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to the left of me here is the fractal design define r6 which is their latest case that will be released in January 8th next year in 2018 though with that you guys are probably wondering is this case worth your money and of course does it live up to the hype well let's do a full build and find out welcome back to check yes City and here it is the r6 is hitting it at 130 USD or 150 with the tempered glass side panel now scope tech did provide this case for review they're an Australian retailer down under here and it's coming in at 209 of strain dollars or 239 AUD with the tempered glass fitted out now you can get this case in four different colors the old black which everything's just black you've got a standard black which some of the key features will be in white and then you've got the gunmetal which is the sample that I was sent in and then of course you've got the old white model too so four different flavors for your liking but with that fractal design promised a clean aesthetic and also something that's really easy to build in and of course nothing that's going to annoy you or anything that feels cheap in this build so with that when I started building in this case it did live up to that name fractal design usually make very clean cases now the previous experience I had with one of these cases was the r4 and if I remember correctly that case was a little bit heavier than the r6 so they have lightened it up a bit which is great for me since I'm moving cases around a lot and with that it also still has that same strong build quality now with this case you get the ability to install eight drives from the get-go two SSDs on the rear of the case and also an additional six either 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives with the included drive bays now there are extra slots so I could believe you could mount an extra five drives on top of the eight drives if you wish to so that's a total of 13 drives that could fit inside this case there's also a nexus Smart Hub up the top and with the top panel you get the power button 2 USB 3 ports and also your headphone and audio out jacks and with that you cannot grade that to fractal designs modular system a USB type-c that's 30 USD so they do give you options to make this whole case modular and inside the case you can vertically mount a GPU 2 with their flex VR c25 kit that's an additional 40 USD as well so they haven't included these things in to drop the price initially though there are those options there for people who want to add extra and speaking of modular this is where the r6 really shines you can take the side panels off in sort of like a modular like fashion remove the screws and then they click off and on that's both the rear and the front tempered glass side panel and inside you can actually remove all those drive bays if you wish to install an extended ATX motherboard or you wish to have extra water cooling options with a 360 mil right at the front or a 360 mil route on the top now with those drive bays included you can only get a 240 ml rad on and also the corsair h 115 for example which is a 280 mm rad with a thicker length won't actually fit with some heat sinks i did run into a problem with this x 299 extreme for motherboard though i do imagine someone going in with a case this big they would want to put in a motherboard with preferably a very emits ink on board now you're probably thinking VRMs and temperatures though before we get onto VRMs the top panel itself and this is does tie in directly with temperatures you can detach that by clicking a button and then it'll come off and with that you can take off the actual closed base which has sound deadening on and then speaking of sound ending you get sound anything on the rear panel and the front panel and even the side panel if you get the non tempered glass version will be sound dead and - if you remove this then you'll then have an open-air dust filtered panel which you can install back on the case and this will allow the temperatures to breathe out the top and also if you install a radiator like I've done here at 240ml rad that'll allow the fans to just blow the air out the top also with that I did install the deep cool 240 gam ax cooler and it does a fine job of cooling a 7900 X so I have put a lot of parts in this at 1080 Ti 7900 XC probably wondering how did these temperatures hold up when when I started playing games that were really good in pub deals getting 65 degrees on an overclocked 1080 TI now this is in a 24 degree ambient environment when I took the timber glass side panel off it did drop down to around about 63 degrees on the same spot after a couple of minutes so and especially when you're putting on a tempered glass side panel which glass itself is an insulator you are reducing the amount of airflow that can get into the case and now with we are using a 1080 TI that does have an aftermarket cooler and that's essentially just dumping hot air into the case so it was good to see that the fractal design define r6 with the tube front included fans and the rear fan did an absolutely fine job of keeping this case cool and also quiet and at the moment I've even got this machine running beside me and it's just really whisper quiet now you're probably wondering I've just been talking up the r6 at the moment to this point everything seems perfect and honestly when it comes down to it this case really is close to perfect as you'll get I mean for a midsize ATX case it has a nice size everything worked when I installed things cable management was absolutely fine the included grommets the big rubber grommets they didn't fall off they were very stiff they did a great job of covering up cables that were going through the rear spot of the case and the front side of the case and with that the dust filters on the bottom front and top they all removed with ease everything came off detached and then reattached with ease to the screws came into the holes very easy there was no cross threaded screws everything was firm no sharp edges as well so if you're a diabetic and you're cutting yourself you're gonna have a fine time in the r6 that means you're not gonna cut yourself at all with this case because nothing's sharp so everything's a smooth finish very clean aesthetic and with that having tried the r4 in the past I can say without a doubt that I prefer the r6 by a long shot this case is as close to perfection as you're gonna get of course I did come into that problem with that corset extra thick cooler not fitting but of course this is a fractal design case they're not going to design their cases for Corsair coolers that was the only problem I really had in this case but besides that everything was great the weight balance also the materials used it's a very strong aluminium brushed finish and also without the r4 when we compare that to the r6 I thought the r4 was way too heavy I thought the metal they used was just too thick and almost got a hernia using that thing but I'm happy to report with the r6 I'm not gonna get that hernia carrying this thing around also on the bottom of the case is an enclosed power supply shroud running all the way across so even if you've got ketchup and mustard cables this case will hide that and also on the rear of the case you can access that Paz place so easy you just take off the module racket there put your power supply on and then you can reinstall it and it's great if you've got a modular power supply itself and you need to get the cables in you can then sort of move the power supply out a little bit quickly and then put the cables on and then move the power supply back in and some last-minute things before I get on out of here on the rear of the case there is a seven fan hub as well so you plug that into your motherboard give us some solder power feed and then you can plug in seven additional fans this is all on the rear of the case the cable management as I said before was really easy to work with this velcro straps included there's also zip ties included though one thing I did notice if I remember correctly with the r4 was there was some easy labels on the actual plastic sleeves for the screws themselves so they did take that away though there is the manual that is really easy to read I'd like to see those labels returned especially if a beginner is getting into PC building they're going to want to know which is their SSD screws and their hard drive screws and their motherboard mouth screws but besides that with the r6 it really is a case that is worthy of your money it does hit all the marks that I would want from a case personally it's got that clean aesthetic going on that will suit both people in the professional industry but also enthusiasts who just want a subtle and nothing too in-your-face look of course you can see the hardware as well with that tempered glass side panel I do prefer the tempered glass look over the standard look as well especially with this day and age we've got a lot of our G being the case on your parts and a lot of lighting it does look very clean and I didn't really use any custom parts here it was just a pretty straightforward build didn't take that long at all with this case and it was very quiet - I know guys if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what you think of the define r6 is it gonna be your next case or do you want to build on it if so why if not why not love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and with that big thanks to scope tech for sending this out for review they're an Australian retailer you can pre-order it from their site from the 8th of January you'll get it in and delivered to your door you can go pick it up from the store and it's coming in again 209 AUD or 239 are you with a temp of gloss and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye