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my coverage of copy Tex 2018 is brought to you by gigabyte Coolermaster team group and Thermaltake hey guys I'm over at fantex their suite at the Hyatts it's wonderful in here because it's quite beautiful anyway they actually have a brand new series of cases so this is metallic gear natal gear powered by fan text so it's a secondary brand and they have simplified the design somewhat in order to make these a little bit more affordable depending on who you are of course price ranges here are gonna be from $99 down to about $60 this is sort of the higher-end range of these cases and they said they have more planned in the series so let's take a look actually quick correction $70 up to $100 so $100 for the full size Neo right here $85 for the Neo micro $70 for the Neo mini and then $80 for that special edition Neo mini down on the end so let's start over here with the Neo these all have a fairly similar design so they can redo the tooling in order to keep manufacturing costs down and that's how they keep your knees a bit affordable but they still have all the high quality fantex materials that you've come to expect if you're familiar with fantex mainstream series it's an extruded anodized aluminum top and front the front just pops off in a very similar way that you might be familiar with like the end to evolve and on the side over here we've got a couple USB 3.0 ports as well as a mic and headphone jack there's also a reset button nestled right over there and then your power button is right up here on top next to that is an RGB single button control so you can cycle through some basic RGB LED effects next up is the Neo micro and you might notice this is just a little bit shorter than the full-size Neo this is a micro ATX case and I'm liking that we have a few new selections of micro ATX cases here at Computex pretty much the same configuration for i/o as well as materials as well as well as color options here but also wanted to point out and this is the same layout as the full-size one down on the bottom there isn't a power supply basement but there's a tray across it there's a couple SSD mounts for 2.5 inch drives right there and then they've done a screen on the tempered glass aluminum side panel and that's to help block off and give these sort of illusion of a power supply basement down there at the bottom so you can keep your build nice and clean as pointing out that if you actually put some RGB stuff down there it might even shine through and give a maybe a cool effect as you can possibly see some of these RGB LED fans on the Neo Mini neo many is many ITX as the name might imply and for this one they have flipped the power supply they brought it up to the top but once again if you are ashamed of your power supply it's a hidden buy some of that silkscreen effect on the side and this is sort of the design IP that they've gone with for the Metallica Gear brand as for radiator support you can do a 280 or 240 in the front of the neo or the neo micro the neo mini can support a 240 in the front or as you can maybe see on this special version the Neo Geo mini it also has ventilated side panels so if you want you can do a two hundred eighty millimeter radiator and have it facing outward like this one the Neo Geo mini is a little bit flashier version of the neo mini as you can see it's got tempered glass on the front with that same screened design on it still has the same top mounted power supply but this one also comes with an actual PCIe extension cable this one's gonna be $80 so just about ten dollars more than the 70 dollar neo Mini and the fact that they've included a PCIe riser at this price is actually pretty impressive you might also notice that it has vertical mounts they're not horizontal mouth so it does appear that you would need that riser in order to mount your graphics card and over here on the other side of this week we have the evolve X so the end of the hole it's been a very popular case from fantex aluminum top very distinct look um they introduced some really cool features like the ability to easily pop off the front and side panels plugs but they said they got some feedback from people but the airflow was not the greatest so this has some various upgrades but the main one is going to be that they've vastly increased the airflow according to them three times the amount of intake air flow five times more surface exhaust area as well so that's gonna be good for radiators that might need to exhaust a lot of heat out of the case you'll probably pretty quickly notice that they've added some ventilation along the top that's gonna be helpful and then the front panel here they basically just given more space and provided additional gaps for air to flow back in there you might also notice that they've added addressable RGB LED strips going down in front as well as going going down the bottom left side and they were specifically trying to get lots and lots of different LEDs in the strip so you had a nice smooth transition between them and I can see any any little points of light particularly the side strip here on the power supply Bay I think really nice and really clean creator support is pretty flexible you can do 140 millimeter fans or 120 millimeter fans and you have the ability to do 3 140 s plus 2 140 s at the same time or you can do 360 plus 360 if you want to do 3 by 120 in both the front and the top we're maintaining and flexibility internally so not only do you have your standard per se expansions but they've got a three slot expansion there towards the back and by adding a riser cable you could bring a graphics card over there intentionally made it three so that you could position a two slot graphics card a little bit further away from the tempered-glass side window in order to give yourself a little bit more ventilation the front panel pops off very easily just like the predecessor and behind there is a magnetic dust filter going the entire length of where your intake fans would be at the top is the i/o and you do have a USB 3.0 a couple of those as well as a Type C port that is a 3.1 type C port and the cable length I'm told is short enough that you can reach it to the motherboard and still get USB 3.1 speeds opposite side panel here also has tempered glass so they wanted to make sure that you can keep your table cable management's tidy or