the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the
week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it I am
going to spare you guys the unboxing portion of this unboxing because we have
a lot to do it comes in a pretty decent dual layered box and has hard foam
inside which normally bothers me more particularly with larger cases but with
smaller cases it bothers me less because there's less concern that they're going
to be extremely heavy and cause breakage when in shipping so this my friends is
the bit Phoenix Phenom or Phenom or however you prefer to pronounce that
word like the older AMD processors but
these are all new sort of they're based
very closely on the original bit Phoenix
Prodigy but with a couple of upgrades that I personally think are very very
nice so let's take the white one it's available in a variety colors just like
The Prodigy and we're going to have black and white here in the Showcase and
we've got a nice little bit Phoenix logo that to me is a lot more subtle than the
one that was on the original Prodigy that really popped out of the front
ventilation Wise It's also taken a bit of a Middle Road the original Prodigy
had either like little tiny vents along the sides or it had a full mesh front
well the Phenom or Phenom has reasonable size vents on the sides here and then it
has a closed front just like the white version of The Prodigy that I think
gives it a very sleek very classic look
but doesn't compromise on cooling to nearly the same extent the white Prodigy
did IO is still on the side wouldn't
have minded seeing this move to the front or the top but every position has
disadvantages like even on the top you know your cat can step under or whatever
else I have had that happen so there you go uh neither of them are windowed
variants you've got the same kinds of accents up here on the top that you've
got on the side with little grills and then on the top of the case you've got
that same removable fan girl that we saw on the Prodigy that gives you access to
ah yes radiator support so you can check a dual 120 millimeter Radiator in there
no problem which leads us to the back of
the case so this is where not all phenoms are created equally there are
two versions just like The Prodigy now where there's one that supports many ITX
motherboards at most so that's the one right here on your left and there's one
that supports microatx so that is four
expansion slot motherboards as opposed to just one but compromises some of the
other expandability with respect to drives and water cooling radiators and
other stuff like that so let's break these babies open and compare them
internally so I've loosened all the screws and it's time for the big reveal
much like the original Prodigy the build quality is very solid nice strong side
panels almost no flex to them whatsoever they've got some nice weight to them
which unfortunately does make the cases a little bit heavier but what do you
want you want it to be light you want it to be strong you want it to be cheap you
know you got to make compromises somewhere all right so removing these
side panels we are going to reveal a couple of things number one is the SSD
mounts that are built into the sides here you can put two 2 and 1/2 in drives
there no problem as well as all the interior I/O that USB 3.0 Port can be
adapted to USB 2 there is an included adapter and there's a custom PCB here
that handles all the io so we find the same thing on the other one and whoa
everything else that's inside these cases looks pretty darn different and
yet familiar so this one right here what
do you recognize that from well that is the interior of the original bit Phoenix
Prodigy so you've got fan mounts here at the front lots of room for intake
whether you want to mount you know dual 120s or I think you actually have to
remove the 5 and a/4 inch Bay but you can do that you just remove the front bezel and pull that off you can do dual
12s for a radiator in there you can do you know 140s I believe it can do 160s
Andor 180s there's lots of different options in there for fans in the front
you've also got five expansion Bays here that are compatible with either 2 and
1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in drives a 5 and 1/4 in expansion Bay that can be used
for something else should you so desire in fact it comes with a 3 and 1/2 in
plastic adapter in it and that pretty much does it for this side a little bit
of cable management room here and of course that attention to detail see the
way that they folded over the metal here so it doesn't leave any sharp edges I'm
going to go ahead and give you another angle on that that means you're not
going to cut open the power supply cables that you're trying to run through
here in Cable Management here which is good because it is an extremely tight
fit for your power supply in this particular case they have a fan filter
on the bottom of the Phenom that has the ITX layout because that is that means
you are intended to install your power supply with the fan facing down so the
heat doesn't interfere with any other components in your system and over here on the other side you find a little bit
more room for cable management as well as ah yes if you were to remove and
check this out all screws very few rivets on this case if you were to
remove all your drive cages you could actually make room for radiators here at
the front and you could just Mount Your 2 and 1/2 in ssds to the inside here you
could Mount them to the other side of the power supply and motherboard tray
enclosure and you could add ssds that way so you could throw four ssds in here
having actually removed all of the drive cages giving you lots of room for water
cooling it has support for a single 120 or 140 mm Fen in the back and two
expansions which might seem weird because ITX only has one but that my
friends is because you can install a dual slot graphics card without having
to do any modding or anything like that so there you go that is the ITX Phenom
or Phenom whichever you prefer now let's go through the
matx Phenom or Phenom whichever you
prefer so you can see right here that our 5 and a/4 inch uh sled seems to have
been attached to here for some reason these are engineering samples so it's
possible that the packaging wasn't quite final because I know for a fact that
this box is supposed to be there and not this guy right here so this is a 5 and
1/4 to 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in adapter just like we found in the other
case and it can go up here in the 5 and 1/4 inch cage you also can install
either using the Vib anti vibration mounts here 2 3 and 1/2 in or two 2 and
1/2 in drives using the hooks as well as
the uh oh looks like three ohuh my bad
sorry about that so three 2 and 1/2 in drives if you prefer to go that rate
using the hooks and the um screws right here you can also see that the fan
layout is extremely different there's no power supply at the back so there's 120
or 140 here five expansion slots which is great because some mini ATX boards
even though they only have four slots have their full speed PCIe right on the
bottom so if you want to put a graphics card in there running an SLI or Crossfire you're going to have to make
use of that fifth slot great a bit Phoenix to think of this your eye your
toolless removal of these slot hold Downs as well as oh yeah there's a power
in but hold on a second where does that go okay it goes here so there's an
extension cable here that actually runs to the power supply which is boom on the
bottom of the case so that means these feet are important you're going to be
taking up air into the bottom of the case this heat shield is for use if you
install hard drives as opposed to fans in the bottom here although I personally
uh don't anticipate that that'll make much of a practical difference to the
performance of the uh of the you know cooling those drives or anything like
that the rest of the Interior is pretty straightforward so you can find your
matx motherboard tray over here Cable Management should be relatively
straightforward in here and you should be able to hide most of it either up
here in the top in the 5 and a/4 inch Bay that you're unlikely to be using
because whoa there is no 5 and 1/4 inch
FR ha so guys remember the 5 and 1/4 in
Bay internally is because a lot of these components have a lot of the design has
been reused from The Prodigy so you're really meant to just install drives with
the adapters so you can see your so you can hide all your cables over here your
natx motherboard tray is reasonably strong considering that it has an
extremely large CPU cutout again with that folded over metal so you're not
going to accidentally cut anything on it you can also install more drives so
there's anti vibration mounts here as well as more fans down in the bottom of
the case should you see fit so you can put dual 120s down there it should be
noted that the water cooling options are not near as extensive for the matx
version and if you wanted to install a dual 140 mm rat in the top while you
could you would be a little bit Limited in terms of which expansion slots you
can use because there would be some interference there so if you really want
to fill it full of water cooling radiators you might want to go with the mitx version you can of course still
install a single 120 mm radiator at the back without any difficulty I think that
pretty much covers it other than the accessories that are included and I can tell you what's in here before I even
open it so there's a USB 3 to USB 2 adapter for the built-in IO and there's
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