WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.839 My doctor always told me never go back to front, but I said, you know, I'll do 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:11.280 my own research. And so when Corsair's the Frame 4500X came out, I just had to 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:15.759 try it because you know what? When you don't see cables in your build, it looks 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:23.279 incredible. Had to get a little height adjustment done here. But uh 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:25.439 we've got our accessory box. I like how 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:30.560 it's nicely labeled. 4500X. What comes in the box? Oh, it's actually a really 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.399 nice little screw case. And I totally did uh accidentally rip the box by 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:41.200 pressing it flat. So maybe don't do that. You know, too late for this one. 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.280 Um not sure what this is. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.879 It's just like a strip, magnetic strip or something. Sure. We've got a nice 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:50.879 little screw box here. I love to see it. I hate when you just get like a few bags 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:54.365 thrown about. Uh you have no place to put everything once you're done. Uh and 00:00:52.800 --> 00:01:03.520 it comes with plenty of cable ties. [gasps] What is this? What is this F panel 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:04.879 connector? Ooh, I Okay, one one thing 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:10.799 that's weird, I don't know if this was us, uh, or if it comes like this, but if 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:16.720 you're going to put the prong protector, whatever the hell these are called, please put two so that all the prongs 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:21.040 are actively protected instead of just like one row of them. Um, but this is 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:25.840 great. This means that we can uh very easily hook up Oh, actually, wait, this 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:31.840 is backwards. this. So, this is a male F panel connector. Normally, they're 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:33.840 female. Here's all the female ends. Um, 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:38.799 I don't know why they've included this. Maybe it's for BTF stuff. I'm not sure. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:43.200 But, we've got a small front panel extension. We'll get to that later, I 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:49.119 guess. Don't worry about it. This is the easiest way to take a case out of the 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:53.280 box. As long as the cardboard handles 00:01:49.119 --> 00:01:56.799 aren't in Oh my god. Get out here. 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.159 As long as those aren't stuck in. 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:02.159 Look at that. Easy. This thing is huge. 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.816 Uh, it's an ATX case and I believe it can support the ATX. [music] 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:12.400 Look at this. They've gone and curved 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:16.160 the glass. They saw what the competition was doing and they said, "Hey, we got to 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:19.440 get in on that." Uh, it's a pretty cool thing. I like how it looks. It looks a 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.840 lot more clean than when you've got that like, you know, just [music] hard angle 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:27.920 here with probably some metal brackets at least at the bottom and top if not 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:34.800 all the way down. Um, other than that, it's very similar to the previous frame. 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:39.840 All right. Well, it's taking the peel, too. 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:44.000 Oh, it's an allaround peel. That makes sense. The glass is curved. I don't know 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:48.400 why I didn't think of that. What's really cool is that look, it just sli 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:52.080 pops off and slides out super easy. I still want to be super careful with this 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:56.319 thing. Uh I'm terrified of just bending it the wrong way and it shattering 00:02:53.519 --> 00:03:01.519 everywhere. Um but that was really simple. Let's take our inside peel off. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:05.280 This peel sucks. I This is the least satisfying peel I've ever done in my 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.319 life. Like on one hand, I'm terrified of just putting the pressure in the wrong 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:14.319 spot and breaking the glass, but on the other hand, it's like really stuck on. 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:18.480 Oh, it's got directions on it. Wait, are those there permanently? I I hope not. I 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:21.920 hope that's a second peel. What does this say? So, okay, it's telling me how 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:28.159 to actually do that. Well, I did it right. You just pull it forward and then you rock it out. Honestly, 00:03:26.239 --> 00:03:32.720 it's pretty sweet. And with this whole front and side panel off, I bet you it's 00:03:30.959 --> 00:03:36.159 going to be super easy to build in. Can you pop the top off, too? Uh, I don't 00:03:34.799 --> 00:03:42.720 know if those screws are captive or if they're still supposed to come out. They It came out pretty easy. How does this 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:46.400 open? Okay. Well, that's the side panel. That 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:49.920 came off really easy. What the hell was the point of these two screw? There's 