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this is the fantex P 600 s and in many ways it's an evolve on the interior with a p-series exterior and I'm perfectly satisfied with that especially considering the $50 price markdown for this model at one point the P 400 was my favorite mid tower case competitions become a pretty clear size of late but fantex has done an incredible job revamping the P series flagship with a modestly over engineered and sexy release sporting yeah nylon are you in dire need of yeah an upgrade look no further than power colors red dragon Vega 56 at only 319 dollars from March 8th to the 11th and 3 epic games included you're getting one heck of a bargain purchase now via the link below seeing as though this case in terms of function nearly matches the evolve ex we reviewed in this video right here I'll spend the bulk of this video testing fantex claims regarding the nylon paneling up front and on top but we'll do a quick run through a support for those who are new to the fan tech scene this is a 7 slot 3 vertical slot mid tower with support for up to eight 360 millimeter fan rad combo both up top and up front you can throw a single 120 or 140 on the rear as well you'll find 3 140 mm fantex branded fans included with the p6 under desks they do a great job staying quiet surprisingly under load and yeah I wouldn't really have a problem using these for a high-end build with the case you'll find a large accessory box with for modular hard drive trays zip ties that you probably won't even need and a case full of necessary screws I actually suggest saving this it's really cool that fantex even includes one to begin with and then you can sort by screw size and thread for future builds it's very similar to something I use daily and it definitely comes in handy support for up to ATX motherboards is present since the motherboard tray is indented toward the front for extra cable management Headroom you won't be able to stuff anything larger in here in terms of motherboard compatibility the cable sliders are probably my least favorite aspect of this case if I'm being honest I talk to this a bit my evolve X review I just feel as though they're over in near essentially trying to reinvent the wheel in my opinion the rubber grommets in this case I think would have been just a much easier thing to implement and then would have been just functionally easier to work around in this case my 24-pin was sitting awkwardly and there really wasn't much else I can do about it so yeah elsewhere however things look pretty great there's a dedicated PCIe cable cutout in the basement which you can't open or close with this plastic cover large cutouts under the motherboard tray allowing for routing things like HD audio front i/o and USB 2.0 cables whatever really want down here up top a large opening provides ample space for any extra fan cables and things like your a pen DPS fantex conveniently list clearance metrics on their website by the way I'll go ahead and read through a couple the CPU cooler metric is for the height of CPU cooler up to 190 millimeters and graphics cards up to 435 millimeters long will fit in the p6 under this you'll find this is a rather large mid Tower but I think it works here because there's just so much going on inside there's there's really no empty space even without a custom loop so on the back we've got our 120 or 140 ml fan mount rear i/o cutout seven plus three PCI slots and a PSU cutout with included bracket just attach it to your power supply slide it through the back and it's secured to the chassis with two captive thumb screws a small removable dust filters included underneath by the way you'll find plenty of space under the basement for even extended power supplies especially if you don't plan to attach the three and a half inch base in fact even if you were using a bv power supply with cable extensions you know including the traditional cable length I highly doubt you'd find yourself running out of room and this speaks to the sheer volume allotted to the right portion of the P 600 s there's so much space on the side for cable management and storage it really is a beautiful thing you even get tons of velcro straps included they're kind of integrated into the case so I highly doubt you'll need the zip ties it through and see why I said that I still nice to have though like everything back here is so simplistic in a way despite looking fairly busy with all the cables tucked in and running around a magnetic right panel on the case which we'll talk more about a second closes with literally one finger and that's how much space we've got on this side so yeah cable management on this one is definitely a 10 out of 10 now let's talk about these panels both the left and right panels are hinged and can swing open slightly past 180 degrees I tried removing mine but yeah unless they were super glued down they they weren't coming off I don't know I don't know if they're supposed to be removable like they were on the evolve X but at least this sample here I could not get them off fellas and I'll break the case so I just left them as this the good thing is because it swings open past 180 like it's really versatile you can kind of make space where you need it the tempered glass on the Left panel is lined with damping material to seal the internals and trap sound it's also only slightly tinted which actually looks really great on this white model as for the right panel we've got no tempered glass which I'm fine with but instead we've been welcome to sound damping pads and the same trim around the edges to properly seal off the build and look apart from the magnets baked into the two doors there's really nothing else holding these things in place now the evolved X if I'm not mistaken included optional little thumb screw points to keep the doors closed during transport like if we assume the magnets fail made they weren't holding any more it prevented those doors from swinging open but I'm not saying that in the piece under desks so fantex must be pretty confident about the strength and durability of these magnets there are four inside each door the top of the case is rather bare sporting only a white glowing power button and a removable panel that either suppresses sound when equipped or allows the case to breathe a bit more when removed its insides are covered with the same damping material found on the right panel and is also held in place with a few magnets the front of the chassis is what I'd like to focus on last because we'll manipulate the heck out of it during our temperature and airflow test so unlike more traditional mid towers in its price category the p600 ass includes modular front and top panels and tend to either keep things quiet or cool and those panels will sit in place of what you would normally see beneath them which is nylon and then I'm behind the nylon a very thin metal mesh which essentially acts as