I love fractal they're one of my favorite companies when it comes to
making cases I've got a fractal torrent at home I had a meshify before that and
now they've sent us the fractal North I'm from the north so it makes sense for
me to build it why not oh my God there's
two colors either black or white well there's two really big things actually
one you get wood o pretty cool huh you can get it
with a mesh side panel or tempered glass if you're ever taking a a case out of a
box and you're having trouble it's probably because the little handles are pushed in yeah see boom easy get a bunch
of accessories I love fractal packaging too it's usually just in a big accessories box either outside or inside
the case one thing that's really cool the days of fans on your side panel are
back baby yeah they've got a mount right here so you can put two 120 or 140 not
sure but you can put a couple fans on the side if you want to even though
there's this wood grill for the black one there's a bunch of uh mesh behind it
there and then on the back I believe you
you can mount an 80 mm fan another thing is that it's got this little faux
leather tab for lifting off the top here
to make building really easy always welcome to be able to take the top off
easily you're also going to get either I think brass or steel accents so look at
this top I we've got power button uh headphone jack mic Jack couple USB 3.0 a
ports and then uh USB type-c something that you might not see very often
especially once it's like down wherever you've got this case uh located
permanently is these nice little rings of brass around the feet it's small
details like this that I actually really really love Andy loves this thing Belle
saw it earlier he loves this thing Andrew loves this thing everyone who sees it even Jonathan and it comes with
either Walnut or Oak depending on whether you've got the white or the
black case we do have both I'm going to build in the black one because I want to
try the cool mesh side panel but for those of you curious about the white and
how this looks with the steel accents and the different wood on the front uh
here you go this one's got the tempered glass side panel so if you want a nice
clear look on the internals before I put a bunch of stuff in they're otherwise
the same and then I think there's probably a steel ring yep I'm really
excited about this personally it's meant for like a gamer but you know an older
one who doesn't have the luxury of having their own personal office you
know they've got to match the rest of the decor in their living room where their desk is or whatever so they want
something that looks nice in basically any environment and I think they've
really kind of crushed it with that here I'm being careful not to scratch
anything please don't scratch it as per usual with fractal we've got tons of
room for cable management we've got nice rubber grommets for when you're pushing
cables through otherwise though this thing actually seems like it's been
sanded down there's no really rough or sharp bits as you can see they've got
120 and 140 mounts if you can do 2 140s
then this should be able to do a 280 rad and then it can definitely do a 360 in
the front with 310s at least I'm pretty sure it can looks like the front's cut
out just to make sure you can get that full rad in there
wow this is the first like full mesh side panel I've really used I don't use
a lot of small form factor cases so I get that it's a bit more common in that
scene yeah my T1 has that your T1 has a mesh side panel but fractal has just
been wild when it comes to getting really crazy good air flow in all of
their cases even the budget ones like the pop air and it's you know a solid
airflow case for reference this is
$130 it's not a budget Case by any means but it's also not that expensive to be
perfectly honest or okay it just pulls off oh there's a little handle easy
peasy lemon squeezy thank you fractal
this thing comes with 240s in the front and it's got a nice little Fan Hub that
I didn't even see before and apparently you can mount this guy in a couple different places as
well thanks I got it from LTT Store.com
would you believe it this thing was pretty easy to get off uh it just took
like four or six screws basically just a face plate for the top of this I/O but
what's nice is if you do have to disconnect or get into any of this stuff
it looks really easy to do you don't have to worry about plastic Clips
breaking off on you or anything like that and then when you're done it should just screw right back into place no
problem whatsoever oh no I'm going to put this
uh front IO back together and then we're going to build in it but not before a
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this is
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
can actually move around these storage trays really easy so if you want to like
store ssds or hdds down here it shouldn't be too difficult this is uh
the one thing I think fractal could do a little better it's something that fantex
does that I'm really jealous of fantex will give you that plastic tray that has
like all the little screw compartments and everything but I mean this is going to have everything we need it's got
