welcome to my unboxing of the bit Phoenix MC this is the oh hold on
there's two versions there's the alpha with the window um and then there's the
beta which does not wait hold on now I'm confused well we have the
alpha so we're going to find out exactly what that is once we get it opened up so
bit Phoenix has been releasing a number of fairly interesting cases one of the
things that really sets them apart from their competition is their soft feel or
soft touch finish which basically feels
instead of like a painted metal or like
plastic feels kind of like a velvety
velvety soft plastic and I don't know
how to describe it other than you know high-end gaming mice how they often have
like a bit of a rubberized or like a soft grip to them it's kind of like that
and at some point the case comes out of the
box and at that point in time and no
sooner we can take a closer look at
it so value gaming cases ouch it shocked
me that hurt value gaming cases are no new thing
for bit Phoenix uh we had a look at the outlaw a little while ago which was kind
of cool because it used that
uh altered ATX style and it was as far
as I can tell the least expensive case
to ever use that design so here we go
with the Merc so aha the alpha has the
cooling panel on the side so this basically does not look like we can
mount a 12 mm fan but I wouldn't be that surprised if you could kind
of like kaj it to uh to work so hold on a
second let's just grab a fan that doesn't have here we go so let's
see it looks like it does line
up yeah so you can just use the the
outside holes here in order to screw a fan in if you really wanted to cool okay
maybe they intended that surely they intended that they call it a cooling
side panel so the alpha has cooling side panel 2x1
20 mm optional see I I haven't come up with anything new here so on the top
we've got dual 120 mm fans as well and
then on the back we have an additional 120 mm fan you can also mount a 92 or an
80 mm fan on the back should you see fit
couple water cooling holes we've got seven expansion slots in this particular
case so you're going to be fitting standard ATX motherboard boards only in
here let's have a closer look at the front before we get any further actually
this case does not have soft touch so this is meant to be more of a straight
value case we've got a 3 and 1/2 in expansion Bay two 5 and a 3 5 and 1/4 in
expansion Bays uh mesh at the front here
and on the top we have four USB 2.0 microphone headphones power and reset
switches so let's go ahead and take the side panel off
here which hopefully I can do ah there we go it comes out this way
okay we've got our front panel connectors these are all uh covered in a
black uh heat shrink and then uh here heat shrink at the end and then just a
black sleeving so we've got our HD audio we've got two USB front panel connectors
and then last but not least we've got our front power reset switch hard drive
LEDs and all that good stuff inside layout doesn't look like really much of
anything too too different from what we've seen in the past from a variety of
different is so hard drive wise we' got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 and 1/2 in hard drives
we've got another 12 mm fan here in the bottom so in terms of cooling there's a
fair number of options that are available to you I'm just going to go
ahead and pull this out so there are two
120 mm cooling fan positions in the
front and if you go ahead and squeeze these together it comes out a lot more
easily I suspect oh interesting
having a bit of trouble here give me a sec guys got it guys I just had to heave on
it a little bit so we've got two 120 mm cooling fans here in the front looks
like you can also Mount 92s if you so desire so you can use those to cool your
drives here you can see the inside of the case as a whole so there's the
interface for the front panel what not
but I can't really think of any good reason why
you'd there we go want to disconnect those so we'll just leave those attached
what else we got here CPU cutout is
right here so it's a fairly small CPU cutout but as long as your CPU socket
isn't sort of more to the right then you shouldn't have too much trouble reaching
a back plate uh CPU Cooler and replacing
it without actually removing the
motherboard from the case I guess there's not too much else to say bottom
mounted power supply um 120 mil fan here
two 120s in the front all black interior which may may not matter to you because
you can see inside the case a little bit but it's going to be less if you
actually Mount fans here so there that should give you guys some idea of how
much you can actually see down into the case so I do like the all black
Interiors but I'm personally more uh more inclined to say it's necessary if
you do have a side panel window so thank you for checking out my unboxing and
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