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yes so I get excited when you ITX cases but what's more exciting in you ITX case from fantex the shift and the shift X are here this is the shift X ok let's roll the HR invest in stores that makes a difference choose toshiba rd 400 and DME SSDs that are incredibly fast and reliable backed by advanced warranty programs so you can focus on what matters Rd 400 check it out from the description below fans of all shift and the shift X have a very unique take on an Ikea system that allows you to vertically display the case on your desk or laid horizontally for an htpc type of situation for your living room in this video we'll only be taking a look at the shift and the shift X will have to be another time because I want to build in both and see how they differ so yeah why are they still inside the case all right so priced at 110 dollars the evolved shift is one of the more premium ITX cases but for a good reason as the name suggests it's meant to blend in or shift with any environment thanks to looking pretty from pretty much any angle I personally love the towering character especially because the footprint is the length of a GTX 970 while not being much wider this means to shift is perfectly capable of living on your desk as long as you're fine with the height which is about the same height as my evolve ATX but of course it is much thinner I do appreciate how cohesive the design language is for the entire vulva up not only because of the sandblasted aluminum but the similar ventilation ports of the front or the similar bends around the frame now there is some resemblance for the Corsair one but you cannot bind that separately so if you've been wanting that experience I've been really pushing for more vertical cases and the IKEA space now the shift is the perfect alternative in terms of the i/o it's on the left side at the back with only two USB 3 ports so there are no audio jacks in here to keep things clean although a hidden headphone jack somewhere here would have been sweet in terms of the horizontal orientation it's possible thanks to the symmetrical look at the top and the bottom you have to remove the case feet at the bottom first which have two mounting positions if you want the very thin profile you can move them in a little bit which have less stability but for horizontal orientation you need to apply the soft paths that feel ok but almost like an afterthought they're only a one-time use and have no real protection for the glass the glass panel is perfectly complement the visual appeal of the ship from all those sides but of course it is see-through so you just got to be careful with cable management then end caps appear on the exterior of the glass behind which mounting brackets are installed and you can access all four side panels through the top with adjacent sides using the same tooling and that's actually minimizing the cost of the shift and each panel is attached with two cups of thumb screws at the top and with all them being hidden it allows the exterior to look super clean the top panel sits on this pushpin so it's easy to access your eye oh and we have the power and RGB cycle button at the top here as well send power LED or the optional LED strips that you can connect the top as well the user manual that comes with the evolve shift is the best I've ever come across on the TC case and I didn't review the cases for how long usually they're like black and white very bad resolution everything here is color-coded very nice resolution it's clearly laid out in terms of the assembly process what parts you need to remove and compatibility for other hardware water cooling everything absolutely everything that you need is in here so if you're just getting into this ITX space and want to get yourself familiar with the shift or the shift X this is your friend for dust filtration the top panel is covered so nothing percolates through the bottom panel has a filter for the intake fan and both the front and back panels have side filters that are removable for cleaning which are super fine and the front panel also has that middle divider to separate airflow between the bottom and the top chambers so what they've been able to achieve from the interior is pretty unique simply taking advantage of that vertical state and and minimizing the compromises that you would otherwise get with such a tiny compact footprint so the GPU has been moved to the back using this riser card and because of this vertical space you can mount anything up to 350 millimeters in length as long as it's a dual slot GPU but the air cooling for the CPU is not really recommended simply because there's not that much clearance between the side panel and the motherboard area so I was going to use this shadow rock LP be quiet cooler but it simply sticks out when I mount it and just not compatible so really you want to be using a 120 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler for your CPU which will mount it either at the bottom or the front and the unique thing about the scale encoder is it can house to 120 number radiators so if you want to cool your CPU and a GPU with dual radiators that's a possibility and for storage I mean it's a very compact space but you can still mount the dualist as these over here and on the front here I've mounted a three-and-a-half in the drive but also if you really Kate one of the caddies SSD caddy to the front that's a possibility the ones good thing