WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.080 Inwin's been making some cool, build your own cases recently. Alex built the D. Billy in Computex. 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:09.240 Now we've got the POC, which apparently doesn't actually stand for anything. 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:13.720 So let's make our own naming convention. How about personally organized case? 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:19.560 Thanks, Inwin. It comes in two colors. We've got the Tropical Sweetheart or Race Blue. 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:22.760 I don't know why this one gets the actual color and this one just says Tropical. 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.660 I guess I could just get to pick one. If you couldn't tell, they're Flat Pack, 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:30.480 which is actually really cool. It's kind of like the Ikea furniture of cases. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.520 Ooh, they've got all these assembly instructions 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.700 on the box. There's also an app to follow in case you don't have the box for whatever reason. 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:40.920 Maybe you buy it secondhand or something. And everything just comes in these like 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.140 really flat sheets of SCCC steel, 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:49.760 which is pretty cool. We're gonna supposedly fold it like origami. 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:53.920 That's what their marketing material says at least anyways. Front panel, how to fold. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.880 Everything's very clearly labeled. And I like that this is just, 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.280 I don't know if it's recycled already, but it's just paper. It's just cardboard, not cardboard, 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.400 cardstock or something. So you can easily throw it in there recycling 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.080 once you're done. Although, I mean, it's got the instructions, so I don't know if you wanna get rid of it. 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:13.320 We've got our side cover. We've got our front panel, rear panel, 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:19.840 MB or motherboard plate. Side cover, one of two, top panel and bottom panel. 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.880 Hey, where's my side cover two of two? Well, okay, we'll find out, I guess. 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:28.200 Maybe they're together or something. It's not that heavy. It gets to be about 8.82 pounds, 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:34.180 and it's a mini ITX build. So we've got our RG Strix B760i gaming Wi-Fi 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:37.580 that we'll throw in that later, but I wanna build this case. We'll get a few other things here. 00:01:37.580 --> 00:01:41.240 There's these metal rails maybe to hold it. 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:44.400 We get some cable ties and zap straps, 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.920 which is always nice for cable management. We also get a fan. So you get one fan with your case, 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:53.060 which is okay for ITX, it's not bad. We also get some of these little, 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:56.760 yeah, these look like little rubber feet that you throw on on the end. We'll find that out later. 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.880 We also get a handy dandy accessories box, 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:04.880 always appreciated, as well as our PCIe Gen4 riser cable. 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:09.240 Oh, it's both the riser and the IO module in here, apparently. Or maybe they just use the same box. 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.480 Yeah, maybe they just use the same box because this one says IO module. 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:16.040 Now I don't know what to believe. Let's see what we get in our accessories box though. 00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:21.240 Okay, just some foam to stick. I don't know what this little foam is for either. 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:25.120 And then our screws and what looks like our standoffs 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.400 and mounting hardware and PCIe slot screws. 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.920 Let's see which of these is which. Here is our, oh, this is the IO. 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:37.560 We get one USB-C, which is 3.2 Gen2 by 2, 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.360 as well as two 3.2 Gen1 USB-A ports, 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.400 along with our little headphone mic combo jack. This one must be our riser then. 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.920 Yeah, very nice. If you don't want to follow the instructions that come on the box, there's an app. 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.760 Assemble, build, part one fold. Oh, that's really cool. 00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:58.480 Seven panels to bend. So you just like click on each one 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:01.840 and then it gives you a little video on how to fold it. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.440 Let's follow this thing step by step. We'll start with the MB plate. 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:10.320 Why didn't they just say motherboard? One minor thing, this is like waxed 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:14.040 or something on the inside. So I don't know how recyclable this is anymore. 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:19.320 It's got this side on the bottom. And then you fold these in. 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:24.440 And then this flap. Okay, this is great, but it moves a little fast. 00:03:24.440 --> 00:03:28.120 How do I rewind? Do I just go back and back in? Yep, okay. 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.640 Oh, there's this tab I forgot about. This goes here, very cool. 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:36.240 Okay, and then this folds out this way. So then we flip it out this way 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:42.760 and then we throw some screws in here. And then P1 motherboard standoff times six. 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:46.040 What's next? Handy dandy guide, front panel. 00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:50.120 The F panel, my favorite panel. Looks like this one's pretty easy. 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.200 Pock, I build, I share, I build computer. 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:57.280 It looks like you fold it in. I just wanna make sure I'm folding them the right way. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:02.280 Uh, uh, I did because look on the video 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:05.960 you can see the color on one side. So that actually makes it really easy to tell 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:10.520 that you're on the right side. That's what I've been looking for at least anyway is just which side is the paint on. 