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what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and today we're gonna take a look at the new flagship case from fractal design this kind of came is the last minute we weren't really expecting to see this in 2017 yet here it is the define r6 it's not really a successor to the r5 at least none in my opinion because there's enough design changes enough complete redesign of the entire case in the way it works though I don't feel like it's actually I don't you can tell it has heritage from the r4 in the r5 but it definitely takes it all of that and makes its own new chassis fixing a lot of things a lot of us have complained about with the past and adding some new features that we didn't even know we wanted until we saw it the all-new mastered liquid 120 and 240 l RGB coolers provide an easy and reliable way to keep your processor nice and cool they're all new dual chamber pump and low resistance radiator offer a higher transfer of heat for both Intel and AMD CPUs while six preset lighting effects in RGB ensure that the 120 and 240 ll seamlessly match your color design choice make it yours by following the link in the description below so the very first thing you should be able to see that's different obviously is we have a full tempered glass side panel it runs the entire length its frameless if you will there's no frame around it like some have there's no screw holes there's no brackets holding it on it's it's the cleanest side panel on the market at least as far as I'm concerned I keep this rag handy now because any time I move the case I'm touching the glass but it actually has thumb screws on the back that it are pre-installed when it's shipped because they don't want to pop out but it is a completely tool this side panel because it has as you can see these little nubbins if you are at there we'll call them nubbins and they just pop right in right there and then you've got the front which looks like kind of like a standard side panel right with this little rail right here but then when you want to put it on you just line it up on the front and then pop it down and that's it and that is not going our wipe off my fingerprints again that's the only downside about tempered glass obviously it's just like you want to keep it clean because it looks terrible fingerprints now fractal told me they were they were comfortable with me doing this because they do it themselves to show how tight it is ladies it's not going anywhere that's not popping off so as long as you're not running around through a case glass side down hitting bumps or going off-roading I don't think there's gonna be a problem let's go and pop this off though because yeah we're gonna do a teardown in this thing now the back is actually the same so the stump screws that ship in the back once you pop them out it's the exact same retention mechanism in fact I wonder could you order another glass side panel and show off the back if you did not I know if you would really care oh my god you can hmm so if you had a really clean wiring job if you had custom link cables that were made and it looks super pretty like some of those cases you see you could actually show it off this way that'd be neat have them on both sides I don't even think about that tool right now before we talk about the inside of the case there's something I want to fix on here real quick for whatever reason the r-series case is always shipped with the door opening right to left like this which doesn't make sense to me because with the panel being on this side and this orientation tells you the case is gonna be on your right so opening the door like this never made that much sense to me so you've got these hinges right here to unscrew this and then you just apply it to the other side and screw it on to the hinge over here and then put it back on in the exact reverse order of how you took it off and then you switch the side so now let's say I think that that's that's the way it should ship I don't know why they do it this way but whatever so now this opens the way that it's supposed to giving you access to your front side air filter exposing our two pre-installed 140 millimeter front intake fans and also this case retains something that I feel like it's kind of rare these days which is a five and a quarter Bay Drive you could use this for a five and a quarter reservoir five and a quarter bay drive fan controller whatever a lot of cases these days has just been a mini entirely where they're not including any of that because we're going for the super clean all fan front-end at least practical gives you the option to retain at least one of those devices if you want it speaking of the front filter it's got sort of a screen type material like that you can find on a Windows screen it's not super super fine but it's still going to stop your dust and your debris from getting inside your case but it's not going to hinder the airflow too much so that's a nice thing to see and then of course for air intake the design has been proven to work plenty of times plenty of ventilation right here on the side of the case because as you can see the fans are recessed back what you can see that the fans are actually behind the vents instead of being even with the vents which some cases have unfortunately made the mistake of doing so plenty of air intake for the front speaking of fan filters we do have a filter that runs the entire length of the bottom of the case so if you have rear bottom intake fans like Puget systems likes to use at least one pin on the bottom bringing air in you