WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:08.639 the Phantom is here I have received 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.960 endless requests to unbox and uh do a 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:19.480 first look video first impressions video of this case it is NZ xt's 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:21.720 most probably most anticipated case ever 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:27.880 so the first thing we're going to do is break the seals now this is an 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:30.039 evaluation unit so it's not quite the 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:35.040 fit and finish of the product that's actually going to be available on retail 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:36.559 shelves so like it's mostly done but 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:42.440 there's a couple little things like you might find the side panel doesn't fit 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:45.600 quite right etc etc uh so the tooling is 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:47.520 not quite there yet but let's take a 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:50.920 quick look at the outside of the box before we actually open it I know 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:56.280 everyone's very excited to see this thing here we go so we have external 5 00:00:53.440 --> 00:01:02.039 and Quin Bays five we have seven internal 3 and 1/2 in bays and then we 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:05.680 have a standard 18 x s expansion slots 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:08.000 on the top we have a 140 mm spot on the 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:13.640 top oh sorry in the front we have a 140 mm spot in the top we have 2X 200 mm 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:22.799 with one included in the rear we have one 120 mm included and on the side we 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:25.159 have 1 200 or 230 mm and two 120 mm and 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:30.320 those are included okay clearance we can accept up to uh 35 cm long video card so 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:36.119 that's quite long that's like what 13 1/2 in or something like that anything 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:39.159 out there basically CPU support is 00:01:36.119 --> 00:01:40.720 uh 180 mm assuming you're not using the 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.159 side fan and that pretty much takes care of everything here it's available in red 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:48.280 black and white but black and white are the only colors that are going to be 00:01:45.399 --> 00:01:51.680 available right off the bat in terms of the other features ample room for wire 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:56.000 management that's one of the things that's got people really talking about 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:59.320 this case as well as the eatx support it has a nice roomy interior so you can 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:06.000 actually see it right here it looks kind of like storm stormtrooper armor actually it's a pretty pretty cool color 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:10.239 scheme with mostly white and then black accents very neat it also includes okay 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.599 you got the seven cooling fans with the option of up to three large 200 mil fans 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:19.599 and this is cool because this really ties into how they've got the 200 mm fan 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:25.360 holes in the case you can support up to 5 20 wat channel uh 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:30.319 fans on the controller you have a fan controller that supports up to 20 watt 00:02:27.239 --> 00:02:31.879 fans per channel so that's very very 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:36.400 cool because it means you can support big fans fans that move a lot of air and 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:41.120 you can actually do it with the fan controller that's built right into the 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:45.280 case here's uh pictures of the two other colors so the one we have here today I 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:50.599 believe is white uh seven hard drive screwless rails with SSD support and 00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:52.200 screwless 5 and 1/4 in design so mostly 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:57.440 tooless but we'll have a look at the case itself very shortly here and we'll 00:02:55.040 --> 00:03:03.799 uh we'll definitely talk in more detail about all the Innovations found 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:07.959 within packaging is really good this is so important because unless you're 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:10.840 buying the case at a retail store which I hope you're not because you should be 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:16.360 buying it at ncx H it's important that the case 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:21.000 actually survives its trip to you so NZXT has ample foam packaging built in 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:25.760 around the case you can see they've got it molded to the shape of the top of the 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:30.239 case itself here looks really really good this is a nice sturdy closed cell 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:34.879 foam very very important for ensuring that your case is going to 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:41.239 arrive in one piece same thing for the bottom very nice all custom fitted You' 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:45.000 be surprised how few cases come adequately packed because while it may 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:48.959 be enough for the case to ship on its own what if you ever have to ship a full 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:52.920 system built in the case it becomes quite a bit 00:03:50.560 --> 00:04:00.720 heavier all right so let's take the protective plastic off and that is very 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:03.400 very nice look at that cameraman come 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:06.560 get this angle over here right here I'm pointing with my finger where