WEBVTT 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:14.960 Welcome to my unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw, which is a pretty unique 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:18.960 case. Now, it has an inverted motherboard tray. That's not unique, but 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:23.519 what is unique is an inverted motherboard tray at this kind of a price 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.560 point. So, we'll see what Bit Phoenix has to say for themselves, and then 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.840 we'll we'll figure out what I think is important. So, unique thermal layout. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.920 Okay. I think what they mean to say is inverted motherboard tray, CPU cooler 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:38.960 cutout, which is now at the bottom of the motherboard tray. That's like voodoo 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:43.360 magic, right? Uh, four USB 2.0 ports. This is a valueoriented case, so we're 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:47.600 still looking at USB 2. Side panel cooling. Okay, good. Full black 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:51.760 interior, also very good because we will be able to see inside through the side 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:56.800 panel cooling. fits long VGA cards, which is pretty much a must for a gaming 00:00:54.239 --> 00:01:03.120 case these days, but still gets neglected from time to time by some 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.960 manufacturers whose products are not as 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:09.520 well thought out as the ones who are thinking it out well enough to include 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:13.520 compatibility for long DGA cards. And you can probably tell by this time that 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 00:01:17.119 --> 00:01:24.720 thing we find inside is a quick installation guide. Now, this this 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:28.720 package went through Helen back to reach me. You can clearly see that the packing 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:33.119 materials are broken. But what we're going to find out, cuz remember, broken 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:37.200 packing packing materials is fine. Broken case, bad. So, we're going to 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:42.079 find out if the broken packing materials were able to absorb enough impact to 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:49.119 protect the case inside. So, here is the quick installation guide which tells you 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:52.479 how to what is lock loop electroplated 00:01:49.119 --> 00:01:54.880 bit logo sticker. Cool. Cool. Remove 00:01:52.479 --> 00:01:57.880 screws. Basic installation. 5 and 1/4 in drives. Look at that. Pictures. I 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:04.799 remember when I first got into computers, the manual for a case was 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:08.959 text. Like, I kid you not. They didn't even document things like like front 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.480 panel headers at all. And back then there weren't standards for things like 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:17.440 front panel audio. So you just had to kind of guess based on well the 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:24.800 motherboards one says VCC something and then the case one says VDD and one of 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:26.480 them they're both kind of plus and so 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 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:32.000 the packing materials. 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:37.920 Okay. Uh this was shipped to me uh as a 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 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 00:02:44.760 --> 00:02:52.959 idea. So, uh yeah. So, it came from 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:57.360 across the continent actually. So, let's 00:02:52.959 --> 00:02:58.680 take off the plastic and find out what 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:06.959 kind of shape it arrived in. I see a fan 00:03:03.720 --> 00:03:10.319 grommet. Hm. 00:03:06.959 --> 00:03:13.120 All right. I'm very anxious to see what 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:18.560 happened here. All right. Hold on. Looks good for now. Looks good for now. Looks 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 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:29.680 look at the Outlaw then. Excellent. Uh, so I Yeah, let's do outside impressions 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 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 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:43.440 the top without any modification. However, it's possible that because this 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 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:50.720 to have a look. You'll notice that on the side panel we where we would 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:55.280 normally find like cooling or a window, there's nothing. That's because this is 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:59.360 the wrong side panel for that in this case due to the inverted motherboard 00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:04.560 tray. On the front we find their soft touch finish which honestly as soon as 00:04:02.239 --> 00:04:09.599 we started demoing these in the stores at NCX where I work um customers started 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:12.640 buying them far more because they really like this soft touch finish. So they 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:17.519 have that on their Colossus. They have that on a number of their cases. It is 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:21.680 significantly more expensive than just a um a powder coated black finish. But 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.240 especially for the front bezel looks really really sharp and I really like 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 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:35.040 headphone port, power LED, hard drive LED, power switch, and little tiny reset 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:40.960 switch. Good to see because that way you're not going to accidentally hit it. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:44.880 We've got mesh on the sides here as well 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:48.560 as on the front here, the front here, 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:52.560 and the sides on the other side. 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:56.160 So that is going to enable us to aha 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:57.840 provide these two 120 mm fans with the 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 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 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.080 you install four 5 and 1/4 in devices, 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:15.919 you will be blocking that top 120 mm fan. Honestly, with this case, um, 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:20.320 having the cooling options that it does already have, I wouldn't worry. Whoops. 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:25.120 Hold on. I think I might have might have screwed up here. Just a second. 