also have your power supply on the back the same exact screen material as on the front gives you protection for both the bottom intake fans that might be there as well as your power supply but it's accessible from the front that's a good move some people tend to put them access in the back which is a terrible idea especially if this is against a wall or something now as you can see the top of the case is a solid panel that's because the way ships from the factory is a very cross flow design now this is their new mod you vent design in the past to get the vents out you had to open up the case put your hand in and kind of pop out the individual panels there were three panels pop them out to get access to the fans or to install fans or whatever now we've got this push button design right here with the push of one button you get access flips to the mod you've any single piece as you can also see that we do have our filter right here in our vent very similar to this guy so that when you remove the mod you bent cover you can put the the filter and the vent back on exposing airflow for your rear or your top exhaust fans your radiators whatever it might be now speaking of the top vents they've redesigned this a little bit where the 120 millimeter fans used to be offset to give you more clearance radiators but the 140s were still centered which the problem was if you wanted to do 140 radiators it might impact on some motherboards when it hangs down buy them off sensing the hole offsetting the whole thing now we have tons of clearance for motherboards that have high vrm heat sinks and such but look at this we also have an included fill port hole so you can take a fill port if you're doing a custom loop mount it to this and give yourself easy access to top off your loop if you need to without even having to go inside the case because of the button right here and the quick release mod you vent or top vent so we've got right here is a fairly aesthetically pleasing wall that I would say as a modder this would be a good canvas to etch something or paint something or make a lighted lip panel in some way these have got these thumb screws all they reveal is the backside of the harddrive cages and where they mount they put this on there to make it pretty unfortunately if you're going to be using all the harddrive cages you've got to leave this wall in there however if you don't want all the harddrive cages which I'm about to show you on the backside these do have screws which are standard screws are not riveted in there so this whole wall comes out exposing this as to a giant open chassis we also have this PSU shroud right here that's become like the norm in 2016 and 2017 PSU shrouds hide your power supply pretend they're not there why show off all the cables where they're bunched up at the bottom so this has become the standard and obviously this is the first time we've seen this with a define R series case we saw this and things like the Mesha Phi and whatnot but we didn't see this in the r5 because it kind of became the norm after the r5 was already launched as you can see it's fully vented so we have the plenty of airflow going down to the power supply if you have the fan facing up or if you have it face down remember we have that full length ventilation on the bottom and the filter allowing us to be able to make sure that everything's clean but you have plenty of airflow to your power supply I mean after all there's a fan in there it needs airflow got a nice thick grommet right here thick rubber that doesn't feel like it's gonna tear easily like some cases in the past we've also got plenty of grommet passages right here along the motherboard tray and on the top right here for things like fan CPU EPS power cables and all that but the biggest change which some of you have probably already noticed is the fact that it supports ei TX motherboards finally that was one of the things that kept me from using fractal cases because a lot of my builds have a ATX motherboards and this now supports it I don't know why that was so hard in the past but I digress here it is EA TX support in an RFI are assuming oh let's call an RFID and then our six we'd like to see that now make its way over to the s-series chassis x' but anyway moving on to the back now you can see a completely redesigned way of installing the hard drives you have the sleds but it said them being a squeeze sled that slide in and out it's got one captive thumb screw and it's got this little bracket right here that mounts onto that wall that I showed you you can fit on here obviously your three and a half inch mug up in motherboards three and half inch hard drives two and a half inch SSD is a two and a half inch drives it simply pushes in like this one screw to mount it now in terms of how many of these you can fit in here if you bought extra sleds because there are options available for this case you can fit a pretty substantial amount of hard drives in here so if we're talking three and a half inch drives right standard three and half inches thick hard drives you could fit one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven because down have they get closer together for SSDs so you have two space one in between down here so 11 3/2 1/2 inch hard drives will fit right here making it perfect for things like home servers Plex servers workstations with tons of hard drive space needed eleven plus room for two two and a half inch SSDs right here plus whatever n dot two drives you might have available on your motherboard or if you have something like an asus with dim dot 2 plus the motherboards you