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the bit Phoenix Pandora and I have a LoveHate relationship well it's an
animate object so I guess I have LoveHate feelings towards the Pandora
starting with the outside you have on one hand beautifully brushed aluminum
side panels with a tastefully sized and shaped window depending on if you spring
for the window model or not on the other hand you have the same side panels but
they pick up dust like crazy are really hard to clean will show fingerprints
boldly and permanently if you don't handle them and clean them properly and
also they happen to wrap around the front of the case which hoses an
extremely glossy front panel which will yet again pick up fingerprints dust and
in general just pick up imperfections very easily but also happens to look
pretty damn cool if you keep it perfectly clean next up we have the
screen in front of the case called the bit Phoenix icon and no the LoveHate
doesn't end here installation is easy enough you plug it into a USB header
extract the application to wherever you want and drag and drop photos with a
canvas size of 240x 320 on top of it the
screen supports transparencies and if you have a charging USB header that
allows power to pass through even when the computer is off the screen will be
able to illuminate itself so it can use its local memory to display the picture
that we put on it at all times like we're doing here but it didn't work at
first it turned out that we had a bad unit inside of our first case and
swapping it made it work perfectly but troubleshooting was more difficult than
it needed to be because the application has no goey or error codes and there
doesn't even seem to be a manual included with the case or posted on
their website it was pretty frustrating and it doesn't stop there unfortunately
back to the side panels we have a ball and socket pressure mounting system
thing yeah you heard that right and just for reference friends don't let friends
who work at case design companies design cases with ball and socket mounted side
panels doesn't seem that horrible at first I mean it's no big deal just to
push the side panel into the case and it stays there right cool right in theory
yes but in practice the left side panel is a bit challenging to install without
using gloves or something covering your hands and immediately cleaning it
afterwards but where things really start to go off the rails is with the right
side panel which also brings us to our first look inside the case removing this
side panel is easy enough but the problem is putting it back on due to
extremely restricted space behind the motherboard tray if you were to do a
lackluster job of cable management you might not be able to get this panel on
at all this is the first case in quite a while that I have found the use of Zap
straps to be an absolute undeniable requirement especially if if you
actually want to have side panels on your computer while we're back here
behind the side panel is also an SSD mounting point which while it is a
little bit hard to plug the S of power into due to available space is actually
pretty handy spot to mount an SSD shifting our Focus up to the top of the
case we're greeted by a power and reset button which would probably actuate more
consistently with stabilizer bars like in the space bar of a keyboard if you
were to press too far from the middle in any direction the button will move a
little but not actually go far enough to trigger the switch between these two
buttons we will find audio jacks and dual USB 3.0 ports the rest of the top
of the cas is dominated by a large fan filter which is easily removed by
pressing down on the two clip mounts mine is especially easy to remove as one
of the clip mounts was damaged out of the box resulting in only needing to
press down one of the clip mounts yay
luckily once the broken clip Mount decided to fall out completely the
filter sat flushed with the case so it was at least not aesthetically
unpleasing under this fan filter you'll find mounting spots for a 120 mm fan and
oddly enough a 3 and 1/2 in hard drive the hard drive Mount features nice
rubber feet as vibration dampeners and is actually pretty nifty spot to mount
your storage device although I do find it a little Annoying that they didn't
provide an option to mount it in the other direction as it is currently
orientated the cables will likely go through the middle of your case unless
you happen to have very long SATA and very long SATA power cables and that
power cable needs to only have one SATA power plug on it due to space
constraints under the hood if they're able to turn the hard drive around then
the cables could have easily been managed but unfortunately that wasn't
the case finally we come to the main compartment the SSD mount on the side of
the cable management box is stylish and easy to install the hard drive Mount
under the cable management box is easy enough to install although it is a
little bit weird that you'll have to flip the case either upside down or onto
its side to access the screw holes which are fixed into the bottom of the case
said Cable Management box is actually quite effective at providing you enough
space to hook in modular cables into your power supply while hiding your main
compartment cable clutter which you will have due to lack of behind motherboard
Cable Management space it also Sports some rubber grommets at the top which I
expect mainly to be used for things like expansion card power cables and
motherboard headers I would have liked to see them Implement these rubber grommets on the motherboard tray as well
in order to hide some of the rest of that cable clutter in the back the
expansion card slots are accessible although the tower framing can actually
get in the way sometimes especially if you have thicker fingers and while I
appreciate the fact that this piece is removable it honestly seems easier just
to awkwardly try to install things by working around the framing rather than
removing it entirely it should be noted though that lonus had an easier time
with this with his smaller hands up in the front you'll find two 120 mm fan
mounts with a surprisingly ample supply of fresh air from the ventilation holes
that are hidden by the curved aluminum where you can easily install a double
rad by screwing it in by removing the front panel this combined with a top 120
mm fan gives the case compatibility of housing some surprisingly powerful
Hardware in conclusion do I hate this
case honestly no not at all it's flawed
but it's beautiful and once you manage to get it built and cleaned up you'll
probably find yourself asking was it worth the effort I think you'll agree
with lus and I when we say actually yeah it will look fantastic and much any
environment the front- facing icon screen is pretty damn cool and you can
do tons with it from displaying your company logo if it's a customer facing
PC to showing off the icon of your favorite internet group it's Compact and
thin and while I can gripe about the lack of space behind the motherboard all
I want when all of said and done I understand the compromise the designers
made here because the width of the case suits it very well and they went with a
philosophy that I hope more case designers will adopt they didn't try to
cram eight hard drive Bays into to a case that obviously didn't need it and
instead they used what little space they had as efficiently as possible when all
said and done I feel like a slightly disappointed father the case had so much
potential but much of it was overshadowed by imperfections lack of
attention to detail and for our review sample at least several outof the Box
defects hopefully Pandora 2 will be everything I could have wanted and if
bit Phoenix addresses the issues I brought up in this video I think it will
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