WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.160 There was a point maybe 7 to 10 years ago where NZXT was the king of PC cases. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.519 They provided stylish and compact PC cases that everybody basically copied. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:15.280 But styles come and go and it can be tough to remain the top dog forever. So 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:20.720 NZXT has sponsored this video today for us to show off their new H2 Flow SFFF PC 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:25.840 case that is supposed to have a focus on compatibility as well as a small desk 00:00:23.439 --> 00:00:29.920 footprint. But looking at it, it's not that small form factor. It's almost in 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:34.079 the uh like medium form factor area, especially with its size, which is at 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:39.440 20.7 L. Some people like to draw the small form factor line at 20 L. So, this 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:43.200 is going a little bit over, but look at this dinky little look at that. Okay, 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:47.760 maybe it is a little small, especially when you consider the footprint on your 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:50.640 desk. As you can see, this is all the space it's going to take up. One of the 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:54.640 issues I have with my small form factor case at home is that it ends up taking 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.960 almost the entire depth of my desk once all of the cables are involved. So 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:03.440 having something that's a little bit shorter is going to actually maybe save you a lot of space because your desk, 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.720 you want table space. The vertical space might not be so bad. For the case side 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:10.640 panel, it's split into two. A small tempered glass window as well as this 00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:16.720 very quite porous mesh on the other half. And this same kind of mesh is 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:19.280 found on the front, the back, and the 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:22.799 top of the case. Clearly NZXT is taking a lot of their airflow complaints to 00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:27.360 heart. And this thing looks very promising with just literally mesh on 00:01:25.759 --> 00:01:30.560 every front. There's no additional magnetic fan filters, which is I think 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.799 okay in a scenario where you have this dense of a mesh. Look at how easy I've just taken off all of the panels. This 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:39.600 isn't going to be too hard to clean, which I think is okay with this level of 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:44.400 mesh. And I popped all of the side panels off. Super easy cuz they're all 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.159 just attached with detents detents. So 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.280 honestly, this seems pretty easy to work in, especially as far as small form 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.320 factor cases go. Let's just get these accessories out of here before we take 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:56.159 too much of a closer look. In the accessory box, we get some zip ties as 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:59.920 well as screws for your motherboard, power supply, and case fans. Pretty 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:04.719 simple load out there. Out of the box, you have two 120 mm fans at the top 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:09.599 blowing hot air up and out of the case. We also have your front IO in here, 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:11.440 which is uh quite long for a small form 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.040 factor case. It's they only have to get to here really, and they're going to be 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:21.040 way longer, which is nice. that's going to be a little bit easier to work with, but might be a little bit hard to hide 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.599 the cables. So, 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:29.440 for front IO, we have two USBA ports and a USBC running at 20 Gbits per second 00:02:26.959 --> 00:02:34.400 and a combo headphone microphone jack. Also included is a Gen 5 riser cable, 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:38.480 which is pretty nice for a PC case at this price point. Mounting for fans and 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:42.959 or radiator at the front. This supports up to 60 mm of depth between your fans 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:47.680 and your radiator. And that front radiator mount comes out for easy 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:49.440 installation with captive screws. Super 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:53.599 nice feature. And at the bottom, we have a removable 2.5 inch drive cage with 00:02:52.239 --> 00:02:57.519 that is toolless at least for the drives, but not for the removability. 00:02:55.760 --> 00:03:02.239 The observant or biologically minded amongst you may have noticed that there is a spine in the middle of this case, 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.599 which indicates that this is a sandwich style case. So, your motherboard and 00:03:04.239 --> 00:03:10.319 power supply are going to be on this side, and your graphics card will be on 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:15.280 this side. This case can support triple slot GPUs up to 330 millimeters in 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:18.720 length. Heightwise, you're not going to be too worried. One of their claims is 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:24.400 that it's going to be very easy to build in. So, if you're somebody who's not experienced with SFFF parts, you should 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:30.360 have an easy time. Let's find out if that is true. No such thing as an easy 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:30.360 case to build in when it comes to SFFF. 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:36.239 Um, turns out our motherboard was broken. So, we're going to do things a 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:39.120 little out of order. Hopefully, this will be a real test of how easy it is to 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:45.440 build in here. We're going to start with putting our power supply in. This is a NZXT C850 SFX gold power supply. We 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:49.519 figured, you know, keep it all in the family. Also sponsored by NZXT, so 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:53.840 they're so cute. I love SFX power supply. One thing that they did here that I love is that they didn't just 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:57.360 label the type of screw. They actually labeled what it's for. It can be really 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:00.879 hard to tell the difference between like a motherboard standoff screw or a power 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.599 supply screw. They're very, very similar. So, shout out to NZXT for doing 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:09.519 that. Since we got some time, we are going to swap out our fans. The included 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:12.959 fans, nothing wrong with them. I would usually keep them because that's how you 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.840 can save a little bit of money. But we thought it'd be fun to show off these 00:04:14.239 --> 00:04:20.959 F240X fans. They're like a dual fan in a 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.759 single frame. They got some nice RGB. And these are high performance fans. 