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welcome to my unboxing of the BitFenix outlaw which is a pretty unique case now it has an inverted motherboard trait that's not unique but what is unique is an inverted motherboard tray at this kind of a price point so we'll see what BitFenix has to say for themselves and then we'll we'll figure out what I think is important so unique thermal layout okay I think what they mean to say is inverted motherboard tray CPU cooler cutout which is now at the bottom of the motherboard tray that's like voodoo magic right 4 USB 2.0 ports this is a value oriented case so we're still looking at USB 2 side panel cooling ok good full black interior also very good because we will be able to see inside through the side panel cooling hits long VGA cards which is pretty much a must for a gaming case these days but still gets neglected from time to time by some manufacturers whose products are not as well thought out as the ones who are thinking it out well enough to include compatibility for long VGA cards and you can probably tell by this time that I'm just killing time while I break the seals on the box there we are first thing we find inside is a quick installation guide now this this package went through hell and back to reach me you can clearly see that the packing materials are broken but what we're gonna find out because remember broken packet and packing materials is fine broken case bad so we're gonna find out if the broken packing materials were able to absorb enough impact to protect the case inside so here is the quick installation guide which tells you how to what is lock loop electroplated The Kinks logo sticker cool cool remove screws basic installation find the four inch drives I think that pictures harmony when I first got into computers the manual for a case was text like I kid you not they didn't even document things like like front panel headers at all and back then there weren't standards for things like front panel audio so you just had to kind of guess based on well the motherboards one says VCC something and then that case one says VDD and one of them they're both kind of plus and so maybe they're maybe they're related in some way ok so this came up here's the packing materials ok this was shipped to me as a single unit though it didn't come on a pallet and I don't know where it came from actually I can find out where it came from just to give you guys some idea so alright yeah so it came from across the continent actually let's take off the plastic and find out what kind of shape it arrived in I see a Fender on it alright Oh looks good for now that's good for now looks good for now alright look at that hey they made it ok so let's have a look at the Elwha then excellent ah so yeah let's do outside impressions first so we've got dual 120 millimeter fans on the top I would have preferred to see these closer together so you can use a dual 100 millimeter or dual 120 mil radiator in the top without any modification however it's possible that because this is a value case the inside isn't big enough to do it anyway so we'll have to have a look you'll notice that on the side panel we were where we would normally find like cooling or a window there's nothing that's because this is the wrong side panel for that in this case due to the inverted motherboard tray on the front we find their soft touch finish which honestly as soon as we started demoing these in these stores at NCIX where I work customers started buying them far more because they really liked the soft touch finish so they have that on their Colossus they have that on a number of their cases it is significantly more expensive than just a powder-coated black finish but especially for the front does 'el looks really really sharp and I really like it so on the front top we've got four USB 2.0 ports a microphone a headphone port power LED harddrive LED power switch and little tiny reset switch good to see because that way you're not going to accidentally hit it we've got mesh on the sides here as well as on the front here the front here and the sides on the other side so that is going to enable us to provide these two 120 millimeter fans with the airflow that they need to cool the rest of your system we've also got four or five and a quarter inch bays and here's something I haven't seen before so it looks like if you install for five and a quarter inch devices you will be blocking that top 120 millimeter fan honestly with this case having the cooling options that it does already have I wouldn't worry hold on I think I might've might have screwed up here a second and okay maybe I just have to hit it harder okay so we've got the fans here we've got fans on the top I wouldn't worry too much about your stuff not getting enough cooling so thumb screws at the back that screws here and here bottom mounted power supply actually it's more like a top mounted power supply because check this out I take the whole case and I go like this now it just looks like a standard case with the top mounted power supply your eye of shield your 120ml cooling fan and your PCI slots right whoops but that would be upside down for this case but I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna remove the side panels now I'm breaking everything sort of one thing after another for this unboxing hasn't it all right let's flip it back over and you are going to find a very strange internal layout so the cooling summary is dual 120 s in the front 120 in the bottom dual 120 s at the top 120 at the back and dual 120 s or 240 s on this side panel which sits like this and will blow down on your graphics area as well as your CPU area or rather sorry your graphics card area as well as your CPU area because they are upside-down in this case ok accessories here we have your power supply which has little rubber pieces to allow you to even if you have a long power supply look at that they go all the way out to here it's going to support it you're going to be able to mount it with the fan down so you won't have any you know loose screws falling into your power supply because some cases have room for power supplies on the bottom but they don't have ventilation here so what can happen is unless you mount the power supply with the fan facing the top that won't get any air so you can accidentally drop things in it I dropped water in one once that was bad so it didn't work anyway fortunately it didn't kill any of my other stuff when it died so I I was fortunate I was fortunate that way I don't remember what power supply it was I killed though ok I don't like this is throwing me off a lot I'm gonna be like honest with you guys here it's thing really confusing looking at this because I'm like oh I'm hoping the case is upside down but I'm not okay so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PCI slots you've got water cooling grommets here so that's at the top of the case here you're going to you've got a couple pre-installed motherboard stand off but you'll have to fill in the rest of them on your own your CPU a trade cut out is not huge but the reality of it is it doesn't have to be huge in a lot of cases because you can even if you're even if your CPU socket is here you can slip it in from the back and then position it and then screw on whatever it is from the front so it's not that big of a deal as long as it's big enough to fit the backplate through and then you can reposition as needed up on the top here it looks like due to the up on the top at the bottom here nevermind nothing up at the top it looks like yes we will not be able to fit a dual 120 millimeter radiator just due to the clearance that would be interfered with by this by a bottom installed PCI card so that's probably why they didn't bother with that spacing 5 and our three and a half inch bays we've got one two three for three and a half inch hard drive bays and then down here at the bottom we've also I think that is the bladder okay we've also got a two and a half inch two and a half inch cut out so that you can put an SSD down to the bottom of your case one two three four five and a quarter inch bays I think we already talked about that and black internal cables love to see black internal cables there's your front panel switches and LEDs and whatnots here's your front panel audio your front panel USB 2 and then your other more different front panel USB 2 so thank you for checking out my very confused unboxing of the BitFenix outlaw I think what is outlawed about it is that it just sort of breaks every rule for a value case it's got a nice finish on the bezel which is really good to see lots of cooling options tons of cooling options it's like a cooling box and then in theory it also provides better cooling due to the inverted ATX layout which allows you to blow away all your CPU heat here and then heat rises so having your video cards especially if you're running two or more up at the top where you can exhaust the heat right away could in theory be a good thing as well and you've also do to the layout of the case got ventilation almost all the way up to the top if you only have one five and a quarter inch device because this is all mesh and then you've got mesh on the side here as well so you can exhaust that way if you have cards that blow not only out the back of the case but also out the front of the card so thank you for checking out this unboxing don't forget to subscribe to learn his tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys I forgot inside the accessory box there are some zip ties there are also about 300 billion thumb screws yeah like seriously like how many thumb screws could one person need the answer is this many and then finally some other more different screws power supply screws motherboard standoffs motherboard screws and last but not least a very stylish looking shiny metal from metal metal metal BitFenix logo and that is all