Cases don't have to be boring!

so it's been a while since we've taken a look at a case so today we're going to take a look at be quiet Shadow base 800 FX you know lately um oh it's backwards lately be quiet it's been super excited about its new like white series of stuff but I think they've had white cases already for a while but anyway we'll take a look at the shadow base 800 fepic Shadow and white do those two go together computer cases are boring they're unsung heroes but you know they're important because one they have to like house all of your components two they're responsible for the overall cooling capability of those components if the case itself is suffocating all the parts inside then the case can be your bottleneck of performance if it's a thermal issue um they're also the thing you look at every single day so unless you have a window which this one does um the case is the only thing you're going to see so anyway the shadow base 800 FX being an fx means it has integrated Lighting in there you can see the color version of this one here is white with the little sticker and a couple other things to note here like overall cooler height uh capability for it so obviously it's eatx that's nice to see we'll see though often times cases we'll say eatx and then there's like something right there to block other cables from getting to it but we'll see eatx all the way down to Mini ITX looking for the maximum cooler height though CPU Cooler up to 180 mm PSU up to 250 M Mill milliliters 250 mm long and GPU up to 430 M mm long now they say up to because you had front fans and radiators and things on the front of this if you go water cooling then that's going to cut into some of the height uh or the length available to your GPU so let's start with the unboxing it's got hard foam in there which it's fine to ship a case but if you're going to assemble a full system in there and try and Chip it that foam is not going to do you much good this is going to suck I just wanted to get over with and it fooled me cuz I touched the styrofoam when I thought it was done and then it wasn't I found that rather shocking but there's actually two be quiet cases we're going be taking a look at we got this one right here which is the 800 the shadow base 800 and then we also have the 701 which is actually a bigger case you would think the 800 would be a bigger case cuz it's a bigger number but no the 701 is actually bigger than this but let's go ahead and get the uh static generator removed from from the case that would also be the plastic it's a pretty fancy looking case here I I see some things in here that I like already so the top fan filter it's magnetic paracity on it it's that going to be great it's probably less than 50% that means how much of it is open versus blocked so obviously a larger hole in the mesh would be a higher paracity this appears to be maybe 50/50 maybe a little bit less than that I do like that we at least have up here too the be quiet logo so it's not just a regular old mesh piece typically if I'm running exhaust fans up here I would remove the mesh because I'm more concerned with having as much air flow at the top of the case as possible having the mesh on there is just going to reduce that air flow but without it it's kind of not the most attractive looking thing it's a little unfortunate is I guess if you really wanted to you could trim the mesh and just have the frame be on there so the manual is just sitting here at the bottom you can see the Black Version like I said they kind of have white additions coming out now of pretty much all their cases so that's what we're looking at here is the White Version um the manual does show us things like different fan layouts um radi layouts uh how some of the modularity works in there because you can do things like move the drive cages around um Etc how to remove your fan filters and such how to remove the front but it's kind of nice because you can see like different radiator layouts and it shows you how thick of a rad what size RADS will tend to fit it kind of gives you an idea too of what will interfere like for instance if you were to put a really thick 360 rad in the front or 420 rad in the front you interfere in some of that top space so it kind of gives you an idea of what will and won't work so that's kind of nice to see um also shows obviously they fit 140 mm fans and 120 mm fans speaking of fans we have four pre-installed um be quiet light Wings fans in here so these are not like Cheapo El Cheapo case fans you would tend to throw away they're just like flimsy plastic crappy fans that won't match anything else that you get because of the fact that the fans that they tend to put in cases are different than the fans that would sell independently but as we take a look at the inside you can see we have four pre-installed 140 mm light light Wings fans in white so they match the white case obviously now the light Wings have the white light Wings have been out for a year now like exactly a year from the time they were're taking a look at this video but that that's just nice because that means you're getting four off-the-shelf independent fans that they also sell which means that you could populate more in here and have them all match like I said most case manufacturers will just put a cheapy fan in there that's worth a couple of bucks maybe on the chance that you'll buy their case that way there's some fans that are included but I think most people that are shopping in this category or this price point are going to toss any basic case fan anyway to put something nice