welcome to my long overdue unboxing of the phantom 410 crafted mid-tower
chassis from nzxt this is basically like
the phantom but more smaller um and we're gonna go ahead and open this bad
boy up and take a take a look at it if you guys remember my original video you
probably already know that i am a big
fan of the nzxt phantom i think it's a fantastic case i think it is by far out
of all of their cases so far with okay
at the time of release i thought it was by far their best case although i would
say that they shoot what is that one over there because i really like this
one ah this is the tempest ah the tempest 410
or four something the tempest for whatever it is is also a
phenomenal case but because i've loved the phantom
original so much i am very very excited
to take a look at this slightly smaller more compact version of it so let's go
ahead open this thing up it comes in a fairly
thick oh that's actually right quite a thick foam although this is a hard foam
i do prefer softer foams because they are more
resilient to multiple impacts or more resilient to
more resistant to multiple impacts more resilient against multiple impacts but
not resilient too um
and just a second someone's at the door sorry guys that was the crazy russian
bringing back one of my crazy video cards that he borrowed so here we find a
very very much well actually i'm very surprised at how much smaller this is
than the original phantom this is definitely a mid-tower case whereas the
phantom was more of a full power case and
i have to say that without looking closer at it which i have not done yet i
have to wonder if there's enough space in here for the kind of epically awesome
gaming hardware that i would want to put inside a case that looks as slick as
this one does so let's go ahead remove all these
plastic bits and let's have a look at the outside first before we really get
any further so the front looks pretty much uh very similar to the original
phantom i'm gonna have to figure out how this
opens because i'm not really sure
you guys oh there we go yeah so it's a clicky device okay just press on there
so we've got three five and a quarter inch base
okay front ventilation looks really good we've got a 120 millimeter fan that not
only has full access to this grille in front of it but also has unrestricted
airflow from the bottom as well so you're not going to have to worry about
whether that fan is going to be starved and there's also no grill directly in
front of it so that is going to make it operate quieter as well as making it
capable of pushing more airflow although it is restricted on the other side of it
so once we open it up we'll see how much overall restriction there is also
looking at the bottom you can see it's lifted quite a fair bit off of the table
or whatever surface that it's sitting on this is an awesome design decision
because it means that this fan hole right here as well as the fan for the
power supply are not going to be starved for air because they'll have air coming
in from both sides here in order to um to cool whatever components are on the
other side so rubber feet here keep it from slipping around and let's go ahead
and make our way up the top so here's our power led as well as our hard drive
led power switch and reset switcher right here we've got our headphones and
microphone jacks two usb 2 two usb 3 and
then a built-in fan controller just like the original phantom one two three
settings and on the top we find tons of
ventilation space those look like 140 mil fans yep that's a 140 mil fan and
another 140 millimeter fan slot although this p this case does not look to be
capable of hold oh no it is okay well we'll get to that after that we have a
side window which right now has plastic on the other side of it so it's not as
transparent as it will be as well as side ventilation so you can put either a
120 or a 140 millimeter fan right here i
want to take a moment for you guys to have a look at how closely they've
managed to match the color actually up here is probably a better example how
closely they've matched the color and finish between the painted surfaces and
the plastic surfaces this is very difficult to do during the manufacturing
process and they've done a fantastic job with this one as well as with the
original phantom on the back we've got a 120 mil cooling fan water cooling
grommets although most people won't use those a little bit more ventilation a
bottom mounted power supply seven slots and that pretty much does it so let's
use the thumb screws here to open this guy up
and i'm gonna need my screwdriver
all right so let's get these side panels off
overall construction feels pretty good that's encouraging
i mean you can usually tell a little something about the middle of the case
get it metal
by taking a close look at the side panels
oh man i'm funny okay uh let's so
there's been a few screws rolling around inside this case while we've been doing
this uh unboxing so i'm gonna try and
figure out where these came from although oh i think i know where they're
from wow i think they managed to come out of here
fascinating so those are your five and a quarter inch drive mounting screws yeah
you can tell because they use uh they use the smaller threading so you use the
toolless mechanism and then if you're actually planning to ship the system
anywhere so here's your tool list
however it works hold on i think it comes up like yeah okay oh
yeah yeah you just lift it up and then you slide the drive in and then it pops into place and then you press on here ah
