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okay so I did an unboxing the other day of the fractal designs Define R2

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computer case but now I've actually gone ahead and done a quick build inside it

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just to kind of get a feel for how easy it is to build inside how quiet it is

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because that's what everyone seemed to want to know about it so first of all at

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the front I I mentioned in my unboxing that it lights up with a blue LED now we

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actually get to see what it looks like lit up still very clean and very plain

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looking that's the only Lighting on the case the door opens up where we can find

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inside the the one I haven't installed any aftermarket fans or anything so it

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only has the one stock black and white fan and then I've installed one DVD

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drive for this particular demo system and you can't really look through there

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and see the hard drives but that's okay all right so why don't we get this open

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here I've uh I have not used their modu

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vent feature because this is supposed to be a silent build that is how the case

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is targeted and marketed so I've left all of the noise deadening materials on

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the extra ventilation holes all right so I'm taking off that heavy side panel

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because it's got all of that sound deadening material inside so the inside

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of this case is actually really clever it did not take me long to do this build

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and I was able to do a very tidy job as you can see of the cable management so

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I'm not using a modular power supply I'm using their Tesla 650 wat power supply

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and I've used the included cable ties to tie up all of the unnecessary cables I'm

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running a GTX 275 and you can see I've still got about another inch and a half

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of space at the end to install potentially an even longer video card

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I'm using their grommeted uh cable routing holes in order to use the 24 pin

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power supply connector as well as to run a cable up to my optical drive up here

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and to run the eight pin connector up to the top of my motherboard now let me see

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what else I wanted to say about oh another cool thing that I did not mention about this case is it actually

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has noise deadening material where you mount the power supply to the case so

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there's a little bit of foam in there and their power supplies actually include overly long screws so that you

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can attach them easily and leave enough space that you are going to take

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advantage of that noise deadening another cool feature and this is kind of

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a why didn't anyone else think of it sort of thing there are extra holes on

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their hard drive mounting sleds you can see there's the four uh rubber

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rubberized holes for a normal hard drive and then there's actually four more and

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you can see that they've coated it here A is for 3 and 1/2 in B is for 2 and 1/2

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in hard drive or SSD so you can see that I've installed in this case one SSD

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drive which is mounted just the same way a normal drive would be and then one 3

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and 1/2 in 1 tbte Western Digital black drive so I thought that was one of one

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of the cleverer things about this particular chassis so thank you for

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checking out my little demo build here in the Define R2 case