a dust filter so what I really want to talk about is this nylon because it is something that I've never seen before on a pc case at all and think it does a great job at allowing her to pass through it unhindered so you'll see that here in a second but I do want to say that we saw this in earlier stages at Computex fantex kind of wanted to play around with it see if they could actually turn this into a full-scale production and implemented into cases and here they aren't doing that it's pretty awesome they were claiming three times the airflow of conventional mesh filtering wasn't totally on board with that until I ran our stress test and I'll say this the P 600's has the best air flow of any case I've ever tested and the config that we tested it in I can't say it's the best on the market but I mean it's pretty incredible so the Nilan essentially kills two birds with one stone it filters larger dust particles and hair while occupying a significantly smaller area meaning air should be less impeded when pulled by the front fans it doesn't comprise a single sheet or layer of the same way that like a metal filter would it actually does look like it's into roben twice so you have two nylon layers stretched to spec without the use of glue or anything that could potentially break down with time which is nice you can clean this stuff pretty easy and even potentially replace it with other colors in the future so we'll see what fantex decides to do in the coming months if you could swap this with like a white mesh filter I think that'd be really cool what I will say is that the use of this stuff is brilliant so here are our temperature results compared to our be quiet dark Bay 700 which had integrated filters and a rather closed off front panel CPU temperatures for the P 600 s were about 3.5 degrees Celsius lower but that wasn't the coolest part when we removed the front panel and a mini mesh filter underneath core temps dropped to sixty seven point two degrees still a degree lower than our dart by 700 likely due to the inclusion of additional fan pointed at the CPU cooler we still aren't at the coolest part here are the CPU temps with only either the mesh filter or nylon panel install I reran these tests three times each to confirm that the nylon was actually less restrictive than the mesh which is I mean this is a very thin mesh here probably some of the most permeable mesh I've seen and only resulted in a point three degrees Celsius bump over our run without a panel installed at all something else to note our graphics card temps literally went unchanged throughout these tests in the conventional position ample airflow is supplied however we did not test the card in a vertical config I mean it be pressed literally against the left last panel effectively choking in a bear you guys know it's not an optimal position you could run it there if you want but it's gonna run a lot hotter and probably louder especially considering the fact that it's only like that far from the glass so I really only recommend these kinds of slots for custom water coolers with graphics card water blocks on a closed loop otherwise you'll want to use the vertical kit from either cable mod or Coolermaster ever viewed both you'll see in pop up here in a second so back to the temps and this is where we'll wrap up the video the nylon is incredibly porous I haven't been able to test this for a week it's like a standalone filter to see how much dust it actually allows into the case maybe a separate video for that but even if you were to still sport the mesh filter underneath it which is basically the panel on scenario you'll only see a tiny bump in temperatures in our case that bump was as small as 1.5 degrees if we stress both our CPU and GPU to the point where they're you know being utilized a hundred percent each those margins would probably spread a bit you know that card would run at the heart of the seafood probably run closer to 80 85 degrees Celsius but one thing's for sure I'd be much more comfortable you know maxing out both my CPU and GPU workloads in a case like this which allows these or to define his or her airflow preference if things are getting a little too hot just remove the two covers so the one on top and the one up front and you'll be good to go I mean literally this is as good as removing the panel entirely and then give or take half a degree Celsius now the nylon still looks good air flow properties are fantastic the sound you know the stock fans produce is hardly detectable so I would argue that you don't even really need the covers I mean the covers are nice like if you want just like a bear front and top panel that's cool and you do have that sound damping material which does in fact reduce the overall audible tones produced by the system but I I mean if this was my bill then I was just gonna support this for a month or two I would totally remove these and never use them because I think the nylon looks good enough on its own it doesn't look terrible I think it'd be really cool if we could you get the white mesh but the the white nylon with the white chassis that'd be really cool the black is a nice contrast but it might not be in everyone's taste that said though it still looks really good so I would not have a problem at all and I said I would actually prefer to run the Nile on exposed rather than covering it up and then letting my system run hotter as a result back to the fans for a second just for some reference look they aren't as good as the ones be quiet includes in their dark bass 700 sound links three are some of the best fans out there but you get three here instead of two that'd be quite includes which makes up for the difference and arguably extra so look if you're if you're looking to spend let's say over a hundred bucks between 100 to $200 on a mid tower case this is a serious contender aesthetically I don't think it's as sexy as something like the PC 11 dynamic which i think is still probably my favorite case but the function of the p 600's is undeniable I'd like to see the same nylon implementation in smaller cases from fan texts like maybe the P 300 to the P 350 X I'd like those price points then we'd be talking and I think the P 350 acts is still the best priced case one of the best price the the H 500 forum is XT is still a really good price case as well but if we get that mesh and the P through the X or something similar to that for around 60 70 bucks oh that's gonna be it that to me that will dominate that entire price category it'll be better than the mesh if I see it'll be better than the H 500 just because it'll still look really good and prioritize airflow at the same time it's hard to get both today's day and age let me know what you guys think in the comment section below give this video a thumbs up you thought it was cool stay tuned for more content like this this is science studio thanks for watching and thanks for learning with us