today we got cases we got fractal cases they made the pop series they're in a
whole bunch of colors we got orange green
magenta you know i like all of these a lot but as you can see i'm wearing a lot
of blue today i got a blue hat on i got the party shirt on i got blue shoes i
got blue socks so we're saving my favorite out of the whole series the
cyan one for
it's cyan right not cn
i don't know if it's cyan or cyan but you know what that's the one i'm
unboxing today because it's my favorite
these are cool so i'm a big fractal fan my last computer was a meshify
c and then my current computer is a fractal torrent and i got to say i just
love their cases they're usually super easy to build in they've got most of the
features that you want especially if you're paying a little more for their higher end cases but the pop series
it's kind of supposed to compete i think they're about 80 dollars if you don't
get the RGB and then if you do get RGB
they're 90. so they go up about 10 bucks oh this looks great i love the color
blue that they've chosen
it's got support for a 280 on the front and then a 240 on the top i'd probably
just air cool this thing though i mean it comes with three fans you've got two
120s in the front and then a 120 rear exhaust in the back that's probably good
enough you could maybe do like another exhaust up here or something fractal and
phanteks are probably my two favorites when it comes to cases and cable
management i think they just do a really good job you can get this in
non-tempered glass so just like a regular flat look if you want but i
don't really know why you do that because you want the color so you're gonna show it off i
don't whatever that's up to you how does this oh it slides out so for the back
though it's not bad it's not super nice with a
nicer case you're going to get stuff like rubber grommets around the cable
cutouts you might get more i mean this has cable ties this isn't too bad but
you might get like a more dedicated space to run your cables instead of just
kind of an area there might be like a much deeper channel here SSD mount
there's two three and a half inch drive bays down here one thing i actually
really like is the drive bays are the same shade of blue you've got a few
other places they've accented it like on the feet and then on the top io here is
also blue one place that i'm a little disappointed they don't add any extra color to is the
front they're going with their newer mesh instead of having i don't think
there's a screen behind this there's no filter it's just like a much finer mesh
on the front it would have been really nice to see either this cover here be
the same kind of blue or the mesh itself be blue i don't know if the paint
particles would be too thick a lot of the time you're seeing like the front
and this side you're not really seeing the back or the rear and i really would
have just liked a little like one more touch of blue would have kind of brought this more to life in my opinion but it
still looks pretty nice honestly for like 90 dollars since we've got the RGB
version it seems not bad i think it's a better competitor than something like
maybe the h510 flow but i think they're just oh that fell off really easy
what's this oh there's drive bays cd drive bays like holy sh i can't remember
the last time i had a case that actually had like five
and a quarter inch bays for anything but you know what if you still need a
dedicated like blu-ray drive or something along those lines
maybe this is the option it's got a lot of storage space as well so if you're
kind of like a media hoarder it's got five SSD mounts room for up to three
hdds only if you don't use this though
as the five and a quarter inch bay you can fit another drive in there i'm
pretty sure what is this it looks like an ash tray
it's a storage drawer i don't know why anyone would use this
but to each their own if you've got stuff you want to hide in there you know
some illegal things then go for it maybe it's a good hiding space another problem
i have with a lot of cases is that the fan filters on the bottom can sometimes
slide out while you're pulling it up from the bottom if you're holding it like this
and i could see that being a huge thing if you're trying to lift this case entirely from the bottom so this whole
front comes off pretty easily too actually like i thought there's no extra
filter here this mesh is so fine you're not going to get a bunch of stuff in
there you're not even going to get many bugs crawling through this cool so this
looks pretty sweet and because you can detach so much it actually looks pretty
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where are all my parts mr parts man oh my god here they are
at 80 or 90 this is one of the more like decent budget cases on the market at the
moment so we've selected kind of more budget oriented parts nothing too crazy
but nothing too super budget either you can get this in a smaller size but it's
the same price or you can get it in a larger size at
the xl for 110 for the RGB version so about 20
dollars more which isn't too bad if you want a bigger case for
more stuff i need my CPU where's my CPU i don't
even know what i'm using yet oh yeah an i5 11 600k it's a really good CPU you
might want to get like a 12 600k because it's brand new yeah 11th gen is kind of
