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all right now it's time for fantex hello oMG we just got the fantex receiving a brief from them on so many exciting products and let's just dive right in with the evolve X they refined everything about this enclosure that I love so much so let's check out all the little upgrades and they're little but they're incremental and there's there's so many of them that makes this case that I think would be one of the best premium enclosures that we'll see in 2018 so let's check it out but huge thanks to our sponsors fantex Thermaltake and Coolermaster for making contexts possible alright so the first thing is the price the evolved X will run for a hundred and ninety nine dollars we launched in August and just to give you a reference point because that seems like on the higher end of scale at $199 the original evolved ATX rent for a hundred and eighty nine dollars and the amount of features they've improved on here just the list is huge so the ten dollar premium doesn't seem so bad so let's start with the exterior basically they've refined the original design with tons of improvements they've maintains the same characteristics of the original evolve but improved air flow so the length of the case is the same but the height has increased by ten millimeters so the top is slightly higher with larger ventilation area and air flow in this case has been somewhat of a concern over the years but now the surface area for the front intake is three times larger versus the original and the top one is five times larger than the original so there's higher spacing between edges of paneling and interior spacing is deeper so the distance from the fans to the paneling it has been increased to improve air flow they've also added new lighting effects as you can see so two large ambient strips at the front I love how they're behind the panel sort of revealing this sort of like you know spacing between they are digital RGB so gradients are awesome the color of vibrancy is just incredible while the side LED illumination is a high density LED which means they've doubled on the LED amounts on the strip so the gradient is much smoother we no longer have these like chunky transitions as we saw on the p3 50x and also the connect mechanism for the front panel is utilizing the three pin method so it's to us you don't have to worry about reconnecting stuff and that's convenient now in terms of the feature set man this is a long list so the major focus was to not waste any space and just utilize things in smart ways so the new i/o includes a Type C Gen 2 which has a 50 centimeter long cable so you can route it to your motherboard regardless of where the type C IO Gen 2 on the motherboard is connected we do have the two buttons for color and mode cycling they've really put a lot of emphasis on making sure that there's a proper airflow for intake and exhaust so implement that small details like this radiator bracket at the top is removable and includes latches to actually catch the bracket so reinstallation of things while you have your radiator on there is much easier we also have cable clips for routing on that bracket and a fill port in the right place because many have asked for this feature so you can build a high end water cooling system so if you're going for 140 millimeter width you can do a 420 at the front or 280 at the top or dual 360s one on top one in the front we do have this magnetic cover at the top that prevents the recycling of air so if you have a radiator that exhausting air you can position that a little magnetic plate either at the front or the back depending on where your radiator is located and that will prevent the hot air from bouncing back into the case and recirculating that air we have new locking points for the side panels so they still swing to open like on the original but you can secure them with some screws at the front so if you're handling the case and carrying it they simply will not open there is now a drain port something that people have been asking for ever and it's actually more important than your fill port it's right in the front behind the panel and you know easy access you can drain your liquid refill your stuff and boom now fantex is really focusing things on air flow so they're trying to make their cases airtight so the side panels have now this rubber seals around the perimeter so for one air pressure and two sound isolation we also have a new anti GPU sag bracket that installs behind the PCI slots that pushes on the heavy cards therefore avoiding that sag it's a really cool addition and it's include with the Evolve ex coming inside we have a new power supply shroud design so there's a power supply cut out revealing your unit behind it there's a new GPU cable cut out it is still a prototype but it can slide that's kind of you know closing in that gap so if you have a thinner cables you can have less of a gap if it's a standard round cable it can open it a bit more and now we have three vertical brackets which is awesome so if you want to offset your a dual slot GPU closer to the motherboard to create that spacing that's a possibility or if you have a triple slot graphics card for that vertical mount that is also now a possibility the new cable covers beside the motherboard are awesome because they cover that entire section which hides the like all the SSD mounts and stuff behind it and they can also slide to accommodate for motherboard so if you install an ATX motherboard you can slide those covers to the right closer to the front panel thus revealing more area for cables to pass through and if you have an ATX motherboard you can close those sections it's a brilliant design that just it just works now in order to showcase the full potential of the vault X fantex had basically built this professional server great system with eight hard