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:54.080 got to be one more screw. All right. I give up manual time. It turns out I'm 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:58.879 just dumb. You're supposed to take this part off first, 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:04.000 which makes perfect sense cuz it's Yep, that's the single piece. All right. And 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:12.000 then this guy should just ah slide backwards and then out 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:17.680 out damn spot. There we go. Wow. Okay, that was actually not too hard. I'm just 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.440 over complicating things. Um, as for the 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:24.479 material and like the design and all that, I actually really like this kind 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:28.320 of just like singular line. Um, it's 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:32.400 really Okay, my one complaint is 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:33.520 there's no filter up here. And 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:40.160 I guess it depends whether you're exhausting or intaking. But if you're going to intake from up here, um, you 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:43.919 might want to try to buy a magnetic filter. Magnetic filter. Magnetic filter 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:48.560 is not going to work cuz this is all plastic. I don't know what you're going 00:04:45.919 --> 00:04:52.000 to do. I'm a little annoyed. Don't do it this way. Don't put your intake here. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:57.520 Put your intake here. Cuz this actually does have a very nice little attached 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:01.600 screen. So, you know, intake here, exhaust here, or just exhaust out the 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:05.680 back, whatever you want to do. Just not like this. Not like this. One super 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:12.639 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 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:15.280 support for 120 or 140 and 160. And it's 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:18.280 really easy. You just unscrew both sides. 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:25.520 You need 120s. Now, it's ready for 120 mil fans. That's 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:28.720 great. You need something bigger, pop it back in. 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:33.680 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 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:37.680 really uh great feature. I mean, that being said, they could have just put a 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.840 lot of holes in it. I've never really I guess it all depends on whether you want 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.000 the beauty of something that looks like it's supposed to be there or if you just 00:05:43.919 --> 00:05:48.960 want a cheap versatility of like, let's just put a bunch of holes in here and 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:53.759 then you can put a fan wherever you want. Uh, but there might be a little bar that goes across it or whatever 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:57.280 because it's meant for 120s, but you bought 140s and they fit, but you've got 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.560 this metal. I don't know. Either way, I think it's a cool feature. I like the 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:04.240 idea that I can just like slide my fan rail over if I want to adjust for bigger 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:08.560 fans or smaller fans. Um, and then if we look at this guy, I don't know if this 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.639 is supposed to be a little GPU support bracket or something or a brace. Um, I 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:17.600 guess we'll find out what it's for later. I'm not sure they needed to tape 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:25.120 all this stuff down, but I'm not going to complain about it. 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:28.960 And hey, free masking tape, am I right? 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.560 Free. You love free masking tape. Now 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:34.240 that we've got that foam and tape out of here, let's take a look at our other fan 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:37.520 on the bottom. Another great place for intake. As long as you don't have pets, 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:41.840 but you know, even if you do, you've got a filter for it. Uh, I like that they 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.919 still got a power supply shroud, but it's got tons of ventilation in here. 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:49.120 power supplies probably aren't going to get that hot unless you're putting a 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:52.639 really beefy unit in here and you're sucking back a lot of juice. But, uh, 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:56.080 you know, I'd rather it have ventilation and not need it than need it and not 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:01.680 have it. Other than that, we've also got this like 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:05.120 massively thick cable sleeve 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.319 for all of the IO on the front, which is 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:11.360 on the bottom of all places. When will 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.639 they learn? We've got our power button, 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:16.880 headphone jack, couple of USBA ports, 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:20.800 and then a USBC port. With this thing mostly apart here, um, it seems pretty 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.080 open and easy to build with. I'll give you an actual answer once I'm done building in it, but seems