anyone's been making some cool build your own cases recently Alex built the
Dilly in uh compex now we've got the PAC
which apparently doesn't actually stand for anything so let's make our own name and Convention how about personally
organized case thanks inwin it comes in two colors we've got the tropical
sweetheart or race blue I don't know why
this one gets the actual color and this one just says tropical uh I guess I just
get to pick one if you couldn't tell they're flat pack which is actually
really cool it's kind of like the IKEA furniture of cases
ooh they've got all these assembly instructions on the box there's also an
app to follow in case you don't have the box for whatever reason maybe you buy it
secondhand or something and everything just comes in these like really flat
sheets of secc Steel which is pretty
cool we're going to supposedly fold it like origami that's what their marketing
material says at least anyways front panel how to fold everything's very
clearly labeled and I like that this is just uh I don't know if it's recycled
already but it's just paper it's just card like not cardboard uh card stock or
something so you can easily throw it in the recycling once you're done although
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
front panel rear panel MB or motherboard
plate side cover one of two top panel
and bottom panel Hey where's my side cover two of two well okay we'll we'll
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
build so we've got our r stxs b 760i
gaming Wi-Fi that we'll throw in that later but I want to build this case we
get a few other things here there's these metal rails maybe to hold it we
get some cable ties and zap straps which
is always nice for cable management we also get a fan so you get one fan with
your case which is okay for ITX it's not bad we also get some of these little
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
accessories box always appreciated as well as our PCIe Gen 4 Riser cable oh
it's both the Riser and the io module in here apparently or maybe they just use
the same box yeah maybe they just use the same box cuz this one says IO module
now I don't know what to believe let's see what we get in our accessories box
though okay just some foam to stick uh I
don't know what this little foam is for either and then our screws and what
looks like our standoffs and mounting hardware and uh PCIe slot screws let's
see which is which here is our oh this is the I/O we get one USBC which is 3.2
gen 2x2 as well as two 3.2 gen 1 usba a
ports along with our little headphone mic combo Jack this one must be our
Riser then yeah very nice if you don't want to follow the instructions that
come on the box there's an app fold assemble build part one fold oh that's
really cool seven panels to bend uh so
you just like Click on each one and then it gives you a little
uh video on how to fold it let's follow this thing step by step we'll start with
the MB plate why didn't they just say motherboard one minor thing this is like
waxed or something on the inside so I don't know how recyclable this is
anymore it's got this side on the bottom and then you fold these
in and then this flap okay this is great
but it moves a little fast how do I rewind do I just go back and back in yep
okay oh there's this tab I forgot about this go
here very cool okay and then this folds out this way so then we flip it out this
way and then we throw some screws in here and then P1 motherboard standoff
time 6 cool that's the last step looks like the next step is to tell you about
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front panel the F panel my favorite panel looks like this one's pretty easy
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looks like you fold it in I just want to make sure I'm folding them the right
way I did because look on the video you can see the color on one side so that
actually makes it really easy to tell that you're on the right side that's what I've been looking for at least
anyway is just which side is the paint on we need our rear panel next yeah I do
love how it's got like the howto fold right on the box that is Handy uh maybe
don't throw away your your box if you think you're going to be disassembling
and assembling over and over again one kind of minor thing to note though is
that this is metal and it's going to wear out so you probably only have so
many bends in this before it just starts to snap this one's a little harder cuz
there's no paint my method has been foiled that's
supposedly the rear panel side cover oh that was good oh this is super cool uh
so what you can do with these is you can basically uh do whatever pattern you
want cuz it's for air flow I'll get it assembled first and then I'll choose
which ones to like pop out top panel ooh I love this blue the tropical sweetheart
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
whereas with the blue eraser it's just blue and black which hey that's an
aesthetic in and of itself but it's not what we're looking for today I am like
terrified every time I bend these and I'm going to break something but nope
somebody ordered a pizza ball this one's kind of weird we've actually this is
like the first one where I've had to actually do multiple bends I'm actually
enjoying myself quite a bit it's a lot of fun I've been doing a lot of like
mini assembly and painting and stuff recently and it's been a joy kind of
just putting small things together and I don't really build ITX but I might get
that ATX version next time I buy a case cuz this is really cool all right you
hit the done step and then look it's seven pieces 1 2 3 4 five six I have six
where's my other side panel seven that we totally totally forgot to fold you
know they only have one step for side panel even though you got two of them I
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
going to kind of squeak it in here everything's got a little like cutout
where it should go which is nice oh these go on the outside this is why you
follow the instructions this says that it comes with tools and accessories but
I don't see a
screwdriver anyway the wind blows okay
that's done w oh good job careful it's a little
flimsy until it's like really all together okay so then I take the
