FYI: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 announced!

Ninja_Ferret · 19 Feb 2013 at 22:25

When in march is this going to be released??? Every one just says March 2013

fireisdangerous · 22 Feb 2013 at 19:18

Its due end of april according to fractal

Pete1989 · 25 Feb 2013 at 23:52

I really like all the designs on Fractals. Quite minimalist (cant stand garish cases). Got a Array R2 currently, modded to fit full gpu and it looks great.

Slam · 27 Feb 2013 at 14:14

Pete1989 said:
I really like all the designs on Fractals. Quite minimalist (cant stand garish cases). Got a Array R2 currently, modded to fit full gpu and it looks great.

I totally agree, the Fractal R3 is the best case I've owned and I recently changed the side panel to the official window'd one.

Gangster · 27 Feb 2013 at 20:27

Looks pretty good

Slam · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:12

ooo, looks a bit disco!
good job

Gangster · 7 Mar 2013 at 10:12

Anyone got any information on the release of this case? Few sites saying March 2013?

Abz Hussain · 7 Mar 2013 at 10:46

April, end of, i think.

dacads · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:13

Scheduled for March just in time for my bday

Ninja_Ferret · 7 Mar 2013 at 18:40

I think mid to late April for the uk

LukieBoy007 · 28 Mar 2013 at 16:43

Any update on a release date? Hoping for it to be around in the next week or two...

MOOGLEYS · 28 Mar 2013 at 16:45

No idea I have just ordered the windowed panel for my Arc so I think I will stick with the V1 for now as it does everything I need.

LukieBoy007 · 28 Mar 2013 at 16:53

Ok, it's been out in the US for some while now I think.

hardkore · 28 Mar 2013 at 17:28

Do i go full m-itx with a prodigy or micro atx with the arc 2?

aaaaahhhhhhh

MOOGLEYS · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:06

hardkore said:
Do i go full m-itx with a prodigy or micro atx with the arc 2?

aaaaahhhhhhh

I went Prodigy it lasted 3 days until I rebuilt into my Arc..

hardkore · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:18

Yeah i see your prodigy for sale on the MM. How comes you didn't get on with it?

The problems for me are my PSU isnt modular so might have problems in a m-itx and i have 4 sticks of ram and itx usually only takes 2 so i'd have to buy more. Micro atx is more viable but then the hole point of me doing this smaller build it to get it as small as possible.

Is the arc a lot smaller than my 600t?

MOOGLEYS · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:26

Not sure I think I just liked having my pc out of the way on the floor also the limited upgrade options. You should be good with a non modular as you can hide quite a lot of cables beside the PSU and under the hard drive trays.

hardkore · 2 Apr 2013 at 17:04

OK ive emailed fractal about when its available in the UK. The response was supply should reach their UK distributers on the 16th of April

spixelspixel · 17 Apr 2013 at 02:19

Basill said:
The bearings on the front fan of my Arc R1, started making a grinding noise for the first 2-3 min of being turned on.

Case was bought on 6th June 2011, e-mailed Fractal and they sent me out a brand new front fan within 24hrs from Sweden via air mail.

So they get a huge thumbs up from me.

My r4 arrived with some paint chipped off one of the panels and a damaged clip on the front panel so fractal sent me replacements without asking any questions. The side panel got damaged in transit so they sent me another one. Then I damaged my fan controller molex so they sent me one of those as well. Seriously good support :-)

MatsyLR · 17 Apr 2013 at 11:09

hardkore said:
OK ive emailed fractal about when its available in the UK. The response was supply should reach their UK distributers on the 16th of April

Why you do dis fractal

Its the 17th and still nothing!