welcome to another fabulous unboxing online as Tech tips this time we're
going to be having a look at the Phantom 630 high performance modular full tower
computer case from NZXT this is pretty
similar to The Phantom 820 which we
actually had a look at not that long ago except it has been decreased in size a
little bit and it has also been decreased in price quite a bit so there
goes my my video switcher which I sort
of will need at some point but let's have a look at what NZXT has to say for
themselves on the outside of the case so
here we go we got four 5 and a/4 inch Bays cooling options Galore with two 200
mm fans included and one 140 mm fan included lots of clearance for things
like graphics cards cable management and CPU coolers and finally some Dimensions
that comes with a 2-year warranty although I'd expect that with a case
there's not a whole lot to go wrong Next Generation Phantom design both inside
and out high-end water cooling support allows use of multiple radiators and
multiple radiator sizes very cool SSD mounts behind the motherboard tray split
level motherboard tray allowing increased rear Cable Management we will
check that out I'll show you guys that on the back fully modular internal drive blazs allow you to customize the Phantom
630s layout to suet your needs I think what they meant was suit but they tried
give them credit for it okay easily removable dust filters illuminate your
IO ports at the back this is cool that's a great feature integrated high power 30
wat single Channel fan controller this is changed and we don't have the so full
external peripheral support with multiple USB 3 and an integrated SD card reader okay so the things that seem to
be missing so far are the customized lighting effects so that I wasn't I'm
not talking about the lighting at the back to see your your peripherals I'm
talking about the uh internal lighting that was in like you know different
colors and stuff that was very very cool so that's missing and then
H there we go uh that that seems to be
sort of one of the biggest missing features so we've got a white version of
the Phantom 630 apparently I actually had no idea what was inside the included
foam is quite thick so you can see it's
probably about an inch thick around the outside edges however that's not all the
way so it's quite lightweight um I don't
know if I would be a big fan of shipping an entirely built liquid cooled system
in the stock box I would probably want to change it out for something a little
bit more robust but the case itself is
strong and feels rigid so far so that will actually help compared to if you
had sort of a flimsy case inside of a hard foam packed box go ahead and take
the plastic off here and you know what there's actually a lot of plastic wrap
on this case so we're going to do that off camera and we're good to go so I'd
love to have diesel do a nice pan of the front panel here because we are starting
to get used to this Phantom look I remember when the first Phantom launched
some people were not necessarily that impressed with the aesthetic I
personally liked it but I think now that
we've seen it a few times in a few slightly different variations of the
case the 410 the original the 630 and the 820 I am definitely used to it I
think it looks great and there's a lot of prct I ality that goes along with it
so this is magnetic which is actually really nice and this right here this is
a very loose mesh so you can see the fan very clearly which shows you how loose
the mesh is you can also see there's a lot of space between the mesh and the fan that and there's a dust filter in
the front which I just discovered and didn't know about okay so there you go
so that actually is there for a very practical reason that makes it easier
for the air to pass through the mesh without making additional noise there's
also what appears to be a dust filter directly in front of the fan so that'll
help with things as well up here in the front you can find those four 5 and 1/4
in Bays as well as the built-in SD card slot and on the top of the case I'm
going to get diesel to film that for me again two
USB 3.0 ports two USB 2.0 ports headphones and microphone ah yes the
other thing that was missing from the Phantom 820 is the very complex fan
controller now we've just got a single fan controller so down middle up uh that
turns the io lights on and off you've got power and reset switches here as
well as indicator LEDs so this right here is just sort of you got one option
or one you've got one setting for the fan speeds inside your entire case which
I actually personally don't mind because quite frankly think about it this way
how often are you going to be going oh well I'd like my CPU fan at high and I'd
like my GPU fan at low and then my case band at medium I don't think that
happens that often I think you're either idling and Diesel's putting his hand up
cuz no forget it you don't do that um I
think you're either going okay well I'm idle I want it quiet or I'm you know I'm
gaming and I want to you know Crank It Up so those those are pretty much the
options regardless of what sort of smart Alex on my production crew might be
saying so we're going to go ahead and give you guys another look at it here so
again you can see the mesh on the top is quite loose and there's one of those
included 200 mm fans and I've totally got it on the wrong camera right now so
now you can see what I'm actually talking about here there's an option for
another 200 mm fan here and this is again quite a loose mesh with a lot of
space so it's going to be very very low restriction which is great for cooling
and Phantom series is about nothing if not cooling with sort of cool looks so
