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fantex enu Primo you guys have been asking me for this for a while and here
it is we're going to start with packaging it comes in a box which you
may or may not have expected it's also got some nice soft Clos cell foam
because of how heavy this case is and especially how heavy it's going to be
once it's Laden with Hardware like man this thing's heavy I wouldn't have
minded seeing a little bit thicker foam like what Silverstone does on some of
their higher end cases but it should pretty much arrive in one piece even
with a system inside in most cases let's start with the accessories inside the
little accessory box that's included you get a radiator bracket so this allows
you to install up to a dual 120 mm Radiator on the side if you're willing
to remove the hard drive cages don't worry there will still be SSD mounts you
also get a nice little Kit full of screws it's got little compartments for
all the different kinds of screws that come with the case actually it's amazing
how many different kinds of screws are used on this case it actually has more
than the 10 compartments worth of different screws which I discovered when
I undid the this thing right here the reservoir mounting bracket that was
actually inside in the first place because it was unfortunately useless if
you have a gaming grade graphics card that's sort of a normal length then it's
going to interfere with that anyway the good news is that there are other places
that you can mount your radiator without any difficulty finally finally we've got
the rest of the accessories here we've got two little foam pieces in case you
want to install a second power supply in the U primo and then some zip ties as
well as two more velcro straps in addition to the ones that are inside the
case so let's start with the outside the front of the case actually I didn't
really like it that much before it was powered on and before it had an entire
system in it it's got a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish now this is a bit of a
double-edged sword because it looks great out of the box but if you get fingerprints on it it can stain over
time so just make sure you're careful with it it has a blue LED strip
Illuminating not only the front but also the top and then if you remove the front
cover it's actually got two blue LED fans that give a very pleasing glow to
the front of the case as well the great news about all these LEDs is that you
can actually toggle them on and off with a switch that's built into the front of
the case you've also got an extremely Solid 5 and 1/4 in bay door up at the
front that conceals five 5 and a/4 in base it has a very solid feel to it and
closes with a satisfying thunk because it is
magnetized so quite like the front of the case the last thing to note about
the front is that that removable piece that gives us access to those fans has a
removable cleanable fan filter that's got kind of a complex design to it you
would just I guess run the whole thing underwater as opposed to removing the
actual filter from the front piece because the way it's constructed allows
the front uh bottom air vents like the kind of the side front bottom air vents
to intake air and still have it be filtered in addition to any air that's
coming through the front of the case which brings us to the top which is also
gorgeous you know brushed aluminum finish two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0
ports that have little rubber you know covers on them that will get lost
immediately Power reset switch as well as that LED control switch that controls
not only the LEDs on those front fans and the LED strip but also can control
additional LED fans in the case there's actually a bunch of lead I believe
there's four additional leads inside the case and it can control control your
internal case lighting because it has a Molex connector that it Powers as well
so you could have your interior lighting and you could hook up pretty much whatever you want to it and have the
whole thing turn on and off with the push of a switch speaking of pushing we
can remove the top fan filter just like that go ahead and clean that or do
whatever it is you need to do with it this also reveals a ton of space at the
top for fans and radiators you can do up to three 140 mm fans or four 120 mm fans
and because there's enough clearance between the top of the internals and the
top of the and the bottom of this fan filter you can actually do a push pull
configuration with a quad Radiator in here quite comfortably in fact the enthu
Primo is a water cooling a water Cooler's wet dream so to speak because
of all the options that are available in it so let's go around to the right hand
side where we find not a whole lot of much of anything there's two 120 mm fan
mounts these are mostly only going to be used if you do decide to install that
optional bracket or I shouldn't say Mounds I mean two you know holes two
ventilation holes there's also a ventilation hole for the power supply
intake the power supply only goes in well one of the power supplies only goes
in one way in this case on the left hand side we have two little Windows one that
reveals a fantex logo and that's pretty much about it other than that it's just
kind of a a stealth uh panel there across the 3 and 1/2 in Drive cages
and the cool thing about that fantex logo is you can actually replace it quite easily it's held on with screws
from the backside so you can put them whenever you want and then a nice large
sort of U tinted window that gives you a
nice look at your not your power supply ah yes it has a bit of an unusual
internal layout so all it really shows you is your motherboard as well as your
