Welcome to my unboxing of the Bit Phoenix
Ghost. The funny thing about this ghost is that you can see
it.
Whoa. Uh, anyway, let's let's have a look at what
Bit Phoenix has to say for themselves about the Ghost. made of steel and
plastic. It's an ATX form factor case. Includes some cooling fans, which happen
to be Spectre fans, and it fits a 240
millimeter radiator on top. Uses a nano chrome surface treatment. I'm very
excited to see that. S4 hot swap and storage. Cool. Okay. Two USB 3 super
speed ports. Silencing material. Ultra silent 120 mm Spectre fans included.
Pre-moded for alchemy LED strips. Now, that's cool. Fits long graphics cards
and has a dual hinge door design. Now, alchemy LED strips are actually like the
balling outest case lighting that you can get these days because unlike
cathodes, which have bulky inverters that go with them and they're heavy,
they're hard to mount. They fall off all the time. Unlike those solutions, LED
strips, uh, specters namely or specters,
those are the fans, alchemies, namely are lightweight. They come with a really
high quality 3M adhesive on them so they don't fall off and they don't need an
inverter. They can plug directly into your power supply and you can even daisy
chain multiple ones together in order to
get very even lighting throughout your
case. Now, it uses a hard foam, which I'm going to criticize right off the bat
because things like this happen. However, it remains to be seen if the
case managed to survive its transport or
whether it did not. So, if it didn't manage to survive,
then uh I guess I'll have to find another one and redo this unboxing. But,
uh
okay. Oh, custom foam though. So, let's go ahead and peel off
the plastic. I'm not sure if you guys are even going to be able to hear me because we're using the uh we're using
the NCIX TechTips camera today with the
microphone. So, I don't know how much interference it's picking up from things
like the uh the Oh, this is this is kind
of funny. Uh, one of them's popped out and one of them's in. So, when I push on
it Oh, never mind. It came came this time. Last time the two ones swapped
which one was engaged and which one wasn't. So, this is What the heck? Oh,
cool. So, there's a hot swap here for um
Hold on a sec. That's cool. So, you can put a 2 and 1/2 in or a three and a half
inch drive in here. And it has little rubber strips on the bottom which will a
protect the PCB on the bottom of the hard drive and b it will actually reduce
vibrations which can again cause damage to the hard drive or the data on it and
will cause it to be loud. So I've gone and retrieved a hard drive which I will
put in here like this and then I will slide like this and that's it. So it's a
totally stealthy way to add an extra 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in drive to your
system. Okay, line of seal of approval on that idea because I've seen
implementations of hot swaps on cases that are terrible. See the uh DF85? Oh,
just awful. Okay, so let's have a look at this filtered good. Less relevant
though for a top uh top intake or exhaust because uh usually you want that
to be exhaust. Heat does tend to rise. You've got lots of different options for
fans here. So you can do 140. This looks like almost This looks like either a 160
or a 140 or something. I don't know what this is, but it's it's bigger. It's
bigger than normal. It looks like they've actually put in mounting holes
for Oh, they've given Okay, so they've given you a lot of different options,
but the 120s are offset. And this is really smart because it allows you to
install a dual radiator sort of up here and then the fans on the bottom. So, it
doesn't actually take up any space away from where you need, you know, your
motherboard or your or your CPU uh for or your CPU block to be. And
um that's important because a lot of cases have room for for dual fans, but
as soon as you try to stack a radiator and fans, it gets pretty thick and it'll
interfere with things like the MOSFET coolers on your motherboard or your CPU
heat sink or whatever else you have there. So, they've got this compartment up here so you can store the radiator
away. And you can see they've cut out the ends here, which leaves room for the
barbs and the tubing to come out of the radiator. Although, usually I'd probably
orient it the other way cuz otherwise this fan might get in the way depending
on it might it might fit. It might just make it. Okay, so let's go ahead and Oh.
Oh. Oh, okay. It looks like it didn't quite make the air shipment unscathed
all the way from Asia to here. So, it looks like one of these uh one of these
thumb screws got whacked and dented the back of the side panel a little bit. I'd
say that's fairly minor as far as things being air air shipped across the ocean
go. Um, so yeah, I've seen I've seen
much worse. There's our sound dampening material on the inside. Gives some
rigidity to the side panel that it otherwise wouldn't necessarily have and
looks good, sounds good. Neat. Okay, so side panel's off.
Side panel is pretty plain. Uh, no ventilation holes or anything like that.