at least visually appealing without having to actually do a lot of efforts so there's two internal swing doors that will also swing out so their cable management covers and not only do they cover your cables so you don't have to worry quite as much about cable management but they also have SSD mounts on them so those combined with the SSD mounts that are actually on the back of the motherboard tray means you can fit up to nine SSDs in this case or nine 2.5 inch drives and of course the ones behind the doors you would that's where you would put your ugly SSDs and then you're pretty SSDs would go on the mounts that you can actually see through the tempered glass side panel just cuz the covers are here though doesn't mean that they haven't paid attention to cable management they still have to cable management channels going down behind that love to cover but they've also improved the velcro straps so they just slip over a hook so you know I can actually have to feed them through a little hole or something like that which can be a pain in the butt sometimes so just drop them over the hook cables down there tend them down and it will keep things nice and clean we're expecting this to be available in August and it's going to only cost you 199 dollars which is only $10 more than the existing and to evolve so that's that's a that's only a very small premium for the additional features the additional airflow the addressable RGB LEDs on the front as well as a power supply basement done at the bottom but that's not all let's take a look at these actual demo units that they've put together over here just to show some typical use case scenarios now I know you're probably looking at this system and you're like you know that's water-cooled it's old news I've seen water cooling before now this is this is like a really epic nicely put together water-cooled build they using fantex particle components in there but just just a very pretty looking water-cooled build so you can see you got plenty of space up front even with radiators in the front and the top and this is showing the 3-1 40s in the front and the 2-2 80s in the top so tons of heat dissipation even if you got a two-way configuration going on and they're also using a fan Tech's water cooling parts for the blocks so really nice but this also lets me point out a couple other cool features if you remove the top panel there is a radiator bracket and they've made it a bit simpler to remove with just a couple thumb screws and they've added a fill port at the top which is very important for doing maintenance down the line after you're primo chill view fluid does something funky HBU fluid doesn't always do funky stuff but it is important to drain and flush your loop and clean it out on a regular basis if you're doing a high-end water-cooled build like this especially if you're using colored fluid but they've also added a drain ports and you can't see right here but I do have some video of it it's down in the front at the very bottom so if you think ahead plan ahead you can put a little valve down there and you can drain at the lowest point in the system from the front and you can access that of course just by popping off the front panels so very thoughtful for water cooling support but that's not all over here though we can see the lighter silver finish that they're also working on for the evolved X and this is actually an all-out storage build the evolved X will ship with four of these 3.5 inch caddies and they can stack on top of each other and they can also fit in with the bracket at the back so so it's going to come with four caddies and they have added four more so you can see six drives right here going down the front of the case and then down in the basement so they have added two more so that's a total of 8 3.5 inch drives there for storage but that's not all I mean of course there's the rest of the system here which has a water-cooled all-in-one as well as some cool-looking xpg memory as well as of course that's vertically mounted GPU but on the back where I already showed you all of those SSD mounts they've mounted up nine SSDs so just insane amount of storage here but even all those SSDs back there there's a ton of wiring going on but thanks to the cable management's covers it's still looking very clean so if you need an all-out storage build like it's not just for water cooling you can you can set up something like this too but that's not all one more accessory here and this is a mini ITX bracket so mini ITX support for a mini ITX motherboard there's an i/o panel too for the i/o to go out of and it also integrates a power button so you can actually press the power button enter a mini ITX system on they've integrated this with the fantex power supply accessory that allows you to connect two systems to one power supply and control them individually so even though there's only one power supply mount on this case down at the bottom at the back they have connected up both systems to this and it's up in the top it's like it's on the ceiling it's like we've gone into bizarro world and the computers on the ceiling it's a very strange but even with that they've added a whole 120 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler to it and you might notice that there's also three graphics cards in here so the back system has a 2-way SLI configuration and they've used a very long pci express riser cable to go from that top system all the way down to the back and around here so this vertically mounted GPU is actually the graphics card for that uh persistent so you got two pretty powerful gaming systems here in one case all powered by one power supply but guys that is all the time i have here at the fantex suite so there are a few more products they have a few new power supplies that work on as well as a prototype P 600 s over here but if you guys didn't already see it check out the harbor connects video on that because they took a look at that it's it's it's pretty promising I think it's got some potential there but that's all for this video I would like to say a huge thank you to my sponsors for Computex 2018 team group gigabytes Thermaltake and Coolermaster hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video and subscribe because i have lots more copy text videos coming at you very soon for now i'm gonna go get some food I'm super hungry but see you next time