welcome to my MSI interceptor series
ravager unboxing this is a case from MSI which is something that you might not be
accustomed to seeing more along the lines of like motherboards and graphics
cards and like even networking gear and stuff like that but never cases before
so we see a few different features outlined on the front of the case one is
super speed usb 3.0 tool-less drive bay design solid-state drive support
three-year warranty advanced thermal design custom lacerated imprints so
that's kind of like a cool like claw like effect going on over here
protecting your vital gear i don't know about you guys but when it comes to my
vital gear i would not put it anywhere near something called a ravager
just throwing that out there however i'm pretty sure what they mean is
computer gear which is probably fine okay moving right along custom lacerated
imprint and advanced thermal design includes two high quality fans cable
camouflage systems so cable routing okay removable three and a half inch
drive big cages full-size vga card support up to 310 millimeters screw-less
easy snapping hard drive tray okay two the out supports two and a half
inch as well tool is five and a quarter water cooling ready although this is
very debatable i personally don't believe these grommets make it water cooling ready i'd rather see spacing for
a natively mounted radiator extra spacing for cable management and
pre-installed with 120 millimeter front blue led fan with dust filter
let's go ahead and open this bad boy up shall we
got my knife
all right breaking some seals because that's what we do
and hey soft foam as you guys may or may not know if
you've been watching my channel for a little while i prefer
soft foam to hard foam because it stands
up against multiple impacts better than heart foam this is however quite thin
soft foam in some places considering the
size and weight of a fully loaded system but
i guess i'm gonna have to compromise on this particular one
all right there we have the raptor actually it looks not bad
this looks better in person than it does in pictures i mean the ouch shocked me
and i mean the uh the laceration like tattoo thing that they got going on here
so this is a fairly high quality paint that they're using it's not something
that's just like a sticker that's gonna come off this is painted right on it
looks actually looks kind of nice and it matches the overall color scheme of the
case so you can see the internals are using MSI branded fans as well as
blue pci slot covers a blue motherboard back
plate as well as more tattoos over here
on the other side and they got an interceptor series ravager this one
looks like it's a sticker but it's no no it's not it's not that's actually painted right on there that looks really
sharp uh we've got support for actually you know what no let's finish with the
tattoos and then we'll then move on okay so last set of tattoos right here three
five and a quarter inch base big old power button as well as an led at the
front we've got our intakes here at the front as well
and let's move around to the rest of the outside so front usb 2.0 headphone
microphone front usb 3.0 reset switch and hard drive indicator led we've got
more fan girls up here we're going to open it up to find out exactly what's
inside there on this side we've got support for up to two 140 millimeter
fans although this spacing is also compatible with two 120
millimeter fans on the back we find another 120
millimeter fan or 92 millimeter fan whichever you prefer and seven pci slots
so this is going to fit standard atx boards or micro atx boards or mini itx
boards but not xl atx boards two filtered intakes on the bottom one of
these is for your power supply one of these is for an additional 120
millimeter fan now let's go ahead and use the thumb screws here to open up the
case oh look at that they're not too tight from the factory a lot of the time
these thumb screws are so tight at the factory that i can't get them off with
my fingers and i have to actually use a screwdriver heaven forbid
i need a screwdriver in this day and age
everything should be toolless actually no i'm not much of that i'm not much of
a tool-less guy myself i prefer things that are securely mounted to
things that are tool-less although if you can securely mount something tool-lessly that's pretty good too not
too much flex on the panel although this isn't exactly a premium case by any
stretch of the imagination and the price tag would dictate that it's that it's not i
mean when i say premium case i mean like it's
not you know 300 case like a Corsair 800d where my expectation would be that
it's you know built out of tank armor but
um yeah moving on
oops that filter came off let's go ahead and throw that filter back in there so
these filters are basically just mounted with little uh little clips actually
here you can have a look so they're mounted with little clips they're
effective if not the most you know elegant possible solution but they're
easy to clean uh not made of metal so they're not going to like rust or
anything after you clean them i've actually run into that very recently that's why i brought it up
i was like not impressed um so here we are on the inside okay so
here's our uh hard drive sled so you can see the two and a half inch mounting holes as
well as the three and a half inch mounting holes so the three and a half inch are tool-less however you will need
tools for two and a half inch drives you can also see that these are completely
removable oops i put that in there there we go these are completely removable and
also tool-less check that out so not only could you mount a 310 millimeter
graphics card you could mount like a 400 plus millimeter graphics card and this
also gives you a way to install an additional 120 millimeter fan without
too much musk or fuss so you can see there's one installed right there that's
a blue led fan can you see that he says so so okay well it's in there
you'll have to trust me on this one and then there's another blue and black 120
millimeter fan at the back of the case this one with MSI branding so this guy
doesn't come out this one's riveted in however you'll probably need at least a
few hard drives at any rate so this is your optical drive mounting basically
you just how does this work push
oh cool there you go so they pop out or they pop in
good stuff what else is there to really say here
let's have a look at the internal connectors so nothing really out of the ordinary
here we've got power as well as usb 3 usb 2 and front hd
audio we've got your usual internal connectors for you know your power
switch your reset switch and your various leds that you're going to need
i'd prefer if these were black but it's not the end of the world because you do
have space for managing your cables so everything from your power supply is
going to come through this one and you'll be running them out here here and
here is where your eight pin or uh yeah here too you could potentially put an
eight pin through there and route that to your motherboard depending on the positioning of the eight pin you can
also route a bunch of stuff up through here at the top let's have a look at the
spacing in the top here so you can do up to two 140 millimeter fans or two 120
millimeter fans i would have preferred to see just straight 2 by 120 with
support for a radiator but it's not the end of the world one way or the other i
didn't actually mention at any point during this video that this is a bottom mounted power supply you've got rubber
mounts right here so it's not going to scratch itself out on the bottom of the
case and in terms of room for routing cables
behind actually that's not bad so we've got enough room back here to easily do a
24 pin cable without warping out the other side of the case from the back it
doesn't really look like there's anything in particular going on
i think that pretty much covers it other than checking out what's in here so
hopefully there's like some oh look at the bag
MSI customer survival pack i guarantee i
know who at MSI came up with that idea and i know he's gonna watch this video
i'm looking at you your initials are rk
and that is hilarious okay um
i also know who's responsible for these dog tags
oh that's cool okay so it comes with some black zip ties happy to see long
zip ties because how many times have you seen cases that come with those little
short zip ties like this that actually like aren't big enough to hold anything
so these are handy uh you've also got ah yes they've built in lots of space to
use them so these help a lot when you're routing cables having all these little
loops on the back of the motherboard tray allows you to keep everything flat
and keep everything cabled really tightly whether it's data cables that
you're running down here or power cables that you're running up to various places
so that is what those included zip ties are for we also have
oh neat okay these are handy we also have a phillips head to
motherboard standoff adapter so you put the motherboard stand off on this side
and you screw it in with a phillips head to screw it into the back of the motherboard tray got a bunch of look at
that nice little touches black screws love to see that
very nice and it comes with a dog tag
MSI insist on the best that's actually quite nice it's very thick
cool i'll put that with my other dog
although this one is customized see this one's from NVIDIA
gtx 590 squadron so now i have MSI insist on the best to go with that
although the MSI one feels like higher quality this one's kind of cheesy
so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
interceptor series ravager case from MSI
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