WEBVTT 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:12.040 adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:17.119 check the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing 00:00:14.879 --> 00:00:20.320 and overview of the bit Phoenix Prodigy M now if you've already heard of The 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:26.480 Prodigy then I won't need to explain to you what it is it is an mitx case that 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:31.320 is pretty stylish has support for lots of Radiators and generally high 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:37.600 performance hard Hardware in a relatively small form factor Now The 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.559 Prodigy M was bit Phoenix's response to 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:45.000 what was I guess sometimes a criticism of The Prodigy which was that for an ITX 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:51.120 case that is a single expansion slot motherboard case um it really wasn't 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:54.440 that small and bit Fenix kind of went well yeah but you can put a lot of other 00:00:52.760 --> 00:00:58.359 Hardware in there like you know radiators and a whack ton of hard drives 00:00:56.559 --> 00:01:02.160 and all that kind of cool stuff and users went well no we want something 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:09.200 that's the size of the Prodigy that we can put an matx case in that is one with 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:12.880 four expansion slots and that my friends 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:15.600 is what we have here today this is The 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:19.479 Prodigy M which from the outside looks basically the same as the original 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:24.079 Prodigy so here on the front of the case you've got a nice uh open airflow Grill 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:28.320 so you're going to be able to bring in fresh air you've got a 5 and 1/4 in 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:33.600 Drive Bay right here you've got the sort of Mac Pro ES looking handles on the top 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.640 that are made of what they call fiber Flex or something along those lines 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:40.560 which is basically bit fenix's way of saying they're supposed to be flexible 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:44.159 because a lot of people complained in the past about them bowing a little bit 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:49.079 so they're like well that's that's by Design um on the side we've got power 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:55.079 reset headphone microphone jacks as well as two USB 3.0 ports the finish it 00:01:53.159 --> 00:02:00.600 actually varies a fair bit so on the side panel here we've got a powdercoated 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:04.159 black so that's a bit of a matte black actually looks quite nice it's got a bit 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:09.640 of a shine to it then the plastic parts on the top use their soft touch feel so 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:14.800 that's a soft touch plastic and then the grills themselves use a bit of a shinier 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:18.840 paint finish on them compared to the rest of it at the back ey yes this is 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:25.599 where we find the differences so we've got a 120 or 140 mm fan Mount Your IO a 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:30.280 little bit of extra ventilation here toolless removal of the PCI Express 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.280 covers so you just go ahead and undo this thumb screw right here lift the 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.920 whole thing up and they're all going to come free so I don't really want to do 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:45.040 that cuz it's really really easy to do that all right so this magnetic guy right here on the bottom is actually a 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.360 heat shield which is I guess um okay so 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:51.760 when you look at the bottom you find the first hint as to the unusual layout so 00:02:49.239 --> 00:02:56.159 there's your power supply in the front of the case on the bottom there's also 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:00.959 mounting points for fans down here as well as anti vibration mounting points 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:04.440 for 3 and 1/2 in hard drives so I guess the idea is if you fill the bottom with 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:07.360 drives and you don't need those ventilation holes and you don't want the 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:11.080 heat being exhausted by your power supply to to get your hard drives hot 00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:14.840 you might want to put this on I suspect in practice it's not going to make that 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:19.159 much of a difference but hey you've got the option should you desire it you 00:03:17.640 --> 00:03:24.159 might have noticed we switched to a white Prodigy M case don't worry we have 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:28.360 uh we have not done anything crazy voodoo magic wise we just happen to have 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:32.080 a black one and a white one the last thing left over from the original 00:03:29.799 --> 00:03:37.040 Prodigy up here is the removable fan filter SLG Grill on the top that allows 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:41.200 you to have access to the ah yes up to 240 mm slim radiator that can be 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:47.159 installed on the top however it should be noted that that might interfere with some of your expandability and once you 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:51.239 get it open that will become more apparent so we're going to open up the 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:55.280 side that has the io on it uh Brandon actually asked me while we were unboxing 00:03:53.079 --> 00:03:58.840 it why the io's on the side and the answer is because on the original 00:03:57.079 --> 00:04:03.360 Prodigy design the entire front of the case was taken up by the 5 and a/4 in 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.879 Bay and ventilation so oh yeah that's speaking of ventilation the white design 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:11.040 just like on the original Prodigy doesn't have the vent holes whereas the 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:15.200 black one does so because it's all taken up by ventilation the iio is moved to 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:19.239 the side and because the Prodigy m is based very closely on the original 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:24.639 Prodigy and it wasn't a complete redesign from the ground up well they 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:26.759 reused that side placed IO so anyway 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:31.039 because it reuses most of the design of the original Prodigy they weren't going 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:34.479 to retool it for the io to not be on the side because some people actually like 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.440 