This was a breath of fresh air! Cougar FV270
**The Cougar FV 270 Case Review: A Refreshing Take on Modern Chassis Design**
When Cougar reached out to me and said, "Hey Jay, do you want to check out our FV 270 case?" I was initially skeptical. Cases are often seen as rather mundane, but they showed it to me, and it immediately struck me as a refreshing retake on the typical rebranded designs we’ve seen time and time again. The FV 270 boasts some pretty unique features that have me excited about building in this chassis.
### Unboxing and First Impressions
Let’s start with the peel-off curved tempered glass front panel, which is both sleek and functional. One thing I noticed right away was how thoughtful it was of Cougar to include instructions for removing the glass directly on the case. Curved tempered glass can be expensive, but over the years, it’s become more accessible. However, this still feels like a premium feature, and the tapered design gives the FV 270 a distinct look that sets it apart from other cases.
Looking at the chassis from a top-down view, it narrows towards the back, resembling a bullet shape. This design choice is intentional—it allows for improved airflow by directing air smoothly to the rear of the chassis. The curved tempered glass not only enhances aesthetics but also plays a crucial role in managing airflow efficiently.
Underneath the bubble wrap, there’s another front fan facing upwards at an angle. This fan draws in cool air from the exposed area on the front of the case and directs it towards the graphics card. This innovative cooling approach ensures that high-powered GPUs stay well-ventilated, which is essential for maintaining performance and preventing thermal throttling.
### Side Panel Installation
The side panel removal process is straightforward, requiring just a simple pop-off mechanism. The tempered glass used here appears to be about 4 mm thick, held in place by ball nubins at the top and tabs on the bottom that key into the chassis. While this design provides rigidity and protection against minor drops, it’s important to note that the exposed edges of the glass can still shatter if hit hard enough. The protective packing tape is a nice touch to prevent damage during shipping.
Once the side panel is removed, you’re greeted with a standard tempered glass window that offers unobstructed views of your build. The clean aesthetic of the FV 270 is further enhanced by white cables, which complement the all-white design without being overwhelming. This attention to detail makes the case feel cohesive and well-thought-out.
### Mid Plate and Cooling Features
The mid plate removal process involves a small thumb screw that allows for easy access to additional cooling options. You can mount fans or radiators here, with space for 220mm or 240mm radiators, providing ample flexibility for custom cooling solutions. This modularity is particularly useful for water-cooling enthusiasts looking to integrate radiators into the build.
The front fan, which is already included, is a reverse-bladed Cougar fan with RGB lighting. While it’s not the most powerful fan out there, it does an excellent job of directing airflow towards the GPU and other components. The inclusion of this fan ensures that even without additional fans, the case maintains decent cooling performance.
### Rear Mounting and Cable Management
The rear of the case features an adjustable anti-sag bracket for graphics cards, which is a must-have for users with high-end GPUs like the RTX 490 or 4080. This bracket allows for vertical adjustment but lacks horizontal movement, making it ideal for accommodating large graphics cards without compromising on cable management.
For radiators and fans in the rear, the FV 270 supports up to a 360mm cooler, though installing such a large unit might require some creative placement due to the case’s design. The multiple mounting rails provide plenty of space and depth, ensuring that even bulky components fit comfortably.
Cable management is another area where the FV 270 shines. Velcro straps hold cables in place, and the grommet allows for easy routing. The white cables are a nice touch, as they match the case’s aesthetic perfectly. However, it’s worth noting that over time, these cables might yellow if exposed to UV light, which is something to consider for those who plan to use glow-in-the-dark effects in their builds.
### Aesthetic and Functional Design
One of the standout features of the FV 270 is its customizable front panel. This curved tempered glass piece can be swapped out for optional accessories like the Luminous Rotating Platform, which replaces the fan with a rotating display area. While this accessory adds some flair, it’s worth considering whether the extra cost is justified unless you’re looking to add a unique theme to your build.
The case also includes magnetic filters on both the front and rear, ensuring that dust and particulates are trapped effectively. These filters are crucial for maintaining airflow efficiency, but they do reduce air volume by about 50-60%. For those in dusty environments, regular cleaning will be necessary to maintain optimal performance.
### Build Quality and Accessories
The FV 270 comes with a mid plate that can be rotated into a vertical position, allowing for an optional riser cable setup. This feature adds flexibility for users who want to experiment with different form factors or cooling configurations. The included accessory box contains mounting brackets, rubber pads, and the necessary hardware to secure drives and other components.
One minor downside is the rear fan filter’s placement. Accessing it requires pulling the case away from the wall, which can be inconvenient. A side-exit design would have been a welcome improvement, but this detail doesn’t detract significantly from the overall functionality of the case.
### Final Thoughts
The Cougar FV 270 represents a breath of fresh air in an industry that often leans on tried-and-true designs. Its unique features, such as the curved tempered glass front panel and innovative cooling solutions, make it a standout choice for enthusiasts looking to build something truly special.
