we're at Fan Texas suite at CES and we're taking a look at their brand new
Envy 7 case
I mean just look at it it's beautiful I
would even say sexy one of the biggest features is that this is supposed to be
a showcase PC something that you're going to put on your desk show all of
your friends who really care about computer hardware how much money you've
spent I mean just look at it you have fans on the back you have fans
on the bottom you have fans on top you have fans everywhere the whole idea is
that this is a zero compromises case it's going to be both beautiful and high
performance and it's going to allow you to get the most out of your Hardware let's just talk about the outside of it
as you can see you have a tempered glass front panel that goes right around to the side seamless there's no
reinforcement here so it's just like it's just glass to do this they've had
to reinforce a lot of the edges so there's going to be some thick edges
we'll show you the inside of the case in just a moment but some other cool
features is that down here you can see they've angled this whole bottom panel
up even including the i o this is to get better airflow as well as to show off
your fans at the bottom so again a showcase PC it's all about bragging and
showing off speaking of IO you have a combo microphone headphone jack a USB
type-c 10 gigabit per second port and two USB type a five gigabit per second
ports fun fact you can actually take this and
mount it on the back with the rest of your cables so if you want to have this
whole case turned and looking nice you don't have to see any gross cables at
the front it's all about image okay one cool thing is that usually the back of
the PC case is where all the manufacturers stop carrying because they
go you're going to shove it against the wall no one's ever going to see it fantex did not agree with that so what
they've done is that they put this whole door on the back that's going to cover all of your cables and this is this is
really cool they have cable Combs that go along the
entire back side and the bottom so you can route your cables totally smoothly
throughout and just have them subtly stick out you don't actually even have
to have them come out the back you can actually have them come out the bottom through these rubber grommets just
inside the back panel now some of you might be thinking look at this garbage
airflow they just want it to look nice so they put all of their fans as exhausts not so fast phantix has reverse
fans so you can make sure that your RGB looks clean even if it's exhausting or
intaking and in the spirit of keeping things clean their new D30 fans come
with these Bridge connectors that allow you to connect up to four fans Daisy
Chained and just run them through one single connector they also have these
little clips that you can put on and cover the screw holes up so that you have a completely uninterrupted looking
fan it's working on me it looks really good and in the case they even have this
diffuse RGB strips that run along the um I guess the motherboard frame as well as
you might notice this there's no PSU that you can see that's because this
chamber up here is actually a sideways mounted PSU and the case comes with an
integrated RGB controller that's dual channel so you don't have to plug
everything into this one controller and then only have all the same color you
can actually change each Channel individually so I can change the speed
and the color of the effects for each
Channel without software just using the hardware
in the computer which makes it means it's going to work with a lot more fans
than uh you know Corsair's IQ software
also you don't have to install Corsair's IQ software which is a win for everyone
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want okay yeah to take the whole case apart you're
gonna have to open this back door and then everything from there on is going to be tool-less you got thumb screws for
the glass side panel just right here be very careful with this big piece of
glass if you want to take off the top panel
there's just a couple more thumb screws there's actually one screw here on the
back panel but that's just for shipping once you've gotten your case you don't have to worry about it and this just oh
it just slides off like that for the front panel if you do want to
remove it you will need to take the screws out here and here so you do need
at least a screwdriver but I assume that if you're already if you're getting in
dirty enough to take out the front panel you probably have a screwdriver handy
and if you don't you can buy one at lttstore.com oh there's a little rubber
grommet here that's okay so for mounting options you have up
to three 360 millimeter rad so 360 here
360 here 360 at the top a 240 at the back if you
want you can put four fans here but not a 480 millimeter rad that's just because
of the way the case is slanted you don't quite have enough clearance but you can
just put in another rad if you really need that these uh frames can be easily
removed with again another thumb screw allowing you to put your fans in your
radiator in outside of the case and then you can put it back in same thing with
the bottom frame the top frame is not removable though slide forward
and a nice touch is they have these rubber dampeners on the bottom so any
vibrations from your fans won't go to the case and make a bunch of noise also
if you want this to be mounted flat as opposed to on an angle you can just turn
it around and put it back in the case and it's flat currently this is
configured for a standard ATX motherboard but you can actually support up to an eatx motherboard by just
removing the RGB strips they just slide
out like that they're all connected with Pogo pins so
you don't have to worry about any extra cable work or anything like that you
take this bracket you flip it like this and now you have a thinner bracket so
you can fit a wider motherboard one thing to note is that this is actually where your GPU mounting bracket will
attach to you can see these screw holes right here or right here depending on
your configuration so this actually screws into the back of the case because
it's a very very rigid bracket and it's actually really subtle
um I don't know if I actually missed it when we were talking about it in the big
case but that ASUS 4090 has a bracket be
holding it up it's really subtle really slick and for your custom water cooling
Loops they've even thoughtfully included not just a fill Port but a drain Port
that's the one you really want that's gonna make your life a lot easier let's
go to the back side on the back side you can see the PSU chamber as well as ample
Cable Management it comes with tons of tie down points with included cable
straps which is great all of your cables are just going to kind of live around here which is nice because if you have
any access but also that big big ass 24 pin cable that you got to plug into your
motherboard what a pain it's always the same length a lot of the time you have
too much of it especially because your power supply is going to be right here rather than at the bottom like a lot of
other cases so you'll have a lot of excess cable well fantax thought about
that phantix implemented this little door with this cable routing where you
can route the cable around these posts and then back through so you only have
the exact amount of cable that you need to get to your motherboard and it looks
clean even from the back or No One's Gonna look but you know you can mount
two two and a half inch ssds here one on either side but storage doesn't end
there in this little door you can put up to four ssds or two three and a half
inch hard drives or a combination of the both with this little bracket you also
have cable routing options at the top here just above the motherboard or
through these cool like right angled rubber grommets here that makes it
really easy to pass large cables through I thought this was going to be like a
cable management hole but then I realized it was a cable management hole
to nowhere because the side panel goes right in what this is actually for is if
you space for relief of your cable because the way SATA cables kind of
stick out you have to curve them around you can't just bend them
this gives you the opportunity to have a little bit of relief all this beauty is going to cost a pretty penny right well
it's not actually that bad phantek says that this is going to be hitting the
market at 220 or I guess 19.99 is
probably what they're going to do um which I think is a pretty good price
for something that's like a showcase PC especially with how decked out with
features this thing is it's coming in February 2023 so keep your eyes peeled
for one of these I think really cool cases if you like this ShortCircuit
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