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DH Drive air ae400 welcome to my unboxing and overview of the fractal

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design Arc midi R2 which takes pretty much everything that was good about the

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original Arc midi and well improves upon

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it so what they were going for was not only an excellent air Cooling case which

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The Arc midi was in fact my wife's PC is still running in an arc midi but they

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wanted to add flexible liquid cooling support to it as well because whether

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you're using an all-in-one or a completely custom Loop many of the kids

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today are adding water cooling to their systems so in terms of the overall specs

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we've got a pretty nondescript Plain Jane Brown box maximum airf flow with a

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sleek and ministic front panel design in fact they haven't changed that much

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their front intake now includes an easy to clean dust filter this was one of my

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complaints about the original Arc was it just left kind of like horrible dust

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rings on it and there wasn't really a whole lot you could do about it front interface includes USB 3 which the old

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one did as well pop panel design for maximum air flow which it was before as

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well and the stylish windowed side panel made from acrylic asow you to see your

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components that's their other way of saying that it has a window two separate

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hard drive cages can be moved around individual hard drive cage feature

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vibration dampening rubber grommets and three highquality 140 mm silent fans and

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extensive water cooling support in the top panel and behind the front panel so

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I'm not going to spend too much time opening the

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box that my friends is how we do it and

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we find a hard foam which is not my

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favorite I do like to see soft or closed

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cell Foams but I understand that from a cost savings perspective sometimes hard

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Foams are a necessary evil from the manufacturing side and as long as

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they're reasonably welld designed they can protect the case

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so I'm just going to go ahead and see if I can pop that back in place it looks like that came loose in shipping

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speaking of hardam and hating it um at least they've gone for about an inch of

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thickness on the corners here so I've definitely seen worse let's go ahead and

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open this bad boy up so the first thing

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we're going to see I guess is the bottom of the case this is unusual we never do

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this so it's got two different sizes of feet large ones on the front of the case

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small ones on the back as well as a removable fan filter which you can see

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you can simply slide out like this not too long which was a problem with older

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cases particularly the Corsair 800d where the fan filter on the bottom was

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enormous so it meant that you had to slide it out that far in order to get it

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out which meant you usually hit the wall or some other sort of obstacle so this

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one's sort of like a dual 140 mm size

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you've also got a little air intake here so you'll get a little bit more airf

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flow for the front however I don't think that's going to be a major factor in

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cooling for this case because most of it going to be coming through the Fairly

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open front mesh since the front panel is the part of the case that we're

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repairing here we might as well show you how this front piece goes on so this is

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what they meant by easy to remove and easy to clean it's one solid piece of

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metal mesh with a sort of foam filter

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behind it that should allow air to pass through pretty easily but will also

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provide very effective dust catching you

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can probably take this whole thing and just kind of dip it in water and soap

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and wash it out and you can see we've got one 140 mm CL fan included in the

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front although there's room to mount an additional one but what you'll also see

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here is a wide variety of different mounting holes these will allow you to

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mount things like dual 120 mm radiators in the front of the case which you might

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say by the way it goes in like this click uh which you might say well lonus

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how will you have room for that I'll show you once we open it up two 5 and

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1/4 in Bay round out the clean front bezel that looks very similar to the

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original there we go now that's clicked into place on the top we find once again

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very very open open free airflow so that

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is the arc concept as well as IO including a reset switch that can't be

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accidentally pressed by a cat that jumps on your case a microphone and headphone

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jack power as well as a power indicator LED two usb3 ports which is an

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improvement over the old one which only had one as well as integrated fan

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control with 5vt 7vt and 12vt switches

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on this side we find not a whole lot just a plain side panel and then on the

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other side we find the windowed side panel that was alluded to in in a very

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verbose Fashion on the outside of the box and it has a protective plastic

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cover that I actually don't seem to be able to remove so the good news is your

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window will look as good as it does out of the box forever the bad news is it

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looks like butt because there's air bubbles up no I'm just kidding I got it oh I thought I had it oh there's another

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one on the inside anyway it's a bit of a frosted sort of well not frosted it's a

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smoked smoked panel so it's going to look a little bit darker inside it's up

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to the individual whether they prefer that or the clear side panel but uh

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there you go it has a bit of a a bit of a different look to it so on the back we

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find another 140 mm included fan although with optional mounts for a 120

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mil as well as seven PCI slots and then

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an additional auxiliary one where you can put something like a fan controller or whatever else a bottom mounted power

