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and overview of the bit Phoenix Prodigy M now if you've already heard of The
Prodigy then I won't need to explain to you what it is it is an mitx case that
is pretty stylish has support for lots of Radiators and generally high
performance hard Hardware in a relatively small form factor Now The
Prodigy M was bit Phoenix's response to
what was I guess sometimes a criticism of The Prodigy which was that for an ITX
case that is a single expansion slot motherboard case um it really wasn't
that small and bit Fenix kind of went well yeah but you can put a lot of other
Hardware in there like you know radiators and a whack ton of hard drives
and all that kind of cool stuff and users went well no we want something
that's the size of the Prodigy that we can put an matx case in that is one with
four expansion slots and that my friends
is what we have here today this is The
Prodigy M which from the outside looks basically the same as the original
Prodigy so here on the front of the case you've got a nice uh open airflow Grill
so you're going to be able to bring in fresh air you've got a 5 and 1/4 in
Drive Bay right here you've got the sort of Mac Pro ES looking handles on the top
that are made of what they call fiber Flex or something along those lines
which is basically bit fenix's way of saying they're supposed to be flexible
because a lot of people complained in the past about them bowing a little bit
so they're like well that's that's by Design um on the side we've got power
reset headphone microphone jacks as well as two USB 3.0 ports the finish it
actually varies a fair bit so on the side panel here we've got a powdercoated
black so that's a bit of a matte black actually looks quite nice it's got a bit
of a shine to it then the plastic parts on the top use their soft touch feel so
that's a soft touch plastic and then the grills themselves use a bit of a shinier
paint finish on them compared to the rest of it at the back ey yes this is
where we find the differences so we've got a 120 or 140 mm fan Mount Your IO a
little bit of extra ventilation here toolless removal of the PCI Express
covers so you just go ahead and undo this thumb screw right here lift the
whole thing up and they're all going to come free so I don't really want to do
that cuz it's really really easy to do that all right so this magnetic guy right here on the bottom is actually a
heat shield which is I guess um okay so
when you look at the bottom you find the first hint as to the unusual layout so
there's your power supply in the front of the case on the bottom there's also
mounting points for fans down here as well as anti vibration mounting points
for 3 and 1/2 in hard drives so I guess the idea is if you fill the bottom with
drives and you don't need those ventilation holes and you don't want the
heat being exhausted by your power supply to to get your hard drives hot
you might want to put this on I suspect in practice it's not going to make that
much of a difference but hey you've got the option should you desire it you
might have noticed we switched to a white Prodigy M case don't worry we have
uh we have not done anything crazy voodoo magic wise we just happen to have
a black one and a white one the last thing left over from the original
Prodigy up here is the removable fan filter SLG Grill on the top that allows
you to have access to the ah yes up to 240 mm slim radiator that can be
installed on the top however it should be noted that that might interfere with some of your expandability and once you
get it open that will become more apparent so we're going to open up the
side that has the io on it uh Brandon actually asked me while we were unboxing
it why the io's on the side and the answer is because on the original
Prodigy design the entire front of the case was taken up by the 5 and a/4 in
Bay and ventilation so oh yeah that's speaking of ventilation the white design
just like on the original Prodigy doesn't have the vent holes whereas the
black one does so because it's all taken up by ventilation the iio is moved to
the side and because the Prodigy m is based very closely on the original
Prodigy and it wasn't a complete redesign from the ground up well they
reused that side placed IO so anyway
because it reuses most of the design of the original Prodigy they weren't going
to retool it for the io to not be on the side because some people actually like
it so here on the side panel you see a couple of 2 and 1/2 in SSD mounts that
you can actually Mount to these plastic ventilated grills right here and other
than that that basically just comes off like that now now we see this is not the
same case at all so the original Prodigy
had the power supply mounted in the back The Prodigy M has the power come in the
back but that is using an extension cable so you can see right here it's
wired up internally that runs to the power supply position here in the front
of the case so this will actually plug in directly to the power supply down
here which will sit up here in the front also the motherboard tray which was
horizontal in the original Prodigy has now been adjusted to be vertical so the
motherboard is actually mounted here in an inverted position giving you five PCI
expansion slots assuming that you don't use any of these are rather this 120 mm
fan Mount over here which gives you a lot of flexibility because some matx
cases even though they only have four slots by Design some of them put their
second PCIe adex slot at the very bottom
meaning that if you have two dual slot graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire
having an extra external slot like this
allows you to install an additional card such as a sound card in between them so
I give uh bit Phoenix a lot of credit for thinking of that and then if you don't use it then you don't use it great
install a fan there and don't worry about it all right so included as well
we've got two bit Fenix 120 millimeter
fans so one in the bottom down here
meaning you're probably going to want to pull that heat shield out in the default configuration and one over here the case
supports a total of four three and A4 3
and 1/2 in drives or five 2 and 1/2 in
drives and you can play around a fair bit with where they go so you can see
there are Drive mounts here with the rubber vibration mounts are vibration
mounts being for 3 and 1/2 in and these little hooks as well as these other ones
over here being for 2 and 1/2 in drives as well as uh here we go we've got an
accessory box um you can also support up to a 120
mm single Radiator in the back of the case so that gives you a fair bit of
liquid cooling flexibility although not to nearly the same degree as the
original Prodigy because the motherboard wasn't taking up that much space in the
original Prodigy which is part of why you weren't able to fit that much
Hardware in it uh from a motherboard and graphics card perspective but you could
do lots of liquid cooling stuff so there's a usb2 to usb3 adapter here so
that allows you to take the usb3 ports plug them into a usb2 board and have
them run in USB 2 mode as well as all the little Hardwares that you're going
to need to install your system inside the case we're going to undo the thumb
screws on the other side which will give us an even better look at the interior
cable management is much better in The Prodigy M compared to the original
prodigy which tended to be a bit of a challenge although because they never
released a windowed version of it I guess it was just mostly for the OCD
folks like myself who even cared uh the build quality is still very solid I mean
The Prodigy is not a cheaply you know flimsy side panel built case which is
great and Carries on here we also see it has an extremely large motherboard
cutout so you're going to have no difficulty installing or uninstalling um
backplate mounted CPU coolers without taking out your motherboard this also
gives you another look at the front here so you can see that the front fan
options have not necessarily been reduced on paper because you still got
all these mounting holes but remember guys there's a power supply here so yeah
that's that's that's not an option as much as it was before I would probably
install the power supply pulling air through the front particularly if you
get the Black version of the case which as I mentioned before has more
ventilation due to those grills in the front so just like The Prodigy it's
available in a variety of colors it's matx instead of ITX supports fewer
drives but more expansion cards and basically it comes down to you what you
want to go with if you want the most powerful small form factor build matx is
the way to go because it allows you to get a rampage for Gene throw something
like a 30 or 4930k or 4960x 6 core in
there and have a very very powerful little box thank you for checking out
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