about having a three and a half inch drive at the back of the case is it's further away from you so if it's making any noise you know it won't be as honorable is if it was for example at the front or something like that but also it's not very comfortable to mount because you have to actually school things from the inside which is not easy to access but as far as cable management goes it's a very well aligned to the cutouts and you can pass that and pass all the cyber cables and everything like that just fine for this giant as far as the power supply goes as to facts or XFX l unit are supported and the mount here with intake over there so this area is really there to accommodate those dual 120 million years if you decide to go that route who has been a long day there were a few hiccups along the way first of all thread was nowhere to be found boom but the second hiccup came during my assembly process with a power supply mount where the plastic housing around the power button interfered with the metal frame so I could not align the mounting holes so I had to turn the power supply around so the fan was in taking air from the interior and not from the exterior but Fantas confirms compatibility with all SFX and SFX out power supplies from corsair Silverstone and Lindley it's just that odd the thing happening with the housing around the power button on my non-modular SFX power supply from silverstone and after my conversation with appendix they will actually thin out that metal piece in the middle to accommodate for this particular power supply maybe others that have that similar bulky thing around the power button so yeah so moving along I really like the GPU bracket on the other side that you can slide to support the taller GPUs and also makes a cable installation easier and actually installation of the actual GPU easier as well you just have to keep in mind the power supply height and the height of your bottom radiator if it's there I have the blower style GPU facing the interior for better air flow this is what fantex recommends but the bracket can also be flipped if you're inclined to show off your graphics card for cable magic we have this middle channel with a magnetic door that hides a bunch of cables and these dual rubber grommets underneath to pass things from the bottom chamber I think it's an OK design I just wish that we could secure the flappy door somehow to allow thicker concentration without this opening because of all the cables sticking out now important thing to remember that you're in moment of an ITX experience is derived not only from a case which can be user-friendly all you want but if your hardware is not compatible to suit that ITX direction then your experience will suffer and I just realized how poor the layout of my motherboard is for cable routing not sure why I've been using this motherboard for years now I wish that the RAM slots were swapped without cable area so the cables are not crossing over the motherboard and this happens every single time I use an ITX case and I couldn't even reach the USB 3 cable I had to leave it out now because the motherboard is facing up getting your i/o connected requires a little bit extra care on how you handle that cable exit especially since they are coming from the top I wish fantex would have included some sort of clips that you can attach the back of the case so that's one cables exit they follow a certain structure and not just spewed out of the case all right so upon further inspection instead of routing all the cables to the top like I just showed you guys which doesn't look that great you can instead route them through the bottom where the power supply cable sits and that's because there are two velcro straps that are one above the SSD one below and there I thought they're just used for the drives but of course they can be used to secure your i/o cables coming from the top all the way to the bottom so with an SSD everything fits no problem of course if you have a three and a half inch drive that would leave a little bit less room so maybe like a mouse cable would be maybe wrap around but just yeah this makes the system a lot cleaner when things are just coming from the bottom and not from the top so I have a mouse keyboard power cable and an HDMI cable for the graphics card all connected and everything is very well hidden and looks so much better so yeah very nice fantex thought of this routing situation oh hey there NCIX calm is Canada's leading a tailor for anything your mind desires just keep within those categories which are plenty and get tempted by the weekly deals visit ncx com for all them sweet deals the summer is here oh and so my experience with fantex of all ship ends here I realize that I need a new ITX motherboard that has an upgraded layout I need a modular power supply so I could clean some of those cables up because everything is see-through so you have to be mindful on how you clean all this cables up so what do you guys think of this towering form factor for the ITX direction I'm excited to see a lot of mods and see what type of water cooling things people can come up with in this form factor especially because it occupies so little footprint on your desk it's a very appealing enclosure to complement your workspace so I hope you enjoyed this review make sure to subscribe for more similar content check out all these other relevant reviews stay tuned for the ships x review coming very soon and we'll see you in next video