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excellent what's up guys and welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is going to be my review of the brand new fractal design at node 804 micro ATX computer case so the node 804 is a micro ATX chassis it's got a very short and squat to design in case it wasn't already obvious and it's basically set up in two chambers so you have the main chamber on the left side if you're looking at the front of it that has the motherboard as well as CPU graphics card more heat generating components and then the right side if you're looking at the front is going to be where the power supply goes as well as a bunch of different storage base so you can fit a bunch of drives in there the contents apart from the case itself you get a user's guide he also gets a really good build walk through in that user's guide so that's pretty nice to have it's really useful for sort of an atypical form factor like this one they also get some zip ties all of the screws optical drive brackets standoff nut for tightening standoffs and rubber washers for the hard drives there's a grill at the bottom of the front of the case and that stuff's for air flow has kind of a minimalistic design kind of sticking with the fractal kind of minimalist basic sort of look to it but very clean brushed aluminum on the front so that's a very nice although it does tend to pick up quite a few fingerprints and then it's got a fractal logo down in the lower right hand side and as well as a white led along the right edge you have a slim slot-loading optical drive bay also have mic and headphone jack power button there is no reset button on this bear that in mind double USB 3.0 ports and then the actual size of this case is 307 millimeters high 342 millimeters wide and 383 millimeters deep that's 12 0.09 by 13 point 4 6 by 15 point Oh 8 inches the left side over here has a large clear Plexiglas window so you can ocol the interior components after you get that all put together then on the right side you have a basic solid thick gauge steel side panel on the back you can get sort of a better idea of the layout so you can see you got a couple fan mounts at 120 or 140 on the left side a 120 on the right side io as well as expansion brackets for the their board in the power supply which mounts in the lower left on the top you have a removable panel which just slides back and off and it's held on with some thumb screws and this one is quite nice because it covers the entire top it is grilled on the top and that has a mesh filter right beneath that so that's going to keep all the dust out of the top since there's a lot of openings up there you also have more dust filtration along the bottom so you have a longer moveable filter along the bottom for the main chamber then you get a shorter one for the power supply which unfortunately is kind of difficult to remove without actually tipping the case up but still nice EDD it is there also on the bottom you have some rubber feet which is very nice to help with noise and vibration and of course the case is very stable stakes to its widest stance now both side panels the top panel and the front bezel are easily removed just like that although the front panel does still have the cables attached to it there's two more long dust filters that cover the forefront fan or radiator mounts and I love this because it means any of all the intakes as well as the top all filtered so just make sure you can access all of them wherever you have the case actually setup speaking of radiator support the note 804 features a crap ton of potential radiator configurations the front can support a 240 on either side the top can fit a 240 in the main chamber over here and a 280 on the power supply side you can't do all of those radiators at the same time though so just bear that in mind you can also fit up to ten case fans throughout this chassis and many of the mounts to support 120 or 140 millimeter band sizes you have a three-position fan controller it located here at the back as well the main chamber on the left side is for all of your higher components like your CPU and your video card interior is fully painted black and it's got some signature fractal white highlights on the fan blades and the expansion brackets at the back you get five expansion brackets by the way so you can go ahead and go with a 2-way GPU configuration that is supported with micro ATX just bear in mind that if you do a second two slot GPU down at the bottom it's probably going to block the two bottom mounts that you have down there for 3.5 inch or point 5-inch storage drives there's a large cutout in the motherboard tray for a CPU backplate and there's a couple more aptly sized routing holes towards the front for routing your cables and for cable management and I also want to point out that I really like the cable tie downs down at the bottom as well on the power supply side you have a power supply I'm out surprisingly enough you also have rubber mounts to support the power supply which also makes me very happy and you have the thoughtful inclusion of a couple velcro straps right behind the power supply so that's going to help you out a lot with cable management's at the top you can hang up to eight 3.5 inch drives in these white cages the cages can be removed with thumb screws the drives melt with screws and rubber washers inside for the record I do prefer to screw mount mechanical hard drives just does a lot more stable that way the whole assembly up here can be removed as well if you want to fit in a radiator or if you just hate 3.5 inch drives because of what they did to your sister finally for drive support you also have a couple stealth 2.5 inch drive mounts tucked into the back of the front bezel so I'm hopefully going to be building a brand new HT PC gaming system in this particular case that's coming soon or at least sooner rather than later hopefully button closing ended when I say it seems like a really well designed computer case a great job by fractal with the note 804 it seems really well suited for what I'm intended to use it for gaming htpc but you could also set up maybe a small server or something like that in this with all of the drive mount support you could perhaps even go for a portable gaming system not exactly carrying friendly but it is small enough that you could easily move it around it's not going to be terribly heavy but I also like that it's a really well designed micro ATX chassis I tend to lean a little bit more towards micro ATX as compared to mini ITX when it comes to smaller form factors I just like that you get a little bit more expandability you can actually set up a single or 2-way SLI or crossfire configuration and having extra slots there is great for something like a gaming HD PC because I need a slot for the video card as well as a slot for the cable card that I'm also going to be using from scene but that's all for this video guys thank you very much for watching don't forget to leave me 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