Welcome to my unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw, which is a pretty unique
case. Now, it has an inverted motherboard tray. That's not unique, but
what is unique is an inverted motherboard tray at this kind of a price
point. So, we'll see what Bit Phoenix has to say for themselves, and then
we'll we'll figure out what I think is important. So, unique thermal layout.
Okay. I think what they mean to say is inverted motherboard tray, CPU cooler
cutout, which is now at the bottom of the motherboard tray. That's like voodoo
magic, right? Uh, four USB 2.0 ports. This is a valueoriented case, so we're
still looking at USB 2. Side panel cooling. Okay, good. Full black
interior, also very good because we will be able to see inside through the side
panel cooling. fits long VGA cards, which is pretty much a must for a gaming
case these days, but still gets neglected from time to time by some
manufacturers whose products are not as
well thought out as the ones who are thinking it out well enough to include
compatibility for long DGA cards. And you can probably tell by this time that
I'm just killing time while I break the seals on the box. There we are. First
thing we find inside is a quick installation guide. Now, this this
package went through Helen back to reach me. You can clearly see that the packing
materials are broken. But what we're going to find out, cuz remember, broken
packing packing materials is fine. Broken case, bad. So, we're going to
find out if the broken packing materials were able to absorb enough impact to
protect the case inside. So, here is the quick installation guide which tells you
how to what is lock loop electroplated
bit logo sticker. Cool. Cool. Remove
screws. Basic installation. 5 and 1/4 in drives. Look at that. Pictures. I
remember when I first got into computers, the manual for a case was
text. Like, I kid you not. They didn't even document things like like front
panel headers at all. And back then there weren't standards for things like
front panel audio. So you just had to kind of guess based on well the
motherboards one says VCC something and then the case one says VDD and one of
them they're both kind of plus and so
maybe they're maybe they're related in some way. Okay, so this came off. Here's
the packing materials.
Okay. Uh this was shipped to me uh as a
single unit though. didn't come on a palette and I don't know where it came
from. Actually, I can find out where it came from just to to give you guys some
idea. So, uh yeah. So, it came from
across the continent actually. So, let's
take off the plastic and find out what
kind of shape it arrived in. I see a fan
grommet. Hm.
All right. I'm very anxious to see what
happened here. All right. Hold on. Looks good for now. Looks good for now. Looks
good for now. All right. Look at that. Hey, it made it. Okay. So, let's have a
look at the Outlaw then. Excellent. Uh, so I Yeah, let's do outside impressions
first. So, we've got dual 120 mm fans in the top. I would have preferred to see
these closer together. So, you can use a dual 100 mm or dual 120 mil radiator in
the top without any modification. However, it's possible that because this
is a value case, the inside isn't big enough to do it anyway. So, we'll have
to have a look. You'll notice that on the side panel we where we would
normally find like cooling or a window, there's nothing. That's because this is
the wrong side panel for that in this case due to the inverted motherboard
tray. On the front we find their soft touch finish which honestly as soon as
we started demoing these in the stores at NCX where I work um customers started
buying them far more because they really like this soft touch finish. So they
have that on their Colossus. They have that on a number of their cases. It is
significantly more expensive than just a um a powder coated black finish. But
especially for the front bezel looks really really sharp and I really like
it. So on the front top, we've got four USB 2.0 ports, a microphone port, a
headphone port, power LED, hard drive LED, power switch, and little tiny reset
switch. Good to see because that way you're not going to accidentally hit it.
We've got mesh on the sides here as well
as on the front here, the front here,
and the sides on the other side.
So that is going to enable us to aha
provide these two 120 mm fans with the
airflow that they need to cool the rest of your system. We've also got four 5
and 1/4 in bays. And here's something I haven't seen before. So it looks like if
you install four 5 and 1/4 in devices,
you will be blocking that top 120 mm fan. Honestly, with this case, um,
having the cooling options that it does already have, I wouldn't worry. Whoops.
Hold on. I think I might have might have screwed up here. Just a second.
And okay, maybe I just have to hit it
harder. Oops. Yep, that was it. Okay, so we've
got the fans here. We've got the fans on the top. I wouldn't worry too much about
your stuff not getting enough cooling. So, thumb screws at the
back. Thumb screws here and here. Bottom mounted power supply.