drives and nine SSDs now the case can support up to ten hard drives simultaneously all thanks to this new hard drive brackets which are stackable and they can be hanged on the interior or stacked at the very bottom we have a new cable management system with these doors that swivel to open their two lists so no need for screws and they're attached via Clips we have improved cable tie points which are separated into two channels so you can have one for your thicker cables one for thinner i/o cables and we have these SSD panels that open up fully and hide the cables behind it and we have three more SSDs that can be installed on this new cover beside the power supply and so the upgrade of this section is brilliant because not only do these covers allow for you to hide your cable mass even though if you're not necessarily attaching all your cables to cable tie points and velcro straps they also act for your storage so three SSDs per bracket that's awesome and routing all that is kind of you know within the vicinity of the power supply we also have a new PWM fan how 4:9 fans or you can use y splitters to expand that count with awesome top location so you can route all your fans easily but fantex did have something up their sleeve and so now we have this 15 dollar ITX bracket that's right it has its own power button and this removable top a rear plate on the actual case for the motherboard IO so it basically installs an irradiated bracket up top and there you have a second ITX system inside your ATX case that is brilliant now it doesn't need its own power supply so that's where revolt X comes into play it can power two systems at once but what about the GPU for the ITX system and that is where the 60 centimeter riser cable comes into play so you can route it from the ITX motherboard all the way down and you can have a total of three GPUs or more installed in this case so one GPU for the ITX system and there is you know offset closer to the side panel so there is no interference with the main GPUs in your ATX motherboard I do think they have something special in their hands to expand the popularity for dual systems inside a pretty compact enclosure and so that is the Evolve X what do you guys think of all the little upgrades make sure to check out our original review just to get the reference point of where we started basically to where we are now but we also get to see a little sneak peek of this prototype the Eclipse p600 so it will launch an end of q3 or the lower price point than the evolve X so that's awesome to see so this whole case is about switching between silence and performance so it's got a quiet configuration with silent dampeners and seals on the window with high airflow configuration at the same time if you open up the top in the front panel you can angle the front panel so it's not completely removed but removing it does not detract from the attractive looks I think that's a good focus from fantex parts so you can have a silent system that's a little bit more elegant or airflow focus system that still looks pretty elegant now the cool thing about the p 600 is the new mesh fabric at the top and the front so it is better for airflow and holds some large dust particles and there is a finer dust filter on the inside to catch the smaller ones this new mesh fabric is about ten percent better for air flow than your metal mesh and it allows fantex to experiment with different fabric materials color choices textures and so it has this both functionality for airflow and looks at last for light leaked to go through so you know any lighting will be visible it's a cool direction and I can't wait to see the final result the interior is based on the evolve X so all the same feature set would improve things glass panels are on hinges you can upgrade to a dual system it will be a steel construction and not aluminium like when they evolve X and there are no SSD panels behind the motherboard tray because the side panel here is solid so you don't necessarily need to cover everything up the one cool thing about the front panel is the direction of the ventilation channeling any noise that escapes towards the back of the case thus making a sort of a quieter system and the spacing between the fans and the front panel is adequate and you know I don't think it should impede air flow and the last thing to cover our fans Soph antics is designing new ones because they have expertise in air case airflow so they want to build something that accommodates their own cases for more silent operation better CFM and higher static pressure so that if you have paneling and radiator and dust filters all that is not compromising on the cooling potential of those default case fans so this new fans have new blade design that minimizes the gap between the blades and the frame they've increased the thickness of the frame itself so about 30 millimetres instead of your 25 watching original which gives us more prostatic pressure the sound quality has improved with smoother sound waves so it gives quiet operation and cable management has been a part of their thinking so you can daisy chain multiple fans in the front with a single cable and then plug that four pin pwm connector into your motherboard alright so as usual it's awesome to see fantex working on those little details and improvements to make you guys happy to make the assembly process easier to make airflow better because that's been a huge part of discussion for 2018 cable management is improved with new paneling you know just diverse options from the builds water cooling dual systems complete server rack would like you know 10 hard drives inside a case and that is awesome modularity to the level that we have come to expect alright guys so let me know what you think of the evolve X make sure to check out the other relevant content and yeah we'll see you in the next video