Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
Digital so we're here in the fractal design Suite where Josh is conspicuously
absent I'm pretty sure he's drinking so we've
got all right you can come you can come in the video now why don't you help us
you're actually the only one who has co-hosted a video with me the entire
show because of how much taller people are than I am and because was on the
first WAN Show before you called it a WAN Show and it was like a garage show
so I got way back street cred speaking of the garage look at uh what fractal
made apparently in their garage because all they did was took the Define R4 and
take the white things and make them black tell us about the blackout Edition Define R4 okay so basically what the
blackout Edition is is basically it's a culmination of fan feedback right we are
the company that listens and we've gotten a lot of request have an all black interior to go for hold on fan
feedback or fan fiction I would say feedback because I've seen it
so anyway what we did is we basically went back and we offered a fully black
interior uh we wanted to answer what the fans wanted as far as different features
and we want to show that we do actually pay attention to what you guys say
unless you're us we don't all right so what have you guys actually changed here
you've changed the color of the PCI brackets you Chang the color of the hard drive brackets change the color of the
fans which actually is kind of impressive because they had to do a
custom fan skew fractal design only has black and white fans in order to make
this a truly stealth looking product is is it available in a windowed version
with like a stealth window at this time it is not actually the window is so
stealth it looks like a solid side panel but given that you guys are listening to
Fan feedback if people came to you and they said hey look we love the blackout
Edition but we want to see like a like a a tinted window on it or something would
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
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
know we take all that feedback so guys that's the focus of this video is
they're not showing off too much because quite frankly if it ain't broke don't
fix it the Define R4 is the number one
most built-in case in the build log section of the Linus Tech tips forum and
for a very good reason so all they could really come up with was well I guess
we'll tweak the color a little bit and we'll see how it goes from there but if
you guys have any feedback for fractal cases please do leave a comment on the
video and let them know because Josh will personally be reading every comment
because now that I've said that his boss will make sure that he does yeah there
goes my weekend I appreciate appreciate that I might get to Assassin's Creed 4
sometime next year but you know we do listen and read and do homework thanks
to lonus speaking of fractal design fans
there are no shortage of Boutique system builders that are using fractal design
cases these days because again guys if
the uh if the experienced builders on the lineus tech tips Forum use them then
experienced Boutique Builders also know that the Define series is a pretty
rocking series of cases so this is a Define R4 this is is from velocity micro
you can see they've got some nice little velocity micro branding on the front other than that they keep things very
clean looking next up we've got this is an an arc series actually this is an arc
XL and this is from exotic PC and they have done this one out so it's got full
green liquid cooling it's got a full green paint job and it is I mean I think
you can probably tell that it has a fully green lighting scheme on it
finally here we have a defined XL so this is similar in terms of internal
layout out to the arxl but it's got that
those same clean lines and it's very silence optimized so I would like to
take it I don't know why this is off oh it's in sleep so I'd like to take an
opportunity to take my microphone I just powered the system on and show you guys
how incredibly quiet it is in spite of the fact that this is a dual CPU
system well yeah of course you can hear it a little bit but the point is I put a
microphone inside a dual CPU system and it's like not loud at all andless is
without the side panel with its noise dampening even closed so thank you guys
for checking out our sweet coverage get it cuz our coverage is so sweet of the
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