Welcome to my unboxing of the Shinobi
with a twist. This is the Shinobi XL,
which stands for extra large. Actually,
I don't know that it does. It might stand for XLATX because while that does
mean that the case is probably extra large, uh Whoa, it's really big. Huh.
Okay. And that's what Yeah,
I said. Wait, no. Okay, backing it up.
Um, XLATX is a longer than longer than standard
form factor. So, that is to say that it is, uh, you know, about 2 in longer than
you're probably used to and sometimes wider. Here we have a manual. And let's
go ahead and, you know what? Let's look at the box before we open this up. Here
we go. Soft touch surface treatment. We're used to seeing that on Bit Phoenix
cases. It feels nice, looks nice. Four super speed USB 3.0 ports, including or
in addition to, we'll figure that out later. Their supercharge port, which is
cool. Delivers up to 2.5 amps of power on the front USB, which means you can
charge anything you want quickly. Tool-free design. A flex cage hard disk
rack, which means you can go this way, that way, or remove the whole thing
entirely. XLATX compatibility and superior water cooling support. So, this
case supports up to two triple 120 or
360 mm as the kids call them today
radiators natively. I am glad to see a
manufacturer taking or actually a lot of manufacturers these days taking water
cooling so seriously because while it's all fine and good to be able to put one
360 mm radiator, water cooling guys are
like the kings of more is better. So two
360 mil radiators must be better. Uses a
close cell foam, nice soft foam. Happy to see this. Previous bit Phoenix cases
I've seen packed in a hard foam which I do not prefer. Um I definitely like to
see closed cell foam because in Canada our country is really big and cases and
systems often have to travel very far about about an inch of padding by the
way often have to travel very far before they reach their intended destination.
So, what that means is if you've got a if you've got a hard foam,
you might be in trouble because it'll survive the first drop for sure and it
might survive the second drop. But I can tell you now, it's probably not going to
survive the third drop because once it breaks, the structural integrity is not
as good as it was before it was broken, which stands to reason. So, let's have a
look at the aesthetic of the case. 1 2 3 4 5 and a/4 inch base. Beautiful brushed
metal Bit Phoenix logo here on the front. It has what they're calling a
classic Shinobi look. And I would agree that the Shinobi look is very classic
with clean lines, nice square overall design. Although I don't know if you can
call the Shinobi a classic case just yet because it hasn't been on the market
very long, although it's probably on its way. Here on the front, we've got our
charging port. So there it's marked with a battery and it's colorcoded yellow.
We've got four super speed USB3 ports, headphones, microphone, power, and
reset. That's a nice recessed reset. So, it's not that easy to hit by accident.
Wonder how to get this off. It's got to be a way to do it. All right, let's move
around to Well, I guess the sides are pretty similar. You're not going to need to see the other side cuz it pretty much
looks a little something like this. So, you got your top piece. This is using the soft touch. The front bezel's using
soft touch. This is just a powder coated metal finish, although it's not bad. And
then on the back, see, this is what used to pass for water
cooling ready. Now the manufacturers, including Bit Phoenix for this
particular case, are actually building in mounting space for radiators. It used
to be they were like, "Yeah, you can, you know, run to a radiator outside of your case cuz someone actually does
that." No, they don't. So, this is not water cooling ready, but it's there in
case you actually do want to use it. And you could even run two separate loops.
So, I guess that's kind of convenient if you're one of those guys who does run
chilled liquid, for example. I have done it, so I shouldn't say nobody does it,
but it's just more rare. This is actually very solid. This is a big side
panel, so you have to use a fairly thick grade of metal in order to have it have
very, very little flex like that. You guys see that? Not bad at all.
I mean, this is a slightly more expensive case than I've typically looked at in the past from Bit Phoenix,
so I guess it stands to reason that the overall build quality and the features
are a little bit uh sort of higher grade. But yeah, I'm really impressed so
far to be to be completely blunt with you guys. So, why don't we start with uh
I'll start with this side. Okay. So, we have our cables. We have
Oh, okay. At least it uses a nice soft rubber so it's easy to fix. There we go.
We have our cables right here. So, there is your power,
two front USB 3s, your front audio as
well as your front panel connectors and your front USB 2 and other more
different front USB 2. So that's so you have additional power presumably for
that charging port. All right, we've got
lots of cable management grommets. So regardless of what kind of a motherboard
you want to put in here, you can see we've actually got EATX mounting holes
way over here. We've got standard mounting ATX mounting holes right here
and then up to EATX with 3 4 5 6 7 8
nine PCI slots all the way down to here.
It supports a standard power supply with
four Oh, these are really nice. These are nice high quality rubber. Uh nice uh
rubber mounting points that hold it a little bit off the bottom of the case.
Filtered intake and it can go up to pretty much as long as you want uh
before bumping into anything and not fitting anymore.
