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the HS 50 gaming headset from Corsair features a rugged metal construction plush memory foam ear cups for endless comfort and a blacked out industrial design enjoy crystal-clear 50 millimeter drivers that produce a wide fidelity range for immersive gaming while chatting with friends using the detachable unidirectional mic elevated gaming is here with the HS 50 click the link in the description for more info this is the defined 6 from fractal design let's check it out alright well here she is doesn't look as good as it could because there's still some plastic on the tempered glass side panel here which I'm going to remove right now for ya again again again again should really wear an anti-static wristband Oh round 2 alright that looks a little nicer I guess we can continue this is once again the define our 6 from fractal design successor to the define our 5 I guess a direct successor to that case but there's definitely a pretty expansive list of defined cases now here at the end of 2017 we just had the defined C defied C tempered glass and defied C mini I think those were the most recent ones and there was the define s before that to find our v to find our 4 and yeah so it's kind of interesting to see the defined series evolved with all of the PC case trends you know with the definer v we saw it the option for removable drive cages and then the defined C brought us tempered glass and the power supply shroud and so I'm looking forward to seeing what the r6 has in store for us today this is an ATX mid tower now the MSRP for the tempered glass model that I have with me today is 150 US or 140 9.99 if you don't care about tempered glass and you want to do away with it and replace it with a steel sound dampen piece of steel then it's 20 bucks cheaper so there's that but the tempered glass looks really nice I guess I could talk about that really quick it doesn't look like it's tinted very much at all I mean it's got some black borders on the but I guess borders on the edges kind of redundant but you know what I mean it doesn't look too tinted which I like I actually don't like tinted side panels unless it's very very light you get two thumb screws here but I think the thumb screws are just to reinforce the side panel in case you want to be shipping it or moving it around a lot because you have you actually don't need thumb screws at all to put this thing back into place you can see here as it's already sort of mounted you just kind of press it and it locks into place feels feels pretty sturdy it doesn't like wobble or anything if you move the case so that's good seems fairly high quality let's see popping it out though you kind of have to be careful because there's no like protective guard or latch the bottom to catch the glass so like if you were if you had this case on the glass table you wouldn't want to like accidentally drop it glass on glass might might not end well for you but it looks pretty pretty nice there's an obviously no room for sound dampening material here so not too big of a surprise there I should not put this on top of the thumbscrew let me try popping this guy back on just to see how it goes looks like yeah slide it in on the front end first and then all the way back so it actually pops in very easy the only thing I'll say is that it's kind of hard not to get fingerprints on it in the process so I might want to have some Windex handy when you have it whenever you have pop this guy on and off let's move on to the front though the entire front panel of the case is genuine brushed aluminum it's not faux brushed aluminum like we've seen on other defined cases in the past so that's kind of nice it is a bit more prone to fingerprints in that sense but as long as you're okay and aware of that it's very easy to open and close the door without actually touching the the aluminum there there's tons of ventilation on the sides and as long as you don't mount the fans on the outside of the radiator bracket like I did with the elite belt but that was intentional then you should be able to get some healthy airflow there's like really big openings there's no mesh in these in these vents but there is a mesh filter that is removable it's just beneath the single five and a quarter inch Bay and very easy to pop out this is my first time I have not liked inspected this case at all I looked at the reviewers guide and the spec sheet thoroughly but I have not actually put my hands on this case what you're watching me do it for the first time underneath the dust filter at the front here you get two included GP fourteen fans with those traditional white blades and it looks like you've got some pretty hefty radiator mounting options at the front here you can either do up to a two eighty or a 360 which is very nice very nice indeed Sarab dust filter at the front yeah there is yeah hahaha you're this look at Leos bad boy whoo it looks like we've got some fan mounts at the bottom of the case apparently not just filtration for your power supply fan but I think you can do to 120 s or 140 s at the bottom of the case as well being able to just sort of wipe out all the dust from everything at the bottom of your fan all at the same time is pretty nice did I mention you can flip this door like if you don't want it to open from the right side you can actually reverse the mounting so that it