panels we can see that i actually removed the five and a
quarter inch expansion bay in order to get an h100i in there i also have
removed some of the three and a half inch expansion bays of which you can
normally have a maximum of five but in this case we're down to two down here on
the bottom so there's an additional cage that can be installed this gave us the
ability to install a long graphics card such as the Radeon hd7970
that we have installed in here right now so that's how we get that dual 120
millimeter rad in the front which means we don't have to worry necessarily as
much about airflow in the case overall because our CPU at least will be able to
exhaust its heat directly out without
affecting the rest of the interior components although i do wish that the
side panel where the graphics card is located would have some perforations for
airflow to come in as well you can
install up to a 230 millimeter fan in the front although the only ventilation
holes in the front are going to be about 140 millimeters you can install up to
that 140 millimeter fan i talked about before in the back it's got a tool-less
drive mounting system you go ahead and pop those cages out install your drives
into them it's tool is for three and a half inch so you just kind of flex them
like this and then put the drive in or it is tooled for two and a half inch
which is what we were actually using for this particular little rig it's also
tool-less at the back for your pci express expansion you go ahead and pop
this guy out pop this guy out they're all thumb screws go ahead put a graphics
card in and you're pretty much ready to rock and then as i mentioned before if
you want to see a version of the m80x system that we did a very high end air
cooled configuration in you should definitely check out that build guide
and i've got a bit of a teaser for this video for those of you who stuck around
till the very end this mini itx version
with its fewer pci expansion slots but improved liquid cooling support and more
overall space inside compared to the matx one once you cram a larger
motherboard in there might be featured in an upcoming water cooled
build guide for the colossus mini itx
exciting anyway guys thank you for checking out this video like it if you liked it
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are you looking forward to the water cooled colossus mini itx build guide i
actually have something i can show you guys
that might get you a little bit more amped up about it this box just arrived
from bitfenix the other day and instead
of doing my typical sort of you know you could spin it a number of different ways
you could call it flexible or you could call it lazy but my typical you know
approach of just doing straight fittings ah yes i will be using their blood red
fittings i'll be using 45 degree angles
and stuff like that going for really nice clean tubing runs this time around
so it's going to be a very different liquid cool build guide from before so
all the fittings and right i think that's pretty much it
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