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welcome to my long overdue unboxing of the phantom 410 crafted mid-tower

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chassis from nzxt this is basically like

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the phantom but more smaller um and we're gonna go ahead and open this bad

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boy up and take a take a look at it if you guys remember my original video you

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probably already know that i am a big

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fan of the nzxt phantom i think it's a fantastic case i think it is by far out

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of all of their cases so far with okay

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at the time of release i thought it was by far their best case although i would

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say that they shoot what is that one over there because i really like this

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one ah this is the tempest ah the tempest 410

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or four something the tempest for whatever it is is also a

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phenomenal case but because i've loved the phantom

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original so much i am very very excited

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to take a look at this slightly smaller more compact version of it so let's go

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ahead open this thing up it comes in a fairly

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thick oh that's actually right quite a thick foam although this is a hard foam

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i do prefer softer foams because they are more

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resilient to multiple impacts or more resilient to

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more resistant to multiple impacts more resilient against multiple impacts but

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not resilient too um

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and just a second someone's at the door sorry guys that was the crazy russian

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bringing back one of my crazy video cards that he borrowed so here we find a

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very very much well actually i'm very surprised at how much smaller this is

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than the original phantom this is definitely a mid-tower case whereas the

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phantom was more of a full power case and

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i have to say that without looking closer at it which i have not done yet i

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have to wonder if there's enough space in here for the kind of epically awesome

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gaming hardware that i would want to put inside a case that looks as slick as

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this one does so let's go ahead remove all these

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plastic bits and let's have a look at the outside first before we really get

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any further so the front looks pretty much uh very similar to the original

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phantom i'm gonna have to figure out how this

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opens because i'm not really sure

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you guys oh there we go yeah so it's a clicky device okay just press on there

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so we've got three five and a quarter inch base

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okay front ventilation looks really good we've got a 120 millimeter fan that not

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only has full access to this grille in front of it but also has unrestricted

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airflow from the bottom as well so you're not going to have to worry about

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whether that fan is going to be starved and there's also no grill directly in

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front of it so that is going to make it operate quieter as well as making it

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capable of pushing more airflow although it is restricted on the other side of it

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so once we open it up we'll see how much overall restriction there is also

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looking at the bottom you can see it's lifted quite a fair bit off of the table

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or whatever surface that it's sitting on this is an awesome design decision

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because it means that this fan hole right here as well as the fan for the

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power supply are not going to be starved for air because they'll have air coming

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in from both sides here in order to um to cool whatever components are on the

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other side so rubber feet here keep it from slipping around and let's go ahead

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and make our way up the top so here's our power led as well as our hard drive

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led power switch and reset switcher right here we've got our headphones and

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microphone jacks two usb 2 two usb 3 and

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then a built-in fan controller just like the original phantom one two three

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settings and on the top we find tons of

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ventilation space those look like 140 mil fans yep that's a 140 mil fan and

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another 140 millimeter fan slot although this p this case does not look to be

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capable of hold oh no it is okay well we'll get to that after that we have a

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side window which right now has plastic on the other side of it so it's not as

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transparent as it will be as well as side ventilation so you can put either a

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120 or a 140 millimeter fan right here i

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want to take a moment for you guys to have a look at how closely they've

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managed to match the color actually up here is probably a better example how

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closely they've matched the color and finish between the painted surfaces and

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the plastic surfaces this is very difficult to do during the manufacturing

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process and they've done a fantastic job with this one as well as with the

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original phantom on the back we've got a 120 mil cooling fan water cooling

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grommets although most people won't use those a little bit more ventilation a

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bottom mounted power supply seven slots and that pretty much does it so let's

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use the thumb screws here to open this guy up

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and i'm gonna need my screwdriver

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all right so let's get these side panels off

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overall construction feels pretty good that's encouraging

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i mean you can usually tell a little something about the middle of the case

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get it metal

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by taking a close look at the side panels

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oh man i'm funny okay uh let's so

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there's been a few screws rolling around inside this case while we've been doing

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this uh unboxing so i'm gonna try and

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figure out where these came from although oh i think i know where they're

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from wow i think they managed to come out of here

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fascinating so those are your five and a quarter inch drive mounting screws yeah

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you can tell because they use uh they use the smaller threading so you use the

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toolless mechanism and then if you're actually planning to ship the system

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anywhere so here's your tool list

