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Will This New Case Lineup SUCCEED? MetallicGear by Phanteks

2018-06-07
always a good day started with spandex oMG I am so on time supposed to be here at 9:00 it is 901 plus check out this view alright so I'm back at fantex because they are launching a new sub brand of Fanta called metal gear metallic gear metallic you metallic gear how do you say metallic gear by the way this is boon he's the lead designer for fantex so all the love that the evolve X has been received it's because of this guy so he's also be able to be over looking in the metallic gear design direction so yeah this should be good so yeah I'm really excited about the roadmap you guys are going to love what we're going to do because so the new lineups are neo and neo G let's check them out uber presence I'll get a new your president yeah kami okay alright so the three cases we have on display today are the Neo the Neo micro and the Neo mini they all have the same exterior design language with aluminum front and top panels elegant curvature on the corners is simple power button and recent buttons up top and some former blackout pattern on the glass side panels does filtration for the bottom and front is present and the black and silver color schemes are pretty standard it's not a loud case and we even get an RGB LED firing down below the front panel I do like how consistent this whole lineup is but let me know what you think of the design so let's start with the Neill it is an ATX enclosure it comes with two fans and it's priced at $99 which is the top ceiling for their pricing structure since the plan is to really go down in price and to like trickle down all those features from this like premium lineup into something a little bit more value oriented the power supply shroud is exposed so you can see the power supply and the hard drive cage underneath but we do have that nice chamber separation weather to eighty millimeter radiator support at the front with only silent elation available on both sides so this isn't per to for super high airflow ei TX motherboard compatibility is present and I do like the super easy cable management section with this cover and this deeper area at the front and for storage we have two SSD brackets and a dual drive cage at the bottom moving on to the next enclosure is the Neo micro so this one's a micro ATX enclosure it's only a tiny bit shorter versus the ATX model it comes with one fan and it's priced at 84 dollars and I always appreciate more micro text options in the market and having fantasy influenced will definitely help metallic gear in this space I like the dual SSD caddies on the power supply shroud for that showcase of your drives keel management should be easy with velcro straps up top and this large front gap and lastly closing the size loop for this new Neil lineup we have the Neo mini which actually is the case that I'm most excited about so it is an ITX frame for 69 bucks there's actually quite capable and despite the larger size it's a nice balance between hardware support and user friendly assembly so ATX power supplies are supported up top along with thirteen and a half inch GPUs cooling is adequate as well we have the front and the rear mounts plus the side fan exhaust for dual 120mm fans so if you want to have that area for exhaust that's an option with appropriate exhaust ventilation on the rear side panel or you can cover it up with these like black or silver panels and use it for drive capacity at the back the bottom is fully ventilated for the GPU to breathe but the many G version of this case comes equipped with the vertical GPU mount and double glass side panels for that showcase PC and because the vertical orientation for those PCI slots we have four of those so you could potentially mount more than one graphics card and overall I like the simplicity of this new neo lineup and I'm excited to see how far they can bring down the price without eliminating too many features to really you know meet those like $39 price points and I think the new lineup is going to be quite popular in the future and the only thing to think about right now is almost like competition between metallic gear and fantex because fantex has current lineup you know under $80 is fantastic so it's almost competing together of course they are almost targeting different markets with you know fantex being on the performance side while metallic gear from the visual aesthetics is totally different so that's you know also catering to different user alright guys so what do you think of this whole neo lineup and fantex is a direction to branch out into this new brand to design cost-effective chassé ease that will eventually trickle down into the $40.00 territory that is the goal and I think we definitely need to have more of those value oriented cases in the space because from the looks of it I think when we started with a good quality frame trickling it down to something a little bit more budget-friendly is going to be awesome all right guys some three tree boon is over here with me and we'll see you in next
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