Gadgetory

my coverage of Computex 2017 is brought to you by be quiet cable mod verda gear and EVGA go ahead and check out the links below for more info all right we're at fantex check it out guys remember this this was project two one seven or two seventeen back in the day at CES in January but they've since renamed it the marketing is got a little bit smarter I think it's now called the shift and the shift X what you're looking at right now is the shift X this is the taller one that's a bit more conducive for custom water cooling and things like that and then we've also got the shift which is the non X version it's a little bit shorter but still maintains more or less the same footprint this is really just a very very flexible design you can mount it either vertically as you see here or horizontally depending just on sort of the situation that you're trying to go for this looks like it could easily be on like a really nice desk area if you're just trying to use it for a regular desktop or if you want to use it Evan htpc it does look like it would go really well in the living room also so there's definitely a lot of flexibility here but let's go ahead and take a little quick 360 here you can see we've got tempered glass side panels on both the left and right sides this is kind of a brushed aluminum as a saloon I believe yes aluminum here then we've also got an aluminum cover on the X model its plastic on the non X model that still seems very rugged and durable and if you look at the left side here first off let's just go ahead and well you know it first off let's take off these side panels so we can get a look at this let's get this thing undressed so this is the left side here and we've got a sort of a two chamber design on the top you've got your motherboard and your CPU they've already detected that with custom water cooling just give you an example of just how insane you can make the system here even though this fairly small form-factor you also have this sort of middle area that sort of divides the two compartments for some cable management and it does have this magnetic door that pulls down for easy access which I really kind of like that design and if you look at the bottom here you can see that there's oh actually forgot about the 140 millimeter fan right here so that's actually set to exhaust and the fact that you actually have one of the side panels here if you know if you notice that that section in the middle that also helps compartmentalize this chassis so that you actually can have one fan exhausting air at the top and maybe you have a couple fans in taking at the bottom and so those two airflow paths don't intersect or interfere with each other so right here we've got two 140 s you can do two 120 s as well not to mention radiator support up to 280 millimetres for your AIO or custom liquid-cooled radiator you can see they've already mounted of course a nice little reservoir in here at the bottom of the case here we've got a 140 millimeter fan set to intake it pulls air from the bottom and brings it up through the through the rest of the case at least where it meets the the middle section separator here and you actually have a couple options for the power supply right now they have an SFX unit that's mounted in here with a nice little shroud actually so it kind of covers some of the cable entry however you can opt for a full sized ATX unit however you will also have to drop that shroud if you offer that but it is nice to have the optional flexibility either way if you take a look at this side you've got some front IO or should I say rear i/o this is actually the back of the case we're looking at you get 2 USB 3 I kind of just like how it's at the back so it's a bit more discreet if you want just a more clean minimalistic design at the back here you can see that there's the there's the power supply fan they've set properly and there's just a ton of cable management at the very back of the chassis you you also get 2 SSD mounts at the back here there's two more on the inside so that gives you four two and a half inch drive support as well as two three and a half inch drives and then if you look over look I just like how there's like a lot of like velcro straps tie-down points very thoughtful every single inch of this chassis seems to be utilized for a purpose and if you go onto this side you see this is where the graphics card is mounted sort of on a side sort of vertical orientation and you can actually change the left or right orientation based on which way you want the card to face so you can see here we've got a really nice shot of their water block here but you could flip it completely 90 degrees or I guess 180 degrees sorry if you wanted to let's say this was an air-cooled card you could actually open up the card for a little bit more airflow by facing the fans away from the tempered glass or of course you could opt for a more aesthetic look if you wanted to show off the nice shroud there at the top of the case now we've got this nice little door here again this is made out of aluminum very sturdy construction kind of like how it's on a sort of a spring suspension here it's very sturdy and you've also got a look at the rear i/o for your motherboard I guess you could call this a top i/o because it is sticking out the top you get out you actually write route your wires through the the hole in the back