My doctor always told me never go back to front, but I said, you know, I'll do
my own research. And so when Corsair's the Frame 4500X came out, I just had to
try it because you know what? When you don't see cables in your build, it looks
incredible. Had to get a little height adjustment done here. But uh
we've got our accessory box. I like how
it's nicely labeled. 4500X. What comes in the box? Oh, it's actually a really
nice little screw case. And I totally did uh accidentally rip the box by
pressing it flat. So maybe don't do that. You know, too late for this one.
Um not sure what this is.
It's just like a strip, magnetic strip or something. Sure. We've got a nice
little screw box here. I love to see it. I hate when you just get like a few bags
thrown about. Uh you have no place to put everything once you're done. Uh and
it comes with plenty of cable ties. [gasps] What is this? What is this F panel
connector? Ooh, I Okay, one one thing
that's weird, I don't know if this was us, uh, or if it comes like this, but if
you're going to put the prong protector, whatever the hell these are called, please put two so that all the prongs
are actively protected instead of just like one row of them. Um, but this is
great. This means that we can uh very easily hook up Oh, actually, wait, this
is backwards. this. So, this is a male F panel connector. Normally, they're
female. Here's all the female ends. Um,
I don't know why they've included this. Maybe it's for BTF stuff. I'm not sure.
But, we've got a small front panel extension. We'll get to that later, I
guess. Don't worry about it. This is the easiest way to take a case out of the
box. As long as the cardboard handles
aren't in Oh my god. Get out here.
As long as those aren't stuck in.
Look at that. Easy. This thing is huge.
Uh, it's an ATX case and I believe it can support the ATX. [music]
Look at this. They've gone and curved
the glass. They saw what the competition was doing and they said, "Hey, we got to
get in on that." Uh, it's a pretty cool thing. I like how it looks. It looks a
lot more clean than when you've got that like, you know, just [music] hard angle
here with probably some metal brackets at least at the bottom and top if not
all the way down. Um, other than that, it's very similar to the previous frame.
All right. Well, it's taking the peel, too.
Oh, it's an allaround peel. That makes sense. The glass is curved. I don't know
why I didn't think of that. What's really cool is that look, it just sli
pops off and slides out super easy. I still want to be super careful with this
thing. Uh I'm terrified of just bending it the wrong way and it shattering
everywhere. Um but that was really simple. Let's take our inside peel off.
This peel sucks. I This is the least satisfying peel I've ever done in my
life. Like on one hand, I'm terrified of just putting the pressure in the wrong
spot and breaking the glass, but on the other hand, it's like really stuck on.
Oh, it's got directions on it. Wait, are those there permanently? I I hope not. I
hope that's a second peel. What does this say? So, okay, it's telling me how
to actually do that. Well, I did it right. You just pull it forward and then you rock it out. Honestly,
it's pretty sweet. And with this whole front and side panel off, I bet you it's
going to be super easy to build in. Can you pop the top off, too? Uh, I don't
know if those screws are captive or if they're still supposed to come out. They It came out pretty easy. How does this
open? Okay. Well, that's the side panel. That
came off really easy. What the hell was the point of these two screw? There's
got to be one more screw. All right. I give up manual time. It turns out I'm
just dumb. You're supposed to take this part off first,
which makes perfect sense cuz it's Yep, that's the single piece. All right. And
then this guy should just ah slide backwards and then out
out damn spot. There we go. Wow. Okay, that was actually not too hard. I'm just
over complicating things. Um, as for the
material and like the design and all that, I actually really like this kind
of just like singular line. Um, it's
really Okay, my one complaint is
there's no filter up here. And
I guess it depends whether you're exhausting or intaking. But if you're going to intake from up here, um, you
might want to try to buy a magnetic filter. Magnetic filter. Magnetic filter
is not going to work cuz this is all plastic. I don't know what you're going
to do. I'm a little annoyed. Don't do it this way. Don't put your intake here.
Put your intake here. Cuz this actually does have a very nice little attached
screen. So, you know, intake here, exhaust here, or just exhaust out the
back, whatever you want to do. Just not like this. Not like this. One super
handy feature that Corsair has got, I don't know if this is the Infinite Rail or if it's down here, but this does have
support for 120 or 140 and 160. And it's
really easy. You just unscrew both sides.
You need 120s. Now, it's ready for 120 mil fans. That's
great. You need something bigger, pop it back in.
