One of the easiest PC Builds - Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact PC Case
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·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,743 words · ~8 min read
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- The Fractal Meshify 2 C is or it might not be the best computer case
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but it's easily top three for sure. And if building in it is easy today
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then like top one or two, probably.
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It's freaking sweet, it looks awesome and it should keep your components cool.
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What's not to like? Come on.
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Meshify 2 Compact user's guide. Yeah that's a fine looking PC right there.
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One of the big things over the last one was before in order to like get that the dust filter in here,
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it was a terrible time. Now what to do you just pull on that logo right there
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and boom, dust filter.
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Oh, oh okay. This comes off.
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You just pull it a bit and boom. Okay, very easy access to the dust filter.
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Okay, the top filter is not magnetic, which I actually like I find those always get kind of like misplaced
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and I believe it's totally toolless. Woo, yeah. So that just comes right off.
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Let's put that back on for now. Rear I think is also toolless
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This is gonna be so easy here today.
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I really like this design in the front. For IO you get two USB 3, headphone, microphone
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and new for this one is the type C up here as well,
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maybe around. Yeah, it's a computer case.
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There you go. Let's start building. I want to do it. I've selected components that are according to the side
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of the box will fit, but very close to not fitting.
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I believe you can take off the top as well. Yeah, this just.
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Heck yeah. This is going to be such an easy build.
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Accessories, all look pretty standard.
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If you look on the bottom here as well, it's the filter. You just pull from the front, bring it out like that.
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Super easy to clean. I am going to remove the hard drive trays just
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to get the PSU in and then we'll have to put them back on.
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Oh, there's a first kind of stupid thing. The foot interferes with where the hard drive tray's
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screw is.
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Okay, we'll just move it up as far as we can go for now.
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This also has the power supply, a removable thing,
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which makes getting your power supply in so much easier.
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Today we're going with the Seasonic Prime TX 1000.
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I don't have any good reason besides this is a really thick power supply.
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That's kind of the long and short of it right there.
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It smells good too. Those power supplies should just go in,
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doing it this way makes your life so much easier than trying to like get all the cables in afterwards
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once it's inside.
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I do really like that they already have some straps here for your CPU power.
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So today for a CPU, we're going with a 10900K,
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it's hot. But most importantly it was
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at my desk and I already had built this computer. So we don't have to worry about it not working or anything.
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I also have two sticks of RAM for 16 gigabytes in total.
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And there's already an SSD in here. I think that's a 970 Evo.
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Oh, this is so nice with the top gone.
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I did make what could have been quite a bad mistake
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right there, because I totally forgot to add in the cooler mounting but this case does have the big old hole
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in the back so I'll be able to access that when the time comes in a couple of minutes.
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Building PCU is so easy now. Yeah, back in my day, you had to get a bunch
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of cuts from the unfinished edges on your steel case.
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It should be noted that they give you exactly how many screws you need to attach the motherboard
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and the power supplies. So don't drop them on the floor. You guys get a bit of a bonus here on ShortCircuit 8
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two unboxings in one. This is the ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280.
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And as far as I can tell, it's pretty fricking sweet. According to Gamers Nexus the performance on this
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thing's really good. But at the same time Arctic's performance has been quite
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good for a while now. My concern is more so just the mounting.
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Oh geez. She's a bit big. Well, this is gonna be fun.
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One silly thing about this is they have a little fan up
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here. That's supposed to cool down your VRMs.
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I feel like it's not gonna be useful for almost everyone.
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It's left from that, I think it looks pretty cool. Huge of MX for here.
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Well I still have easy. Ooh, okay.
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If you're building in this case, you should not
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install your AIO before you put power to everything.
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I would do that last. For a GPU we're going to be using the AORUS RTX Xtreme
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10 Gigabyte. It's a 3080, and it is fricking huge.
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I think we have just a couple of millimeters of clearance.
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Nice, no problems there.
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Oh geez. This is a very big cooler for this,
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but it should be fine. So this is where taking the top out is pretty fantastic
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'cause now we can drop this down in here.
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Oh, maybe.
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It does say up to 240 on the top. - [Jono] Are those 280s?
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- This is the 280? Okay. Doesn't fit, not even close.
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So long Arctic you sent us a cooler
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and that actually was really easy to put in but the one that you sent us is too big.
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All right, moving on to my favorite cooler in the world the NHD 15, it's big, it looks sick,
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it cools your stuff really well. No complaints.
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It's what I use my personal rig. Again I know I've said this like 10 times
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but this would be terrible if the top was still on.
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Oh, do you think that I can get in the fan for the CPU cooler without removing the GPU?
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It is right up against the cooler.
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I'm going to use this hook. It's in the iFixit kit, maybe.
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Hell yeah. Did it. Wow, we almost have a computer.
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So let's get the cables in here.
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Oh man, we just got so lucky. So on a lot of motherboards, it is possible
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that the USB headers will be down
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under where the graphics card is right now. And I totally forgot to connect them.
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But on this one, they're just up here above the GPU.
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So we're good. Now it does seem like there's no fan hub included with this.
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The original one, I think only had one, 120 millimeter fan up in the front.
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This one you get the two 140s and also a 120 in the back.
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So that's way more cooling for your components out of the box.
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Like when you're buying a case in this price range, this one's $110
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the old one was 90. You're probably not going to want to spend like 50 bucks
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on sick knock to a fans. So it's really nice that they have these pretty
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good ones here stock. For storage. I'm going with a 12 terabytes, Seagate Exos.
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It's overkill for pretty much anything.
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The only reason that I have it is because it just arrived in the office.
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And it's the first hard drive that I saw when I went looking for them.
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It's got the cage here. Is it only one screw?
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Nice, and then this I believe just goes right
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on like that. The hard drive just slides right back in there
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like that. No, it was very easy. Now we do want to reattach the hard drive cage.
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I feel like kind of no matter what you want to move it as far forward, as you can,
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just to give yourself more space for all the cables. Hey Jono, how much effort should we put into
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cleaning up the back of this case? [Jono] Zero.
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- Zero? What about you put on a timer for two
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and a half minutes and whatever we can achieve in that amount of time is how good the back's gonna be.
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Timer for two and a half minutes. Speed cable management, yeah.
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This straps are not as good as I originally thought 'cause you can't really tighten them down,
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but at the same time, way better than no straps at all.
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Oh, balls. All right, screw it we're just bundling it.
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Minute 30. Oh balls, It's cramming time now
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- [Jono] 4, 3, 2, 1.
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- For 10 minutes and 30 seconds. I think that's a really clean backside of your case.
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Now the one big thing that you don't get with this case
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is RGB. There's basically.
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Yeah, there's none. There's just no RGB at all. You can put the top on now
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Back panel.
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This I think came off the bottom.
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Yep. Are we done? I think we're done, hour and a half?
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Not too bad. Especially given that
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we probably could have saved nearly half an hour if we didn't bother with the air cooler there.
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That was especially for the size of this case
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an exceptionally easy little PC build.
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I don't know about you guys but I think that this is a fantastic looking rig.
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I really like this case. Its biggest competitor is easily the O11-Dynamic-mini
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but the reason why I'm more inclined to recommend this one
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is because this takes a full ATX power supply
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the O11-mini you have to use an SFX L so
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that gets really expensive really fast. If you're trying to put like a thousand watt
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or like anything about 600 Watts in it.
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Heck yeah. Well, there we go.
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The Meshify 2 Compact is a fricking awesome little case.
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And I think if you're looking for a case and like, you know
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about $110, you really can't go wrong with this thing.
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Hit, like get subscribed, have a great old day.
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See ya.