- We're doing this today, the Fractal Torrent Nano.
Which is something that I'm personally excited for 'cause I'm overdue for a rebuild.
Now this one is white, which doesn't quite fit my needs
more of a black case guy myself but, we're gonna get it out of the box,
see what's inside and see what the tiny version of the big boy looks like.
We've got a patented foot brace technique.
Okay, it's bigger than I thought it would be. I love this front grill,
big and open, and kinda like brutalist is what they describe it as.
It is hiding a huge, relatively, 180 mil fan
it's 38 mil thick. It's also got temper glass side panel.
Why this case is so important to me? Well, it's reasonably affordable,
it still fits a hard drive. It'll fit like a 335 millimeter long graphics card.
You can put five 120 mil fans in it if you wanted to,
or you can fit the 180 up front, two 140s at the bottom and a 120 at the back.
So it's got tons of configuration options. It is just the right format of case for what I want to do.
So I have a Thermaltake P1, which is like a wide boy but it's kind of cubish
and I think it's time to go small,
but vertical. I think this guy just lifts up.
I don't know. Ooh, there we are. Off she comes. We got a little box of accessories in here.
What do we got? Bunch of zip ties and a wiping cloth in a low density polyethylene bag
and a butt load of fasteners. And I didn't even look at this guy,
Ooh, these are the fan mount brackets. So if you wanna run a rad
or two 140 mil fans in this,
you have to run these brackets. So you pull the 180 that's already pre-installed in out.
And this guy would go in and it comes with a bunch of thumb screws and all that jazz.
I'm not going to be doing that. So, I won't need these today because, you know it,
I'm using air cooling. And because I'm self-serving and I wanna buy this case
I'm literally using the same hardware that I put in my own PC. So I've got a D 15
have the same motherboard have the same graphics card and we're gonna try and fit it in here as
an analog to me upgrading my own PC. They say it's tool free.
And I see this guy, but I don't know. I don't wanna break it 'cause
oh, there we go. So, we have a filter on the bottom,
nice filter on the front, similarly nice.
Oh, front panel comes off. Hey, there we go. Okay, so if you wanna slide out this filter
easy. I have the same size fan in the front to of my P1.
It is large and it rotates slowly, so it generates less noise,
but we'll see how that sounds once we get it all together. Is it that time Jono?
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So, you should try it. I grabbed a random test bench,
which is conveniently the same motherboard I have. I think it's got a Ryzun 2700 in it
Ballistix 3600 16 gigs. Now, normally I would have preassembled this,
but I wanna talk about just how large this cooler is.
This case supports a 165 millimeter cooler tower which this conveniently is
whether it will actually be able to close its door
I don't quite know. And similarly, this is a rather large graphics card.
I think it's probably right around the limit of 335 mill that will fit in this case.
It does appear to fit barely,
how its thermals will be, that remains to be seen. I mean it is meshed down there,
but there's no fans 'cause I mean, we're putting three fans right above it, why bother?
I always do these in steps 'cause if you just tighten one,
you're kind of putting a lot of load and you want everything to spread out both directions too.
Now I can drop this guy in.
This thing fits at D 15. Will it fit a D 15 and a graphics card?
That's a different story. Will she go,
come on, look at that airflow just right out the back.
That's a thing of beauty. So, let's actually install it now. I might be making a fatal mistake
if I screw this in before I put the fan on. There's no finger clearance
in here to do that. - [Jono] Just flip it on one side, its fine
- No Jono. Oh man. Also, it's gonna be impossible to get to this plug.
So this four pin is going to be in there,
there's no way. So I'm gonna clip the power supply into it now.
Power supply goes up here. So this is the attic style.
Oh, okay okay. So cable's already pre managed up here.
That's gonna get trapped. So this is the hard drive sled.
So you can mount a 3.5 inch drive up here and one, 2.5 inch underneath it.
We're gonna pull it out 'cause I'm gonna have to deal with the cable management and then we can chuck a drive in it later.
Cables are gonna tuck down here. So I'm gonna run that four pin
(pin snapping in place) Click.
Lovely.
This cable will feed in here.
Uh oh. Will it not fit
with the power supply already in there? Maybe if I use the split feed,
the split end through. Yeah, that works.
