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Fractal's been on a roll recently and whether you've been looking at the North

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or the Torrent or the Meshifi 2, they've

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been making some great cases. And now the Meshifi 3 is finally here and it's

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got a few pretty cool upgrades. And today we've got the

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premium ambience pro edition. It's going to cost you quite a

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bit more than the regular one, but it'll be up to you to decide whether you think

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it's worth it or not. We've got our Meshifi 3 user guide. This is obviously

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the white version of the case in case you hadn't figured that out yet. There's

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also a black version of this case if that's what you'd prefer. And then we've

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also got our Meshifi 3 RGB accessories,

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hardware, cable ties, legacy splitter,

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extension cable. Oh, this is actually a really nice feature. All of our cables

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are white to match our white case. Love to see it. It's a really pretty case.

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We've got a few key differences between this one and the Meshifi 2. Uh, first of

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all, this top panel, it's all perforated with this kind of plastic insert. The

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nice thing is most of this should be toolless. Like, I can probably just take

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off. Yeah, just pull them all off. Oh, yeah. Easy. Um, and they've

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actually added little holes here, screw holes, in case you don't want these to

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be easy to just come off on you. Maybe you're shipping it somewhere or you're

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just like putting it in the car to take to a land or something. You can screw

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them down to keep them secure. The Torrent kind of has that, but they're on

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the inside here. They're not quite as easily accessible. You've got to take the top off to then screw down the side

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panels. And then we've also got a removable front

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panel. Oh, there we go. Easy. It's got

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some pogo pins here. That's for our fancy RGB that we're going to control

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everything. They're still using their kind of trademark cool wavy front. Uh, I

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really like the design. It might not be for you, but I think it does a good job

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of ventilation and it just looks neat. And then after removing the front, we've

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got access to our three 140 mil fans.

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Surprisingly, no rear exhaust, but that's okay. If you do feel like you

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need that extra air flow, just throw one in there. These are also using our kind

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of proprietary fan cable that's putting the ARGB and the power allin one, and

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it's going to this nice little fan hub back here. As for all the cable

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management, it actually looks pretty good. We've got these clips that they should just come out. What's cool is if

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you look at these, they're tethed like gears kind of. So you can like adjust

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how much extra cable space you need on

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this guy. And then the nice thing is it'll like tighten down. It'll kind of

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ratchet like once you reach the desired

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depth that you're looking for. One cool thing that they've done here

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is they've done the scoop. This isn't the first time we've seen it. I'm pretty

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sure NZXT has a fan like mounted uh in a weird 90° angle or something down there

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in their version. Um, but what this should do in theory is it's going to

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pass air through and up into your graphics card instead of either one

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dumping it just into the power supply chamber or I guess just not going

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anywhere else. Some of you may like how it looks, some of you might not. I

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actually I think that it's a cool idea

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and I really like how it will work, but I like decorating the inside of my

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computer. So, for me, this is just like more space that I can't sticker bomb or

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I can't put a little figurine or something. So, to each their own, I do think it still they've they've managed

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to do it tastefully. Some of you savvy case connoisseurs out there might

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remember that this was actually supposed to come out months ago, but there's a bit of an issue with the PCIe covers.

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Uh, Fractal has since fixed that and reshipped all the cases out. They've

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kind of did the same thing with I think it was the Torrent that had a fan hub issue. People noticed it, Fractal took

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charge, fixed it, and addressed it for you. And that's kind of why I still

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support them. I mean, on top of making just good cases, um, they just, you

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know, actually seem to care about their product and they don't want to get sued

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and they'd rather put out a good product than not. One issue though that you

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might have is if you're someone like me who has more than a couple of hard

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drives in their computer, there's not a ton of support

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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

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here and here. But then if you fill these up with hard drives, um, then you

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don't have a ton of SSD mounting. Fractal does have a little diagram of

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like how many drives you can mount and where to put them. But like I just it's

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not the compact version. I don't know if we'll get a C version of the Meshifi 3

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later, but to make this even smaller, like I don't know how they're going to

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get rid of even more space. We've got the XL. We'll take a quick look at it

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later. Maybe it's got more drive caddies. Not sure. Uh, but that's just

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something that I'm sad about. Let's talk about the power supply area. Uh, it's

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actually pretty sweet. It's got a couple of little rubber mounting pads here,

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antiibration pads, and then it's got the nice removable plate on the back. And

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these thumb screws are a little tight, but I'm still undoing them with my thumbs. So, I'm going to call that

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toolless. We've also got another fan filter down here, which was actually

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super easy to get at. I prefer this side loading method. like my computer is on

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the ground in the back. So to pull the fan out like that, I've got to pull the

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computer out. Whereas like this, I can just actually take it out, clean the

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filter, and put it back in. I also think it's really tasteful how they've like

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incorporated the foot into the rest of the filter. Uh it just makes it look

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clean, and it's really easy to take off. To continue with our toolless adventure,

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these thumb screws were also fingertight, so I'm easily able to undo

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them. screwdriver would probably be easier and especially if I wasn't trying

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to do them from uh back here, but I'm

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gonna take these off without a tool. And then boom, you can take that whole top

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off. I love this. I don't know when this started, but honestly, if you can build

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your computer with the top off, it's going to make your life a whole lot

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easier, especially if you're using a bulky air cooler and a big graphics card. Uh it's just way easier when you

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know you're not trying to fiddle with cables in here and then like use your fingers to plug in the CPU power because

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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

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should be adjustable I believe. Oh yeah,

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there's a little thumb screw back here. Ah, okay. I finally need a screwdriver.

