Wednesday, June 29th 2022
Fractal Design Launches the Pop Series of Cases
Fractal fuse style and function in the Pop Series - a brand-new case family. Pop Air features a mesh front to prioritize airflow, while Pop Silent offers sound-dampened panels and a closed front to help minimize sound. While Pop Air and Pop Silent might differ in their ambitions, both styles offer a solid build quality, a straight-forward layout, and a uniquely stylish design expression.
Pop Air brings attitude to airflow, melding precision engineering with dynamic design. This includes a range of cases with vividly colored motherboard plates, drive trays and exterior accents for a fresh, expressive feel. The functional focal point of Pop Air is at the front, where a honeycomb mesh provides access to fan-powered cooling. 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.
[Editor's Note: we've just posted our in-depth review of the Fractal Design Pop]
Pop Silent combines quiet performance with a sleek, minimalist design aesthetic. It features a sound-dampened closed front, side panel, and top to help deliver an all-round quieter experience. Its clean appearance and sound-dampening functionality allow Pop Silent to serve as a quietly stylish case for mixed use, productivity, and lighter gaming.
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. Whether looking to create a large airflow-centric gaming system or a small and silent productivity partner, Pop Series offers a strong, stylish, and versatile option.
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Fractal Design
Pop Air brings attitude to airflow, melding precision engineering with dynamic design. This includes a range of cases with vividly colored motherboard plates, drive trays and exterior accents for a fresh, expressive feel. The functional focal point of Pop Air is at the front, where a honeycomb mesh provides access to fan-powered cooling. 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.
[Editor's Note: we've just posted our in-depth review of the Fractal Design Pop]
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. Whether looking to create a large airflow-centric gaming system or a small and silent productivity partner, Pop Series offers a strong, stylish, and versatile option.
50 Comments on Fractal Design Launches the Pop Series of Cases
a V85.25 bays! Dang; maybe I'll have to buy a couple just to have on hand, since quality 5.25-compatible cases basically don't exist anymore. In fact, it's really tempting to get a white one and repaint the exterior panels (Fractal's recent chassis are impressively modular). Cuz you know what I miss from the pre-window days? Primer gray interiors. You could actually freaking see what you're doing without a 10,000-lumen worklight.*Got a Define 7 Compact instead, which is good, but, you know, no five-and-a-quarters. :-/
But it is cheap, so there's that, hehehe :)
Rip nzxt lolYou can still put one of them on the side (or both if you're crafty, they designed it for just one tray but it looks like both would fit with little effort). The 2*5.25 also supports 3 hotswap bays (or whatever you feel like putting there)
What if I don't want RGBLED, and what if I don't want to install all the bloatware necessary to DISABLE all the RGBLED that I didn't want in the first place?
What's the RGB comment in regard to?
This case doesn't have any.EDIT: I'd posted this before the TPU review went up, and was basing my comment on the Silent version. M'bad.
Naturally the more unusual a setup gets, the harder will be to fit with common options
If you try and buy a fan, a cooler, a GPU, RAM, or a motherboard these days whilst actively avoiding RGBLED, you will discover quite quickly that around 75% of the options available to you have RGBLED and a good portion of those will have rainbow vomit if you don't install software. RGBLED cables aren't for powering the LEDs, those are on by default. They're for sending the bloatware software signals to the LEDs and "off" is a colour that requires the software in most cases.
Budget cases often waste money on tempered glass. For those of us who don't want to see inside our cases because they just sit under the desk, it would be nice to have a cheaper steel side panel and $5 removed from the price tag. Even if the case is out of immediate sight under a desk, it's still spewing unwanted rainbows out into the room. Not everyone loves ARGBLED being forced upon them. It's crazy that I have to explain this but here we are.
If you like ARGBLED stuff and enjoy tinkering with the proprietary mess that is ARGBLED software from several different vendors, then great - you'll be happy. If, on the other hand you are like me you will be displeased that you have to pay extra for a window you don't need, then install a few bits of software you don't like or want, to disable lighting you didn't want to deal with or pay for, but were forced to from lack of choice in the market.
You can also disable (some of) the rainbow garbage with openRgb, annoying but it's what it is.
That's one more than I need, and one more than I want.
Nice to see another member of the #sayNO2rgb fan club. I have the same problem with the new mouse ?I just bought, without Synapse I can get rid of that "freggen rainbow" as you put it.
A couple of Razer chroma mouses are supported (even if yours is not on the list, it might work if it uses the same protocol as the others). The program is also a portable executable, no need to install anything
Openrgb doesn't bloat up a system that I've noticed
Bios options are easy to disable for board stuff.
As far as the bundled fans don't use them probably crap anyway.
Case and fan lighting can simply not be powered, or you can use a hardware controller with an off setting.
Unsure about other brands, but asus mobos can disable RGB in the BIOS, or have it set to be controlled and disabled by the case reset button