the 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:14.079 cameraman needs to go oh it blocks the light if you a oh okay hold on here I'll 00:04:09.519 --> 00:04:16.000 adjust it for you Soh there we go so 00:04:14.079 --> 00:04:19.759 that is just a bright white you know what compared to the photos it really 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:25.680 does look way more like stormtrooper armor here than it does uh than it does 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:30.320 in the in the pictures so here's our five 5 and 1/4 in Bays you've got these 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:34.000 cool little uh tabs so cameraman can you zoom in so you can have a look at how 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:37.360 these tabs work you just press the press the little button right there and it 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:41.520 opens it right up so you don't have any uh any stupid metal blocking things once 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:47.320 you've taken these off that's it that's the whole procedure now the case is made 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:52.240 of plastic but it's a very very heavy plastic and it feels very solid so you 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:58.400 look at like little things okay like the inside of the front door you've got uh 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.160 like a a matte plastic cover on the 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:03.840 inside of the plastic plastic outer piece so you've got these layers that's 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:09.360 what gives it a rigidity that you wouldn't normally expect from a plastic 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:12.199 case the hinge is also got uh large pegs 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:17.479 so they're not going to just uh come out okay the door closes very very tidy 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:21.639 so the the fit and finish even though this is a pre-production sample as I 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:25.080 mentioned before is perfect on the front door uh the only reason there's finger 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:29.039 prints all over it are from me touching it here but they wipe off quite easily 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:33.280 another thing that we should probably talk about actually is fingerprint 00:05:31.039 --> 00:05:37.280 resistance of a finish like this because it is quite shiny the white color is 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:41.039 really good for hiding it you can actually see that already here on the 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:44.400 camera cuz I'm putting my hands all over it and we are not 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:48.639 running sorry about that my camera battery ran out so okay fingerprint 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:51.800 resistance looks to be very very good at least on the white color let's start 00:05:49.880 --> 00:05:58.400 having a look at some of the features so right here we've got our fan controllers 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.720 so this is uh conveniently coated now I 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:05.400 I don't know what they all mean but I'm going to guess that this one with the two big holes in it is maybe the two big 00:06:03.880 --> 00:06:10.120 ones on the top I mean you can play around with it and figure out what they all are but there you are that's where 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:16.080 all of that is connected then on the other side we've got our power reset uh 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:22.199 we've got our LED indicators we have an eata 2 USB 2.0 a mic Port as well as a 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:25.680 headphone Port all right so that's pretty straightforward and let's start 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.960 let's have a look at the side panels because I think that's actually pretty 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:35.520 no wait we're not quite done with the front okay cameraman if you want to come down here and have a look that's where 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:40.720 your 140 mm fan Mount is through that mesh right there so you can see these 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:43.199 meshes even though they uh from a bit of 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:47.440 a distance they're they're very uh they're a very solid black so they give 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:51.840 you kind of a a nice patterned appearance to the whole case they're 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:55.039 very free flowing so if you get close you can see through it quite well and 00:06:53.800 --> 00:07:01.360 that means that you're going to get lots of air flow traveling through them which is very very good of course Okay so so 00:06:59.479 --> 00:07:07.000 let's move on to the side let's start with this side just arbitrarily this 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:09.000 side so this side has uh mesh holes here 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:12.879 so you can see through to the hard drive cages there you can see the back of the 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.520 motherboard plate there and uh we'll find out what those holes are although 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:19.680 I'll assume that they're for power supply cable management and uh we've got 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:25.120 a thumb screw back here so why don't I go ahead and show you that so the back 00:07:22.280 --> 00:07:29.639 is held on by optionally up to three thumb screws but this just comes with 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:36.199 one which is fine because really unless you're trying to uh I don't know keep 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:40.599 a you know cat or something out of your case you don't need to worry about too 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:45.000 many screws holding on the side panel so there's the side panel itself in terms 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:49.720 of the Finish you can see it's uh just a white paint so this part's metal 00:07:47.080 --> 00:07:54.560 obviously so you can see the inside there okay but the white paint finish on 00:07:52.159 --> 00:07:59.440 the metal actually matches the white plastic finish on