WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.520 Indiana Jones may have rated the Lost Ark, but has he ever built a PC in one? 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:07.920 Probably not, because Indiana Jones takes place in the 40s, I think. 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:11.480 There's Nazis in it, right? Indiana Jones is old, is what I'm saying, 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:18.280 and he couldn't build in a computer even if he tried. But today, we're in the future, the geometric future. 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:21.800 Geometric Future is a computer case company that I have never heard of. 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.160 So this is the first case that we're looking at from them, and I'm pretty excited. 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:31.200 We saw this online and we thought, this looks really cool, we have to get this in. And first impressions are negative. 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:33.400 It's like, 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:45.360 it's just, it's plastic-y. You know what, it's the outside of the case, whatever. 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:48.600 It's kind of a showpiece. If you're not planning on moving your computer around, 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.240 maybe that doesn't matter too much to you. I'm excited to see if it's gonna be interesting to build in, 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.960 how it comes apart. Apparently, it's reversible. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:02.200 The bottom and the top can change. And then it also looks like it has support 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.520 for a 360 millimeter rad, maybe more. Let's start by taking it apart. 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:10.460 Where's the front IO? We got a power button up here. 00:01:10.460 --> 00:01:14.080 Okay, we'll figure that out as maybe, maybe there is no front IO. 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:19.280 That's what I'd call a bad choice if you were building a PC case, 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.760 because I think most people like to plug stuff in. And also, it doesn't even look like 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:28.220 you'll be able to have access to the back of your computer either very easily. 00:01:28.220 --> 00:01:31.480 Because these mesh filters slash plastic side pieces, 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.120 they don't just come out, they come out with screws. So it's not like these are like doors 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:40.500 that would swing open, which would be nice. They only bend because they're so plastic-y. 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:43.880 Now that we've taken off one of the side panels, we can take a little bit of a closer look 00:01:43.880 --> 00:01:47.280 at the kind of inside pattern, which I think looks really cool. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.600 It kind of reminds me of Cocoon, if you've ever played that. It's a really good indie game that came out in 2023. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:56.400 Highly recommend it. Yeah, it's flimsy. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.480 Another downside is also that the mesh filter is bent into the structured side panel, 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.000 which is kind of annoying for cleaning. But there's a lot of space 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.120 between the mesh and the actual structure. So I don't think that cleaning this 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.240 would actually end up being too hard. You could probably just take this out, run it under some water or vacuum it, 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.160 and you'd have no problem. So this is also kind of weird. 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:23.280 There is two screw holes here, but these only had single screws in them. 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.480 Maybe this was supposed to be another screw hole and they just didn't drill through it in manufacturing, 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:29.880 but looking at the other side panels, 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:33.000 they all don't have these screwed in. And if this is supposed to be 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.600 some sort of like press fit kind of lock, like to clip into this little hole, 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:42.280 it does a terrible job at that. It just doesn't do anything. 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:47.520 As you can see from these two side panels, it's not exactly a square on the ends. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:54.600 It is a rectangle. So this side, one side is slightly wider than the other. 00:02:54.600 --> 00:02:58.960 They're a relatively new case manufacturer, but they do have like four different models 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:03.800 of case available. So it's not like this is like their first time. 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.360 It looks like here at the front, they have support for a radiator. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:11.080 What's weird is that these cutouts here are like, 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.200 they don't look like they're 120 millimeter increments. 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:17.400 This looks like it's a, they're kind of more like at 90 millimeter increments. 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.400 Looks like this supports 120 or 140 millimeter fans. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.680 And it also looks like it supports to a 360 rad. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.240 This is a micro ATX or mini ITX enclosure. 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.480 Wow, these are some, look at the size of these zip ties. 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:36.680 Those are thick. That's like kidnapping somebody thick. 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.960 Is it, you know, like, is there, there's no front IO. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.040 This is the only included cables. There must not be any front IO. 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:48.280 They have an RGB header for your power light and then a switch button. 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:51.360 Inside this box, inside of our box, 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:56.360 we got, wow, a big microfiber cloth, 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:59.720 which is great because you're gonna be polishing this plastic a lot. 