While it’s priced at $179.99, which might seem steep for a case without included fans, the FV 270 offers enough flexibility and customization options to justify the investment. Whether you’re planning a full custom loop or just want a sleek enclosure for your high-end components, the FV 270 delivers in spades.
In conclusion, the Cougar FV 270 is more than just a case—it’s a statement piece that challenges the norms of modern chassis design. With its attention to detail and forward-thinking features, it’s a must-consider option for anyone looking to elevate their build to the next level.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso when cougar reached out to me and said hey Jay do you want to check out our FV 270 case I'm like I don't know I guess maybe cases are pretty boring then they showed it to me and it kind of looks like a refreshing retake on the entire rebranded repasted copy paste Le and le11 dynamic so let's talk about the f270 cuz it's got some pretty unique features that make me excited to build in this one so we're going to start with the peel on this curved tempered glass front panel cool I just want to get it out of the way okay so this is the f270 as I already stated um I like I like that they actually put the instructions on how to take the glass off right here on the case because there is an order to getting this front tempered glass curve I don't know if you guys know how much it cost for them to do curved tempered glass I mean it's gotten cheaper over the years but this is a lot of now one thing you might notice on this chassis and it might need a top down view is the fact that it actually comes to sort of a narrowed Point like from the top down looks like a bullet to be honest and the reason for that is I kind of took what's the traditional mounting something on the backside where the motherboard is not having any front fans but having intakes more on the back side but because they've tapered that in and they've tapered in the glass it makes a much smoother transition of air to the back of the chassis so the natural air flow of this is going to be coming into the back right here here curving towards our main components out the top and out the rear exhaust but what you can't see that's underneath this bubble wrap is there's another front fan that's facing up at an angle drawing in cool air from this exposed area on the front of the case that's lifted that's also filtered blowing air directly toward your graphics card as well so that's also going to help with the redirect of air and the smoothing of air as it moves towards the rear of the chassis so with that said let me go ahead and take the side panel off which looks like it should just be a pretty simple pop off right here so here is just our standard what looks like a regular old tempered glass side panel um thickness on this looks like it's going be about 4 mm you can see it's held in by ball nubbin at the top and then it's got a little tabs on the bottom those actually key Index right into the chassis right here so it's really easy to tell when you've got it in place that way it doesn't fall down hit the corner and then potentially Break um one thing to keep in mind though is that it does have metal frame on the top and the bottom that helps give some rigidity and protection against drops if it hits the corner but the edge of the glass is still sort of exposed so if that edge of the glass was to hit something it could potentially shatter so I just wanted to kind of point that out there for tempered glass people that are like tempered glass breaks well yeah all glass can if you hit it hard enough this is just protective uh packing in there to keep anything from jostling around during shipping let's get this off of here okay I guess I have to take off the front glass first so this should just pop out forward now okay yeah so once our side panel's off we can grab it here look at that I like I'm getting my fingerprints all over but I like curv to Glass it just looks so nice anyway put that right there J me so here is some more tape that's just sort of holding things down but here's that front fan I was telling you about right here it's actually like a reverse fan so this is drawing in that air and then it comes from this whole compartment right here and then it just sort of pushes air right towards your graphics card so I like the fact that they're thinking about cooling necessity for 450 plus watt graphics cards that exist now because your case is going to play a huge part on the ability to cool those components unfortunately taking the tape off left a little residue so I'm have to clean that off this is something they actually came up with uh a little bit later in in packaging so they kind of learned early on that some of the parts could potentially have come loose like I think the I think it's the GPU bracket that could come loose and then it could scratch the inside of the case and they didn't want that to happen so they sort of put packing tape down where things need to be kind of secured a little better I think it might have actually been this that came loose but anyway unfortunately packing tape leaves some residue nothing a little bit of googon or some 3M adhesive remover can't get off so I'd rather have to deal with that than dealing with a case that potentially comes with a little bit of damage inside um okay moving on this is pretty neat so this is just a little thumb screw that's on there pretty snug and this I believe is going to allow us to remove this mid plate because we can mount fans to this we can have a bottom rad here if we want or underneath if it's small enough and will fit you can see it fits 220s or 240s so we can get even additional air flow into the main chassis blowing directly up on our graphics card so we can have this one pulling in air in the front directing it at an angle and two more blowing air directly up and with the bottom of this chassis and the amount of ventilation there is down there you can see and then unfortunately a little bit of a negative mark this filter does come out the rear unfortunately so if you've got this pushed up against a wall I wish I made this a side exit that way you could clean it easier so you have to scoot your case forward if you want to clean your filter out um anyway and then the front filter is accessible just right here it's just a little tab and then we can see our reverse fan up in there you can technically change that fan with a different one if you want but it is already RGB it looks like it's a df10 2512 RF Ln that's the model number if you're curious as to what's in there but anyway so this does give us a place to add more fans