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.880 We need our rear panel next. Yeah, I do love how it's got like the how to fold 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.920 right on the box that is handy. Maybe don't throw away your box. 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.960 If you think you're gonna be disassembling and assembling over and over again. 00:04:21.960 --> 00:04:26.320 One kind of minor thing to note though is that this is metal and it's gonna wear out. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:29.520 So you probably only have so many bends in this before it just starts to snap. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:33.160 This one's a little harder because there's no paint. My method has been foiled. 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:37.600 Boop, that's supposedly the rear panel. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.600 Side cover, oh, that was good. Oh, this is super cool. 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.680 So what you can do with these is you can basically 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:47.920 do whatever pattern you want because it's for airflow. I'll get it assembled first and then I'll choose 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.800 which ones to like pop out. Top panel, ooh, I love this blue. 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.120 The tropical sweetheart, you get a bit of everything. You know, you get these yellows or oranges, 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.200 you get this green, you get some blue, it's nice. Whereas with the blue racer, it's just blue and black. 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:04.640 Which hey, that's an aesthetic in and of itself but it's not what we're looking for today. 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:08.120 I'm like terrified every time I bend these and I'm gonna break something but nope. 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.960 Somebody ordered a pizza bowl. This one's kind of weird. 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:15.400 We've actually, this is like the first one where I've had to actually do multiple bends. 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:18.600 I'm actually enjoying myself quite a bit. It's a lot of fun. 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.760 I've been doing a lot of like mini assembly and painting and stuff recently 00:05:22.760 --> 00:05:28.400 and it's been a joy kind of just putting small things together and I don't really build ITX 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:32.000 but I might get that ATX version next time I buy a case 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.600 because this is really cool. All right, you hit the done step and then look, 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.480 it's seven pieces, one, two, three, four, five, six. 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.680 I have six. Where's my other side panel? Seven that we totally, totally forgot to fold. 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.680 You know, they only have one step for side panel even though you got two of them. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:52.560 I just wasn't thinking about it. We're gonna take our bottom plate and we're gonna take our MB plate. 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:56.880 We're just gonna kind of squeak it in here. Everything's got a little like cut out 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:00.320 where it should go, which is nice. Oh, these go on the outside. 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:05.120 This is why you follow the instructions. This says that it comes with tools and accessories 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.160 but I don't see a screwdriver. 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:13.160 Ooh, do do do do, anywhere the wind blows. 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:15.800 Okay, that's done. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.400 Whoa, careful, it's a little flimsy until it's like really all together. 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:24.440 Okay, so then I take the perforated, this guy, 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:29.120 and it's gonna slot in around here somehow, it looks like. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.320 Line up these holes, very good. Then we're gonna take our other side panel right here 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:36.600 and we're just gonna screw this in to kind of like complete the little graphic here. 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:42.600 I understand why we put these two up top here. It's for the IO, so we're just gonna screw those into 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.600 these little standoffs here and away we go. I just realized, this is a power button. 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.740 Something that's not clear unless you're following the guide. Maybe it's clear when you follow the instructions 00:06:50.740 --> 00:06:54.360 but these panels, I don't know sometimes if they go on the inside or the outside. 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.920 So let's just watch this little guy here. On the inside, on the inside this time. 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.040 See, it's so, they have it putting the handle on first. 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:06.400 I think that's way harder to do. I'm just gonna put these screws through first instead. 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:09.400 As for the handles themselves, it's hard to tell, you know, without everything in here 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:13.000 but I like them. I don't have the smallest hands or the beefiest 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.520 and my fingers can fit in here. Looks like our next step is our PCIe riser. 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:21.880 Okay, take that out. And then this is going to go right here. 00:07:21.880 --> 00:07:25.800 Feed that through and then take a couple more standoff screws. 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.120 We're almost done. Basically all we've got are our two side panels here. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:33.720 We're just gonna slot these in and then screw them in 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.880 on both sides. It's pretty cool. One thing we kind of realized though 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:40.560 before we put these side panels on is that you can't really, you know, once they're in, 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.600 you can't get in there. And I've still got to put a computer in this thing. 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.760 They don't tell me anywhere on the instructions. I got so carried away in their cool POC app 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:51.660 that I completely forgot to build the computer. So we're gonna build the computer now. 00:07:51.660 --> 00:07:56.660 Okay, we're just gonna pump a riser cable in 00:08:00.280 --> 00:08:05.120 now that we've got our cooler and our motherboard in here. And I gotta say, starting to look pretty good. 