Wood you buy a wooden case?

Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Wood you buy a wooden case?”.
I love fractal they’re one of my favorite companies. When it comes to making cases I’ve got a fractal torrent at home. I had a mesh if I see before that and now they’ve sent us the fractal North I’m from the north. So it makes sense for me to build it.

Why not? Oh my God, there’s two colors either black or white. Well, there’s two really big things. Actually, one you get wood, pretty cool huh! You can get it with a mesh side panel or tempered glass if you’ve ever taken a case out of a box and you’re having trouble it’s probably because the little handles are pushed in yeah see boom easy get a bunch of accessories.

I love fractals packaging too. It’S usually just in a big accessories box, either outside or inside the case. One thing: that’s really cool.

The days of fans on your side panel are back baby. Yeah they’ve got a mount right here, so you can put two 120 or 140 not sure, but you can put a couple fans on the side if you want to, even though there’s this wood grille for the black one, there’s a bunch of mesh behind it there And then on the back, I believe you can mount an 80 millimeter fan. Another thing is that it’s got this little faux leather tab for lifting off the top here to make building really easy, always welcome to be able to take the top off easily you’re.

Also going to get either, I think brass or steel accents. So, look at this top IO we’ve got power button, a headphone, jack mic Jack, a couple, USB 3.0, a ports and then uh USB type c, something that you might not see very often, especially once it’s like down wherever you’ve got this case located permanently. Is these nice little rings of brass around the feet? It’S small details like this that I actually really really love.

Andy loves. This thing Bell saw it earlier. He loves this thing.

Andrew loves this thing: everyone who sees even Jonathan and it comes with either Walnut or Oak, depending on whether you’ve got the white or the black case. We do have both I’m going to build in the black one, because I want to try the cool mesh side panel, but for those of you curious about the white and how this looks with the steel accents and the different wood on the front uh. Here you go, this one’s got the tempered glass side panel. So if you want a nice clear, look on the internals before I put a bunch of stuff in they’re otherwise the same and then I think, there’s probably a steel ring yep. I’M really excited about this. Personally, it’s meant for like a gamer, but you know an older one who doesn’t have the luxury of having their own personal office.

You know they’ve got to match the rest of the decor in their living room where their desk is or whatever. So they want something that looks nice in basically any environment, and I think they’ve really kind of crushed it with that here, I’m being careful not to scratch anything as per usual with froctal we’ve got tons of room for cable management. We’Ve got nice rubber, grommets for when you’re pushing cables through.

Otherwise, though this thing actually seems like it’s been sanded down, there’s no really rough or sharp bits. As you can see, they’ve got 120 and 140 mounts. If you can do two 140s, then this should be able to do a 280 rad, and then it can definitely do a 360 in the front with three 120s at least I’m pretty sure it can looks like the front’s cut out just to make sure you can Get that full rad in there wow. This is the first like full mesh side panel. I’Ve really used.

I don’t use a lot of small form factor cases, so I get that it’s a bit more common in that scene. Your T1 has a mesh side panel, but fractal has just been wild when it comes to getting really crazy, good airflow in all of their cases, even the budget ones like the pop air and it’s you know a solid airflow case for reference. This is a hundred and thirty US Dollars, it’s not a budget Case by any means, but it’s also not that expensive to be perfectly honest: uh, oh okay, it just pulls off. Oh there’s, a little handle easy, peasy lemon squeezy.

Thank you. Fractal. This thing comes with two 140s in the front and it’s got a nice little Fan Hub that I didn’t even see before and apparently you can mount this guy in a couple different places as well thanks, I got it from lttstore.com.

Would you believe it? This thing was pretty easy to get off. I just took like four or six screws, basically just a face plate for the top of this i o, but what’s nice is, if you do have to disconnect or get into any of this stuff. It looks really easy to do.

You don’t have to worry about plastic Clips breaking off on you or anything like that, and then, when you’re done it should just screw right back into place. No problem whatsoever. Oh no! I’M gon! Na put this front. I o back together and then we’re going to build in it, but not before a word from our sponsor vesi. Thank you vessi for sponsoring. Today’S video soggy sock season is upon us, which means it’s time to put those boat shoes back on the Shelf.

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I don’t know what this is looks like a rad Mount or something I’m not going to use it. I think it’s for radiators. One thing: that’s great is you can actually move around these storage trays really easy.

So if you want to like store, ssds or hdds down here, it shouldn’t be too difficult. This is uh the one thing I think fractal could do a little better. It’S something that phantax does that.

I’M really jealous of fantex will give you that plastic tray. That has like all the little screw compartments and everything, but I mean this is going to have everything we need. It’S got extra standoffs. It’S got some motherboard screws.

