Now, I'll be honest.

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And you guys have been asking me to do like case reviews again.

So I figured we'd kick that off here with the new ish mess If I s too from fractal design.

This came out last month technically better late than never.

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All right, so fractal design.

Um, they're kind of like the king of black Squares, I guess, if you will.

If that makes sense, let me explain.

Fractal design has a very specific aesthetic that they've always kind of been known for, and they haven't really deviated from that.

So as they come out with new cases, there's been a lot of scrutiny from both public and other reviewers about it just being an it aeration of the same box that's always existed.

And I guess, depending on your perspective Ah, who forgot about how shocking is actually an old video of me showing how bad you Oh, hey, art, like all the way back here.

But as I was saying before, I was rudely interrupted by static electricity.

Is that depending on your perspective.

And, ah, very subjective opinion.

Obviously, in terms of aesthetics, that could be a good thing or a bad thing.

I think what happens sometimes is companies really established themselves, and they kind of create this sort of, ah safety net that they like to stay within.

They don't liketo venture too far out from that, which then means every time they come out with a new case, some people might just kind of like collectively groan like, Oh, it's just kind of more of the same.

But at least fractal, in my opinion, is making very good efforts in making it different enough to feel like a different chassis, although it could be based on very similar designs that already exists in this case of the mess.

If I s too in terms of dimensions and what you can fit in it and all that, it's very, very similar to our six now.

Obviously, this is a mess if I and it's the biggest mess if I they've made the mess, if I see which was actually very popular and I have one down here, so this is the original mess.

If I This is the mess if I s too, as you can see, the height nearly identical, the wit pretty much the same.

But if you look at the overall dimensions, you can definitely fit a lot more Where the mess, if I see sort of believe seed to stand for compact.

To be honest, I could be wrong, but that's what I kind of always in my head remember like Okay, see compact, smaller mid tower still amid tower, but obviously deeper, because on this you're really limited to the amount of graphics card you could be here in terms of linked with a lot of new graphics cards on the market, for instance, is a R t X to 80.

You could 2082 80 whatever does anyone really care?

So, I mean, if you look at the overall length of it, you can see I mean, that's pretty massive.

And that would take up a lot of space on the front, meaning you couldn't put in radiators on the front and stuff, which you can obviously in the mess if I if you want to.

So that's why this is kind of like one that they just sort of and and this is what you get in terms of connectivity pre installed as a USB type C headphone microphone jack Reset button power button into you have to be 3.0, so it's already kind of an improvement over when they are six.

Launch because the USB Type C panel was an ad on or get to buy the Type C version.

So this is kind of nice.

So the tempered glass side panel is connected to a metal frame.

It's not just the glass with its own nubs that, like, kind of glued to it.

You've got these little kind of ball nipples.

It's a ball nipple.

Anyway, that just sort of clips in right here.

You also do have two thumbscrews on it, so you can secure it if you want to.

You technically don't need to.

That's just on there for transportation.

But once that pops in, I mean, that's not really going anywhere, but for peace of mind, you can screw it down.

So in terms of the insides here, it's all black internals, which I think looks fantastic.

You've got the wall back here that you can mount reservoirs to black fan on the back.

That's a 140 millimeter to these one forties on the front, yes, to one forties on the front.

So you got three fans that are included.

This little plate right here removes that you can actually install a long 360 rat on the front or for 20.

But what I like here is the fact that we have black fans with White Case because what kind of happens with like they are six, and stuff is.

It's also a white interior white exterior, white interior with white fans.

But I love this stormtrooper look on the top east of the single Ma Ji event that pops up very similar to the R six.

But as you can see, it's all mesh.

So rather than being a solid panel on the top, you have a mesh panel that allows a lot of air flow with the filter built into that so you can wash this filter out.

It's all one piece.

Let it dry.

Stick it back in there.

Very similar to the R six, this top panel comes off.

Infected is the exact same pieces.

They are six mistaken.

So you came out your fans in your radiator to this and then drop this in as a whole, making a lot easier to work on.

Or you can take this out.

Why you're installing your motherboard in your fan headers and your power pins and no for your GPS power, making it obviously a lot easier to get to, to work on and then on the back of the case, as you can see right here, very standard.

Now for fractal, you get the fan controller, which plugs into a P W M control to plug this into like your CPU P W M header Control.

All these fans off of one of it are one fan header.

You've got three p W M controlled fans, and then you've got six D C control fans so very expandable without having to worry about whether or not you have enough headers on your motherboard.

Now, rather than having a button on the front, I like intelligent fans.

I feel to speed them up, to slow them down with software and load and other things you could have silent and optimized in terms of performance.

So said, having a physical switch, which fractal has had in the past we have, like a low medium high.

You just use the Peter B.

M on your motherboard.

And then once again, you have your 3 3.5 inch drive bays back here, which you can install either full size hard drives or SS D's or to any 2.5 inch device.

So whether it be hard drive SSD or something like an NZX thi hue fan controller, additional U.

S P three point or whatever.

If it's a 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch, you could mount to that tomb or s STDs that amount right here.

But you could also relocate these two the front right here.

So again, very standard fractal design designs.

There's no pun there.

Fractal design, design and modularity.

Now the other nice thing about fractal cases is they have wire management, sort of built in.

And rather than just having blue plastic clip downs, which they used to have in the past, I feel little clip that would close.

Now you have these Velcro straps, plenty of pastor of grommets.

You obviously have some pastors, right?

Here's their optimally placed so that they line up with where you'd want them to be like 24 pin USB three point.

Oh, say the connectors right here would be for your front panel, USB and stuff like that.

Plenty of room down here for a long power supply, an area to hide your cables away.

And, uh, it's not really a whole lot to talk about in terms of wire management other than its built in.

And it's not an afterthought, like some cases now, one of the things that's kind of nice about the latest round of fractal cases and my latest round.

I mean, within the last two years or so.

Is there support for E A T X?

It's not gonna fit this guy.

That's just not fair.

So I mean, it doesn't work.

E a t X not what the fuck t X like this one is right here.

But as you can see, it comfortably fits a TX without covering up all of the grommets and stuff.

I mean, it's still gonna be ne Gish.

You can see the grommet still are accessible, but it probably be smart, tore out your wires through here first and then put your motherboard in because of the fact that it is going to interfere in their slightly, but it's lined up there so you can get the cables through here.

But you would have never fit this in like the are five you can see.

You can also fit your extra long graphics cards like this strict 2080 right here and still have plenty of room for front fans, radiator and even a reservoir mounted right here.

If you've ever water cooled in a defined as two, then you'll know that you know that water cooling is definitely one of the main design elements there now.

Also, too, I forgot to mention the top piece.

As you can see, the radiator is not centered on that, and the reason for that.

And this is something that had for a long time in their case design.

But I still get people asking me on a regular basis about water.

Cooling is because it's offset and it's offset away from the motherboard.

It means that once this panel is inside here, you can see that it pushes the radiator away from the motherboard so it won't interfere with heat sinks and stuff, which is typically what happens because the heat sinks, get taller motherboards V R M, and over clocking gets improved.

Those sit taller, which means interference with radiators.

They're mounted up top.

But when it's offset like this, it gives you much better chance of it, not interfering.

So basically, at the end of the day, what you have right here is a very messy if I inspired and high airflow inspired define s too.

Now I know that that's the last thing fractal wants is a case of theirs to be compared to another case.

But in my opinion, this is something that the audience has been asking for.

I've seen lots of people asking for a larger mess if I see the mess, If I see was a hugely popular case from fractal design, so giving you a larger chassis like this to fit more water cooling in at a price point that I think is still fairly aggressive and sense in terms of being price to feature set makes it a novice choice.

Everything about doing water cooling and want a nice, clean aesthetic.

Now, whether or not you care about the angles like this, cause depending how you look at it almost looks like Ben like it's bent or dented.

But it's also a very abstract design, which kind of breaks up some of them, not me, of the 90 degree angles everywhere, because fractal, like I said, has not deviated from the rectangle shape very much over the years.

They've gotten a little bit more aggressive with some of the angles.

But now you've got tempered glass side panels, water cooling, friendly, E A T X friendly, airflow friendly because all mesh front, all mesh top.

Speaking of airflow, you also have an entirely open bottom of the chassis.

So you can even put a radiator down there if you want it and have it being an updraft through the case.

If you didn't need a very big power supply or you go with one of the shorter, like 1000 watt power supplies.

So anyway, this is where you guys basically sound off on how you feel about a case like this.

I have not done a case review in quite a long time, whereas this is a little bit more of an overview, because until you start building in a chassis, you can't really determine where its shortcomings are.

I don't necessarily need to build in this one to determine that because, like I said internally, it's very, very similar to the S to the define us to end the are six, which I've already built custom.

Hard to Ben's in there.

I'll put a link in the description below to a couple of different bills that we've done in.

Those chassis is over the last year, year and 1/2 or so you get.

So you get an idea of what it looks like to when it's done, so I might do a custom build in this.

We'll just have to see, though I don't have any need to build another system at the moment.

I've got several building going on.

I don't wanna over and in date myself with projects, and then you guys complain that they don't get done or they're taking too long or they're multi partners.

So you guys sound awful low on what you want to see.

I love stormtrooper looks, and I think that fractals really nailed it with this one.

If you want a water cooling friendly, airflow friendly, larger chassis that still has to take up a lot of room on your desk and isn't a massive like Super Tower.

Then this is probably worth looking at our guys.

Thanks for watching.

Tell us what you think about this case.

And more importantly, fractal.

Tell them what you think about this case because they're probably looking at the comments.

All right, guys, we'll see the next one kept this clock.

This is like a dolly.

It's happening.

It's I knew this day was gonna come.

I knew they were gonna break in here.

I just didn't know how.

There's a random guy that I seriously want to open this on camera.

Like I would love to be literal, random body, like did.

So you wanted to get it.

Do you get too familiar?

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Verities.