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anyone's been making some cool build your own cases recently Alex built the

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Dilly in uh compex now we've got the PAC

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which apparently doesn't actually stand for anything so let's make our own name and Convention how about personally

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organized case thanks inwin it comes in two colors we've got the tropical

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sweetheart or race blue I don't know why

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this one gets the actual color and this one just says tropical uh I guess I just

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get to pick one if you couldn't tell they're flat pack which is actually

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really cool it's kind of like the IKEA furniture of cases

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ooh they've got all these assembly instructions on the box there's also an

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app to follow in case you don't have the box for whatever reason maybe you buy it

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secondhand or something and everything just comes in these like really flat

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sheets of secc Steel which is pretty

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cool we're going to supposedly fold it like origami that's what their marketing

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material says at least anyways front panel how to fold everything's very

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clearly labeled and I like that this is just uh I don't know if it's recycled

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already but it's just paper it's just card like not cardboard uh card stock or

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something so you can easily throw it in the recycling once you're done although

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I mean it's got the instructions so I don't know if you want to get rid of it we've got our side cover we've got our

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front panel rear panel MB or motherboard

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plate side cover one of two top panel

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and bottom panel Hey where's my side cover two of two well okay we'll we'll

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find out I guess maybe they're together or something it's not that heavy it gets to be about 8.82 lb and it's a mini ITX

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build so we've got our r stxs b 760i

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gaming Wi-Fi that we'll throw in that later but I want to build this case we

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get a few other things here there's these metal rails maybe to hold it we

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get some cable ties and zap straps which

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is always nice for cable management we also get a fan so you get one fan with

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your case which is okay for ITX it's not bad we also get some of these little

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yeah these look like little rubber feet that you throw on on the end we'll find that out later we also get a handy dandy

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accessories box always appreciated as well as our PCIe Gen 4 Riser cable oh

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it's both the Riser and the io module in here apparently or maybe they just use

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the same box yeah maybe they just use the same box cuz this one says IO module

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now I don't know what to believe let's see what we get in our accessories box

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though okay just some foam to stick uh I

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don't know what this little foam is for either and then our screws and what

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looks like our standoffs and mounting hardware and uh PCIe slot screws let's

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see which is which here is our oh this is the I/O we get one USBC which is 3.2

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gen 2x2 as well as two 3.2 gen 1 usba a

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ports along with our little headphone mic combo Jack this one must be our

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Riser then yeah very nice if you don't want to follow the instructions that

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come on the box there's an app fold assemble build part one fold oh that's

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really cool seven panels to bend uh so

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you just like Click on each one and then it gives you a little

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uh video on how to fold it let's follow this thing step by step we'll start with

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the MB plate why didn't they just say motherboard one minor thing this is like

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waxed or something on the inside so I don't know how recyclable this is

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anymore it's got this side on the bottom and then you fold these

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in and then this flap okay this is great

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but it moves a little fast how do I rewind do I just go back and back in yep

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okay oh there's this tab I forgot about this go

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here very cool okay and then this folds out this way so then we flip it out this

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way and then we throw some screws in here and then P1 motherboard standoff

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time 6 cool that's the last step looks like the next step is to tell you about

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like hot swappable key switches and per key south facing RGB but it even has

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front panel the F panel my favorite panel looks like this one's pretty easy

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Pock I build I share I build computer

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looks like you fold it in I just want to make sure I'm folding them the right

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way I did because look on the video you can see the color on one side so that

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actually makes it really easy to tell that you're on the right side that's what I've been looking for at least

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anyway is just which side is the paint on we need our rear panel next yeah I do

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love how it's got like the howto fold right on the box that is Handy uh maybe

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don't throw away your your box if you think you're going to be disassembling

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and assembling over and over again one kind of minor thing to note though is

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that this is metal and it's going to wear out so you probably only have so

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many bends in this before it just starts to snap this one's a little harder cuz

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there's no paint my method has been foiled that's

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supposedly the rear panel side cover oh that was good oh this is super cool uh

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so what you can do with these is you can basically uh do whatever pattern you

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want cuz it's for air flow I'll get it assembled first and then I'll choose

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which ones to like pop out top panel ooh I love this blue the tropical sweetheart

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you get a bit of everything you know you get these yellows or oranges you get this green you get some blue it's nice

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whereas with the blue eraser it's just blue and black which hey that's an

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aesthetic in and of itself but it's not what we're looking for today I am like

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terrified every time I bend these and I'm going to break something but nope

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somebody ordered a pizza ball this one's kind of weird we've actually this is

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like the first one where I've had to actually do multiple bends I'm actually

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enjoying myself quite a bit it's a lot of fun I've been doing a lot of like

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mini assembly and painting and stuff recently and it's been a joy kind of

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just putting small things together and I don't really build ITX but I might get

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that ATX version next time I buy a case cuz this is really cool all right you

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hit the done step and then look it's seven pieces 1 2 3 4 five six I have six

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where's my other side panel seven that we totally totally forgot to fold you

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know they only have one step for side panel even though you got two of them I

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just wasn't thinking about it we're going to take our bottom plate we're going to take our MB plate we're just

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going to kind of squeak it in here everything's got a little like cutout

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where it should go which is nice oh these go on the outside this is why you

