Fractal Design Define R4 Blackout Edition WITH JOSH - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital so we're here in the fractal design Suite where Josh is conspicuously
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absent I'm pretty sure he's drinking so we've
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got all right you can come you can come in the video now why don't you help us
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you're actually the only one who has co-hosted a video with me the entire
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show because of how much taller people are than I am and because was on the
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first WAN Show before you called it a WAN Show and it was like a garage show
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so I got way back street cred speaking of the garage look at uh what fractal
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made apparently in their garage because all they did was took the Define R4 and
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take the white things and make them black tell us about the blackout Edition Define R4 okay so basically what the
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blackout Edition is is basically it's a culmination of fan feedback right we are
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the company that listens and we've gotten a lot of request have an all black interior to go for hold on fan
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feedback or fan fiction I would say feedback because I've seen it
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so anyway what we did is we basically went back and we offered a fully black
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interior uh we wanted to answer what the fans wanted as far as different features
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and we want to show that we do actually pay attention to what you guys say
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unless you're us we don't all right so what have you guys actually changed here
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you've changed the color of the PCI brackets you Chang the color of the hard drive brackets change the color of the
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fans which actually is kind of impressive because they had to do a
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custom fan skew fractal design only has black and white fans in order to make
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this a truly stealth looking product is is it available in a windowed version
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with like a stealth window at this time it is not actually the window is so
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stealth it looks like a solid side panel but given that you guys are listening to
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Fan feedback if people came to you and they said hey look we love the blackout
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Edition but we want to see like a like a a tinted window on it or something would
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you guys consider it oh definitely like I said I mean if they want to hit us up on Facebook or comment on your video let
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us know what you guys want to see that's how we find out if you don't see something from us that you want let us
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know we take all that feedback so guys that's the focus of this video is
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they're not showing off too much because quite frankly if it ain't broke don't
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fix it the Define R4 is the number one
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most built-in case in the build log section of the Linus Tech tips forum and
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for a very good reason so all they could really come up with was well I guess
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we'll tweak the color a little bit and we'll see how it goes from there but if
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you guys have any feedback for fractal cases please do leave a comment on the
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video and let them know because Josh will personally be reading every comment
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because now that I've said that his boss will make sure that he does yeah there
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goes my weekend I appreciate appreciate that I might get to Assassin's Creed 4
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sometime next year but you know we do listen and read and do homework thanks
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to lonus speaking of fractal design fans
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there are no shortage of Boutique system builders that are using fractal design
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cases these days because again guys if
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the uh if the experienced builders on the lineus tech tips Forum use them then
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experienced Boutique Builders also know that the Define series is a pretty
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rocking series of cases so this is a Define R4 this is is from velocity micro
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you can see they've got some nice little velocity micro branding on the front other than that they keep things very
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clean looking next up we've got this is an an arc series actually this is an arc
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XL and this is from exotic PC and they have done this one out so it's got full
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green liquid cooling it's got a full green paint job and it is I mean I think
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you can probably tell that it has a fully green lighting scheme on it
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finally here we have a defined XL so this is similar in terms of internal
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layout out to the arxl but it's got that
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those same clean lines and it's very silence optimized so I would like to
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take it I don't know why this is off oh it's in sleep so I'd like to take an
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opportunity to take my microphone I just powered the system on and show you guys
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how incredibly quiet it is in spite of the fact that this is a dual CPU
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system well yeah of course you can hear it a little bit but the point is I put a
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microphone inside a dual CPU system and it's like not loud at all andless is
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without the side panel with its noise dampening even closed so thank you guys
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