WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.319 today we got cases we got fractal cases they made the pop series they're in a 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.960 whole bunch of colors we got orange green 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.880 magenta you know i like all of these a lot but as you can see i'm wearing a lot 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:18.400 of blue today i got a blue hat on i got the party shirt on i got blue shoes i 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:23.279 got blue socks so we're saving my favorite out of the whole series the 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.279 cyan one for 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:29.199 it's cyan right not cn 00:00:27.279 --> 00:00:34.320 i don't know if it's cyan or cyan but you know what that's the one i'm 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:36.399 unboxing today because it's my favorite 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:40.480 these are cool so i'm a big fractal fan my last computer was a meshify 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:45.120 c and then my current computer is a fractal torrent and i got to say i just 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:48.160 love their cases they're usually super easy to build in they've got most of the 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:54.719 features that you want especially if you're paying a little more for their higher end cases but the pop series 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:59.920 it's kind of supposed to compete i think they're about 80 dollars if you don't 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:01.840 get the RGB and then if you do get RGB 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.239 they're 90. so they go up about 10 bucks oh this looks great i love the color 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.239 blue that they've chosen 00:01:07.119 --> 00:01:13.280 it's got support for a 280 on the front and then a 240 on the top i'd probably 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.520 just air cool this thing though i mean it comes with three fans you've got two 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:21.520 120s in the front and then a 120 rear exhaust in the back that's probably good 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.200 enough you could maybe do like another exhaust up here or something fractal and 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.320 phanteks are probably my two favorites when it comes to cases and cable 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:32.079 management i think they just do a really good job you can get this in 00:01:30.479 --> 00:01:34.799 non-tempered glass so just like a regular flat look if you want but i 00:01:33.759 --> 00:01:40.320 don't really know why you do that because you want the color so you're gonna show it off i 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:44.399 don't whatever that's up to you how does this oh it slides out so for the back 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.920 though it's not bad it's not super nice with a 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.920 nicer case you're going to get stuff like rubber grommets around the cable 00:01:49.759 --> 00:01:55.600 cutouts you might get more i mean this has cable ties this isn't too bad but 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:59.040 you might get like a more dedicated space to run your cables instead of just 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:03.680 kind of an area there might be like a much deeper channel here SSD mount 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.119 there's two three and a half inch drive bays down here one thing i actually 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:10.640 really like is the drive bays are the same shade of blue you've got a few 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:15.360 other places they've accented it like on the feet and then on the top io here is 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:21.120 also blue one place that i'm a little disappointed they don't add any extra color to is the 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.879 front they're going with their newer mesh instead of having i don't think 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:28.959 there's a screen behind this there's no filter it's just like a much finer mesh 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:33.360 on the front it would have been really nice to see either this cover here be 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:36.879 the same kind of blue or the mesh itself be blue i don't know if the paint 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:40.239 particles would be too thick a lot of the time you're seeing like the front 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:43.760 and this side you're not really seeing the back or the rear and i really would 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.800 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 00:02:46.959 --> 00:02:52.959 still looks pretty nice honestly for like 90 dollars since we've got the RGB 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.640 version it seems not bad i think it's a better competitor than something like 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:02.239 maybe the h510 flow but i think they're just oh that fell off really easy 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:07.360 what's this oh there's drive bays cd drive bays like holy sh i can't remember 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:12.159 the last time i had a case that actually had like five 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.440 and a quarter inch bays for anything but you know what if you still need a 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:19.040 dedicated like blu-ray drive or something along those lines 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:23.120 maybe this is the option it's got a lot of storage space as well so if you're 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:29.280 kind of like a media hoarder it's got five SSD mounts room for up to three 00:03:26.239 --> 00:03:31.120 hdds only if you don't use this though 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.239 as the five and a quarter inch bay you can fit another drive in there i'm 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:38.879 pretty sure what is this it looks like an ash tray 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:41.920 it's a storage drawer i don't know why anyone would use this 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.159 but to each their own if you've got stuff you want to hide in there you know 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:50.080 some illegal things then go for it maybe it's a good hiding space another problem 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:53.360 i have with a lot of cases is that the fan filters on the bottom can sometimes 00:03:52.239 --> 00:03:57.760 slide out while you're pulling it up from the bottom if you're holding it like this 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:02.400 and i could see that being a huge thing if you're trying to lift this case entirely from the bottom so this whole 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:07.360 front comes off pretty easily too actually like i thought there's no extra 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.080 filter here this mesh is so fine you're not going to get a bunch of stuff in 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:13.680 there you're not even going to get many bugs crawling through this cool so this 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:18.239 looks pretty sweet and because you can detach so much it actually looks pretty 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:21.600 easy to build in which we're going to do right after a word from our sponsor 00:04:19.919 --> 00:04:26.000 vulture vulture provides high performance cloud servers bare metal 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.759 storage and managed kubernetes at a fraction of the cost of bigtech in less 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:35.280 than 60 seconds you can bring your own iso or deploy Windows or Linux from over 00:04:32.800 --> 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00:05:22.639 the xl for 110 for the RGB version so about 20 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:25.919 dollars more which isn't too bad if you want a bigger case for 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.000 more stuff i need my CPU where's my CPU i don't 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:34.080 even know what i'm using yet oh yeah an i5 11 600k it's a really good CPU you 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:38.720 might want to get like a 12 600k because it's brand new yeah 11th gen is kind of 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:44.160 dead 12th gen is the new king and 13th gen comes out pretty soon so if you want 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:49.840 to go extreme budget we just did the 500 budget pc and that used a 12 100 f and 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.840 honestly for four core 8 thread CPU it's pretty good let's put our SSD we went 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.160 with the sovereign one terabyte we're gonna take the motherboard armor 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:02.479 off i hate this stuff even though it looks 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:07.440 cool one of the only good things about the motherboard armor stuff especially 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.280 for your ssds is they come with a strip 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:12.240 of like thermal pads so they'll keep your SSD cool but the 00:06:11.039 --> 00:06:16.880 reality is most m.2 NVMe ssds 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:19.919 unless you're doing like really crazy workloads they're not going to get that 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:23.680 hot like if you're just gaming you can probably just throw an SSD in there and 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:28.240 it's going to be perfectly fine pops in just like that just like our pop case 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:32.479 so yeah here is why i need the standoff it's because the 2280 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:37.680 is too small for the one that they include but then the motherboard armor 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:41.440 itself screws down on top of it so honestly we could get away with just 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:46.720 like screwing down this SSD you know that's what i'm gonna do RAM 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:49.840 people like how hairy i am all all-natural baby 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:57.599 i got it on my chest and everywhere else except for my head 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:01.520 that's how it works nhu 12s pretty good cooler from Noctua yeah this little guy 00:06:59.919 --> 00:07:05.360 this is great one great thing about Noctua's mounting system is they use 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:08.800 basically the same one for a lot of their coolers what side are the screws 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:13.360 on on this guy they're here and here i want to mount it like this so then i 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:17.360 want them like this we're just going to go air cooling today but like i said 00:07:15.039 --> 00:07:21.440 before you can do a 280 on the front and you can do a 240 up here there's not a 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:26.160 ton of depth though so if you're going to do a top rad i don't know i would 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:29.599 definitely try to install it first before you put your board in otherwise 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:34.160 it's going to be a real pain trying to screw all that stuff down as for 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:39.039 motherboard support you can do atx and anything smaller than that so m80x itx 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:44.720 whatever you just can't fit like a big eatx board oh yeah i got my thermal 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:46.080 paste love it Noctua all the way 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:50.879 give me the drip thermal paste 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.639 did i put them in the right slots hell yeah i did okay cool good old knock to 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:59.680 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 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.639 know what they're doing what kind of RAM is this that's nice trident z 3200 c16 00:08:03.039 --> 00:08:08.879 that's like about the sweet spot for gaming memory get in the hole 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:12.720 i'm just gonna pick it up by the cooler and throw it in here all of our 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:17.280 motherboard standoffs are already in place and i'm gonna hope that they're in 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:20.400 the right spots because honestly