perforated this guy and it's going to slot
in around here somehow it looks like
line up these holes very good then we're going to take our other side panel right
here and we're just going to screw this in to kind of like complete the little graphic here I understand why we put
these two up top here it's for the I/O so we're just going to screw those into
these little standoffs here and away we go I just realized this is a power
button something that's not clear unless you're following the guide maybe it's
clearer when you f the instructions but these uh panels I don't know sometimes
if they go on the inside or the outside so let's just watch this little guy here
on the inside on the inside this time see it's so they have it putting the
handle on first I think that's way harder to do I'm just going to put these
screws through first instead as for the handles themselves it's hard to tell you
know without everything in here but I like them I don't have the smallest
hands or the beefiest and my fingers can fit in here looks like our next step is
our PCI Riser okay take that out and
then this is going to go right here feed that through and then take a couple more
standoff screws we're almost done basically all we've got are our two side
panels here we're just going to slot these
in and then screw them in on both sides it's pretty cool one thing we kind of
realized though before we put these side panels on is that uh you can't really
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
me anywhere on the instructions I got so carried away in their cool Pock app that
I completely forgot to build the computer so we're going to build a computer
now okay we're just going to pop a riser Cable in now that we've got our cooler
and our motherboard in here and I got to say starting to look pretty good I'm not
100% sure we'll have enough clearance oh yeah we're good we're good we're good
we're good we'll attach all our IO we'll get our graphics card in on the other
side just screwing in our power supply here probably should have plugged the
other stuff in first but you know we'll get there uh the nice thing is because this thing
takes fulls sizee components look at this we don't need an sfx power
supply it's so big now they say you can fit a 346 mm long card up to 3 and 1 12
slots which is pretty bigy pretty beefy
we got a 4070 TI here we go now it's clicked something
I got really worried about real quick was how I'm going to actually screw this
down into the plate that's way down here they give you a little slot so the
stubby is not going to work that's for sure but big boy long screw
will totally fit that's in there pretty good you know we got our handles to move
it around actually really do like these handles quite a bit now that I've got them Cable Management could use some
work I not going to spend a ton of time cable managing but there's plenty of
room because it's got two Chambers so the GPU is on the other side nice and
tidy just like this do whatever you want you got lots of space as for like
overall feel and quality I don't have the side panels on yet admittedly but it
does feel a tad flimsy I mean let's be real here it's 8 mm thick secc steel
it's just kind of held in by screws in a few places with some bends but let's put
the side panels on before we really judge it too harshly it does look cool I
really like it it's super colorful like that's one complaint I have about
building computers these days in general you either do RGB or it's all black or
it's all white it's kind of it there used to be a lot of colored components
whether it was cases or motherboards or graphics cards and that just doesn't
really happen that much anymore but I would like to bring back color a little
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
colors um and that's why I really like this guy it's still a little flimsy but
realistically you're not going to move this once it's done um you're just going
to put it down somewhere and leave it be so yeah it's pretty sweet you've got
your all your HDMI ports whatever you're
going to put there and then just kind of pop them out the sides here or over here
if you want and then oh the feet
wow that's great eye build I completely
forgot to customize my cooling so you
know I'm just going to take a slot screwdriver and just kind of goop to get
these out because I cannot reach them now that the panel is on every single
one that's what I want to do don't do it this way I'm probably scratching a
little bit of paint actually I really like this I think it's a pretty cool
idea uh lets you just kind of added a little bit of flare to your computer
maybe you just want to do the side ones maybe you just want to do the top wow
it's pretty snazzy you know it is the tiniest bit flimsy but I don't think
that's a real problem unless you're lugging around your PC everywhere which
I mean I guess can be kind of the point of small form factor if you want to use
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
tall it's a little thick like H for
instance I built in the uh ghost and that is like 2/3 of this size at least
maybe over overall I think the construction is pretty decent putting it
together was actually really fun I don't know how many people are actually going
to enjoy that as much as I did I kind of like these Nifty little fan things that
you can pop in and out for your air flow probably doesn't do a whole lot
realistically there is a ton of other ventilation on this case and oh my God I
forgot about our fan normally the fan just goes on the inside here if you
forget like me you can always just you know strap it to the outside and then R
the cable somehow if you want to buy the whole thing it's $95 which consider in
case prices keep going up and up that's not too bad and if you want to you can
mix and match and buy individual panels uh so you can kind of create your own
design one piece at a time do I recommend it honestly yeah if you want
to build a new kind of medium to small form factor PC and you want something
that looks colorful and you feel like you've done it yourself then uh the pock
could be for you thanks for watching if you want to watch other case short
circuits Adam built the q500 from Cooler
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