Gadgetory

the colossus mini-itx and m ATX borrow from a couple of other popular BitFenix products first they borrow their style from BitFenix this very first case the colossus and second they borrow their interior design from the prodigy and the prodigy m the cooler master glazier 240 L CPU cooler delivers the convenience of an all-in-one and the performance of a custom water cooler click now to learn more you'll be used to this form factor if you've ever used a prodigy but of course it does like I said borrow from the Colossus in terms of the styling so it has a bit of an upward angled shape to the top cover here and then it has a bit of an angular helmet like shape to the front that gives it a more aggressive look than something like the prodigy ventilation is handled through just these vents on the top for the front giving access to fresh air to the five and a quarter inch drive bay that has been turned into ventilation as well as the 140 millimeter sized vent in the front so the airflow is not going to be exceptional compared to some versions of this type of case that have larger vents but it should be adequate for what most people install in n ATX or mini ITX system also on the front we find a piece of plastic as well as a bit Fenix logo more on the piece of plastic in just a moment on the right hand side we do not find that same nice soft touch finish that's on the top and the front but just a more standard painted steel finish two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphone jack reset and power switches then on the left hand side we find not a whole lot of anything on the top not only that soft touch touch finish that I talked about before but also a dual 120 millimeter fan mount with a removable filtered mesh right there on the bottom we find another removable fan fill take this one for the power supply so you can just pop that out the back if you want to go ahead and clean it and then finally on the back we find a 120 or 140 millimeter fan mount two expansion slots and then a removable plate for the power supply that allows you to take that out and slide it back in now there are two interior layouts for this case the one we're going to be talking about mostly in this video is the mini ITX layout that is the one that is based on the original prodigy but we actually did a build guide not that long ago in the m80 X version of the Phenom so that will have the same layout as an m-80 X version of this case we'd have now before we move to the inside of the case let's go ahead and show you what's so special about this little plastic book oh what did he just do the little plastic strip has what BitFenix is calling light track technology and it's an unbroken line of light that wraps around three sides of the case it allows you to change the colors completely anything from blue to red to green and you can even add pulsating effects to give it a bit of a a breathing effect in the dark or if you don't like any of that you can just turn it off now because we have two of these cases we were in a pretty unique position where we can show you one that has nothing installed in it and another one that's been decked out and has a pretty high-end gaming system installed so first of all I take off the side panel and this gives us some insight into how that whole lighting effect thing works the ones on the side panels don't actually need to be plugged in independently they just have like little look looks like fiber-optic tubes that are yeah not carrying the light around the case and then delivering them here you go to these pieces like this just like that so the whole thing illuminates very cool actually then taking off both side panels we can see that I actually removed the five and a quarter inch expansion bay in order to get an H 100 in there I also have removed some of the three-and-a-half inch expansion bays of which you can normally have a maximum of five but in this case we're down to two down here on the bottom so there's an additional cage that it can be installed this gave us the ability to install a long graphics card such as the Radeon HD 7970 that we have installed in here right now so that's how we get that dual 120 millimeter rad in the front which means we don't have to worry necessarily as much about airflow in the case overall because our CPU at least will be able to exhaust its heat directly out without affecting the rest of the interior components although I do wish that the side panel where the graphics card is located would have some perforations for airflow to come in as well you can install up to a 230 millimeter fan in the front although the only ventilation holes in the front are going to be about 140 millimeters you can install up to that 140 millimeter fan I talked about before in the back it's got a two 'lest drive mounting system go ahead and pop those cages out install your drives into them it's tooless for three and a half inch so you just kind of flex them like this and then put the drive in or it is tooled for two and a half inch which is what we were actually using for this particular little rig it's also tooless at the back for your PCI Express expansion you go ahead and pop this guy out pop this guy out there all thumb screws go ahead put a graphics card in and you're pretty much ready to rock and then as I mentioned before if you want to see a version of the N ATX system that we did a very high-end air-cooled configuration in you should definitely check out that build guide and I've got a bit of a teaser for this video for those of you who stuck around till the very end this mini ITX version with its fewer pci expansion slots but improved liquid cooling support and more overall space inside compared to the m80 x1 once you cram a larger motherboard in there might be featured in an upcoming water-cooled build guide for the Colossus Mini ITX exciting anyway guys thank you for checking out this video like it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment let me know what you thought are you looking forward to the water-cooled Colossus Mini ITX build got you I actually have something I can show you guys that might get you a little bit more amped up about it this box just arrived from BitFenix the other day and instead of doing my typical sort of you know you could spin it a number of different ways you could call it flexible or you could call it lazy but my typical you know approach of just doing straight fittings ah yes I will be using their blood-red fittings I'll be using 45-degree angles and stuff like that going for really nice clean tubing runs this time around so it's going to be a very different liquid cool build guide from before so all the fittings and right I think that's pretty much it don't forget to subscribe and guys check out the support link under the video below we have t-shirts now you can contribute directly to us you can reset your amazon bookmark and your browser to include our affiliate code and all kinds of good stuff that 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