So today we're going to be having a look at by oh I should say by popular demand
because whenever I do get multiple requests for a product unboxing I do say
that or I try to this is the bit Phoenix
Shinobi which is a more value oriented case from bit Phoenix they do have other
cases including their Colossus which is a very high-end case uh but this is more
meant to Target those mainstream Gam type folks so this one there's it's
available in two versions there's a window version and then there's a non-
window version we have the non- window version there's actually a diagram here
showing you what it looks like with the Windows side panel versus what it looks
like without a Windows side panel I should hope you all know what a non-
windowed side panel looks like at this point in time though we've got maximum
expansion okay that's what they have to say for themselves bit Phenix soft touch
surface treatment which is actually pretty cool I have seen it in person before efficient cooling toolfree design
for the window version only that's interesting and okay let's let's open
this thing up and see what it has to
show for itself so this is a uh brand
new case here I got Breaking All the seals because that's what I do I break
seals like I don't Club seals I just
break them hahaa not not funny cuz I'm from
Canada I know okay let's dump this guy out and see
what we we can
see I wonder if I've actually made that joke before about seals I mean I've done
so many of these videos at this point that um it's hard to keep track of what
I've said and haven't said and what I can and cannot say so you know just kind
of just kind of roll with it and if I make the same joke twice well then
hopefully you guys will forgive me
and I don't have a uh subscriber Rebellion on my hands or
anything like that so there it is that is the Shinobi I'm going to go ahead I'm
going to do that 360° rotation thing again which is something that I never do
but this case is fortunately reasonably light and it doesn't have uh super
grippy rubber feet on the bottom in fact let's find out what it does have on the
bottom cuz I'm curious now oh look at that so just metal punch outs on the
bottom so it might move around a little bit but
I mean honestly once you load this up with a system it should have some more
weight to it it's only light right now cuz it's a bare case so let's look at
external features first why don't we so the first thing we got here at the front
is three 5 and 1/4 in Bays nice little
brushed metal bit Phoenix logo there and
we've got some ventilation holes down both sides actually we've got
ventilation holes down both sides and all up the top and then finally we have
what looks like a dual 120 mil vent also
on the on the top we've got four USB 2.0
ports headphone and microphone ports as well as power and reset and this is that
soft touch feel finish that I was talking about before this is kind of a
what what can I how can I describe it it feels kind of like a a rubber that's not
sticky so like if if rubber had a bit of
a powder on it so that it it doesn't stick As you move your hand across it
okay on the side panels themselves we've just got your standard um powder coated
painted metal finish and this screw is
difficult to remove I will need a screwdriver sorry about that guys got
that taken care of now so these are thumb screws here so they're probably
only tight because they're put in at the factory um if
you okay if you put them in by hand
every time then you'll be able to remove them by hand every time so we can call
that tooless although bit Phoenix doesn't even claim that the non-
windowed version which this clearly is because there's no window clearly well
that is to say that it would be clear if there was a window on the left side
panel so we've got the case opened up let's do
the back first why not here we've got our three 5 and 1/4 in Bays I can see
here that the tooless mechanisms are removed from the 3 and 1/2 in Bays of
which there are 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 wow
outstanding eight 3 and 1/2 in hard
drive D cages um which are toolless on
the window version and not toolless on this one and then we can also see a CPU
cutout at the back of the motherboard tray that's for installing large bulky
CPU heat sinks without taking the motherboard out installing a back plate
putting the motherboard back in and then installing the heat sink you can just do
it through the back we've got some cable routing holes and we've also got
adequate space between the right side panel and these cable routing holes here
so you're going to be able to actually run a 24 Pin cable out to the side of
the motherboard and an eight Pin cable up to the top you probably have to Route
it through here without any clearance issues at the back so let's actually
here speaking of the back let's look at the back of the case where we have
a0 mm cooling fan we've got our IO Port
we've got eight expansion slots a couple of these water cooling holes although
these are very very small these are probably only going to accept uh thin
walled 3/8 tubing or thick walled 1/4 in tubing we've got our power supply
mounting here and that is a bottom mounted power supply with a couple of
things that are exceptional about it one of which is that it is filtered so
there's a filter right here which can be quite easily removed also we've got four
little rubber mounts here which will keep the power supply raised off the
bottom of your case a little bit to ensure that it is able to suck in some
fresh air without any difficulty no matter which way you mount it we've also
got a 120 mm fan intake here which isn't
going to be able to pull in a ton of air through that mesh that filter and then
finally the fact that the case isn't that far off the ground but it will
provide some additional intake air for your graphics card area although I would
say that's probably a very optional fan to install because right here at the
front of the case we've got two 120 mil
fan mounts as well so that's going to take care of most of the cooling needs
for anything that is behind them I'm going to go ahead and see if I can uh
remove this without too much
difficulty okay that wasn't supposed to happen uh either way here you can see
the removable fan filters here at the front Okay you can see where you can oh
this is neat so you can actually install a three and
a oh that's an interesting way to do that it's not damaged at all hey we win
yep we're good uh so you can see here that we can use this as a 3 and 1/2 in
uh front drive bay installer if if we want to see that's got the soft touch
finish on it and then you can do two more 5 and a quar without any difficulty
whatsoever all right I'm just going to put that away for now anyway and we do
have clearance at the front for those 120 mm fans so those go on the inside
here next we've got our internal cables which are all black love to see this
even though the case isn't windowed it has a full black interior including
black cables black connectors on the ends of things and that is awesome so
we've just got our front panels for your power your reset all that good stuff two
front USB cables and a front audio
cable I think that pretty much wraps it
up at this point in time doesn't it I don't see any kind of a dedicated 2 and
1/2 in Drive Mount although correct me
if I am wrong about that oh one thing I
haven't mentioned though is uh the fan
mounting options for the top so you can see that we can either do dual 120 mm
fans or or dual 140 mm fans in the top so this case in spite of the fact that
it looks very clean I mean remember once we put the front panel back on which
hopefully is easier to put on than it was to remove there we go uh
once we put the front panel on it actually looks very clean and very sharp
but we can install one two 140 mm fans
we can do one two 3 four 120 mm fans in
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