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Corsair Raptor k40 keyboard and m/45 Mouse are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming click now to learn more the fantex enthu primo you guys have been asking me for this for a while and here it is we're going to start with packaging it comes in a box which you may or may not have expected it's also got some nice soft closed cell foam because of how heavy this case is and especially how heavy it's going to be once it's laden with hardware like man this thing's heavy I wouldn't have minded say a little bit thicker foam like what Silverstone does on some of their higher-end cases but it should pretty much arrive in one piece even with a system inside in most cases let's start with the accessories inside the little accessory box the sets included you get a radiator bracket so this allows you to install up to a dual 120 millimeter radiator on the side if you're willing to remove the hard drive cages don't worry there will still be SSD mounts you also get a nice little kit full of screws it's got little compartments for all the different kinds of screws that come with the case actually it's amazing how many different kinds of screws are used on this case it actually has more than the ten compartments worth of different screws which I discovered when I undid the this thing right here the reservoir mounting bracket that was actually inside in the first place because it was unfortunately useless if you have a gaming grade graphics card that's sort of a normal length then it's going to interfere with that anyway the good news is that there are other places that you can mount your radiator without any difficulty finally finally we've got the rest of the accessories here we've got two little foam pieces in case you want to install a second power supply in the enthu primo and then some zip ties as well as two more velcro straps in addition to the ones that are inside the case so let's start with the outside the front of the case actually I didn't really like it that much before it was powered on and before had an entire system in it it's got a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish now this is a bit of a double-edged sword because it looks great out of the box but if you get fingerprints on it it can stain over time so just make sure you're careful with it it has a blue LED strip illuminating not only the front but also the top and then if you remove the front cover it we got two blue LED fans that give a very pleasing glow to the front of the case as well the great news about all these LEDs is that you can actually toggle them on and off with a switch that's built into the front of the case you've also got an extremely solid five and a quarter inch bay door up at the front that conceals five five and a quarter inch bays and has a very solid feel to it and closes with a satisfying funk because it is magnetized so quite like the front of the case the last thing to note about the front is that that removable piece that gives us access to those fins has a removable cleanable fan filter that's got kind of a complex design to it you would just guess run the whole thing underwater as opposed to removing the actual filter from the front piece because the way it's constructed allows the front bottom air vents like they're kind of the side front bottom air vents to intake air and still have it be filtered in addition to any air that's coming through the front of the case which brings us to the top which is also gorgeous you know brushed aluminum finish two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports that have little rubber you know covers on them that will get lost immediately power reset switch as well as that LED control switch that controls not only the LEDs on those front fans and the LED strip but also can control additional LED fans in the case there's actually a bunch of leads I believe there's four additional leads inside the case and it can control control your internal case lighting because it has a molex connector that it powers as well so you could have your interior lighting and you can hook up pretty much whatever you want to it and have the old thing turn on and off with the push of a switch speaking of pushing we can remove the top fan filter just like that go ahead and clean that or do whatever it is you need to do with it this also reveals a ton of space at the top for fans and radiators you can do up to three 140 millimeter fans or four 120 millimeter fans and because there's enough clearance between the top of the internals and the top of the and the bottom of this fan filter you can actually do a push-pull configuration with a quad radiator in here quite comfortably in fact the enthu Premo is a water cooling a water coolers wet dream so to speak because of all the options that are available in it so let's go around to the right-hand side where we find not a whole lot of much of anything there's two 120 millimeter fan mounts these are mostly only going to be used if you do decide to install that optional bracket or I shouldn't say mounts I mean to you know holes to ventilation holes there's also a ventilation hole for the power supply intake the power supply only goes in well one of the power supplies only goes in one way in this case on the left hand side we have two little windows one that reveals a fan Tech's logo and that's pretty much about it other than that it's just kind of a stealth panel there across the three and a half inch drive cages and the cool thing about that fan text logos you can actually replace it quite easily it's held on with screws from the backside so you could put in whatever you want and then a nice large sort of blue tinted window that gives you a nice look at your not your power supply oh yes it has a bit of an unusual internal layout so all it really shows you is your motherboard as well as your graphics cards and that