the plastic perfectly 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:03.560 so you don't have to worry about like a a contrast in between those okay so that 00:08:02.440 --> 00:08:10.560 side panel you know what we'll have a closer look at that after let's have a look at the back we've got a 120 mil fan 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:13.159 here standard ATX layout here and room 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.680 for a standard ATX power supply here so that's all pretty straightforward we 00:08:14.440 --> 00:08:21.479 have up to four water cooling tubing grommets uh all along the back of the 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:25.759 case and let's go ahead and look at the other side panel before we take it open 00:08:23.919 --> 00:08:33.560 uh take it apart and look at the inside so here we've got our huge 200 or 30 mm 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:36.680 fan Mount and then we have two I believe 00:08:33.560 --> 00:08:40.200 those are 140s help me out here on the 00:08:36.680 --> 00:08:41.959 side two 120s ah you know what I bet 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:47.680 that's what that code is for the two two circles next to each other oh 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:49.080 well it's okay all right so we'll take 00:08:47.680 --> 00:08:53.360 off our other wow these are long thumb screws check this out can you see that 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:59.839 like huge thumb screws okay let's take that off so the 00:08:57.880 --> 00:09:04.320 side panel comes up just just like that there we go like I said fit and finish 00:09:01.959 --> 00:09:09.000 might not be quite right because this is not uh not a retail case so here's the 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:14.360 two fans that are included there they're NZXT black and white fans so I'm going 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:18.560 to go ahead and put this panel down as soon as the cameraman's done staring at 00:09:16.040 --> 00:09:24.440 that fan and then we'll have a look at the inside so this is a very roomy 00:09:21.160 --> 00:09:28.399 interior all right we've got a uh an 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.640 accessory box here we've got our 7 3 and 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.519 1/2 in uh Drive Mount here so why don't we have 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.399 a look at how this system works uh this is oh you know what I like this system 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:40.760 this is uses a rubber grommet so here I'll hold this in the Sun so you can see 00:09:38.839 --> 00:09:45.760 it so you basically just push the little metal pieces out push them all out you 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:49.959 slip in your hard drive you push them back in and it seems flexible now but 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:53.920 once you get a hard drive in there it's actually much much sturdier it's you've 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:57.720 also got the holes here for a 2 and 1/2 in drive so then all you do is slide 00:09:55.920 --> 00:10:02.680 that in there and boom your hard drive is installed very very very very simple 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.959 okay in terms of the 5 and 1/4 in you unlock them here and then oh that's kind 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:11.320 of neat check that out okay come come come look at this this is cool okay so 00:10:07.760 --> 00:10:15.000 you just slide the lock and then it's 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:17.240 actually like a little flexible piece of 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:20.800 plastic and that's what uh that's what drives the spikes into the side of the 00:10:18.760 --> 00:10:23.720 drive can you see those spikes so you just bend it up and then bend it back 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:27.079 down and then lock it and then it doesn't go anymore that's pretty cool 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:31.839 I've never seen one quite like that before all right let me just take out 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:35.440 this uh twist tie here that was holding in our accessory box and let's have a 00:10:34.079 --> 00:10:40.279 look at what else we've got here so you got room for quite a long power supply 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:42.240 although not entirely Unlimited in terms 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:47.680 of length and you can mount your power supply one of two ways they have a uh uh 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:51.120 here there's a filter at the bottom here so you can have either a filtered intake 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:54.279 at the bottom or you can flip your power supply around the other way and have it 00:10:52.959 --> 00:10:57.920 uh take in case air although I definitely recommend this because 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.399 they've got these rubber mounts here that'll keep your power supply Supply 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:04.480 elevated off the bottom of the case and with the filtered intake that's 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:08.800 definitely going to be your best option it supports up to eatx motherboards so 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.480 that means you can go all the way over to here with a very very large 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:17.079 potentially dual socket motherboard if you felt like it you've got a CPU cutout 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:21.480 that's going to support most motherboard CPU locations so that means that you can 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:24.600 take off uh large Tower heat sinks or water blocks and put them back on 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:28.800 without taking the motherboard out of the case here's our 120 mil fan let's 00:11:26.920 --> 00:11:31.959 have a look into the top of the case here 00:11:30.040 --> 00:11:36.240 all right so there's our 200 mil cooling fan and there's our spot for another one 00:11:34.040 --> 00:11:41.600 this one is filtered and this one does not appear to be filtered although I 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:43.200 couldn't tell you why at this time oh 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:47.480 it's possible that it's because the way this is set up is uh for negative air 00:11:45.160 --> 00:11:52.800 flow right now so that's why the