on the back you can do a variety of different sort of fan mounting options
120 and 140 and then you can move them around as you see fit also it should be
noted that this back piece here and it's actually going to be easier for slick to
show you this this back piece here bulges out a little bit so can you see
that that sort of that there you go you can see that bulge yeah you can see it
now so it bulges out a little bit and there's a very good reason for that it again puts more space between the fan
and the grill which reduces noise and reduces restriction very very good stuff
we've got ah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine
expansion slots so that means that you can put pretty much whatever uh whatever
motherboard you want in there there aren't many motherboards that have more than nine PCI expansion slots in fact I
can't think of any although if you had one that had nine and then you needed a
dual slot card in the bottom that might be an issue but still I expect it to be
fine and you've got a bottom mounted power supply that looks again sort of
pretty pretty standard there so left side
panel there we go you've got another 200
mm fan that's the other included 200 mm
fan with the is that three included 200
mm fans now hold on just a minute no where's the 140 mil fan
something in here must be a 140 mil fan well let's open it up and find out what
the heck's going on because apparently there are three included 200mm fans one
in the front one on the side one on the top even though it would appear that the
ah yes no three included 200 mm fans there's also a window so the window lets
you see pretty much just the CPU socket area and the yeah pretty much just the
CPU socket area as well as a rear 120 mm
mounted water cooling unit or something like like that like if you were to install something like an NZXT Kraken in
here for example that would be a great fit and it would go perfectly in there I
would show you the Kraken but it's actually on our test bench right now
interior options so check this out you've actually got a lot of different
options here so there's that 200 mm front fan and I can't see slicks in my
way so I can't tell which camera we're on yep we're on the right one okay so
there's that front 200 mm fan you've got a lot of other options here as well
though so you can actually do dual 120 or dual 140 mm fans if you would prefer
and then what's cool about that is I can't quite see how they come out it
looks like it's on the other side but you could pull these Drive cages out and
you could actually do uh you could put radiators here as well which is very
very neat so we're going to show you that we'll pull this out you can also see oh check this oh look at this this
is great so there's actually screws here
so you might have to get kind of close to see that there's SC screws here so
you can pull out not only the cages but also this guy right here which is the um
the fixture that these cages actually attach to so Cable Management holes here
at the back of them sliders here to Mount them and then the whole thing
comes out if you just decide who cares I'm going to mount two ssds on the back
of the motherboard tray I'm not going to need anything else and that's it that's
all I need very very cool stuff Cable Management holes Galore so they're using
an extremely soft rubber for the cable management holes you can see here that
it's very very pable there you go see
that one two three so this is where you'll run your graphics card ones this
is where you'll run up from your power supply so that'll be down here there's a
ton of room at the back for cable management look at that you can pretty much stuff flake my hand back there and
not see check that out Pan behind the motherboard tray lots and lots of room
uh this is a neat feature that we've seen on NZXT cases before this rotating
piece right here so check that out so
that allows to either sort of you you just put either a 120 or 140 mm fan
there and you can either blow it up towards the CPU or across the graphics
cards the choice is totally yours so if I had a graphics card that for example
exhausted air this way then I would go and I would install that graphics card
and then I probably actually wouldn't want to do that anyway because it would
still be pointing away but okay don't worry about it uh the point is point it
up there point it there the choice is actually yours there's also another here
we go fan filter so the fan filters half
and half you can pull out half of it from the front and half from the back that prevents you from having like the
800d a fan filter that's this long that unless you actually keep your case 4T
away from the wall you aren't even able to remove without lifting it up and
moving it around which with these heavy cases can be a bit of a problem included
cables are all black love to see this
this is a good thing so we've got there's your USB 2 there's your USB
other more different USB 2 uh there's your fan connect connector okay uh so
that's for adding I guess looks like one more fan cuz the included ones are
presumably ah yeah that's for attaching the side panel fan and then we've got uh
front panel connectors and USB 3 so we're going to go ahead and open it up
from the other side so you guys can check it out and it is apparently pretty
tight so I'm going to go ahead and grab a screwdriver which I happen to have
handy the odds of that actually were not very good I don't usually have a
screwdriver handy for these unboxings I never really showed you guys
the uh construction of the side panel so I'm just going to show you that right now so there's a little bit of flex to
it but with a case this big that's to be expected um they're not it's not like
