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this is the fractal design mesh if is too you may have seen a pre-roll look to our channel about it and for good reason we only promote products obviously that we love and/or use and I absolutely love the mesh if is too now before we get carried away which is I mean it's easy to do with this chassis I want to preface this video by stating that I don't intend to you know throw in the deep dives no the case features like a normally wooden review of this caliper and that's because the mesh vs2 is a lot like other mesh Rifai well not just meshed for five cases this is a lot like other fractal cases in general the mesh if I see obviously is the more compact version of this and then also the define r6 which shares I believe the exact same dimensions is the same chassis basically and then just emphasizes a bit more airflow whereas the define r6 was more for hard drive support and staying more stealthy overall the mesh is to obviously features a large mesh front panel nearly identical to the mesh device ease as well as a large pop out mesh panel up top with a push lock mechanism at the rear similar to the define our sixes hardware support includes up to a 360 ml fan rad combo up front as well as up top and either a 120 or 140 ml combo at the rear frak dough includes three beefy 140 mm fans with the mesh vs two they run quiet and the all-black profile is nice for these but the fans are only voltage controlled no PW support now to compensate a large fan hub is included behind the motherboard tray with dedicated three and four pin support I normally you know count three Finn three pin fans as negatives in 2019 especially at this price point but the large pwm fan hub more than makes up for this in fact these three fans are likely all you'll need even like an expensive build like this so I'm not sure a stickler for knock to Azure silent wings which by all means I understand I would just stick with these in here now I love the inclusion of rubber grommets deserve my favorite the large removable panel for a longer rad extra fan or reservoir in fact this is an excellent case for liquid cooling in general you can mount a res in this large panel you can also mount it directly the panel next to the motherboard tray so if you want to put a 360 ml up here and a reservoir there's plenty of room for all of that including a very tall reservoir it's an often overlooked feature with mid towers like this one that's why I'm mentioning it but if you're looking for something smaller than full ATX right to show off all the custom loop goodies the mesh flats s2 is a great candidate now on the rear you'll find a 7 plus 2 slot config so two vertical brackets if you're into you know during a custom water block up here PSU bracket and cutoff for loading units from the rear which I prefer the 120mm or 140mm fan mount a rear i/o cut out and the top panel button that we highlighted earlier lastly behind the right panel you'll find a three hard drive cage is secured with thumb screws two dedicated SSD trays included velcro straps and tie points at all the right places it's honestly a builder's paradise I know me saying that sounds like I'm fanboying pretty hard over this case but after building in dozens upon dozens of these things I can say with certainty that this is one of the best I've reviewed the attention to detail here is insane and I really appreciate it honestly it goes a long way an example would be this tiny little cutout up here above the rear i/o cutout instead of just having to you know wrap your fan cable across your motherboard and through your EPS cutout which is gonna be a bit big you can discreetly hide your fan cable through this tiny hole against the rear of the chassis I love it it's a small thing you probably will overlook it until you're actually building it and I mean surprise that's a fact okay for you now another cool feature this case has is near to list design for the left and right panels the tempered glass on the left side is only slightly tinted which is nice and it simply snaps into place I'm actually curious I never tried to install the right panel into the left panel spot see if I can do that and that's probably not gonna work that well just up there and then just that right yes it fits okay cool so if you want to I don't know if they sell these panels separately but if you just want to close off the case and not have like a tempered glass panel on here you can just put the right panel over the left panel slot I assume you could do the same by putting the tempered glass panel on there on the right panel slot that's that's really weird but it's cool that just shows you how functional the case is overall yeah let's get this off all in all I like the ease-of-use approach with snapping on the panels and you can secure them with thumb screws if you wish now with that said there are a few things I would change first you can't remove the front basement cover unless you remove the front panel first that's not an issue in and of itself the problem is the front i/o wiring is connected to that front panel so if you remove the front panel you have to kind of mind those cables because they're all kind of running to that thing so yeah that's kind of annoying I wish that the cables would have been you know hardwired to a separate little box that's attached to the chassis and not necessarily that front panel it's a little annoying but it's again something you're gonna really come across only once or twice if you