opens from the left that's pretty cool it's in beador stris sorry it's also got some Sam damping material underneath very nice as well LED right there very traditional for the define series front panel we've got what looks to be 2 USB 3.0 2 USB 2.0 they're all type-a ports a very nice heavy-duty power button reset that's a little bit more difficult to press which is a comes up for that mic and headphone jacks now yes I know for $150 where's the USB type-c Kyle where where why well look what I have here an aftermarket front panel alternative that has USB type-c 3.1 gen2 supported all the other connectors and buttons are the same the only difference is that it's got a type c header on it or a type c port and this is actually sold separately and the reason that is is because there's a very loud minority when it comes to front panel type C a lot of there aren't a humongous a large number of people who want it but the ones that do want it are very vocal about it in the comments and the forums and stuff but the majority of us don't really have enough type C devices on hand to really warrant or justify spending that much more in a case simply for that privilege so this is an option if you want spend a little bit more to take advantage of that connectivity but they're you know fractals trying to keep the cost down for the majority of the market who just really isn't ready for type-c yet so it's nice that they have the option though they also have another add-on option for for a riser card there is vertical GPU mounting in this case that's supported and that's we'll talk about that later on but kind of nice that you get this guy just in case you want it and then we've also got a giant module it cover just a single mod you've ever that looks let's see how do you actually how do you take this off you just press it it looks like you just kind of know you don't press it I'm that would have been nice that would have been nice fractal just saying if I could have just like to - oh oh oh oh I stand corrected ladies and gentlemen there's a nice big button a nice big ol fat button the back ear case that actually pops the whole thing out oh this is so much better than the old module system and it's got some mesh underneath it so it looks like there's a dust filter here is that is that right am I seeing this right this is like I'm discovering so much discovering so many things for the first time how do you take this out ah they're finally interesting okay cool look at this it's just a giant dust filter now the top module in cover does have sand damping material of course very sturdy yeah I mean I could I could definitely I could Bend it because I'm strong but you know it's not gonna it's not gonna accidentally get all twisted up very high quality very durable and then this is a plastic made of plastic very similar as the front dust filter here and I'm gonna pop it back in just see what that looks like oh yeah oh yeah that looks pretty good actually like I like I just like the way it looks yeah yeah that's a lot of ventilation right there you know if you want to put a up to a 420 blaze it radiator you can do that up at the top of the case or up to a 360 if you're going with some 120s but hot damn it's looking good so far y'all get back in there get back in there boy know your role the right side panel is just a piece of steel with some captive thumbscrews let me just confirm if they're captive okay oh they are not captive why I don't know I should also mention these are flexible mounting strips both at the top and front of the case and it looks like the ones here on the top are positioned closer to the tempered glass side of the case which would give you more clearance for things like your memory and DRM heatsink set cetera moving on to the back yeah let's see what we got it looks like your third and final included GP 14 fan can also support a 120 or 120 radiator but there was no mention of 140 millimeter radiator support just 120 or 140 fan you got one two three four five six seven expansion slots that are traditional horizontal and then you've got two vertical if you opt for the optional riser card you can actually put a two slot GPU in a vertical orientation in this case something nuts seen before on a defying case unless I'm totally wrong about that I could be wrong about that where is the riser card there was a riser card I had to write a riser cable haha so here it is it's pretty nice actually it kind of has like a blacks leaving around the the ribbon cable itself some fractal design branding but fractals basically taking the same approach with this as they are with the type-c front panel kit in the sense that not everyone's gonna want vertical GPU mounts in the vertical GPUs in their case so this is an option if you want to pay a little extra they'll ship one over to you but they're not going to include it with every single case with every single unit and charge more for it when only a fraction of people buying it or actually gonna use it so I think it's a good thing that you know for something that's a bit more Miche to just sell the accessories required to use it separately for you know for those who care and finally at the bottom here we've got a power supply bracket that's removable with two captive thumb screws comes off just like that you mount this to the back of your power supply and you slot it in from behind pretty