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however it works hold on i think it comes up like yeah okay oh

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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

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there we go press on there to lift up the clips on this side so you just put

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your additional screw in here in order to secure the drive in the event that

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it's gonna you know be banged around during shipping or whatever else

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okay now the next thing i want to do is see if i can figure out how to remove

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the top okay you know what we'll do that later we've also got some included accessories we've got an included zip

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tie here we have six three and a half inch bay devices

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and they're loaded from the back fascinating although this top piece can come out

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entirely if you take out these screws um

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wow there's actually a lot of features here so we're gonna have to just take it

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slow go one by one i'm gonna try not to get distracted here guys

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and let's get the last of those screws out there we go

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so three and a half inch bays there we go you can see they are completely

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tool-less you just flex them open like that put the drive in and slide the

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whole cage back into the case they're also compatible with two and a half inch

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drives using these mounting holes here i definitely prefer this system to other

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ones that just use two pieces on either side and don't have compatibility for

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two and a half inch devices on this side you can see the other screw holes for

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the five and a quarter inch base as well as these pressure mounts which uh add

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some resistance when you're inserting the drive so that you can easily use the

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tool-less mounting option here we have our bottom three and a quarter three and

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a half inch drive cages and i'm going to flip it back around

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to show you guys why those are important because this top piece comes out

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entirely in order to accommodate graphics cards that are the almost the

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entire length of this chassis so that is a very very cool feature you can also

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remember i talked about how restrictive the airflow was at the front of the case

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for that front fan so we're going to go ahead and remove the front bezel just so

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that you guys can have a closer look at what i was talking about there here we

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go come on

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there we go two and three

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front bezel comes off so you guys can see what i'm talking about here because

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these cages are a little on the restrictive side however

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you can install an additional 120 millimeter fan which is going to give

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you some more airflow there you are going to be able to push some air

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through them and then in order to get more static pressure going on you can

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also install an additional fan whether

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you want it to be a 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter on this side to give you

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some additional flow towards your graphics card or cards assuming that you

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have the space so most graphics cards i mean look this is a performance card

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this is a 6970 or 6950 rather

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most graphics cards once i install that is going to have just enough room for

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that fan to go on the inside and be installed however if you're putting

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something crazy like a 6990 in there then you're gonna run into trouble

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potentially okay so this is just the piece that

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allows us to pull that out here we have our CPU cutout

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here we have our top mounted 140 mil fan this can be replaced with either dual

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140 mils or dual 120 mils and if you

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wanted to mount a radiator i wonder if you could get away with it

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it looks like you could so check this out so if we remove

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so because i don't have a dual 120mm rad

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handy i'm going to use a quad in order to provide a simulation of how this will

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work so you can see all these different mounting holes they have here that's so

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that you can accommodate either the dual 140s which are these outside ones or

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dual 120s with a radiator so you see this cutout right here

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that is so that the radiator sits with the barb side down right here

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lines up perfectly i can tell from here that it's just fine and then all you do

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is you put your case top back on and the radiator sits down

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there the fans continue to go where they already did

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so that's on the inside of the case and now you are cooling your radiator you

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have a liquid cooled computer and they haven't wasted any space in this case

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overall because like i said due to the small size of it i wasn't sure how much

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hardware we were going to be able to put in here but it looks like the answer is

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a whole lot because you can see they've made it just a little bit bulkier in the

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back so you have that space that ghetto booty so to speak bulkier in

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the back for the dual 120 millimeter uh

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radiator and if you have a 240 millimeter radiator i definitely envy you so uh

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let's go ahead and take a look at the motherboard tray we've got our cable

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management grommets right here here and here we've also got a cutout right here

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for the eight pin connector i wouldn't mind seeing that widened a little bit

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although hey there's one here as well okay there you go so you'll be able to

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reach whether the eight pin connectors more in the middle of the board or more at the edge good thinking nzxt

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uh standard atx seven expansion slots

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i think we're getting pretty darn close to the end of this although it's got a lot of different features hey guys

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all right uh what do we got here

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okay we got power for the built-in fan speed controller we've got

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four leads for the built-in fan speed controller very nice we've got our front

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panel connectors our front usb connector our front usb 2 and finally our front hd

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audio i think that covers it this is an awesome little chassis i'm going to give

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it my gold star of approval and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the

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nzxt phantom 410 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more

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