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fiblets coverage of Computex 2018 is brought to you by fantex berta gear enter max be quiet and cable mod you can learn more about their products and the links below what's going on guys kal what they would hear we are at the fantex booth now here at Computex 2018 they just showed me a brand new flagship case that is gonna be hard to beat this is one of the first sweets that I've come to here at Computex and it's it's already off to a great start this is the evolve X and it's gonna retail for 199 MSRP that's US dollars launching in August this is a very worthy successor to the hugely popular evolve ATX which was one of my favorite cases it still is til this day and I really love that they've preserved the design language here it looks very similar to the original but there have been some some great improvements here for starters there's a ton more airflow which the original admitted admittedly suffer from a little bit but here we've got these huge gaps here for three times more intake at the front there's also tons of ventilation at the top for five times more exhaust so this is the like that alone is just is just pretty amazing the fact that they've been able to preserve the look as well the front i/o has been improved we've got two USB three USB 3.1 gen2 type-c mic and headphone jacks and to RGB buttons we've got our addressable RGB at the front now so one is your mode and then you've got another one for different colors and stuff so very nice there kind of folds down to preserve a very clean look at the front there the front panel pops off just the same as the last one like so no wires no wires just some gold contacts cable free to lists removal and then you've also got a removable dust filter that's also toolless with a magnet radiator support is through the roof on this thing you basically get up to 360 or 420 at the front and 360 or 280 at the top you can actually mount to 360 simultaneously which you could not do in the last case so this is already shaping up to be an enthusiast water coolers dream case there's also a drain port right here you can actually install you know makes making your the installation of your drain port that much simpler and convenient to use right here at the front that's actually a really nice addition additionally you've got two screws here that you could use to secure down the side panel which is now on hinges so you don't have to use these two holes if you don't want to if you just want convenient access and you want to be able to slide the side panel out like that you can but if you're concerned about it moving around or accidentally opening when you're moving it around or in shipping you can use those two screws right there to mount it securely and that goes for the other side panel as well power buttons on the top let's take a look at the top really quick you've got two thumb screws at the back and once those are removed they are captive you can slide the front panel I'm sorry the top panel back and remove a very nice removable radiator bracket with two thumb screws it's super simple to install there's there's actually some tabs here just see but it reduces the number of screws you have to remove and there's also cable ties here which is really nice these little hooks so that you can just sort of streamline your cable management if you're installing radiators there's also a fill port just like they have a drain port down below they have a fill port at the top just to make your custom water cooling experience that much more simplified and streamlined there's also this plate cover they include one of them that you can put pretty much anywhere at the top here just so that you can close off and remove or eliminate any sort of circulation that might be happening unnecessarily if you should be mounting a radiator up here cutouts for your fan cables located one at the front one at the back that's also nice to see if we open up this side panel you can see that it's also on hinges and you get a really clean backside obviously a CPU cooler cut out and these nice little panels cable covers that are held in place by clasps little little tabs here which i think is way better than having screws it's just completely tool-less you can get in and out very easily and if you remove these you can kind of see that they're also on hinges and they're kind of hiding your cable management area you actually have sort of two lanes of cable management here with velcro straps on either side which is really nice so you can have one side for all of your hard drives by the way I almost forgot to mention that you can mount six hard drives on the opposite side of this panel right here they all kind of get mounted horizontally and so you can have plenty of cable routing for that and then on the other end the other Lane so to speak you have more room for your ATX power cables and things like that additionally you'll notice that there are no cable grommets however they've kind of solved that issue by having these cable plates that are held in place by these some screws which I accidentally just removed completely but if you just loosen it you can sort of slide them over to the right or the left depending on which way you're facing and completely cover up any sort of eyesore when you're when you're doing cable management it's actually a really cool solution that I have not seen before in a case but I can't wait to test it out myself there's also little hooks for you know additional just for making cable management all that much easier where these tabs are holding up the the SSD cover plates as they're called speaking of SSDs you can mount up to nine of them back here it does include some trays so you can mount three SSDs here you can mount three SSDs on the back of this plate or three more on the back of that plate which is just incredible this is a very versatile case so you could buy this case not even knowing what you're gonna use it for and then when you finally figure it out chances are you can probably make it happen no problem the other thing I want to mention is that there is a hard drive cage down here it's not visible right now because it's not installed but that can house up to four additional hard drives meaning you could fit ten three and a half inch drives in this case which is insane I'm gonna close these up or actually before I do that there is a pre installed GPU bracket that basically eliminates GPU sag and the way that this works it actually mounts to the backside right here actually I guess I'd be facing this way once you remove the thumb screws and essentially you're the expansion slots of your GPU will slot into these cutouts and then you can basically mount this down you actually push it down to sort of create a seesaw effect where your GPU on the other side is forced to sort of pop up and that essentially eliminates your sag and they've demonstrated this to me here at the suite earlier and it works flawlessly and the nice thing is that it's invisible it's completely behind the motherboard tray so you don't even notice that it's there but your GPUs are looking perfect the other thing that I forgot to mention that's very important is that there's now sort of a sealant on both of the side panels so that again you're just preserving that amount of airflow you're reducing the amount of air leakage and it also minimizes noise as well so that completely closes off the side panels once you get them shut but we're not done yet there is still more to discover about this case you know how fan text is always stepping up their game with innovation well check this out if you get kind of low you can see that there's a whole second system mounted to the roof of the case upside down with an optional bracket that you can buy if you