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this video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5 46 70k unlocked processor add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall performance welcome to an impromptu unboxing that involves my hobo stabbing knife we're testing the puncture resistance of the packaging here so it's not very puncture resistant but what it is is a well padded so this is the fractal design define r4 excuse me define our core which is a silence optimized case and is pretty similar in to the previous generation define our three and the even older generation than that define our two other than that is a bid has been updated with some more modern features so we are actually using this case for a build guide which is why we have to have one and why we have to open it but I realized we've never actually done an unboxing of this case before so I figured we better do that oh that's why we have our camera mounted on a tripod and our microphone hanging on a boom pole above me and sort of all these unusable things for unboxings so you can see it has ample packing materials around it which is the reason why my knife was not able to penetrate all the way to the case itself through the box it does use a hard foam as opposed to a soft foam which isn't really my favorite but as long as it's nice and thick and you can see ours arrived in one piece then I'm not going to worry too too much about it so pretty much the main difference between the define r4 and the define r3 it's going to be on the internals the r4 is a little bit wider than the r3 so it has a bit of a a bit of a boxy look and a bit of a wider stance than most cases it's quite noticeable in person although pictures don't really do it justice so yeah as long as you don't have sort of as long as you're not one of those people who has a very precise place to put the computer then you don't have to worry too much about the extra width what the extra width also does is it gives you better compatibility for things like taller CPU coolers and some more cable management mother worden all that there's a manual and that leads us to the front of the chassis so the front of the case is looks pretty much like to define our three or a define our two we've got an LED logo up here as well as a front door that swings in one direction or the other I guess we'll have to figure out which there we go that swings open to reveal some sound dampening foam right here as well as two five and a quarter inch base that can be removed tools Leslie a little bit of something like that a built in fan controller that gives you options from 12 volts to 7 volts to 5 volts with an integrated switch which I personally like I think it's better than the dial at least I know exactly what I'm doing with my fans and last but not least a AHA removable front cover oh it's not removable it's on a hinge now look at that okay well that's different as well as 2 front 140 millimeter fan mounts and a this piece is removable removable filter that allows me to not only remove the filter itself oh this is cool check this out here I am I've decided to use this case for a build guide never actually built in it because I just know the r3 is awesome and I figured this must be more the same but that gives us access to our 2 front 140 millimeter fans as well as the filter which looks like it just slides off which is pretty cool now there we go so that just comes off like that you can clean that put it back you can replace the fans and all of this is completely toolless because the fans just clip in just like this yeah there we are alright so we're just going to leave that out for now for the sake of going more quickly so we can go ahead and put that back in place you were able to see the hard drive cages there before but let's go ahead and start with the front i/o so you've got your front power button a front reset button to front USB 3 ports 2 front USB 2 ports microphone and headphone jacks you've got two 140 millimeter fan mounts here in the top of the case with their trademarked Maju vent design so you can see you can't even see through those but what you do is you actually remove the covers and then you can replace them with fans should you see fit on the other side of the you find it is completely plain nothing out of the ordinary there and then moving around to the back you find another 140 millimeter fan with a 120 millimeter option 7 PCI expansion slots with an auxilary one over here for mounting things like I mean the old r2 and r3 had a little fan controller that mounted there for example so there's a few things like cathode switches and stuff like that that you can mount there a bottom mounted power supply with noise dampening foam on the inside of it and now it is time to open up the case so there are thumb screws on the back which huh Wow contrary to what I normally see with cases they are not too tight for me to remove them by hand a lot of the time their thumb screws but they're so tight you have to get a screwdriver to open them up the first time anyway unless you have like you know huge forearms which I don't have this is the side panel windowed version of the define r4 which is awesome I'm so glad they started doing a windowed version of this case you can get a non windowed version and in fact you can get the case in a variety of different colors but black windows Oh IR white okay the white ones really nice too but black window for me was pretty much the way to go I really really wanted that that window and that black thing so there we have it here's the protective covers for these which are important because you could see one of them had a nice big scratch on it but the window itself is crystal clear these are the interns trying to get out of here without getting in the way the camera good work sir alright inside we find the inside of the case so there's two to five and a quarter inch bays not to list which is interesting money cases these days have toolless five and a quarters personally I don't know how much it matters because the last time I mounted something in a five and a quarter inch Bay was a while ago but there you have it then you've got five harddrive cages so those are three and a half inch or two and a half inch hard drive cages up here at the top these are removable and rotatable and these ones have tight thumb screws so I'll have to get Ravis screwdriver alright so I grabbed the screwed yellow boy and I got this screws that's okay so I grabbed this screwdriver so I could show you guys how this works so not only can you remove this cage in order to give yourself more airflow for your graphics card or your CPU area or whatever else from here in the front of the case so the air is really being drawn in through these vents in the side that's what gives the define are for its sound dampening properties because you've got that foam in the front and then the sound is deflected away from the user that way but you can also rotate them and this is cool because it allows you to get that done if you know that you're not going to be using a ton of drives or if you don't mind having the cables for your drives come out the back of the cages here which doesn't look as nice from a cabling perspective you can mount it this way which has the advantage of see that better air flow and giving you the option to still mount some drives in here because this blocks most of the air flow meaning you have to use really pressure optimized fans and even then you're not going to get much air through them so this just gives you that that flexibility the bottom cage doesn't rotate unfortunately but it shouldn't really need to because you don't have to you know you don't really have to get much airflow over to the power supply area itself speaking of the power supply area you've got a here we go filter on the bottom of the case that covers not only the power supply but also the bottom mounted 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter mounting point you know what I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it though this fan mount down here on a case like I really think that's pretty rare cable management wise you've got your usual slew of cable management holes including rubber grommets down here by the power supply grommets up here where you're going to bring in your graphics card connectors up here where you're going to bring up connectors to your optical drives here where you might run connectors to wherever it is you'd run connectors up here and here where your 8 pin power will likely be located you've got a nice large CPU cutout as well as another included 140 millimeter fan and I did talk about there being more room for cable management in this case due to its wider stance so let's go ahead and take that off there we go you can see more noise dampening material here so there's that is going to be helping this case be noise resistant and lots of cable management room so you've got a good looks like about an inch or so of cable management room behind the motherboard tray here where you can easily run a 24-pin connector as well as some well laid out little strapped points so that you can keep your cables pinned down so that you'll actually be able to close that side panel when you are done with it I believe they've also got do they Stoker that's just amounts on the back of the motherboard tray hmm only one way to find out grab an SSD and see if anything lines up because that was a feature that they had on yeah there we go two SSD mounts on the back of the motherboard tray right there and there and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the define r4 from fractal design don't forget subscribe flyness tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I owe ya ROG events there they are