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:02.800 We got more absolutely ludicrously thick zip ties. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.840 And what is it, this bag is so nice. Oh, nevermind, take that back. 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.440 It's like a Ziploc, it's a Ziploc bag, but it's like, it's thick. 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.660 And inside we have some brackets for stuff. 00:04:18.760 --> 00:04:23.080 I think maybe this might be a GPU anti sag bracket. We got some PCIe brackets. 00:04:23.080 --> 00:04:28.160 Some thick ass, real thick cable ties for what? 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.960 I don't know. This looks like it's supposed to be some sort of power supply mount, 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:38.800 a extension cable for your power supply, a whack load of miscellaneous screws. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:45.000 On top of that, we got a lot of cable ties. Like I think like that's five, this is like maybe seven. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.800 So I mean, accessories wise, it's pretty okay. 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.640 And then what is this? What is this like a faux leather mouse pad? 00:04:53.640 --> 00:04:57.600 Okay, that's kind of, that's a cool value add, I guess. 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.840 It's really curled up, also leather, it's like fake leather. 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:07.080 Oh, it flans too messy. Also, wait, there's a texture on it, which is not ideal. 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:10.760 This printing on top of it is not flush, it's textured, which is definitely not ideal 00:05:10.760 --> 00:05:16.400 for any sort of tracking surface. They refer to it as a customized double sided table mat. 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:23.720 So they don't specifically say it's for mousing. Whoa, and a thick bound user manual. 00:05:26.520 --> 00:05:31.040 A new approach, M2 Mini ITX open frame compact chassis. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.600 It's not really an open frame if you have four walls on it. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.000 But before we get any further, there's one last thing in the box. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.560 That looks like a USB-C header for a motherboard. 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.920 And that goes to this dock. Oh, this goes directly into your motherboard. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:52.580 This would be way better as an extension. If this was female, and then I would have this on my desk. 00:05:52.580 --> 00:05:57.680 Also, if you were wondering if the arc was related to something biblical, this is called NOAA. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.160 Clearly the talk in the Bible. It says that the USB-A ports are 10 gigabit per second, 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:06.880 as well as the Type-C. I am unsure if they can do all of that at the same time. 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:10.680 And it has a microphone headphone jack. So this goes to your PC, 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.920 then you put your microphone, your headphone, and that all goes through your single USB-C port. 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.040 I like it though, you know, I don't hate it. I like how we can get so much connectivity 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:25.700 through just one USB-C port, though it would be nice to just have more expansion, 00:06:25.700 --> 00:06:28.760 but three USB-As and a Type-C is not so bad. 00:06:28.760 --> 00:06:31.960 They claim to have durable materials, 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:36.280 but also that it's one millimeter plus 1.15 millimeter steel, 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:41.040 which is not famously durable, that's pretty thin. Thankfully, it looks like the chassis is put together 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.920 with all of the exact same type of screw, so there's not gonna be a ton of sorting 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.240 that you need to do. I really appreciate that, and I'm glad that more and more companies 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.880 are doing that these days. And then we're supposed to take out this thing. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.040 It's a thumb screw, but it's also in there pretty good. 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:05.340 Which looks to be support for some SSDs. 00:07:05.340 --> 00:07:09.940 That's gonna be my guess for this. Probably maybe a couple of two and a half inch drives. 00:07:09.940 --> 00:07:14.340 And that basically leaves us with just the shell. That's kind of all you're really looking at 00:07:14.340 --> 00:07:17.820 when it comes to what the case actually is when you take off all of the nice fascia. 00:07:19.380 --> 00:07:22.780 Let's see what it's like to build in it. Well, there's not a crazy amount of different ways 00:07:22.780 --> 00:07:26.420 to orient the stuff in this case. You are gonna have to be careful based 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:30.380 on how thick your graphics card is, because that's gonna affect where your PSU is going to be mounted. 00:07:30.380 --> 00:07:35.640 You might actually have to turn your PSU 90 degrees of using a full-sized four-slot GPU. 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.220 We're gonna take out these little rails, and I might as well just get them straight mounted 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:44.480 onto the CPU cooler we have. That's just gonna save me time. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.560 And these look, I wonder if these are interchangeable. 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.600 We'll find out when we take them off if they're exactly the same. 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.200 Oh yeah, that's the same component, cool. Now we can see we have a movable 00:07:54.200 --> 00:07:58.520 and adjustable motherboard back plate. You can see that we have these rails along which we can 00:07:58.520 --> 00:08:03.760 slide it through these screws, as well as multiple screw holes for fastening it down 00:08:03.760 --> 00:08:07.400 in these various different settings. What I do actually appreciate is that, 00:08:07.400 --> 00:08:10.800 I don't know if this is anywhere on their website, but they have a lot of different specs 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.280 if you're worried about hardware compatibility here. It's really great to see that 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:18.360 because it talks about the differences in hardware compatibility if you have a GPU 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:23.440 of a different size or a power supply of different size. Oh wow, so if you know the length of your graphics card, 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:26.520 they actually tell you exactly where you should slide it along the scale, 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.400 300, 310, 320, that's actually really nice. 