With the Ghost, they're going for more of well, silence, as you may or may not
have figured out based on the sound deadening material and the fact that it
doesn't have uh, you know, room for a bunch of blowing fans over top of the
video cards or anything like that on the inside. Uh, speaking of the inside, um,
I haven't actually seen the inside yet, so let's go ahead and No, no, we're not
done with the outside yet. Right here at the front, we've got our LEDs. So,
there's your power and your hard drive, your front audio, your two USB 2, two
USB 3 power and reset switches. nice and recessed so you won't accidentally hit
that one. And the front features a dual hinge design. You got your bit Phoenix
logo which I think looks pretty nice. So you can actually open it this way to
find the 35 and 1/4 in and one 3 and 1/2 in bay. The filtered front intake quite
solidly built too actually. Very nice. And a Bitfenix Spectre 120 mm fan with
room for another one. This is smart. Haha. Check this out. Perforations in
the hard drive cage. I have actually not seen this before, but you hear people
complain that, you know, oh well, there's a fan here, but by the time you put hard drives in here, you're not even
going to be able to push any air through it. Now, I mean, it might not be a lot,
but it'll be more than most cases. Smart. Uh, yo, you can also see
the ventilation. So, from this angle, I hope you can see through here where some
of the air flow will actually be coming in to feed these front fans cuz
otherwise they wouldn't be getting anything because the front of the case,
again, more perforations here, is using
sound deadening material and is completely flat. Oh, you're trying to see
something. I don't know what he's trying to see. Probably the fan. Check this out, though. Bam. I
don't know what just What was that? Give
me a sec. So, cameraman's not sure why you would
want to be able to open either side of a case. Um, personally, I'm not a huge fan
of the whole double hinge design, although it's Oh, yeah. Right. I put the
little thing back in here, so it's fine now. Um, but it's implemented better
here than I've seen in the past and more durably in fact as well. But I there are
still a couple things that I don't Oh, hold
on. Oh, it locks or something. Okay,
hold on. Okay, I get it now. Actually, this is smarter than I thought. Okay, so
the other main case is the Corsair 550D.
That one has a double hinge front panel and it's not that durable because it's
permanently double hinged. This one is smarter because it allows you to put the
case on either side you want. And then these pieces are actually for locking it
to the particular orientation you want. So you can here. So without these pieces
in it can be double hinged. Okay. And
then if you take these pieces here and put them
in then they are a lock and it will no
longer Oops. If you can actually get
them in. There we go. And it will no longer open on that side unless you
force it like I did before thinking that it was just a double hinged case. So
there you go. you guys won't make the same mistake as me. And let's just slide
this back in. So, you can see some stuff did come unseated in shipping, but by
and large, the case did make it to us. So, all right. So, that's uh that's
pretty good. Okay. 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven uh
PCI slots. So, you're not going to be fitting any XLATX motherboards, but you
will fit, you know, your normal fullsize ATX, microATX, MITx, should you want to
put one of those in here, but I don't see the point of that. If you have MITx,
you should get a Bit Phoenix Prodigy instead, which is like the coolest case
that everyone's excited about. Okay, on the bottom, you've got lots of intake
options. You can either do 120 mil or 140 mm fan from the bottom using a
filtered intake that apparently goes in
from I have no idea how this uh how this
gets in or out of here. Oh, it's magnetic. Baller. Okay, cool. There you
go. Filtered intake. Bam. Um, and then
lots of room for your power supply to intake air supports for your power
supply if you have a longer power supply. You've got one, two, three,
four, three and 1/2 in bays there. One, two, three dedicated 2 and 1/2 in SSD
bays. Toolless 5 and 1/4 in bays. Lots
of cable management holes and enough cable management room. Now, this isn't
the most ample space I've seen in the back of a motherboard tray before, but
it's about an inch. So, there is sufficient room to run a 24 pin cable
without actually not being able to close the side panel, which is one of those
things you run into, and it's very, very frustrating. So, I'm going to go ahead
and have a look at what they've got for internal connectors. You can see most of
them are black. However, the front panel connectors are colorcoded. I'm a big fan
of all black internal connectors, but I'll give it a pass if most of them are
black and then there's just a couple that aren't. So, you can see the SATA
connector as well as the SATA power connector for that front SATA dock are
both black. It's got proper internal USB
3 pins, uh, pin header out,
whatever plug, okay, for the internal header, plug for the internal header, as
well as a USB 2 lead that comes off of it. So, you can even just cut this off
if you're not going to use it. No big deal. All right. We've got a dedicated
USB 2 lead for those USB 2 ports, front panel audio, as well as your front
panel. Whoops. Your front panel connectors, which are all red and black. Now, that's odd. If you're going to
color code them, color code them. And then, if you're not going to color code them, make them black. So, that would be
my feedback. Two Spectre fans are included. The one in the front and the
one in the back. Although, there is space for 1 2 3 4 5 six fans natively
without any changes. whatsoever. Huge CPU cutout tray, so you'll be able to
install your CPU cooler without removing the board from the case, and uh that'll
save you some time. Lots of cable management holes. Let's have a look at
what they've included in terms of the accessories here. So, here's your rubber
grommets as well as all your screws, bunch of thumb screws, manual. Okay,
here are your 2 and 1/2 in hard drive sleds or SSD, whichever you prefer. I
mean, you could you can use Momentous XTs in a desktop system. No reason you
can't. Very high performance solution. All right. And then there's your 3 and
1/2 in drive sleds. It's an odd I I
wonder if the production cases are going to come with these not pre-installed
like this. I guess if it saves them a little bit of labor and doesn't actually
take the end user very long to install, then it could be a benefit to
everybody. But there you go. So those slide in just like that.
And these ones can also support 2 and 12 in devices as well. So, you can see
there's two and a half inch holes there and lots of room with the honeycomb design for cooling for the hard drives
that are installed in them as well. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look at the Bitfenix Ghost
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