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today we'll be doing an unboxing an overview of the antic dark fleet DF 85 this is a full tower chassis and why don't we do a quick overview of these teachers that it's includes first of all you have a tuna half inch SSD slot right in the top of the drive this runs at your full state of speed whatever you hook up to it so that's a pretty neat feature if you want to plug in SSD into the front of your case and then we've also got four external three and a half inch fleet swap SATA Drive bays so these are hot swap SATA Bay's that you can actually move around with in the case much like the Antec 1200 you can actually take the whole module and move it somewhere else if you want these accept three and a half inch drives and then we have fleet release drive bay access to our fleet release basically is a name for their door that includes a fan a fan control knob a stepless fan control knob so you can have the fan run at any speed you want as well as a fan filter this gives you access to the hard drive bays as well as the fleet swap base next we have USB 3.0 on the front a single port and it is SSD hard drive compatible it is designed by an tech in California and what else do we have on the outside of the box that I can tell you about there's a picture of the case I don't think that's all that relevant then we've got a big long list of specs camera down if you want to just have a look at the spec list they can always pause it and have a look if they feel like it three front USB 2.0 ports that's probably relevant as well as the one USB 3.0 port color coded blue CPU cut out for easy CPU installation and oh it accepts EPX power supplies that's pretty relevant too because an tech cp850 and CP 1000 are both really good units at a really good price so let's get this thing opened up this is my cheat sheet today by the way because there's a lot of stuff to remember about this case and from time to time I do actually try to learn about the product before I unbox it rather than just trying to learn on camera look at this I've prepared everything today I've got a knife I've got my screwdriver and I even have an SSD drive to put into little SSD slot that is preparation so first thing we find inside the box is are you even able to hear me you can hear me okay so we find a piece of paper that tells us this is a product overview and we've also got some screws okay why don't we just open this up and see what's inside okay product overview will only provide general information shows you what all that where all that fans are and stuff and then yeah okay oh hey hey hey this is cool okay so there's nuts that's the amount I'll show you that once we get inside the case and then next we have some harddrive grommets we got some thumb screws motherboard screws dried screws as well as a couple reusable cable ties Thank You antic cable ties are always a plus on a new case and I can't get this out so I'm gonna use the old trick draw Wow it comes in really good foam I'll give it that much there's a high quality closed cell phone you can be assured that you're an tech DFAT five will not be damaged in transit you've got a good inch plus of packing material on all sides and you can see that it arrived in very good condition when it was shipped - all right let's get the plastic off here and the first thing you'll notice is that it's pretty similar in structure to the Antec 1200 so it's been upgraded in a lot of ways but the general shape is quite reminds me quite a bit of the Antec 1200 including the side window here so it does have a side window which has an optional 120 millimeter fan mount for a graphics card fan then we have a some thumb screws on the back so I'm just gonna get this opened up so we can have a good look at it why don't we do them rest to the outside first okay I'll take that off then we'll take off the inside one in a little bit here but let's have a look at the beach release as well as fleet swap base so first of all these are the elite really oh man I can't even remember which is Fleet released in which is fleet swap help me okay these are the fleet release base so these open up somehow okay let's see if we can figure out how to do it that would be the key is to figure out how to open them there has to be a way and it can't be all that complicated because you can't call something like fleet like like fast like Swift and less here okay well that was easy does this just come out like that no well these are easy so these are just covers for your five and a quarter inch bays okay so there we go we've got that much figured out and then we have okay why don't I try opening up the side panel first and see if I can figure out how to get these open so side panel has a nice clear window on it one of the things that they have updated since the 1200 is this is no longer mesh this is now plexi so you can actually see through the entire window we've got anti-vibration mounts here for the side VGA fan so that's pretty good there we go and let's see if we can figure out how to open up these days here so first let's take this Oh wonder what this does does that unlock them not yet oh okay oh it unlocks them oh there we go okay so all of the fleet release days are locked by default and then you just open them up just like that I'm guessing they become a little bit easier to open as time goes on but yeah there that's not that complicated so now we have access to all of these of the fans these are washable fan filters in here 120 millimeter fans you can see these are an Tek three-speed fans they are LED fans so those are red LEDs on red fans with a black frame so they look pretty cool when they're lit up I'll make a point of actually lighting up this case at some point in the future so I can show it to you guys the other thing that an Tek is really touting is a cool feature on this case it's the stepless fan control right here which is built-in do all of the front fans and here is the other really really cool one and this is fleet swap so right back here you have to look inside the case you can see that there are two only two I thought there were more well there are two front SATA hot swaps that you can actually move to any two SATA ports that you want in the front and there are actually four I lied the other two are up here by default so you can move these around