okay so I did an unboxing the other day of the fractal designs Define R2
computer case but now I've actually gone ahead and done a quick build inside it
just to kind of get a feel for how easy it is to build inside how quiet it is
because that's what everyone seemed to want to know about it so first of all at
the front I I mentioned in my unboxing that it lights up with a blue LED now we
actually get to see what it looks like lit up still very clean and very plain
looking that's the only Lighting on the case the door opens up where we can find
inside the the one I haven't installed any aftermarket fans or anything so it
only has the one stock black and white fan and then I've installed one DVD
drive for this particular demo system and you can't really look through there
and see the hard drives but that's okay all right so why don't we get this open
here I've uh I have not used their modu
vent feature because this is supposed to be a silent build that is how the case
is targeted and marketed so I've left all of the noise deadening materials on
the extra ventilation holes all right so I'm taking off that heavy side panel
because it's got all of that sound deadening material inside so the inside
of this case is actually really clever it did not take me long to do this build
and I was able to do a very tidy job as you can see of the cable management so
I'm not using a modular power supply I'm using their Tesla 650 wat power supply
and I've used the included cable ties to tie up all of the unnecessary cables I'm
running a GTX 275 and you can see I've still got about another inch and a half
of space at the end to install potentially an even longer video card
I'm using their grommeted uh cable routing holes in order to use the 24 pin
power supply connector as well as to run a cable up to my optical drive up here
and to run the eight pin connector up to the top of my motherboard now let me see
what else I wanted to say about oh another cool thing that I did not mention about this case is it actually
has noise deadening material where you mount the power supply to the case so
there's a little bit of foam in there and their power supplies actually include overly long screws so that you
can attach them easily and leave enough space that you are going to take
advantage of that noise deadening another cool feature and this is kind of
a why didn't anyone else think of it sort of thing there are extra holes on
their hard drive mounting sleds you can see there's the four uh rubber
rubberized holes for a normal hard drive and then there's actually four more and
you can see that they've coated it here A is for 3 and 1/2 in B is for 2 and 1/2
in hard drive or SSD so you can see that I've installed in this case one SSD
drive which is mounted just the same way a normal drive would be and then one 3
and 1/2 in 1 tbte Western Digital black drive so I thought that was one of one
of the cleverer things about this particular chassis so thank you for
checking out my little demo build here in the Define R2 case