kind of cool stuff so the slightly different internally let's go ahead and oh boy this thing's heavy I'm going to try and move it around a little bit here so you can see that the power supply is actually vertical that's what allows you to install up to two power supplies in the case you can also put a 120 or 140 millimeter fan here the back should you so desire there's another reservoir mount here thankfully so that original one that wasn't very good we don't have to use that also at the back we've got either 120 or 140 millimeter fan mount you can go ahead and slide that up and down as needed the last thing I do want to show about the outside is oh wow it said II got a finger even more removable fan filter so you go ahead and click these ones down here on the bottom and they slide out from the side this reveals I yes you can have up to a triple are either quadruple 120 millimeter radiator mounted in the bottom as well so that gives you two 480 millimeter rads both with filters and potential for awesomeness of course you would have to remove the three and a half inch drive cages if you wanted to do that now the fans that are included with the case not the greatest you know workmanship ever they have a bit of a quite a bit of flex to them they don't feel like the greatest thing but fantex does include five of them which is pretty generous considering the cases large feature and cost - $49.99 I don't usually mention pricing but cases don't change much so there you go the good news about them is that especially with the included fan controller they are quite quiet so I was overall pleased with the included fan quality and quantity so there's two 140 s in the front one 140 on the bottom a 140 in the back and finally a 140 in the top this is kind of funny I have an H 100 I that I've managed to install in the system so there's another 100 and sort of slightly less than hundred and twenty millimeter gap here and then there's two 120 s over here in the five and a quarter space there's a 140 here managed to install that without even removing any of the stock fans so we still have all of the original air cooling which is sort of funny to me the manual is great because it gives you a couple of useful matrices there's one for our radiator installation so it gives you a little checklist of where all the different radiators fit and all that good stuff it also gives you a little matrix for all the different places you can put fans so well it's not as good as someone like Silverstone's manuals where they actually walk you through the entire process of building in it I'd say it's completed not to give you a good idea of what you are up against now I say up against but experienced builders really won't have that much of a challenge the side panels are unexceptional on the inside except you can see that the one with the two 120 millimeter vent spots on it is actually blocked by defaults you can go ahead and pull that off if you do decide to mount fans or a radiator there now why it's not challenging us because they actually do a lot of the wiring for you so we're gonna go ahead and move around to the back check this out I love the way that fantex has done most of the cable management out of the box so they've got their nice little velcro ties which are all down here all down here for the eight pin across here for the bottom where you're going to run your USB to your front panel audio and all that good stuff and they've also got a ton of the other little standard hoop and look loop tie-off things that go along with these zip ties that they've included actually you see a ton of cable management options but I didn't undo most of it all I really did was I took the fans out of here and then I routed them all here to the integrated fan controller this can support up to 11 fans that are all controlled via PWM and it actually works incredibly well more on that a little while so I routed all the fans there I routed my 24-pin my for PCI Express connectors up here there's a reason I installed two graphics cards in the system I wanted to see if there was going to be enough clearance here to be able to run two graphics card worth of PCIe cables and a 24 pin and USB 3 and all that stuff and there was and then I just doubled back with a couple of these ones to where they needed to go that was pretty much it other than that cable management is a breeze in here and even though I didn't do a great job of managing things you know carefully up the side here or laying things flat and utilizing the back of the motherboard tray better it looks incredibly clean and it looks great from the front now this is something that I sometimes feel really good about and sometimes don't feel as good about something that I sometimes bothers me about Corsairs cases is that they don't leave much room for flexibility they come meant to be wired a certain way and everyone's build will look great in it and that's fantastic but everyone's build will kind of look the same fantex has taken that approach with a lot of the pre wiring but they haven't gone too far down that path you have a lot of options you can actually remove the three and a half inch bays here you can actually remove the five and a quarter inch bail though you will need to drill out some rivets if you want to do that and you can just fill the bloody thing with radiators you can you can put your power supply on the other side you can still do things differently it's just that I generally wouldn't really recommend it because the way that they have it wired up here is quite nice installing the power supply was like the easiest thing ever you just kind of drop it in there there's a lot of space to work with next to the power supply here unless you install a pump on the included pump anti-vibration rubber pad which is awesome it happens to have the correct holes for the Lang d5 or Swift tech mCP 6655 which is my personal favorite pump nothing else