so today I've got kind of a random unboxing to do this is the NZXT Hades
they basically like dropped this off at our office they were like here's a
sample do whatever you want with it so I figured I'll do what I do best I'll
unbox it so this computer case includes
dual 200 mm intake fans dual fan control
triple temperature display wire management and a black interior I love
black Interiors now I know nothing about this case I have done zero research so
I'm going to be disc covering everything about it as we go along so if I say
anything wrong please forgive me make a comment in the comments and say I don't
know what I'm talking about or something cuz the reality of it is I do not okay
so we have nine external 5 and a/4 inch Bays four internal 3 and 1 half inch
hard drive bays and five external 5 and a/ qu inch Bas hold on a minute which
one is it
okay okay I don't get it seven expansion slots we have cooling fan options thanks
for that it is included one 2 200 mm fan
one 120 mm fan one 200 mm fan and
another 140 mm fan is included for the top Dimensions etc etc etc bunch of
different languages okay let's flip this around and the latest Hardware is
supported including room for 300 or 30
cm cards like the ATI 5970 okay oh I get it here we go here we
go so you can either have 9 5 and 1/4 in Bays or 5 5 and 1/4 in bays and four 3
and 1/2 in internal base cool I get it
control the flow gaming overclocking our office work the Dual 8 watt per Channel
fan control allows control over the Dual 200 mm fans that spin up to 150 C CFM
each monitor your system etc etc etc wire routing pre-drilled water cooling
holes on the back plate front M that's also for office work by the way okay so
I mean this computer case is clearly not for office work now they did not drop it
off unopened and I haven't opened it since so it's still technically an
unboxing Bo in even though I'm not actually breaking any seals I know I'm
bending the rules but what are you going to do let's flip this baby open or flip
it open flip it over and get it opened up so this is the Hades so I think I'm
turning it right side up right now and then I'm going to go ahead and take the
styrofoams off oh that's a pretty small case actually so this is clearly a mid
Tower it's not a full tower it's not a micro ACX Tower take the oh it's kind of
nice looking actually okay so one thing about NZXT cases that you will notice
right away is that they are not subtle they do not take sort of the the
conventional approach when it comes to the Aesthetics so you can see this is a
very sort of forward leaning design it's very bold it has a front door which is
okay you can look right through it so that is a mesh front door that's going
to give you the best possible air flow because that's what this case is clearly
all about is delivering great airf flow once again you can see here at the front
this is all mesh and I'm I'm not sure if there's some kind of a filtration system
there or not but we'll get to that later okay so here we have our 4 5 and 1/4 in
Bay here are our two fan controls okay so you got a couple little knobbies
there that's kind of nice there's your power button okay and then I think that pretty
much covers that in terms of front panel connectors you've got your two audio
connectors so you got headphones and microphone you got two USB and one e
SATA here on the top we can see either 2
140 mm fans or 210 mm fans it's nice
that they give you the option for that I really appreciate that and then on this
side you can see clearly where the 200 mm fan is located we got thumb screws
included with the case which is great because I do not have a screwdriver on
me I was not ready to take a panel off if I didn't if it didn't have thumb
screws all right so let's just slide
that back it's pretty standard as far as that goes so again more mesh here at the
front so that's going to be useful for air intake I mean if you got lots of
graphics card power going on back here behind the panel it's going to be great
to have more air coming in this way this is designed to blow down right on top of
the graphics cards it uses a three pin fan header so you can plug that into
either their fan controller or a motherboard header even all right so
let's get that panel out of the way oh it fell over okay it's all good inside
we will find a user manual which is black and white there's nothing
particularly exceptional about this but it does give you some of the basics and
in terms of the case it comes in a few different languages okay so it shows you
how to how to remove the side panel
shows you how to use some of the wire management features shows you how to
install drives okay inside here oh this is kind
of neat actually okay well let's take the other panel off so that we can have a better look and you can see this one
also has uh mesh at the front for more
air intake which is great finish on the case is overall
pretty good I mean it's it's not uh it's not the kind of finish that you'd see on
something like a silver Stone but it's a reasonably adequate sort of powder
coating finish you can see there's a little bit of specklin to it so that
will make it a durable and B very fingerprint resistant which is something
that a lot of high-end cases actually Overlook and it drives me crazy okay so
here we've got the fan the power connectors for our top 140 mm fan which
is included as well as our rear 120 mm fan and they've given you holes for 92
as well which is pretty nice okay and you can see these are connected
by three pin but you can also plug them
into this uh for MOX power all right
here they've actually gone ahead and they've taken the front panel connectors
which is your eata your um your power
your USB all that stuff and they've gone and they've routed it through the cable
management holes for you and put it where it actually needs to go so in
addition to those other things that you or to the standard stuff that you have
here you have a coule what appears to be a
temperature sensor for your hard drive you've got a temperature sensor for your
CPU and then one other just random one for CIS okay you've got a couple more
power oh yeah these are the power connectors for those fans you got your front audio you've got your front USB
you got your front isata okay here you
will find all of the accessories that you will need to mount a system in the
Hades case all right so let's see what they've gone and included with this I
don't have my knife great that's okay I'll just break
it okay I can't even break tape that's
pretty sad okay oh wow lots of Hardware
here okay so these are Drive Bay adapters thank you for that it includes
three of those excellent and I believe they've got one mounted already so
they've shown you how to do it just like that you've got a whole bunch of thumb
screws for mounting those things there you go there's a bucket of thumb screws
as well as some hard drive screws okay and then you've got all of your standard
mounting hardware so these black ones right here for mounting your Optical
drives these silver ones are for mounting your motherboard they've got
motherboard standoffs which are the little brass kind okay so that's all
pretty standard and oh I love this they've included a 3 and 1/2 to 2 and
1/2 in hard drive adapter so if you have an SSD drive or two maybe yeah it looks
like it might hold two you can actually mount it in this case by default and
I've got terrible light here I'm really sorry for that maybe if you move forward
a little bit we'll be a to see this better oh they've included a bunch of
zip ties too for cable management that's nice okay and then I oh yeah here at the
front so here at the front that's why there's all that mesh there can you see
through that way to the front fan oh you can oh that's great okay so there's the
200 mm fan that's included in the front that's blowing all through the case and
can come way out the back to all the included mesh PCI brackets it has a
bottom mounted power supply here are your water cooling holes it looks like
you can probably use 38 in tubing but I wouldn't expect to get half in tubing
through those holes overall build quality of the case feels reasonably
good I mean with value gaming cases a lot of the time you see them cheap out
on the steel or they'll they'll cheap out on like a support brace here or
something else there I mean really the standout features of this case are as
follows black interior you've got the CPU cutout for replacing CPU coolers
with a back plate easily and quickly you've got these wire management
features I love these things Corsair kind of did it first with their obsidian
800d but I I love seeing sort of more
value oriented cases coming out that have this feature because it makes your
wire management look so much tidier with zero effort you've got toolless mounting
for your 5 and 1/4 in Bays okay you just take those out and then you pop them
back in wherever you want the drive to go and that concludes my unboxing of the
NZXT Hades
case