Actually, it's more like a top mounted power supply because check this out. If
I take the whole case and I go like this now, it just looks like a standard case
with a top mounted power supply, your IO shield, your uh 120 mil cooling fan, and
your PCI slots, right? Whoops. But that
would be upside down for this case. But I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to remove the side panels. Now I'm breaking
everything. This has been sort of one thing after another for this unboxing,
hasn't it? All right, let's flip it back over. And you are going to find a very
strange internal layout. So, the cooling
summary is dual 120s in the front, 120
in the bottom, dual 120s at the top, 120 at the back, and dual 120s or 240s on
this side panel, which sits like this and will blow down on your graphics card
area as well as your CPU area or rather
sorry, your graphics card area as well as your CPU area because they are upside
down in this case. Okay, accessories.
Here we have your power supply, which has little rubber pieces to allow you to
even if you have a long power supply. Look at that. They go all the way out to here. It's going to support it. Um,
you're going to be able to mount it with the fan down. So, you won't have any uh,
you know, loose screws falling into your power supply because some cases have
room for power supplies in the bottom, but they don't have ventilation here.
So, what can happen is unless you mount the power supply with the fan facing the
top, it won't get any air. So you can accidentally drop things in it. I
dropped water in one once. That was bad. So it didn't work anymore. Fortunately,
it didn't kill any of my other stuff when it died. So I uh I was fortunate I
was fortunate that way. I don't remember what power supply it was I killed,
though. Um okay.
So I don't like I this is throwing me off a lot. I'm going to be like honest
with you guys here. It's like really confusing looking at this because I'm
like, "Oh, I'm holding the case upside down." but I'm not. Okay. So, 1 2 3 4 5
6 seven PCI slots. You've got water cooling grommets here. So, that's at the
top of the case. Here, you're going to you've got a couple pre-installed
motherboard standoffs, but you'll have to fill in the rest of them on your own.
your CPU tray cutout is uh not huge, but
the reality of it is it doesn't have to be huge in a lot of cases because you
can even if your even if your CPU socket is here, you can slip it in from the
back and then position it and then screw on whatever it is from the front. So,
it's not that big of a deal as long as it's big enough to fit the back plate
through and then you can reposition as needed. Uh up on the top here it looks
like uh due to the oh up on the top at
the bottom here never mind nothing up at
the top it looks like yes we will not be able to fit a dual 120 mm radiator just
due to the clearance uh that would be
interfered with by this by a bottom installed PCI card. So that's probably
why they didn't bother with that spacing. Five and three and 1/2 in bays.
We've got 1 2 3 four 3 and 1/2 in hard
drive bays. And then down here at the bottom, we've also or that is the
bottom. That's the bottom. Okay. We've also got a 2 and 1/2 in um 2 and 1/2 in
cutout so that you can put an SSD down at the bottom of your case. 1 2 3 4 5
and 1/4 in bays. I think we already talked about that. And black internal
cables. Love to see black internal cables. There's your front panel
switches and LEDs and whatnotss. Here's your front panel audio. your front panel
USB 2 and then your other more different front panel USB 2. So, thank you for
checking out my very confused unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw. I think what
is outlawish about it is that it just
sort of breaks every rule for a value case. It's got a nice finish on the
bezel, which is really good to see. Lots of cooling options, tons of cooling
options. It's like a cooling box. And then in theory, it also provides better
cooling due to the inverted ATX layout, which allows you to blow away all your
CPU heat here. And then heat rises. So having your video cards, especially if
you're running two or more, up at the top where you can exhaust the heat right
away, could in theory be a good thing as
well. And you've also, due to the layout of the case, got ventilation almost all
the way up to the top if you only have one five and a quarter inch device because this is all mesh. And then
you've got mesh on the side here as well. So you can exhaust that way if you
have uh cards that blow not only out the back of the case but also out the front
of the card. So thank you for checking out this unboxing. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more
unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys, I forgot. Inside the
accessory box there are some zip ties. There are also about 300 billion thumb
screws. Yeah, like seriously like how
many thumb screws could one person need? The answer is this many. And then
finally, some other more different screws. Power supply screws, motherboard
standoffs, motherboard screws, and last but not least, a very stylish looking
shiny metal metal metal Bit Phoenix
logo. And that is all.