very seamlessly you actually wouldn't see where they're exiting out from the from the front so that's a really clean system there or you can actually route the cables all the way down behind this back panel at the bottom if you want it to be even more discreet for a nice clean tidy so I really can't wait to get my hands on one of these things of course if fantex is willing to part with a sample in the near future because it does definitely seem like there's a lot you can do in very little space here and in case you guys were wondering or wanting to get your hands on one of one of these yourselves you can opt for the X version which is 159 us MSRP or the non X shift which is going to go for about 109 USD MSRP so look forward to these very soon in the near future so I honestly can't remember if I filled you guys in or even hinted at this but I am planning a pretty epic water cooling system in the very near future in collaboration with fantex using one of their super high-end cases I'm sure you guys can guess which one I'm talking about but it's going to feature a lot of their water cooling hardware as well including some of these fittings these are some 16 millimeter these are really built for ptg tubing so it is going to be a hard line system which I'm super excited to start working on as well as some of these very beautiful water blocks and these are pretty much no matter even if you're you know you depending on if you're a gigabyte fan MSI Asus you pretty much have your pick of the litter as in terms of compatibility they even have different stylized designs you can see that one of them is like completely chromed the other one has this really nice sort of matte black finish which I really like the main point is that they're ready for purchase and they absolutely look fantastic so look forward to that as well so check this out guys this is also a new sort of innovation from fantex these are their halos I guess they're calling them RGB fan frames and it's a pretty good name for them essentially this is sort of what the construction looks like after it's over before it's really finished this is the aluminum design and you can see that basically all these fans are illuminated not the fans themselves but actually the LED strip that goes within this sort of fan frame it's a really cool design here what problem this solves is when you have a super high-end fan that delivers really good airflow or good static pressure whatever but might not have the RGB implementation that you're looking for and oftentimes RGB fans while they look really pretty don't always perform that well this is kind of like the the antlion mod Mike approach where you can use your own set of headphones but also add a really high-end microphone without having to sacrifice your current cans so this is sort of the same the same model that we're looking at more or less where you can actually use pretty much any fan you want whether it's 120 or 140 millimeters and still have the RGB functionality and it looks absolutely fantastic whether it's on black blade or white blades I think the white blades look a little bit more eye-catching the the color definitely reflects a little bit nicer but it looks beautiful on either-or as far as controlling goes the LEDs themselves can be controlled either through an RGB controlled case from fantex of course or you can actually wire them directly to a supported motherboard and take advantage and control all the custom features via software so you kind of have your option in that regard as far as pricing goes the both plastic models all the plastic models are the same price whether you're going 120 or 140 that's going to be nine ninety nine or nine ten bucks more or less we got seventeen and nineteen dollars respectively for your 120 and 140 millimeter variants now for those of you who are thinking about pulling the trigger on the NP Pro M or maybe are just a huge fan already of this case now there's a special edition that's going to make the old one seem just a little bit less special and the reason for that is well there's a couple of reasons first of all you get a really nice tempered glass side panel which just looks fabulous I think I'm a personal believer in this even though some people call it a fad once you have tempered glass on your case you don't ever want to go back to acrylic just because first of all it looks amazing and it doesn't scratch nearly as easily so that's actually a nice bit of functionality built in you also get some nice RGB element upgrades here including a pair of 140 millimeter halos fans that we just talked about so you get to 140 s I believe one of the front one of the back perhaps of course you can arrange them any way you like and you also get integrated RGB functionality built into the case itself so you can change the colors on that or you can actually just plug the fans again into the motherboard itself and control it via the software for however you choose to customise your LEDs check us out guys this is the ar160 this is part of their Glacier series here at fantex and just look out small I'll use my hand for scale this is a really small little compact reservoir here but it's actually pretty flexible as well you can actually mount it to either 120 or 140 millimeter fan it does come with the mounting bracket and that mounting bracket also includes an RGB strip that sort of makes direct contact