Okay, I'll leave it for 120s actually. But you just put it back and then you screw it down again. This is actually a
really uh great feature. I mean, that being said, they could have just put a
lot of holes in it. I've never really I guess it all depends on whether you want
the beauty of something that looks like it's supposed to be there or if you just
want a cheap versatility of like, let's just put a bunch of holes in here and
then you can put a fan wherever you want. Uh, but there might be a little bar that goes across it or whatever
because it's meant for 120s, but you bought 140s and they fit, but you've got
this metal. I don't know. Either way, I think it's a cool feature. I like the
idea that I can just like slide my fan rail over if I want to adjust for bigger
fans or smaller fans. Um, and then if we look at this guy, I don't know if this
is supposed to be a little GPU support bracket or something or a brace. Um, I
guess we'll find out what it's for later. I'm not sure they needed to tape
all this stuff down, but I'm not going to complain about it.
And hey, free masking tape, am I right?
Free. You love free masking tape. Now
that we've got that foam and tape out of here, let's take a look at our other fan
on the bottom. Another great place for intake. As long as you don't have pets,
but you know, even if you do, you've got a filter for it. Uh, I like that they
still got a power supply shroud, but it's got tons of ventilation in here.
power supplies probably aren't going to get that hot unless you're putting a
really beefy unit in here and you're sucking back a lot of juice. But, uh,
you know, I'd rather it have ventilation and not need it than need it and not
have it. Other than that, we've also got this like
massively thick cable sleeve
for all of the IO on the front, which is
on the bottom of all places. When will
they learn? We've got our power button,
headphone jack, couple of USBA ports,
and then a USBC port. With this thing mostly apart here, um, it seems pretty
open and easy to build with. I'll give you an actual answer once I'm done building in it, but seems reasonable. I
can fit my whole hand in if you want to put a radiator. Seems like it's got no problems at all. Um, my only kind of
complaint is it just looks weirdly bare.
And I guess that's kind of the point of it just being a frame. Uh there's also
no parts in it to be fair as well, but like there's no um rubber grommets or
anything. Oh, to be, you know, I don't hate them. These are nice and smoothed
down. A lot of the time, especially on cheaper cases, these are just like
punched out and they're still kind of sharp. All of these Oh, especi Yeah,
these are all nice and smoothed down and
soft. Okay, thanks Corsair. I don't you know, I'm not going to complain about
the lack of rubber grommets. They will hide your cables a little better once
the build is fully complete, but if we're doing BTF, it actually should be
okay. One thing to keep in mind is it does only come with these three fans.
However, they're all reverse bladed. So, even though they're pointing this way
and you see all this nice RGB and stuff, even though this looks like the front of
the fan, they're actually intake, which is great. Um, my only other
concerns before I build in this,
I've never done BTF, so I don't know how messy the cables are going to be on this
side of the board. Um, and on top of that, there just doesn't seem to be a
lot of like we've got this very clear uh cable routing space here and a pretty
clear one over here, but um something a
bit more like a channel or a conduit would probably be a little nicer or
easier to use. But they've got some they've got ample straps and ample tie
down points as well. One thing I completely didn't even see because it's
just black on black. Uh they've got little stamps for all of the different
measurements and stuff you might need. So yeah, it can do EATX. Um it's also
going to support one HDD and two 2 and
1/2 in SSDs. And these are all labeled where the on the IQ link uh holder spot.
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This thing is an anti-ag bracket. Before I fully start building, it looks like
you can uh take the whole motherboard tray out and just build onto the
motherboard tray and then pop the whole thing in. I'm not going to do that. I
just I don't really think it's all that necessary personally, but it's not hard
to get into the screws. You just kind of go through these nicely pre-drilled
holes um to get it. One, two, three,
four, >> 2, five. Maybe there might be a fifth screw
up here underneath all these cables. Or it's just a clip. Either way, there's only a few screws you got to take out
and then the world is your oyster. I don't know how necessary that is. I'm
not going to be using this as like a test bench or anything. I I just keep
the side panel off until I test stuff and then I test it. And then if it no
work, I just, you know, fix it. And if it does work, you you put the side panel on and you're done. Uh, so anyway, we're
just going to build it normally, except back to front. What is back to front?