extra standoffs it's got motherboard screws let's build a computer we're
going AMD today we got a Rog stxs x670
EF gaming Wi-Fi uh this is a hell of a
board yeah sorry AMD new chipset is
pretty uh expensive but it's nice oh my
God look at that sexy IO I love it where's my CPU I'm taking the armor off
right now Dan's going to go get us a nicely uh windowed up SSD that we
cantion what beat that name don't mention is the best wow I like their new
packaging I haven't opened any of AMD's new CPUs yet I love how they've got
their cool cutout IHS really on display here I'm going to pop this open get this
CPU installed
am5 man it would be embarrassing if I dropped this right now AMD still uses
the Golden Triangle and you can see a little arrow in that top right corner
another way that I personally like to make sure these go in nicely is I just
follow the notches also these days it seems most of the time the logo is like
facing up so it doesn't it's not that hard anyway I'm going to take these out
cuz we're going to put in a sexy aftermarket cooler
EK this one is unopened which is nice so I'm hoping the hardware is all here this
is the lg700 bracket I don't need that EK AIO 240 and 280 AMD what's up oh my
God oh my God oh my God oh my God it's
okay it landed just right there hey Windows 10 it is cuz it has games that's
cool thank you one thing I love about ASUS boards is the little Q latch thing
there that you can just turn to lock your drive in Place 16 gigs of ddr5 6400
cl40 that's not bad that's pretty decent ddr5 speed now that we've got our RAM in
I'm going to finally do the brackets for my cooler two to one cuz we got two fans
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
PC definitely pick yourself up a couple of Y Splitters or even like I don't know
what to call the tri ones but the tri Splitters where it's a 3 to1 Fan switter
they are great they will save you hassle when you're trying to Cable manage later
honestly can't remember the last time I installed one of these EK boys but I'm
pretty sure I just screw these guys right in normally at this point we do a
little uh maybe a graphics card install or actually the new AMD processors have
their own integrated Graphics um and I would do a little self test you know but
uh probably works instead I'm going to install my power supply in the bottom so
that once I do put the motherboard in I can very easily connect the EPS
connectors for our power supply we're us an rm850x from Corsair should be more
than enough we're putting a 3070 and a 7600 X in here so yeah plenty of
Headroom for upgrading down the line if you feel like it should be great we've
got two 8 Pin EPS connectors for a CPU so we'll try to find two if you only
have one that's probably fine you just might run into issues if you try to
overclock otherwise we've got a standard 24 pin ATX and then our graphics card is
a 3070 and I think it's I think it's 28
pins it is in fact 28 pins cool one thing I hate about this design that
we'll talk more about later is uh these power connectors cuz the Shroud goes way
past them and it's kind of hard to plug them in when they're side by side cool H
do I just use these yes okay I'll just use these for the graphics card all
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
easier for us to Cable manage everything we'll go Boop and the reason I'm doing
this is so that when I put the motherboard in I can just like pop them in before I put everything down cuz even
with all these cutouts it can be a little hard to plug those guys in I I
changed my mind I'm not going to put the power supply in yet uh now that I've got
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
I'll do the top rad I am not a fan of installing with these things vertical
like lineus seems to be particularly because I like doing this thing where I
just you know plug in the EPS connectors before I pop it all the way in there so
I'm going to go down like this plug this guy in there we go there's one you see
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
grab my board whoop see it's caught on my sweater and I'm going to pull my
fingers around while holding it nice and firm and then I'm going to not scrape it
along the bottom in case you scrape anything and I'm just going to try to
line it up with these standoffs as well as the I/O that comes with our board and
Boop that should be pretty much it yeah look at that Center Post is also another
really good indicator of where you should be thanks fractal uh they also
come with a bunch of zip ties in case you want to do some cable management after these look like motherboard screws
I'm going to wire up our power supply now first we'll do the EPS connectors
make sure that you run these through the way the power supply is going through uh
for example in most fractal cases they've got a little cover here that
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
here like this instead of screwing up plugging them in like this and then
going to you know put it in you can't so for the rest of them I am just going
to plug them in while the power supply is outside the box and then I'll feed
