Fractal's been on a roll recently and whether you've been looking at the North
or the Torrent or the Meshifi 2, they've
been making some great cases. And now the Meshifi 3 is finally here and it's
got a few pretty cool upgrades. And today we've got the
premium ambience pro edition. It's going to cost you quite a
bit more than the regular one, but it'll be up to you to decide whether you think
it's worth it or not. We've got our Meshifi 3 user guide. This is obviously
the white version of the case in case you hadn't figured that out yet. There's
also a black version of this case if that's what you'd prefer. And then we've
also got our Meshifi 3 RGB accessories,
hardware, cable ties, legacy splitter,
extension cable. Oh, this is actually a really nice feature. All of our cables
are white to match our white case. Love to see it. It's a really pretty case.
We've got a few key differences between this one and the Meshifi 2. Uh, first of
all, this top panel, it's all perforated with this kind of plastic insert. The
nice thing is most of this should be toolless. Like, I can probably just take
off. Yeah, just pull them all off. Oh, yeah. Easy. Um, and they've
actually added little holes here, screw holes, in case you don't want these to
be easy to just come off on you. Maybe you're shipping it somewhere or you're
just like putting it in the car to take to a land or something. You can screw
them down to keep them secure. The Torrent kind of has that, but they're on
the inside here. They're not quite as easily accessible. You've got to take the top off to then screw down the side
panels. And then we've also got a removable front
panel. Oh, there we go. Easy. It's got
some pogo pins here. That's for our fancy RGB that we're going to control
everything. They're still using their kind of trademark cool wavy front. Uh, I
really like the design. It might not be for you, but I think it does a good job
of ventilation and it just looks neat. And then after removing the front, we've
got access to our three 140 mil fans.
Surprisingly, no rear exhaust, but that's okay. If you do feel like you
need that extra air flow, just throw one in there. These are also using our kind
of proprietary fan cable that's putting the ARGB and the power allin one, and
it's going to this nice little fan hub back here. As for all the cable
management, it actually looks pretty good. We've got these clips that they should just come out. What's cool is if
you look at these, they're tethed like gears kind of. So you can like adjust
how much extra cable space you need on
this guy. And then the nice thing is it'll like tighten down. It'll kind of
ratchet like once you reach the desired
depth that you're looking for. One cool thing that they've done here
is they've done the scoop. This isn't the first time we've seen it. I'm pretty
sure NZXT has a fan like mounted uh in a weird 90° angle or something down there
in their version. Um, but what this should do in theory is it's going to
pass air through and up into your graphics card instead of either one
dumping it just into the power supply chamber or I guess just not going
anywhere else. Some of you may like how it looks, some of you might not. I
actually I think that it's a cool idea
and I really like how it will work, but I like decorating the inside of my
computer. So, for me, this is just like more space that I can't sticker bomb or
I can't put a little figurine or something. So, to each their own, I do think it still they've they've managed
to do it tastefully. Some of you savvy case connoisseurs out there might
remember that this was actually supposed to come out months ago, but there's a bit of an issue with the PCIe covers.
Uh, Fractal has since fixed that and reshipped all the cases out. They've
kind of did the same thing with I think it was the Torrent that had a fan hub issue. People noticed it, Fractal took
charge, fixed it, and addressed it for you. And that's kind of why I still
support them. I mean, on top of making just good cases, um, they just, you
know, actually seem to care about their product and they don't want to get sued
and they'd rather put out a good product than not. One issue though that you
might have is if you're someone like me who has more than a couple of hard
drives in their computer, there's not a ton of support
because we've got this whole scoop design down here. There's no 3 and 1/2 in bays for your big HDDs. Those can go
here and here. But then if you fill these up with hard drives, um, then you
don't have a ton of SSD mounting. Fractal does have a little diagram of
like how many drives you can mount and where to put them. But like I just it's
not the compact version. I don't know if we'll get a C version of the Meshifi 3
later, but to make this even smaller, like I don't know how they're going to
get rid of even more space. We've got the XL. We'll take a quick look at it
later. Maybe it's got more drive caddies. Not sure. Uh, but that's just
something that I'm sad about. Let's talk about the power supply area. Uh, it's
actually pretty sweet. It's got a couple of little rubber mounting pads here,
antiibration pads, and then it's got the nice removable plate on the back. And
these thumb screws are a little tight, but I'm still undoing them with my thumbs. So, I'm going to call that
toolless. We've also got another fan filter down here, which was actually
super easy to get at. I prefer this side loading method. like my computer is on
the ground in the back. So to pull the fan out like that, I've got to pull the
computer out. Whereas like this, I can just actually take it out, clean the
filter, and put it back in. I also think it's really tasteful how they've like
incorporated the foot into the rest of the filter. Uh it just makes it look
clean, and it's really easy to take off. To continue with our toolless adventure,
these thumb screws were also fingertight, so I'm easily able to undo
them. screwdriver would probably be easier and especially if I wasn't trying
to do them from uh back here, but I'm
gonna take these off without a tool. And then boom, you can take that whole top
off. I love this. I don't know when this started, but honestly, if you can build
your computer with the top off, it's going to make your life a whole lot
easier, especially if you're using a bulky air cooler and a big graphics card. Uh it's just way easier when you
know you're not trying to fiddle with cables in here and then like use your fingers to plug in the CPU power because
now you can just pop it off and put it in there. And then on the front we've also got these cool cable covers. These
should be adjustable I believe. Oh yeah,
there's a little thumb screw back here. Ah, okay. I finally need a screwdriver.