to that Center bracket if we want and it's also nice because if you're not going to do that you can still remove this to help with cable management down here and tidy up your fans in that lower compartment so you can fit a big power supply and still have a lot of room for cooling we haven't even gotten to the back of the case set we can see obviously as I already showed you we have this adjustable bracket right here which is an anti- sag bracket for your graphics card it's only adjustable up and down it is not adjustable left and right so this is going to be for your big boys like your 480s 4080 supers 490s I guess even some 4070 TI supers are as big as 480s now so that's a nice to see um in terms of our rear mounted position here for fans and or aiio or radiators you can fit a 240 uh or a 280 right there and then on the top because we have offsets you can see right there we have multiple mounting rails lots of space lots of depth with those multiple rails to be able to make sure that we can mount it away from our motherboard far enough to where we're not hitting any High tall vrms or whatever um in terms of our IO in the back you can see we also have really nice stainless steel um thumb screws for our IO Shield covers we do have another filter right here it is magnetic and it is taped into place for shipping this is for any air that gets sucked in from the backside because if we do put fans down in this lower compartment right here right you can see it's going to be pulling air in from the bottom as well as the side right here and I like the fact that we have this ventilation right here so it can still pull in through any gaps in the power supply um so air could potentially come in right here so that's filtered as well um we also have this little plate on the back side of the motherboard tray which this gives us a mounting point for drives as well as also being ventilated so you don't have any hard driv sitting here um blocking off any air flow to the back of the socket you know heat moves in 360 degrees so the back side of your CPU socket puts off heat as well so not having a solid plate sitting there allowing heat to radiate and bounce back at itself and then get hotter in there is a nice to see if you're not going to be installing drives on this or using it it's probably best to just leave it out to be honest cuz you'll get even better like cooling on the backside it radiate it can radiate heat away from itself a little better so we also have our cable management rails right here which just have velcro holding them in place huge grommet so we have plenty of room to move cables through um also comes all the way down right here white cables for a white case that's nice I hate when I see case manufacturers do black cables with white cases cuz that's just dumb this doesn't stand out as as terribly um hopefully over time they don't yellow time will tell cuz sometimes white cables can turn beige or yellow over time and then they look kind of gross so time will tell on this one it just depends on the material that they're using and how it responds to any sort of UV light that might exist in your case fun fact people still like to do glow-in-the-dark and put UV light in their case and then they start to wonder why their rubbers and other like white things in their case start to turn really weird colors it's because it's doing exactly what the sun would do to it only it's just a much closer source so this is just another cover which as you can see is also fully um ventilated as well as filtered the paracity on these filters is pretty fine so you're probably going to lose a good 50 to 60% of your air flow just by by going through these filters which means that obviously it's going to be doing its job in filtering out dust and particulates but as it gets clogged the air flow will significantly reduce as well so this kind of filter you're going to want to probably stay on top of pretty regularly if you live in a Dusty dirty area like we do I'm one of those people that just like noise is not an issue for me I don't care about loud PCS they don't bother me I also don't care about Dusty PCS I clean them often so I tend to take filters out but it's nice that they're there and they're magnetic you can tell they took the design and the concept of chamber top and bottom and motherboard mounted on the rear without going too crazy or looking like it's any sort of a copy I like the fact that this is something that it looks like they've pretty much designed for the most part themselves uh from the ground up oh one other thing here that little panel I showed you on the side on the side of the power supply also another place that you can mount a drive or two and I like that it comes out cuz now it gives us full access to our power supply when we're getting cables and stuff down here and mounted out of the way also right here on the front side of the bottom compartment there is a mount for a 2 and 1/2 in uh SSD or hard drive it does come with the rubber mounts as well in this accessory box right here that way uh they slide into those little like grooves and then they lock into place that's anti vibration pads if you have a spinning drive down there it's not going to translate vibrations to your case which can translate then down to your table and then annoy the crap out of you we have an accessory box right here so now that I've done the full tear down let's see what is in the accessory box box probably some brackets for drives and stuff I'm assuming so this is actually the vertical Mount because this case is modular in the sense that you can convert it to a vertical Mount so here's that mid plate that I showed you I'm going to go and put this back in here real quick so this would be mounted down right here you can undo these screws right here so one two like these perimeter screws around the I/O and then it rotates into a vertical Mount and then this goes right down here and then there's a screw that supports that that way you can mount your Riser cable which is sold separately by the way they have a specific Riser cable for this the Riser cable can mount right here and then your GPU can be vertical so this is the Riser Mount uh support for that um let's see a couple other things I forgot to show uh this piece right here does unscrew so you can see we have a screw right here there's also I think one on the back possibly the manual shows you this is this can stay on here up to uh ATX eatx and the problem eatx is it's not a standard size these days anything beyond ATX whether it's a/ in or 2 in it's considered eatx uh but if you want to do eatx or CB format then you need to take or for form factor you