New Fractal Pop series cases

Enclosures and acoustic damping to help quiet them.

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whispercat
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New Fractal Pop series cases

Post by whispercat » Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:58 am

New 2022 Pop series cases from Fractal. https://www.fractal-design.com/products ... -tg-clear/
The Pop series includes the Pop Silent and Pop Air (i.e. air flow). They come in a standard ATX mid tower, as well as full tower and mini size.
https://youtu.be/fs6gHAKw70s

Tom's Hardware review of the Pop Silent:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fr ... pop-silent

PCMag review of the Pop Air.
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/fractal-d ... op-air-rgb

GN review:
https://youtu.be/c2QPTcRIipk

Japanese Capacitor
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Re: New Fractal Pop series cases

Post by Japanese Capacitor » Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:33 am

Not impressed. Fractal was never good at budget cases - they all have felt too much compromised. Like they were always trying hard to noticeably distinguish them from their flagship world leading awesomeness (to maybe justify paying extra for them). Garbage Focus; Define S with all of the dampening mats, but not front one; cut down Meshify 2 Lite, which costs not much less than original... Or these early 2010's completely ordinary cases which nobody remembers. And these Pops feel to me so damn ugly (except of black Silent Solid, which I even find one of the prettiest cases I have ever seen). But Fractal Design to my taste was never good at design (just looks) :D One exception was Define 7 series when somebody seeing their cases' heavy and overcomplicated aesthetics like me got a word, but probably (looking at Meshify 2; Torrent and Pop) was killed right after launch.

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