most of these cases just come with your 00:08:18.479 --> 00:08:24.800 standoffs pre-installed in the right space for an atx motherboard 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.680 and yeah because this has the i o shield we don't have to put that in either i'm 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:32.880 going to hate myself later for not plugging in the CPU headers but that's 00:08:29.599 --> 00:08:34.880 okay because this isn't a nhd15 it's 00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:38.399 just a u12s so it's not going to take up like this much space and i can still fit 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:41.760 my hands in there pro tip if you go to screw your motherboard screws down and 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:45.519 they don't bite right away you're probably using the wrong size i am going 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.880 to cheat a little and we're not going to screw all of these in you can throw like 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:52.399 four screws into your motherboard and it's not going anywhere Linus has scared 00:08:50.959 --> 00:08:56.240 me before but i'll be putting like two screws into a motherboard but you know 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:00.959 what it doesn't fall he's right it's they're fine every time so 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:05.279 that's the proof guarantee if you put four screws into your motherboard you're 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:08.000 probably good to go please don't that's not a real guarantee please don't use 00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:13.760 that just always screw all your motherboards down but like the reality is you're probably good this is like the 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:17.760 perfect example of why i really wish motherboards still came in colors and i 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:22.160 get why they don't but this thing would look absolutely sick if you painted your 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:25.680 board if you could get a cooler that's colored or something or you could like 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:29.760 paint it or whatever like i guess that's why you might actually want an aio in 00:09:27.760 --> 00:09:34.880 this is so that you can like make the RGB pump all you know the exact color 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:38.800 that you want jesus christ 854 if you're building a budget rig please do not use 00:09:36.959 --> 00:09:43.920 a thor power supply they're a little overkill this is an 850 platinum um 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:47.920 really nice power supply don't get me wrong i don't know if this one because 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:52.720 it's the 850 i've only used the thousand watt but they should have like a power 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:55.279 readout here which is super cool yeah it's a full power supply shroud so 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:01.040 you're not really going to see it anyway the cool thing is they report wattage being used in this little window and so 00:09:58.959 --> 00:10:04.480 if you can look at it it's just pretty cool so i need these guys i need our atx 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.760 and then we're not doing any hard drives or anything so we don't need SATA power 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:12.320 oh unless ah the RGB on most fractal cases that i'm 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.560 aware of requires say to power so even if you're 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:22.240 not putting in hdds or anything like that just have a SATA plug plugged in 00:10:18.880 --> 00:10:24.720 anyway CPU vga PCIe peripheral SATA 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:28.880 molex boop i actually want to know how many PCIe i need so i'm going to open 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.680 the GPU really quick that's a strix this is another really nice GPU it's only a 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:39.360 30 60 but strix cards are typically pretty nice like this is a beefy three 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:40.959 fan cooler 30 60. my 30 90 at home is 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:44.800 not much bigger than this guy and it stays cool enough so uh whatever as you 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:49.200 can see it does only require one eight 8-pin power connector so we're just 00:10:46.640 --> 00:10:53.360 going to plug one in to our power supply so this is the one instance where i'm 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.160 actually going to plug in the cables first and then i'm going to run them 00:10:54.800 --> 00:11:02.480 through the case and then plug them into the power supply afterwards because the 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:04.160 CPU stuff is just always a pain yeah i'm 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:07.279 going to run these up here and ideally you would do this even 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:10.640 before the motherboard is all the way in and 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:16.320 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 00:11:14.160 --> 00:11:20.240 kind of just normal it's not really a problem with the case there is enough 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.560 space for me to work in here especially because my air cooler isn't super beefy 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:27.839 definitely try to plug these in first before installing the cooler because 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:30.959 like if i didn't have this extra hand space right here this would be a major 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:35.360 pain in the ass you're not going to fit this in the back 00:11:33.839 --> 00:11:39.360 through here so when you're building this just make sure you give yourself a 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:43.200 lot of room on the inside here so that you can slide it in 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:47.519 well it's even got a little padded feet for the power supply so that if it 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:51.760 vibrates it's not going to sound make any noise like 00:11:49.680 --> 00:11:55.760 on the case i totally put this in screwed it in completely 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:00.639 forgot that i didn't have my CPU cables in and of course they're all the way over at the side here 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.800 when you're managing your cables the biggest 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:07.839 thing to remember is like over under you never want to cross stuff as much as 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:13.360 possible because that's going to add to the bulge one kind of minor thing that i 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:16.320 noticed while installing the usb and this is kind of a motherboard issue 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:19.519 because usually they're on the side here and it's perfectly fine but in this case 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.480 you really want to get like a right angle connector or something for this 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:28.959 because it's really on the bottom here and it's straining quite a bit like i'm 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:34.160 not even super comfortable plugging this in because there's just no space like 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:36.240 the only alternative is to run the cable 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:40.959 way out to get this more straight and that just kind of looks ugly so i'm not 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:43.040 doing it uh our GPU 00:12:40.959 --> 00:12:46.000 should be two slot maybe even two and a half 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:52.959 but it's not quite three which is good because a three slot 36 d has got me 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:55.279 scared because yeah thirty a three slot 00:12:52.959 --> 00:12:59.440 30 60 is just kind of insane 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:03.120 what are you caught on anything nope i just need to push cool plug our final 00:13:01.680 --> 00:13:06.880 power connector in if you want to hide this guy the easiest 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:10.959 way to do it is to take it kind of like it is now and then zip tie it together 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.320 behind the cable and that way you can still see it if you go looking for it 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:18.079 but it's not nearly as noticeable especially when you kind of tuck it 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:23.360 under like this i guess my one complaint is i'm gonna have enough room to cable 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:26.000 manage in this without much issue but 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:30.480 it doesn't really have that deep centered channel that i like to see here 00:13:28.079 --> 00:13:33.760 where you can kind of smush cables into save like five or ten of these for just 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:38.560 whenever you need them because it's really easy to undo these 00:13:36.800 --> 00:13:41.600 and the rest of our cables we're basically just going to stuff them back 00:13:40.160 --> 00:13:47.279 here because they actually kind of fit pretty well in there we're going to throw our front cover 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:49.199 back on we put our weird tray i don't 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:53.040 like this tray i'm sorry fractal i don't see the point 00:13:51.199 --> 00:13:56.800 but then again i personally don't really see the point in a blu-ray drive either 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:01.040 it's a reasonably sturdy back panel uh one nice thing that you could do to make 00:13:59.040 --> 00:14:05.839 this just a little more poppy is you can get like anodized colored thumb screws 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:10.079 again this isn't the kind of case that i would spend a whole bunch of money 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:12.959 upgrading i would buy it building it use it 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:17.279 never touch it again if you're willing to go and spend a bunch more money on 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:20.880 the extra parts on your case at that point just buy a nicer case it looks 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:26.399 nice though i like it yeah i'm not trying to harsh on the case i actually really like this thing so far 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:32.079 hey there goes so it looks like i missed an RGB 00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:35.199 for the fan that's okay once again i 00:14:32.079 --> 00:14:37.279 kind of wish that you could get colored 00:14:35.199 --> 00:14:40.720 components and you can make everything like your actual dream color or it was a 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.920 lot easier to just spray paint stuff like that's probably my one of my main 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:47.680 complaints about this case is it's like 80 percent of the way there but i really 00:14:45.760 --> 00:14:52.480 would have loved some more accents other than that it's pretty good i think that 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:57.360 this is probably one of the best cases you're gonna get in this price range if 00:14:54.800 --> 00:15:00.160 you want a case that's a good budget that is 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:05.120 colorful and you don't really like the h510 flow or other cases around the same 00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:08.000 price i can definitely recommend this thing i mean we haven't like stress 00:15:06.560 --> 00:15:11.360 tested it in terms of thermals or anything but the reality is the two 00:15:09.839 --> 00:15:15.519 intake fans at the front and then the one at the back that's probably going to do you just 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:19.279 fine with any sort of like more budget oriented parts and then if you really 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:23.040 think it's not enough then go ahead and like throw another exhaust up here or 00:15:20.959 --> 00:15:26.959 like another intake right here maybe if it was five years ago i probably 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:30.720 wouldn't recommend spending 90 on this case but considering the current market 00:15:29.199 --> 00:15:34.480 and how everything just keeps going up and up and up yeah 00:15:32.800 --> 00:15:37.279 i think this is a pretty good buy thanks for watching everyone if you enjoyed 00:15:35.839 --> 00:15:42.079 this video make sure to check out the one colin did where he built in a 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:45.279 fractal torrent nano he put like a 30 90 and an 11 900 k or something in there it 00:15:44.079 --> 00:15:50.160 was pretty cool you could fit a lot of horsepower and uh one of these bad boys