need to take this shroud off entirely then it will give you access to what you can see right here is just this giant grommet so then you'll have access to that and it will overhang a little bit otherwise if you stick with a standard ATX board a lot of your cables and stuff will be sort of stealth right into here which is kind of nice and then you won't even really see them so it's kind of funny over time we seem like we have this push going to more um kind of like completely invisible cables especially with uh the mounted the rear mounted motherboard cables now that are starting to come out from companies like MSI and Asus uh will be interesting and I'm wondering if that's why these gaps are here because of the fact that this is actually where those pinouts are for those cases or those motherboards that have direct power cable built into the board itself and the 24 pin that goes through the back so I'm thinking this board is actually or this case is actually forward compatible with what's currently been shown as the layout and format that those particular types of form factors are going to use and then obviously those would be right here on the back with cables plugging directly into them might need a little more depth in that case depending on how like tight the bends are going to be but this is probably something you're going to start seeing in more cases are these cutouts right here right here and here as well as where the 24 pin would go just to be able to kind of accommodate what that forward looking form factor looks like um the top this just comes off again with the little ball nubbing see this is heavy and then we have a magnetic filter just right here on the top as well big old giant filter so I forgot to tear that down tear down is pretty simple so far I haven't even needed it like I got my screwdriver just in case like any of the thumb screws were just put on by the Hulk but they haven't been I've been able to undo them all let's talk about this front piece right here this is actually customizable so it's got It's just held in there by a little snap we can take it out cuz it's held on it's like contact Pogo pins kind of a deal so you can see it's just a regular fan it's just a reverse bladed uh Cougar Fan that's got RGB and you can put anything you want on there because it comes with the harness it's got a argb harness right there and it's got a four pin pwm harness and now these just go into the existing cables coming out right here this is actually them right here these two which is go into the regular harness and then this this is the only fan that comes included with the case so that's one drawback to a case that costs we'll talk about price now $179.99 USD uh at least as far as we have from our literature it's an expensive case to not really come with any case fans but I think that's because cougar knows that you're probably going to put something nice in there and rather than give you something cheap you kind of got to fill it in yourself I still would prefer to see a cheap fan in there than no fans but I think anyone shopping in like the $180 price point for a case is probably going to outfit it with fans of their own anyway and we got some of their fans we're going to look at in a separate video that are actually pretty neat cuz a daisy chain daisy chain clicking together fans is like the future I feel like every fan manufacturer needs to get on that otherwise you're going to be left behind because cable mess sucks and it's nice to see that more brands are coming out with that so this is what that shroud looks like it literally is just a bowl that's designed to scoop air up towards the um or push air up towards the GPU however if you're one of those people that's like and I swear I'm not putting you down but if you're one of those people that's like I put an action figure in my case it's now a theme they got you covered with this this is the FV 270 luminous rotating platform all it is is a stand that replaces that fan and allows you there it is it's just as you see the exact same layout it has the same contact pins and everything right there all it is is a piece that's designed to replace your fan to then be able to put a figurine or something on there and it lights up so it's kind of neat cuz it is motorized so your figurine will sit there doing circles or whatever um unfortunately this controller that I have right here doesn't actually send an RGB signal um it just kind of passes one through so it's not lighting up and I don't have like an in one that I can use in the meantime but I think you all know what RGB looks like currently it would just look like a display piece I also I'm not a fan of the motor quality on it though because if you watch it hiccups look and it makes a click sound it's a neat to have I mean it's 25 bucks it's a $25 accessory if that's something that kind of floats your boat it's an option but I personally would absolutely much rather have this fan in there I do like how easy this is to swap out though it's like okay I want to change this let's pull it out take this guy put it back in and now I want to I kind of want to test and see how loud this fan is and how much air flow is coming through there I know everything's open right now but all right let's see it's a good amount of air honestly the bottom filter is off right now but it's not too loud it's not too crazy good amount of airow like I can feel the air flow all the way all way over here so it's definitely doing its job okay so some final thoughts time when it comes to the FV 270 um also also need to make a correction I said you could put a 420 radiator up top You' probably to get creative to do that it does say it officially supports a 240 a 280 and a 360 but I think the problem is because it's kind of indented up in the top like this this uh I/O on the top right here um kind of gets in the way of any end tanks if you did fan and then rat underneath that you probably could get it to work but I don't doesn't sound like they're officially quote unquote supporting it um yeah I forgot to mention the buttons on the top they're white with an orange ring on them so there's a little bit of color splashed in with this because orange is cougar's color so you got your power button your reset button your combo headphone jack USBC and two USB 3 so that's obviously all part of the cables that are included with the case that get plugged into your motherboard the only thing I think could possibly make this cleaner looking Aesthetics would be if this was a single piece of glass all the way to the rear but that would have been a nightmare to make because of this Bend in the way it mounts so there has