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today we got cases we got fractal cases they made the pop series they're in a

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whole bunch of colors we got orange green

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magenta you know i like all of these a lot but as you can see i'm wearing a lot

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of blue today i got a blue hat on i got the party shirt on i got blue shoes i

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got blue socks so we're saving my favorite out of the whole series the

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cyan one for

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it's cyan right not cn

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i don't know if it's cyan or cyan but you know what that's the one i'm

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unboxing today because it's my favorite

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these are cool so i'm a big fractal fan my last computer was a meshify

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c and then my current computer is a fractal torrent and i got to say i just

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love their cases they're usually super easy to build in they've got most of the

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features that you want especially if you're paying a little more for their higher end cases but the pop series

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it's kind of supposed to compete i think they're about 80 dollars if you don't

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get the RGB and then if you do get RGB

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they're 90. so they go up about 10 bucks oh this looks great i love the color

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blue that they've chosen

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it's got support for a 280 on the front and then a 240 on the top i'd probably

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just air cool this thing though i mean it comes with three fans you've got two

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120s in the front and then a 120 rear exhaust in the back that's probably good

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enough you could maybe do like another exhaust up here or something fractal and

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phanteks are probably my two favorites when it comes to cases and cable

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management i think they just do a really good job you can get this in

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non-tempered glass so just like a regular flat look if you want but i

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don't really know why you do that because you want the color so you're gonna show it off i

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don't whatever that's up to you how does this oh it slides out so for the back

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though it's not bad it's not super nice with a

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nicer case you're going to get stuff like rubber grommets around the cable

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cutouts you might get more i mean this has cable ties this isn't too bad but

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you might get like a more dedicated space to run your cables instead of just

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kind of an area there might be like a much deeper channel here SSD mount

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there's two three and a half inch drive bays down here one thing i actually

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really like is the drive bays are the same shade of blue you've got a few

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other places they've accented it like on the feet and then on the top io here is

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also blue one place that i'm a little disappointed they don't add any extra color to is the

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front they're going with their newer mesh instead of having i don't think

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there's a screen behind this there's no filter it's just like a much finer mesh

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on the front it would have been really nice to see either this cover here be

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the same kind of blue or the mesh itself be blue i don't know if the paint

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particles would be too thick a lot of the time you're seeing like the front

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and this side you're not really seeing the back or the rear and i really would

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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

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still looks pretty nice honestly for like 90 dollars since we've got the RGB

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version it seems not bad i think it's a better competitor than something like

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maybe the h510 flow but i think they're just oh that fell off really easy

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what's this oh there's drive bays cd drive bays like holy sh i can't remember

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the last time i had a case that actually had like five

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and a quarter inch bays for anything but you know what if you still need a

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dedicated like blu-ray drive or something along those lines

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maybe this is the option it's got a lot of storage space as well so if you're

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kind of like a media hoarder it's got five SSD mounts room for up to three

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hdds only if you don't use this though

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as the five and a quarter inch bay you can fit another drive in there i'm

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pretty sure what is this it looks like an ash tray

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it's a storage drawer i don't know why anyone would use this

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but to each their own if you've got stuff you want to hide in there you know

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some illegal things then go for it maybe it's a good hiding space another problem

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i have with a lot of cases is that the fan filters on the bottom can sometimes

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slide out while you're pulling it up from the bottom if you're holding it like this

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and i could see that being a huge thing if you're trying to lift this case entirely from the bottom so this whole

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front comes off pretty easily too actually like i thought there's no extra

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filter here this mesh is so fine you're not going to get a bunch of stuff in

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there you're not even going to get many bugs crawling through this cool so this

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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

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at 80 or 90 this is one of the more like decent budget cases on the market at the

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moment so we've selected kind of more budget oriented parts nothing too crazy

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but nothing too super budget either you can get this in a smaller size but it's

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the same price or you can get it in a larger size at

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the xl for 110 for the RGB version so about 20

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dollars more which isn't too bad if you want a bigger case for

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more stuff i need my CPU where's my CPU i don't

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even know what i'm using yet oh yeah an i5 11 600k it's a really good CPU you

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might want to get like a 12 600k because it's brand new yeah 11th gen is kind of

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dead 12th gen is the new king and 13th gen comes out pretty soon so if you want