uh open intakes are actually filtered that would 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:55.120 be my that would be my educated guess 00:11:52.800 --> 00:12:01.800 okay and let's see what else that we want to uh take a look at here now 140 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.399 mm intake comes in here uh let me just 00:12:01.800 --> 00:12:08.959 have a quick look at where those so these 200 or these 120 mm fans here are 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:12.519 blowing all over your drives and they're also bringing air into the front where 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:15.760 it can then be drawn across the video cards and hopefully you have rear 00:12:13.800 --> 00:12:19.839 exhaust video cards I really think that would be optimal for a case like this 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:24.320 let me see what else we should do but don't we have a look at the 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:29.480 included accessories so pull out my tech tips knife that I now actually carry 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:34.959 almost at all times I cut my with it the other day check this out I tried to 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:38.959 close it I was like closing it like I don't know how I did it but I managed to 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:43.600 close it like right onto my right onto my nail it didn't hurt that much but uh 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:50.279 well there you go knives are dangerous be very careful with them etc 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:53.519 etc okay what do we have so here is a 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:55.320 little metal bracket two metal 00:12:53.519 --> 00:13:01.360 brackets okay this is 00:12:57.839 --> 00:13:02.920 uh screws long 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.880 screws okay here's some cable ties as well as a 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:10.519 PC speaker because there's no integrated speaker into the case so you just plug a 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.199 little speaker thing into the top of your motherboard and here is all the 00:13:12.760 --> 00:13:18.839 screws that we will potentially need to assemble our system all black screws I 00:13:15.880 --> 00:13:25.199 love it those little touches that is what really sets apart a premium case 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:26.639 from a a me2 case so those are your 632 00:13:25.199 --> 00:13:29.920 screws so those are your hard drive screws all right here's your mother 00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:35.440 board standoffs here's your 632 screws flat so 00:13:32.839 --> 00:13:38.440 those ones are probably for installing something presumably motherboard 00:13:36.880 --> 00:13:42.279 although there's not enough of them there's only eight okay so I don't 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:48.160 actually know what those are for then we have 632 longer ones okay I'm sure there 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:53.839 is an instruction manual well there is an instruction manual and I'm sure it tells us what to do all with all these a 00:13:51.759 --> 00:14:00.120 bunch of thumb screws so there's a little baggie of thumb screws cool and 00:13:56.800 --> 00:14:03.480 then here we have some fan screws 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:04.759 here we have some 632 hex screws so 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.040 those I'm presuming are for the power supply and then we have some M3 screws 00:14:06.920 --> 00:14:13.279 so those would be used for optical drives if we uh wanted to double secure 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:17.160 the optical drive so you can see you can use the little flexi Mount thing here 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:21.480 and then there's also two screw holes right in the front which the cameraman 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:24.160 cannot see from that angle but he'll try and cameraman wants me to look at the 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:27.839 back of the case for some reason anyway that's where those screws go and oh 00:14:26.839 --> 00:14:32.839 right we haven't looked at the back of the case yet that's why the cameraman's uh pointing over there so here's all of 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:36.480 the included cables this is getting to be quite a 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:40.839 long video but hopefully you can uh bear with me here here's power for your fan 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:45.079 controller this uses nice beefy wires because you are providing up to 20 watts 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:48.560 per Channel or maybe it's 20 watts total either way it can proide power to some 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:51.920 pretty decent fans so I wouldn't worry too much about it hard drive LED so 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.920 there's all your front connectors nice black cable happy to see that we've got 00:14:54.360 --> 00:15:02.040 a eSATA front connector right there and then what else do we have here we've got 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:04.399 HD audio there's a USB header and these 00:15:02.040 --> 00:15:09.800 are nicely sleeved black and then we've got a couple of uh oh right these are 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:11.920 for uh the three aspects of the fan 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:16.040 controller that are not located up here so the ones that are not already plugged 00:15:13.560 --> 00:15:20.959 in so you can see we've got uh two more up here so there's your five five leads 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:24.920 off the integrated fan controller just like that okay well I think that pretty 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:29.040 much covers everything I wanted to talk about get one more dramatic shot of the 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:33.279 front here because I really think that is what stands out about this case more 00:15:31.079 --> 00:15:37.079 than anything else is the look of it from the front and kind of seeing the 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:42.279 top as well thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NZXT Phantom I hope 00:15:40.319 --> 00:15:47.120 you've enjoyed it I certainly have I can already tell you these are going to sell 00:15:45.040 --> 00:15:50.120 like hot cakes