1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:14,960 Welcome to my unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw, which is a pretty unique 2 00:00:13,519 --> 00:00:18,960 case. Now, it has an inverted motherboard tray. That's not unique, but 3 00:00:17,279 --> 00:00:23,519 what is unique is an inverted motherboard tray at this kind of a price 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,560 point. So, we'll see what Bit Phoenix has to say for themselves, and then 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,840 we'll we'll figure out what I think is important. So, unique thermal layout. 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,920 Okay. I think what they mean to say is inverted motherboard tray, CPU cooler 7 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:38,960 cutout, which is now at the bottom of the motherboard tray. That's like voodoo 8 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:43,360 magic, right? Uh, four USB 2.0 ports. This is a valueoriented case, so we're 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:47,600 still looking at USB 2. Side panel cooling. Okay, good. Full black 10 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:51,760 interior, also very good because we will be able to see inside through the side 11 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:56,800 panel cooling. fits long VGA cards, which is pretty much a must for a gaming 12 00:00:54,239 --> 00:01:03,120 case these days, but still gets neglected from time to time by some 13 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,960 manufacturers whose products are not as 14 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:09,520 well thought out as the ones who are thinking it out well enough to include 15 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:13,520 compatibility for long DGA cards. And you can probably tell by this time that 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:19,040 I'm just killing time while I break the seals on the box. There we are. First 17 00:01:17,119 --> 00:01:24,720 thing we find inside is a quick installation guide. Now, this this 18 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,720 package went through Helen back to reach me. You can clearly see that the packing 19 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:33,119 materials are broken. But what we're going to find out, cuz remember, broken 20 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:37,200 packing packing materials is fine. Broken case, bad. So, we're going to 21 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:42,079 find out if the broken packing materials were able to absorb enough impact to 22 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:49,119 protect the case inside. So, here is the quick installation guide which tells you 23 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:52,479 how to what is lock loop electroplated 24 00:01:49,119 --> 00:01:54,880 bit logo sticker. Cool. Cool. Remove 25 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:57,880 screws. Basic installation. 5 and 1/4 in drives. Look at that. Pictures. I 26 00:01:56,159 --> 00:02:04,799 remember when I first got into computers, the manual for a case was 27 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:08,959 text. Like, I kid you not. They didn't even document things like like front 28 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:12,480 panel headers at all. And back then there weren't standards for things like 29 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:17,440 front panel audio. So you just had to kind of guess based on well the 30 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:24,800 motherboards one says VCC something and then the case one says VDD and one of 31 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:26,480 them they're both kind of plus and so 32 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:32,000 maybe they're maybe they're related in some way. Okay, so this came off. Here's 33 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:32,000 the packing materials. 34 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,920 Okay. Uh this was shipped to me uh as a 35 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:42,080 single unit though. didn't come on a palette and I don't know where it came 36 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:48,560 from. Actually, I can find out where it came from just to to give you guys some 37 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:52,959 idea. So, uh yeah. So, it came from 38 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:57,360 across the continent actually. So, let's 39 00:02:52,959 --> 00:02:58,680 take off the plastic and find out what 40 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:06,959 kind of shape it arrived in. I see a fan 41 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:10,319 grommet. Hm. 42 00:03:06,959 --> 00:03:13,120 All right. I'm very anxious to see what 43 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:18,560 happened here. All right. Hold on. Looks good for now. Looks good for now. Looks 44 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:24,080 good for now. All right. Look at that. Hey, it made it. Okay. So, let's have a 45 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:29,680 look at the Outlaw then. Excellent. Uh, so I Yeah, let's do outside impressions 46 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:34,560 first. So, we've got dual 120 mm fans in the top. I would have preferred to see 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:40,080 these closer together. So, you can use a dual 100 mm or dual 120 mil radiator in 48 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,440 the top without any modification. However, it's possible that because this 49 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,640 is a value case, the inside isn't big enough to do it anyway. So, we'll have 50 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:50,720 to have a look. You'll notice that on the side panel we where we would 51 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:55,280 normally