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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital so we're here in the fractal design Suite where Josh is conspicuously

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absent I'm pretty sure he's drinking so we've

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got all right you can come you can come in the video now why don't you help us

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you're actually the only one who has co-hosted a video with me the entire

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show because of how much taller people are than I am and because was on the

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first WAN Show before you called it a WAN Show and it was like a garage show

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so I got way back street cred speaking of the garage look at uh what fractal

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made apparently in their garage because all they did was took the Define R4 and

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take the white things and make them black tell us about the blackout Edition Define R4 okay so basically what the

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blackout Edition is is basically it's a culmination of fan feedback right we are

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the company that listens and we've gotten a lot of request have an all black interior to go for hold on fan

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feedback or fan fiction I would say feedback because I've seen it

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so anyway what we did is we basically went back and we offered a fully black

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interior uh we wanted to answer what the fans wanted as far as different features

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and we want to show that we do actually pay attention to what you guys say

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unless you're us we don't all right so what have you guys actually changed here

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you've changed the color of the PCI brackets you Chang the color of the hard drive brackets change the color of the

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fans which actually is kind of impressive because they had to do a

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custom fan skew fractal design only has black and white fans in order to make

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this a truly stealth looking product is is it available in a windowed version

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with like a stealth window at this time it is not actually the window is so

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stealth it looks like a solid side panel but given that you guys are listening to

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Fan feedback if people came to you and they said hey look we love the blackout

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Edition but we want to see like a like a a tinted window on it or something would

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you guys consider it oh definitely like I said I mean if they want to hit us up on Facebook or comment on your video let

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us know what you guys want to see that's how we find out if you don't see something from us that you want let us

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know we take all that feedback so guys that's the focus of this video is

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they're not showing off too much because quite frankly if it ain't broke don't

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fix it the Define R4 is the number one

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most built-in case in the build log section of the Linus Tech tips forum and

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for a very good reason so all they could really come up with was well I guess

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we'll tweak the color a little bit and we'll see how it goes from there but if

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you guys have any feedback for fractal cases please do leave a comment on the

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video and let them know because Josh will personally be reading every comment

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because now that I've said that his boss will make sure that he does yeah there

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goes my weekend I appreciate appreciate that I might get to Assassin's Creed 4

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sometime next year but you know we do listen and read and do homework thanks

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to lonus speaking of fractal design fans

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there are no shortage of Boutique system builders that are using fractal design

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cases these days because again guys if

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the uh if the experienced builders on the lineus tech tips Forum use them then

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experienced Boutique Builders also know that the Define series is a pretty

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rocking series of cases so this is a Define R4 this is is from velocity micro

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you can see they've got some nice little velocity micro branding on the front other than that they keep things very

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clean looking next up we've got this is an an arc series actually this is an arc

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XL and this is from exotic PC and they have done this one out so it's got full

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green liquid cooling it's got a full green paint job and it is I mean I think

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you can probably tell that it has a fully green lighting scheme on it

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finally here we have a defined XL so this is similar in terms of internal

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layout out to the arxl but it's got that

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those same clean lines and it's very silence optimized so I would like to

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take it I don't know why this is off oh it's in sleep so I'd like to take an

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opportunity to take my microphone I just powered the system on and show you guys

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how incredibly quiet it is in spite of the fact that this is a dual CPU

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system well yeah of course you can hear it a little bit but the point is I put a

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microphone inside a dual CPU system and it's like not loud at all andless is

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without the side panel with its noise dampening even closed so thank you guys

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for checking out our sweet coverage get it cuz our coverage is so sweet of the

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fractal Suite here at CES 2014 don't forget a big thank you goes out from us

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