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welcome to my unboxing of the BitFenix ghost the funny thing about this ghost is that you can see it whoa hmm anyway let's let's have a look at what BitFenix has to say for themselves about the ghost need a steel in plastic it's an ATX form factor case includes some cooling fans which happen to be Specter fans and it fits a 240 millimeter radiator on top uses a nano chrome surface treatment I'm very excited to see that as for hot swap ins torch cool okay 2 USB 3 SuperSpeed ports silencing material ultra silent 120 millimeter specter fans included pre modded for alchemy LED strips now that's cool fits long graphics cards and has a dual hinged door design now alchemy LED strips are actually like the balling outis a sliding that you can get these days because unlike cathodes which have bulky inverters that go with them and they're heavy they're hard to mount they fall off all the time unlike those solutions LED strips spectres namely are out of Spectre stuff those are the fans Alchemy's namely are lightweight they come with a really high quality 3m adhesive on them so they don't fall off and they don't need an inverter they can plug directly into your power supply and you can even daisy chain multiple ones together in order to get very even lighting throughout your case now uses a hard foam which I'm going to criticize right off the bat because things like this happen however it remains to be seen if the case managed to survive its transport or whether it did not so if it didn't manage to survive then I guess I'll have to find another one and redo this unboxing but okay Oh custom foam though so let's go ahead and peel off the plastic I'm not sure if you guys are even going to be able to hear me because we're using the we're using the NCIX tech tip camera today with the microphone so I don't know how much interference it's picking up from things like the dub this is this is kind of funny one of them's popped out and one of them's in so when I push on it oh nevermind it came came this time last time the dowon's swapped which one was engaged in which one wasn't so this is what the heck it oh cool so there's hot swap here for hold on a sec let's cool so you can put a two and a half inch or three and a half inch drive in here and it has little rubber strips on the bottom which will protect the PCB on the bottom of the hard drive and B it will actually reduce vibrations which can again cause damage to the hard drive or the data on it and will cause it to be loud so I've gone and retrieved a hard drive which I will put in here like this and then I will slide like this and that's it so it's a totally stealthy way to add an extra three and a half inch or two and a half inch drive to your system okay - seal of approval on that idea because I've seen implementations and hot swaps on cases that are terrible see the DFAT five-o just awful okay so let's have a look at this filter good less relevant though for a top top intake our exhaust because usually you want that to be exhaust heat does tend to rise you've got lots of different options for fans here so you can do one for idiot this looks like almost this looks like either a 160 or a 140 or something I don't know what this is but it's bigger it's bigger than normal it looks like they've actually put in mounting holes for house.if okay so they've given you a lot of different options but the 120s are offset and this is really smart because it allows you to install a dual radiator start up here and then the fans on the bottom so it doesn't actually take up any space away from where you need you know your motherboard or your or your CPU three or your CPU block to be and that's important because a lot of cases have roomful dupe for duel fans but as soon as you try to stack a radiator and fans it gets pretty thick and it'll interfere with things like the MOSFET coolers on your motherboard or your CPU heatsink or whatever else you have there so they've got this compartment up here so you can store the radiator way you can see they've cut out the ends here which leaves room for the barbs and the tubing to come out of the radiator although usually I'd probably orient it the other way because otherwise this fan might get in the way depending on I might be might fit it might just make it okay so let's go ahead and okay it looks like it didn't quite make the air shipment unscathed all the way from Asia to here so it looks like one of these one of these thumb screws got whacked and dented the back of the side panel a little bit I'd say that's fairly minor as far as things being air shop air shipped across the ocean go so yeah I've seen I've seen much worse there's our sound dampening material on the inside gives some rigidity to the side panel that it otherwise wouldn't necessarily have and looks good sounds good neat okay so side panels off side panel is pretty plain no ventilation holes or anything like that with the ghosts they're going for more of well silence as you may or may not have figured out based on the sound deadening material and the fact that it doesn't have you know room for a bunch of blowing fans over top of the video cards or anything like that on the inside speaking of the inside um I haven't actually seen the inside yet so let's go ahead no no we're not done with the outside yet right here at the front we've got our LEDs so there's your power and your hard drive your front audio your two USB two two USB three power and reset switches nice and recessed so you won't accidentally hit that one and the front features a dual hinge design you got your BitFenix logo which i think looks pretty nice so you can actually open it this way to find the three five and a quarter inch and one three and a half inch Bay the filtered front intake quite solidly built to actually very nice and a bit Phoenix Spectre 120 millimeter fan with room for another one this is smart haha