In the back, we have a 120 or 140 mm
fan, whichever you prefer, although it comes with a bit Spectre 120 mil. Up in
the top we have what is hold on can't remember includes two 230. Yeah. So we
have a 230 mm cooling fan. Although you can see if I tip it even more the
mounting holes are available here for that triple radiator. So that's where
that's going to go. And there's actually a fair amount of space between this and
the top of the motherboard which is a bit of a rarity these days. Even though
by the time you put a radiator and fans on it, you're going to need that space.
So, it's good to see that Bit Phoenix has gone ahead and included that. I
don't see yet how to take off this top piece, although I really would like Oh,
there we go. Okay, that was easy. Uh, did I break it? Oh, okay. So, basically,
we've got the um 230 mil fan here. We've
got the 360 mil here. You've got Oh, look at this. You've got access to the
front panel here. So, if you wanted to, I don't know, rewire something or
something, then you could you could do that. So, let's go ahead and put that
back on. Mhm.
And line it up and force it.
There we go. Okay. Uh, hard drive mounting. So, 1 2 3 4 5 6
7. These are compatible with 3 and 1/2
as well as 2 and 1/2 in drives. They have some flex to them, although my
experience leads me to believe that they're probably a lot more sturdy once
you actually put a drive in them. The other 230 mil fan is here in the front.
This is a Spectre fan, but guys, bear in mind these are reasonably high quality
fans. Um, as Sorry. So, that one's in the front.
You can actually take this whole cage and you can undoing the screws in the
bottom, I think. Yes. undoing the screws
in the bottom. You can actually turn the whole thing 90° if you want, if you
don't need the additional space uh over here. So, the benefit of that is you're
going to get slightly better air flow through and between the drives versus if
you have it, see this way. See how it kind of blocks a lot of the air flow?
So, that way it'll only be blocked where you actually have drives installed.
However, this has a nicer aesthetic in my opinion because you have more options
in terms of routing the wires to your drives. So, I personally would leave it
the way it is, but it's nice to have the option, and it's nice to be able to take
it out entirely. I mean, if you decide you want to turn this case into a modding project of some sort, you've
actually got a lot of flexibility in here because it's basically a fairly
plain, fairly clean looking box with a lot of space inside it. Um, you can
contrast that with something like the Cosmos 2 where it's a very large case,
but because of the way they've compartmentalized it, it's mostly useful
for a very specific type of user, a very
specific type of build, whereas this is more flexible, but maybe fewer features
off the hop. Okay, so here's your toolless mounts. These are toolless.
That's pretty much it. Let's go ahead and turn it around. Let's see what we got in terms of room for cable routing.
cuz yeah, it's fine and good to design a case that can hold all this hardware.
But if you can't reach anything with the cables, look at all that space. So that
is look at that. We've got like looks like over an inch of space behind the
motherboard tray for routing cables. That is outstanding. And you can also
see that by the time you install a drive here, you're still going to have like a
very, very reasonable amount of room behind your drives to route your SATA
cables to route your power cables down to where they need to go, which is to
the power supply or over to your motherboard without any hassle. So, I'm
glad to see that reasonably big CPU cutout. I wouldn't have minded seeing
something a touch bigger. It could have come over here, but in its place, Bit
Phoenix has included uh securing points for routing cables behind the
motherboard tray. Cannot emphasize enough how important these are because
these a lack of these is half of the reason that you'll often end up in a
situation where you are trying to close your other side panel and you can't
because the cables are all crossing each other every time you let go of them. So
if you can tie everything down, you can often have a much tidier build because
of it. So let's see what we've got in terms of included accessories. Here is a
Oh, this is kind of neat. So it's a 5 and 1/4 to 3 and 1/2 in bay. And then it
also includes a fan mount, I'm assuming.
Includes a 2 and 1/2 in drive mount, that's for sure. As well as 3 and 1/2 in
drive mount that looks an awful lot like a fan mount. So I guess you guys can let
me know if I'm wrong or right about that one.
Okay, so inside here we've got Hey, look
at this. more like cable management stuff with little double-sided tapes.
And um these are actually relatively long zip ties, which may seem trivial,
but it really does seem like a lot of uh case manufacturers cheap out on the zip
ties. They give you ones that are like this long, and you're like, "Okay, so I can like wrap that around one cable, one
ATX cable, um speaker, as well as all of
the mounting screws and general whatnotss you will need. So, thank you
for checking out my unboxing and first look or overview or whatever you want to
call it of the Bit Phoenix Shinobi XL.
So far, I would say that given the price point it's coming in at, and guys, don't
ask me the price. I almost always put a link in the description of the video so
you can click and you can see the price in either Canadian dollars or US
dollars. So, there you go. Um, but given the price point, I'd say it's very, very
competitive feature-wise with a lot of the other stuff out there. So, don't
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