I'll tell you. There are a few things I'm waiting for before I even think
about like upgrading my computer or building a new one or anything like
that. One of them is for BTF uh to
become more standard and more widely available. Right now, it's only so many
cases and so many motherboards that actually support it. But essentially, what you're trying to do, all of your
connectors are on the back covered in
foam. Look at that. It's supposed to make the whole thing look a whole lot
cleaner, but I'm not really going to be able to give you an answer until I've actually installed it. But yeah, they've
actually got every single header on the back. That's crazy. Your fan headers,
ATX, CPU power, everything, even ARGB.
Look, the video is about the case, not the motherboard. But please, everyone do
this. Look at this PCIe lock. Look at how easy to access that is. And I don't
even have anything installed. Even if I put a giant GPU in this thing and a big
old CPU cooler, which I'm going to do, that's genius.
[music]
I am so nervous putting this down that I'm like bending pins all over the
place. Um, but I'm going to trust that I didn't do that and I'm going to screw it
down. We've got our board installed and our
cooler is on here. Now, look at this. Look at how cool this is. CPU optional.
Where's our normal CPU fan? AIO pump chassis fan. CPU optional it is.
We can just pull it through and put it in.
Look at that. Look at how clean. I'm okay. We'll do the rest of the cables and then show you how clean it actually
looks. But like honestly, this is great. No like pulling a cable out and then
tidying it here and then looping it back in to just go to a header. Like just put
them on the back. Oh, I love this. I love it. All right, let's keep going.
Okay, we're all wired up. It's obviously not cable managed. Uh we've still got to
throw our GPU in, but everything else is ready to go. And uh you know, I got to
say it was actually a pleasure plugging stuff into the back because you don't
have to do any of those stupid like, "Oh, here's my HD audio cable. Let me fish it up through the bottom and then
try to plug it into this ATX board that goes all the way to the bottom of the case." Um, there was none of that. I
just pulled the cable through or up from the power supply. I said, "Where's my,
you know, header?" I found it and I plugged it in. It was very refreshing.
And the next time I build a PC for myself, I'm 100% not getting this case
necessarily. It's pretty good. We'll talk about the price and everything later, but I'm definitely getting
something that's at least BTF compatible. Now, let's throw the GPU in.
We've got this beautiful 4070 Ti. So, we're going with this cool white and
black theme that I actually really like. A really cool thing about the BTF stuff
is you see these connectors here. Now, a PCIe slot can normally do 75 watts, but
with these extra guys here getting juice from the back of the board, it can do a
whole lot more than that. Moment of
truth. I got to remember that the IO is on the
bottom here. Hey, look at that. It's
beautiful. And there's no cables in sight. I like it. Let's put everything
back together. All right, that's tidied up enough. I kind of wish I definitely
at this point wish there were some more obvious grooves um or conduit or
whatever to hide these cables. But you slap the packed panels on, you probably
aren't even going to see them. Look at the front though.
That's clean.
[laughter] No. >> Wow. >> My cables, they're too bulgy.
>> Wow. Oh man, it's cool cuz you get like a reflection on this side too cuz the
glass is so clean. So it looks like I'm looking into a double computer. It looks
pretty snazzy overall and it was super easy to build in. And while I didn't put
any top fans in cuz I don't really think we need them uh in this build at least,
they would be super easy to do whatever size you want. Um overall the 4500X from
Corsair is a solid case. Uh but it is a
little expensive if you want some of these features. It costs $260,
which considering
everything, I don't think that's unreasonable. I think it's definitely on
the expensive side, though. Um, and so
you might, not even might, it's probably going to be out of a lot of people's
price ranges. But if you can afford it, I mean, hey, it looks sick. But to be
fair, that's for the IQ Link version. If you only spend 190 bucks, you get it
without that. And hey, you don't need IQ as decent as it is if you're using all
Corsair stuff. Overall,
I think it's pretty sweet. I think the airflow, like, we haven't tested airflow
in this thing, but I bet you it's pretty solid with the amount of uh openings
that we've got just on the top of the case and the side of the case here. Um,
I really like it. It's the kind of case I would love to be given, but I don't
necessarily want to go and buy. Um, but
when I do finally build a new PC, if I can get this one for a good price, this
might be it. And this might also be the end of this video. And if you want to go
take a look at others, check out the last time I built a computer in the case. I love building computers and
cases. I love it. Jamie loves it, too.
>> I love computers and cases. >> There you go. See you later.