WEBVTT 00:00:00.150 --> 00:00:03.330 - We're doing this today, the Fractal Torrent Nano. 00:00:03.330 --> 00:00:08.340 Which is something that I'm personally excited for 'cause I'm overdue for a rebuild. 00:00:08.340 --> 00:00:12.240 Now this one is white, which doesn't quite fit my needs 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.180 more of a black case guy myself but, we're gonna get it out of the box, 00:00:16.180 --> 00:00:19.330 see what's inside and see what the tiny version of the big boy looks like. 00:00:19.330 --> 00:00:22.113 We've got a patented foot brace technique. 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:28.010 Okay, it's bigger than I thought it would be. I love this front grill, 00:00:28.010 --> 00:00:31.500 big and open, and kinda like brutalist is what they describe it as. 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:35.360 It is hiding a huge, relatively, 180 mil fan 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:39.280 it's 38 mil thick. It's also got temper glass side panel. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.990 Why this case is so important to me? Well, it's reasonably affordable, 00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:48.550 it still fits a hard drive. It'll fit like a 335 millimeter long graphics card. 00:00:48.550 --> 00:00:51.560 You can put five 120 mil fans in it if you wanted to, 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:56.700 or you can fit the 180 up front, two 140s at the bottom and a 120 at the back. 00:00:56.700 --> 00:01:02.270 So it's got tons of configuration options. It is just the right format of case for what I want to do. 00:01:02.270 --> 00:01:05.700 So I have a Thermaltake P1, which is like a wide boy but it's kind of cubish 00:01:05.700 --> 00:01:08.840 and I think it's time to go small, 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:13.160 but vertical. I think this guy just lifts up. 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:17.090 I don't know. Ooh, there we are. Off she comes. We got a little box of accessories in here. 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:22.370 What do we got? Bunch of zip ties and a wiping cloth in a low density polyethylene bag 00:01:22.370 --> 00:01:26.540 and a butt load of fasteners. And I didn't even look at this guy, 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:30.220 Ooh, these are the fan mount brackets. So if you wanna run a rad 00:01:30.220 --> 00:01:33.660 or two 140 mil fans in this, 00:01:33.660 --> 00:01:38.450 you have to run these brackets. So you pull the 180 that's already pre-installed in out. 00:01:38.450 --> 00:01:42.760 And this guy would go in and it comes with a bunch of thumb screws and all that jazz. 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.910 I'm not going to be doing that. So, I won't need these today because, you know it, 00:01:47.910 --> 00:01:51.930 I'm using air cooling. And because I'm self-serving and I wanna buy this case 00:01:51.930 --> 00:01:56.220 I'm literally using the same hardware that I put in my own PC. So I've got a D 15 00:01:56.220 --> 00:02:00.330 have the same motherboard have the same graphics card and we're gonna try and fit it in here as 00:02:00.330 --> 00:02:04.530 an analog to me upgrading my own PC. They say it's tool free. 00:02:04.530 --> 00:02:07.846 And I see this guy, but I don't know. I don't wanna break it 'cause 00:02:07.846 --> 00:02:11.740 oh, there we go. So, we have a filter on the bottom, 00:02:11.740 --> 00:02:16.020 nice filter on the front, similarly nice. 00:02:16.020 --> 00:02:20.670 Oh, front panel comes off. Hey, there we go. Okay, so if you wanna slide out this filter 00:02:20.670 --> 00:02:24.890 easy. I have the same size fan in the front to of my P1. 00:02:24.890 --> 00:02:28.800 It is large and it rotates slowly, so it generates less noise, 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.633 but we'll see how that sounds once we get it all together. Is it that time Jono? 00:02:32.633 --> 00:02:35.650 - [Jono] Might be! - Might be that time for our sponsor Seasonic. 00:02:35.650 --> 00:02:40.520 Thanks to Seasonic for sponsoring today's ShortCircuit. Seasonic's Prime TX 1000 watt power supply 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:44.010 is a good choice for high performance systems. Featuring an 80 plus titanium rating 00:02:44.010 --> 00:02:48.950 which means less power getting wasted during power conversion, which means savings in your wallet. 00:02:48.950 --> 00:02:54.170 It's fully modular with hybrid fan control and a fluid dynamic fan bearings for quiet operation 00:02:54.170 --> 00:02:57.420 comes with a 12 year warranty and learn more about them at Seasonic.com 00:02:57.420 --> 00:03:01.860 or through the links below. And I will be upgrading to one of these personally. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:06.340 So, you should try it. I grabbed a random test bench, 00:03:06.340 --> 00:03:10.110 which is conveniently the same motherboard I have. I think it's got a Ryzun 2700 in it 00:03:11.036 --> 00:03:14.940 Ballistix 3600 16 gigs. Now, normally I would have preassembled this, 00:03:14.940 --> 00:03:18.420 but I wanna talk about just how large this cooler is. 