Let’S build a computer we’re going AMD. Today we got a Rog strix, x670e F gaming, Wi-Fi uh. This is a hell of a board yeah. Sorry AMD new chipset is pretty uh expensive, but it’s nice. Oh my God. Look at that sexy! I o.

I love it. Where’S my CPU, taking the armor off right now, Dan’s gon na go get us a nicely windowed up SSD that we can wow. I like their new packaging. I haven’t opened any of amd’s new CPUs. Yet I love how they’ve got their cool cutout IHS, really on display here, I’m gon na pop this open get this CPU installed am 5. man.

It would be embarrassing if I dropped this right now. Amd still uses the Golden Triangle, and you can see a little arrow in that top right corner. Another way that I personally like to make sure these go in nicely is I just follow the notches also, these days it seems most the time the logo is like facing up. So it doesn’t really it’s not that hard anyway, I’m going to take these out because we’re going to put in a sexy aftermarket cooler eka this one is unopened which is nice, so I’m hoping the hardware is all here. This is the LGA 1700 bracket. I don’t need that EK, AIO, 240 and 280 AMD. What’S up? Oh my God. Oh my God! Oh my God.

It’S okay! It landed just right. There, hey Windows, 10. It is because it has games, that’s cool! Thank you. One thing I love about Asus boards is the little Q latch thing there that you can just turn to lock your drive in Place 16 gigs of ddr5 6400 CL 40.. That’S not bad! That’S pretty decent ddr5 speed! Now that we’ve got our Ram in I’m gon na finally do the brackets for my cooler two to one, because we got two fans, so we want a y splitter like this. These are great by the way, if you build a lot of computers or even just like the odd PC.

Definitely pick yourself up a couple of Y Splitters or even like. I don’t know what to call the try ones, but the try Splitters, where it’s a three to one fan splitter they are great. They will save you hassle when you’re trying to Cable manage later honestly can’t remember the last time I installed one of these EK boys, but I’m pretty sure I just screw these guys right in normally. At this point, we do a little uh, maybe a graphics card install or actually the new AMD processors have their own integrated graphics, and I would do a little self-test. You know, but uh probably works. Instead, I’m going to install my power supply in the bottom, so that, once I do put the motherboard in, I can very easily connect the EPS connectors for our power supply.

We’Re using an rm850x from Corsair should be more than enough we’re putting a 30 70 and a 7600x in here so yeah plenty of Headroom for upgrading down the line. If you feel like it should be great, we’ve got two eight pin EPS connectors for our CPU, so we’ll try to find two. If you only have one, that’s probably fine, you just might run into issues if you try to overclock.

Otherwise, we’ve got a standard, 24 pin ATX and then our graphics card is a 3070 and I think it’s I think it’s two eight pins. It is in fact two eight pins cool one thing: I hate about this design that we’ll talk more about later. Is these power connectors because the Shroud goes way past them and it’s kind of hard to plug them in when they’re side by side cool? Ah, do I just use these? Yes, okay, I’ll, just use these for the graphics card, all right! We’Re going to do a few things here, we’re going to remove one of the hard drive mounts. This will just make it easier for us to Cable, manage everything and the reason I’m doing this is so that when I put the motherboard in, I can just like plop them in before I put everything down, because even with all these cutouts, it can be a Little hard to plug those guys in I changed my mind: I’m not going to put the power supply in yet uh. Now that I’ve got these here, I’m just going to put the board in and then I’ll screw it down and then I’ll put the power supply in then I’ll do the top rad. I am not a fan of installing.

With these things, vertical, like Linus, seems to be particularly because I like doing this thing where I just you know plug in the EPS connectors before I pop it all the way in there. So I’m going to go down like this plug this guy. In there we go there’s one you see how much easier it is too, with these cutouts up top and then I’m gon na take our other guy oops. Then I’m going to grab my board whoopsie it’s caught on my sweater. I’M gon na pull my fingers around while holding it nice and firm, and then I’m gon na not scrape it along the bottom.

In case you scrape anything and I’m just going to try to line it up with these standoffs as well as the i o. That comes with our board and Boop. That should be pretty much it yeah. Look at that Center Post is also another really good indicator of where you should be thanks, fractal. They also come with a bunch of zip ties in case. You want to do some cable management after these look like motherboard screws, I’m going to wire up our power supply now. First, we’ll do the EPS connectors make sure that you run these through the way the power supply is going through. For example, in most fractal cases, they’ve got a little cover here that comes off, and then this will go on the back, and then you slide the whole thing in so we’re going to run these through here like this, instead of screwing up plugging them in like This and then going to you know, put it in you can’t so for the rest of them. I am just going to plug them in while the power supply is outside the box and then I’ll feed the cables through the right way, just to make it a little easier. I noticed a couple of issues while going to install the radiator in first of all, while this does support 140 mounts way up here, our cooler, it won’t go any further in and luckily we’re using 120s, but basically our memory is getting in the way, because our Board is so big and while this case does support it we’re getting a little tight, there’s, also no cutouts at the top here, aside from the EPS.