want to make this into a dual system chassis obviously its mini ITX but look like they're still able to get a 120 millimeter AO installed onto this little system and with the GPU bracket a vertical GPU riser card that's also sold separately you can even have a discrete graphics card connected to that second system they've got three video cards in here right now and two systems I'm just I can't really hasn't really hit me yet but this is pretty awesome you'll also notice that there's addressable RGB lighting right here on the power supply shroud and it looks really clean and just seamless you don't see individual LED hotspots like you do on a lot of cases these days simply because they've used more LEDs so the resolution of this lighting is is just phenomenal look at this case so this is kind of just showcasing what's possible as far as custom water cooling a beautiful loop that's set up in house by the fantex team they've got two graphics cards in there that are being held up by that built-in GPU bracket that I just showed you earlier and they look they look perfectly straight to me you've got three 140s the front here so that they are utilizing the the 420 radiator support at the front and another two 280 at the top there and by the way in case you were wondering how both of these systems are being powered right now we are using fan Texas very own revolt X power supply this is not new per se it does have it's sort of power splitter built into it so it's got two ATX cables two eight-penny PSS and so forth in just a single unit the one Edition now is that they finally have a 1000 watt version that you can purchase now if the evolve ex doesn't tickle your fancy fantex is showing off a brand new prototype that is still months away but has very similar functionality and internal layout as the evolve ex but it doesn't really focus so much on I don't know things like RGB lighting things that you might not want or be willing to pay extra for but still want to really take advantage of all that functionality this is the Eclipse P 600 s and like I said it's a prototype so it's not finished with the paint it's very bare-bones at the moment you can see you still get tempered glass side panel it's got these panels at the front and top that can be left in place as is for optimal silence and acoustics or you can easily pop them out to lessly mind you and and open it up for airflow there's also sound dampening on the on the back of these so again it's gonna be very good if you want to keep a quiet chassis now the other thing about this mesh if you take a closer look it's it's not actually plastic or metal it's a brand new material that's sort of a fabric material actually it kind of gives the the case a more organic or natural look which I really like and the beauty of this mesh material is actually kind of serves two purposes it's a two-fold here one is that it collects more dust it actually captures a lot more dust than traditional dust filters to additionally it just allows more air to go through I believe they were saying it's got something like a 92 to 94 percent passed through as opposed to like 70 percent which is the maximum you can get out of a conventional dust filter which I guess I would like to put this on the test bench in and actually see if it makes much of a difference but it sounds very promising right now and it just looks great if you look on this side too you'll notice this sound that this side panel has sand up and dampening material as well it's kind of got a nice nice touch to it and it's also hinged just for very convenient and quick access all the same cable management on the back everything you love about the evolved X but different I should also mention these panel are going to be in place by hooks on one end and some stronger magnets on the other and you could probably expect the price point of this case to be a little bit cheaper than the Evolve ex because they are they are removing some features that not every user really needs now in addition to cases fantex is also showing off some brand new fans for the whole new design there's no actual official name for these fans yet they're working on a super awesome one I'm sure but but these are looking pretty nice so far you can see that they're just sort of simple they're very minimalistic they're black they match with pretty much any component that you would pair them with they have vibration pads for reduced noise and vibration obviously you've also got a very a very nice improved thin blade fan blade design that's a glass fiber actually in in construction and it just allows a bit more precise manufacturing so they can get the blades just 0.7 millimeters away from the away from the frame itself you can also daisy chain these fans together probably anywhere from three to four fans depending on obviously the power delivery of whatever header you're connecting it to and your motherboard but that's really nice and solves the issue of running out of fan headers or needing a fan hub in your case things like that it's especially useful if you're doing custom water cooling you're gonna have radiators and a lot of fans potentially in push-pull that those fans add up quickly especially with more cases these days just allowing for more fan mounting points and so forth fan Tex has also been testing these fans not just with heat sinks regular heat sinks and mesh material but also with low density radiators as well just to make sure that they're covering all their bases depending on what kind of variables any enthusiasts might be building with just to ensure maximum performance regardless of the configuration now circling back to that really cool fabric mesh material that I showed you guys earlier fan Tex is also playing around the idea and they're actually pretty committed to releasing sort of mesh paneling for their shift and shift X cases which i think is a fantastic idea these cases are mainly built with water cooling in mind you know the airflow might be a little bit limited on the original models for air coolers but with this new design with just mesh paneling on various sides it really opens up the possibilities of what you can install into this chassis but they haven't really decided exact yet on what kind of paneling they want to use if they want to use it just for the sides or maybe potentially for the front as well and also what colors because with this mesh fabric material you can really get creative there's a bunch of different options that they have laid out here just some samples they even have like a really cool like fabric material here now this this hasn't breathable at all so this would just be purely cosmetic but it does look really cool and would certainly match your Google home or other other cool trending device so I'm gonna ask you guys what what do you what do you think here do you like the mesh paneling in the first place if so where would you like to see it live on the ship decks where do you think it looks the best what color do you think looks the best what patterns do you like which ones don't you don't you prefer and and so forth so altogether I'm not exactly sure when this is gonna be released again they're still making a lot of decisions in this process so hopefully you guys can help them out there so that about covers it for the fantex booth here at Computex 2018 rest assured guys I will definitely be getting my hands on a bunch of this stuff including the evolve X and doing a review for you guys as well as a pretty awesome build so stay tuned for all of that and go ahead and check out the links in the description below for my various sponsors including fantex and be sure to get subscribed so you don't miss any more of my coverage here at Computex 2018 thanks for watching guys I'll see you in the next one you