New Fractal Cases.

Back in June 2024, I was keeping a close watch on the state of New Cases released from Fractal Design

The reason is because this is a Company I respect and I actually use a case from them which is the POP AIR Mid-Tower Case.

anyhow, after the March 2024 release of the North XL Case

I'd thought that was a bit enough for at least one year since that's sort of Fractal's strategy but nope.

Fractal has two new cases.

One Brand new and another a refresh.

The first is the MOOD Case

This is a case that's not only small but also is meant to compliment the Modern Clean Apartment aesthetic of today's gamers which explains the Speaker/Air Purifier design of the case.

Did I say AIR? Well of course Fractal knows that Air Flow in a PC Case is a must.

Otherwise you'd end up pissing off Steve Burke of GAMERS NEXUS because that man is obsessed with Air Flow in a case.

The other case that's new is a Refresh of an old case.....

The ERA 2 Case.

This is Fractal's second attempt at this particular Case shape after the disastrous 2020 release of the original ERA ITX.

The original Era ITX looks like this little guy show below.

Fractal knew that after so many delays, this original version of the Era ITX was so bad that for the 2nd revision, they didn't contact INTEL because they knew that having Intel on board with case designs like this conflict with what today's gamers actually want.

So is the Era 2 an improvement?

Woodgrain Top Cover now having Air Vents like It should, I think so but I'll let you builders be the judge of that when you build your PCs with this baby.

Fractal also announced their line of Chairs and Headphones under the Refine and Scape names.

The Refine chair I could take, I'm going to debate whether the Scape Headphones will offer a price that's better than what Beats or Apple are offering with their Headphones.

But for me, It's going to be PC Cases all the way.

But regardless, I ask one question exclusively for Fractal Design... actually for every PC Case Manufacturer:

"Can you please take it easy with the bag packaging? I still remember the static charge I felt after touching the Fractal North when I did the Streaming PC Build for my Church."

And Jayztwocents himself is sick of when manufacturers packaging gives him static shock in the channel.

When I originally posted this, he recently unboxed a Big-Ass tower but that also gave him static shock.

Fortunately, he didn't curse Fractal for that but still.

Since posting this, Jason Langevin has uploaded a new Video of both a DEEPCOOL case and a Lian Li Case.

I can confirm he got his coveted static shock from the Styrofoam.

 

Hopefully the North XL, Mood, and Era 2 Cases will not give me a static discharge when I do my eventual builds on those cases..... for my friends or organizations anyway.