check this out perforations in the hard drive cage I have actually not seen this before but you hear people complain that you know oh well there's a fan here but by the time you put hard drives in here you're not even going to be able to push any air through it now I mean it might not be a lot but it'll be more than most cases smart yo you can also see the ventilation so from this angle I hope you can see through here where some of the air flow will actually be coming in to feed these front fans because otherwise they wouldn't be getting anything because the front of the case again more perforations here is using sound deadening material and is completely flat what you're trying to see something I don't know what he's trying to see probably the fan check this out though BAM I don't know what just knows that give me a sec so cameraman is not sure why you would want to be able to open either side of the case and personally I'm not a huge fan of the whole double hinge design although it's oh yeah right I put the little thing back in here so it's fine now but it's implemented better here than I've seen in the past and more durably in fact as well but I still a couple things that I don't have hold on oh it locks or something okay hold on okay I get it now actually this is smarter than I thought okay so the other main case is the Corsair 550d that one has a double hinge front panel and it's not that durable because it's permanently double hinged this one is smarter because it allows you to put the case on either side you want and then these pieces are actually for locking it to the particular orientation you want so you can hear so without these pieces in it can be double hinged okay and then if you take these pieces here and put them in then they are a lock and it will no longer whoops if you can actually get them in there we go and it will no longer open on that side unless you force it like I did before thinking that it was just a double hinged case so there you go you guys won't make the same mistake as me and let's just slide this back in so you can see some stuff did come unseated in shipping but by and large the case did make it to us so alright so that's that's pretty good okay one two three four five six seven PCI slots so you're not going to be fitting any XL ATX motherboards but you will fit you know your normal full-size ATX micro ATX MITx should you want to put one of those in here but I don't see the point of that if you have mitx you should get a bit Fenix prodigy instead just like the coolest case that everyone's excited about okay on the bottom you've got lots I didn't take options so you can have to do 120 mil or 140 mm meter fan from the bottom using a filtered intake that apparently goes in from I have no idea how this how this gets in or out of here oh it's magnetic baller okay cool there you go filtered intake BAM and then lots of room for your power supply to take air supports for your power supply if you have a longer power supply you've got one two three four three and a half inch bays there one two three dedicated two and a half inch SSD bays tool is five and a quarter inch bays lots of cable management holes and enough cable management room now this isn't the most ample space I've seen in the back of a motherboard tray before but it's about an inch so there is sufficient room to run a 24 pin cable without actually not being able to close the side panel which is one of those things you run into it's very very frustrating so I'm going to go ahead and have a look at what they've got for internal connectors you can see most of them are black however the front panel connectors are color-coded I'm a big fan of all black internal connectors but I'll give it a pass if most of them are black and then there's just a couple that aren't so you can see the SATA connector as well as the SATA power connector for that front SATA dock are both black it's got proper internal USB three pins pin header out whatever plug okay for the internal header plug for the internal header as well as a USB to lead that comes off of it so you can even just cut this off if you're not going to use it no big deal alright we've got a dedicated USB to lead for those USB 2 ports front panel audio as well as your front panel whoops your front panel connectors which are all red and black now that's odd if you're going to color codes and color code them and then if you're not going to color code them make them black so that would be my feedback to Specter fans are included the one in the front and the one in the back although there is space for one two three four five six fans natively without any changes whatsoever huge CPU cutout tray so you'll be able to install your CPU cooler without removing the board from the case and that will save you some time lots of cable management holes let's have a look at what they've included in terms of the accessories here so here's your rubber grommets as well as all your screws bunch of thumb screws manual okay here are your two and a half inch hard drive sleds for SSD whichever you prefer I mean you could you can use Momentis X T's in a desktop system no reason you can't very high performance solution alright and then there's your three and a half inch drive sleds it's an odd I wonder if the production cases are going to come with these not pre-installed like this I guess if it saves them a little bit of labour and doesn't actually take the end user very long to install then it could be a benefit to everybody but there you go so those slide in just like that and these ones can also support two and a half inch devices as well so you can see there's two and a half inch holes there and lots of room with the honeycomb design for cooling for the hard drives that are installed in them as well so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the BitFenix ghost quiet computer case don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos