in the wonderful world of computer cases there are certain Trends really old
cases tended to be beige then cable space behind the motherboard trays
expanded rubber grommets and cable management holes became common everyone
started introducing basements and now
tempered glass tempered glass is everywhere all three of the last cases
that I've reviewed including this one has included some amount of tempered
glass and the anid i crystal has even
more glass than the others so it must be
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in the video description the front of the case when the computer is off
appears minimal Scandinavian even once the computer is on however the three
included an's branded 140 mm white LED
fans shine through the front mounted tempered glass in a rather beautiful way
although it should be noted that the brightness of the LEDs is dependent on
the speed of the fan so it is inherently
variable this also reveals that they are
kept mostly clean by a magnetically mounted filter that you will need to
remove said front panel to access the top of the case has spots for two more
140 mm fans or three 120 mm fans
although it is currently empty and also has a magnetically mounted filter on the
outside of the case although tragically
there were no holes cut in the filter where the screws could go through so it
doesn't rest flat if you don't have completely flat mounting screws used
here and just like the filter at the front of the case it doesn't seem fine
enough to be all that effective at actually blocking that much dust closer
up there's the IO which includes two USB 3.0 ports 2 USB 2.0 ports a reset button
a large LED lit power button headphone and microphone jacks with unfortunately
offset logos and a fan controller listed with ls and H which seems to stand for
low stop and high respectively although
it is yet again unfortunate that the position of the switch doesn't actually
line up with the corresponding letters the left side of the case features a
large all-encompassing tempered glass panel which features rubber ringed
screws and female thread points in order to protect the glass from scratches and
a warning sticker saying tempered glass Handle With Care which is a good thing
because mishandling tempered glass and having it break doesn't just suck
because you lose a case panel it's a nightmare to clean up as well the bottom
of the case features some pretty standard feet reminiscent of something
that you might find on say a Corsair carbide series of cases and a filtered
intake for your power supply which does seem fine enough to be effective at
blocking dust from getting into the case it's actually a different filter the
right hand side has another beautiful tempered glass panel which reveals the
back of the wait hold on a second what are those what are those are those the
fractal fins they look like the fractal fins on the front intake fractal also
has a large flat Scandinavian styled
front panel and intakes exactly like these on the side of their front panels
what are those after some research no this is not a collaboration project
despite the outside resembling a fractal case with a tempered glass facelift some
further looks into their website also revealed some other Oddities like a
multi-usb port charger that looked very
suspiciously almost exactly the same as an anchor charger even down to some of
the fine details and the specs seems rather fishy but I don't have nearly
enough information to make any actual accusations so I'll leave you guys to
come to your own conclusions and moving on the back of the case features a
sliding cover for the expansion cards and non thumb screws which is rather
annoying and makes the screws not even that easy to remove we don't have a
screwdriver in the shop that can easily remove these and I'm constantly afraid
I'm going to strip them anytime I try to remove them moving up the back we have
some metal stopped management holes for external water cooling who the hell
would use those they look so ugly I mean okay we apparently would use them for
like whole room water cooling but that's not a good metric to go by we're crazy
we're not average consumers the inside of the back showing the motherboard tray
has ample Cable Management Loops for zap straps three beautifully displayed SSD
trays a really weird CPU heat syn cutout
which doesn't actually properly reveal all of the screw holes for the heat sink
and last of all an extreme lack of depth there isn't enough room back here to
properly run your cables and have a tempered glass panel installed to count
this you would have to Flat Mount all of your cables which is extremely tedious
and frustrating Down Below in the basement area there are two 3.5 in hard
drive mounts and a power supply that sits up on some extended legs to get it
off the base of the case a nice touch moving inside the main compartment
however things continue to be weird when I tried to remove their protective film
from their company logo some of the letters started to come off and then
there's this thing on the right hand side it covers up some of your cable
management which is cool all in all this is a stunning case while I had it set up
in the bench Den a number of people came by and commented on how fabulous it
looked it looks mysterious and beautiful and as such things sometimes go it is
unsurprisingly a little crazy when you look a little bit closer the choice is
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