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:23.470 This case supports a 165 millimeter cooler tower which this conveniently is 00:03:23.470 --> 00:03:26.630 whether it will actually be able to close its door 00:03:26.630 --> 00:03:31.803 I don't quite know. And similarly, this is a rather large graphics card. 00:03:31.803 --> 00:03:36.730 I think it's probably right around the limit of 335 mill that will fit in this case. 00:03:36.730 --> 00:03:39.823 It does appear to fit barely, 00:03:39.823 --> 00:03:44.560 how its thermals will be, that remains to be seen. I mean it is meshed down there, 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.640 but there's no fans 'cause I mean, we're putting three fans right above it, why bother? 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:51.670 I always do these in steps 'cause if you just tighten one, 00:03:51.670 --> 00:03:56.910 you're kind of putting a lot of load and you want everything to spread out both directions too. 00:03:56.910 --> 00:03:58.663 Now I can drop this guy in. 00:04:03.810 --> 00:04:07.530 This thing fits at D 15. Will it fit a D 15 and a graphics card? 00:04:07.530 --> 00:04:10.103 That's a different story. Will she go, 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:17.900 come on, look at that airflow just right out the back. 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:22.070 That's a thing of beauty. So, let's actually install it now. I might be making a fatal mistake 00:04:22.070 --> 00:04:25.550 if I screw this in before I put the fan on. There's no finger clearance 00:04:25.550 --> 00:04:30.220 in here to do that. - [Jono] Just flip it on one side, its fine 00:04:30.220 --> 00:04:35.120 - No Jono. Oh man. Also, it's gonna be impossible to get to this plug. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.880 So this four pin is going to be in there, 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:42.830 there's no way. So I'm gonna clip the power supply into it now. 00:04:42.830 --> 00:04:48.970 Power supply goes up here. So this is the attic style. 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:53.670 Oh, okay okay. So cable's already pre managed up here. 00:04:53.670 --> 00:04:56.810 That's gonna get trapped. So this is the hard drive sled. 00:04:56.810 --> 00:05:01.430 So you can mount a 3.5 inch drive up here and one, 2.5 inch underneath it. 00:05:01.430 --> 00:05:05.110 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. 00:05:05.110 --> 00:05:09.822 Cables are gonna tuck down here. So I'm gonna run that four pin 00:05:09.822 --> 00:05:11.488 (pin snapping in place) Click. 00:05:14.070 --> 00:05:14.903 Lovely. 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:19.033 This cable will feed in here. 00:05:20.490 --> 00:05:23.710 Uh oh. Will it not fit 00:05:23.710 --> 00:05:27.920 with the power supply already in there? Maybe if I use the split feed, 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.920 the split end through. Yeah, that works. 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:36.453 Oof, I almost had to deduct points there. This is gonna be a difficult wiring. 00:05:38.690 --> 00:05:42.640 Wow that's tight. Yeah, so I guess my one complaint now 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:47.550 is that with this cooler on there is no seeing any of the wiring. 00:05:47.550 --> 00:05:51.500 And getting the fan back on there is non-trivial. What do we gotta get in here? 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:55.307 We need to get the.. - [Brandon] 24 pin? 00:05:55.307 --> 00:05:59.700 - Yeah 24 pin has access. I'm thinking more. We've got RGB to plug in 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:04.530 the power header is - [Jono] I don't think that's a RGB fan. 00:06:04.530 --> 00:06:08.230 - No it isn't, but there's RGB, there's a plug up here. 00:06:08.230 --> 00:06:12.560 We'll find out what's RGB. Oh this is a bear. 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:17.750 Oh geez. I hate everything about how tight this is. 00:06:17.750 --> 00:06:21.330 Takin' off took getting hot. Lttstore.com 00:06:21.330 --> 00:06:26.100 not anymore. At least on my head. Okay, so these first screws are always hard 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:30.790 because you're pushing against the IO shield. Once you get the two easy to access ones in 00:06:30.790 --> 00:06:36.431 then you do the hard ones. So that's in, let's do big power cable. 00:06:36.431 --> 00:06:41.370 Ah I do like how there's room underneath 00:06:41.370 --> 00:06:45.140 where the hard drive's gonna sit to jam all your cables. 00:06:45.140 --> 00:06:50.410 We're gonna have to get one in there for SATA. There are so many ports on this thing, 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:53.833 you will not run out power options. I forgot to mention, 00:06:54.850 --> 00:06:59.760 look at all the pre-done cable management. Now, this one I'm gonna wrap up and zip tie here 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:03.090 but if you wanna run down and around 00:07:03.090 --> 00:07:06.350 particularly for the smaller cables, easy. 00:07:06.350 --> 00:07:09.610 So I'm gonna loosen this cable bundle here. 00:07:09.610 --> 00:07:12.680 So upfront we have one USB 3.1. 