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to go extreme budget we just did the 500 budget pc and that used a 12 100 f and

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honestly for four core 8 thread CPU it's pretty good let's put our SSD we went

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with the sovereign one terabyte we're gonna take the motherboard armor

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off i hate this stuff even though it looks

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cool one of the only good things about the motherboard armor stuff especially

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for your ssds is they come with a strip

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of like thermal pads so they'll keep your SSD cool but the

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reality is most m.2 NVMe ssds

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unless you're doing like really crazy workloads they're not going to get that

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hot like if you're just gaming you can probably just throw an SSD in there and

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it's going to be perfectly fine pops in just like that just like our pop case

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so yeah here is why i need the standoff it's because the 2280

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is too small for the one that they include but then the motherboard armor

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itself screws down on top of it so honestly we could get away with just

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like screwing down this SSD you know that's what i'm gonna do RAM

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people like how hairy i am all all-natural baby

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i got it on my chest and everywhere else except for my head

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that's how it works nhu 12s pretty good cooler from Noctua yeah this little guy

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this is great one great thing about Noctua's mounting system is they use

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basically the same one for a lot of their coolers what side are the screws

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on on this guy they're here and here i want to mount it like this so then i

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want them like this we're just going to go air cooling today but like i said

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before you can do a 280 on the front and you can do a 240 up here there's not a

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ton of depth though so if you're going to do a top rad i don't know i would

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definitely try to install it first before you put your board in otherwise

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it's going to be a real pain trying to screw all that stuff down as for

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motherboard support you can do atx and anything smaller than that so m80x itx

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whatever you just can't fit like a big eatx board oh yeah i got my thermal

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paste love it Noctua all the way

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give me the drip thermal paste

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did i put them in the right slots hell yeah i did okay cool good old knock to

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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

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know what they're doing what kind of RAM is this that's nice trident z 3200 c16

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that's like about the sweet spot for gaming memory get in the hole

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i'm just gonna pick it up by the cooler and throw it in here all of our

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motherboard standoffs are already in place and i'm gonna hope that they're in

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the right spots because honestly most of these cases just come with your

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standoffs pre-installed in the right space for an atx motherboard

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and yeah because this has the i o shield we don't have to put that in either i'm

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going to hate myself later for not plugging in the CPU headers but that's

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okay because this isn't a nhd15 it's

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just a u12s so it's not going to take up like this much space and i can still fit

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my hands in there pro tip if you go to screw your motherboard screws down and

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they don't bite right away you're probably using the wrong size i am going

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to cheat a little and we're not going to screw all of these in you can throw like

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four screws into your motherboard and it's not going anywhere Linus has scared

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me before but i'll be putting like two screws into a motherboard but you know

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what it doesn't fall he's right it's they're fine every time so

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that's the proof guarantee if you put four screws into your motherboard you're

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probably good to go please don't that's not a real guarantee please don't use

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that just always screw all your motherboards down but like the reality is you're probably good this is like the

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perfect example of why i really wish motherboards still came in colors and i

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get why they don't but this thing would look absolutely sick if you painted your

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board if you could get a cooler that's colored or something or you could like

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paint it or whatever like i guess that's why you might actually want an aio in

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this is so that you can like make the RGB pump all you know the exact color

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that you want jesus christ 854 if you're building a budget rig please do not use

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a thor power supply they're a little overkill this is an 850 platinum um

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really nice power supply don't get me wrong i don't know if this one because

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it's the 850 i've only used the thousand watt but they should have like a power

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readout here which is super cool yeah it's a full power supply shroud so

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you're not really going to see it anyway the cool thing is they report wattage being used in this little window and so

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if you can look at it it's just pretty cool so i need these guys i need our atx

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and then we're not doing any hard drives or anything so we don't need SATA power

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oh unless ah the RGB on most fractal cases that i'm

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aware of requires say to power so even if you're

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not putting in hdds or anything like that just have a SATA plug plugged in

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anyway CPU vga PCIe peripheral SATA

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molex boop i actually want to know how many PCIe i need so i'm going to open

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the GPU really quick that's a strix this is another really nice GPU it's only a

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30 60 but strix cards are typically pretty nice like this is a beefy three

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fan cooler 30 60. my 30 90 at home is

