welcome to my unboxing of the bit Phoenix Raider so this is actually a
fairly exciting case because it's
heavy no it's not that heavy I'm just I'm just messing with you guys uh so
this is a gaming oriented case as most of bit Phoenix's case products actually
are they're a very gaming friendly company they go for kind of a a well
without without overdoing it you know like a performance aesthetic but still
very clean looking on a lot of their cases especially the Shinobi I love the
Shinobi and the Shinobi XL for the plain Sleek aesthetic that is still very very
performance friendly so let's go ahead and get this opened up this is the first
case that I've yet encountered that supports up to four usb3 front ports so
that's uh that's something they're doing that no one else has uh has actually
been able to execute on yet all right comes packed in in a in a
hard foam we got about an inch a packing on either side once again you know I'm
trying not to harp on this too much these days but I would much rather see a
soft foam but at least it's not a huge case like the Cosmos 2 or something like
that coming with a hard foam uh so it's not as heavy and it's not going to be as
full of Hardware as something like that so it's less likely to break very nice
actually very slick they just keep getting better and better at this stuff
so let's go through the overall outside features then we're going to open it up
so first of all we've got four 5 and 1/4 inch bays and then we've got uh what
appear to be uh let me just see yep so these are
this whole front meshy intake frontness
is all filtered so you can very easily blow the dust out of it if you want
you've got a gorgeous looking bit Phoenix logo that's actually made of
metal instead of just being like some plastic thing or maybe it's not made of
plastic or maybe it's not made of metal maybe it is made of plastic but either way it feels really good overall really
sharp it's cold to the touch so I don't know maybe it's metal on top of plastic
I'm not going to spend too much time speculating about it let's move around
to the other side this side is pretty plain you got a couple little bits here
so that you can grab onto them when you're taking the side panel off on the
other side here very very plain as well very Sleek clean aesthetic on the top is
where some of the action starts to really happen so here we've got an
integrated fan speed controller okay so Max and Min we've also got oh is it
focusing not now how about now we good we cool okay let's just cut
back sorry guys my lens is scratched and I'm too cheap to buy a new camera so
there you go uh reset switch power switch hard drive LED and power LED and
over here aha the coveted four front USB
3.0 ports with microphone and headphones so this is cool I actually like top
mounted IO I'm I I don't mind sort of
front top mounted IO as well but one of the things that really bugs me about oh
I went to look for my case but it's not there I've got a Tex station there one of thing that bugs me about my case is
that the front USB is way down here which unless it's actually up on your
desk is not very convenient although the flip side of that is that if you were to
use a Raider on your desk you'd have a hard time reaching the front IO as well
so this is more intended to be used uh as a case that is sitting on the
floor next to you so this looks like it comes off but it's probably tied in some
way on the inside so let's go ahead and open it up before we try to do
that I guess we can look at the back while we're doing this
so on the back we've got a 120 mil
cooling fan we've got seven expansion slots and a bottom mounted power supply
so all that's fairly straightforward you got your standard IO Shield remember
when they used to include like a dummy one with cases I could never figure out
why they did that because it's not like you know I would always try it with my
motherboard be like oh I wonder if it works with my motherboard wouldn't that be crazy if it was actually the same
layout as my motherboard this time and it never was not once Okay so we've
taken off the side panels now uh which means that we can figure out why this
won't move and the reason is aha that it comes pre cable tied down actually
fairly tightly so um I don't know that
we're actually going to undo that so let's just kind of peek under it so you
can see here we've got support for uh-oh
uh what's
that we might rely on the box for this 3
* 120 mm ah the cooling of this case is
actually pretty cool give me a sec
guys sorry guys so that's space for a 200 mil cooling fan up here in the
top all right so that's pretty much it for what's going on down there we're
just going to put that back on all right so let's have a look at the inside of
the case so there's our four 5 and 1/4 in base it've got a really nice uh
powder coating finish on the inside here this is actually better than some of the
ones I've seen in the past very durable somewhat rough but check it out it
doesn't Mark at all in spite of me trying to put fingerprints on it trying
to scratch it up that is going to look really good in photos when you're
showing off your system and it's going to look really good when you're like
looking at your system even after you've built it because it won't have all those
little marks and dings and scratches and fingerprints all over that is a
fantastic powder coating finish they're using in here two 120 mm Spectre fans in
the front so yes these are bit Phoenix Spectre fans these are not lowquality
