 Whistle Thump Sound of a door opening Sound of a door closing Ding Sound of a door closing Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Fractal Design Node 605 Computer Case It comes in an ugly box, but it's not an ugly case if it's anything like the Node 304 which we checked out recently Which was absolutely outstanding, that was an ITX case This is a full sized ATX case, however some of the features will work better with an MATX board Because this is sort of a media PC optimized case, I can see a lot of people installing micro ATX boards in it So the Node 605 highlights a minimalistic, sleek Scandinavian appeal Something something something, design front panel made from 8mm thick, solid hair brushed and black anodized aluminum That sounds gorgeous Front I.O. and optical driver hidden etc etc Let's go ahead and see what else they have to say for themselves We'll cover all this when we open it up so don't worry too much about it And that's pretty much it, let's open this baby up So inside we find double corrugated cardboard, Linus' packaging tips and a hard foam Not a big fan of the hard foam, but if it keeps the case safe, oh it's not as hard as some though See you guys, you can see there's some flex to it here, see that? So it's not as stiff as some of the hard foams that we've encountered in the past And I just pulled Slick's earbuds out of his ears that he was using to monitor sound So why don't you bear with us and we'll be back in just a moment And it's unveiling time! One thing I noticed right away opening it up is that the front is, the case is very front heavy So if you were going to put this on a media rack or something You'd want to make sure it's got the right depth because it would very easily go like that Because most of the metal has been punched out of the back to make room for the dual 80mm cooling fans The I.O., the 7 PCIe slots because you can put a full size ATX board in here As well as the power supply cutout And the front of the case has that gorgeous 8mm thick aluminum Holy crap, this thing is awesome, look at this Okay, let's pull this baby off, check that out Black anodized aluminum, look how thick this is, here Come around the side here, you can see how thick it is So that is what they've decided to make the bezel out of Honestly, I love this approach for things like media PCs where you're never going to see the top You're never going to see the side and the back What you're going to see is the front And if it doesn't look good with the rest of your AV equipment Then it's going to look stupid Now, okay, I think that this is very, very nice So here is something, these are the kinds of things that Fractal does right When Fractal burst onto the scene with the Define R2 I guess the Define Non R2, the first one They did a few things right that other guys weren't doing Here's my big problem with aluminum front bezel cases Fingerprints, they always have a little thing where you have to press it in order to get it to the I.O. That's ridiculous because it just ruins it Instead, Fractal has implemented a little notch right here So that you can pull it down without putting any pressure on it Without putting any fingerprints on the front And you can get access to the front I.O. So there's a slim line optical drive Which you can only use if you have an MATX board installed Something to bear in mind Front firewire, headphones, microphone, USB 3 As well as an included front card reader Very good stuff Activity LED for the hard drive is hidden But you can see it if you're trying to diagnose something However, your power activity LED is going to be around that illuminated power button The original mockup for this case had a huge Fractal logo in the middle And a lot of reviewers and a lot of press guys said Hey, go with the nice sleek little Fractal logo in the side in the corner Looks really really slick This thing looks outstanding So on this side we've got dual 120mm fan mounts Looks like this one is populated This comes with two of their R2 series fans So those are their silent series fans There's another 120mm fan mounted And here is the included fan controller So that is a three channel fan controller with three different settings So we're going to open it up and we'll be back in just a moment Now one of the best things you can do for noise dampening on a case Is increase the overall, the overall mass of it and the thickness of the material So Fractal's gone with a pretty thick steel panel here And then they've added a layer of noise dampening material to the top Now it was two screws to open this up You could replace them with thumb screws but it doesn't come with them by default Another thing that's going to help with noise Is the fact that you've got that huge, thick, solid piece of aluminum on the front of the case That's going to mean that no noise is really going to pass through here No noise is really going to pass through here And if it comes out the sides and the back then it's not really the end of the world Once we get into the inside of the case You can see I've thrown a motherboard in here Just so you guys can get some idea of how the internal layout is going to work I'm actually going to turn this around for you Just to show you how it goes So you can put an ATX board in here And then your first two expansion slots are going to be the full 280mm That this case is capable of supporting Once you start to fill up more slots You'll have to start removing hard drive cages If you want to get those long expansion cards in So you can have long graphics cards And then you can have smaller expansion cards like sound cards, capture cards, whatever else As you go down the motherboard You can see there's just enough space to plug in all your front I.O. and all that kind of stuff Down here in the bottom of the board And you can install using their modular hard drive cage design That they've got on the Node 304 You can install up to four 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch hard drives If I turn this around you'll see there are mounting holes here for SSD Or rubberized mounting holes for 3.5 inch drives The way that they've got the fan layout done here is actually kind of clever So they've got both of these fans as intakes This one doesn't have a cover on it because it's not so close to where your SATA cables and everything else will be This one has a honeycomb cover on it So these are both intakes You're going to be intaking air from outside of, you know, in front of your TV Then it's going to have positive air pressure inside the case which will force it out the back or the back here So what that'll do is it'll make it so that dust is far less likely to accumulate Because both of these fan intakes are filtered and you can remove the filters just by undoing the screws here And here you can actually see they're just like a fine mesh filter like that So no problems there And the power supply obviously will intake from this one right here and then exhaust out the back of the power supply So it's compatible with ITX, MATX or ATX boards All of the interior cables are black and sleeved and look fantastic So we're just going to go ahead and pop those out So there's your USB 3, your front firewire, your front audio as well as your front panel connectors There's the power for that fan controller So the fan controller is right over here And then you've also got, there you go, two of them are hooked up already Three pin connectors for the fan controller right there Overall, very solid case, very, very rigid and of great value I mean what we've come to expect from Fractal Let's figure, finish off with the accessories and then I think we're pretty much done here So if you guys wanted to tune out now then you could probably go ahead and do that Don't forget to subscribe and all that good stuff Couple of brackets for something, oh no, power supply probably I have no idea It's probably the manual, just a sec It's for the slim 5.25 inch base So they're not in there because if you have a full sized ATX board Then you can't fit it because there's sort of stuff in the way So these go down here and allow you to mount that Comes with some cable ties as well as all the mounting screws you'll need for your system 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