build in this thing just something to keep in mind another thing I really haven't liked lately about these larger fractal cases I mean I know they're supposed to be larger right for the hard drives and whatnot that define our sticks it made a little more sense with and of course you want custom loop support but I feel like there's a little too much space between this is the large graphics card from Asus right here this is the 20 80 Strix and we still have over six inches of space between the front fans and the end of the graphics card which extends past a typical ATX motherboard on the contrary the Mesha 5c is just a bit too compact for a lot of people I mean this card plus a 360 Miller well 240 ml rat in that case wouldn't fit this card is just too long so we need like a healthy middle ground and I think like this is a little too long and the mesh if I see he's a little too narrow from front to back so that's just just might take honestly I'd like to see a little more differentiation between fractal products I understand like they're not trying to reinvent the wheel I mean the wheel works the way it is so just keep going in this general direction but the dimensions need to change too just a little you need a healthy middle ground something similar to NZXT SH 500 right where there's just a perfect amount of space there again the message I see is a good option but certain parts won't fit so maybe an inch or two extra from that chassis would be perfect I don't know I'm just throwing out options I just think we could go with something a little smaller than this here but anyway enough with features let's talk airflow it's no secret the mesh turf is to emphasize is this the word mesh it means literally in the name and the resulting airflow is spectacular compared to the best-in-class fantex piece 600's the mushroom is two yields identical load cpu temperatures at 78 degrees Celsius this is four degrees over the matric 70 from deep cool and six degrees over the be quiet dark bass 700 they're all kind of similarly priced the metric seven metric 70 excuse me is much cheaper but it's got a closed-off front panel so there you go so the metruff is - is tied for best overall CPU temps the story changes though for the graphics card the fant XP 600 s yields 65 degree GPU temperatures while the mesh 5s2 gave 67 degrees Celsius I mean sure it's a noticeable Delta but it isn't like you know life-threatening and if you look at our other cases you'll find that this is a pretty standard temperature things only dropped by an additional two degrees when the front panel was completely removed which isn't alarming either so this could be tied to the way we routed the PCIe cables right maybe it's blocking some of the air from this front fan I don't know the piece of Center desks offered a dedicated cut out for those cables and this really doesn't so that could be the the reason why we could try locating this somewhere else but I feel like the optimal position is to run these cables into the rubber grommet next to the motherboard so that's why we left it there and I mean come on 70 degrees Celsius for graphics card or anything under that is already good so how do we conclude then is this my new favorite case no not really I mean but that is really say much the piaac Center - wasn't my favorite case either the mesh ps2 is priced at 149 ninety-nine on Newegg which is exactly the same price as the fantex P 600 s so these two are definitely targeting each other and then it makes sense as for which I would choose that ultimately comes down to the type of build the mesh VST would probably better for custom water cooling right because it's got an elongated shape of the pay the piece of centered s is just a bit more flashy and stylish and I mean I like the nylon a lot that's a really cool implementation but I don't know I like to look at cases the same way I look at cars fractal cases are like Bentley's I honestly believe this I know I know we ran a few ads comparing this to a Lambo kind of satirically but just just roll with it Baili chassis czar classy right the frames are beautiful and roomy sites are all spacious the internals are functional and style the layout is conventional to an extent on the other hand modern fan text cases are a bit more about flair the RGB integration for example the grooves and the curves they don't look like your run-of-the-mill cases kind of like McLaren's you buy those cars for different things right Bentley's are easy to sit in and they're extremely comfortable and MacLaren's are sharp and fast you buy a fan text case because it looks unique it's like nothing else on the market you buy a fractal case because it's functional that's not to say that the P 600 s isn't I just think this is more functional and in the case of the mesh vs2 it's extremely functional cable management in these cases is a dream it was a dream even in the more compact version the mesh if I see these cases are not super flashy in that way but whoever builds in the case knows that he or she is building in a quality product and that's what Franklin design offers and you're paying for it I mean 150 bucks is not cheap but neither is the P 600 s so then which would you choose that's the question like you'd answer in the comments below thanks for watching you guys if you like this video thumbs up you know what to do thumbs down for the opposite or v8 everything right like click the red subscribe and if you haven't already and I'll 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