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:28.400 They use liquid crystal polymer. These can spin really fast. And unlike many 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:32.160 fans that are just 25 mm, these are 30 mm in depth, which helps with even more 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:35.280 static pressure and performance. They even have a caution signal. High 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:39.199 velocity fan keep hands and objects clear during operation. I I Captain, 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:43.680 does it support 30 millimeter fans in the top? We're gonna find out. 00:04:42.479 --> 00:04:51.199 Something to note, especially when you're doing your cable management, is that to access the PCIe slot covers, you 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.240 do have to get inside of the case. So, 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.759 there's going to be a decent amount of cables probably hanging out around here. We're going to do our best to keep those 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.840 out of our way to keep our case serviceable. The PCIe cable has to do 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.720 this kind of weird bend because it has to do this like 90° turn to get flat 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:09.120 here. And you really don't want to compress PCIe cables. They're very 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:11.919 delicate, especially the Gen 5 ones. So, I am a little worried. I might hate 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:16.320 myself for this, but we're going to go ahead and install the GPU. But, we're 00:05:13.919 --> 00:05:22.960 just going to try and be delicate and uh hope for the best. 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:26.639 Good news, our motherboard's here. Let's get this done before we get any further 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.960 into here, cuz the amount of cables in this thing already getting kind of 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:34.720 scary. >> Guess what? You can win basically the PC we're building right now, but just a 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:38.160 little bit better by signing up for the giveaway that NZXT is having for their 00:05:36.479 --> 00:05:45.440 new H2 flow case. It's going to be sick. It's going to have an Intel Core Ultra 9285K and RTX 5080 and it comes with 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:48.880 Windows 11 home. Can you believe it? Entries will be accepted from February 00:05:47.039 --> 00:05:52.240 17th to March 3rd, and you can learn more about it in the link in the 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:56.560 description. For our CPU, we are going with a Intel Core Ultra 265K. That's 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:01.120 right. When's the last time you've seen Intel on this channel? Huh? This motherboard's crazy. It's doing the sort 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:08.639 of daughterboard thing that we've seen on a lot of ITX cases, but like look, there's a fan header, two RGB headers. 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:10.080 This is for a M.2 drive. There's going 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.680 to be a second there's like a daughter board in here. How' you do that? And 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:18.160 that's where your front panel connectors are. 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:22.880 For our RAM, we're going with 32 gigs of very fast CL26,000 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:27.680 mega transfers per second RAM. That's really speedy. This is a I'm going to 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:30.000 steal this 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:35.360 CPU cooler is freaking chongus. Look at this. Look 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:41.680 at this thing. Like look at our motherboard. It's like the whole thing. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:44.080 This is the NZXT Kraken Elite 280 RGB 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:47.280 and it comes with dual frame fans just like the ones that we have in the box. 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:50.080 These, however, are just 25mm, but they are more RGB focused. Because they're 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:56.000 not attached out of the box, why don't we swap for the performance fans just to show you how much clearance you can get. 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:57.680 This is a 27 mm thick radiator. That's 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:02.240 going to be a 30 mm fan, which is going to take us right up to our clearance 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:06.160 level of 60 mm for the front radiator. And if you want to do air cooling, NZXT 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:10.880 designed this case with liquid cooling in mind. And 75 mm here is not a lot. 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:15.759 You'll have to stick to like a low profile CPU cooler or go liquid. Oh boy, 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:20.319 the included NZXT cable on this cooler is very long. But the neat thing is that 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.720 they are using a single connector that's going to have your RGB, your power, 00:07:21.840 --> 00:07:29.120 everything for your fan. So you don't have to deal with any like gross cables plugging into this head, which again is 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:33.440 freaking massive. Finally getting our motherboard in. So far so good. It's 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:37.440 been pretty easy to work in here. Again, lots of space, easy access. All the 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:41.680 panels come off, so we haven't really had to concern ourselves with trying to 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:45.120 get around any tricky corners. And looking ahead right now, just for when I 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:51.280 have to do cable management and stuff, it's going to be pretty easy for me to route the CPU connector that I totally 00:07:48.479 --> 00:07:56.000 forgot to connect beforehand, which is a pro tip. something you should do. Oh, 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:59.520 they even have a little hole right here so you can reach a screwdriver through 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:03.759 to screw