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welcome to Jays two cents exclusive insider coverage of CES 2014 our trip this year is brought to you by aqua tuning your global source for PC modding and cooling components and by Sennheiser the pursuit of perfect sound and of course by generous viewers like you so strap in with Jays two cents as he takes you on a wild ride through CES 2014 hey guys you're watching Jays two cents and guess what I happened to find somebody here who's taller than me I guys I'm with Josh here from fractal design and he's gonna be showing us a case here that is directly derivative of what the customers have asked for so Josh obviously this is an r4 I define r4 but what makes it different this is actually the r4 blackout so what makes this different is this is the first case that we've done where it has all black internals and it might not seem like much of a change but it's one of those things that we've gotten from a lot of our fans a lot of our customers they've wanted to see an all-black interior so we wanted to give that to them it's gonna be out sometime probably around April okay so functionality wise it's all the same it comes with the same fan block outset fractals known for where if you have unused fan slots you don't have dust entry points you can control the airflow you can control the pressure of course you have the the same adjustable hard drive bays but you can turn them sideways or put water cooling in the front the top it's everything you come to expect with fractal design but it's just all black so if you guys are looking for like a stealth build you definitely want to check out the defined fractal r4 or the fractal define r4 blackout that's what it is it's just all black so Josh thank you for showing this to me today hope to show some more fractal stuff here in the future on the channel I know we've been kind of creating a bromance here yeah we're we're talking a little bit on the side so yeah guys this is what you see right here is what you get with fractal and we are gonna have a glorious relationship here on Jays two cents and don't go away because now we're going to show you guys what some of these other mint manufacturers have been doing with their cases for their custom builds I'm still standing here with fractal jaws cut hanging out here with fractal Josh you guys know this guy what are we looking at here you've got some looks like some boutique builds from some of your system integrators exactly so what we're doing is we wanted to showcase some of our system builder partners those are the companies have chosen to use our products as part of their builds the first one you're looking at here is from Puget systems and it's a workstation effectively as you can tell by the dual processor now what's interesting about this setup is that exactly how quiet this thing is which is kind of hard to tell it all the ambient noise around but they picked this the defined XLR - due to its silent nature and the fact it's highly configurable so you know to be able to have a system that's this quiet I mean you can tell people what you think about how quiet it is well I can tell you right now I almost stuck my fingers in the fan if they didn't have this grill on here because I didn't realize it was running and you guys know I'm a I'm a noise snob my pcs as quiet as I can get it and I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of take the mic and just move it around you guys you might hear some interference cuz it's wireless we'll hope not but this is absolutely inaudible I mean now obviously right now it's sitting kind of an idle mode so everything's sort of ramped down but one of the things that fractal design obviously is known for is the sound insulation that you guys integrate into your cases so even if you put this thing into workload mode or you start doing rendering or whatever you're doing with this dual Xeon build once you put that insulated side panel on there you're not going to have any of the sound issues escaping out of there so what are we looking at here with this Green Monster sure over here we have a system for my exotic PC it's basically an arc XL that they've customized into their own system and what's really doing is highlighting the liquid cooling flexibility of the case it has a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator in the top as well as two hundred and forty millimeter radiator in the front and it's running an SLI bill that's also both cards liquid cooled so really kind of showcases a flexibility I just recently did the arc XL review that you sent me and I have to admit it is clearly one of the most water cooling friendly cases that I've seen when it comes to including dual rads 360s and 240s and the amount of thickness it accommodates in the front you know if you if you some people want to do massive rides like we have a quad and a triple but they give you plenty of room to incorporate thicker radiators to maintain surface area and not you know encroach into the actual living space in the case I mean look down here in the bottom we've got a dual on the front we got the pump the DDC in the bottom we've got a massive reservoir right here sitting horizontal full-length power supply here SLI and you know this it doesn't look cluttered Q graphics cards all the water cooling contained inside the case and yeah so this is this is the system that you can get from exotic PC one of the many companies that have incorporated fractal design in their OM specs and with their cases so guys Josh thank you for talking with me today you guys are gonna see a lot more of this guy on my channel I'm sure and if you're not following us on Twitter you should because that's the place to be guys let me get on out of here make sure you are following us for all of our exclusive coverage of CES 2014 and as always I will see you in my next video if I still have a voice