Oof, I almost had to deduct points there. This is gonna be a difficult wiring.
Wow that's tight. Yeah, so I guess my one complaint now
is that with this cooler on there is no seeing any of the wiring.
And getting the fan back on there is non-trivial. What do we gotta get in here?
We need to get the.. - [Brandon] 24 pin?
- Yeah 24 pin has access. I'm thinking more. We've got RGB to plug in
the power header is - [Jono] I don't think that's a RGB fan.
- No it isn't, but there's RGB, there's a plug up here.
We'll find out what's RGB. Oh this is a bear.
Oh geez. I hate everything about how tight this is.
Takin' off took getting hot. Lttstore.com
not anymore. At least on my head. Okay, so these first screws are always hard
because you're pushing against the IO shield. Once you get the two easy to access ones in
then you do the hard ones. So that's in, let's do big power cable.
Ah I do like how there's room underneath
where the hard drive's gonna sit to jam all your cables.
We're gonna have to get one in there for SATA. There are so many ports on this thing,
you will not run out power options. I forgot to mention,
look at all the pre-done cable management. Now, this one I'm gonna wrap up and zip tie here
but if you wanna run down and around
particularly for the smaller cables, easy.
So I'm gonna loosen this cable bundle here.
So upfront we have one USB 3.1.
So that's the 10 gig USB-C. Then we have two 3.0s,
headphone and microphone ports, separately.
Reset and power, so ample IO up front. You can get other accessories,
so if you want to get a side panel, that's not glass,
you can buy that. You can do glass on I think both sides actually.
I mean, if you're really proud of your cable management, you could do that.
Okay fine, I'll follow some of their handy dandy cable management.
So we've been doing some wiring. Now, they say it can fit a 200 millimeter long power supply
which it can, this is 160 mil. But if you try to use the stock placement
for this hard drive sled, you end up hitting these plugs.
Not great. Now, you can just move it over a little
and with a little bit of finesse there is another slot for it
but where these cables come out, hits the tray.
So, we're gonna just have to wrangle these guys kind of up.
I mean, that'll go back, that's fine. But then can also, can we still fit the hard drive?
Oh yeah, yeah there's room. Okay. Now it's time for (imitating trumpet fanfare)
a 3080 Tuf. So, there are three bay slots back here
all without a frame, which is nice. These it's the top two we're gonna be using
that's right. Wow, there's like nothing going on up here.
- [Brandon] Air flow. - Air flow is going on. That's right.
It like makes this neat little wind tunnel straight into it.
I think this will actually perform really good. We've got an exhaust fan right behind the cooler,
we've got fresh air coming in. It can get, actually, and it'll pull fresh air up as well.
By moving the power supply up to the top, we can use the bottom as an intake.
So, it'll work just fine in theory. I'll be very curious what the performance numbers will be.
Unfortunately, we can't do that on ShortCircuit. Okay. GPU in, we need GPU power.
Few things to note, at least for my future build in this case hopefully.
All the fan headers are sitting up against the top of the case here, right under the power supply.
So we had to remove the motherboard again, slide it back,
put the fan headers in, and move it up. So, you're only gonna be doing the fans once.
Do it ahead of time. Open up these cable management loops.
Well, this is about the level of cable management I expected.
Great on Fractals part, bad on mine. A hundred percent me.
And after all of that cable management in here,
I wouldn't say my finest work by any stretch but let's start putting the panels back on.
So this is the good part. Might be one of those bottom hingey boys.
There we go.
Okay. Okay. Am I derping? Yeah okay, it just goes over the back,
that's all.
The all important peel time.
We forgot the inside peel.
They did include a support bracket. We didn't use it,
but it's there. Look how we have full access to the GPU.
There are these cable management wires here, so when you actually do run your cable up
or all of these cables you can cable manage out, which is really nice.
I think that's a nice feature. That's nice, right? You know, you get all your cables in there.
Aye, it does look good in white. I think this with an RGB fan would be pretty cool.
They do have an RGB fan version. Look at the front of that thing.
And it's quiet too, like...
I think this thing looks great and I'm definitely gonna get one,
just not in white. So with that, thanks for watching the ShortCircuit.
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we did from Fractal as well. And I'll see you later.