in that last motherboard standoff. I don't have a thin enough 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:07.199 screwdriver cuz we got thick shafts over here at LMG. We're about to put the 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:10.479 radiator in and it is getting uh pretty nightmarish in here. We have a lot of 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:15.599 extra long cables that are designed for fulls size cases and we're in a small case. Thankfully, NZXT kind of 00:08:13.919 --> 00:08:20.160 thoughtfully designed around that big extra part on their radiator. So, it 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:24.160 does fit in just nicely, especially in the optimal orientation that we have 00:08:21.919 --> 00:08:28.160 here. As I said, you can do your best to make it as easy 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:32.000 as possible, but there's no way to make it 00:08:29.919 --> 00:08:35.760 truly truly easy when it comes to SFFF. There's always some frustrations, but it 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.599 will feel oh so satisfying when it's all done. We got everything in here. It's 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:43.919 been lightly cable managed. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but, you 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:50.640 know, gets the job done. Let's find out if it works. 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:52.399 Oh. Oo, look at the CPU cooler. We'll 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:58.920 have to rotate it 90° in the software, but like jeez, that's such a big screen. 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:58.920 And finally, 00:08:58.959 --> 00:09:05.440 what the hell is What the hell is that? 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:08.800 Yeah. Oh. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:12.480 Oh, there's a residue. I hope that that 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:13.920 Oh, I'm making it so much worse. NZXT, 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:18.080 don't look at this. It's a darkened side panel and I think that that kind of 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:21.040 really does a lot for covering up the inevitable cable clutter that you're 00:09:19.680 --> 00:09:25.680 going to have in here. It almost makes me wish we didn't route our tubes around 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:29.600 the CPU cooler so that we could show off our RGB RAM, but it looks pretty cool. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:36.160 Overall thoughts on this thing, it's pretty neat. It is relatively easy to 00:09:32.959 --> 00:09:37.839 build in. The mesh plus the darkened 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:42.720 tempered glass side panel make it a little bit easier to hide your cables 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:47.120 and really let your RGB shine through. Instead, the airflow looks like it's not 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:53.440 going to be any sort of problem. We currently have it pulling in through the front and exhausting out the top, but 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:55.680 you also have tons of passive dispersion 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:00.240 through the back. There is nowhere to mount any fans here. What would have 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:05.279 been cool, but I understand why they didn't do it, but you're probably going to see modders do it, is if mounting 00:10:02.560 --> 00:10:09.279 like some small like 40 or 50 mm fans to the side here. In terms of GPUs that it 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:13.279 can accommodate, if you have a flowth through GPU, you might find that you 00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:20.320 your temps are a little bit hampered, but there is about 15 mm of clearance between the back panel and the actual 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:23.600 GPU itself, which in other cases has been enough to provide decent 00:10:22.160 --> 00:10:29.279 ventilation that doesn't choke people off. We actually have a video coming on LT that we did with NASA that may or may 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:33.440 not confirm that you should be okay with a flowthrough cooler. Uh we still have a 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:36.320 decent amount of room for a larger GPU. We got a little bit of extra length, 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:38.800 just a little bit, as well as more height. The trade-off you're making for 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:45.760 having the smaller footprint on your desk is that you have a kind of taller tower, but it looks classy enough. It's 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:51.279 kind of got the iconic very square angular look of NZXT. In terms of things 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:55.360 that could be improved though, I really only have a couple of small things. One 00:10:52.880 --> 00:11:01.360 is that it would be more cable tie mounts on the back side of the 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:03.279 motherboard and shorter IO cables. The 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:07.360 uh front IO cables are just really long and end up being quite a burden to deal 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:12.399 with. It's pretty sick and at 150 bucks, it's a very competitive for an SFX case. 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:17.440 It's not the smallest case, but if you're somebody who has some larger 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:18.880 components, especially GPUs, um it's 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:23.279 going to be easier to transition to this instead of spending a lot of money on 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:26.000 finding like the very few uh models that will fit in like a 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:29.839 Fractal Terra. At this point, clear to me that a lot of thought has been put into this case, even down to like where 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.360 the GPU is mounted. There's enough vertical space that you can have larger 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:36.079 HDMI and DisplayPort connectors without having like scary tight bends. 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:41.519 Especially if it's a computer that you're going to be dragging. Sometimes you can really, really ruin DisplayPort 00:11:40.079 --> 00:11:45.839 cables and or even the ports on your GPU. This one has thought about that. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:50.160 It's thought about where you're going to put all of your components. It's a really nice case. Looks really slick. 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:53.680 It's really cool to see NZXT coming back and and smashing it. Honestly, 00:11:51.839 --> 00:11:56.800 unsponsored opinion, I'll say that much. Thank you, NZXT, for sponsoring. And 00:11:55.360 --> 00:12:00.079 thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this, why don't you check out uh some of 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.720 the short circuits we've done on some NZXT accessories. Those were also pretty 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:04.720 neat.