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:17.620 So that's the 10 gig USB-C. Then we have two 3.0s, 00:07:17.620 --> 00:07:20.630 headphone and microphone ports, separately. 00:07:20.630 --> 00:07:24.980 Reset and power, so ample IO up front. You can get other accessories, 00:07:24.980 --> 00:07:27.990 so if you want to get a side panel, that's not glass, 00:07:27.990 --> 00:07:31.550 you can buy that. You can do glass on I think both sides actually. 00:07:31.550 --> 00:07:35.910 I mean, if you're really proud of your cable management, you could do that. 00:07:35.910 --> 00:07:40.920 Okay fine, I'll follow some of their handy dandy cable management. 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.870 So we've been doing some wiring. Now, they say it can fit a 200 millimeter long power supply 00:07:45.870 --> 00:07:51.580 which it can, this is 160 mil. But if you try to use the stock placement 00:07:51.580 --> 00:07:56.340 for this hard drive sled, you end up hitting these plugs. 00:07:56.340 --> 00:08:00.200 Not great. Now, you can just move it over a little 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:05.110 and with a little bit of finesse there is another slot for it 00:08:05.110 --> 00:08:08.430 but where these cables come out, hits the tray. 00:08:08.430 --> 00:08:13.250 So, we're gonna just have to wrangle these guys kind of up. 00:08:13.250 --> 00:08:17.343 I mean, that'll go back, that's fine. But then can also, can we still fit the hard drive? 00:08:19.116 --> 00:08:25.648 Oh yeah, yeah there's room. Okay. Now it's time for (imitating trumpet fanfare) 00:08:25.648 --> 00:08:31.080 a 3080 Tuf. So, there are three bay slots back here 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.800 all without a frame, which is nice. These it's the top two we're gonna be using 00:08:35.800 --> 00:08:39.883 that's right. Wow, there's like nothing going on up here. 00:08:40.818 --> 00:08:43.933 - [Brandon] Air flow. - Air flow is going on. That's right. 00:08:43.933 --> 00:08:47.190 It like makes this neat little wind tunnel straight into it. 00:08:47.190 --> 00:08:52.030 I think this will actually perform really good. We've got an exhaust fan right behind the cooler, 00:08:52.030 --> 00:08:56.760 we've got fresh air coming in. It can get, actually, and it'll pull fresh air up as well. 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:00.380 By moving the power supply up to the top, we can use the bottom as an intake. 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:05.770 So, it'll work just fine in theory. I'll be very curious what the performance numbers will be. 00:09:05.770 --> 00:09:10.840 Unfortunately, we can't do that on ShortCircuit. Okay. GPU in, we need GPU power. 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.970 Few things to note, at least for my future build in this case hopefully. 00:09:13.970 --> 00:09:18.250 All the fan headers are sitting up against the top of the case here, right under the power supply. 00:09:18.250 --> 00:09:21.820 So we had to remove the motherboard again, slide it back, 00:09:21.820 --> 00:09:25.790 put the fan headers in, and move it up. So, you're only gonna be doing the fans once. 00:09:25.790 --> 00:09:31.120 Do it ahead of time. Open up these cable management loops. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.680 Well, this is about the level of cable management I expected. 00:09:34.680 --> 00:09:38.450 Great on Fractals part, bad on mine. A hundred percent me. 00:09:38.450 --> 00:09:42.163 And after all of that cable management in here, 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.910 I wouldn't say my finest work by any stretch but let's start putting the panels back on. 00:09:46.910 --> 00:09:50.630 So this is the good part. Might be one of those bottom hingey boys. 00:09:50.630 --> 00:09:51.463 There we go. 00:09:54.490 --> 00:09:58.800 Okay. Okay. Am I derping? Yeah okay, it just goes over the back, 00:09:58.800 --> 00:09:59.633 that's all. 00:10:04.950 --> 00:10:06.513 The all important peel time. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:10.723 We forgot the inside peel. 00:10:15.640 --> 00:10:19.010 They did include a support bracket. We didn't use it, 00:10:19.010 --> 00:10:22.980 but it's there. Look how we have full access to the GPU. 00:10:22.980 --> 00:10:27.040 There are these cable management wires here, so when you actually do run your cable up 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:31.270 or all of these cables you can cable manage out, which is really nice. 00:10:31.270 --> 00:10:36.280 I think that's a nice feature. That's nice, right? You know, you get all your cables in there. 00:10:37.831 --> 00:10:42.120 Aye, it does look good in white. I think this with an RGB fan would be pretty cool. 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.830 They do have an RGB fan version. Look at the front of that thing. 00:10:45.830 --> 00:10:47.360 And it's quiet too, like... 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.870 I think this thing looks great and I'm definitely gonna get one, 00:10:52.870 --> 00:10:56.080 just not in white. 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