it so here on the side panel you see a couple of 2 and 1/2 in SSD mounts that 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:42.680 you can actually Mount to these plastic ventilated grills right here and other 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:50.440 than that that basically just comes off like that now now we see this is not the 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:52.560 same case at all so the original Prodigy 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:58.479 had the power supply mounted in the back The Prodigy M has the power come in the 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:03.080 back but that is using an extension cable so you can see right here it's 00:05:00.520 --> 00:05:07.680 wired up internally that runs to the power supply position here in the front 00:05:05.960 --> 00:05:11.960 of the case so this will actually plug in directly to the power supply down 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:16.560 here which will sit up here in the front also the motherboard tray which was 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:21.919 horizontal in the original Prodigy has now been adjusted to be vertical so the 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:27.800 motherboard is actually mounted here in an inverted position giving you five PCI 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:33.560 expansion slots assuming that you don't use any of these are rather this 120 mm 00:05:31.400 --> 00:05:38.000 fan Mount over here which gives you a lot of flexibility because some matx 00:05:35.919 --> 00:05:44.440 cases even though they only have four slots by Design some of them put their 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:46.080 second PCIe adex slot at the very bottom 00:05:44.440 --> 00:05:51.639 meaning that if you have two dual slot graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:53.479 having an extra external slot like this 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:57.759 allows you to install an additional card such as a sound card in between them so 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:01.800 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 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:07.400 install a fan there and don't worry about it all right so included as well 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:10.759 we've got two bit Fenix 120 millimeter 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:11.759 fans so one in the bottom down here 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:18.840 meaning you're probably going to want to pull that heat shield out in the default configuration and one over here the case 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:22.720 supports a total of four three and A4 3 00:06:18.840 --> 00:06:24.280 and 1/2 in drives or five 2 and 1/2 in 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:27.919 drives and you can play around a fair bit with where they go so you can see 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:32.360 there are Drive mounts here with the rubber vibration mounts are vibration 00:06:30.039 --> 00:06:37.280 mounts being for 3 and 1/2 in and these little hooks as well as these other ones 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:41.479 over here being for 2 and 1/2 in drives as well as uh here we go we've got an 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:47.440 accessory box um you can also support up to a 120 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:51.039 mm single Radiator in the back of the case so that gives you a fair bit of 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:56.520 liquid cooling flexibility although not to nearly the same degree as the 00:06:53.720 --> 00:07:00.039 original Prodigy because the motherboard wasn't taking up that much space in the 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:03.720 original Prodigy which is part of why you weren't able to fit that much 00:07:01.400 --> 00:07:06.720 Hardware in it uh from a motherboard and graphics card perspective but you could 00:07:05.080 --> 00:07:12.000 do lots of liquid cooling stuff so there's a usb2 to usb3 adapter here so 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:15.879 that allows you to take the usb3 ports plug them into a usb2 board and have 00:07:13.400 --> 00:07:20.280 them run in USB 2 mode as well as all the little Hardwares that you're going 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:23.199 to need to install your system inside the case we're going to undo the thumb 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:27.720 screws on the other side which will give us an even better look at the interior 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:30.919 cable management is much better in The Prodigy M compared to the original 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.120 prodigy which tended to be a bit of a challenge although because they never 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:39.160 released a windowed version of it I guess it was just mostly for the OCD 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:44.319 folks like myself who even cared uh the build quality is still very solid I mean 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:49.440 The Prodigy is not a cheaply you know flimsy side panel built case which is 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:52.639 great and Carries on here we also see it has an extremely large motherboard 00:07:51.159 --> 00:07:58.080 cutout so you're going to have no difficulty installing or uninstalling um 00:07:55.240 --> 00:08:01.960 backplate mounted CPU coolers without taking out your motherboard this also 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:06.800 gives you another look at the front here so you can see that the front fan 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:10.759 options have not necessarily been reduced on paper because you still got 00:08:09.479 --> 00:08:15.960 all these mounting holes but remember guys there's a power supply here so yeah 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:19.520 that's that's that's not an option as much as it was before I would probably 00:08:17.599 --> 00:08:22.879 install the power supply pulling air through the front particularly if you 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:27.560 get the Black version of the case which as I mentioned before has more 00:08:25.080 --> 00:08:31.080 ventilation due to those grills in the front so just like The Prodigy it's 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:35.719 available in a variety of colors it's matx instead of ITX supports fewer 00:08:33.560 --> 00:08:40.039 drives but more expansion cards and basically it comes down to you what you 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:43.880 want to go with if you want the most powerful small form factor build matx is 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:50.320 the way to go because it allows you to get a rampage for Gene throw something 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:52.640 like a 30 or 4930k or 4960x 6 core in 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.720 there and have a very very powerful little box thank you for checking out 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:00.120 this unboxing don't forget to like it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if you're not sure 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:04.519 what to make of this tape that stuck to my ARM here and don't forget to check 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:07.519 out the linest tech tips.com 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