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welcome to my unboxing of the BitFenix Raider so this is actually a fairly exciting case because it's heavy no it's not that heavy I'm just but I'm just messing with you guys so this is a gaming oriented case as most of it Phoenix's case actually are they're a very gaming friendly company they go for a kind of a without without overdoing it you know like a performance aesthetic but still very clean-looking on a lot of their cases especially this shinobi I love the shinobi in the shinobi excel for the plain sleek aesthetic that is still very for very performance friendly so let's go ahead and get this opened up this is the first case that I VN encountered that supports up to four USB 3 front ports so that's that's something they're doing that no one else has has actually been able to execute on yet alright comes packed in in a hard foam we got about an inch of packing on either side once again you know I'm trying not to harp on this too much these days but I would much rather see a soft foam but at least it's not a huge case like the cosmos 2 or something like that coming with a hard foam so it's not as heavy and it's not gonna be as full of hardware as something like that so it's less likely to break very nice actually very slick they just keep getting better and better at this stuff so let's go through the overall outside features then we're gonna open it up so first of all we've got four or five and a quarter inch bays and then we've got what appeared to be let me just see yep so these are this whole front mesh II intake front Ness is all filtered so you can very easily blow the dust out of it if you want you've got a gorgeous-looking BitFenix logo that's actually made of metal instead of just being like some plastic thing or maybe it's not made of plastic or maybe it's not made of metal maybe it is made of plastic but either way it feels really good overall really sharp it's cold to the touch so I don't know maybe it's metal on top of plastic I'm not gonna spend too much time spac you about it let's move around to the other side this side is pretty plain you got a couple little bits here so that you can grab on to them when you're taking the side panel off on the other side here very very plain as well very sleek clean aesthetic on the top is where some of the action starts to really happen so here we've got an integrated fan speed controller okay so max and min we've also got is it focusing not now how about we good Miku okay let's just cut back sorry guys my lens is scratched and I'm too cheap to buy a new camera so there you go ah reset switch power switch harddrive led and power led and over here aha the coveted four front USB 3.0 ports with microphone and headphones so this is cool I actually like top mounted i/o I'm I don't mind sort of front top mounted i/o as well but one of the things that really bugs me about almost I want to look for my case but it's not there I've got a tech station there one of the things that bugs me about my case is that the front USB is way down here which unless it's actually up on your desk is not very convenient although the flip side of that is that if you were to use a Raider on your desk you'd have a hard time reaching the front i/o as well so this is more intended to be used as the case that is sitting on the floor next to you so this looks like it comes off but it's probably tied in some way on the inside so let's go ahead and open it up before we try to do that I guess we can look at the back while we're doing this so on the back we've got a 120 ml cooling fan we've got seven expansion slots on a bottom mounted power supply so that's fairly straightforward you got your standard i/o shield remember when they used to include like a dummy one with cases I could never figure out why they did that because it's not like you know I would always try it with my motherboard to be like oh I wonder if it works with my motherboard wouldn't that be crazy if it was actually the same layout as my motherboard this time and it never was not once okay so we've taken off the side panels now which means that we can figure out why this won't move and the reason is aha but it comes free cable tied down actually fairly tightly so I don't know that we're actually gonna undo that so let's just kind of peek under it so you can see here we've got support for oh what's that we might rely on the box for this three times 120 millimeters ah the cooling in this case is actually pretty cool give me a sec guys sorry guys so that's space for a 200ml cooling fan up here in the top alright so that's pretty much it for what's going on down there we're just gonna put that back on alright so let's have a look at the inside of the case so there's our four or five and a quarter inch base it's got a really nice powder coating finish on the inside here this is actually better than some of the ones I've seen in the past very durable somewhat rough but check it out it doesn't mark at all in spite of me trying to put fingerprints on it trying to scratch it up that is gonna look really good in photos when you're showing off your system and it's gonna look really good when you're like looking at your system even after you've built it because it won't have all those little marks and dings and scratches and fingerprints all over it that is a fantastic powder coating finished they're using in here to 120 millimeter specter fans in the front so yes these are spit Phoenix Spectre fans these are not