graphics cards and that kind of cool stuff so the slightly different internal
L let's go ahead and oh boy this thing's heavy I'm going to try and move it
around a little bit here so you you can see that the power supply is actually vertical that's what allows you to
install up to two power supplies in the case you can also put a 120 or 140 mm
fan here at the back should you so desire there's another Reservoir Mount
here thankfully so that original one that wasn't very good we don't have to use that also at the back we've got
either a one 120 or 140 mm fan Mount you can go ahead and slide that up and down
as needed the last thing I do want to show about the outside is oh wow it's
heavy ouch got my finger even more
removable fan filters so you go ahead and click these ones down here on the
bottom and they slide out from the side this reveals ah yes you can have up to a
triple or rather quadruple 120 mm uh
radiator mounted in the bottom as well
so that gives you two 480 mm RADS both
with filters and potential for awesomeness of course you would have to
remove the 3 and 1/2 in Drive cages if you wanted to do that now the fans that
are included with the case not the greatest you know work mhip ever they
have a bit of a quite a bit of flex to them they don't feel like the greatest
thing but fantex does include five of them which is pretty generous
considering the cases large feature Rich and cost
$249.99 I don't usually mention pricing but cases don't change much so there you
go um the good news about them is that especially with the included fan
controller they are quite quiet so I was overall pleased with the included fan
quality and quantity so there's two 140s in the front one 140 in the bottom a 140
in the back and finally a 140 in the top this is kind of funny I have an h100i
that I've managed to install in the system so there's another 100 sort
slightly less than 120 mm Gap here and then there's two 120s over here in the 5
and 1/4 inch Bay there's a 140 here manag to install that without even
removing any of the stock fans so we still have all of the original air
cooling which is sort of funny to me the
manual is great because it gives you a couple of useful matrices there's one
for uh radiator installation so it gives you a little check checklist of where
all the different radiators fit and all that good stuff it also gives you a
little Matrix for all the different places you can put Fen so while it's not
as good as someone like silverstone's manuals where they actually walk you
through the entire process of building in it I'd say it's complete enough to
give you a good idea of what you are up against now I say up against but
experienced Builders really won't have that much of a challenge the side panels
are unexceptional on the inside except you can see that the one with the two
120 mm vent spots on it is actually blocked by default so you can go ahead
pull that off if you do decide to mount fans or a radiator there um now why it's
not challenging is because they actually do a lot of the wiring for you so we're
going to go ahead and move around to the back check this out I love the way that
fantex has done most of the cable management out of the box so they've got
their nice little velcro ties which are all down here all down here for the
eight pin across here for the bottom where you're going to run your USB 2
your front panel audio and all that good stuff and they've also got a ton of the
other little standard hoop and look Loop tie off
things um that go along with the zip ties that they've included actually
gives you a ton of cable management options but I didn't undo most of it all
I really did was I took the fans out of here and then I routed them all here to
the integrated fan controller this can support up to 11 fans that are all
controlled via pwm and it actually works incredibly well more on that in a little
while so I routed all the fans there I routed my 24 pin my four PCI Express
connectors up here there's a reason I installed two graphics cards in this
system I wanted to see if there was going to be enough clearance here to be
able to run two graphics card worth of PCIe cables and a 24 pin and USB 3 and
all that stuff and there was and then I just um doubled back with a couple of
these ones to where they needed to go and that was pretty much it other than that cable management is a breeze in
here and even though I didn't do a great job of managing things uh you know
carefully up the side here or laying things flat and and utilizing the back
of the motherboard tray better it looks incredibly clean and looks great from
the front now this is something that I
sometimes feel really good about and sometimes don't feel as good about something that I
I sometimes bothers me about Corsair's cases is that they don't leave much room
for flexibility they come meant to be wired a certain way and everyone's build
will look great in it and that's fantastic but everyone's build will kind
of look the same fantex has taken that approach with a lot of the pre-wiring
but they haven't gone too far down that path you have a lot of options you can
actually remove the 3 and 1/2 in Bays here you can actually remove the 5 and
a/4 in bail though you will need to drill out some rivets if you want to do
that and you can just fill the bloody thing with radiators you can uh you can
put your power supply on the other side you can still do things differently it's
just that I generally wouldn't really recommend it because the way that they have it wired up here is quite nice
installing the power supply was like the easiest thing ever you just kind of drop
it in there there's a lot of space to work with next to the power supply here
unless you install a pump on the included pump anti vibration rubber pad
