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so it is the end of the year holidays are coming up and among this wall of goodies there's one particular special goodie that I'm super excited to check out this one right here oh yeah it's then you define our six from fractal wow this thing really brings back some memories not much has changed but only refined thus the define here comes the peel so it has been a while since the last generation of the fine series I'm super excited to see what the r6 has to offer let's check it out the new master liquid all-in-one coolers are available in 120 and 240 millimeter stylish radiator sizes with air balance fans included for best air flow and RGB sync on the pump and the fans that are controlled via this hub or through your motherboard check out the ML 120 ln 240 l down below alright guys I am NOT going to spoil any surprises that you will see later in the video but I have a feeling a lot of people are going to love to define our six because it's a combination of basically everything users have been asking for in 2017 and fractal have clearly been listening so you're looking at the mid tower format available in four colors priced at the same 129 which is awesome with a TG Edition at the $20 premium now I kind of appreciate fractals approach to avoiding risk you know there's no RGB and there's no at a single exterior logo because the case doesn't really need it you know it looks like any other defined case with a staple aluminum front plate and the side ventilation wide bladed fans unless you get the black out edition and as with any other defined case the r6 feels awesome from quality perspective and it also feels fresh for example notice the temporal a side panel in the lack of the side thumb screws for the mount that is present on like 99% of cases with TG instead the thumb screws are located at the rear out of sight and the glass has mounted on basically this metal interior frame that also has two pegs for this two-step mounting procedure creating this tooless mount that is super convenient and looks better without the thumb screws sticking out from the side they also get more fresh points for the inclusion of a removable five the quarter inch drive bay because a lot of people still find use for an optical drive the door can be swapped to open from either side and it opens just to ninety degrees there's a fine dust filter with angled vents that I'm not sure is either for airflow or noise purposes and it covers dual 140 Miller fans plus there's a third 140 millimeter exhaust fan at the rear for a nice out-of-the-box cooling the i/o is basic with audio power reset and four USB ports that are fully black with dark illumination on the power button and the middle crack now you might question the lack of a type C port but they are selling this optional $30 IO panel that includes one because based on their market research people wanted by default but they don't want to pay for it more now 30 bucks to get your type C port is pricey considering the price of the case and I wish fractal offered some sort of a rebate program let's say if you return to the stock IO because what are you going to do with it otherwise coming to the top we have a new form of a module and that spends the entire ceiling and has a built in dust filter a nice chunky button releases the panel and the entire mechanism and the springs feel robust and with this top panel you have two options either fully closed or fully open with that another fine dust filter with angle or ventilation it's a fantastic route for either airflow or silence but detaching the metal cover from the dust filter is a complete pain that I could only detach with my knife and I wish the two pieces were not so tight together also the angular filter adds a different character to the case now it looks more industrial but unfortunately it doesn't match up to the front side ventilation and also the gap between the filter and the frame is quite large and you can actually see through inside and it's a glaring oversight as for the fan bracket they are one of the best in the business for water cooling support so we've got flexible rails for the entire length of the bracket there's even a fill port cutout for your convenience the bracket is super sturdy and can easily hold the weight of the case and my only complaint are these tiny screws that need to be removed to get the panel out a 360 rad is not a problem here you even have two mounting positions for 120mm fans either closer to the side panel or to the motherboard eight to 80 rad can fit to that you can slide along the bracket and triple 140 member fans have enough clearance but be cautious when reinstalling the fan bracket and the top panel as the mounting holes are close together so insert them into their appropriate levels okay so now for the interior at first glance it looks odd with so much room occupied with that large panel but it's all here for a reason first I like the pre-installed motherboard standoffs with the middle one to cache the board the power supply shroud is the perfect height it's fully perforated with two large cutouts below the motherboard with dual SSD mounts only one of which is appropriately placed for clean wiring that I think might be by design because the left SSD is in the exact spot where you could mount this PCI riser cable for a vertical GPU mount now it is a $40.00 accessory and I had trouble mounting the GPU into the frame because the alignment wasn't exactly perfect with the riser card but spacing is enough for other PCI devices on your motherboard to clear and there's also a little bit of room between the glass panel for the GPU to breathe and by way check out our video on why not to use vertical GPUs right over here so behind this large front panel is our storage facility with white metal drive caddies that our SSD ready I love this approach because it's completely modular so the six larger trays can be moved around and because they're so slim you can stack three of them right at the bottom four SSD mounts and not use that much vertical space and we have four centimeters of clearance from the front fans so a radiator will fit without causing issues with these caddies and I love that there's a fan hub here for nine fans it is SATA power and controlled via PWM connector on your motherboard and I simple an effective combination for proper fan control now this whole front section reminds me of the H 440 approach from NZXT but that similar closed off front part but check this out the front plate that hides the mainframe can be moved all the way back to open up this front section and you have to remove the fans and the top bay but a few screws later and we have a more familiar open interior frame this is mainly targeted for water cooling now that we have 17 centimeters of clearance for push ball or thicker radiators from that front panel or you can use that open space to mount radiator on the floor a 240 rod will fit no problem but be cautious about power supply clearance and now it makes sense why we have such a large dust filter removable from the front the five new quarter-inch bacon still be mounted with this configuration and the only compromise is storage as now we can only get dual three and a half inch drives behind that panel overall I really like this flexibility on the r6 to open it up but unless you're mounting water cooling Hardware I really like the panel up front to make the interior more intimate and this is where I ran into my first clearance issue trying to mount a 360 rad up top so it turns out the side panel interferes with the closest mounting strip so in this configuration you can only mount a 240 rad up top so I decided to relocate one of my front fans for top exhaust and get that 360 rad nicely hidden at the front there is no interference with the larger caddies so I can mount more hard drives and all of my fans are routed into the hub at the back for easy fan control that then I route into my motherboard cables are easily cleaned up on both sides with lots of room beside the power supply and general routing behind the motherboard tray is fine with built-in velcro straps and cable tie points in good locations once the side panel is mounted back you have nice showcase of your components without revealing that hard drive area now you might say what's the point of glass panel then if so much of the interior is covered but I would say reflections are nice and the lack of that intense interior lighting makes it look more elegant and finally I wanted to see if the front panel would choke the fans in the 30-minute stress test seeing that's been like the pattern for cases in this year and having the panel open the differ in CPU temperatures at load was only three degrees Celsius with slightly lower rpm so nicely done on the front ventilation design experience every pixel with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and enjoy these awesome new games and full 4k resolution at over 60 frames per second and get destiny 2 for free for a limited time for details in the description below and so the definer 6 is like the perfect two-in-one enclosure you can either go heavy and storage yet still have room for front and top radiators or go with a full custom loop with more room to play around with but less storage and more importantly it's not compromising any of their existing cases like the more compact mesh fic they all have sort of their roles to play with in the case market without sort of approaching on their own turf I love the direction that the r6 is taking and it deserves our damn good at work so guys let me know if you share the same thinking of this thing feeling fresh even though it's a defined serious case it looks the same to all the other defined series I just loved all the you know incremental revisions that they've added that makes this case really stand out from 2017 so thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe and watch this other relevant content it will see you