Fractal Design Pop Air RGB Black - Tempered Glass Clear Tint - Honeycomb Mesh Front – TG side panel - Three 120 mm Aspect 12 RGB fans included – ATX High Airflow Mid Tower PC Gaming Case

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All outputs are designed only to enable daisy-chaining of these devices, with the original connection leading to a motherboard header. Those can be quite handy to builders who know how to use them: We’d be tempted to fit ours with an actively cooled eight-drive 2. If you want silence, the Pop Silent is the case you should look at, and if airflow is what you want, you should look into the Pop Air, at least in theory. If one fan in the chain is faulty, it could lead to all fans in the chain having issues with lighting. As with all Pop Series cases, the front also introduces a neatly concealed storage drawer which can be used to stow away desktop clutter or be replaced to host up to two optical drives.

Cable access holes above and in front of the motherboard feature rolled edges, as does the cooler plate access hole behind the CPU area. In a move that appears a nod toward the reintroduction of bay-panel devices, the Pop Air RGB hides dual 5.While a look back at past components reveals that manufacturers have placed everything from fan controllers to multi-drive backplanes into spots like these, Fractal Design adds a screw tray to one of its 5. Fractal Design says that the mesh is the filter, which means that users will more easily be able to see when their filters need to be cleaned. If one distinction was not enough, both Pop Air and Pop Silent are available in Mini and XL versions to offer a truly diverse and flexible range of cases for a wide variety of build aspirations. Alternatively, the space used by these drive bays can be used as a hidden storage compartment within your PC, and as space for HDDs and SSDs.

By that time, I’d already self-published some guidelines on hardcore PC stuff: pin-modifying processors to defeat compatibility checks and overclock non-overclockable systems. Available with some nifty hints of color, Fractal Design’s Pop Air RGB is suitable for seekers of a big PC case with a pair of hidden, old-school 5. Pop Air features a mesh front to prioritize airflow, while Pop Silent offers sound-dampened panels and a closed front to help minimize sound. As the name suggests, the Pop Air is an airflow-oriented design with a mesh covered front and an external aesthetic that is a mix between NZXT’s popular H510 Flow and Fractal’s Meshify series, both of which are great case designs. This likely means that the case is collecting heat in our tested configuration, but a quick test with a piece of paper showed that all of the fans were flowing correctly.Make sure that the SATA-cable coming from the RGB controller is properly connected to the PSU SATA connector. Expectations were here, and hearing that this case was a more budget-oriented offering from Fractal potentially signalled great things for the low-cost PC market. If connecting the fans to the motherboard instead, note that the SATA-cable still needs to be connected to the PSU since the power-LED is powered through this. In addition to fan cables, the Pop Air RGB includes a SATA-style power input, and header cables for a motherboard power button, HD Audio, and first-gen USB 3. If I am honest, after the triumph that was the Fractal Torrent ( review here), I was excited to hear that we had a new Fractal case to grace our offices.

If the controller isn't working as intended, as in if the fans are dimmed or just don't light up/change color when using the controller, please follow the below steps. Fractal Design still rates the Pop Air RGB as supporting a mere 170mm power-supply depth, which seems conservative given our far-more-generous measurement of 240mm. If you have done that, you would need to use an RGB software instead or connect the fans to the controller. Aside from standard black/white colour options, there are Magenta (pink), orange, blue, and green colour options. This includes a range of cases with vividly colored motherboard plates, drive trays and exterior accents for a fresh, expressive feel.

We’re very happy to see the Pop Air RGB reach mid-pack voltage-regulator temperatures, but realize that the only case to hit significantly worse temperatures was designed to prevent fans from being installed directly above the voltage regulator.