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how's it going boys and girls Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I will be taking a look at fractal designs our committee are two mid tower computer case it is a full ATX chassis in a smaller form factor size but essentially many of you might already be familiar with the art committee that was released in months prior and if you are aware of that case you know what a great success it was well essentially fractal design has just gone back in made some minor tweaks and adjustments or improvements I should say hence the AR 2 model that I have with me here today so with that said why don't i unbox this guy and let's have a closer look alright so taking a look at the front of the case I first off I just will say that this case is mainly made of metal it's very sturdy it's got a very solid construction but the front bezel right here is actually made of plastic and to be honest you really wouldn't even know it unless you reached out and touched it because even though it's hard to tell right now on video it's it's even hard to tell in person that it's not aluminum because it does kind of have a nice very nice fo brushed aluminum finish but when you touch it pick it up and stuff it is actually in fact plastic but it's a very sturdy plastic I'm not too worried about it there are 25 and a quarter inch base and just beneath those is a metallic mesh grille it's basically covering the lower half of the chassis you can see a fractal design logo at the bottom right there with the previous our committee they actually had the fractal logo up top and it was kind of engraved into the chassis itself and I didn't really like it because it just it blended in a little bit too much with the chassis and it just looked way too black everything was just completely blacked out and I really like what they've done here especially because it's got some silver accents and it really stands out in front of that black front panel now you can actually remove this metallic grill and it's essentially a removable dust filter so to do that you basically just apply some pressure at the top two corners of that grill pops off very easily you can even see some foam on the other side and that's just it helps reduce some of the noise produced by your fans from within your chassis which speaking of which they've given you a one hundred forty millimeter fan it's one of those silent series are two fans it's painted white but essentially you can also amount a second one hundred and forty millimeter fan just beneath that and if you wanted to you could even mount 2 120's here you just obviously take out that 140 if you want to pop off the front bezel completely simply stick your hand underneath there and give it a nice tug it'll pop off relatively easily there's another look at the fan on the opposite side and up top you can see your i/o panel now there are two screws on either side of that IO panel which if you remove you can actually remove that IO panel completely if you want to tweak or mod it or you just need to replace it it's very convenient and easy to do speaking of I oh you've got a reset button a mic and headphone jack power button as well as some activity light leds you've got two USB 3 ports whereas on the original our committee you only had one USB 3.0 port and two USB two points I would much rather have the two three point O ports and ditch the single two point O port and lastly on the right there you've got a three level integrated fan controller also along the top you've got another metallic mesh grille and this is also removable but in a different way than what we saw on the front there's actually two thumb screws at the back of the case you got to remove those and then you can basically pop off that entire top panel and that's going to reveal another included one hundred and forty millimeter fan and also a crap ton of mounting points for other fans so you can mount either 31 40s or 31 20s here and if you'll notice the mounting points for the 120 millimeter fans are actually off-center there they're actually veered away from the right side of the case and the purpose of that is basically so you can install a fat 240 radiator and not run into any clearance issues from your motherboard or your memory on the left side is a tinted window on your side panel which i think is pretty cool because if you're rocking some really bright LEDs in your case and let's say you don't have connected to a controller and they're pretty much just stuck being really bright it can be kind of distracting if you're watching a movie or gaming in the dark for example it's kind of nice to have that tinted window actually if that's your situation on the opposite side is just another basic all metal side panel and that brings us to the back with your last included one hundred and forty millimeter fan once again mounting points for a hundred and twenty millimeter fan there's your knockout for your motherboard shield seven expansion slots plus one little floater on the side there if you've used all of your seven expansion slots and let's say you just want some additional i/o connectivity put a bracket adapter there for example you can do so on the bottom you've got your power supply mount and on the very bottom you have another removable dust filter right under your power supply now moving on to the right side interior of this chassis first off we can see there's a fairly large cutout for your CPU cooler and just a ton of room for cable management here guys there's about an inch from your motherboard tray to where your side panel closes so you should have no problem fitting all your cables on this side of the chassis even if you're not rocking a modular power supply and even to help you with the cable management further there's a ton of rubber grommets and tie down points just to keep them all nice and tidy there's also two mounting points for ssds which you can mount right here on the motherboard tray which I guess is a nice feature if you're going for kind of a stealth vibe but other than that it's kind of inconvenient because if you ever want to remove those SSDs you'd have to uninstall your entire motherboard along with it so unless you're looking for a long-term solution I might advise to stay away from this or at least think twice before you mount them here there's a look at your business end of the drive cages and up Todd you've got some cables for your fan controller at the front I oh so there's your 4-pin molex power connector and you can actually connect up to three fans to this controller so here are three two pin fan connectors and finally that brings us to the left side interior the case where all the magic happens so first off we've got a fully black painted interior so aside from the few white accents as you can see the PCI slots as well as the fans as well as the drive trays it's this black and white thing that freckles gone with him they're sticking with it and I really like it because it matches with a lot of stuff and personally I'm going to tease you guys a little bit I'm actually planning a build inside of this chassis it's coming up very soon you guys should be very excited let's move on to the rolled steel edges along the the case so it's very nice you don't cut yourself it's a nice touch it's very attention to detail oriented and you've also got to drive cages here one on top which fits five drives and you've got a bottom one which fits three which allows you to mount up eight two and a half inch or three and a half inch drives in these white metallic drive trays which aren't very flexible they're very sturdy in fact and you probably heard somebody in the head with this but they also feature rubber grommets on them to reduce noise and vibration from your drives the top cage can be rotated clockwise 90 degrees or you can be removed completely to fit longer graphics cards or just to open up some more airflow in your case if you remove the drive cage by the way the top one you can just fit any graphics card ever like there's just a ton of room the bottom cage can also be removed but you can also mount it off to the left side a little bit if you want to actually make room for a full 240 millimeter radiator at the front of this case and if you're dealing with an extra thick radiator or you just need some more room for a push-pull for example you can even slide this bottom cage over even more to the left side to accommodate those configurations on the bottom of your chassis there's a mounting point for either a 120 or 140 millimeter fan that's essentially right beneath where your video card sits so it's directing air straight to your GPU at the back you have your power supply mount and there are four little foam risers that come up just a bit for your power supply to actually sit on and that's essentially just there to help suppress some more noise and vibration front panel connectors of course power reset LEDs you've got HD audio and your USB 3.0 header don't worry if you don't have a USB 3 0 point 0 header on your motherboard you can still take advantage of the two USB 3.0 ports at the front of your case they've included a USB to point out connector here you would just have to revert to USB 2.0 speeds here's a better look at the included one hundred and forty millimeter fans at the top and rear of your case and I almost forgot to mention that all of these fans come with very nicely black sleeved cables alright guys and girls that is going to wrap it up for this unboxing and overview once again this has been fractal designs our committee are two mid tower computer case and as i said earlier in this video i am planning a pretty sweet rig inside of this chassis very very soon and without giving too much away i will say that it is going to be an epic gaming rig that's all i'm going to give away from now you're gonna have to stay tuned later to find out what happens next in that video but yeah leave your thoughts about this case in the comment section below you guys know the drill like and subscribe if already and until next time I'll see you all in the next video it's even better than it was and some of the adjustments some of the changes are pretty cool so I'm gonna take a look in there and then what we'll do the thing we'll just do thing alright see ya guys seriously you stop messing around today mmm today I'm gonna take a look at the are too they made some minor but my left them deck which others in through a remix better than that little Brad where we could we get