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this video is brought to you by NCIX great technology selections and service hello everyone this is Dmitry with harbour canucks and the note series from fractal design just got an update with the node 804 this line is designed with a small form factor in mind and 804 is actually the largest within the node family yet pretty compact offering excellent space efficiency and priced at over $100 this just might be the cube case for you the wide and short shell design has got more attention as more and more chassis are moved onto the desk for that glorious showcase two-thirds of the front panel is covered and brushed aluminum plate with the ventilation for the rest and the large size window to reveal all the internal goodies on the side we have a pair of USB 3 ports power button audio jacks so there's no reset button unfortunately and a slot loading optical cut out the front panel just pops open that can house dual SSDs and the spot for the optical drive behind which we've got dual dust filters as a total of four 120 millimeter fans are supported with one included also the dust filters are accessible from the bottom of the chassis without needing to remove the front panel it is spaced appropriately to allow adequate air flow in the left chamber but if the optical drive is installed they'll be kind of flush right against the top dust filter in the right chamber so airflow will suffer the top panel is just a pig mesh with a built in filter to catch all the settling dust and the fins are angled towards the back directing some of the airflow noise away from the user so that's good news and behind the panel we find a variety of fan options so the right chamber supports radiators up to 280 millimeters given you remove the drive cages while the main chamber is compatible with 240 millimeter radiators as fan holes are spaced as far to the left to avoid clearance issues with the motherboard and you are kind of starting to see the beauty of the 804 as its water cooling options are truly impressive for this form factor you can still get dual 140 mm in the main chamber but due to height restrictions 280 million rads are full right chamber only and one thing fractal design did really well as well is sort of the seamless integration between the two chambers with large cutouts for cable management and any size water cooling tubing to pass through the 804 is equipped with more fans in the rear allowing excellent cooling in both compartments with both rear fans included there's also a speed fan adjustment for up to 3 fans that is powered through a SATA port something I'm happy to see and black cables for simple routing fractal design I'm also made sure to fully dust prove the 804 as 2 more filters are included at the bottom so now let's take a closer look inside then we get the C usual taste of fractal attention to detail with the white blade fans PCI brackets and the drive cages are all white and full black sleeved cables now this is a micro ATX chassis so many components have been moved behind the motherboard to keep within the height limits of the 8:04 however it still supports graphics cards up to 12.5 inches and 11.4 inches with the bottom front fan installed the bottom of the main chamber can house two SSDs or three and a half inch drives and if additional cooling is required to 80 millimeter fans are supported and coming around to the other chamber the drive cage allows for a total of eight three and a half inch drives to be installed unfortunately no SSD support here you mount each Drive with screws and they do sit on rubber grommets to prevent from vibrations but I still would have liked to see some type of tula smelting positioning of each cage is also flexible for example you can mount one of them in front of the power supply you still have over 190 millimeters of clearance but you do lose out on these convenient velcro straps for cable management and there's also very little room left behind the drive cage making cable routing more difficult also the middle rail that is needed to secure either drive cage up top doesn't allow any top fans to be installed so for example if you want to have just one drive gauge on the top position the other fan slot is left underutilized as there is no clearance for mounting I also would have liked Verrazano Drive orientation instead as this makes swapping and replacing any of the drives so much easier as with the default vertical mount replacing any drive inside a cage requires the removal of the entire assembly and starting with our build I really do love the large velcro straps and from the power supply to manage some of that clutter right away and there are cutouts in the frame to allow front panel connectors to be routed properly and the same goes for the rest of the internals as large cutouts at the bottom and the side are well positioned for clean cabling and just to show off how the norator four handles water cooling here's a system with a 120mm ride mounted to the front 240 millimeter radiator up top in the same chamber drive gauge in the opposite chamber has been repositioned to the bottom for this type of setup with a 280 millimeter radiator and push-pull for incredibly powerful cooling setup that's going to be very attractive for many builders who don't want to compromise on either the storage nor the radiator options and I do have to say the node 84 is definitely among the more appealing chassis within the rest of the dual chamber and cube offerings as its water cooling support is totally impressive the case is fully dust proof with easy to remove filters and excellent cutouts to allow seamless routing between chambers we have long GPUs and power supplies are not a concern and storage options are both adequate and flexible to suit your configuration now my main gripe with the node 804 is actually the drive gauge system itself it lacks SSD support actually quite inconvenient if any drive needs replacement also you cannot utilize the top pant slot with just one of the cages installed as the middle rail is on the way and I feel this space could potentially house even more mechanical drives using a different cage system with better space utilization our frog design has released a highly competitive dual chamber chassis complementing bolt enthusiast builds and storage oriented as well and we're giving you the Harwick Knox damn good and damn good value a words as for $110 this is really thing like it on the market but what do you guys think of this note 804 and would you potentially consider this type of cube designs for your next build let us know in the comments below make sure to subscribe for more similar content as always thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one