in there so these already have illumination now because of the fact that we have four of the lightwings so it makes me wonder now is there going to be an RGB Hub on the back of the case I really hope there is but there's something else that I'm seeing here this guy right here is pretty neat so this is removable depending on how much space you need up here for let's say Ultra thick radiators Push Pull configurations Etc um although you need to be mindful of how just how far out you can push that because of the fact that it is kind of indented there so if you're going 420 mm radiator you only have so much thickness before you hit this little piece right here but I like the fact that this has this sort of a scoop shape to it so that some of that air that's making its way into the bottom component or the bottom compartment of this case would make its way to the power supply but the power supply has its own air intake on the bottom so the power supply has its own fan and stuff that means that air can get scooped and pushed back up through here directly into the upper component or compartment to see whether or not um that actually helps with airf flow I think what we might do is at the end of this video we might hook up the smoke machine again and just see if whether or not it's actually doing that and then not completely smoke the place out like we did last time on accident where we had the place look like it was literally on fire let's see we've got this bracket right here which does something no it comes off it's obvious it's plastic too it's it's really flexible um this is something a lot of cases have started including in their their designs now just to help cover up some of the cables making their their um their bends back to the motherboard but you need to be mindful too that if you have a a motherboard with a 90° 24 pin layout it actually should be okay in here when I take this off you you'll see why and we'll test fit that in a second we've got a pre pretty decent amount of space between our top radiators and such right here uh before we even come close to impacting anything on the motherboard but because it is offset as you can see right here it pushes the fans and the radiator closer to the side glass or the side panel so that you can clear any tall vrms that might be existing on your motherboard with power delivery uh requirements what they are today for modern CPUs the heat sinks are getting taller and bigger on motherboards so there can be an interference there if they were to Center that the downside is in terms of being centered and when it comes to the easiness of inst or the ease of installing water cooling the front radiator fans if I pop this off are centered Pogo pins yep Pogo pins right here for RGB right there so the the front does have an illumination ring like strip right here and right here that will light up and we'll light that up in a little bit so you guys can see um this is also how you get to your fan filter which is magnetic you can leave it off if you want but this is centered so that means this is actually offset from the top so that means if you're doing water cooling and you want to have like nice L bends or 90° bends to the rad you'll have to offset it rather than just having it all line up because it's on the same plane so one is over from the other they are offset you can see we have thumb screws that are captive also for the side panel so you're not going to lose these when you go to take them off but we also have oh sound dampening material which is another key component for um be quiet like pretty much all their panels have this it helps a little there's so many other Vents and openings in this case sound is going to make its way out no matter what it does help a little bit and it also helps dampen some vibration that might make its way through the case we also have a captive uh thumb captive screws on our power supply shroud so you take this off you mount this direct to your power supply and then you slide the power supply in and mount that down so you don't have to worry about losing screws for that these are also thumb screws that are on there looking at the backside holy cow do we have a a splitter so we've got our pre-installed fans and RGB this is so nice cuz that means we are already have their back and the front handled when it comes to fans we don't have to wire them up or cable manage them they're already in there cable managed and plugged in the only thing we have to plug in are the signals that are going to be coming from the motherboard and I do like that the plugs are also white with the white cabl so here's our front panel connector which is a single plug because things have sort of become standardized on the front panel connectors although there's still some push back whether or not that's truly a standard all the motherboard manufacturers have sort of adopted the same layout for power button reset button power light and hard drive light activity light means you can just have one plug to plug in which makes this so nice for beginner Builders to have to deal with the stupid dual plugs to try and get them all lined up we have our white USBC we have our SATA power right there this is going to be for our um hub for our RGB as well as our fans we also have HD audio which to me is still I'm still surprised this exists these days because whatever they're shielded they help keep the buzzing out but they still tend to buzz over time sometimes depending on the quality of your other cables and shielding in your system and then we have our signal wires here for our Hub like