The BEST case got SMALLER! - Fractal Torrent Nano
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·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,093 words · ~10 min read
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- We're doing this today, the Fractal Torrent Nano.
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Which is something that I'm personally excited for 'cause I'm overdue for a rebuild.
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Now this one is white, which doesn't quite fit my needs
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more of a black case guy myself but, we're gonna get it out of the box,
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see what's inside and see what the tiny version of the big boy looks like.
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We've got a patented foot brace technique.
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Okay, it's bigger than I thought it would be. I love this front grill,
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big and open, and kinda like brutalist is what they describe it as.
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It is hiding a huge, relatively, 180 mil fan
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it's 38 mil thick. It's also got temper glass side panel.
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Why this case is so important to me? Well, it's reasonably affordable,
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it still fits a hard drive. It'll fit like a 335 millimeter long graphics card.
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You can put five 120 mil fans in it if you wanted to,
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or you can fit the 180 up front, two 140s at the bottom and a 120 at the back.
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So it's got tons of configuration options. It is just the right format of case for what I want to do.
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So I have a Thermaltake P1, which is like a wide boy but it's kind of cubish
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and I think it's time to go small,
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but vertical. I think this guy just lifts up.
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I don't know. Ooh, there we are. Off she comes. We got a little box of accessories in here.
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What do we got? Bunch of zip ties and a wiping cloth in a low density polyethylene bag
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and a butt load of fasteners. And I didn't even look at this guy,
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Ooh, these are the fan mount brackets. So if you wanna run a rad
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or two 140 mil fans in this,
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you have to run these brackets. So you pull the 180 that's already pre-installed in out.
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And this guy would go in and it comes with a bunch of thumb screws and all that jazz.
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I'm not going to be doing that. So, I won't need these today because, you know it,
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I'm using air cooling. And because I'm self-serving and I wanna buy this case
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I'm literally using the same hardware that I put in my own PC. So I've got a D 15
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have the same motherboard have the same graphics card and we're gonna try and fit it in here as
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an analog to me upgrading my own PC. They say it's tool free.
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And I see this guy, but I don't know. I don't wanna break it 'cause
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oh, there we go. So, we have a filter on the bottom,
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nice filter on the front, similarly nice.
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Oh, front panel comes off. Hey, there we go. Okay, so if you wanna slide out this filter
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easy. I have the same size fan in the front to of my P1.
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It is large and it rotates slowly, so it generates less noise,
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but we'll see how that sounds once we get it all together. Is it that time Jono?
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- [Jono] Might be! - Might be that time for our sponsor Seasonic.
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So, you should try it. I grabbed a random test bench,
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which is conveniently the same motherboard I have. I think it's got a Ryzun 2700 in it
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Ballistix 3600 16 gigs. Now, normally I would have preassembled this,
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but I wanna talk about just how large this cooler is.
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This case supports a 165 millimeter cooler tower which this conveniently is
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whether it will actually be able to close its door
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I don't quite know. And similarly, this is a rather large graphics card.
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I think it's probably right around the limit of 335 mill that will fit in this case.
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It does appear to fit barely,
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how its thermals will be, that remains to be seen. I mean it is meshed down there,
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but there's no fans 'cause I mean, we're putting three fans right above it, why bother?
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I always do these in steps 'cause if you just tighten one,
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you're kind of putting a lot of load and you want everything to spread out both directions too.
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Now I can drop this guy in.
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This thing fits at D 15. Will it fit a D 15 and a graphics card?
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That's a different story. Will she go,
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come on, look at that airflow just right out the back.
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That's a thing of beauty. So, let's actually install it now. I might be making a fatal mistake
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if I screw this in before I put the fan on. There's no finger clearance
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in here to do that. - [Jono] Just flip it on one side, its fine
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- No Jono. Oh man. Also, it's gonna be impossible to get to this plug.
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So this four pin is going to be in there,
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there's no way. So I'm gonna clip the power supply into it now.
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Power supply goes up here. So this is the attic style.
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Oh, okay okay. So cable's already pre managed up here.
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That's gonna get trapped. So this is the hard drive sled.
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So you can mount a 3.5 inch drive up here and one, 2.5 inch underneath it.
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We're gonna pull it out 'cause I'm gonna have to deal with the cable management and then we can chuck a drive in it later.
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Cables are gonna tuck down here. So I'm gonna run that four pin
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(pin snapping in place) Click.
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Lovely.
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This cable will feed in here.
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Uh oh. Will it not fit
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with the power supply already in there? Maybe if I use the split feed,
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the split end through. Yeah, that works.