fans and considering the price of this case the fact that it comes with those
fans is actually pretty darn impressive the included fan speed controller
supports up to five fans which is uh probably about right once we flip it
over to the other side I'll be able to know if it's exactly right and the power
for it is right here in terms of cable routing room at the back you can see
there's plenty of room here for a 24 pin cable as well as lots of different
options for cable routing so you've got all your power supply cables can come
out either here or here and then they can come back to plug into your video
cards to plug into your optical drive to plug into your eight pin connector or
any fans or whatever else you got on the top can all run through here they've got a nice wide Gap there just in case you
have to run some random cable through here they've got a gap there as well
I've had to do it so I'm glad it's there and that pretty much covers it so let's
turn it around to the other side on the other side the case we've
got our tool is 5 and a/4 in uh these don't move until you actually slide in
the uh the drive itself so yeah not going to worry too much about that and
then we've got tooless 3 and A2 in so you just take your oh it looks like
check this out we happen to have a drive handy right now so all you got to do is
pop it in there there you go you bend it out a
little bit and then you pop it in there position these just right they are
uh here they have rubber bits on them so they're going to be vibration dampening and then
once you actually put the drive in it they have a lot less Flex to them
they're fairly solid so you just throw that in there and it's not
going anywhere I mean I wouldn't necessarily ship it like that if you're
going to ship this system I would go ahead and put a screw in one of the
provided screw mounts right here so they
do give you the option for security or the option for convenience moving on
we've got a aha there there they are there's our two usb3 front headers right
now there aren't any motherboards I've seen that have two front usb3 headers
but bit Fenix has also included in the accessory box which I was having trouble
finding but have now found they do
include an adapter to allow you to take one of those front USB 3 headers and
turn it into a front USB 2 pinout so
that will allow you to use the front pieces as USB 2 and USB 3 so that
adapter is
where' it go uhoh hold on a sec and we figured it out
this is cool check this out so there's the USB 2 connector which you can you
can hide the USB 3 connector back there and then just plug the USB 2 connector
in where it goes or you can hide the USB 2 connector in the back obviously you'd
be routing this from the back and plug the usb3 connector in so that's awesome
so you have that option with both of them USB 2 or USB 3 for your front panel
ports you just have to remember which is which once you've plugged them in front
panel HD audio and check it out black
down to the very end power switch reset switch power LED and hard drive LED
front panel connectors very very nice
okay what else we got in here that we're missing so there's a better look at that
200 mil cooling fan spot up in the top there uh here is the third included
Spectre fan okay we've got yeah seven
PCI slots uh all with ventilation for
additional well ventilation oh filtered intake for your power supply
so there's your easy replace fan filter and unlike the 800d is probably the best
example of this where it has that bottom fan filter that's three fan lengths long
and unless your case happens to be like 6 ft away from the wall you can't
actually pull it all the way out unlike that bit Fenix has implemented their
other one as a side mounted or side removed fan filter so that means if you
do put a fan here just for additional air flow into the case then you can use
that to easily pull it out and clean it
not the fan the filter that is so speaking of fan filters you can see this
is sitting right on the floor so where would it get air flow from they include
some little feet with uh sticky pads so you just stick those there and that's
going to here you can probably see where that's coming through right there so you
stick those there and that's going to give your case a little bit more elevation off of the floor you don't
have to use them if you don't want but you do have the option all the included
screws are in a little baggie that pretty much is expected and last but not
least check this out you can install as long a graphics card as you could
possibly want because with one two thumb screws you can remove the top three hard
drive cages for up to 370 mm I think or 37 cm long graphics
cards and I'm just going to double check
that and I could be wrong 38 ha 38 cm
long graphics card so I mean for context guys this is a 69 I'm coming back this
is a 6990 so you you can install a graphics
card up to that much longer than a 6990 so there you have it and you can still
install three uh three drives in spite of that now the overall finish of the
case is honestly really nice I never actually showed you guys the uh the
build of the side panels so fairly unexceptional but given the price of the
case it's not bad at all and then they're using their trademark soft touch
feel on these accent pieces on the front
of the case as well as on the top near the ports I do really like soft touch
it's fairly fingerprint resistant feels very durable and looks really good so
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