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:33.480 And the fact that it's stamped in there makes it really, really easy as the user to do. 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.000 What I will say is that because I can take off pretty much all of the sides, 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.600 this is absolutely easy to build in. 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:45.880 Like I have so much space. Like look, look at all that room. 00:08:45.880 --> 00:08:50.680 It's incredible. It supports ATX power supplies too. 00:08:50.680 --> 00:08:54.760 And now we take a little bracket and we just slap that on. 00:08:54.800 --> 00:08:58.000 This bracket here doesn't quite align with the power supply screw holes 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.160 because it has this top lip. And I think that this top lip is gonna be a little thick 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:05.480 and it's like maybe not expecting the top of this power supply to be so thick. 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.120 While this, maybe this mount doesn't work, maybe we'll have to try the 90 degree mount, 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.720 which we have over here. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.420 So that's just kind of in there with the two screws. 00:09:16.760 --> 00:09:21.480 Apparently the solution to this is one of their nylon cable ties. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.120 Nylon? Is that the Velcro ones? 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:31.480 That must be one of their long Velcro cable ties, which is on the ground over here. 00:09:32.640 --> 00:09:36.320 This is very unconventional to just be like, 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.560 yeah, yeah, we're not gonna give you like a full power supply bracket. 00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:43.680 We're just gonna give, I thought this was five wide ones. 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:48.360 It turns out I was totally wrong earlier. It's just one long boy. 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.880 I should have done that before. I should have routed this three before 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:54.560 because I guess I go under. I mean, it wiggles less now. 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.600 One weird thing is that we don't have any pre-installed PCIe brackets. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:06.520 So apparently we put this here and then we get the rest of the GPU in 00:10:06.520 --> 00:10:08.880 by screwing in this side to somewhere. 00:10:11.640 --> 00:10:14.880 Honey, I don't got a lot of faith. This is gonna be interesting. 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:22.320 Because of how thick the metal is on these, you can kind of see actually that there's a little 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.440 bit of space between the two of these because it's not perfectly flush. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.720 I can't plug this DisplayPort in here 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.280 and have the security latches actually engage. 00:10:32.280 --> 00:10:35.760 Oh, yeah, see? So it just comes out without using the switch. 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:39.040 Oh, that time it seems like it caught. Something to be careful of, I guess. 00:10:39.040 --> 00:10:42.960 So that mounts to there. Oh my God, this is only mounting to the motherboard tray. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:46.240 So we're gonna have like so much weight on just this plastic right now. 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.520 All right, let's get some cables in here. 00:10:54.520 --> 00:10:59.520 And oh my God, no, that's bad. 00:11:02.760 --> 00:11:06.360 In terms of cable management, it looks you're gonna have a decent amount of space 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.000 just coming up from behind the power supply, which is pretty good. 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.880 Obviously there's not much room to hide your cables in a case such as this, 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:18.360 but it's mesh on all the sides anyway. So it's not gonna be super visible. 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:24.680 Though I guess actually you kind of can see in through the corners. So it might be a bigger ordeal than I would hope. 00:11:24.680 --> 00:11:29.280 But hey, you watched my cube video and you know how much I care about cable management. 00:11:29.280 --> 00:11:32.800 Nothing, it's stupid. You know, I really wish there was cable management 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:36.360 like along here, because I kinda got this extra little cable that I'd like to deal with. 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.720 And this seems like the only real good place to strap it. 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:42.760 I guess maybe I could strap it along the edges. 00:11:42.760 --> 00:11:48.880 Just be nice to run it flush down all the way. Let's get the CPU cooler in there. 00:11:48.880 --> 00:11:51.680 It's gonna be a tight squeeze, but I think we're good. 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.080 I think we're good. Now that we've put an AIO in it, 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.020 there's actually rigidity, which is good. 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:04.160 No more wobble, except for maybe this part. 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:07.680 That's pretty good. Yes, I'm sorry. 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:11.360 I know a white AIO. It was not my fault, blame that man. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.800 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So you came out your drives here. This goes behind the motherboard tray 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:20.260 and it supports one three and a half inch and two and a half inch drive or two, two and a half inch drives, 00:12:20.260 --> 00:12:24.400 which is pretty sick for a small, more effective place. I'm always loving the extra room 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:29.880 and especially support for hard drives. I'm a big data hoarder, so I like drives. 00:12:29.880 --> 00:12:33.000 I don't mind this solution. I think it's kinda cool to have your AIO 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.920 on a little puck on your desk. You can put this under your desk or something. But this is so short. 