I said so we have one RGB input and then we have one pwm fan circuit fan signal right here the downside about this is by having everything connected to one Hub means they're all going to speed up and slow down together that's not necessarily a problem it's just if you have four exhaust fans on here one in the rear three in the top because you're running a 420 rat or something up there although there's not a lot of 420 aiio they do exist that means you're going to probably have to do some balanced air flow here because of the fact that you have three intake fans on the front now although if you're going through a radiator on the top that's going to reduce air flow which means you're probably going to have more CFM coming in the front than what's going out the top I only mention that if you're super anal about making sure that everything's balanced air flow with either neutral pressure or positive pressure um but this means all the fans would be speeding up and slowing down together so if you plug this into your CPU header and you just leave it on the auto pwm you're going to have all your fans speeding up and slowing down all over the place based on standard pwm CPU fan header L um algorithms and motherboards meaning sometimes you might load a program and if you have 1400k or something the temperature can Spike suddenly which means all your fans go together so beyond that that's everything that comes on the front panel connectors there I love that that's all pre-wired we do have space for 1 2 three more four more fans we only need to put three more in here actually to be fully outfitted so that's kind of nice that we have an extra one on there but you have one 2 3 four additional fan headers on there um which is pretty nice um let's see this is our hard drive Mount right here so you can mount um 2 and 1/2 in ssds on the back side or an additional controller if you decide that you're not going to use this and you want some other ecosystem in there you probably Mount the control box to that this guy just pops off right here which is just just a a plate to fill that Gap and the one the reason you have this on there is because you need to be able to get your wires and stuff going to your SATA connector or your SATA drives so you've got this guy I think I just put on upside down it's a little crooked now so I'm still trying to see how to get this guy out of here is there a screw up there oh yeah there is a screw up here there a black screw right under there that looks like it's holding on this plastic piece the reason why I even mentioned that is the fact that you can scoot it over you can move it over from there to there giving you a little more clearance for any of the super wide motherboards that maybe are wide but don't have a 90° header so they have to make the bend that way this is not going to be in the way so you do have what appears to be about an extra inch or about 25 mm of movement to the left looks like you might even be able to move it no you can't move it inward so there's that pretty straightforward looking at the bottom down here you can see that is just one big gigantic opening for a much bigger power supply than anyone should ever actually really need so I don't see a there's even a fan Mount right here now you see this we have a 120 and a 140 fan layout right there if you wanted to bring in extra air from the bottom I guess you could that seems to me a little bit unnecessary though cuz it's just going to I guess it would blow right up through there that'd be an interesting test to see if a fan down there actually helps coming up into there the uh fan filter on the bottom pulls out the front and since it runs the entire length of the case that's important because if you have it up on a desk against the wall you you can't go backwards you need it to go forward so there is that highly recommended that you leave the bottom dust filter on because the power supply pulling in air and any dust on your desk can make its way up in there and start to clog up so it's much easier to pull this out and blow it out than to tip your case over and try and blow out the power supply but other than that it's pretty straightforward there's plenty of tie down straps on here um for cable management there's no real channels or anything like designed for you to be able to run cables in to keep them nice and tidy it's just more of a flat panel back here that's intended to have this sort of cover the unsightliness of seeing those cables through the opening um there's also no Mount right here for attaching fans or anything right here which is sort of become a staple of case design these days a lot of case manufacturers are using this wall now to put fans on this case is not so it's got a double hard drive bracket for 3 and 1/2 in drives I'm not entirely sure how to use it but I know it goes down here and uh you can have multiple positions you can mount that in so that you can have uh support where'd it go ah come on there so you have different positions you can move it in so you have support for the length of your power supply what we can't figure out though honestly is how you're supposed to attach a hard drive to it so this is one of our bad hard drives but it's supposed to attach to this somehow and according to the picture it's like right there but the manual is pretty poor in this aspect so I don't know how I'm supposed to mount the drive to this so Mark taking off points for the their manual and their bracket design here cuz this makes no sense like we got screws right here and their image shows a thumb screw there right