straightforward nothing too fancy here and that's pretty much gonna cover it for the outside of the case I think on that note just let's go ahead and start building inside of this thing let me get some parts out for you be right back alright so it looks like we've got some preinstalled standoffs with a very happy one in the middle there it's gonna help us got her in oh I should probably put the IO shield in first let's get this bad boy come out I reckon we do the motherboard first and the radiator second what's y'all say good all right so that fits in lovely perfect mount this sucker down alright motherboard installed and to install the radiator I'm wondering if this panel is removable if the radiator bracket on top of the case can actually be removed let me check you know I think this is removable guys we've got four screws here I don't see any rivets it looks like this side is just held in by some and latches so I'm gonna go for it I'm gonna say this is a modular radiator bracket oh yeah definitely removable sweet bonus points for that one I don't let me get this guy matted I'll be right back so we've got our radiator mounted to the bracket but before we install it in back into the case there's one thing we can do to make our lives a whole lot easier and that is install or plug in our 12-volt CPU connector from our power supply because once this radiator is in there it's gonna be kind of hard to access that plug so let's go ahead and I've already sort of wired it to myself off-camera it's kind of good to go i actually have it running through this rubber grommet here at the top of the case there's actually two rubber grommets for passing such cables through so there it is got our eight pin all our 12 our eight pin 12-volt all plugged in and we're ready for mounting the rest of this guy so let's do that alright voila totally installed the AIO just now no problems all right so our build here is coming along quite nicely haven't run into too many snags so far I did want to point out that I'm using a corsair fan on our Celsius s24 here because this is the same AO that we used for the yacht PC and in the process one of the fans just got misplaced and it probably doesn't even work anyway so yeah that's that explains that but I already mentioned the two rubber grommets that are at the top right above the motherboard they they're big enough to pass you know larger cables through like your 12-volt CPU had no problem getting that through there and then we've also got some nice large three large ones right here to to to the right of the motherboard for your ATX etc USB three SATA and then a large one at the bottom here there's also a really small cutout here that's not grommeted it doesn't have a rubber grommet but it's just a regular cutout that's for like your HD audio and other small connectors but these rubber grommets are really nice they seem like they're like they're actually like well stuck in there like they're not gonna completely just fall out once you start passing tables through I'm not gonna get snagged on anything and then you know obviously the ones on the bottom here are gonna be for your front panel connectors USB three if you've got a header down there and say that potentially because there's actually the option fractal design includes two two and a half range to drive trays that you can mount they're behind the motherboard tray which is where they were originally when I took it out of the box or you can mount them right here on the power supply shroud again it kind of goes without saying that we have a power supply shroud in this case so it just has two little latches that go into the it's a ventilated shroud by the way the tons of ventilation at the top here and then just a single captive thumb screw that you would screw down like so so it's completely tooless unless you consider your hand a tool and then yeah so you can either do one or the other or both in either position looks looks pretty nice and definitely easy to use we'll save these from behind the motherboard tray though since that's where we're headed eventually and towards the front of the case we get sort of this wall of mystery and it's got two thumb screws here which we'll remove in just a moment but behind this little wall here which is made of steel high quality we have a couple drive cages or drive trays I should say one two three four and then there's five six two more at the bottom here that are sort of underneath the shroud and they can house either three and a half inch or four and a half inch drives and if you wanted to buy additional trays you know after the fact you can even slot up to 11 I believe behind this little wall here and it's all concealed it's hidden very nicely but I'm kind of curious to see what happens once we undo these thumb screws here so let's pop this off interesting let's let's flip this guy around for you so you can see I won't hoard it all to myself here we can see the business end of things and it looks like a single thumb screw holding each of these trays in place which is you know it's gonna take you half the amount of time to undo it compared to most that have two thumb screws comes out like that these are made of steel painted white very nice they've got some rubber stoppers or rubber rubber pads to reduce noise and vibration and they look very very sturdy very sturdy indeed there were some people putting a lot