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This one's not fingertight. One moment, please. I'm going to undo them real

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quick and then we should Actually, I don't even know if that second one

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needed to come out. I'm just going to Wow, look at that. Easy. So now when

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you've got your cables out, uh you can just kind of close that when you're all

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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

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here. But I like it. And before I build in this guy, I just wanted to point out

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that it's got some okay IO. We've got our power button here, couple of USBA,

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code to get 30% off. Now, let's put a computer inside of it. One thing that

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you might want to do before you try to put your board in is slide the cable

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covers all the way out of the way. Because, as you can see with this one,

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if they were in the way, these SATA ports, they're in the way.

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I'm wiring up my case and I realize that for the motherboard it's a little, you

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know, it's not the worst. I can slip it past there, but one problem with this

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fan hub placement is it's like right where you want to plug in at least your

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ATX 24 pin. And it's, you know, for

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proper cable management, I'm going to have to like undo this and then put this

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here and then pop that there and then put it back under here. And it's really

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not the end of the world, but they could have put it somewhere else. Now, you might be thinking to yourself once you

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get to installing the graphics card, "Hey, I can't get my screwdriver in

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there." You just take the clip off, you dummy. Look at that. Look at all this

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access. All right, everything's plugged in. Everything's screwed down. Now,

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we've just got to cable manage. The best part, I literally just

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tucked some stuff away and then threw the covers on and it's basically good

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enough. If I spent some more time, yeah, it could look a little nicer, but that

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was literally like 2 minutes of work to get it to where we are now. That's not

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bad. And with that, we're done. We'll put our side panel back on. Make sure

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our power switch is on. Turn it on. We've got this little light strip down

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here. Well, hold on. Let it all get going. What's the front look like?

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That's what I want to know. You can control the lighting with their

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software. Um, but I really like the kind

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of shades of blue that it was just on. Uh, and I really like how diffuse

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everything is, especially on the white. So, you might want the white version of

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this case. It's rather pretty. But what

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do we have over here? It's the Meshifi 3 XL. There

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aren't a ton of differences with the XL version. Aside from it being longer,

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you're going to fit a longer GPU, a longer power supply, and there's room

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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

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or even just some ventilation on this uh rear panel here. Sadly enough, we are

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still limited to our two 3 and 1/2 in bays. So, if you're looking for hard

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drive space, the Meshifi 3 might not be

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for you. But if you're looking for a very stylish, very breathable case that

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looks pretty and is going to perform quite

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well, I honestly like I have a hard time

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not recommending this thing. It's great. This thing was an absolute pleasure to

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build in as per usual. Uh I really love

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just how easy it was to take this off and take the top off um and just get in

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there any which way I wanted. There were a few minor complaints that we pointed

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out while building it. Uh another one that I don't think I brought up was just

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how narrow the passageway is in here if you've got a full board. I've got a big

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Taichi motherboard in here and so there's really not a lot of extra space.

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Um, so I don't know if they could just like make those a little bigger or

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whatever. It'd be a lot easier to kind of get in and around. Uh, it doesn't

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help that I put my GPU in first before plugging them in to be fair. But

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otherwise, I think it's just a really solid and pretty case and Crackle just

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kind of keeps knocking it out of the park. Let's talk about the price though

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because at least if you want this version, it's a little expensive and

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that's subject to change because of all the tariffs and everything going around.

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So, who knows? cuz it could be even more by the time this video releases. For the

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base Meshifi 3, it's $140. And I think

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that's pretty reasonable. And then if you want the RGB version, you're only

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going up to $160. Not bad. However, if

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you want the Ambiance Pro version specifically, you're going to have to

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shell out $220 for the nonXL. And then if you want

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the XL, you basically just add $30 on

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each of those price tiers. And yeah, it's longer and you can fit a bigger

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GPU, but if I'm getting an XL, I'm kind of hoping for like some extra hard drive

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caddies or something in there so I can jam as many Linux ISOs as I can manage

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to download in a single afternoon. I do like it. I like it quite a bit. And I

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think that if you like the look of it and you if you like a really easy to

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buildin case and you're willing to shell out a bit of money, you only really buy

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one case and you can carry that forward kind of like a power supply for

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basically as long as you want. I definitely recommend the the Fractal

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Meshi 3. It's a fantastic case from a great company and I'm just happy that I

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was able to build in it today. Maybe I have to upgrade. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you want to see

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another build video, check out the time I built in a Fractal North. That's I

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don't know. I kind of like that one more, but the Meshifi is pretty