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Oof, I almost had to deduct points there. This is gonna be a difficult wiring.
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Wow that's tight. Yeah, so I guess my one complaint now
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is that with this cooler on there is no seeing any of the wiring.
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And getting the fan back on there is non-trivial. What do we gotta get in here?
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We need to get the.. - [Brandon] 24 pin?
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- Yeah 24 pin has access. I'm thinking more. We've got RGB to plug in
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the power header is - [Jono] I don't think that's a RGB fan.
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- No it isn't, but there's RGB, there's a plug up here.
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We'll find out what's RGB. Oh this is a bear.
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Oh geez. I hate everything about how tight this is.
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Takin' off took getting hot. Lttstore.com
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not anymore. At least on my head. Okay, so these first screws are always hard
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because you're pushing against the IO shield. Once you get the two easy to access ones in
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then you do the hard ones. So that's in, let's do big power cable.
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Ah I do like how there's room underneath
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where the hard drive's gonna sit to jam all your cables.
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We're gonna have to get one in there for SATA. There are so many ports on this thing,
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you will not run out power options. I forgot to mention,
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look at all the pre-done cable management. Now, this one I'm gonna wrap up and zip tie here
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but if you wanna run down and around
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particularly for the smaller cables, easy.
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So I'm gonna loosen this cable bundle here.
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So upfront we have one USB 3.1.
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So that's the 10 gig USB-C. Then we have two 3.0s,
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headphone and microphone ports, separately.
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Reset and power, so ample IO up front. You can get other accessories,
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so if you want to get a side panel, that's not glass,
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you can buy that. You can do glass on I think both sides actually.
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I mean, if you're really proud of your cable management, you could do that.
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Okay fine, I'll follow some of their handy dandy cable management.
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So we've been doing some wiring. Now, they say it can fit a 200 millimeter long power supply
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which it can, this is 160 mil. But if you try to use the stock placement
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for this hard drive sled, you end up hitting these plugs.
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Not great. Now, you can just move it over a little
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and with a little bit of finesse there is another slot for it
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but where these cables come out, hits the tray.
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So, we're gonna just have to wrangle these guys kind of up.
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I mean, that'll go back, that's fine. But then can also, can we still fit the hard drive?
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Oh yeah, yeah there's room. Okay. Now it's time for (imitating trumpet fanfare)
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a 3080 Tuf. So, there are three bay slots back here
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all without a frame, which is nice. These it's the top two we're gonna be using
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that's right. Wow, there's like nothing going on up here.
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- [Brandon] Air flow. - Air flow is going on. That's right.
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It like makes this neat little wind tunnel straight into it.
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I think this will actually perform really good. We've got an exhaust fan right behind the cooler,
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we've got fresh air coming in. It can get, actually, and it'll pull fresh air up as well.
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By moving the power supply up to the top, we can use the bottom as an intake.
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So, it'll work just fine in theory. I'll be very curious what the performance numbers will be.
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Unfortunately, we can't do that on ShortCircuit. Okay. GPU in, we need GPU power.
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Few things to note, at least for my future build in this case hopefully.
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All the fan headers are sitting up against the top of the case here, right under the power supply.
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So we had to remove the motherboard again, slide it back,
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put the fan headers in, and move it up. So, you're only gonna be doing the fans once.
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Do it ahead of time. Open up these cable management loops.
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Well, this is about the level of cable management I expected.
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Great on Fractals part, bad on mine. A hundred percent me.
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And after all of that cable management in here,
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I wouldn't say my finest work by any stretch but let's start putting the panels back on.
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So this is the good part. Might be one of those bottom hingey boys.
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There we go.
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Okay. Okay. Am I derping? Yeah okay, it just goes over the back,
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that's all.
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The all important peel time.
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We forgot the inside peel.
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They did include a support bracket. We didn't use it,
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but it's there. Look how we have full access to the GPU.
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There are these cable management wires here, so when you actually do run your cable up
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or all of these cables you can cable manage out, which is really nice.
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I think that's a nice feature. That's nice, right? You know, you get all your cables in there.
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Aye, it does look good in white. I think this with an RGB fan would be pretty cool.
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They do have an RGB fan version. Look at the front of that thing.
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And it's quiet too, like...
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I think this thing looks great and I'm definitely gonna get one,
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just not in white. So with that, thanks for watching the ShortCircuit.
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If you like any of the parts you saw on this video go check out the link below
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and of course get subscribed to ShortCircuit. Maybe check out the Meshify C case
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we did from Fractal as well. And I'll see you later.