welcome to my unboxing and first look at the fractal design node 605 computer
case it comes in an ugly box but it's
not an ugly case if it's anything like
the node 304 which we checked out recently which was absolutely
outstanding that was an ITX case this is a full-sized ATX case however some of
the features will work better with an matx board because this is sort of a
media PC optimized case I can see a lot of people installing microatx boards in
it so the node 605 highlights a minimalistic Sleek Scandinavian appeal
something something something design front panel made from 8 mm thick solid
hair brushed and black anodized aluminum that sounds gorgeous front eye own and
Optical driver hidden etc etc let's go ahead and see what else they have to say
for themselves we'll cover all this when we open it up so don't worry too much about it and that's pretty much it let's
open this baby up so inside we find double corrugated cardboard Linus's
packaging tips and a hard foam not a big
fan of the hard foam but if it keeps the case safe oh it's not as hard as some
though see you guys you can see there's some Flex to it here see that so it's
not as stiff as some of the hard Foams that we've encountered in the past and I
just pulled Slick's earbuds out of his ears that he was using to monitor sound
so why don't you bear with us and we'll be back in just a moment and it's
unveiling time one thing I noticed right away opening it up is that the front is
the case is very front heavy so if you were going to put this on a media Rack
or something you'd want to make sure it's got the right depth because it would very easily whoop go like that
because most of the metal has been punched out of the back to make room for
the Dual 80mm cooling fans the io the seven PCI slots because you can put a
fulls sizee ATX board in here as well as the power supply cutout and the front of
the case has that gorgeous 8 mm thick
aluminum holy crap this thing is awesome
look at this okay let's pull this baby off check that out black anodized
aluminum look how thick this is here come around the side here you can see
how thick it is so that is what they've decided to make the bezel out of
honestly I love this approach for things like media PCS where you're never going
to see the top you're never going to see the side and the back what you're going
to see is the front and if it doesn't look good with the rest of your AV
equipment then it's going to look stupid now okay I think that this
is very very nice so here is something
these are the kinds of things that fractal does right when fractal burst onto the scene with the Define R2 or I
guess the Define non R2 the first one they did a few things right that other
guys weren't doing here's my big problem with aluminum front bezel cases
fingerprints they always have a little thing where you have to press it in
order to get at the io that's ridiculous because it just ruins it instead fractal
has implemented a little uh little Notch
right here so that you can pull it down without putting any pressure on it
without putting any fingerprints on the front and you can get access to the
front IO so there's a Slimline optical drive which you can only use if you have
an MX board installed something to bear in mind front fire wire headphones
microphone USB 3 as well as an included
front card reader very good stuff activity LED for the hard drive is
hidden but you can see it if you're trying to diagn know something however
your power activity LED is going to be around that illuminated power button the
original mockup for this case had a huge fractal logo in the middle and a lot of
reviewers and a lot of press guys said hey go with the nice Sleek little
fractal logo in the side in the corner looks really really slick this thing
looks outstanding so on this side we've got uh dual 120 mm fan mounts uh looks
like this one is populated this comes with two of their R2 series fans so
those are their silent series fans there's another 120 mm fan mounted and
here is the included fan controller so that is a three Channel fan controller
with uh three different settings so we're going to open it up and we'll be
back in just a moment now one of the best things you can do for noise
dampening on a case is increase the overall the overall mass of it and the
thickness of the material So fractal's Gone with a pretty thick steel panel
here and then they've added a layer of noise dampening material to the top now
it was two screws to open this up you could replace them with thumb screws but
it doesn't come with them by default another thing that's going to help with
noise is the fact that you've got that huge thick solid piece of aluminum on
the front of the case that's going to mean that no noise is really going to
pass through here no noise is really going to pass through here and if it comes out the sides and the back then
it's not really the end of the world once we get into the inside of the case
you can see I've thrown a motherboard in here just so you guys can get some idea
of how the internal layout is going to work I'm actually going to turn this
around for you just to to show you how how it how it goes so you can put an ATX
board in here and then your first two expansion slots are going to be the 280
mm that this case is capable of supporting once you start to fill up
more slots you'll have to start removing hard drive cages if you want to get
those long expansion cards and so you can have a long graphics cards and then
you can have smaller expansion cards like sound cards capture cards whatever
else as you go down the motherboard you can see there's just enough space to
plug in all your front IO and all that kind of stuff down here in the bottom of
the board and you can install using their modular hard drive cage design
that they've got on the Node 304 um you can install up to four 3 and 1/2 in or 2
and 1/2 in hard drives if I turn this around you'll see there are mounting
holes here for SSD or rubberized
mounting holes for 3 and 1/2 inch drives uh the way that they've got the
the fan layout done here is actually
kind of clever so they've got both of these fans as intakes this one doesn't
have a cover on it because it's not so close to where your SATA cables and
everything else will be this one has a honeycomb cover on it so these are both
intakes you're going to be int taking air from outside of you know in front of
your TV then it's going to have positive air pressure inside the case which will
force it out the back or the back here
so what that'll do is it'll make it so that dust is far less likely to
accumulate because both of these fan intakes are filtered and you can remove
the filters just by undoing the screws here and uh here you can you can
actually see they're just like a fine mesh filter like that so no no problems
there and then the power supply obviously will intake from this one
right here and then exhaust out the back of the power supply so it's compatible
with ITX matx or ATX boards all of the Interior cables are black and sleeved
and look fantastic so we're just going to go ahead and pop those out so there's
your USB 3 your front fire wire your front audio as well as your front panel
connectors there's the power for that fan controller so the fan controller is
right over here and then you've also got there you go two of them are hooked up
already uh three pin connectors for the fan controller right there overall very
solid case very very rigid and of Great
Value I mean what we've come to expect from fractal uh let's figure finish off
with the accessories and then I think we're pretty much done here so if you guys wanted to tune out now then you
could probably go ahead and do that don't forget to subscribe and all that good stuff couple of brackets for
something I don't know power supply probably I have no idea it's probably
the manual just SEC it's for the slim 5
and 1/4 in base so they're not in there because if you have a full-sized ATX X
board then you can't fit it because there's sort of stuff in the way so
these go down here and allow you to mount that comes with some cable ties as
well as all the mounting screws you'll need for your system thank you for
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