find like cooling or a window, there's nothing. That's because this is 52 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:59,360 the wrong side panel for that in this case due to the inverted motherboard 53 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:04,560 tray. On the front we find their soft touch finish which honestly as soon as 54 00:04:02,239 --> 00:04:09,599 we started demoing these in the stores at NCX where I work um customers started 55 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,640 buying them far more because they really like this soft touch finish. So they 56 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,519 have that on their Colossus. They have that on a number of their cases. It is 57 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:21,680 significantly more expensive than just a um a powder coated black finish. But 58 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,240 especially for the front bezel looks really really sharp and I really like 59 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:30,800 it. So on the front top, we've got four USB 2.0 ports, a microphone port, a 60 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:35,040 headphone port, power LED, hard drive LED, power switch, and little tiny reset 61 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:40,960 switch. Good to see because that way you're not going to accidentally hit it. 62 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:44,880 We've got mesh on the sides here as well 63 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:48,560 as on the front here, the front here, 64 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:52,560 and the sides on the other side. 65 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:56,160 So that is going to enable us to aha 66 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,840 provide these two 120 mm fans with the 67 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:01,440 airflow that they need to cool the rest of your system. We've also got four 5 68 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:07,360 and 1/4 in bays. And here's something I haven't seen before. So it looks like if 69 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,080 you install four 5 and 1/4 in devices, 70 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:15,919 you will be blocking that top 120 mm fan. Honestly, with this case, um, 71 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:20,320 having the cooling options that it does already have, I wouldn't worry. Whoops. 72 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:25,120 Hold on. I think I might have might have screwed up here. Just a second. 73 00:05:26,039 --> 00:05:33,240 And okay, maybe I just have to hit it 74 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:38,800 harder. Oops. Yep, that was it. Okay, so we've 75 00:05:36,479 --> 00:05:42,160 got the fans here. We've got the fans on the top. I wouldn't worry too much about 76 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:48,360 your stuff not getting enough cooling. So, thumb screws at the 77 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:52,479 back. Thumb screws here and here. Bottom mounted power supply. 78 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:56,880 Actually, it's more like a top mounted power supply because check this out. If 79 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,320 I take the whole case and I go like this now, it just looks like a standard case 80 00:05:58,479 --> 00:06:07,840 with a top mounted power supply, your IO shield, your uh 120 mil cooling fan, and 81 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,440 your PCI slots, right? Whoops. But that 82 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:14,800 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 83 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,240 everything. This has been sort of one thing after another for this unboxing, 84 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:23,600 hasn't it? All right, let's flip it back over. And you are going to find a very 85 00:06:20,479 --> 00:06:26,800 strange internal layout. So, the cooling 86 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:29,759 summary is dual 120s in the front, 120 87 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:36,800 in the bottom, dual 120s at the top, 120 at the back, and dual 120s or 240s on 88 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:42,639 this side panel, which sits like this and will blow down on your graphics card 89 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:45,199 area as well as your CPU area or rather 90 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:51,840 sorry, your graphics card area as well as your CPU area because they are upside 91 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,600 down in this case. Okay, accessories. 92 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:57,759 Here we have your power supply, which has little rubber pieces to allow you to 93 00:06:56,319 --> 00:07:02,479 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, 94 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:06,880 you're going to be able to mount it with the fan down. So, you won't have any uh, 95 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:10,639 you know, loose screws falling into your power supply because some cases have 96 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:15,120 room for power supplies in the bottom, but they don't have ventilation here. 97 00:07:12,319 --> 00:07:19,120 So, what can happen is unless you mount the power supply with the fan facing the 98 00:07:17,039 --> 00:07:22,880 top, it won't get any air. So you can accidentally drop things in it. I 99 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:26,800 dropped water in one once. That was bad. So it didn't work anymore. Fortunately, 100 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:31,440 it didn't kill any of my other stuff when it died. So I uh I was fortunate I 101 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,000 was fortunate that way. I don't remember what power supply it