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not much bigger than this guy and it stays cool enough so uh whatever as you

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can see it does only require one eight 8-pin power connector so we're just

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going to plug one in to our power supply so this is the one instance where i'm

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actually going to plug in the cables first and then i'm going to run them

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through the case and then plug them into the power supply afterwards because the

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CPU stuff is just always a pain yeah i'm

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going to run these up here and ideally you would do this even

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before the motherboard is all the way in and

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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

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kind of just normal it's not really a problem with the case there is enough

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space for me to work in here especially because my air cooler isn't super beefy

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definitely try to plug these in first before installing the cooler because

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like if i didn't have this extra hand space right here this would be a major

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pain in the ass you're not going to fit this in the back

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through here so when you're building this just make sure you give yourself a

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lot of room on the inside here so that you can slide it in

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well it's even got a little padded feet for the power supply so that if it

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vibrates it's not going to sound make any noise like

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on the case i totally put this in screwed it in completely

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forgot that i didn't have my CPU cables in and of course they're all the way over at the side here

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when you're managing your cables the biggest

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thing to remember is like over under you never want to cross stuff as much as

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possible because that's going to add to the bulge one kind of minor thing that i

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noticed while installing the usb and this is kind of a motherboard issue

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because usually they're on the side here and it's perfectly fine but in this case

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you really want to get like a right angle connector or something for this

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because it's really on the bottom here and it's straining quite a bit like i'm

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not even super comfortable plugging this in because there's just no space like

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the only alternative is to run the cable

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way out to get this more straight and that just kind of looks ugly so i'm not

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doing it uh our GPU

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should be two slot maybe even two and a half

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but it's not quite three which is good because a three slot 36 d has got me

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scared because yeah thirty a three slot

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30 60 is just kind of insane

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what are you caught on anything nope i just need to push cool plug our final

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power connector in if you want to hide this guy the easiest

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way to do it is to take it kind of like it is now and then zip tie it together

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behind the cable and that way you can still see it if you go looking for it

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but it's not nearly as noticeable especially when you kind of tuck it

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under like this i guess my one complaint is i'm gonna have enough room to cable

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manage in this without much issue but

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it doesn't really have that deep centered channel that i like to see here

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where you can kind of smush cables into save like five or ten of these for just

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whenever you need them because it's really easy to undo these

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and the rest of our cables we're basically just going to stuff them back

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here because they actually kind of fit pretty well in there we're going to throw our front cover

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back on we put our weird tray i don't

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like this tray i'm sorry fractal i don't see the point

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but then again i personally don't really see the point in a blu-ray drive either

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it's a reasonably sturdy back panel uh one nice thing that you could do to make

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this just a little more poppy is you can get like anodized colored thumb screws

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again this isn't the kind of case that i would spend a whole bunch of money

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upgrading i would buy it building it use it

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never touch it again if you're willing to go and spend a bunch more money on

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the extra parts on your case at that point just buy a nicer case it looks

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nice though i like it yeah i'm not trying to harsh on the case i actually really like this thing so far

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hey there goes so it looks like i missed an RGB

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for the fan that's okay once again i

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kind of wish that you could get colored

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components and you can make everything like your actual dream color or it was a

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lot easier to just spray paint stuff like that's probably my one of my main

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complaints about this case is it's like 80 percent of the way there but i really

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would have loved some more accents other than that it's pretty good i think that

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this is probably one of the best cases you're gonna get in this price range if

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you want a case that's a good budget that is

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colorful and you don't really like the h510 flow or other cases around the same

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price i can definitely recommend this thing i mean we haven't like stress

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tested it in terms of thermals or anything but the reality is the two

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intake fans at the front and then the one at the back that's probably going to do you just

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fine with any sort of like more budget oriented parts and then if you really

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think it's not enough then go ahead and like throw another exhaust up here or

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like another intake right here maybe if it was five years ago i probably

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wouldn't recommend spending 90 on this case but considering the current market

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and how everything just keeps going up and up and up yeah

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i think this is a pretty good buy thanks for watching everyone if you enjoyed

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this video make sure to check out the one colin did where he built in a

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fractal torrent nano he put like a 30 90 and an 11 900 k or something in there it

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was pretty cool you could fit a lot of horsepower and uh one of these bad boys