dead 12th gen is the new king and 13th gen comes out pretty soon so if you want
to go extreme budget we just did the 500 budget pc and that used a 12 100 f and
honestly for four core 8 thread CPU it's pretty good let's put our SSD we went
with the sovereign one terabyte we're gonna take the motherboard armor
off i hate this stuff even though it looks
cool one of the only good things about the motherboard armor stuff especially
for your ssds is they come with a strip
of like thermal pads so they'll keep your SSD cool but the
reality is most m.2 NVMe ssds
unless you're doing like really crazy workloads they're not going to get that
hot like if you're just gaming you can probably just throw an SSD in there and
it's going to be perfectly fine pops in just like that just like our pop case
so yeah here is why i need the standoff it's because the 2280
is too small for the one that they include but then the motherboard armor
itself screws down on top of it so honestly we could get away with just
like screwing down this SSD you know that's what i'm gonna do RAM
people like how hairy i am all all-natural baby
i got it on my chest and everywhere else except for my head
that's how it works nhu 12s pretty good cooler from Noctua yeah this little guy
this is great one great thing about Noctua's mounting system is they use
basically the same one for a lot of their coolers what side are the screws
on on this guy they're here and here i want to mount it like this so then i
want them like this we're just going to go air cooling today but like i said
before you can do a 280 on the front and you can do a 240 up here there's not a
ton of depth though so if you're going to do a top rad i don't know i would
definitely try to install it first before you put your board in otherwise
it's going to be a real pain trying to screw all that stuff down as for
motherboard support you can do atx and anything smaller than that so m80x itx
whatever you just can't fit like a big eatx board oh yeah i got my thermal
paste love it Noctua all the way
give me the drip thermal paste
did i put them in the right slots hell yeah i did okay cool good old knock to
it they make it real simple you just screw this all the way down until it stops it's tight but don't worry they
know what they're doing what kind of RAM is this that's nice trident z 3200 c16
that's like about the sweet spot for gaming memory get in the hole
i'm just gonna pick it up by the cooler and throw it in here all of our
motherboard standoffs are already in place and i'm gonna hope that they're in
the right spots because honestly most of these cases just come with your
standoffs pre-installed in the right space for an atx motherboard
and yeah because this has the i o shield we don't have to put that in either i'm
going to hate myself later for not plugging in the CPU headers but that's
okay because this isn't a nhd15 it's
just a u12s so it's not going to take up like this much space and i can still fit
my hands in there pro tip if you go to screw your motherboard screws down and
they don't bite right away you're probably using the wrong size i am going
to cheat a little and we're not going to screw all of these in you can throw like
four screws into your motherboard and it's not going anywhere Linus has scared
me before but i'll be putting like two screws into a motherboard but you know
what it doesn't fall he's right it's they're fine every time so
that's the proof guarantee if you put four screws into your motherboard you're
probably good to go please don't that's not a real guarantee please don't use
that just always screw all your motherboards down but like the reality is you're probably good this is like the
perfect example of why i really wish motherboards still came in colors and i
get why they don't but this thing would look absolutely sick if you painted your
board if you could get a cooler that's colored or something or you could like
paint it or whatever like i guess that's why you might actually want an aio in
this is so that you can like make the RGB pump all you know the exact color
that you want jesus christ 854 if you're building a budget rig please do not use
a thor power supply they're a little overkill this is an 850 platinum um
really nice power supply don't get me wrong i don't know if this one because
it's the 850 i've only used the thousand watt but they should have like a power
readout here which is super cool yeah it's a full power supply shroud so
you're not really going to see it anyway the cool thing is they report wattage being used in this little window and so
if you can look at it it's just pretty cool so i need these guys i need our atx
and then we're not doing any hard drives or anything so we don't need SATA power
oh unless ah the RGB on most fractal cases that i'm
aware of requires say to power so even if you're
not putting in hdds or anything like that just have a SATA plug plugged in
anyway CPU vga PCIe peripheral SATA
molex boop i actually want to know how many PCIe i need so i'm going to open
the GPU really quick that's a strix this is another really nice GPU it's only a
30 60 but strix cards are typically pretty nice like this is a beefy three
fan cooler 30 60. my 30 90 at home is
not much bigger than this guy and it stays cool enough so uh whatever as you
can see it does only require one eight 8-pin power connector so we're just