This one's not fingertight. One moment, please. I'm going to undo them real
quick and then we should Actually, I don't even know if that second one
needed to come out. I'm just going to Wow, look at that. Easy. So now when
you've got your cables out, uh you can just kind of close that when you're all
done and it'll just hide them a little better. We'll see how well it actually hides stuff once I put a computer in
here. But I like it. And before I build in this guy, I just wanted to point out
that it's got some okay IO. We've got our power button here, couple of USBA,
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you might want to do before you try to put your board in is slide the cable
covers all the way out of the way. Because, as you can see with this one,
if they were in the way, these SATA ports, they're in the way.
I'm wiring up my case and I realize that for the motherboard it's a little, you
know, it's not the worst. I can slip it past there, but one problem with this
fan hub placement is it's like right where you want to plug in at least your
ATX 24 pin. And it's, you know, for
proper cable management, I'm going to have to like undo this and then put this
here and then pop that there and then put it back under here. And it's really
not the end of the world, but they could have put it somewhere else. Now, you might be thinking to yourself once you
get to installing the graphics card, "Hey, I can't get my screwdriver in
there." You just take the clip off, you dummy. Look at that. Look at all this
access. All right, everything's plugged in. Everything's screwed down. Now,
we've just got to cable manage. The best part, I literally just
tucked some stuff away and then threw the covers on and it's basically good
enough. If I spent some more time, yeah, it could look a little nicer, but that
was literally like 2 minutes of work to get it to where we are now. That's not
bad. And with that, we're done. We'll put our side panel back on. Make sure
our power switch is on. Turn it on. We've got this little light strip down
here. Well, hold on. Let it all get going. What's the front look like?
That's what I want to know. You can control the lighting with their
software. Um, but I really like the kind
of shades of blue that it was just on. Uh, and I really like how diffuse
everything is, especially on the white. So, you might want the white version of
this case. It's rather pretty. But what
do we have over here? It's the Meshifi 3 XL. There
aren't a ton of differences with the XL version. Aside from it being longer,
you're going to fit a longer GPU, a longer power supply, and there's room
for some more fans. As I can see, they've got some mounts back here if you want to do like a radiator on the back
or even just some ventilation on this uh rear panel here. Sadly enough, we are
still limited to our two 3 and 1/2 in bays. So, if you're looking for hard
drive space, the Meshifi 3 might not be
for you. But if you're looking for a very stylish, very breathable case that
looks pretty and is going to perform quite
well, I honestly like I have a hard time
not recommending this thing. It's great. This thing was an absolute pleasure to
build in as per usual. Uh I really love
just how easy it was to take this off and take the top off um and just get in
there any which way I wanted. There were a few minor complaints that we pointed
out while building it. Uh another one that I don't think I brought up was just
how narrow the passageway is in here if you've got a full board. I've got a big
Taichi motherboard in here and so there's really not a lot of extra space.
Um, so I don't know if they could just like make those a little bigger or
whatever. It'd be a lot easier to kind of get in and around. Uh, it doesn't
help that I put my GPU in first before plugging them in to be fair. But
otherwise, I think it's just a really solid and pretty case and Crackle just
kind of keeps knocking it out of the park. Let's talk about the price though
because at least if you want this version, it's a little expensive and
that's subject to change because of all the tariffs and everything going around.
So, who knows? cuz it could be even more by the time this video releases. For the
base Meshifi 3, it's $140. And I think
that's pretty reasonable. And then if you want the RGB version, you're only
going up to $160. Not bad. However, if
you want the Ambiance Pro version specifically, you're going to have to
shell out $220 for the nonXL. And then if you want
the XL, you basically just add $30 on
each of those price tiers. And yeah, it's longer and you can fit a bigger
GPU, but if I'm getting an XL, I'm kind of hoping for like some extra hard drive
caddies or something in there so I can jam as many Linux ISOs as I can manage
to download in a single afternoon. I do like it. I like it quite a bit. And I
think that if you like the look of it and you if you like a really easy to
buildin case and you're willing to shell out a bit of money, you only really buy
one case and you can carry that forward kind of like a power supply for
basically as long as you want. I definitely recommend the the Fractal
Meshi 3. It's a fantastic case from a great company and I'm just happy that I
was able to build in it today. Maybe I have to upgrade. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you want to see
another build video, check out the time I built in a Fractal North. That's I
don't know. I kind of like that one more, but the Meshifi is pretty