was I killed, 102 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:40,960 though. Um okay. 103 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:44,880 So I don't like I this is throwing me off a lot. I'm going to be like honest 104 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,520 with you guys here. It's like really confusing looking at this because I'm 105 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,880 like, "Oh, I'm holding the case upside down." but I'm not. Okay. So, 1 2 3 4 5 106 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:56,800 6 seven PCI slots. You've got water cooling grommets here. So, that's at the 107 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:59,680 top of the case. Here, you're going to you've got a couple pre-installed 108 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:06,080 motherboard standoffs, but you'll have to fill in the rest of them on your own. 109 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:07,919 your CPU tray cutout is uh not huge, but 110 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:12,720 the reality of it is it doesn't have to be huge in a lot of cases because you 111 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:18,160 can even if your even if your CPU socket is here, you can slip it in from the 112 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:20,800 back and then position it and then screw on whatever it is from the front. So, 113 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,240 it's not that big of a deal as long as it's big enough to fit the back plate 114 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:30,560 through and then you can reposition as needed. Uh up on the top here it looks 115 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:33,599 like uh due to the oh up on the top at 116 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,919 the bottom here never mind nothing up at 117 00:08:33,599 --> 00:08:42,080 the top it looks like yes we will not be able to fit a dual 120 mm radiator just 118 00:08:38,959 --> 00:08:44,000 due to the clearance uh that would be 119 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,839 interfered with by this by a bottom installed PCI card. So that's probably 120 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:53,839 why they didn't bother with that spacing. Five and three and 1/2 in bays. 121 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,839 We've got 1 2 3 four 3 and 1/2 in hard 122 00:08:53,839 --> 00:08:59,519 drive bays. And then down here at the bottom, we've also or that is the 123 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:05,360 bottom. That's the bottom. Okay. We've also got a 2 and 1/2 in um 2 and 1/2 in 124 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:10,000 cutout so that you can put an SSD down at the bottom of your case. 1 2 3 4 5 125 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:13,680 and 1/4 in bays. I think we already talked about that. And black internal 126 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:18,480 cables. Love to see black internal cables. There's your front panel 127 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:22,399 switches and LEDs and whatnotss. Here's your front panel audio. your front panel 128 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:28,720 USB 2 and then your other more different front panel USB 2. So, thank you for 129 00:09:25,839 --> 00:09:34,880 checking out my very confused unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw. I think what 130 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:37,360 is outlawish about it is that it just 131 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:41,600 sort of breaks every rule for a value case. It's got a nice finish on the 132 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:45,120 bezel, which is really good to see. Lots of cooling options, tons of cooling 133 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:49,920 options. It's like a cooling box. And then in theory, it also provides better 134 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:54,160 cooling due to the inverted ATX layout, which allows you to blow away all your 135 00:09:51,279 --> 00:09:57,600 CPU heat here. And then heat rises. So having your video cards, especially if 136 00:09:55,839 --> 00:10:02,320 you're running two or more, up at the top where you can exhaust the heat right 137 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:04,720 away, could in theory be a good thing as 138 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:08,160 well. And you've also, due to the layout of the case, got ventilation almost all 139 00:10:06,959 --> 00:10:12,399 the way up to the top if you only have one five and a quarter inch device because this is all mesh. And then 140 00:10:10,959 --> 00:10:16,880 you've got mesh on the side here as well. So you can exhaust that way if you 141 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,920 have uh cards that blow not only out the back of the case but also out the front 142 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:24,040 of the card. So thank you for checking out this unboxing. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more 143 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:29,519 unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys, I forgot. Inside the 144 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:36,720 accessory box there are some zip ties. There are also about 300 billion thumb 145 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,959 screws. Yeah, like seriously like how 146 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:42,640 many thumb screws could one person need? The answer is this many. And then 147 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:46,480 finally, some other more different screws. Power supply screws, motherboard 148 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:53,040 standoffs, motherboard screws, and last but not least, a very stylish looking 149 00:10:49,079 --> 00:10:56,880 shiny metal metal metal Bit Phoenix 150 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,880 logo. And that is all.