to be this seam right here that seam is like the only thing that kind of takes away from the super smooth aesthetic of the curved tempered glass but you know maybe in the future they can find a way to do this as a single piece and not have it cost an absolute Fortune so there you go finally somebody coming up with a case design that is not just a copy pasta of the lean lee1 Dynamic layout they kind of took like what seems like unique features of a bunch of different cases and kind of give you one very nice looking full-sized eatx compatible desktop computer with plenty of cooling modularity to be able to fit any component that you really want in there you could easily do a custom Loop in this you could easily do big giant RTX 490 like the depth alone if you just look at the plane of where the screws are for mounting down the graphics card and the amount of extra space you have to the to the window right here mean that you can fit extra height graphics cards and still not put a crazy bend on your 12volt power cable with worries about that coming loose and causing melting issues if you're running a high powerered graphics card so there is just a massive amount of flexibility in this case I mean I like the fact that you have this removable mid plate removable mid plate mid plates are nice because they give you access to get to the stuff that's down below without having to just do you know cram it all from the rear I guess you can whatever immaturity level is going up so let's go ahead and start to wrap this one up there you go guys I'll put a link to the description down below the FV 270 I think I'm going to do a build in this I just need to find the right circumstances to like put a build in here I think all white and silver components would look really good in this like as much stainless steel type of look as we can get in there um I I it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of compromises here I mean really my only issue is like the biggest issue I currently have is this rear fan filter which comes out the back so you can see you need to pull it out from the wall at least that far to get your filter clean or out to clean it fortunately the only thing that's really going to be pulling air through this which isn't a crazy amount of air is going to be your power supply unless you put fans in that mid plate so this shouldn't accumulate dust too quickly uh meaning that you're not going to have to pull it out too often but a side released filter would have been best for that all right guys there you go I've been saying for a while now case videos are boring because it's just the same thing over and over and over and I'm happy to see and it's funny cuz cougar is not known for being safe with their case designs I mean the the cougar conquer which is what I did the whole thread Ripper build based on with the twisty tubes and the crazy space looking type of chassis has come from cougar cougar is one of those brands that just continues to be like you know what let's do something different than what everyone else is doing and that is such a sigh of relief to see a company still willing to do that rather than going oh what's what's working let's just lean into that horse and let's just beat it until it's absolutely dead so there you go guys I'll put a link to this case down below as well as Cougar's main website so you guys can see what other chassis they have I guarantee you're going to see some things in there that you go wo that's uh something different all right guys thanks for hanging out today tell me what you feel about this case would you build in it and as always we'll see you in the next oneso when cougar reached out to me and said hey Jay do you want to check out our FV 270 case I'm like I don't know I guess maybe cases are pretty boring then they showed it to me and it kind of looks like a refreshing retake on the entire rebranded repasted copy paste Le and le11 dynamic so let's talk about the f270 cuz it's got some pretty unique features that make me excited to build in this one so we're going to start with the peel on this curved tempered glass front panel cool I just want to get it out of the way okay so this is the f270 as I already stated um I like I like that they actually put the instructions on how to take the glass off right here on the case because there is an order to getting this front tempered glass curve I don't know if you guys know how much it cost for them to do curved tempered glass I mean it's gotten cheaper over the years but this is a lot of now one thing you might notice on this chassis and it might need a top down view is the fact that it actually comes to sort of a narrowed Point like from the top down looks like a bullet to be honest and the reason for that is I kind of took what's the traditional mounting something on the backside where the motherboard is not having any front fans but having intakes more on the back side but because they've tapered that in and they've tapered in the glass it makes a much smoother transition of air to the back of the chassis so the natural air flow of this is going to be coming into the back right here here curving towards our main components out the top and out the rear exhaust but what you can't see that's underneath this bubble wrap is there's another front fan that's facing up at an angle drawing in cool air from this exposed area on the front of the case that's lifted that's also filtered blowing air directly toward your graphics card as well so that's also going to help with the redirect of air and the smoothing of air as it moves towards the rear of the chassis so with that said let me go ahead and take the side panel off which looks like it should just be a pretty simple pop off right here so here is just our standard what looks like a regular old tempered glass side panel um thickness on this looks like it's going be about 4 mm you can see it's held in by ball nubbin at the top and then it's got a little tabs on the bottom those actually key Index right into the chassis right here so it's really easy to tell when you've got it in place that way it doesn't fall down hit the corner and then potentially Break um one thing to keep in mind though is that it does have metal frame on the top and the bottom that helps give some rigidity and protection against drops if it hits the corner but the edge of the glass is still sort of exposed so if that edge of the glass was to hit something it could potentially shatter so I just wanted to kind of point that out there for tempered glass people that are like tempered glass breaks well yeah all glass can if you hit it hard enough this is just protective uh packing in