which is awesome it happens to have the correct holes for the Lang D5 or
swifttech mCP 6 655 which is my personal
favorite pump nothing else really matters to me it's great to see that
included there's also more room for a reservoir over here should you so desire
if you're going to remove those 3 and 1/2 in cages installing drives as a snap
actually it's a kind of a really smart little system here so they have two
little nubbins here and here and then they have these wings that come out see
these snap out and then what you do is you just put the drive on click them
into place there's no ending there's no flexing there's no goofy stuff like that
and once you put it in it actually feels very very solid the one thing that
doesn't feel that solid about the 3 and 1/2 in cages is the entire cage assembly
itself they've made it modular so you can actually move it closer to those two
140 mm fans at the front to give yourself some more space over here you
can take them out entirely but I feel like it could have used a little bit
more reinforcement the other drives that I installed I put a single 2 and 1/2 in
SSD in to one of their little uh
removable brackets here now these little 2 and2 in Brackets can take up to two
drives each but I think in in a practical sort of unless you're buying
adapter so you're going to need to make sure you use straight cables you might have trouble putting two drives in them
so uh Beware of that and then the other thing I didn't like about these was the
fact that they don't screw in in any way there's nice little rubber grommets that
they go ahead and clip into quite nicely and mostly you're going to be installing
ssds in there so even if in shipping uh a drive came flying off and rattling
around it would probably be fine if you ever put a hard drive there or if the
SSD manag to like come loose and whack something I don't know I I don't like
things that don't at least have the option to screw in the cool thing about
this in terms of options is that you can go ahead and you can install it here on the back of the motherboard tray if you
want rather than over there so you've got two brackets with up to three
different places that you can install them moving around to the front the
amount of space in this case is just very obvious and apparent I went with a
sort of air cooled and then all-in-one liquid cooled configuration but you can
do pretty much anything with this thing in fact there were a couple of really
cool build logs that I found on Linus Tech tips Forum as well as overclock.net
uh one where the uh the bloke actually
put RADS in the bottom front and top and then manag to hide all of the tubing
without even being able to see it and then the one on the line is Tech tips
Forum was quite exceptional as well and it shows the creativity that this case
does allow the fact that there is adequate Cable Management room for up to
four graphics cards they do have eight PCI slots in the back and then the fact
that you can put an eat motherboard in here these are all very very positive
things and uh I think they've managed to make room for all of that without having
it be full of empty space like something like the Cosmos 2 um tends to be in the
bottom here by default you can put uh nice thick radiator or you can actually
even slip a fan in the back here if you want and I think that's pretty much all
there is to say about it tool is 5 and a/4 inch Drive cages lots of cable
management grommets and that's that's pretty much it for the inside so um
cooling with air is actually very awesome and this is actually it's time
to do my little demo here so check this out guys um the fact that it includes
that pwm fan controller is really cool so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to intentionally let my CPU overheat by
undoing two of the thumb screws here now this isn't something that I necessarily
recommend you can hear the system in my lab it's running very quietly right now
so I'm going to go ahead and detach this and without providing any additional
power to the adapter on the back to that fan controller um and you should check
the fantex website to make that your motherboard supports that I can pull
this off and listen to
this the entire case Works harder to
keep that CPU cool and now when I go ahead and pop the block back on there
the entire thing is going to quiet down again this is an out standing little
feature and then the uh the LED control is also fantastic as well overall what
do I have to say about the enu Primo very solid case considering the
price the build quality is what I consider to be what you would expect you
can see where they've spent money on things like the gorgeous aluminum finish
on the front and the top um as well as on the tooling and the design that
enables them to bring all this functionality into what is a fairly reasonable size when you consider how
much stuff you can put into it I don't personally like the weight and I find it
a little bit difficult to move around but for some people that'll be much less
of a concern love the flexibility that it affords I think the looks are going
to be a take it or leave it depending on how you feel about the you know the the
two- tiered like kind of stepped look to the top as well as the kind of busy and
yet black and monolithic looking front but overall I quite like it I think it
looks much better in person than it is than it does in pictures and videos and
it looks much better once you've actually got a rig in it and you can appreciate the efficient use of the
space so overall definitely a thumbs up for fantex on this one and I look
forward to seeing the enu duo or whatever more enus we might get in the
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