of drives in their system really gets them going but I reckon a lot of you would also be interested to see what kind of water cooling capabilities this guy has and obviously we already know that there's plenty of rad support at the front of this case if you wanted to put in a you know a thicker radiator with a push-pull configuration or something like that there's probably no room to do that with all of these trays taking up space so let's just see what happens if we remove all of them so what's neat about this design is that the trays are just kind of floating there's not like a giant drive cage or some complex drive cage but rather they're just sort of mounted to the motherboard tray with that one thumb screw and this front wall that we saw the other side of just a moment ago but you know when you take the trays out it's pretty open there's no there's no interior skeleton or whatever that you're dealing with so that's it's kind of nice it just opens up the airflow a bit more and you still have that wall concealing things but I think there's a way to remove that wall that plate if you wanted to you know I'm gonna flip this case around again I really need to invest in a lazy susan okay so in order to remove this plate here it looks like there are two screws very accessible just regular Phillips heads I'm gonna undo those and then it looks like there's two more screws possibly at the bottom of the case alright here we go two screws at the bottom I like how I like the fact that you don't have to remove the the power supply dust filter at the bottom dust filter to access these remove that so from the looks of it there may be two more screws or at least a few more screws at the front here probably got to pop off the front panel in order to access them comes off pretty easily and I like the fact that the front panel isn't tethered by any of the front panel connector cables so it's free we we've got two screws that I would imagine oh there we go hey man come on oh jeez a little tricky now that I have the a i/o installed the radiator maybe I should just remove the radiator bracket just to avoid scratching anything remember kids always read the manual it helps save time and energy Anna oh yeah much easier without the radiator in the way radiator bracket and I think this guy this this panel that we just removed can actually be relocated to the back of the case more towards the to be in line with the motherboard tray just try to figure out how exactly that fits all right it looks like we've got it in position we just gotta secure it down two screws in the bottom all right now we can just receipt our radiator and we mustn't forget the attractive faceplate thing here go back inside and voila and now you'll see that this looks very much more like a defined s or something where it's just a bunch of empty space here in the front for water cooling radiators or if you just want some unimpeded airflow you have that option so you kind of get the best of both worlds here with this case you have the flexibility to have almost two completely different almost completely different internal layouts which is pretty sweet where do the fan cables get routed I guess it also goes without saying while I'm here that you cannot have a top radiator at least this long or maybe even like you know I'd say you probably couldn't get away with more than like a 240 or so and still have an optical drive but who uses those anymore and then yeah where do the fan cables go the fan cables I guess could go so it looks like the only real cutouts to route your fan cables through at least at the front of the case here in this configuration are these cutouts that we saw the drive trace poking through earlier so they're plenty big to route your three or four pin fan cables or fan connectors through and I kind of tucked the wiring behind the fan sort of between the fans and the back panel here just to give us a cleaner look really quick just want to show you the bottom of the case here you can actually mount a 240 or a 280 millimeter radiator or fans if you like but that's kind of nice and you just want to direct some airflow upwards to your various components and also the fact that the power supply shroud is is well ventilated would definitely also aid an airflow if he were to mount any fans or radiators down at the bottom there alright power supply you guys remember that I already plugged in the 12 volt CPU connector so now I've gotta just route the other guys here obviously we have to route them through the back before we slide the power supply through and I can't confirm that there is not enough clearance for you to actually install the power supply from behind the motherboard tray you have to do it from the very rear of the case some cases let you do both this is a rear entry only if you know what I mean alright our power supply has been installed with relatively little effort all right so we got a nice big CPU cooler cut out and you can see here we actually have full access to our am 4 backplate so that's that's good news sometimes you'll have a really large CPU cut out but it only it only eclipses part of a bracket especially larger ones and that's that's no bueno so a good thing we've got a fairly large one here that's in the right spot and then we also have a 6 fan 6 fan hub one two three four five six and looks like you can connect up to three PWM devices as