there to keep anything from jostling around during shipping let's get this off of here okay I guess I have to take off the front glass first so this should just pop out forward now okay yeah so once our side panel's off we can grab it here look at that I like I'm getting my fingerprints all over but I like curv to Glass it just looks so nice anyway put that right there J me so here is some more tape that's just sort of holding things down but here's that front fan I was telling you about right here it's actually like a reverse fan so this is drawing in that air and then it comes from this whole compartment right here and then it just sort of pushes air right towards your graphics card so I like the fact that they're thinking about cooling necessity for 450 plus watt graphics cards that exist now because your case is going to play a huge part on the ability to cool those components unfortunately taking the tape off left a little residue so I'm have to clean that off this is something they actually came up with uh a little bit later in in packaging so they kind of learned early on that some of the parts could potentially have come loose like I think the I think it's the GPU bracket that could come loose and then it could scratch the inside of the case and they didn't want that to happen so they sort of put packing tape down where things need to be kind of secured a little better I think it might have actually been this that came loose but anyway unfortunately packing tape leaves some residue nothing a little bit of googon or some 3M adhesive remover can't get off so I'd rather have to deal with that than dealing with a case that potentially comes with a little bit of damage inside um okay moving on this is pretty neat so this is just a little thumb screw that's on there pretty snug and this I believe is going to allow us to remove this mid plate because we can mount fans to this we can have a bottom rad here if we want or underneath if it's small enough and will fit you can see it fits 220s or 240s so we can get even additional air flow into the main chassis blowing directly up on our graphics card so we can have this one pulling in air in the front directing it at an angle and two more blowing air directly up and with the bottom of this chassis and the amount of ventilation there is down there you can see and then unfortunately a little bit of a negative mark this filter does come out the rear unfortunately so if you've got this pushed up against a wall I wish I made this a side exit that way you could clean it easier so you have to scoot your case forward if you want to clean your filter out um anyway and then the front filter is accessible just right here it's just a little tab and then we can see our reverse fan up in there you can technically change that fan with a different one if you want but it is already RGB it looks like it's a df10 2512 RF Ln that's the model number if you're curious as to what's in there but anyway so this does give us a place to add more fans to that Center bracket if we want and it's also nice because if you're not going to do that you can still remove this to help with cable management down here and tidy up your fans in that lower compartment so you can fit a big power supply and still have a lot of room for cooling we haven't even gotten to the back of the case set we can see obviously as I already showed you we have this adjustable bracket right here which is an anti- sag bracket for your graphics card it's only adjustable up and down it is not adjustable left and right so this is going to be for your big boys like your 480s 4080 supers 490s I guess even some 4070 TI supers are as big as 480s now so that's a nice to see um in terms of our rear mounted position here for fans and or aiio or radiators you can fit a 240 uh or a 280 right there and then on the top because we have offsets you can see right there we have multiple mounting rails lots of space lots of depth with those multiple rails to be able to make sure that we can mount it away from our motherboard far enough to where we're not hitting any High tall vrms or whatever um in terms of our IO in the back you can see we also have really nice stainless steel um thumb screws for our IO Shield covers we do have another filter right here it is magnetic and it is taped into place for shipping this is for any air that gets sucked in from the backside because if we do put fans down in this lower compartment right here right you can see it's going to be pulling air in from the bottom as well as the side right here and I like the fact that we have this ventilation right here so it can still pull in through any gaps in the power supply um so air could potentially come in right here so that's filtered as well um we also have this little plate on the back side of the motherboard tray which this gives us a mounting point for drives as well as also being ventilated so you don't have any hard driv sitting here um blocking off any air flow to the back of the socket you know heat moves in 360 degrees so the back side of your CPU socket puts off heat as well so not having a solid plate sitting there allowing heat to radiate and bounce back at itself and then get hotter in there is a nice to see if you're not going to be installing drives on this or using it it's probably best to just leave it out to be honest cuz you'll get even better like cooling on the backside it radiate it can radiate heat away from itself a little better so we also have our cable management rails right here which just have velcro holding them in place huge grommet so we have plenty of room to move cables through um also comes all the way down right here white cables for a white case that's nice I hate when I see case manufacturers do black cables with white cases cuz that's just dumb this doesn't stand out as as terribly um hopefully over time they don't yellow time will tell cuz sometimes white cables can turn beige or yellow over time and then they look kind of gross so time will tell on this one it just depends on the material that they're using and how it responds to any sort of UV light that might exist in your case fun fact people still like to do glow-in-the-dark and put UV light in their case and then they start to wonder why their rubbers and other like white things in their case start to turn really weird colors it's because it's doing exactly what the sun would do to it only it's just a much closer source so this is just another cover which as you can see is also fully um ventilated as well as filtered the paracity on these filters is pretty fine so you're probably going to lose a good 50 to 60% of your air flow just by by going