could fit a ridiculous amount of storage on here now because of the notch right here on the back of these sleds you have plenty of room to route your cables up and down to all of these they're not going to be squished against the panel the back panel but you also have them offset this way so you have plenty of room for a 30 millimeter radiator attached to the fans right here so 30 mil thickness would fit no problem remove the sled you can go as thick as you want as we're about to show you but that's a pretty neat design so you can retain both hard drives and your radiators on the front something else it's nice to see here is we have an included fan hub that has a PWM supply right here as well as they say two power supply so you can have three PWM control devices or more than likely just fans and you can also have an additional six plugged in that are still controlled off PWM that don't have to be PWM fans so three PWM fans as well as six a six-way hub right here for regular fans making a single point of connection for your all of your fans with your water cooling this it's it's literally like they actually listened to people that's pretty awesome if you ask me alright moving forward let's go ahead and remove this cage on this wall so you can see just how open the chassis can be so you got two screws on the top right here two screws on the bottom and then it looks like there are gonna be some right here behind the front panel so once you take this guy off and this guy off so once that's out you can see you've got this pretty widely open chassis that gives you all the room for massive radiator and reservoir up front radiator on top technically radiator on the back if you want with lots of of radiator support but you lose all of the hard drive support with the exception of the two and a half inch available right here on the back there's actually some optional upgrades to this case that are available as well if we take a look at the center connectivity on the front you've got your power button you've got your reset button mic and headphones two USB 2.0 s into USB 3.0 s however if you wanted to update that you can actually upgrade it basically with the same exact connector here but it includes a USB type-c 3.1 gen 3 gen 2 whatever it is but that is an optional add-on but of course it wouldn't be 2017 if we didn't have a vertical GPU mount option so of course we've got our riser card right here plugs into your motherboard and then we've got screw kit that comes with it this is an optional piece so this is something that you'll have to consider if you want this either at the time of purchase or add it on later it's got additional standoffs that screw into the shroud all right so you just mount the riser card down to the standoffs that you just installed so when it comes to length I decided to kind of pull out all the stops and hold out my 1080 hall-of-fame because this is a very long card as you can see it's actually a little bit bigger than a two slot it's like a two and a half slot which is gonna push it somewhat close to the to the glass panel so that's something to keep in mind the amount of space you're gonna have right here could choke off the intakes on the fan but if you're running a 2 slot card obvious here and have plenty of room where a water water-cooled graphics card of course you have plenty of room but if we take a look now at this we should still have plenty of room for our wall right there yes yes we do so as you can see barely it barely fits look at that right there Nick that barely fits but as you can see that's actually pretty Mielec fills out that space pretty nice there's anything the white card looks awesome but the black contrast so I think the r6 is one of the most versatile cases on the market today especially with how much they've achieved in a mid-tower case because like I said full water cooling support with the retention of hard drive brackets if you're gonna be running slim rads or 30 mil rads on the front you can fit rads on the top while retaining the front radiator and the hard drive cages and a vertical mount and the PSU shroud toolless removal of the side panels probably the cleanest looking side panel yet in my opinion when it comes to tempered glass without brackets or screws it's really hard to see how it could possibly get any better now it does actually come in two other options our other colors as well we've got black which is this one with the white hardware we got blackout which is black with the black hardware you've got gunmetal which is actually the one I had requested but they sent me black but whatever I digress I'm not salty about that and there's also white white with black hardware which I think would look phenomenal I think I'm gonna get a white one I think I want to do a build in a white one but yeah I imagine this imagine this graphics card in a white case Nick with like all the white parts we can get like the white tough series for Macy's and all that that would look I've never done a white build and I kind of want to do that but anyway you guys know what to do if you've got comments put them down below tell me what you think about this case what would you change if there was something you think that's really standing out to you that this case should have had that it doesn't like integrated lighting I think that's something I always mentioned but I know cost is hard on that put it down in the comments below I'd like to hear your opinions but I have a hard time seeing how this one can really get much better anyway I'm gonna go guys thanks for watching as always we'll see you in the next