and it shows how you can move it and then it's like hard drive attached how it's just like floating there there in a thumb screw how the hell ises that okay moving on not everything could be perfect so that's a terrible design in my opinion what's not a terrible design though is the fact that you've got this additional area right here that you can mount another 2 and 1 12 in drive or uh RGB controller or another 3 and 1 12 in drive right here so it can actually mount on that bracket like that if you wanted it to that's going to obviously block the back of your motherboard where you need to be able to uh access it for installing your cooler and such if you needed to so you can undo that and you can undo these velcro straps right here and then you can actually swing it away as you can see I don't want to have it fall off right now everything zip tied in but you can actually pull this off and then move it out of the way and access the back of your motherboard so not incredibly convenient if you forget to you need access to the back of your motherboard once it's put together but not impossible to be able to access it if you needed it okay so it's really dark obviously we have it lit so that you can hopefully see the smoke once I start um just a couple caveats one um it's a white case trying to film smoke that's hard but usually we do this with a black case um second of all um I don't know how well this is going to work so let's just see I do not have the top fans populated only the front and what I'm trying to see is what the overall air flow looks like but there there's a fair amount of air flow even with the front filter on cuz I do have the front filter on so you can see right here just how easily it's picking up the smoke and look how much it's pushing out the back of the case and I did tape up the motherboard um IO Shield where the motherboard be blocking that off but I think the most important thing to take from this is that wow check this out it actually pulls the smoke back out the front if I put the smoke underneath it pulls it back out and goes into the front of the case but the biggest take away from this right now is the fact that I'm completely smoking out this room and the air flow is so great that it's overpowering any chance of it really scooping up through that filter so that probably really helps with the bottom fan to be honest um but look at how much of the positive air flow there is out the top even with the filter on right now it's one of those things where I would like venture to say in terms of case cooling it has got more than enough with just those three intake fans and that one rear exhaust and then obviously the cooler on the top would just additional um airf flow so the B quiet Shadow base 800 FX um it's a pretty good it's a full tower case technically I mean I might also qualify as like a jumbo mid Tower I feel like the justif the qualification between mid Tower and full tower is sort of lost these days uh the price it's currently $169 but if you look at the price the three a three pack of the light Wings white fans is $54 on Amazon that really brings the price of the case down to about $113 right $114 that's that's actually a pretty good deal just with the fans alone so you can see with the lighting on right now it's just very nice uh clean aesthetic available in white available in Black I think it's got plenty of air flow uh for any of your air cooled components and I think obviously that much air flow would be good for water cooled components too 420 in the front or 360 in the front 360 on the top 420 in the front maybe a 280 in the top Etc you have options um I don't think you need to go with anything crazy in in terms of uh adding a a whole crap ton of fans in this just whatever fans we throw on the top now for our AIO if we did that with matched lightwings so that everything is coordinated would be a pretty sexy looking build but it's like a lot of case manufacturers want to charge you this much for a case and not even give you a good fan with it so the fact that it's $167 I think it's 167 on Amazon is what it was currently going for the black one was actually more expensive typically it's the other way around but the black one was about $10 more which is really odd but considering the fact that the cheapest I found the three pack of the light Wings white fans 4 was for 550 $54.99 on Amazon shows you that you're getting actually really good deal for this case all right so there you go guys there's our look at the shadow base 8800 FX um again the FX just means it's got RGB on it so I think it's a really wellth thought out case especially for the price anyway if you guys have built in this sound off down below what it was like I had to assume building in this would actually be pretty simple there's lots and lots of room in there um and I think another important thing to consider is the fact of how quiet this case actually is all four fans are currently running at full speed and I know my lavalier mic is not even picking that up and it is less than it's like a half a meter away from me sure the backs side's facing me but the front fans are right there and that airflow test that you just saw was with all the filters on top and front so it actually surprised me how much air flow was able to create even with the filters being pretty dense in terms of be able to C catch smaller particles of like hair and fur and dirt and dust and stuff like that all right guys thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 20min 3sec (1203 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2024