going to plug one in to our power supply so this is the one instance where i'm
actually going to plug in the cables first and then i'm going to run them
through the case and then plug them into the power supply afterwards because the
CPU stuff is just always a pain yeah i'm
going to run these up here and ideally you would do this even
before the motherboard is all the way in and
i'm sorry this is going to be hard to see on camera especially because i want to make this easy for myself this is
kind of just normal it's not really a problem with the case there is enough
space for me to work in here especially because my air cooler isn't super beefy
definitely try to plug these in first before installing the cooler because
like if i didn't have this extra hand space right here this would be a major
pain in the ass you're not going to fit this in the back
through here so when you're building this just make sure you give yourself a
lot of room on the inside here so that you can slide it in
well it's even got a little padded feet for the power supply so that if it
vibrates it's not going to sound make any noise like
on the case i totally put this in screwed it in completely
forgot that i didn't have my CPU cables in and of course they're all the way over at the side here
when you're managing your cables the biggest
thing to remember is like over under you never want to cross stuff as much as
possible because that's going to add to the bulge one kind of minor thing that i
noticed while installing the usb and this is kind of a motherboard issue
because usually they're on the side here and it's perfectly fine but in this case
you really want to get like a right angle connector or something for this
because it's really on the bottom here and it's straining quite a bit like i'm
not even super comfortable plugging this in because there's just no space like
the only alternative is to run the cable
way out to get this more straight and that just kind of looks ugly so i'm not
doing it uh our GPU
should be two slot maybe even two and a half
but it's not quite three which is good because a three slot 36 d has got me
scared because yeah thirty a three slot
30 60 is just kind of insane
what are you caught on anything nope i just need to push cool plug our final
power connector in if you want to hide this guy the easiest
way to do it is to take it kind of like it is now and then zip tie it together
behind the cable and that way you can still see it if you go looking for it
but it's not nearly as noticeable especially when you kind of tuck it
under like this i guess my one complaint is i'm gonna have enough room to cable
manage in this without much issue but
it doesn't really have that deep centered channel that i like to see here
where you can kind of smush cables into save like five or ten of these for just
whenever you need them because it's really easy to undo these
and the rest of our cables we're basically just going to stuff them back
here because they actually kind of fit pretty well in there we're going to throw our front cover
back on we put our weird tray i don't
like this tray i'm sorry fractal i don't see the point
but then again i personally don't really see the point in a blu-ray drive either
it's a reasonably sturdy back panel uh one nice thing that you could do to make
this just a little more poppy is you can get like anodized colored thumb screws
again this isn't the kind of case that i would spend a whole bunch of money
upgrading i would buy it building it use it
never touch it again if you're willing to go and spend a bunch more money on
the extra parts on your case at that point just buy a nicer case it looks
nice though i like it yeah i'm not trying to harsh on the case i actually really like this thing so far
hey there goes so it looks like i missed an RGB
for the fan that's okay once again i
kind of wish that you could get colored
components and you can make everything like your actual dream color or it was a
lot easier to just spray paint stuff like that's probably my one of my main
complaints about this case is it's like 80 percent of the way there but i really
would have loved some more accents other than that it's pretty good i think that
this is probably one of the best cases you're gonna get in this price range if
you want a case that's a good budget that is
colorful and you don't really like the h510 flow or other cases around the same
price i can definitely recommend this thing i mean we haven't like stress
tested it in terms of thermals or anything but the reality is the two
intake fans at the front and then the one at the back that's probably going to do you just
fine with any sort of like more budget oriented parts and then if you really
think it's not enough then go ahead and like throw another exhaust up here or
like another intake right here maybe if it was five years ago i probably
wouldn't recommend spending 90 on this case but considering the current market
and how everything just keeps going up and up and up yeah
i think this is a pretty good buy thanks for watching everyone if you enjoyed
this video make sure to check out the one colin did where he built in a
fractal torrent nano he put like a 30 90 and an 11 900 k or something in there it
was pretty cool you could fit a lot of horsepower and uh one of these bad boys