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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the fractal design node 6:05 computer case it comes in an ugly box but it's not an ugly case if it's anything like the node 304 which we checked out recently which was absolutely outstanding that was an ITX case this is a full sized ATX case however some of the features will work better with an N ATX board because this is sort of a media PC optimized case I can see a lot of people installing micro ATX boards in it so the node 605 highlights a minimalistic sleek Scandinavian appeal something something something design front panel made from eight millimeter thick solid hair brushed and black anodized aluminum that sounds gorgeous front i/o an optical drive er hidden it sets etc just go ahead and see what else they have to say for themselves we'll cover all this when we open it up so don't worry too much about it and that's pretty much it let's open this baby up so inside we find double corrugated cardboard Linus's packaging tips and a hard foam not a big fan of the hard foam but if it keeps the case staple it's not as hard as some though so you guys you can see there's some flex to it here see that so it's not as stiff as some of the hard foams that we've encountered in the past I just pulled slicks earbuds out of his ears that he was using to monitor sound so why don't you bear with us and we'll be back in just a moment and its unveiling time one thing I noticed right away opening it up is that the front is the case is very front heavy so if you were going to put this on a media rack or something you'd want to make sure it's got the right depth because it would very easily OOP go like that because most of the metal has been punched out of the back to make room for the dual 80 millimeter cooling fans the IO the seven PCIe slots because you can put a full sized ATX board in here as well as the power supply cut out and the front of the case has that gorgeous 8 millimeter thick aluminum holy crap this thing is awesome look at this okay let's pull this baby off check that out black anodized aluminum look how thick this is here come around the side here you can see how thick it is so that is what they've decided to make the bezel load of honestly I love this approach for things like media pcs where you're never going to see the top you're never going to see the side in the back what you're going to see is the front and if it doesn't look good with the rest of your AV equipment then it's gonna look stupid no okay I think that this is very very nice so here is something these are the kinds of things that fractal does right when fractal burst onto the scene with the define r2 or but I guess the defined on r2 the first one they did a few things right that other guys weren't doing here's my big problem with aluminum front bezel cases fingerprints they always have a little thing where you have to press it in order to get it the isle that's ridiculous because it just ruins it instead fractal is implemented a little a little notch right here so that you can pull it down without putting any pressure on it without putting any fingerprints on the front and you can get access to the front IO so there's a slimline optical drive which you can only use if you have an N ATX board installed something to bear in mind front firewire headphones microphone USB 3 as well as an included front card reader very good stuff activity LED for the hard drive is hidden but you can see it if you're trying to diagnose something however your power activity LED is going to be around that illuminated power button the original mock-up for this case had a huge fractal logo in the middle and a lot of reviewers and a lot of press guys said hey go with the nice sleek little fractal logo on the side in the corner looks really really select this thing looks outstanding so on this side we've got dual 120 millimeter fan mounts looks like this one is populated this comes with two of there are two series fans so those are their silent series fans there's another 120 millimeter fan mounted and here is the included fan controller so that is a three channel fan controller with three different settings so we're going to open it up and we'll be back in just a moment now one of the best things you can do for noise dampening on a case is increase the overall the overall mass of it and the thickness of the material so fractals gone with a pretty thick steel panel here and then they've added a layer of noise dampening material to the top now it was too used to open this up you could replace them with thumb screws but it doesn't come with them by default another thing that's going to help with noise is the fact that you've got that huge thick solid piece of aluminum on the front of the case that's going to mean that no noise is really going to pass through here no noise is really going to pass through here and if it comes out the sides in the back then it's not really the end of the world once we get into the inside of the case you can see I've thrown a motherboard in here just so you guys can get some idea of how the internal layout is going to work I'm actually going to turn this around for you just to show you how the how it how it goes so you can put an ATX board in here and then your first two expansion slots are going to be the full 280 millimeters that this case is capable of supporting once you start to fill up more slots you'll have to start removing hard drive cages if you want to get those long expansion cards and so you can have a long graphics cards and then you can have smaller expansion cards like sound cards capture cards whatever else as you go down the motherboard you can see there's just enough space to plug in all your front i/o and all that kind of stuff down here in the bottom of the board and you can install using their modular hard drive cage design that they've got on the note 304 you can still up to four three and a half inch or two and a half inch hard drives if I turn this around you'll see there are mounting holes here for SSD or rubberized mounting holes for three and a half inch drives ah the way that they've got the the fan layout done here is actually kind of clever so they've got both of these fans as intakes this one doesn't have a cover on it because it's not so close to where your SATA cables and everything else will be this one has a honeycomb cover on it so these are both intakes are going to be in taking air from outside of you know in front of your TV then it's going to have positive air pressure inside the case which will force it out the back or the back here so what that will do is it'll make it so that dust is far less likely to accumulate because both of these fan intakes are filtered and you can remove the filters just by undoing the screws here and here you can you can actually see there just like a fine mesh filter like that so no no problems there and then the power supply obviously will intake from this one right here and then exhaust out the back of the power supply so it's compatible with ITX m ATX or ATX boards all of the interior cables are black and sleeved and look fantastic so we're just going to go ahead and pop those out so there's a USB 3 your front firewire your front audio as well as your front panel connectors there's the power for that fan controller so the fan controllers right over here and then you've also got there you go two of them are hooked up already three pin connectors for the fan controller right there overall very solid case very very rigid and a great value I mean what we've come to expect from frackle let's figure your finish off with the accessories and then I think we're pretty much done here so if you guys wanted to tune out now then you could probably go ahead and do that don't forget to subscribe and all that good stuff couple of brackets for power supply probably I have no idea it's probably manual to sector it's for the slim five and a quarter inch base so they're not in there because if you have a full sized ATX board then you can't fit it because there's sort of stuff in the way so these go down here and allow you to mount that comes with some cable ties as well as all the mounting screws you'll need for your system thank you for checking out my unboxing of the note 605 from practical design don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos