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before we get to the topic of this video the product of which I do not like I make no secret of that I want to say one thing regarding product reviews kind of a general sense if the reviewers themselves are not pointing out negatives if all you hear are just positive attributes and why you should buy something I should always check out their links because you can buy them and you know give them money because you're buying products that they're telling you are really good that ended up not really being that great in the long run then those reviewers have problems and I don't recommend you watch them I'm going to be straight up with you I'm not looking to impress companies by only pointing out positive so that they'll send more products to review later and I can just have a whole stash of things that I ultimately don't need and probably won't use but more than one time and then they'll sit and collect dust by this point if I want a product for the most part I can ask the company in question and usually get a response if not the product so there's no reason for me to to hide behind just positivity that doesn't serve me any long-term purpose and if you guys thought that that's what I was doing then I wouldn't be a viable reviewer and I would lose all of you which I obviously don't want to do so when I get a product like this and the studio I have to be completely honest with you I hate this case there are more things in this case that I would change then keep and there are also things I would just outright take away they shouldn't be here period this is a mid-sized tower by the way not a full-size tower so you only find seven slots at the rear that looks can be deceiving and that's the first thing you'll notice when you pull this out up at the box I thought I was getting a mid-sized tower somewhere along the lines of an NZXT s340 or fantex p400 in my opinion those are perfectly sized mid tower cases that don't compromise very much on cable management and just you know dead space you don't want a lot of empty space in a mid tower case but this case even though it is modular we'll get to those things in a second is much larger than some of the ATX full-size towers that I've owned in the past I would take probably about an inch and a half off the width of this case and then probably another three inches off the height then we'd be in mid-size tower territory but right now this is one heavy large unnecessarily large case I'm just not going to do this anymore I'm going to keep it on the floor one of the reasons why this case is so unnecessarily tall is because both the top and bottom have these strange aluminum grill covers that serve no functional purpose but Phoenix says that these are intended to give the case more structural rigidity and on top of that keep dust out but I can guarantee you dust is not going to worry about these panels going to slide right through the insides look they're literally hollow all the way through so they should just be taken off period the back also has about an inch of unnecessary space which kind of sticks out from the rest of the chassis again this whole design is just confusing to me it's unnecessarily large and things like this are what make it that way the Phoenix has included three stock fans with the Shogun though so I mean I can't complain they're three fans is pretty good for a case although these fans are not going to be super good their case fans what do you expect but the fact that there are three there that's decent at least it didn't rebound on that side now despite only having seven PCIe slots this is actually a decent case for water cooling you can fit up to a 360 millimetre radiator up top a 280 in the front and a 140 at the rear but you'll find a few strange quirks along the way particularly if you are custom cooling the first of those being the weird semi basement Proud cover thing in the front that houses two SSDs a unique feature of this case is its integrated RGB lighting system get this in the SSD trays on that front panel that's why that front panel is there to show off those SSDs but let me say something else there's a reason why no one has done this until now and there's also reason why I expect we won't be seeing this again anytime soon I mean who gets their sick kicks off of lighting up their SSDs I get it if it matches the theme you know if it's like a blue and black SSD and you've got a blue and black theme going on inside okay cool but lighting it up red or green and most SSDs will look frankly ugly most of the stickers on the front aren't inviting it there's no sticker it's just got a logo or something who really cares to see that who wants to see that lit up I'd rather see these LEDs utilized elsewhere in the case maybe just integrated RGB lighting for the entire chassis that would be something that make this case I don't know just give it a little more Flair now back to the whole bit about modularity this case when it came shipped in the Box had a bunch of SSD trays hard drive trays all stacked on top of each other on the far right side of the case that's normal the cool thing about the case is you can remove those and replace it with just a clean panel in the front if you want some space for extra water cooling but I will say that other companies have done this better including be quiet to their dark Bass Pro 900 which I reviewed right here although I wasn't fond of it just personally because it was such a large case does have better