well that's that's awesome so these are three pin these are four pin and obviously you have see the power to drive it with a four pin connector that would go to your motherboard that's nice especially for gonna be doing some water cooling even some push-pull configurations a lot of fans those fans add up fast so it's nice to not have to route them all to your motherboard and have to resort to using splitters and things like that helps keep things tidy obviously as well speaking of tidy we've got some tie-down points and velcro straps to help us along OOP that came out pretty easily that's what she said so let me show you where all the tie-down points are really quick we've got one two three four five six seven eight nine and then you've got ten eleven twelve right here on the actual front of the case and looks like you've got some more year twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen on the very bottom of the chassis so plenty of tie down points velcro straps to help you with everything of course the power supply shroud so you can just kind of shove everything down there if you really don't care another thing that I should mention before I forget is that you can still house two three and a half inch drives in the current configuration here after we removed all those all those drive trays it's not like you have to resort to a two and a half inch drive only system you can still mount two three and a half inch mechanicals right that to the back of this thing you just have to pop off the that thumbscrew panel on the front and yeah and you can install it pretty easily so that's that's nice super flexible I'm also circling back to those drive trays those two and a half inch drive trays you can I did mention earlier that you can mount them either on the power supply shroud as I demoed before or behind the motherboard tray and they would go right here boom side-by-side there's one and your other would go right next to it so plenty of options it is time to install our GPU black thumb screws perks or white expansion slots she's coming in hot so we've currently got a gtx 980ti founders edition in here with plenty of room to spare even if we had the the drive trays reinstalled like you know like the Lynx like so and stuff you still have at least a good inch maybe two before you run into clearance issues and even then I mean it's so flexible you can actually mount the drives around where the GPU would extend to that way you can just continue extending I think the the manual said four hundred and forty millimeters of length for your GPU and that's that's more than enough for most people as far as the clearance from the CPU cooler if you are going to be going with a tower instead of an a i/o I think it's a hundred and eighty-five millimeters of clearance there and you get 300 millimeters of clearance for a power supply before you run into any issues on that note we're just about done here we just got to wire everything up and call it a day all right system complete and it looks really nice actually if you take all the proper measures to use the right grommets and you know the cable routing holes and stuff it looks nice and tidy and you don't really have to put in that much legwork to make it look that way because it's just it's a good design it's got its really nice you know full-length power supply shroud tons of tie-down points behind the motherboard tray velcro straps things like that there's probably it's probably an inch maybe a inch and a half inch and a quarter of space behind there too so plenty of room when you factor in the basement and stuff and lots of seemingly lots of airflow obviously go go over to you know someone who's tested it actually besides me like gamers Nexus maybe has done some proper testing on the airflow in this case but it looks promising then again you know you never know but tons of radio support I like that and it's gonna be great for custom water coolers I wish there was a dedicated reservoir mount I don't know maybe maybe there is behind this little panel here it didn't look like there was I could be wrong I'll put a little annotation if I'm wrong but that would be nice and then also I have to say that one of my favorite things about this case is that somebody else could do a build in an r6 and it would look completely different than mine not because of the components that they chose but because of the internal layout that they opted for obviously I kind of went with a more defined SS look by removing all of the hard drive trays but you know somebody else might might want that in place and just have it fully stacked you know to the brim with hard drives or something like that so I'm a huge sucker for flexibility I think it prolongs the longevity so to speak of the case keeps you from having to buy a new one just for a different situation or scenario and overall for 150 bucks I'm I'm pretty happy with it I would buy this case for 150 bucks and my own money just because I think it's very well thought out it's built to last my define R 5 and s are still both cake and strong and this is built with the same sort of quality and engineering as those cases from what I can tell so over all guys fantastic case good job fractal once again go ahead and leave your own thoughts comments concerns in the comments below I'll be sure to read them and 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