I like the look of this - pretty minimalist.

only time i want to see braided cables is on a clothes iron or my fuel injection pipes on car. adding braided cable when there is no pressure to worry about is just a pointless cosmetic change that just adds cost. when will the madness be over, same with led lighting its just out of control today.

BLEH!:

I like the look of this - pretty minimalist.

Like all fractal products. I have their case. Very silent , not expensive. Good ventilation. No rgb. Win win win.

Martin5000:

only time i want to see braided cables is on a clothes iron or my fuel injection pipes on car. adding braided cable when there is no pressure to worry about is just a pointless cosmetic change that just adds cost. when will the madness be over, same with led lighting its just out of control today.

while I have the rgb sickness I do agree that braided is worse, over time it either becomes brittle and shreds or it has some kind of mechanical fatigue and doesn't want to change shape I avoid when I can for headphones or HDMI cables

There seems to be some confusion with this item, opening lines say a pump that is integrated into the radiator but the special features say it has an illuminated pump cover (rotatable)

Martin5000:

only time i want to see braided cables is on a clothes iron or my fuel injection pipes on car. adding braided cable when there is no pressure to worry about is just a pointless cosmetic change that just adds cost. when will the madness be over, same with led lighting its just out of control today.

i appreciate your point and it's right from a cost perspective. aesthetics is a totally different issue, as is the application on shielded cables which is functional, but could have a plastic substitute jacket. i learned how to solder when i was 12 year old the common "heat gun" came out around the same time (previously they were only industrial scale, not souped up blowdryers) and i learned the joys of shrink tubing. and yes, "back in the day" there were no "cable mods" of jacketed wire harnesses like now. each wire was representative of the quality of my craftsmanship, and i was incredibly proud of the modified (now common) hinged case door and (self installed) tool less case features (drive bays were all hot-swap) and nice knurled black machine screws for that grand old Intel Q6600. i didn't think of a window 🙁 but that was then and i often left the hinged door open. it's a lot easier to order from "case mods" or Amazon now and you do not have to loom the jackets onto the wires, now it's a design choice. but a lot of guys who "do wire" prefer the additional thermal barrier as resistance is a basic fundamental. which also means if any wires melt there won't be any bare metal contact.