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follow the instructions this says that it comes with tools and accessories but

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I don't see a

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screwdriver anyway the wind blows okay

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that's done w oh good job careful it's a little

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flimsy until it's like really all together okay so then I take the

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perforated this guy and it's going to slot

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in around here somehow it looks like

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line up these holes very good then we're going to take our other side panel right

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here and we're just going to screw this in to kind of like complete the little graphic here I understand why we put

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these two up top here it's for the I/O so we're just going to screw those into

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these little standoffs here and away we go I just realized this is a power

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button something that's not clear unless you're following the guide maybe it's

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clearer when you f the instructions but these uh panels I don't know sometimes

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if they go on the inside or the outside so let's just watch this little guy here

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on the inside on the inside this time see it's so they have it putting the

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handle on first I think that's way harder to do I'm just going to put these

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screws through first instead as for the handles themselves it's hard to tell you

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know without everything in here but I like them I don't have the smallest

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hands or the beefiest and my fingers can fit in here looks like our next step is

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our PCI Riser okay take that out and

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then this is going to go right here feed that through and then take a couple more

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standoff screws we're almost done basically all we've got are our two side

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panels here we're just going to slot these

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in and then screw them in on both sides it's pretty cool one thing we kind of

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realized though before we put these side panels on is that uh you can't really

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you know once they're in you can't get in there and I've still got to put a computer in this thing they don't tell

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me anywhere on the instructions I got so carried away in their cool Pock app that

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I completely forgot to build the computer so we're going to build a computer

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now okay we're just going to pop a riser Cable in now that we've got our cooler

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and our motherboard in here and I got to say starting to look pretty good I'm not

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100% sure we'll have enough clearance oh yeah we're good we're good we're good

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we're good we'll attach all our IO we'll get our graphics card in on the other

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side just screwing in our power supply here probably should have plugged the

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other stuff in first but you know we'll get there uh the nice thing is because this thing

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takes fulls sizee components look at this we don't need an sfx power

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supply it's so big now they say you can fit a 346 mm long card up to 3 and 1 12

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slots which is pretty bigy pretty beefy

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we got a 4070 TI here we go now it's clicked something

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I got really worried about real quick was how I'm going to actually screw this

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down into the plate that's way down here they give you a little slot so the

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stubby is not going to work that's for sure but big boy long screw

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will totally fit that's in there pretty good you know we got our handles to move

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it around actually really do like these handles quite a bit now that I've got them Cable Management could use some

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work I not going to spend a ton of time cable managing but there's plenty of

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room because it's got two Chambers so the GPU is on the other side nice and

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tidy just like this do whatever you want you got lots of space as for like

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overall feel and quality I don't have the side panels on yet admittedly but it

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does feel a tad flimsy I mean let's be real here it's 8 mm thick secc steel

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it's just kind of held in by screws in a few places with some bends but let's put

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the side panels on before we really judge it too harshly it does look cool I

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really like it it's super colorful like that's one complaint I have about

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building computers these days in general you either do RGB or it's all black or

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it's all white it's kind of it there used to be a lot of colored components

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whether it was cases or motherboards or graphics cards and that just doesn't

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really happen that much anymore but I would like to bring back color a little

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bit of color into my life it's why I like the fractal pop air so much you can get it in a bunch of different fun

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colors um and that's why I really like this guy it's still a little flimsy but

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realistically you're not going to move this once it's done um you're just going

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to put it down somewhere and leave it be so yeah it's pretty sweet you've got

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your all your HDMI ports whatever you're

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going to put there and then just kind of pop them out the sides here or over here

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if you want and then oh the feet

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wow that's great eye build I completely

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forgot to customize my cooling so you

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know I'm just going to take a slot screwdriver and just kind of goop to get

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these out because I cannot reach them now that the panel is on every single

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one that's what I want to do don't do it this way I'm probably scratching a

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little bit of paint actually I really like this I think it's a pretty cool

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idea uh lets you just kind of added a little bit of flare to your computer

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maybe you just want to do the side ones maybe you just want to do the top wow

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it's pretty snazzy you know it is the tiniest bit flimsy but I don't think

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that's a real problem unless you're lugging around your PC everywhere which

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I mean I guess can be kind of the point of small form factor if you want to use

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it for land parties or something Belle says this is more medium form factor and I guess I kind of agree it is a little

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tall it's a little thick like H for

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instance I built in the uh ghost and that is like 2/3 of this size at least

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maybe over overall I think the construction is pretty decent putting it

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together was actually really fun I don't know how many people are actually going

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to enjoy that as much as I did I kind of like these Nifty little fan things that

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you can pop in and out for your air flow probably doesn't do a whole lot

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realistically there is a ton of other ventilation on this case and oh my God I

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forgot about our fan normally the fan just goes on the inside here if you

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forget like me you can always just you know strap it to the outside and then R

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the cable somehow if you want to buy the whole thing it's $95 which consider in

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case prices keep going up and up that's not too bad and if you want to you can

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mix and match and buy individual panels uh so you can kind of create your own

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design one piece at a time do I recommend it honestly yeah if you want

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to build a new kind of medium to small form factor PC and you want something

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that looks colorful and you feel like you've done it yourself then uh the pock

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could be for you thanks for watching if you want to watch other case short

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