Fractal Design Booth Featuring JOSH!! Arc XL, Arc Mini R2 - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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So Fractals's booth is has this augmented reality type of concept going
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on here. So I'm holding what appears to be some kind of tablet-like device.
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Johan, tell me how this works. Okay. So what we realized is that we want to come
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closer to the end users and end user customers you know want to see our
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products. So the first thing is like a standard mobile app where you can
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actually see product pictures, product sheets and stuff like that. But we also
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added this augmented reality face. I think you have to hold it really still
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like there. which means I have a trigger image here and when I move my
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my tablet or my phone with Android or
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iOS, I can actually in real time see the products and make them rotate and zoom
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in and zoom out. Here I change in our new Arc XL model and it makes it a
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little bit more fun to actually go through our product range. Very cool. So
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we're going to go through these products. Do you have any of these here in person? Definitely step in and we can
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take a quick look. Here we go. Welcome to the Fractal Design booth where
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everyone's best friend Josh is
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pretending that he's tall again. It's all a trick of the box. It's a trick of
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the camera. It's just a total Well, dude,
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what's your He's check us out.
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All right. So, speaking of checking things out, the first thing we have
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right here is the Arxel. Can you tell me
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about the arxel? Well, there's a space. So, it' be the Ark XL. Yeah. You want a
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little bit closer? I got confused because uh you know when you said that
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you were developing a new product. You were there was some kind of potty
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language. So, I assume you were developing like the Arsol and so I thought maybe you changed the name
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slightly and that's why we ended up with this. But, but this is actually another
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addition of the Ark. Exactly. So, it's basically the big brother to the Arc
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Midi R2. Uh what you're looking at is a full tower case as compared to a
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midtower case in the Arc Midi. And all the features you love in the Ark Mid R2
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are available here as well as redesigned SSD mounts in the back. Okay, so
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basically guys, it's taller, which is not necessarily always better and
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doesn't really indicate anything else about its physique. It has hard drive
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cages down here that are removable in addition to four 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and
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1/2 in cages that go right about here. So you don't have to compromise all of
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your hard drive expandability if you want to put in a nice thick radiator.
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Just like that. Full support for a triple radiator up here in the top. You
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can see there's no interference with the motherboard itself. So you don't have to
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worry about the size of the VRM heat sinks or the size of your RAM heat sinks
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or anything along those lines. It has nine expansion slots. Means you can do
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pretty much whatever you want in terms of motherboard size. Again though, size
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is not always the thing that is most important about this stuff. But let's go
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ahead and have Josh tell us about a more sensibly sized case. Josh, can you even
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reach this case from all the way up there? Yeah. Well, this is our Linus
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model as compared to the Josh model back there. So, what we're looking at is the
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Arc Mini R2. It's a mini tower case. And what you have right here is a full
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custom customization. Basically, we have a real fat 360m radiator in the top. Uh
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if you notice that, it's almost as long as the case itself. We can also support
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fat radiators in the front. Both uh drive cages are removable as well as the
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optical drive cages being removable in this one. So if you want to have an
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optical drive, you can. If you want to go high rads, you can do that as well. And if you go around to the back, you
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can check out our new SSD mounting system. So come on back here. So the new
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SSD mounting system does not require the motherboard to be removed from the case
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because all you have to do is undo these screws and then you can pop the whole
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thing off and then you can mount the SSDs or unmount them to the case just
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the way you want to. And check this out. enough room for cable management. That
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is a 24 pin cable right there bundled with a whole bunch of other stuff. And
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this side panel, by my estimation, looks like it does indeed close. So, what this
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really indicates to me is that the Arc Mini R2 is more like the the functional
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model that doesn't really feel like it's compensating for anything by sort of,
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you know, going over the top and, you know, just doing things for the sake of,
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you know, not necessarily the experience of of using this device. so to speak,
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but more to do with the the the functionality. Uh so here, I don't know
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if you ever got a good view of that, but that radiator on there is about this
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thick. Okay, so that is a push configuration right now. Now, one thing
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you got to watch out for, guys, is if you go crazy on this, you're going to make want to make sure you have
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compatibility with low profile DIMs as well as a motherboard that doesn't have
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like massive heat sinks coming out the top. But the reality of it is this is a
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lot of computer in a very small case and it can uh it can run every bit as fast
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as the uh Excel over there. Thank you Josh. Oh, thank you.
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You guys don't know what we're thanking each other for yet. Yeah, we're just
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thanking each other for being awesome or you're thanking me for being awesome. I'm thanking you for just being here
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next to my awesomeness. I I'm bathing in
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it. Basking. Basking and bathing. I mean, can you do
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that at the same time? It's called multitasking. Excellent.
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Like, I'm not moving the mic over to you to say stuff like that. You can't say
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stuff like that. Look, let's focus on the case, man. Look, it's got a removable top. It's got a fan filter.
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You didn't even tell me that. Because you should have already known that. How
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am I supposed to know that? You didn't send me one of these. You know everything. Come on. You know
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everything. I think you're the last person in the world to believe anything like that. I didn't say I believed it. I
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was just saying it. I mean, didn't you invent the tree?
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Hopefully up here. Yeah, way way up there in terms of how full of themselves
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they are. Oh, it's very compact in this one. It's
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very dense right here. I'm not dense. Is that what you're implying? No, the self-
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assuredness is dense. It's very dense.
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I still have less gravity than you. Okay, I'll give you that. I'll give you
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that.