reasonable. I 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:33.919 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 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:35.039 complaint is it just looks weirdly bare. 00:07:33.919 --> 00:07:38.720 And I guess that's kind of the point of it just being a frame. Uh there's also 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:44.479 no parts in it to be fair as well, but like there's no um rubber grommets or 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:47.919 anything. Oh, to be, you know, I don't hate them. These are nice and smoothed 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:50.560 down. A lot of the time, especially on cheaper cases, these are just like 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:57.680 punched out and they're still kind of sharp. All of these Oh, especi Yeah, 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:59.680 these are all nice and smoothed down and 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:03.360 soft. Okay, thanks Corsair. I don't you know, I'm not going to complain about 00:08:01.599 --> 00:08:07.039 the lack of rubber grommets. They will hide your cables a little better once 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:11.599 the build is fully complete, but if we're doing BTF, it actually should be 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:17.039 okay. One thing to keep in mind is it does only come with these three fans. 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.720 However, they're all reverse bladed. So, even though they're pointing this way 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:24.720 and you see all this nice RGB and stuff, even though this looks like the front of 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:30.080 the fan, they're actually intake, which is great. Um, my only other 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:32.320 concerns before I build in this, 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:36.080 I've never done BTF, so I don't know how messy the cables are going to be on this 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:39.839 side of the board. Um, and on top of that, there just doesn't seem to be a 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:44.800 lot of like we've got this very clear uh cable routing space here and a pretty 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.880 clear one over here, but um something a 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:51.600 bit more like a channel or a conduit would probably be a little nicer or 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:56.160 easier to use. But they've got some they've got ample straps and ample tie 00:08:54.240 --> 00:09:00.160 down points as well. One thing I completely didn't even see because it's 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:03.440 just black on black. Uh they've got little stamps for all of the different 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:10.480 measurements and stuff you might need. So yeah, it can do EATX. Um it's also 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.480 going to support one HDD and two 2 and 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:18.640 1/2 in SSDs. 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Maybe there might be a fifth screw 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:31.519 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 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:34.480 and then the world is your oyster. I don't know how necessary that is. I'm 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:39.279 not going to be using this as like a test bench or anything. I I just keep 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:41.920 the side panel off until I test stuff and then I test it. And then if it no 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:47.600 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 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:52.959 just going to build it normally, except back to front. What is back to front? 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:58.320 I'll tell you. There are a few things I'm waiting for before I even think 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:03.279 about like upgrading my computer or building a new one or anything like 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:05.600 that. One of them is for BTF uh to 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:09.279 become more standard and more widely available. Right now, it's only so many 00:11:07.839 --> 00:11:16.079 cases and so many motherboards that actually support it. But essentially, what you're trying to do, all of your 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:18.800 connectors are on the back covered in 00:11:16.079 --> 00:11:21.760 foam. Look at that. It's supposed to make the whole thing look a whole lot 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:26.079 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 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:34.480 actually got every single header on the back. That's crazy. Your fan headers, 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:35.920 ATX, CPU power, everything, even ARGB. 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:40.880 Look, the video is about the case, not the motherboard. But please, everyone do 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:44.320 this. Look at this PCIe lock. Look at how easy to access that is. And I don't 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:48.640 even have anything installed. Even if I put a giant GPU in this thing and a big 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.959 old CPU cooler, which I'm going to do, that's genius. 00:11:53.958 --> 00:11:55.978 [music] 00:12:02.079 --> 00:12:07.440 I am so nervous putting this down that I'm like bending pins all over the 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.440 place. Um, but I'm going to trust that I didn't do that and I'm going to screw it 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:15.760 down. We've got our board installed and our 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:21.200 cooler is on here. Now, look at this. Look at how cool this is. CPU optional. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:28.399 Where's our normal CPU fan? AIO pump chassis fan. CPU optional it is. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:31.200 We can just pull it through and put it in. 00:12:29.920 --> 00:12:36.639 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 00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:40.639 looks. But like honestly, this is great. No like pulling a cable out and then 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:45.519 tidying it here and then looping it back in to just go to a header. Like just put 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:50.680 them on the back. Oh, I love this. I love it. All right, let's keep going. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:58.880 Okay, we're all wired up. It's obviously not cable managed. Uh we've still got to 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:03.680 throw our GPU in, but everything else is ready to go. And uh you know, I got to 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:06.399 say it was actually a pleasure plugging stuff into the back because you don't 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:11.200 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 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:16.639 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 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:20.880 just pulled the cable through or up from the power supply. I said, "Where's my, 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:26.880 you know, header?" I found it and I plugged it in. It was very refreshing. 00:13:24.160 --> 00:13:31.519 And the next time I build a PC for myself, I'm 100% not getting this case 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:35.600 necessarily. It's pretty good. We'll talk about the price and everything later, but I'm definitely getting 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:40.880 something that's at least BTF compatible. Now, let's throw the GPU in. 00:13:38.079 --> 00:13:43.839 We've got this beautiful 4070 Ti. So, we're going with this cool white and 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:47.680 black theme that I actually really like. A really cool thing about the BTF stuff 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:53.519 is you see these connectors here. Now, a PCIe slot can normally do 75 watts, but 00:13:51.040 --> 00:14:00.000 with these extra guys here getting juice from the back of the board, it can do a 00:13:55.040 --> 00:14:02.320 whole lot more than that. Moment of 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:08.480 truth. I got to remember that the IO is on the 00:14:04.079 --> 00:14:11.120 bottom here. Hey, look at that. It's 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:15.440 beautiful. And there's no cables in sight. I like it. Let's put everything 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:19.600 back together. All right, that's tidied up enough. I kind of wish I definitely 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:24.000 at this point wish there were some more obvious grooves um or conduit or 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.560 whatever to hide these cables. But you slap the packed panels on, you probably 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:32.440 aren't even going to see them. Look at the front though. 00:14:28.959 --> 00:14:32.440 That's clean. 00:14:36.400 --> 00:14:43.800 [laughter] No. >> Wow. >> My cables, they're too bulgy. 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:51.199 >> Wow. Oh man, it's cool cuz you get like a reflection on this side too cuz the 00:14:49.839 --> 00:14:56.160 glass is so clean. So it looks like I'm looking into a double computer. It looks 00:14:54.079 --> 00:14:59.839 pretty snazzy overall and it was super easy to build in. And while I didn't put 00:14:58.079 --> 00:15:04.000 any top fans in cuz I don't really think we need them uh in this build at least, 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:11.199 they would be super easy to do whatever size you want. Um overall the 4500X from 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:12.639 Corsair is a solid case. Uh but it is a 00:15:11.199 --> 00:15:18.560 little expensive if you want some of these features. It costs $260, 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:22.560 which considering 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:28.720 everything, I don't think that's unreasonable. I think it's definitely on 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:31.199 the expensive side, though. Um, and so 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:34.720 you might, not even might, it's probably going to be out of a lot of people's 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:38.480 price ranges. But if you can afford it, I mean, hey, it looks sick. But to be 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:43.440 fair, that's for the IQ Link version. If you only spend 190 bucks, you get it 00:15:40.959 --> 00:15:49.040 without that. And hey, you don't need IQ as decent as it is if you're using all 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:50.800 Corsair stuff. Overall, 00:15:49.040 --> 00:15:54.240 I think it's pretty sweet. I think the airflow, like, we haven't tested airflow 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:58.320 in this thing, but I bet you it's pretty solid with the amount of uh openings 00:15:56.959 --> 00:16:03.440 that we've got just on the top of the case and the side of the case here. Um, 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:10.079 I really like it. It's the kind of case I would love to be given, but I don't 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:12.800 necessarily want to go and buy. Um, but 00:16:10.079 --> 00:16:17.440 when I do finally build a new PC, if I can get this one for a good price, this 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:20.560 might be it. And this might also be the end of this video. And if you want to go 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:25.440 take a look at others, check out the last time I built a computer in the case. I love building computers and 00:16:23.920 --> 00:16:29.120 cases. I love it. Jamie loves it, too. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:33.360 >> I love computers and cases. >> There you go. See you later.