WEBVTT 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:14.240 Welcome to my unboxing of the Bit Phoenix 00:00:11.639 --> 00:00:17.360 Ghost. The funny thing about this ghost is that you can see 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:20.480 it. 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:26.080 Whoa. Uh, anyway, let's let's have a look at what 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.840 Bit Phoenix has to say for themselves about the Ghost. made of steel and 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:35.760 plastic. It's an ATX form factor case. Includes some cooling fans, which happen 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:38.079 to be Spectre fans, and it fits a 240 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:41.600 millimeter radiator on top. Uses a nano chrome surface treatment. I'm very 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:47.120 excited to see that. S4 hot swap and storage. Cool. Okay. Two USB 3 super 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:51.440 speed ports. Silencing material. Ultra silent 120 mm Spectre fans included. 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:55.440 Pre-moded for alchemy LED strips. Now, that's cool. Fits long graphics cards 00:00:53.520 --> 00:01:00.160 and has a dual hinge door design. Now, alchemy LED strips are actually like the 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.559 balling outest case lighting that you can get these days because unlike 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:07.840 cathodes, which have bulky inverters that go with them and they're heavy, 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:14.159 they're hard to mount. They fall off all the time. Unlike those solutions, LED 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:16.479 strips, uh, specters namely or specters, 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:20.320 those are the fans, alchemies, namely are lightweight. They come with a really 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:24.320 high quality 3M adhesive on them so they don't fall off and they don't need an 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:30.439 inverter. They can plug directly into your power supply and you can even daisy 00:01:26.479 --> 00:01:33.600 chain multiple ones together in order to 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:35.439 get very even lighting throughout your 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:38.880 case. Now, it uses a hard foam, which I'm going to criticize right off the bat 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:46.079 because things like this happen. However, it remains to be seen if the 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:48.280 case managed to survive its transport or 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:53.680 whether it did not. So, if it didn't manage to survive, 00:01:51.280 --> 00:02:00.719 then uh I guess I'll have to find another one and redo this unboxing. But, 00:01:57.759 --> 00:02:00.719 uh 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:07.840 okay. Oh, custom foam though. So, let's go ahead and peel off 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:15.000 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 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.879 the NCIX TechTips camera today with the 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:21.920 microphone. So, I don't know how much interference it's picking up from things 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:23.599 like the uh the Oh, this is this is kind 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:26.800 of funny. Uh, one of them's popped out and one of them's in. So, when I push on 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.239 it Oh, never mind. It came came this time. Last time the two ones swapped 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:36.400 which one was engaged and which one wasn't. So, this is What the heck? Oh, 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:39.120 cool. So, there's a hot swap here for um 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.280 Hold on a sec. That's cool. So, you can put a 2 and 1/2 in or a three and a half 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:48.239 inch drive in here. And it has little rubber strips on the bottom which will a 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:54.080 protect the PCB on the bottom of the hard drive and b it will actually reduce 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:58.480 vibrations which can again cause damage to the hard drive or the data on it and 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:02.560 will cause it to be loud. So I've gone and retrieved a hard drive which I will 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:08.879 put in here like this and then I will slide like this and that's it. So it's a 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:13.440 totally stealthy way to add an extra 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in drive to your 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:17.120 system. Okay, line of seal of approval on that idea because I've seen 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:24.080 implementations of hot swaps on cases that are terrible. See the uh DF85? Oh, 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:30.080 just awful. Okay, so let's have a look at this filtered good. Less relevant 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:34.239 though for a top uh top intake or exhaust because uh usually you want that 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.480 to be exhaust. Heat does tend to rise. You've got lots of different options for 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:44.000 fans here. So you can do 140. This looks like almost This looks like either a 160 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.959 or a 140 or something. I don't know what this is, but it's it's bigger. It's 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.920 bigger than normal. It looks like they've actually put in mounting holes 00:03:49.239 --> 00:03:55.120 for Oh, they've given Okay, so they've given you a lot of different options, 00:03:53.120 --> 00:04:00.480 but the 120s are offset. And this is really smart because it allows you to 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.760 install a dual radiator sort of up here and then the fans on the bottom. So, it 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:08.319 doesn't actually take up any space away from where you need, you know, your 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:14.799 motherboard or your or your CPU uh for or your CPU block to be. And 00:04:12.519 --> 00:04:18.720 um that's important because a lot of cases have room for for dual fans, but 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:22.000 as soon as you try to stack a radiator and fans, it gets pretty thick and it'll 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:26.240 interfere with things like the MOSFET coolers on your motherboard or your CPU 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:30.800 heat sink or whatever else you have there. So, they've got this compartment up here so you can store the radiator 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:34.400 away. And you can see they've cut out the ends here, which leaves room for the 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:37.759 barbs and the tubing to come out of the radiator. Although, usually I'd probably 00:04:35.919 --> 00:04:41.440 orient it the other way cuz otherwise this fan might get in the way depending 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:45.600 on it might it might fit. It might just make it. Okay, so let's go ahead and Oh. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:50.479 Oh. Oh, okay. It looks like it didn't quite make the air shipment unscathed 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:54.160 all the way from Asia to here. So, it looks like one of these uh one of these 00:04:51.919 --> 00:04:58.080 thumb screws got whacked and dented the back of the side panel a little bit. I'd 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:03.360 say that's fairly minor as far as things being air air shipped across the ocean 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.520 go. Um, so yeah, I've seen I've seen 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.639 much worse. There's our sound dampening material on the inside. Gives some 00:05:07.039 --> 00:05:13.479 rigidity to the side panel that it otherwise wouldn't necessarily have and 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:18.400 looks good, sounds good. Neat. Okay, so side panel's off. 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:21.520 Side panel is pretty plain. Uh, no ventilation holes or anything like that. 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:25.759 With the Ghost, they're going for more of well, silence, as you may or may not 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:30.000 have figured out based on the sound deadening material and the fact that it 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:33.520 doesn't have uh, you know, room for a bunch of blowing fans over top of the 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:38.800 video cards or anything like that on the inside. Uh, speaking of the inside, um, 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:41.759 I haven't actually seen the inside yet, so let's go ahead and No, no, we're not 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.280 done with the outside yet. Right here at the front, we've got our LEDs. So, 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:50.000 there's your power and your hard drive, your front audio, your two USB 2, two 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:54.000 USB 3 power and reset switches. nice and recessed so you won't accidentally hit 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.840 that one. And the front features a dual hinge design. You got your bit Phoenix 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:01.919 logo which I think looks pretty nice. So you can actually open it this way to 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:07.600 find the 35 and 1/4 in and one 3 and 1/2 in bay. The filtered front intake quite 00:06:05.039 --> 00:06:12.880 solidly built too actually. Very nice. And a Bitfenix Spectre 120 mm fan with 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:19.520 room for another one. This is smart. Haha. Check this out. Perforations in 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:23.039 the hard drive cage. I have actually not seen this before, but you hear people 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:27.280 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 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:33.000 going to be able to push any air through it. Now, I mean, it might not be a lot, 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:38.639 but it'll be more than most cases. Smart. Uh, yo, you can also see 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:42.000 the ventilation. So, from this angle, I hope you can see through here where some 00:06:40.479 --> 00:06:44.960 of the air flow will actually be coming in to feed these front fans cuz 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:50.400 otherwise they wouldn't be getting anything because the front of the case, 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:52.160 again, more perforations here, is using 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:56.240 sound deadening material and is completely flat. Oh, you're trying to see 00:06:55.039 --> 00:07:05.199 something. I don't know what he's trying to see. Probably the fan. Check this out, though. Bam. I 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.199 don't know what just What was that? Give 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:11.440 me a sec. So, cameraman's not sure why you would 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:15.360 want to be able to open either side of a case. Um, personally, I'm not a huge fan 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.560 of the whole double hinge design, although it's Oh, yeah. Right. I put the 00:07:17.039 --> 00:07:23.599 little thing back in here, so it's fine now. Um, but it's implemented better 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:28.440 here than I've seen in the past and more durably in fact as well. But I there are 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:31.919 still a couple things that I don't Oh, hold 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:38.160 on. Oh, it locks or something. Okay, 00:07:35.599 --> 00:07:43.440 hold on. Okay, I get it now. Actually, this is smarter than I thought. Okay, so 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:45.759 the other main case is the Corsair 550D. 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:50.960 That one has a double hinge front panel and it's not that durable because it's 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:54.879 permanently double hinged. This one is smarter because it allows you to put the 00:07:52.880 --> 00:08:00.080 case on either side you want. And then these pieces are actually for locking it 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:06.800 to the particular orientation you want. So you can here. So without these pieces 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:09.440 in it can be double hinged. Okay. And 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:17.160 then if you take these pieces here and put them 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:20.639 in then they are a lock and it will no 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:22.400 longer Oops. If you can actually get 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.240 them in. There we go. And it will no longer open on that side unless you 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:30.400 force it like I did before thinking that it was just a double hinged case. So 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:34.479 there you go. you guys won't make the same mistake as me. And let's just slide 00:08:32.959 --> 00:08:39.039 this back in. So, you can see some stuff did come unseated in shipping, but by 00:08:36.719 --> 00:08:45.680 and large, the case did make it to us. So, all right. So, that's uh that's 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:47.040 pretty good. Okay. 