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welcome to unboxing day we're bringing them back officially and we are starting

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things up with a product that I'm sure the

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manufacturer expected me to open in a timely manner I mean look at this Josh

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from fractal where's that label Josh from fractal sent this thing via

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International today do you have any idea how expensive that is it is now whatever

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the date is today May the 7th and I haven't even touched it yet so let's go

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ahead and open up the Define s from fractal

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design oh I sliced the handrail

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crap Intel 750 series drives feature the

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new NVMe standard for never-before seen

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performance from a consumer grade SSD click now to learn more

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good packaging they got going on

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here there we

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go all right well that's a reassuring

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sound hopefully it didn't get broken in shipping so the concept be behind the

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Define s is for fractal design to have a case that is less expensive than their

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Flagship Define r series while offering

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the same build quality the same Aesthetics and actually even better

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options for water cooling for their liquid cooling efficient AO customers so

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it looks like I got the windowed side panel version but there is also a non-

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windowed version if you're not that into the whole staring at your Hardware thing

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but I would make the argument that for someone who's into liquid cooling the

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odds of them preferring the window one is pretty darn good now fractal has done

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in recent years a much better job of packaging and the defin s is no

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exception nice thick foam it's not soft

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foam but the fact that it's nice and thick the fact that the case is heavy

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but not overly heavy means that it should be in pretty good shape by the

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time it gets to you you've got an accessory box right around there it's

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got some screws inside also Reservoir

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brackets o exciting and then a user guide which

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usually they kind of suck no offense to a fractal design but let's give them a

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chance to have it not suck oh a

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builder's guide with optional steps you don't even have to do those

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things fascinating okay actually actually not shabby all right so let's

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open up the case and find out what's uh clanking around inside

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there oh my side panels came undone in shipping so unlike the Define R5 the

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Define s does not feature the latching

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side panel mechanism however they have improved it in one regard so you can see

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here they now use captive thumb screws on both the left and right side panel

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which means that you won't lose them compared to the Define R5 it also

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features a much wider side panel window which makes sense since in the front of

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the case instead of having a whole bunch of hard drive cages which it should be

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noted on the F R5 are actually removable and reconfigurable part of why it's more

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expensive uh instead of having those you should actually have things like oh I

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don't know a liquid filled Reservoir or something like that that's got like you

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know UV glowy liquid all over the inside of it or something along those lines and

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you can see they give you a ton like a metric butt ton of options in terms of

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mounting whether you got one of those little dinky cylinder reses or one of

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those super long cylinder reses it will feel at home in here now in terms of the

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rest of the features it's pretty much open in here so you've got a large CPU

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cutout you've got seven PCI slots you've got an included 140 mm fan at the back

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and an additional one in the front you've got your power supply mounting

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complete with anti vibrational little foam bits here and at the back and then

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you've got this hard drive sled which we'll get into a little bit more later

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at the bottom you've got mounting for a 120 or 140 mm fan as well as mounting

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holes for the most popular pumps on the market so you can go go ahead and you can mount your DDC or your D5 pump

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natively here which are the only ones I'd really recommend using especially

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the D5 I'm not a huge fan of the DDC your front panel connectors are all

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black except for the blue on the end of the USB 3.0 connector and all adequately

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labeled with things like power LED positive power LED ground clearly

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indicated you've got your cable management grommets not a ton of them

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but I'd say enough so one for the eight pin one for the 24 pin and one for all

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the sick graphic cards you're going to put in there and let's go ahead and have a look at

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the front of the case we never really got to do the tour of the outside

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because it went and opened itself for

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us so at the front you've got the usual

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brushed plasticky looking finish that we've seen on the Define r series for

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quite some time except oh what's this it actually doesn't open at all so these

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vents on the side here are going to be for your front intake and they are

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actually quite spacious you can look right through them like that and other

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than that that's nothing there is no 5 and a/4 in Baye there is no opening up

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front door on the top you can see another cost-saving measure so we've got

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front audio a reset switch a power switch that is illuminated I believe

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yeah looks like it as well as two USB 3.0 ports but no additional two USB 2.0

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ports also on the top we've got the same modu vent system from the Define R5 so

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you can pop off one two or three of these depending on how many fans you have installed on that side and then

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around on the other side we find not a whole lot of much of anything and the same goes for the back so let's go ahead

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and pop off this side panel and hey look at that the fan spinning itself it's

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like a windmill oh well that was shortlived all

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right so on the back here we've got yes where that three and half in Drive

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mounting cage would have wanted to go back to at some point here if I can

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figure out yeah there we go so it goes in a little something like that no harm

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no foul fractal design I forgive you for this thing falling out in shipping

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international today do you have any idea how expensive that is so back here

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you've got your drive mounting options I said no five and a quarter but that doesn't mean that you can't actually

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mount a fair number of drives you can do three 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in

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drives on these cages with their connectors oriented towards this side

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that allows you to plug them into the ample Cable Management room back here so

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you can go ahead and sneak your SATA data and SATA power connector in there

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and then you can actually mount an additional two 2 and 1/2 in drives

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directly under the CPU socket area right here so these also mount on little

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removable sleds you screw them into that you pop them into the back huge

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improvement over that one case I can't was it the Define R4 I think where you

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had to actually screw the SSD in from the other side of the motherboard

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another Improvement his fractal design is now including these velcro straps for

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cable management you'll probably still need to use some zip ties but it's much

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less of a huge deal once you've got at least a few reusable ones wouldn't mind

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seeing another one here and I guess that's pretty much all there is to say

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about the back there's enough room even at the in the narrowest portion for a 24

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pin connector as long as you don't cross too many things over top of it but do

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factor in that on the inside of the side panel is that noise dampening material

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that we've seen on fractal designs other Silence optimized cases something to

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noce if you want the windowed version you do pay a little bit more even though the funny thing is I'm pretty sure that

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a piece of acrylic is actually cheap deer than the noise dampening material

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they're using so I'm not quite sure if I understand the cost structure there back

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around to the front you can put up to a triple 120 or triple 140 mm radiator

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into the uh filtered there we go let's see if we can

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figure out how to get that bad boy out filtered front

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intake come out you

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bastard

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oh right

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now this is what happens when you try and figure these cases out in real time

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H it's magnetic it's actually kind of smart so it hinges on there and then

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magnets on there so what did I say yeah triple 120s or triple 140s in the front

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and then you can actually do up to a slim triple 140 or a thick triple 120 in

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the top as well the reason for the slim requirement on the triple 140 is you're

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going to have issues with motherboard clearance since those 140 mm radiators

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are going to go somewhere over in the neighbor neighborhood of I think like heish I can't actually find the mounting

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holes I'm not too stressed about it I don't stress about things these days so

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I think that's pretty much it who is this case for well it's for water

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coolers who basically wanted to Define r five and want to save 10 or 20 bucks

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mission accomplished then fractal design mission accomplished speaking of mission

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going to drop it didn't you I wasn't going to do that