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:40.520 This cable, if I plug it into where my motherboard is, 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.560 I could get it out the side here and it can dangle or maybe it can make it on top of the case. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:52.320 Like it's really not long. So what they should have done is made this a female 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.520 so that I could put any other USB-C to C cable in there 00:12:55.520 --> 00:12:58.600 and then just run it as an extension or make this long enough 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:02.800 that it can reach somewhere on my desk. Now, one thing we haven't done, but that you can do, 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:06.320 is we can change the top panel and the bottom panel 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:11.680 so that the button and the stuff is at the top and you can route all your cables through the bottom, 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:17.000 which is a good idea because you have your back IO out here 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.760 so you can run all of your cables at the bottom. One thing to note is that putting them at the bottom 00:13:20.760 --> 00:13:25.120 will make them a little bit less accessible and that will mean that you'll have to lift up your computer 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:30.920 to plug stuff in. But if you're not plugging stuff into your back IO that often and you can make do with the front IO 00:13:30.920 --> 00:13:36.600 and considering that you have a pretty good amount of front IO, I don't understand why you wouldn't 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.640 just flip it no matter what and why it didn't get shipped that way. 00:13:39.640 --> 00:13:42.760 We're gonna leave it the other way because that's how they shipped it. 00:13:42.760 --> 00:13:48.240 And also, I don't got time for that. Now, as I put all of my side panels back on, 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.880 I guess I should put that on too. I realize, you realize kind of the issue is that 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:56.360 you're gonna have to route all of your cables out of this somehow. 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.840 And there's not gonna be a really cleaner, accessible way to do that because you have these screwed on. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:05.040 It would have been really, really nice if at least this one side had a hinge 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:09.440 because then we could open it up and easily access our back IO. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.640 But that's just not how it is with this case. And now I get to use my fancy cloth 00:14:13.640 --> 00:14:16.760 because my filthy grubby fingers got all over this. 00:14:16.760 --> 00:14:20.920 So they gave me the world's biggest Michael Fible. You know, there's something satisfying 00:14:20.920 --> 00:14:25.360 about building a computer and I think that high is kind of like making me like this more than I should 00:14:26.800 --> 00:14:30.640 because I feel good about building this case, but it's bad. 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:36.240 Sure, it was easy to build in because it was very open and I think that the styling is unique, 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:42.760 distinct and pretty cool. But, and you know what, this pocketing kind of neat. 00:14:42.760 --> 00:14:48.280 Shout out to Noah. But it's just so flimsy, which might not be a bad thing 00:14:48.280 --> 00:14:53.200 if maybe this is like a budget case, right? If this is a design we could get at a lower price 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:58.360 where you don't see these kinds of cool designs, then maybe it's worth it, but it's... 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:02.760 So what is the price? Shut up, $169 US. 00:15:02.760 --> 00:15:07.280 That's bad, this is a good, no. If this case was maybe $100, 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:12.920 even then I would be kind of hesitant to recommend it. Maybe at the 60 or $70 price range, it would be cool. 00:15:12.920 --> 00:15:17.240 I think that, you know, you don't have to worry about thermals, noise is probably gonna be okay too 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:21.400 because there's just lots of airflow here. Dust is obviously gonna be an issue. 00:15:21.400 --> 00:15:25.760 It's an open case. It's a very open case, so dust is always gonna be an issue. 00:15:25.760 --> 00:15:28.960 Luckily, it's so open that it shouldn't be too hard to clean. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.400 It will take maybe four, eight screws to take apart, 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:36.280 which is pretty bad compared to just like a case window where you can just get in there with a vacuum 00:15:36.280 --> 00:15:39.920 or something like that. But again, we're in the small form factor realm. 00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:46.080 And if you, in the small form factor realm, while it's very compatible, it's also very big. 00:15:48.280 --> 00:15:53.280 But I just can't really get past the shoddy build quality. 00:15:53.800 --> 00:15:58.080 It is so plastic-y, it feels like it's bent. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.680 Is it, Andrew pointed out, is it actually on level? 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:06.520 Yeah, it's like bent. I don't know if I, it's not flat. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.640 And I think that bend is because of the weight 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:19.840 that was put on this while I was working in the case. And the fact that it can't survive a single build, 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:24.600 like it's garbage, it's bad. So it turns out that this is not a mouse pad, 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:31.360 so that's good, but it's a pad so you can lay this on its side without scratching its delicate plastic body. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.320 Oh, look at that. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.920 Hey. You know, you hate to see it. 00:16:41.920 --> 00:16:46.920 If this was $70 and didn't suck, it would be worth buying. 00:16:48.640 --> 00:16:52.200 But at $169, out to lunch pricing, it's awful. 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.880 It's mostly plastic. It's, yeah, don't buy it. 00:16:55.880 --> 00:16:59.660 It's a big disappointment. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you liked this video, why don't you watch a video 00:16:59.660 --> 00:17:03.600 with a case that's actually worth buying, like the Cooler Master Cube 500. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.440 It's a flat pack case and it's pretty cool.