low-quality fans and considering the price of this case the fact that it comes with those fans is actually pretty darn impressive the included fan speed controller supports up to 5 fans which is probably about right once we flip it over to the other side I'll be able to know if it's exactly right and the power for it is right here in terms of cable routing room at the back you can see there's plenty of room here for a 24 pin cable as well as lots of different options for cable routing so you've got all your power supply cables can come out either here or here and then they can come back to plug into your video cards to plug into your optical drive to plug into your 8 pin connector or any fans or whatever else you got in the top can all run through here they've got a nice wide gap there just in case you have to run some random cable through here they've got a gap there as well I've had to do it so I'm glad it's there and that pretty much covers it so let's turn it around to the other side on the other side of the case we've got our tool is five and a quarter inch these don't move until you actually slide in the the drive itself so yeah not gonna worry too much about that and then we've got to list three and a half inch so you just take your own looks like them check this out we happen to have a drive handy right now so all you got to do is pop it in there there you go you bend it out a little bit and then you pop it in there position these just right they are out here they have rubber bits on them so they're gonna be vibration dampening and then once you actually put the drive in it they have a lot less flex to them they're fairly solid so you just throw that in there and it's not going anywhere I mean I wouldn't necessarily ship it like that if you're gonna ship this system I would go ahead and put a screw in one of the provided screw mounts right here so they do give you the option for security or the option for convenience moving on you've got a ha there there they are there's our 2 USB 3 front headers right now there aren't any motherboards I've seen that have two front USB 3 headers but BitFenix has also included in the accessory box which I was having trouble finding but have now found they do include an adapter to allow you to take one of those front USB 3 headers and turn it into a front USB 2 pin up so that will allow you to use the front pieces as USB 2 and USB 3 so that adapter is oh hold on a second and we figured it out this is cool check this out so there's the USB 2 connector which you can you can hide the USB 3 connector back there and then just plug the USB 2 connector in where it goes or you can hide the USB 2 connector in the back obviously you'd be reading this from the back and plug the USB 3 connector in so that's awesome so you have that option with both of them USB 2 or USB 3 for your front panel ports you just have to remember which is which once you plug them in front panel HD audio and check it out black down to the very end power switch reset switch power led and hard drive LED front panel connectors very very nice ok what else we got in here that we're missing so there's a better look at that 200ml cooling fan spa up in the top there here is the third included Specter fan okay we've got yup seven PCI slots all with ventilation for additional well ventilation Oh filtered intake for your power supply so there's your easy replace fan filter and unlike the 800 D is probably the best example of this where it has that bottom fan filter that's three fan links long and unless your case happens to be like six feet away from the wall you can actually pull it all the way out on like that if Phoenix has implemented their other one as a side mounted our side removed fan filter so that means if you do put a fan here just for additional airflow into the case then you can use that to easily pull it out and clean it not the fan the filter that is so speaking of fan filters you can see this is sitting right on the floor so where would it get airflow from they include some little feet with sticky pads so you just stick those there and that's going to here you can probably see where that's coming through right there so you stick those there and that's gonna give your case a little bit more elevation off of the floor you don't have to use them if you don't want but you do have the option all the included screws are a little baggy that pretty much is expected and last but not least check this out you can install as long a graphics card as you could possibly want because with one two thumb screws you can remove the top three harddrive cages for up to three hundred and seventy millimeters I think 437 centimeters long graphics cards and I check that 38 ha 38 centimeter long graphics cards so I mean her context guys this is a 69 I'm coming back this is a 69 90 so you can install a graphics card up to that much longer than a 69 90 so there you have it and you can still install three three drives in spite of that now the overall finish of the case is honestly really nice I never actually showed you guys the the build in the side panels so fairly unexceptional but given the price of the case is not bad at all and then they're using their trademark soft touch feel on these accent pieces on the front of the case as well as on the top near the ports I do really like soft tattoo it's fairly fingerprint-resistant feels very durable and looks really good so thank you for checking out my unboxing of 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