through these filters which means that obviously it's going to be doing its job in filtering out dust and particulates but as it gets clogged the air flow will significantly reduce as well so this kind of filter you're going to want to probably stay on top of pretty regularly if you live in a Dusty dirty area like we do I'm one of those people that just like noise is not an issue for me I don't care about loud PCS they don't bother me I also don't care about Dusty PCS I clean them often so I tend to take filters out but it's nice that they're there and they're magnetic you can tell they took the design and the concept of chamber top and bottom and motherboard mounted on the rear without going too crazy or looking like it's any sort of a copy I like the fact that this is something that it looks like they've pretty much designed for the most part themselves uh from the ground up oh one other thing here that little panel I showed you on the side on the side of the power supply also another place that you can mount a drive or two and I like that it comes out cuz now it gives us full access to our power supply when we're getting cables and stuff down here and mounted out of the way also right here on the front side of the bottom compartment there is a mount for a 2 and 1/2 in uh SSD or hard drive it does come with the rubber mounts as well in this accessory box right here that way uh they slide into those little like grooves and then they lock into place that's anti vibration pads if you have a spinning drive down there it's not going to translate vibrations to your case which can translate then down to your table and then annoy the crap out of you we have an accessory box right here so now that I've done the full tear down let's see what is in the accessory box box probably some brackets for drives and stuff I'm assuming so this is actually the vertical Mount because this case is modular in the sense that you can convert it to a vertical Mount so here's that mid plate that I showed you I'm going to go and put this back in here real quick so this would be mounted down right here you can undo these screws right here so one two like these perimeter screws around the I/O and then it rotates into a vertical Mount and then this goes right down here and then there's a screw that supports that that way you can mount your Riser cable which is sold separately by the way they have a specific Riser cable for this the Riser cable can mount right here and then your GPU can be vertical so this is the Riser Mount uh support for that um let's see a couple other things I forgot to show uh this piece right here does unscrew so you can see we have a screw right here there's also I think one on the back possibly the manual shows you this is this can stay on here up to uh ATX eatx and the problem eatx is it's not a standard size these days anything beyond ATX whether it's a/ in or 2 in it's considered eatx uh but if you want to do eatx or CB format then you need to take or for form factor you need to take this shroud off entirely then it will give you access to what you can see right here is just this giant grommet so then you'll have access to that and it will overhang a little bit otherwise if you stick with a standard ATX board a lot of your cables and stuff will be sort of stealth right into here which is kind of nice and then you won't even really see them so it's kind of funny over time we seem like we have this push going to more um kind of like completely invisible cables especially with uh the mounted the rear mounted motherboard cables now that are starting to come out from companies like MSI and Asus uh will be interesting and I'm wondering if that's why these gaps are here because of the fact that this is actually where those pinouts are for those cases or those motherboards that have direct power cable built into the board itself and the 24 pin that goes through the back so I'm thinking this board is actually or this case is actually forward compatible with what's currently been shown as the layout and format that those particular types of form factors are going to use and then obviously those would be right here on the back with cables plugging directly into them might need a little more depth in that case depending on how like tight the bends are going to be but this is probably something you're going to start seeing in more cases are these cutouts right here right here and here as well as where the 24 pin would go just to be able to kind of accommodate what that forward looking form factor looks like um the top this just comes off again with the little ball nubbing see this is heavy and then we have a magnetic filter just right here on the top as well big old giant filter so I forgot to tear that down tear down is pretty simple so far I haven't even needed it like I got my screwdriver just in case like any of the thumb screws were just put on by the Hulk but they haven't been I've been able to undo them all let's talk about this front piece right here this is actually customizable so it's got It's just held in there by a little snap we can take it out cuz it's held on it's like contact Pogo pins kind of a deal so you can see it's just a regular fan it's just a reverse bladed uh Cougar Fan that's got RGB and you can put anything you want on there because it comes with the harness it's got a argb harness right there and it's got a four pin pwm harness and now these just go into the existing cables coming out right here this is actually them right here these two which is go into the regular harness and then this this is the only fan that comes included with the case so that's one drawback to a case that costs we'll talk about price now $179.99 USD uh at least as far as we have from our literature it's an expensive case to not really come with any case fans but I think that's because cougar knows that you're probably going to put something nice in there and rather than give you something cheap you kind of got to fill it in yourself I still would prefer to see a cheap fan in there than no fans but I think anyone shopping in like the $180 price point for a case is probably going to outfit it with fans of their own anyway and we got some of their fans we're going to look at in a separate video that are actually pretty neat cuz a daisy chain daisy chain clicking together fans is like the future I feel like every fan manufacturer needs to get on that otherwise you're going to be left behind because cable mess sucks and it's nice to see that more brands are coming out with that so this is what that shroud looks like it literally is just a bowl that's designed to scoop air up towards the um or push