modular support it took forever to get that front flat panel in the BitFenix Shogun and on top of that if this case feels a bit incomplete to you it might be because there is no top basement cover I'm not sure why BitFenix stops halfway with the front SSD mounting system whatever you want to call it but I do not like having to see all those cables from my power supply just kind of laying around there on the inside it's like why didn't you just finish it off that's that's me I like seeing basements especially in mid tower cases where cable management is keying for the most part not having a basement cover here kind of defeats the purpose of having a basement front panel at all what else to talk about Oh check this out okay so you can actually turn this case into sort of like a drum you ready for this you see what I mean it's not that the build quality is it decent I do like the fact that they want with an all-aluminum chassis but the way that they structured the whole thing just makes it seem cheap because it's so hollow and it just feels so I don't know just unnecessarily metallic I mean just listen to the way the power button sounds but there are a few other weird quirks as well now this is a tempered glass left and right panel case I get it for the left side that's understandable you want to see what's on the inside especially if you're able to make it look semi decent inside the Shogun but on the right side I've always had a problem with this right side temper glass panels really don't make much sense at all unless you're just like a cable management God and even then who wants to see cables if you even get the chance to see them on the right side now BitFenix took a weird approach here instead of making the right glass panel see through that actually tinted it like 100% you cannot see through the glass period it is still glass for some reason I guess it just makes you feel better inside knowing that you have glass on both sides I don't I don't know but you can't see through it so if that was what you were going for the right side panel you don't have it here now I do appreciate the velcro straps those are nice I also like the rubber grounded cutouts those are also nice most cheap cases don't include those rubber grommets so it's good to see those in there but there is something about the cable management that just isn't it just doesn't work here I think it's because there are these random tables that are stretching from the backside of the case up to those LED chargers in the front where the SSDs go literally this cables are just sprawled across the basement floor running directly into these SSD trays that they couldn't have routed the cables themselves around the case or integrated them into all this extra space that you have to make it look a bit more pretty in the front or even where your power supply would go because remember you can see straight through the thing because there is no roof how much are they even asking for this case holy Sh okay so it looks like about a hundred and fifty US dollars on Amazon I wouldn't frankly pay half that oh and by the way you see this door here on the front of the BitFenix Shogun so this I thought was an optical drive bay door I thought you could just put you know a CD drive there so I had to look this up because I thought I was going crazy apparently there is 0-5 an inch quarter drive support absolutely none which means that door is purely aesthetic for whatever reason if you want it to look like you can put a CD drive there but you can't well that's what the BitFenix Shogun offers you I'm actually curious at this point to read some of the other customer reviews let's see what they thought let's see this one star review here horrible case cable routing is ridiculous io wires are not long enough for some motherboards it's beauty on the outside but ugly on the inside about 5,000 thumb screws inside that were tightened RIA that's true there were actually tons of thumb screws that I had to remove in order to get rid of those hard drive trees that were in there to begin with the wires you have to unplug and plug to use are not worth the headache not to mention the thumb screws are tightened to tell them the front and back the wires in the bottom of the case looked like a rat's nest thank you thank you a full PSU shroud could have helped hide them again thank you let's try a new wig great case wide open looks amazing cons the case lacks a filter on the bottom side of the front panel so does can easily be sucked in there is not a top cover for the PSU section to hide some cabling okay that seems to be a pretty big concern that Phoenix so that's all I've got to say about the BitFenix Shogun I am clearly not a fan I understand this is a matter of personal opinion you may end up loving the case how that expend your hundred and fifty bucks and have a blast building in there it's just not something I would personally buy it's way too big for a mid tower case there is no basement cover which looks tacky I think that the SSD LEDs look tacky I just I just don't like it period is it's just not my kind of case if however you do appreciate the honesty which I'll be frank was a bit brutal but I'm not going to sugarcoat anything for you if I don't like it I just don't like it and give this video a thumbs up I appreciate it give this video a thumbs down if you hate everything about life or you just didn't like the video for whatever reason be sure to click Subscribe 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