the cables through the rail way just to make it a little easier I noticed a
couple of issues while going to install the radiator in first of all while this
does support 140 mounts way up here our
cooler it won't go any further in and luckily we're using 120s but basically
our memory is getting in the way because our board is so big and while this case
does support it we're getting a little tight there's also no cutouts at the at
the top here aside from the EPS normally you get one more on the side over here
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
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
through the side here but we'll figure out the wiring later on for now I'm just
going to pop this up here I got all my cables in the back already and I'm going
to start screwing it down there's one more we're going to install the AMD
brackets on our handy dandy cooler our pre-applied thermal paste is ready to go
we've got our brackets on we're actually going to mount this bad boy we're going
to put it down like this
Boop uh for now what I want to do is get our Springs so now I'm just done
installing these Springs here and we're going to screw down these thumb nuts
full custom Loop is going to blow an AIO and a tower cooler out of the water pun
intended like the reality is a good air cooler is going to be pretty on par with
like a good 240 or 360 mil AIO I made a mistake I put the rat in first and
unfortunately there's like zero room for me to plug my fan and RGB headers into
so so uh uh we got to take the r out we got to take the r out the pump's got a
pump pump's got a pump we're going to plug in the ATX power now and then I'm
going to do all the other smaller IO stuff like the USB the USBC if I was
keeping this build this is something I would spend a lot more time on but I'm
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
wires and getting it to the smallest amount possible in the back here the
reality is the cable channel is plenty wide for basically all of our cables so
I'm just going to start plugging everything in and hopefully Boot It Up really easily after that the Moment of
Truth we're going to put the graphics card in boom now we get to the part that
I was complaining about earlier with this graphics card watch we'll get the
first one in without too much issue part of the problem is that since it's not a
fixed eight pin this little guy on the left here is going to try to disconnect
a lot of the time and so it'll be hard to seat perfectly yeah see even there I
can get the first six in but not this guy always annoying this is why custom
cables can be really nice oh my God I think I got it yeah okay there's one
yeah that took way too long this graphics card I really hate where those
power pins are with a six plus of two it's just such a nightmare to try to get
them in but it's done it's installed this thing should boot I think I plugged
everything in let's see nope almost honestly for a pretty quick hack job
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
anchor points like no problem and really get them out of the way and uh I
actually didn't wire up the RGB on purpose I don't want any of the RGB to
turn on the only stuff that's going to is the dims the motherboard's probably
going to light up a bit too so
whatever I love mesh let's see if I did
it right hey look at that fans are spinning PC is booting up man that's
nice I got to look at it from the front through the mesh that does look good hey
man I really do like this thing I would probably change a couple things like I
would definitely add an outtake fan here I probably wouldn't personally bother
with the side fans I just don't think you need them to be honest with this
whole thing being mesh and mesh on the top and then mesh on the front there is
air flow in this guy you don't have to worry about that I'm putting these side
by side so you guys can decide for yourselves whether or not you want the
mesh or the tempered glass panel both of these cases are super nice and whether
you want the charcoal or the chalk you can get either of them with the side
mesh panel or you can get the tempered glass I thought the build experience was
mostly pretty good I would definitely wish for a bit more room up top here or
maybe even another cutout at the top so you can do fan headers through the top
instead of through the side if you're going to do an AIO then you definitely
want to plug stuff in first because unless you're bored is small you're not
going to be able to reach inside and plug in fan headers after the fact I
love it I really do I think that if you don't care for RGB um if you want
something more understated something a little nicer like with the wood finish
and everything then this can absolutely be the case for you I'm going to go
ahead and recommend them I mean I'm sure the air flow is good whether you get the
mesh panel or the glass but if you're getting beef for your components then
you might want to go with mesh just in case just in case this is you know the
fractal North it's a beautiful case comes out soon this ShortCircuit I'm
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