in a way with the unit and just kind of provides a really nice electric glow to the whole system so are the whole unit I should say so that's kind of a prime example of what it looks like I'll fire it up it looks really cool and yeah RGB you can pretty much tailor to whatever your heart's content depending on the color scheme you're trying to achieve there's a lot of Inlet and outlet options here as well so you can see right here it's mounted in a vertical vertical position but if you wanted to let's say you wanted to mount it to the top of your case or something like that you could mount it horizontally as well and I also do like the fact that since it is so so slim you kind of just see it's like a really thin profile there you can mount it to the more back side of your case or you can bring it up to the front as well now if you take a look at the back here you'll see that there's an aluminum and on the underbelly of that on the internals there's actually a copper base plate so it does provide a bit more thermal dissipation and heat conductivity for the liquid inside which should theoretically help with thermals so that's really nice to see additionally you can see that there's sort of a look looks like a little area for a pump here and while the pump is not included you could if you wanted to add in your own DDC pump and actually make this sort of a combo rasz pump unit which would save even more space in say a small form-factor system or just in any case in general $89 u.s. MSRP available q3 watch out for this guy coming soon alright guys check this case out this is the Eclipse p300 at a measly $59 us which is absolutely insane you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be doing a budget build in this case as soon as it comes to market this thing's absolutely incredible it sort of builds on the the same sort of model as the P 400 which is which is a very well received and very popular budget case this is even cheaper than that and offers still a lot of functionality for what you're paying so first off tempered glass side panel fan Tex is really privy to these and it's just I really like the direction that this is going being able to get tempered glass just for this price point is absolutely incredible and you can see that it's a sort of a smaller window here it does have like the blacked-out perimeter that you can see there but you can see that it only it ends right here where the power supply shroud is first off you get a power supply shroud it's nice to have a basement again for this cheap of a case you can see it just tidies up the cable management overall there's a bit of an LED accent that's going to be right along here just a nice little tasteful strip as well as the power button up top along with some front panel IO audio and headphone jacks USB 3 and I believe this is the RGB controller so you can actually control the RGB of Cour that's pretty redundant 140 millimeter fan mount right here with a fan filter or a dust filter I should say and it looks like from the inside here you also get up to 280 don't quote me on this because this is still sort of a prototype but there's definitely going to be some sort of a robust radiator solution at the front of the case here it looks like there's two hundred and eighty millimeter mounting points here it might be 240 I'm going to say 280 because that number is higher and I like it look at that big nice big CPU cooler cutouts that's also very nice to see and since this is the budget case you don't get like rubber grommets or things like that but it is also very minimalistic it's got a nice little cover here on the front where the cables can just route behind and I think this is a really nice solution that I would prefer over just massive cutouts that are very very visible so overall very clean setup here flip it around to the back here you can see we've got a couple SSD mounts two and a half inch drive mounts that's very nice to see plenty of space for cable management also thoughtful tie-down points along the back of the motherboard tray and here at the front we have here your hard drive cage it looks like you can fit two three and a half inch drives here and it does look like there's also some space here for cable management you can route your SATA cables through that front grommet right there you can route your cables through that front cut out right there that's not a grommet I mentioned that there are a lot of design features that sort of lend itself to the p400 one including this just sort of how the front ventilation looks first of all it sort of has that similar aesthetic it's not quite the same but very similar and the ventilation is going to be existing at the top and the bottom of the case looks very very ample like the actual spacing between the vents it's pretty generous so it doesn't look like it's going to be starved for airflow by any means because it looks like you're not going to have a super wide open ventilation all across the front of the case you can expect this case coming out very soon in q3 of 2017 all right gel does can conclude it for my coverage here at the spandex booth at Computex 2017 thank you so much again to my sponsors for making this trip possible EVGA be quiet verdict year and cable odd go ahead and check out their stuff in the description below otherwise I'll see you guys in the next video very soon have a good one perks