[Gamers Nexus] $90 Fractal Pop 2 Vision Case Review & Benchmarks: Cable Management, Thermals, Build Quality

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

I don't know why they bother, they only review cases from a handful of manufacturers and they all cool good enough to make no difference really, your components will all perform the same with each of them.

Overly critical of stuff for nonsense reasons, apparently now we have too much space for cable management....Jesus fucking Christ.

Problem of ranking things is something has to come first and something last even if fundamentally they are all the same.

Cost of everything... value of nothing.

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Lelldorianx@reddit

Hi there. Just to be clear, we were praising the cable management space. It's a great thing, which is why we said it's an enormous amount of space and why we explicitly said it is a positive. We even contrasted it to the Lancool 207 and said that the 207 is the opposite, where it's too little space, and that was one of the main reasons to consider the Pop 2 instead. Additionally, we were very positive about the structure of the case, the rigidity, and the price. We said it is one of the best dual-chamber options at this price point, despite middling performance against ATX towers.

Your comment, honestly, makes no sense. I get it -- you think our stuff is negative. But at least accuse us of negativity on things where we actually are negative. Here, we were overall relatively positive, to the point of even saying it is one of the better cheap dual-chamber options.

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Exciting_Macaroon_64@reddit

thanks, Steve!

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RumbleTheCassette@reddit

Looks nice and the price seems reasonable, but I don't love cases with fans that aren't necessarily easily swappable. I mean you can physically access these fans easily but it seems like other manufacturer's 120mm fans may not fit properly.

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VenditatioDelendaEst@reddit

I see nothing in the video that indicates other fans wouldn't fit?

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RumbleTheCassette@reddit

Unless I misunderstood, I thought there was a part about the screw positioning being an issue for other brand fans?

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VenditatioDelendaEst@reddit

Seems to just be regular 120mm fan mounts.

GN is just grousing because you can't use larger diameter, or greater thickness (without changing screws or removing the bottom filter, but it looks highly restrictive to me, so...).

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redbloa@reddit (OP)

I completely agree. Fractal Design has been pulling this kind of thing for a while. With the Meshify 3, the fans rely on proprietary A-RGB connectors, which effectively locks you into their ecosystem. If you ever need replacements, you’re pushed to buy their specific fans. It's unnecessarily restrictive and rapacious.

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UpsetKoalaBear@reddit

There has to be an aliexpress adapter for those surely? Still stupid.

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VenditatioDelendaEst@reddit

Should test with the bottom "filter" removed. That mesh like an extremely restrictive thing to mount so close to a fan inlet, and it's not meaningfully filtering anyway.

Real filters have pleats.

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