Fractal Design Define R2 Demo PC Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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636 words · ~3 min read
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okay so I did an unboxing the other day of the fractal designs Define R2
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computer case but now I've actually gone ahead and done a quick build inside it
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just to kind of get a feel for how easy it is to build inside how quiet it is
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because that's what everyone seemed to want to know about it so first of all at
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the front I I mentioned in my unboxing that it lights up with a blue LED now we
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actually get to see what it looks like lit up still very clean and very plain
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looking that's the only Lighting on the case the door opens up where we can find
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inside the the one I haven't installed any aftermarket fans or anything so it
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only has the one stock black and white fan and then I've installed one DVD
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drive for this particular demo system and you can't really look through there
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and see the hard drives but that's okay all right so why don't we get this open
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here I've uh I have not used their modu
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vent feature because this is supposed to be a silent build that is how the case
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is targeted and marketed so I've left all of the noise deadening materials on
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the extra ventilation holes all right so I'm taking off that heavy side panel
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because it's got all of that sound deadening material inside so the inside
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of this case is actually really clever it did not take me long to do this build
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and I was able to do a very tidy job as you can see of the cable management so
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I'm not using a modular power supply I'm using their Tesla 650 wat power supply
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and I've used the included cable ties to tie up all of the unnecessary cables I'm
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running a GTX 275 and you can see I've still got about another inch and a half
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of space at the end to install potentially an even longer video card
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I'm using their grommeted uh cable routing holes in order to use the 24 pin
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power supply connector as well as to run a cable up to my optical drive up here
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and to run the eight pin connector up to the top of my motherboard now let me see
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what else I wanted to say about oh another cool thing that I did not mention about this case is it actually
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has noise deadening material where you mount the power supply to the case so
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there's a little bit of foam in there and their power supplies actually include overly long screws so that you
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can attach them easily and leave enough space that you are going to take
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advantage of that noise deadening another cool feature and this is kind of
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a why didn't anyone else think of it sort of thing there are extra holes on
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their hard drive mounting sleds you can see there's the four uh rubber
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rubberized holes for a normal hard drive and then there's actually four more and
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you can see that they've coated it here A is for 3 and 1/2 in B is for 2 and 1/2
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in hard drive or SSD so you can see that I've installed in this case one SSD
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drive which is mounted just the same way a normal drive would be and then one 3
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and 1/2 in 1 tbte Western Digital black drive so I thought that was one of one
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of the cleverer things about this particular chassis so thank you for
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checking out my little demo build here in the Define R2 case