really matters to me it's great to see that included there's also more room for a reservoir over here should you so desire if you're going to remove those three and a half inch cages installing drives is a snap actually they're kind of a really smart little system here so they have two little nubbins here and here and then they have these wings that come out see these snap out and then what you do is you just put the drive on click them into place there's no bending there's no flexing there's no goofy stuff like that and once you put it in it actually feels very very solid the one thing that does feel that solid about the three and a half inch cages is the entire cage assembly itself they've made it modular so you can actually move it closer to those two 140 millimeter fans at the front to give yourself some more space over here you can take them out entirely but I feel like it could have used a little bit more reinforcement the other drives that I installed I put a single two two half inch SSD in to one of their little removable brackets here now these little tuna half-inch brackets can take up to two drives each but I think in a practical sort of unless you're buying adapter so you're going to need to make sure you use straight cables you might have trouble putting two drives in them so be aware of that and then the other thing I didn't like about these was the fact that they don't screw in in any way there's nice little rubber grommets that they go ahead and clip into quite nicely and mostly you're going to be installing SSDs in there so even if in shipping a drive came flying off and rattling around it would probably be fine if you ever put a hard drive there or if the SSD managed to they come loose and whack something I don't know I don't like things that don't at least have the option to screw in the cool thing about this in terms of options is that you can go ahead and you can install it here on the back of the motherboard tray if you want rather than over there so you've got two brackets with up to three different places that you can install them moving around to the front the amount of space in this case is just very obvious and apparent I went what they sort of air-cooled and then all in one liquid cooled configuration but you can do pretty much anything with this thing in fact there were a couple of really cool build logs that I found on Linus tech tips form as well as overclock net one where the the bloke actually put rads in the bottom front and top and then managed to hide all of the tubing without even being able to see it and then the one on the Linus tech tips form was quite exceptional as well and it shows the creativity that this case does allow the fact that there is adequate cable management room for up to four graphics cards they do have eight PCI slots in the back and then the fact that you can put an e ATX motherboard in here these are all very very positive things and I think they've managed to make room for all of that without having it be full of empty space like something like the cosmos too tends to be in the bottom here by default you can put a nice thick radiator or you can actually even slip a fan in the back here if you want and I think that's pretty much all there is to say about a tool is five and a quarter inch drive cages lots of cable management grommets and that's pretty much it for the inside so cooling with air is actually very awesome and this is actually it's time to do my little demo here so check this out guys the fact that it includes that pwm fan controller is really cool so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to intentionally let my CPU overheat by undoing two of the thumb screws here now this isn't something that I necessarily recommend you can hear the system in my lab running very quietly right now so I'm going to go ahead and detach this and without providing any additional power to the adapter on the back to that fan controller and you should check the fan Tech's website to make sure that your motherboard supports that I can pull this off and listen to this the entire case works harder to keep that CPU cool and now when I go ahead and pop the block back on there the entire thing is going to quiet down again this is an outstanding little feature and then the add the LED control is also fantastic as well overall what do I have to say about the enthu primo very solid case considering the price the build quality is what I'd consider to be what you would expect you can see where they've spent money on things like the gorgeous aluminum finish on the front and the top as well as on the tooling and the design that enables them to bring all this functionality into what is a fairly reasonable size when you consider how much stuff you can put into it I don't personally like the weight and I find it a little bit difficult to move around but for some people that'll be much less of a concern love the flexibility that it affords I think the looks are going to be a take-it-or-leave-it depending on how you feel about the you know the the two-tiered like kind of stepped look to the top as well as the kind of busy and yet black and monolithic looking front but overall I quite like it I think it looks much better in person than it is than it does in pictures and videos and it looks much better once you've actually got a rig in it you can appreciate the efficient use of the space so overall definitely a thumbs up for fantex on this one and I look forward to seeing the end through duo or whatever more enthuse we might get in the future guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it check out the link in the video description I talked about the price in this video so you don't need that to find out the price but you might want to discuss the video somewhere other than the YouTube comments you know wild west that they are and as always guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos