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I love fractal they're one of my favorite companies when it comes to

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making cases I've got a fractal torrent at home I had a meshify before that and

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now they've sent us the fractal North I'm from the north so it makes sense for

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me to build it why not oh my God there's

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two colors either black or white well there's two really big things actually

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one you get wood o pretty cool huh you can get it

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with a mesh side panel or tempered glass if you're ever taking a a case out of a

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box and you're having trouble it's probably because the little handles are pushed in yeah see boom easy get a bunch

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of accessories I love fractal packaging too it's usually just in a big accessories box either outside or inside

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the case one thing that's really cool the days of fans on your side panel are

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back baby yeah they've got a mount right here so you can put two 120 or 140 not

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sure but you can put a couple fans on the side if you want to even though

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there's this wood grill for the black one there's a bunch of uh mesh behind it

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there and then on the back I believe you

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you can mount an 80 mm fan another thing is that it's got this little faux

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leather tab for lifting off the top here

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to make building really easy always welcome to be able to take the top off

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easily you're also going to get either I think brass or steel accents so look at

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this top I we've got power button uh headphone jack mic Jack couple USB 3.0 a

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ports and then uh USB type-c something that you might not see very often

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especially once it's like down wherever you've got this case uh located

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permanently is these nice little rings of brass around the feet it's small

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details like this that I actually really really love Andy loves this thing Belle

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saw it earlier he loves this thing Andrew loves this thing everyone who sees it even Jonathan and it comes with

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either Walnut or Oak depending on whether you've got the white or the

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black case we do have both I'm going to build in the black one because I want to

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try the cool mesh side panel but for those of you curious about the white and

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how this looks with the steel accents and the different wood on the front uh

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here you go this one's got the tempered glass side panel so if you want a nice

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clear look on the internals before I put a bunch of stuff in they're otherwise

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the same and then I think there's probably a steel ring yep I'm really

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excited about this personally it's meant for like a gamer but you know an older

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one who doesn't have the luxury of having their own personal office you

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know they've got to match the rest of the decor in their living room where their desk is or whatever so they want

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something that looks nice in basically any environment and I think they've

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really kind of crushed it with that here I'm being careful not to scratch

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anything please don't scratch it as per usual with fractal we've got tons of

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room for cable management we've got nice rubber grommets for when you're pushing

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cables through otherwise though this thing actually seems like it's been

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sanded down there's no really rough or sharp bits as you can see they've got

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120 and 140 mounts if you can do 2 140s

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then this should be able to do a 280 rad and then it can definitely do a 360 in

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the front with 310s at least I'm pretty sure it can looks like the front's cut

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out just to make sure you can get that full rad in there

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wow this is the first like full mesh side panel I've really used I don't use

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a lot of small form factor cases so I get that it's a bit more common in that

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scene yeah my T1 has that your T1 has a mesh side panel but fractal has just

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been wild when it comes to getting really crazy good air flow in all of

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their cases even the budget ones like the pop air and it's you know a solid

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airflow case for reference this is

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$130 it's not a budget Case by any means but it's also not that expensive to be

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perfectly honest or okay it just pulls off oh there's a little handle easy

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peasy lemon squeezy thank you fractal

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this thing comes with 240s in the front and it's got a nice little Fan Hub that

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I didn't even see before and apparently you can mount this guy in a couple different places as

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well thanks I got it from LTT Store.com

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would you believe it this thing was pretty easy to get off uh it just took

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like four or six screws basically just a face plate for the top of this I/O but

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what's nice is if you do have to disconnect or get into any of this stuff

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it looks really easy to do you don't have to worry about plastic Clips

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breaking off on you or anything like that and then when you're done it should just screw right back into place no

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problem whatsoever oh no I'm going to put this

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uh front IO back together and then we're going to build in it but not before a

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fie.org puu mounts and stuff I don't know what

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this is

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looks like a rad Mount or something I'm not going to use it I think it's for radiators one thing that's great is you

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can actually move around these storage trays really easy so if you want to like

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store ssds or hdds down here it shouldn't be too difficult this is uh

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the one thing I think fractal could do a little better it's something that fantex

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does that I'm really jealous of fantex will give you that plastic tray that has

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like all the little screw compartments and everything but I mean this is going to have everything we need it's got

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extra standoffs it's got motherboard screws let's build a computer we're

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going AMD today we got a Rog stxs x670

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EF gaming Wi-Fi uh this is a hell of a

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board yeah sorry AMD new chipset is

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pretty uh expensive but it's nice oh my

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God look at that sexy IO I love it where's my CPU I'm taking the armor off

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right now Dan's going to go get us a nicely uh windowed up SSD that we

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cantion what beat that name don't mention is the best wow I like their new

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packaging I haven't opened any of AMD's new CPUs yet I love how they've got

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their cool cutout IHS really on display here I'm going to pop this open get this

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CPU installed

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am5 man it would be embarrassing if I dropped this right now AMD still uses

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the Golden Triangle and you can see a little arrow in that top right corner

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another way that I personally like to make sure these go in nicely is I just

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follow the notches also these days it seems most of the time the logo is like

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facing up so it doesn't it's not that hard anyway I'm going to take these out

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cuz we're going to put in a sexy aftermarket cooler

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EK this one is unopened which is nice so I'm hoping the hardware is all here this

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is the lg700 bracket I don't need that EK AIO 240 and 280 AMD what's up oh my

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God oh my God oh my God oh my God it's

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okay it landed just right there hey Windows 10 it is cuz it has games that's

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cool thank you one thing I love about ASUS boards is the little Q latch thing

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there that you can just turn to lock your drive in Place 16 gigs of ddr5 6400

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cl40 that's not bad that's pretty decent ddr5 speed now that we've got our RAM in

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I'm going to finally do the brackets for my cooler two to one cuz we got two fans

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so we want a y splitter like this these are great by the way if you build a lot of computers or even just like the odd

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PC definitely pick yourself up a couple of Y Splitters or even like I don't know

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what to call the tri ones but the tri Splitters where it's a 3 to1 Fan switter

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they are great they will save you hassle when you're trying to Cable manage later

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honestly can't remember the last time I installed one of these EK boys but I'm

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pretty sure I just screw these guys right in normally at this point we do a

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little uh maybe a graphics card install or actually the new AMD processors have

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their own integrated Graphics um and I would do a little self test you know but

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uh probably works instead I'm going to install my power supply in the bottom so

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that once I do put the motherboard in I can very easily connect the EPS

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connectors for our power supply we're us an rm850x from Corsair should be more

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than enough we're putting a 3070 and a 7600 X in here so yeah plenty of

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Headroom for upgrading down the line if you feel like it should be great we've

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got two 8 Pin EPS connectors for a CPU so we'll try to find two if you only

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have one that's probably fine you just might run into issues if you try to

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overclock otherwise we've got a standard 24 pin ATX and then our graphics card is

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a 3070 and I think it's I think it's 28

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pins it is in fact 28 pins cool one thing I hate about this design that

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we'll talk more about later is uh these power connectors cuz the Shroud goes way

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past them and it's kind of hard to plug them in when they're side by side cool H

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do I just use these yes okay I'll just use these for the graphics card all

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right we're going to do a few things here we're going to remove one of the hard drive mounts this will just make it

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easier for us to Cable manage everything we'll go Boop and the reason I'm doing

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this is so that when I put the motherboard in I can just like pop them in before I put everything down cuz even

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with all these cutouts it can be a little hard to plug those guys in I I

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changed my mind I'm not going to put the power supply in yet uh now that I've got

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these here I'm just going to put the board in and then I'll screw it down then I'll put the power supply in then

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I'll do the top rad I am not a fan of installing with these things vertical

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like lineus seems to be particularly because I like doing this thing where I

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just you know plug in the EPS connectors before I pop it all the way in there so

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I'm going to go down like this plug this guy in there we go there's one you see

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how much easier it is too with these cutouts up top and then I'm going to take our other guy Boop and I'm going to

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grab my board whoop see it's caught on my sweater and I'm going to pull my

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fingers around while holding it nice and firm and then I'm going to not scrape it

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along the bottom in case you scrape anything and I'm just going to try to

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line it up with these standoffs as well as the I/O that comes with our board and

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Boop that should be pretty much it yeah look at that Center Post is also another

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really good indicator of where you should be thanks fractal uh they also

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come with a bunch of zip ties in case you want to do some cable management after these look like motherboard screws

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I'm going to wire up our power supply now first we'll do the EPS connectors

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make sure that you run these through the way the power supply is going through uh

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for example in most fractal cases they've got a little cover here that

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comes off and then this will go on the back and then you slide the whole thing in so we're going to run these through

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here like this instead of screwing up plugging them in like this and then

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going to you know put it in you can't so for the rest of them I am just going

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to plug them in while the power supply is outside the box and then I'll feed

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the cables through the rail way just to make it a little easier I noticed a

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couple of issues while going to install the radiator in first of all while this

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does support 140 mounts way up here our

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cooler it won't go any further in and luckily we're using 120s but basically

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our memory is getting in the way because our board is so big and while this case

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does support it we're getting a little tight there's also no cutouts at the at

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the top here aside from the EPS normally you get one more on the side over here

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and that's like like up in here and that's where you plug in like all your fans and stuff like see how all my fan

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headers are right up here we can't do that so instead I'm going to install it right here and run all of the fans out

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through the side here but we'll figure out the wiring later on for now I'm just

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going to pop this up here I got all my cables in the back already and I'm going

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to start screwing it down there's one more we're going to install the AMD

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brackets on our handy dandy cooler our pre-applied thermal paste is ready to go

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we've got our brackets on we're actually going to mount this bad boy we're going

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to put it down like this

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Boop uh for now what I want to do is get our Springs so now I'm just done

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installing these Springs here and we're going to screw down these thumb nuts

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full custom Loop is going to blow an AIO and a tower cooler out of the water pun

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intended like the reality is a good air cooler is going to be pretty on par with

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like a good 240 or 360 mil AIO I made a mistake I put the rat in first and

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unfortunately there's like zero room for me to plug my fan and RGB headers into

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so so uh uh we got to take the r out we got to take the r out the pump's got a

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pump pump's got a pump we're going to plug in the ATX power now and then I'm

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going to do all the other smaller IO stuff like the USB the USBC if I was

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keeping this build this is something I would spend a lot more time on but I'm

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not we're going to tear it down soon so I'm just going to plug everything in I'm not going to worry about like Crossing

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wires and getting it to the smallest amount possible in the back here the

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reality is the cable channel is plenty wide for basically all of our cables so

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I'm just going to start plugging everything in and hopefully Boot It Up really easily after that the Moment of

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Truth we're going to put the graphics card in boom now we get to the part that

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I was complaining about earlier with this graphics card watch we'll get the

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first one in without too much issue part of the problem is that since it's not a

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fixed eight pin this little guy on the left here is going to try to disconnect

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a lot of the time and so it'll be hard to seat perfectly yeah see even there I

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can get the first six in but not this guy always annoying this is why custom

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cables can be really nice oh my God I think I got it yeah okay there's one

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yeah that took way too long this graphics card I really hate where those

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power pins are with a six plus of two it's just such a nightmare to try to get

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them in but it's done it's installed this thing should boot I think I plugged

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everything in let's see nope almost honestly for a pretty quick hack job

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that's not even that bad in terms of cable mess you could totally take their zip ties tie them down to any of these

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anchor points like no problem and really get them out of the way and uh I

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actually didn't wire up the RGB on purpose I don't want any of the RGB to

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turn on the only stuff that's going to is the dims the motherboard's probably

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going to light up a bit too so

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whatever I love mesh let's see if I did

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it right hey look at that fans are spinning PC is booting up man that's

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nice I got to look at it from the front through the mesh that does look good hey

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man I really do like this thing I would probably change a couple things like I

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would definitely add an outtake fan here I probably wouldn't personally bother

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with the side fans I just don't think you need them to be honest with this

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whole thing being mesh and mesh on the top and then mesh on the front there is

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air flow in this guy you don't have to worry about that I'm putting these side

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by side so you guys can decide for yourselves whether or not you want the

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mesh or the tempered glass panel both of these cases are super nice and whether

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you want the charcoal or the chalk you can get either of them with the side

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mesh panel or you can get the tempered glass I thought the build experience was

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mostly pretty good I would definitely wish for a bit more room up top here or

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maybe even another cutout at the top so you can do fan headers through the top

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instead of through the side if you're going to do an AIO then you definitely

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want to plug stuff in first because unless you're bored is small you're not

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going to be able to reach inside and plug in fan headers after the fact I

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love it I really do I think that if you don't care for RGB um if you want

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something more understated something a little nicer like with the wood finish

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and everything then this can absolutely be the case for you I'm going to go

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ahead and recommend them I mean I'm sure the air flow is good whether you get the

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mesh panel or the glass but if you're getting beef for your components then

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you might want to go with mesh just in case just in case this is you know the

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fractal North it's a beautiful case comes out soon this ShortCircuit I'm

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plof if you want to check out other short circuits out I don't know why you

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introducing yourself I don't know dude I hate outros this is ShortCircuit if you

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want to watch more short circuits check out the pop air I built a PC in the pop

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air this is plof signing off