00:05:26.039 --> 00:05:33.240 And okay, maybe I just have to hit it 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:38.800 harder. Oops. Yep, that was it. Okay, so we've 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 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:48.360 your stuff not getting enough cooling. So, thumb screws at the 00:05:45.400 --> 00:05:52.479 back. Thumb screws here and here. Bottom mounted power supply. 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:56.880 Actually, it's more like a top mounted power supply because check this out. If 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 00:05:58.479 --> 00:06:07.840 with a top mounted power supply, your IO shield, your uh 120 mil cooling fan, and 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.440 your PCI slots, right? Whoops. But that 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 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.240 everything. This has been sort of one thing after another for this unboxing, 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 00:06:20.479 --> 00:06:26.800 strange internal layout. So, the cooling 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:29.759 summary is dual 120s in the front, 120 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 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:42.639 this side panel, which sits like this and will blow down on your graphics card 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:45.199 area as well as your CPU area or rather 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:51.840 sorry, your graphics card area as well as your CPU area because they are upside 00:06:48.080 --> 00:06:53.600 down in this case. Okay, accessories. 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:57.759 Here we have your power supply, which has little rubber pieces to allow you to 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, 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, 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.639 you know, loose screws falling into your power supply because some cases have 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.120 room for power supplies in the bottom, but they don't have ventilation here. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:19.120 So, what can happen is unless you mount the power supply with the fan facing the 00:07:17.039 --> 00:07:22.880 top, it won't get any air. So you can accidentally drop things in it. I 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:26.800 dropped water in one once. That was bad. So it didn't work anymore. Fortunately, 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 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:35.000 was fortunate that way. I don't remember what power supply it was I killed, 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:40.960 though. Um okay. 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 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.520 with you guys here. It's like really confusing looking at this because I'm 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 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:56.800 6 seven PCI slots. You've got water cooling grommets here. So, that's at the 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:59.680 top of the case. Here, you're going to you've got a couple pre-installed 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:06.080 motherboard standoffs, but you'll have to fill in the rest of them on your own. 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:07.919 your CPU tray cutout is uh not huge, but 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 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 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:20.800 back and then position it and then screw on whatever it is from the front. So, 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 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:30.560 through and then you can reposition as needed. Uh up on the top here it looks 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.599 like uh due to the oh up on the top at 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:35.919 the bottom here never mind nothing up at 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 00:08:38.959 --> 00:08:44.000 due to the clearance uh that would be 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.839 interfered with by this by a bottom installed PCI card. So that's probably 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:53.839 why they didn't bother with that spacing. Five and three and 1/2 in bays. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:55.839 We've got 1 2 3 four 3 and 1/2 in hard 00:08:53.839 --> 00:08:59.519 drive bays. And then down here at the bottom, we've also or that is the 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 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 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:13.680 and 1/4 in bays. I think we already talked about that. And black internal 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:18.480 cables. Love to see black internal cables. There's your front panel 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:22.399 switches and LEDs and whatnotss. Here's your front panel audio. your front panel 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:28.720 USB 2 and then your other more different front panel USB 2. So, thank you for 00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:34.880 checking out my very confused unboxing of the Bit Phoenix Outlaw. I think what 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:37.360 is outlawish about it is that it just 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 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:45.120 bezel, which is really good to see. Lots of cooling options, tons of cooling 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:49.920 options. It's like a cooling box. And then in theory, it also provides better 00:09:47.920 --> 00:09:54.160 cooling due to the inverted ATX layout, which allows you to blow away all your 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:57.600 CPU heat here. And then heat rises. So having your video cards, especially if 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 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:04.720 away, could in theory be a good thing as 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:08.160 well. And you've also, due to the layout of the case, got ventilation almost all 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 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 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 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 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:29.519 unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys, I forgot. Inside the 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:36.720 accessory box there are some zip ties. There are also about 300 billion thumb 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.959 screws. Yeah, like seriously like how 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:42.640 many thumb screws could one person need? The answer is this many. And then 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.480 finally, some other more different screws. Power supply screws, motherboard 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:53.040 standoffs, motherboard screws, and last but not least, a very stylish looking 00:10:49.079 --> 00:10:56.880 shiny metal metal metal Bit Phoenix 00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:56.880 logo. And that is all.