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supply has noise dampening foam around it so to give you guys some idea just

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how smoked that side panel is I'm going to go ahead and remove the inside piece

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and you can look at me with or without

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the smoke there you go so it makes things a little bit darker but if you

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have lighting effects inside your case it's probably not going to affect things

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too much but if you don't have lighting effects then it will look significantly

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dimmer inside once we get inside the case we find out how all of this is

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supposed to work so up here in the top there's that flexible radiator support

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so there's another 140 mm fan included

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but you can see there are a butt ton of

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different mounting points for different ized fan so you could put up to a triple

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120 mm radiator up here without any

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difficulty but you would be sacrificing some of that 5 and 1/4 in expansion now

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in order to make this easier all you have to do is remove two screws here in

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the back one of which I have pre- loosened and the other one looks like it's going to be a problem for me and

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then you can remove the entire top of the case just like you could on the V1

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chassis so there you have it so here's

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dual 140 mm mounting points as well as

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triple 120 mm mounting points you can actually

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put another 140 over here should you so

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desire although I don't know that that's something that I would necessarily

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recommend sacrificing a 5 and a/ qu inch Bay for now in the front of the case

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that's where things are also quite interesting because you can remove this

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top one so you can fit a reasonably long graphics card in here in fact anything

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that's on the market currently pretty much without removing it but you can

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remove it to give you the option to install even longer graphics cards in

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order to give yourself more options at the front of the case you can also check

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this out screws down here remove the second hard drive cage meaning that you

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can only Mount B you can mount things

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creatively pretty much at that point so you could go ahead and put ssds on the

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back of the motherboard tray more on that later but you could also put nice

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thick radiators here in the front without any difficulty at all more

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flexibility for the drive cages though if you're one of those people who says

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well look at this guys look at this in profile not much air flow can get

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through here and you don't mind having cabl sticking out the back of your hard

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drive area you can actually check this in this way instead of the default which

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is sideways mounted if I could figure out how to do

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it then that would be great there we go so now you get more

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free flowing airf flow especially if you're not installing all five drives in

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there so fractal design is saying they have 26 mm of cable management space

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behind the motherboard tray I believe it

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so there's quite a lot of space you can easily fit a 24 pin cable back here

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they've also gone with what I really like to see which is a much larger

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grommet down here at the bottom than the ones that are up here along the side

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because most of the cables are going to have to come through here before they go up to the eight pin which also has

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rubber grommets back there or the eight pin that's positioned where I hate

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having it positioned in the middle at the top 24 pin PCI Express as well as

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anything that goes up here to your 5 and 1/4 in Drive cages on the back we find

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the 2 and 1/2 in SSD mounts that I talked about before these are very basic

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SSD mounts and you actually have to screw into the bottom of the ssds from

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where the motherboard would sit so it's not as elegant as fractal implementation

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of this feature on other cases and I'd really recommend just using velcro or

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double-sided tape or something to stick those on there also on the back of the

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case we find the power as well as the

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splitter leads for the built-in fan controller so it uses is a single MOX

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for power and then it also is able to control up to three fans using a simple

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voltage control and not providing any RPM

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monitoring and so there's lots of room for cable management in the back not as

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many cable tie Loops as I'd like to see so there's only a couple rows of them

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here and here I like to see some cable tie Loops leading up to the eight pin if

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I was to criticize something about the cable management in this case which is

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of course what you people pay me good money to do internal hookups are oh all

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right well I've moved them before apparently I was ready to go with those

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at the front are the standard fair so there's a USB 3 connector and it's sort

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of standard bulky form as well like to see this check this out a USB 2

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connector so you can't hook them both up at the same time but this gives you the

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option to plug into USB 2 if your motherboard doesn't support USB 3

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without a weird funky adapter HD audio is included as well as your power switch

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reset switch and hard drive LED and power LED all of these are black cables

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which is a definite plus last but not

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least this is something I've been forgetting on a lot of cases lately

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let's go ahead and check out what they include in terms of accessories but I'm

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going to go ahead and use my diving powers to

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predict screws okay so nothing unexpected some

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screws some cable ties and not a whole

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lot else although they do include one of those handy dandy little adapters so

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that you can use your screwdriver to put in the there they are the motherboard

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standoffs I do like those those are useful way to go fractal don't forget to

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case which is anyone who appreciates

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simple Swedish design and um unlike Ikea

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things that don't just immediately fall apart although you wouldn't know that looking at what I've done to it here

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he