they've just gone and built it out of sort of an incredibly thin steel or
anything like that although we've seen that trick before not from NZXT I don't
think I showed you guys the tooless 5 and a/4 inch Bay actually before we oh
no way these are made of metal very very nice so there you go
you can hear that snap to them and then you can also screw them in should you so
desire now this is the second time we've seen this in the recent past but it
looks like the uh the 3 and 1/2 in Bays actually come out from the right hand
side instead of from the left side this is a bit of a unique design to me uh
because I would normally think of sort of opening up the left side panel to get
it anything on the inside of the case but I guess it doesn't really matter 2
and 1/2 in drives go here in the middle 3 and 1/2 in drives are on rubber
isolating mounts here and you can see there's some Flex to it so it's designed
to to bend easily there but once you put a drive in it that'll firm right up and
you won't have to worry about it sort of going anywhere oh there's the included
fan controller love this so sorry that
one's just on there and it's specifically pre-run for you to plug in
that side panel you can run 10 fans off
of the included controller I think it supports up to 20 watts so you don't
have to worry too much about over loading that no difficulties there here
on the back you can see that there's tons of cable management space so I'm
going to get slick to kind of have a look here where you can there's more
than enough space to put a 24 pin cable back here and then there's actually some
parts that pop out a little bit more like up here where the SSD Mount is but
that's not an issue because you should be running your 24 pin here if I don't
know if you can see this but this is out a slight slant here so this is further
in or this is further in than this which is further in than this so there's a
there's a shape to it here so you run your 24 pin over here and up here and
you'll have enough space and then there's lots of space back here for
things like your eight pin or whatever else like that uh what's also cool about
the back is they have a ton of cable management spots so you can clip or you
can uh zap strap cables here here here here here here here here here you can
tell that ncxt here and here and here and everywhere here here here you can
tell ncxt actually puts a lot of thought into how people are going to Cable
manage the case to to keep all the wires flat and make it so that it's easy to
close the other side panel without sort of fighting with it and forcing it into
place the SSD mounts are here so they are mounted with just a thumb screw you
pull these off put in the four screws into the SSD and then you are whoops I
was on the wrong there you go so you put four screws into the bottom of the SSD
you put it back into place and then you screw it back in this is a lot more
elegant than what we saw in the Define R4 where you basically couldn't
uninstall the SSD with the case actually with a
motherboard installed because you had to screw it in from the other side which is
not really an optimal configuration
and okay you know what we're going to do this off camera okay I think we pretty
much figured it out so you have a number of different options so number one is if
you so desire you can actually just
install these by hanging them from the ceiling so there you go so now you don't
have to have anything here which means you can pull this out and mount a
radiator on the bottom remember that's a filtered intake so that's that's a good
thing you could also just pull them all out so you have a single a double and a
triple giving you a total of six 3 and2 in so you can pull them all out and you
could Mount radiators here in the front Okay so that that's another option you
could take your single one and put it here although you can't take the double
one and put it there because there's no room at the back to pull the hard drives
out this is would have been an argument you know that I would have made at ncxt
if I worked there for mounting the hard drives the other way because then you
wouldn't have to worry too much about that you could just sort of you know not
worry about that and mount things the other way but um I wasn't there so
nobody asked me so you can also make things sort of more low profile here and
you can have more space here for presumably the longest graphics card
ever made uh the the twinky Edition
graphics card because the Twinkies are see product placement maybe we're
getting money from Hostess which doesn't actually um exist anymore so that's
probably not what's going on um so yeah
that's pretty much it I mean you can just sort of put a single triple one
here and there you go you just basically bolt
them in at the back and I'm I keep missing here but you guys get the point
it does work and that pretty much wraps up this particular unboxing thank you
for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Phantom 630 from NZXT which
actually is not over yet because I didn't show you the 140 mil fan at the
back as well as more importantly the options for radiator mounting here in
the top so you can do a triple 120 looks like you can do a combination of no
looks like you can do dual 140s and then
they've used slits instead of holes so you can actually have a lot of
flexibility in terms of where you position the fans and you can do a dual 140 radiator as well and then last but
not least you can leave in those dual 200 mm fans with filters and go that
route now we're done thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
at the Fantom 620 from 630 from NZXT
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