Explainer: What Scaling and Fractals Are, and How Designers Can Use Them
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At that time they would quickly go over the products allow you to take photos and send you on your way. In terms of content everything was hyper focused and very informative. This was fairly early in the Fractal timeline as they were showed AIO coolers, custom fans and several small form factor cases as everyone was scrambling to get some of that MiniITX action. Configured in the server layout, graphics card are limited to 315 mm. Power supplies up to 250mm can be installed in the case without removing the bottom hard drive rack.
Concealed storage
The top framework is fully removable for unprecedented ease of access to interior components, and five front ports (including one USB Type-C) means you don’t sacrifice expandability for the small footprint. The versatile open layout of the Define 7 Compact allows you to maximize the potential of the small footprint with full-size ATX hardware to meet your exact needs. Always pushing boundaries, our product developers added loads of new features to ensure that the 7 series is the most capable and cohesive Define range we’ve ever released. Featuring the most comprehensive refinement of design elements yet, the Define 7 brings a new body to the long established Define series while staying true to its heritage as a solid platform for the silent PC.
Open layout for massive headroom
But as with biological and computer structures, the story does not end at any particular scale. The boundary of a room is perforated with smaller structures like rectangular doors and windows. The boundary of larger spaces might be perforated with colonnades (we are talking about living spaces and not the dead spaces characteristic of post-war architecture and urbanism). These repetitive perforations at smaller scales—the fractal loading that results from the characteristic “generative algorithm” of fractal structure—will often continue on down to the scales of detail and ornament. It seems likely that we, the users, making our way through these places find such complex environments (complex in a very precisely ordered sense) easier to comprehend, more intelligible, more usefully organized, and more beautiful. We are very good at reading the multiple scales of these “place networks”.
Define R6 Tempered Glass
The Fractal Design Define 7 is equipped with two Dynamic X2 GP mm intake fans in the front of the chassis and a single 140mm exhaust fan in the rear, over the CPU socket area. The rear exhaust fan location supports both 120mm and 140mm fans as do the mounting locations in the base of the case. The Fractal Design Define 7 is equipped with an excellent fan filtration system, with large removable nylon filters on every fan mounting location including the power supply. Fractal Design wisely designed the filter on the bottom of the case to be removed from the front, eliminating the need to move your system for filter maintenance and cleaning. Around the back, you'll find an opening for a bottom-mounted PSU, seven expansion card slots plus two vertical, a standard motherboard I/O area and an exhaust fan mounting location that supports both 120mm and 140mm fans.
Introducing Define 7 Compact
That puts the case next to the Core P3 open air chassis, the Cooler Master HAF X, and not distant from the stock Meshify C. This transitions the Define 7 toward above average performance, so that’s a good spot to be. The craziest thing is that Fractal could throw a mesh panel on its Define 7 and create an “airflow case,” and it’d manage one of the best performers on the charts. We’d love to see Fractal offer an ultra-fine filter version of this case, since it’s stellar in build quality and design and could be a thermal chart-topper with only one panel changed. Without its restrictive filter or door, the case runs next to the H500M Mesh and NR600 with one extra fan, and the NR600 has an ultra-fine filter on the front.
Compact yet spacious
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Specifications and Features
There’s an unusually long and skinny fan hub tucked into the cable channel along the top edge of the case. Fractal claims several positive features for this hub, but the one that actually matters is that it has six outlets for 3-pin fans and three outlets for PWM fans with a maximum combined output of 30W. The hub takes PWM input from the motherboard for speed control and draws power from a SATA connector.
To its credit, the door is actually doing something other than suffocating the CPU, because opening the door brings noise levels to 38.9 dBA. That said, that’s not really fair to say, because you could also run the fans significantly slower and achieve better-than-stock performance, which would be a net positive. Prior to load testing, we collect idle temperature results for ten minutes to determine the unloaded cooling performance of a case's fans and air channels. Thermal benchmarking is conducted for 1400 seconds (23 minutes), a period we've determined sufficient for achieving equilibrium. The over-time data is aggregated and will occasionally be compiled into charts, if interesting or relevant.
We criticized the Fractal Define S2 in the past for being basically the same case as the Define R6. The Define 7 is also very similar to the R6, but that makes much more sense for a successor, and the 7 also has some meaningful quality-of-life improvements over the R6 that are worthy of a new case. The Define 7 is up to Fractal’s usual standards of build quality, it’s quiet, it’s flexible by nature, and it doesn’t have the worst possible cooling performance, although we’d definitely recommend some aftermarket fans. $170 is a higher-than-average price for a nice PC case--we’d be more comfortable recommending it to a general audience at $150, especially given the stock cooling performance. That said, the Define 7 is a well-constructed case that’s a great platform for liquid cooled systems, and enthusiasts buying it for that purpose won’t be disappointed.
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This interface can catalyze urban interactions, mimicking the non-smooth surface of a chemical catalyst. (c) Longitudinal tension and breaking along the entire line form a “perforated” fractal, here shown at its first stage. This is a natural mechanism for defining an urban colonnade and any semi-permeable urban boundary, such as a row of bollards that protect pedestrian from vehicular traffic. Noise levels for the Fractal Define 7 at a standardized measuring distance of 20” plotted 34.6 dBA with the door closed.
This “fractal loading” means that each high-level exchange carries with it simultaneous exchanges on many smaller levels. An ensemble of exchanges on different scales is supported by a physical infrastructure that permits mixed information exchanges, but does not let other competing exchanges squeeze out the weaker or lower-level exchanges. For instance at the scale of a region there are not that many structural choices that are relevant to an individual going about his daily activities. At this scale, the fractal loading of our environment vastly expands the structural options, and builds synergies between them. If I am in a well-connected, fractal-loaded spot at this human scale, I can read the newspaper, I can talk to a friend, I can say hello to a passerby, or I can run one errand or more.
Depending on the color you choose, the tempered glass side panel is available in clear, light or dark tinting. The chassis measures 546.8 x 240 x 474.2 mm and tips the scales at just over 15.9 kg (35 pounds). When outfitted with a tempered glass side panel is priced at $170 / £154 or $150 / £144 without it. The pedestrian networks of medieval Rome have a fractal structure, extending into the buildings and even the rich ornamental details of the buildings themselves. These “place networks” offer pedestrians a dense and overlapping set of choices of movement, views, and other enriching experiences.
Also located behind the motherboard tray is a new, low-profile Nexus +2 PWM fan controller that is tucked neatly up out of the way under the upper edge of the case. Not everyone will find this an issue and some will even view this as a bonus, but if you want RGB, you'll need to bring your own. The Define Series of cases focuses on delivering the perfect balance between silent operation and minimalist Scandinavian design. The understated look and feel allows for a natural fit into your home or office while never compromising on quality, performance of configurability.
Just below the surface of the top panel, you will find a large plastic mesh fan filter, and below that are mounting locations for three 120mm or two 140mm fans. The Fractal Design Define 7 works with two different internal layouts, "open" and "storage." Open layout resembles many current mid-tower ATX cases on the market today. An open main chamber equipped with a pair of 3.5-inch hard drive mounts under the PSU tunnel and a couple SSDs mounts tucked neatly behind the motherboard tray. Storage mode allows for up to 14 hard drives to be installed in the chassis by moving a portion of the hard drive tray to the opposite side of the chassis and installing the additional hard drive trays included in the accessory box.
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