air up towards the GPU however if you're one of those people that's like and I swear I'm not putting you down but if you're one of those people that's like I put an action figure in my case it's now a theme they got you covered with this this is the FV 270 luminous rotating platform all it is is a stand that replaces that fan and allows you there it is it's just as you see the exact same layout it has the same contact pins and everything right there all it is is a piece that's designed to replace your fan to then be able to put a figurine or something on there and it lights up so it's kind of neat cuz it is motorized so your figurine will sit there doing circles or whatever um unfortunately this controller that I have right here doesn't actually send an RGB signal um it just kind of passes one through so it's not lighting up and I don't have like an in one that I can use in the meantime but I think you all know what RGB looks like currently it would just look like a display piece I also I'm not a fan of the motor quality on it though because if you watch it hiccups look and it makes a click sound it's a neat to have I mean it's 25 bucks it's a $25 accessory if that's something that kind of floats your boat it's an option but I personally would absolutely much rather have this fan in there I do like how easy this is to swap out though it's like okay I want to change this let's pull it out take this guy put it back in and now I want to I kind of want to test and see how loud this fan is and how much air flow is coming through there I know everything's open right now but all right let's see it's a good amount of air honestly the bottom filter is off right now but it's not too loud it's not too crazy good amount of airow like I can feel the air flow all the way all way over here so it's definitely doing its job okay so some final thoughts time when it comes to the FV 270 um also also need to make a correction I said you could put a 420 radiator up top You' probably to get creative to do that it does say it officially supports a 240 a 280 and a 360 but I think the problem is because it's kind of indented up in the top like this this uh I/O on the top right here um kind of gets in the way of any end tanks if you did fan and then rat underneath that you probably could get it to work but I don't doesn't sound like they're officially quote unquote supporting it um yeah I forgot to mention the buttons on the top they're white with an orange ring on them so there's a little bit of color splashed in with this because orange is cougar's color so you got your power button your reset button your combo headphone jack USBC and two USB 3 so that's obviously all part of the cables that are included with the case that get plugged into your motherboard the only thing I think could possibly make this cleaner looking Aesthetics would be if this was a single piece of glass all the way to the rear but that would have been a nightmare to make because of this Bend in the way it mounts so there has to be this seam right here that seam is like the only thing that kind of takes away from the super smooth aesthetic of the curved tempered glass but you know maybe in the future they can find a way to do this as a single piece and not have it cost an absolute Fortune so there you go finally somebody coming up with a case design that is not just a copy pasta of the lean lee1 Dynamic layout they kind of took like what seems like unique features of a bunch of different cases and kind of give you one very nice looking full-sized eatx compatible desktop computer with plenty of cooling modularity to be able to fit any component that you really want in there you could easily do a custom Loop in this you could easily do big giant RTX 490 like the depth alone if you just look at the plane of where the screws are for mounting down the graphics card and the amount of extra space you have to the to the window right here mean that you can fit extra height graphics cards and still not put a crazy bend on your 12volt power cable with worries about that coming loose and causing melting issues if you're running a high powerered graphics card so there is just a massive amount of flexibility in this case I mean I like the fact that you have this removable mid plate removable mid plate mid plates are nice because they give you access to get to the stuff that's down below without having to just do you know cram it all from the rear I guess you can whatever immaturity level is going up so let's go ahead and start to wrap this one up there you go guys I'll put a link to the description down below the FV 270 I think I'm going to do a build in this I just need to find the right circumstances to like put a build in here I think all white and silver components would look really good in this like as much stainless steel type of look as we can get in there um I I it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of compromises here I mean really my only issue is like the biggest issue I currently have is this rear fan filter which comes out the back so you can see you need to pull it out from the wall at least that far to get your filter clean or out to clean it fortunately the only thing that's really going to be pulling air through this which isn't a crazy amount of air is going to be your power supply unless you put fans in that mid plate so this shouldn't accumulate dust too quickly uh meaning that you're not going to have to pull it out too often but a side released filter would have been best for that all right guys there you go I've been saying for a while now case videos are boring because it's just the same thing over and over and over and I'm happy to see and it's funny cuz cougar is not known for being safe with their case designs I mean the the cougar conquer which is what I did the whole thread Ripper build based on with the twisty tubes and the crazy space looking type of chassis has come from cougar cougar is one of those brands that just continues to be like you know what let's do something different than what everyone else is doing and that is such a sigh of relief to see a company still willing to do that rather than going oh what's what's working let's just lean into that horse and let's just beat it until it's absolutely dead so there you go guys I'll put a link to this case down below as well as Cougar's main website so you guys can see what other chassis they have I guarantee you're going to see some things in there that you go wo that's uh something different all right guys thanks for hanging out today tell me what you feel about this case would you build in it and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"