Gadgetory

what's up everyone a babyface McGee here I want to introduce you to the fractal design defined see this is a midsize case that has seven PCIe slots it's actually not to s long I should say but it is fairly wide and it has excellent cable management we're going to throw a custom loop into this chassis right here but first it's going to spin a little knowledge actually for those interested in this case like I said it's beautifully designed has excellent cable management I think it's going to look really good once we have all the other components inside of a deck it looks really good just sitting there by itself I'm very glad the fraggles included a basement this time around it's not as wide not as big as the defined s but the defined C is still a solid choice it's also very affordable link in the video description if you're interested so a case review here up front you can support up to a 360 millimetre rat up front also a 280 mil rat of course the respect to fan sizes up top it looks like a 280 red or to 120 fan so a 240 rat as well and then the back support for a single 120 millimeter fan radiator combo whatever you want I thought this was really cool similar to how competitors deal with power supply insertion right here you get two volt power supply bracket also here the signature fractal design cable management system this is actually a just popped in a little more so you have extra cable management space in the back so you can put that back panel on with ease to large rubber grommet cutouts you my 24 pin USB 3.0 SATA the works on this side onto the back here as you can see very clean plenty of space for all your cables to be routed from the left side here you have a large SSD tray up top which is actually removable with the simple thumb screw very nice I love this I think all case manufacturers should follow suit here and plenty of space down below now it does include a harddrive tray I took that out because obviously will be water cooling like I said so we're not going to need that I actually don't use hard drives period so we'll just put an SSD up here and that should be it apart from that I mean it's just a basic back panel whatever you want to call it configuration two more rubber grommets up top for 24 pin access maybe some fan cables and stuff coming through here and no no that's really about it oh if you're worried about no dust or anything like that you have let's see this one here this one goes in the front so it just clips in very nicely and then we also have the one for the bottom right here slides across the entire bottom section of the case so dust is pretty much a non-issue here if you want to mount fans at the top you can also remove to kind of a little modular panels oh god I can't get that on anyway this top part is removable and you can replace it with the included just dust filter up top it's magnetic so if you want to mount fans up here that shouldn't be a problem at all so plans for this bill just kind of in a nutshell involve a single 360 mil rad on the far right I'm going to put two gtx 1080s in here in sli it's the same config I use in blue sky check out this video right here for more details and then I'm also going to stuff the beautiful design err gigabyte Zee 270x motherboard which is a all silver motherboard even a PCB like all of it is completely silver I'll stop that video right here keep pointing the videos and videos I'm sorry but the theme of this build is going to be silver obviously with a hint of purple I think that purple fluid is going to look pretty dang to open here with silver accents everything else for the most parts going to be black I think I'm going to just black these out I don't know why fractal chooses white just PCI bracket slots things I don't know why they do that but we're probably gonna paint these black maybe silver and I have some silver paint silver metallic paint I don't know if that's going to be overkill or not and we'll put black fans here black fans here with the 360 mil rad and I think we're going to end up mounting the reservoir up top this way I think that's the only place that's really going to work I also have a very special set of cables sent over by Tony from verrilli check out his channel linked in the video description the dude actually is really good at making cables he sucked us up multiple times here in the studio so give him a big shout out subscribed to his channel he will greatly appreciate it I mean just look at how sexy these cables are so the silver is going to match the silver PCB the motherboard and the purple hopefully is going to match the fluid at least close enough you'll get the idea it's going to be purple it looks kind of blue in the camera but it is a very deep purple in real life so that's it this is literally the color scheme in the 24 then we're going to emulate that in the rest of the build we've got a lot to do here in part ones go ahead and get started I hope you enjoy the tech form now for the RAM I've chosen g.skill Triton z RGB and ddr4 dims these are beautiful I'll say that first off but they are going to cost you a pretty penny they're not cheap by any means I'm not going to try to sugarcoat that you will pay this is in this case here it's a it's an 8 by 4 kit so 32 gigabytes here this will cost you well over 100 US dollars maybe even upwards of 200 bucks it just depends on where you find them at what point in time memory is pretty expensive nowadays because people are working on 10 nanometer processes and just the supply of these modules is pretty pretty slim right now so I still recommend these if you're all about looks and performance both are included in these modules here so anything can look beautiful in in this case you let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that there are billions of transistors packed into this guy right here that is insane it's really weird it's as light as a potato chip there's so much power in here just mind-blowing all right and here we are this will be the end of part 1 basically everything is in here except for the tubing and that's just you know that's a video in itself just because uh I expect we have some difficult bends I say that about every custom we build we put together but kind of a tight squeeze over here that's for sure so the pump is just sitting right here underneath this opening here in the basement very nice the fractal included that so it is a custom loop friendly even though it is kind of a it's in a very long case so there is not much space between the graphics card and both of them and the front rat also something else want to tackle we're going to have to put the fans on the outside which means that our dust filter which normally says here will not all fit and we can't do that so I think I'm gonna have to cut out some maybe like dust filter screen and try to line that around the case something I don't know we'll come up with something to mitigate the dust problem that will be inevitable if we don't install the one that comes with the case I think what we're gonna do with the loop we're going to start will not start here but so we're going to connect down should be straight up then we're going to go up and to here now we're going to want the reservoir to feed the pump directly so we're gonna have to have a really long piece of pipe probably come down here and then somehow make its way over here that that piece is going to be extremely long and I'm pretty sure that we're gonna have to redo that a couple times and then of course we have to worry about the radiator up here sorry it's not focusing very well but we have two openings up top we have to worry about as well as we have to include the rat in the loop obviously that is pretty much it though or call it quits for the day I want to emphasize I love this case this case is freakin awesome it just it looks beautiful it's so friendly to build in I'm actually you know if this was a tempered glass of defined C I think this would probably be my favorite case period it's easier to build in than the NZXT s340 elite and just regular as 340 and I think it looks better than both the s 340 and the P 400 that's just my personal opinion but I can kind of conclude for yourself what you think about this case so that's where I'm going to end it for now this is the end of part 1 stay tuned for part 2 I expect it will only be a two-part series so that's that's good not going to drag it out like we used to this is science to do thanks for building with us you