there we go press on there to lift up the clips on this side so you just put
your additional screw in here in order to secure the drive in the event that
it's gonna you know be banged around during shipping or whatever else
okay now the next thing i want to do is see if i can figure out how to remove
the top okay you know what we'll do that later we've also got some included accessories we've got an included zip
tie here we have six three and a half inch bay devices
and they're loaded from the back fascinating although this top piece can come out
entirely if you take out these screws um
wow there's actually a lot of features here so we're gonna have to just take it
slow go one by one i'm gonna try not to get distracted here guys
and let's get the last of those screws out there we go
so three and a half inch bays there we go you can see they are completely
tool-less you just flex them open like that put the drive in and slide the
whole cage back into the case they're also compatible with two and a half inch
drives using these mounting holes here i definitely prefer this system to other
ones that just use two pieces on either side and don't have compatibility for
two and a half inch devices on this side you can see the other screw holes for
the five and a quarter inch base as well as these pressure mounts which uh add
some resistance when you're inserting the drive so that you can easily use the
tool-less mounting option here we have our bottom three and a quarter three and
a half inch drive cages and i'm going to flip it back around
to show you guys why those are important because this top piece comes out
entirely in order to accommodate graphics cards that are the almost the
entire length of this chassis so that is a very very cool feature you can also
remember i talked about how restrictive the airflow was at the front of the case
for that front fan so we're going to go ahead and remove the front bezel just so
that you guys can have a closer look at what i was talking about there here we
go come on
there we go two and three
front bezel comes off so you guys can see what i'm talking about here because
these cages are a little on the restrictive side however
you can install an additional 120 millimeter fan which is going to give
you some more airflow there you are going to be able to push some air
through them and then in order to get more static pressure going on you can
also install an additional fan whether
you want it to be a 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter on this side to give you
some additional flow towards your graphics card or cards assuming that you
have the space so most graphics cards i mean look this is a performance card
this is a 6970 or 6950 rather
most graphics cards once i install that is going to have just enough room for
that fan to go on the inside and be installed however if you're putting
something crazy like a 6990 in there then you're gonna run into trouble
potentially okay so this is just the piece that
allows us to pull that out here we have our CPU cutout
here we have our top mounted 140 mil fan this can be replaced with either dual
140 mils or dual 120 mils and if you
wanted to mount a radiator i wonder if you could get away with it
it looks like you could so check this out so if we remove
so because i don't have a dual 120mm rad
handy i'm going to use a quad in order to provide a simulation of how this will
work so you can see all these different mounting holes they have here that's so
that you can accommodate either the dual 140s which are these outside ones or
dual 120s with a radiator so you see this cutout right here
that is so that the radiator sits with the barb side down right here
lines up perfectly i can tell from here that it's just fine and then all you do
is you put your case top back on and the radiator sits down
there the fans continue to go where they already did
so that's on the inside of the case and now you are cooling your radiator you
have a liquid cooled computer and they haven't wasted any space in this case
overall because like i said due to the small size of it i wasn't sure how much
hardware we were going to be able to put in here but it looks like the answer is
a whole lot because you can see they've made it just a little bit bulkier in the
back so you have that space that ghetto booty so to speak bulkier in
the back for the dual 120 millimeter uh
radiator and if you have a 240 millimeter radiator i definitely envy you so uh
let's go ahead and take a look at the motherboard tray we've got our cable
management grommets right here here and here we've also got a cutout right here
for the eight pin connector i wouldn't mind seeing that widened a little bit
although hey there's one here as well okay there you go so you'll be able to
reach whether the eight pin connectors more in the middle of the board or more at the edge good thinking nzxt
uh standard atx seven expansion slots
i think we're getting pretty darn close to the end of this although it's got a lot of different features hey guys
all right uh what do we got here
okay we got power for the built-in fan speed controller we've got
four leads for the built-in fan speed controller very nice we've got our front
panel connectors our front usb connector our front usb 2 and finally our front hd
audio i think that covers it this is an awesome little chassis i'm going to give
it my gold star of approval and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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