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven uh 00:08:45.680 --> 00:08:51.519 PCI slots. So, you're not going to be fitting any XLATX motherboards, but you 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.399 will fit, you know, your normal fullsize ATX, microATX, MITx, should you want to 00:08:54.800 --> 00:08:59.519 put one of those in here, but I don't see the point of that. If you have MITx, 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:04.399 you should get a Bit Phoenix Prodigy instead, which is like the coolest case 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:08.240 that everyone's excited about. Okay, on the bottom, you've got lots of intake 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:13.880 options. You can either do 120 mil or 140 mm fan from the bottom using a 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:17.040 filtered intake that apparently goes in 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:19.279 from I have no idea how this uh how this 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:26.160 gets in or out of here. Oh, it's magnetic. Baller. Okay, cool. There you 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:27.760 go. Filtered intake. Bam. Um, and then 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:30.720 lots of room for your power supply to intake air supports for your power 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:35.600 supply if you have a longer power supply. You've got one, two, three, 00:09:32.959 --> 00:09:41.680 four, three and 1/2 in bays there. One, two, three dedicated 2 and 1/2 in SSD 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:44.160 bays. Toolless 5 and 1/4 in bays. Lots 00:09:41.680 --> 00:09:47.519 of cable management holes and enough cable management room. Now, this isn't 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:51.279 the most ample space I've seen in the back of a motherboard tray before, but 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:56.480 it's about an inch. So, there is sufficient room to run a 24 pin cable 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:00.000 without actually not being able to close the side panel, which is one of those 00:09:57.839 --> 00:10:03.120 things you run into, and it's very, very frustrating. So, I'm going to go ahead 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:07.200 and have a look at what they've got for internal connectors. You can see most of 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:12.959 them are black. However, the front panel connectors are colorcoded. I'm a big fan 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:17.279 of all black internal connectors, but I'll give it a pass if most of them are 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:20.959 black and then there's just a couple that aren't. So, you can see the SATA 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:26.480 connector as well as the SATA power connector for that front SATA dock are 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:30.440 both black. It's got proper internal USB 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.120 3 pins, uh, pin header out, 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:36.800 whatever plug, okay, for the internal header, plug for the internal header, as 00:10:34.800 --> 00:10:40.160 well as a USB 2 lead that comes off of it. So, you can even just cut this off 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:44.800 if you're not going to use it. No big deal. All right. We've got a dedicated 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:48.720 USB 2 lead for those USB 2 ports, front panel audio, as well as your front 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:53.200 panel. Whoops. Your front panel connectors, which are all red and black. Now, that's odd. If you're going to 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:58.079 color code them, color code them. And then, if you're not going to color code them, make them black. So, that would be 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:00.800 my feedback. Two Spectre fans are included. The one in the front and the 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:07.839 one in the back. Although, there is space for 1 2 3 4 5 six fans natively 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:12.079 without any changes. whatsoever. Huge CPU cutout tray, so you'll be able to 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:16.959 install your CPU cooler without removing the board from the case, and uh that'll 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:20.160 save you some time. Lots of cable management holes. Let's have a look at 00:11:18.560 --> 00:11:23.519 what they've included in terms of the accessories here. So, here's your rubber 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:29.320 grommets as well as all your screws, bunch of thumb screws, manual. Okay, 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:34.160 here are your 2 and 1/2 in hard drive sleds or SSD, whichever you prefer. I 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:38.160 mean, you could you can use Momentous XTs in a desktop system. No reason you 00:11:36.079 --> 00:11:43.040 can't. Very high performance solution. All right. And then there's your 3 and 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:44.720 1/2 in drive sleds. It's an odd I I 00:11:43.040 --> 00:11:49.040 wonder if the production cases are going to come with these not pre-installed 00:11:46.959 --> 00:11:53.200 like this. I guess if it saves them a little bit of labor and doesn't actually 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:58.200 take the end user very long to install, then it could be a benefit to 00:11:55.959 --> 00:12:03.680 everybody. But there you go. So those slide in just like that. 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:06.639 And these ones can also support 2 and 12 in devices as well. So, you can see 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:12.399 there's two and a half inch holes there and lots of room with the honeycomb design for cooling for the hard drives 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:17.360 that are installed in them as well. 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