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.920 I'm not 100% sure we'll have enough clearance. Oh yeah, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good. 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:12.640 We'll attach all our IO, we'll get our graphics card in on the other side. 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:16.240 Just screwing in our power supply here. Probably should have plugged the other stuff in first, 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.800 but you know, we'll get there. The nice thing is, because this thing 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.800 takes full size components, look at this, we don't need an SFX power supply. 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.400 Oh, it's so big. Now they say you can fit a 346 millimeter long card 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:33.600 up to three and a half slots, which is pretty beefy. 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.320 Pretty beefy. We got a 4070 Ti. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.240 Here we go, now it's clicked. Something I got really worried about real quick 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.640 was how I'm gonna actually screw this down into the plate that's way down here. 00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:48.240 They give you a little slot, so the stubby's not gonna work. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.760 That's for sure, but big boy long screw will totally fit. 00:08:52.760 --> 00:08:56.040 That's in there pretty good. You know, we got our handles to move it around. 00:08:56.040 --> 00:09:00.400 Actually I really do like these handles quite a bit. Now that I've got them, cable management could use some work. 00:09:00.400 --> 00:09:04.960 I am not gonna spend a ton of time cable managing, but there's plenty of room because it's got two chambers. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:09.240 So the GPU is on the other side, nice and tidy just like this. 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.800 Do whatever you want, you got lots of space. As for like overall feel and quality, 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:17.200 I don't have the side panels on yet admittedly, but it does feel a tad flimsy. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:22.320 I mean, let's be real here, it's 0.8 millimeters thick SCCC steel. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:27.760 It's just kind of held in by screws in a few places with some bends, but let's put the side panels on 00:09:27.760 --> 00:09:32.560 before we really judge it too harshly. It does look cool, I really like it. 00:09:32.560 --> 00:09:37.960 It's super colorful, like that's one complaint I have about building computers these days in general. 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.520 You either do RGB or it's all black or it's all white. 00:09:41.520 --> 00:09:47.280 It's kind of it. There used to be a lot of colored components, whether it was cases or motherboards or graphics cards. 00:09:47.280 --> 00:09:51.560 And that just doesn't really happen that much anymore. But I would like to bring back color, 00:09:51.560 --> 00:09:56.600 a little bit of color into my life. It's why I like the fractal pop air so much, you can get it in a bunch of different fun colors. 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.920 And that's why I really like this guy. It's still a little flimsy, 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:03.240 but realistically you're not gonna move this once it's done. 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.660 You're just gonna put it down somewhere and leave it be. So yeah, it's pretty sweet. 00:10:07.660 --> 00:10:10.920 You've got your, all your HDMI ports, 00:10:10.920 --> 00:10:13.920 whatever you're gonna put there. And then just kind of pop them out the sides here 00:10:13.920 --> 00:10:17.360 or over here if you want. And then, oh, the feet. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:19.700 Wow. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:26.860 That's great. Eye build. I completely forgot to customize my cooling. 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:30.000 So, you know, I'm just gonna take a slot screwdriver 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.320 and just kind of go to get these out 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.520 because I cannot reach them now that the panel is on. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:40.680 Every single one. That's what I want to do. 00:10:40.680 --> 00:10:44.800 Don't do it this way. I'm probably scratching a little bit of paint. Actually, I really like this. 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:49.240 I think it's a pretty cool idea. Let's you just kind of add a little bit of flair to your, 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:53.280 maybe you just want to do the side ones. Maybe you just want to do the top. Wow. 00:10:53.280 --> 00:10:57.240 It's pretty snazzy. You know, it is the tiniest bit flimsy, 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:01.080 but I don't think that's a real problem unless you're lugging around your PC everywhere, 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:04.520 which I mean, I guess can be kind of the point of small form factor if you want to use it 00:11:04.520 --> 00:11:08.260 for land parties or something. Bell says this is more medium form factor. And I guess I kind of agree. 00:11:08.260 --> 00:11:13.920 It is a little tall. It's a little thick. Like, for instance, I built in the ghost 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:17.040 and that is like two thirds of this size, at least maybe. 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:20.040 Overall, I think the construction is pretty decent. 00:11:20.040 --> 00:11:24.720 Putting it together was actually really fun. I don't know how many people are actually gonna enjoy that 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.160 as much as I did. I kind of like these nifty little fan things 00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:32.120 that you can pop in and out for your airflow. Probably doesn't do a whole lot, realistically. 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.160 There is a ton of other ventilation on this case. 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:39.840 And oh my God, I forgot about our fan. Normally a fan just goes on the inside here. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.800 If you forget like me, you can always just, you know, strap it to the outside and then rub the cable somehow. 00:11:43.800 --> 00:11:48.920 If you want to buy the whole thing, it's 95 US dollars, which considering case prices keep going up and up, 00:11:48.920 --> 00:11:52.640 that's not too bad. And if you want to, you can mix and match 00:11:52.640 --> 00:11:56.620 and buy individual panels so you can kind of create your own design 00:11:56.620 --> 00:12:01.320 one piece at a time. Do I recommend it? Honestly, yeah, if you want to build new kind of medium 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.440 to small form factor PC and you want something that looks colorful 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:09.440 and you feel like you've done it yourself, then the POC could be for you. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.640 Thanks for watching. If you want to watch other case short circuits, Adam built the Q500 from Cooler Master recently. 00:12:15.640 --> 00:12:19.000 It's another DIY build your own case video. Check it out.