Normally you get one more on the side over here and that’s like like up in here and that’s where you plug in, like all your fans and stuff like see how all my fan headers are right up here. We can’t do that so instead, I’m going to install it right here and run all of the fans out through the side here, but we’ll figure out the wiring later on. For now, I’m just going to pop this up here I got all my cables in the back already and I’m going to start screwing it down just one more we’re gon na install the AMD brackets on our handy dandy, cooler.

Our pre-applied thermal paste is ready to go. We’Ve got our brackets on we’re actually going to mount this bad boy, we’re going to put it down like this Boop. For now. What I want to do is get our Springs. So now I’m just uninstalling these Springs here and we’re going to screw down these thumb.

Nuts full custom Loop is going to blow an AIO and a tower cooler out of the water pun intended like the reality is a good air. Cooler is going to be pretty on par with, like a good, 240 or 360 mil AIO. I made a mistake. I put the rad in first and unfortunately there’s like zero room for me to plug my fan and RGB headers into so uh. We got ta. Take the rod out we’re gon na take the rod out the pump’s got a pump. Pump’S got a pump, we’re gon na plug in the ATX power now and then I’m gon na do all the other smaller i o stuff, like the USB the USBC. If I was keeping this build, this is something I would spend a lot more time on, but I’m not we’re going to tear it down soon. So I’m just going to plug everything in I’m not going to worry about like Crossing wires and getting it to the smallest amount possible in the back here. The reality is the cable channel is plenty wide for basically all of our cables.

So I’m just going to start plugging everything in and hopefully booted up really easily. After that, the moment of truth, we’re gon na put the graphics card in boom. Now we get to the part that I was complaining about earlier with this graphics card watch we’ll get the first one in without too much issue. Part of the problem is that since it’s not a fixed, eight pin this little guy on the left here is going to try to disconnect a lot of the time and so it’ll be hard to seat perfectly yeah see even there. I can get the first six in, but not this guy always annoying. This is why custom cables can be really nice.

Oh my God. I think I forgot it. Yeah. Okay, there’s one yeah that took way too long, this graphics card, I really hate where those power pins are with a six plus a two.

It’S just such a nightmare to try to get them in, but it’s done it’s installed. This thing should boot. I think I plugged everything in let’s see nope almost honestly for a pretty quick hack job. That’S not even that bad in terms of cable mess.

You could totally take their zip ties, tie them down to any of these anchor points like no problem and really get them out of the way, and I actually didn’t wire up the RGB on purpose. I don’t want any of the RGB to turn on the only stuff. That’S going to is the dimms, the motherboard’s probably going to light up a bit too.

So, whatever I love Mash, let’s see, if I did it right, hey look at that fans are spinning. Pc is booting up man, that’s nice! I got ta, look at it from the front through the mesh. That does look good, Eh man. I really do like this thing.

I would probably change a couple things like. I would definitely add an outtake fan here. I probably wouldn’t personally bother with the side fans.

I just don’t think you need them to be honest with this whole thing being mesh and mesh on the top and then mesh on the front, there’s airflow in this guy. You don’t have to worry about that. I’M putting these side by side, so you guys can decide for yourselves whether or not you want the mesh or the tempered glass panel.

Both of these cases are super nice and whether you want the charcoal or the chalk, you can get either of them with the side a mesh panel or you can get the tempered glass. I thought the build experience was mostly pretty good. I would definitely wish for a bit more room up top here or maybe even another cut out at the top, so you can do fan headers through the top.

Instead of through the side, if you’re going to do an AIO, then you definitely want to plug stuff. In in first because unless you’re bored is small, you’re not going to be able to reach inside and plug in fan headers after the fact I love it, I really do. I think that if you don’t care for RGB, if you want something more understated, something a little nicer like with the wood finish and everything, then this can absolutely be the case for you, I’m going to go ahead and recommend them. I mean I’m sure the airflow is good, whether you get the mesh panel or the glass, but if you’re getting beefier components, then you might want to go with mesh just in case just in case this is you know the fractal North.

It’S a beautiful case comes out soon. This short circuit, I’m ploof. If you want to check out other short circuits, I don’t know, I don’t know dude, I hate outros. This is short circuit.

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