Fractal Design Core 500 - Space saver with lots of potential
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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730 words · ~3 min read
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big thanks to MSI for sending us the compy Texs this year we would not be
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here without them also thank you to linda.com all right guys welcome to the
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random field of glowing sheep in the background where we will be checking out
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the fractal core 500 the core 500 is basically a tuned down version of the
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node 304 now why is it not called a node
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something no one was actually able to tell me so we're moving on from there
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the front of the case is a brushed faux aluminum actually plastic front panel
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with a surprising 5 and a 1 Quin Bay in terms of IO you've got two USB 3.0 audio
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in and out power button with a white LED
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a hard drive activity white LED and a reset button there's meshing pretty much
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everywhere the front has meshing just on the side of the actual bezel uh the top
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of the case has a large meshed area which is actually filtered and your rad
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will probably go there the left hand side has a large meshed area as well the
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bottom has a kind of not super huge but
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also meshed area and the right hand side has a smaller meshed area moving on to
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the inside of the case there's tons of storage there's one two and 1/2 in Bay
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just inside the front panel just kind of before you actually get into the rest of
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the case then on the far right hand side there's two more 2 and 1/2 in slots on
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the far side of this little metal plate
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and then on the inner side there's two 3 and 1/2 in Bays for uh hard drives and
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then just below the 5 and 1/4 in Bay in the front there's one more hard drive
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spot leaving you with three spots for 3 and 1/2 in hard drives and two spots for
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2 and 1/ 12 in hard drives or ssds for
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cooling you can install a 240 mm Radiator in the top or possibly a 280 if
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it kind of fits but you're very likely going to have some compatibility issues
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there in the back of the case you can fit a 140 mm fan but it already comes
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with one so they've got you covered there for graphics card you've got
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pretty much all the clearance you could want you can fit basically as long as a
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graphics card as you would like but you may have noticed by now that the power
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supply positioning is a little bit weird it's not at the back of the case you
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don't actually see a large power supply spacing at the back of the case although
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you do see an input for power supply power without one even being installed
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there that's because there's an extension or a pass through that goes throughout the case and your power
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supply actually gets installed much closer to the front under that 5 and 1/4
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in Bay kind of on the right hand side what do you guys think about the core
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500 let me know in the comments down below over on the Forum or on Twitter at
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Luke LFR also her Ask Josh about it Josh
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isn't here at computex this year I wanted to talk to him about what the
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core 500 was like but I couldn't cuz he
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wasn't
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here anyways thanks to MSI for sending us here this year there's a huge part of
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the reason why we're actually here they have a whole bunch of cool stuff that
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they're launching at compex as well check that out in the bitly link in the description down below and that includes
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a bunch of laptops with Broadwell processors and stuff like that also
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