however you want actually cameraman if you want to hear come have a look at them from the inside you can see that the screws right here can allow you to just remove these they're made of plastic but fairly durable and then you can just put them wherever you want so you can configure it so that the hot-swap bays are wherever you need them to be there you all use separate power and data cables so there's no port multiplier involved there's no there's no power routing from sort of one plug to multiple ports or anything like that but it does give you a very flexible very modular interface for your drives very cool let's have a look at what we've got for front panel connectors here okay well it's tied with two zip ties for extra added safety and security okay so for our front panel connectors we have a USB three which is intended to go around to the back of your motherboard so that'll give you front USB three because the the pin out is not yet decided for the USB three standard so if you want a front USB three that's all you can really do is run it around to the back of the case so then the next thing we've got is our front USB 2.0 reset switch another front USB 2.0 then we have the front theta which I will show you in a little bit more detail in a moment we have power for the front we have front HD audio we have front AC 97 audio should we so desire we have a hard drive led and I'm gonna go ahead and assume there's a power switch in there somewhere but I can't find it for the life of me power LED come on power switch okay I got this one this one this one and power-switch got it excellent so at the back there are two more 120 millimeter fans these match the color scheme of the 120 millimeters in the front so all in all actually that's one of the probably the best values about this case is the fact that it comes with seven fans by default all preloaded into the case and they're all reasonably good quality fans - these are all an Tek try cools I actually don't know if the ones up top er yeah yeah those who try cools - and so all the ones at the back are controlled by switches at the back of the case so I can get the cameraman to come have a look at the back here you can see that the rear fans are controlled by these switches so they can be set to either low or high and these are sliders ooh that's cool so you can adjust them to whatever speed you want by the look of things although I could be wrong so don't quote me on that one so it might just be low hi that one's kind of recessed but you can probably still hit it the top ones are right here so that controls all the fans at the back now one disadvantage is that if you want to replace the fans with something else that might be a little tricky to get them to actually work this way here is our standard i/o plate location then we have one two three four five six seven expansion slots so you're going to fit standard ATX motherboards here are two water cooling grommets so if you wanted to mount a rear radiator or anything like that you'd run the tubes through there then you've got your standard ATX power supply hole and then you can also remove these four screws and that allows you to mount a CPX power supply let's have a look around the back of the case and see if we can find any interesting cable routing features or anything like that you see camera man's pointing at something I don't know any I don't know he's on a bus he's pointing at the front five and a quarter inch bays maybe he wants me to talk about the five and a quarter inch people I haven't forgotten that now he's pointing is something that I had totally hadn't forgotten he's trying to remind me of stuff that I know silly cameraman tricks are for kids now he's shaking his head at me cameraman guy given his mac see he wouldn't use something like this because it's not you know an apple so you know he doesn't understand you know why this would be interesting obviously here's your power okay come back so here's your power supply cable routing goals you've you've got your power supply mounted in the bottom so you can run your 24 pin here you run your 8 pin up here you run whatever they're called power connectors SATA up here for the optical drives and then you can run any SATA cables you want over to your hard drives over here and then you can also you know what this is something else that I should mention I think that an tech saying you can actually install another one of these if you don't want any optical drives and you can just have 4 fans in the front so I don't know where you buy them but I think that you can so that might be relevant here's the CPU cut out nice and big but without losing any sturdiness you can see they've peeled back the metal here so that the edges are all rounded I could rub my fingers on these all day and I would not get a cut see I didn't get a cut I was hoping I wouldn't get a cut and then let's see the last thing that I want to talk about is the 140 millimeter fans on the top those look a little bit bigger than one I think they're 140 Mill high the other 140 ml no I'm just crazy yeah these are 140 millimeter fans try cools also they spin just like that and then the last thing that I finally want to show you let's actually use the hot sloppy I'm just gonna take a wd one terabyte black hard drive then I'm gonna plug it in and then that is how long it takes to install a hard drive in the dark fleet 85 once you've already plugged in the connectors at the back of the fleet swap modular interface things that you can move around and finally the real last thing I want to show you because I lied last time so here's the power cable that comes up from the power supply and then here's a SATA cable that we plugged in in theory when we were installing our system and you can plug in this SSD now I don't know that this is the most secure way to install an SSD in your system but I will let you be the judge of that the way that I see this being more useful is actually just if you store your data on just a regular tuna 1/2 inch notebook hard drive and you just want to sort of quickly plug it in instead of you know hauling out a USB cable or whatever then this would be a really easy way to plug that in or I mean hey if you wanted your like if you want address SD on display for the world you know Hey look at me look how cool I am I have a 128 gig SSD EO then it's all clear so you