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this is the old nzxt h510 and i hate

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this case it looks great don't get me wrong but oh my god the airflow like all

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you've got is a strip here you've got this room for one fan on the

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top like i think that might be room for a 140 but it's not enough it's come on

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especially with you know the 30 series and your ryzen 5000 processors like you

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need some more if you want to air cool anything even liquid cool like what are

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you going to do you're going to put a whole radiator like across the top here no because that's just

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solid casing and this is just not even usable so today

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let's get the bad guy out of the way today we've got the h510 flow

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get it for airflow nzxt gets it

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oh come on please it's a locking mechanism is it actually

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this is based off the h510 elite so there's some slight differences but not

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a whole lot so i haven't even actually built in

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one of these because i don't like i avoid them i think they look amazing but

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like i said like i tend to air cool everything

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here's the big new front mesh panel that they've got here and it looks good

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they've got like a little actual filter behind the

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front mesh part of it here we'll try to take that off

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later and see how easy it is to clean the filter out they still haven't

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changed this top here which is kind of a problem

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basically a lot of aios you don't want the 120 millimeter they're not big

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enough i mean they're big enough if you have a smaller CPU i guess but you want

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to leave some headroom so just go to 240. like honestly i don't i don't think

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people should really bother with the 120 mils uh i don't use mini aios so i could

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be wrong but can you just mount the radiator in the front of the case yes

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jono you could just mount the radiator in the front of the case but sometimes

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it's not that easy right like sometimes it's a lot cleaner if you can mount it

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on the top because the tubes just go straight up and you can hide all the wiring really easily whereas on the

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front you've got the tubes going like all the way across or all the way along the bottom i'm just not a fan it's a

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preference thing but hey you do you back still comes off no problem it's just

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captive thumb screws which is always nice some manufacturers have moved to more

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tool-less designs recently and i mean that's always preferable but

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hey captive is good too there it is yep

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so that just pops off internal bracket this looks like it can be removed yeah

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if you take these thumb screws off and so you can mount stuff out of the case

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really easily on a radiator mount like that

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so yeah the old one i mean it might be a little hard to see because the tint of glass but it's got that too so i'm

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having trouble finding what the big differences are nzxt probably just took

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a whole bunch of their old cases that hadn't sold yet grabbed the front and

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drilled them through no i'm kidding they they've done some work here to actually

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like make this filter accessible i'm guessing oh hey okay so yeah that's

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pretty easy actually that is nice i take it back they've done a good job here i

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mean it's tool-less and you can just like pop it on pop it off it just comes

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out like this cool there you go you got your filter

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you've got your mesh front pretty much everyone's started uh

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making these mesh fronts at least a year or two ago nzxt does make a really

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pretty case so it's okay that they took a little longer to catch up for the

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riley's and the minimalists of you out there you say that but then look it's

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got like nzxt branding i don't know i'm just kind of against branding i mean i

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say that but i'm wearing you know hey the new dad hats these are great you should pick these up i don't like the

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old caps because they're too big for my head but these guys are just right they do still have the branding on the front

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it all depends on how much you care about like showing off brand logos and

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stuff it's still got their same like cable running stuff here they're

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cable ties that you can close up on them and stuff you've got your SSD mounts

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your front i o they've just got a full panel header this is even better please

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every case manufacturer out there if you don't switch to just a preset or power

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switch at least put it all in here this thing is pretty nice don't get me wrong

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but the perfect case for me is probably i'm a big fan of fractal and phanteks

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but i also air cool everything i just i know it's relatively safe i mean not

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even relatively it's safe these days especially aios i grew up with people

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water cooling with the most jank setups in like the early 2000s and stuff you

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know you're seeing like home hardware hardware and it's just like no i don't

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want to do that ever and you hear all these forum posts about oh my god my

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build leaked and i don't know what to do so what i do instead is i just air cool

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everything because it's not going to fail and you know air cooling is going to get your hardware to a pretty nice

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and cool space most of the time unless you're trying to do some crazy overclocking or something like that my

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favorite case would probably be the new meshfy 2 maybe even the compact version

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those are really nice anything by phanteks is typically pretty good as

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well like the p500a or the p500a digital i think the p600a is probably coming out

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soon too so keep your eyes posted for that i guess

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once again i'm still really disappointed that they haven't added more mesh up

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here to let me put a radiator up top because i typically go uh two or three

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fans in the front and then two up top and then one in the back for like

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that kind of air cooling don't think of this as a new case you need to upgrade

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to think of it as nzxt cases are as well

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the h510 specifically is finally viable for air cooling at least if you get the

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flow version and you don't want to drill through it comes with one fan in the

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front and one fan in the back so that's pretty standard for most cases these

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days that are worth more than like 60 dollars really uh you should get a fan

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or two at least coming with it otherwise yeah i mean let's just throw stuff in

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in here somewhere and it fell out while we were handling the case it seems bare

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bones they have a bunch of cables what are these for oh okay so they do have

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another front panel header thing maybe if you've got an itx board or something like that and it's a little harder to

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reach you can just add this on there we're not going to use it because

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they've given us this nice front panel connector and then this is a splitter

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looks like an audio splitter i'm honestly not sure why they would

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include this with a case this is typically something that would come with like your headphones or

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your speakers or something like that but hey maybe they're just like let's give

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them all the accessibility attachments this is a big manual

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that gives me a lot of useful information that i don't need to know

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yeah okay so the cage comes in pre-installed uh oh and it screws okay

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that's great so these guys are for the HDD cages which makes it

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really really easy to just pull them out if you don't need them because guess

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what it's 20 21 and yeah hard drives some people still use them but me

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personally i'm trying to go to all SSD or even m.2 NVMe ssds

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but let's remove them why not yeah i'm not taking that okay so uh

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small thing nzxt at the factory really screws these

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in tight we'll leave the hard drive cage in there that's perfectly fine this is

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just a 3060 and i think a 5600x get

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subscribed to LTT because we're going to do a full

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um shoot between this guy the new flow and

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then we're going to put the same parts in the old h510 and we'll see how bad

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the thermals are we're also checking to see just how much uh air cooling can

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actually air cool stuff in 2021 when you've got the most extreme components

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so stay tuned also subscribe to ShortCircuit because hey you get more content

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like this where i unbox stuff will it fit a better fit because it's nzxt's

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motherboard going into their case the one thing i hate about this board

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it's actually a pretty board and it looks great in here because you know

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it's the white like oh just looks nice

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i just lost a screw it's okay magnetic tip you can find the screws you lose

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it's great it's fine don't don't worry about it oh

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that's gonna be close oh my god it closes hey beautiful let's

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throw the power supply in wire it up and see how it looks when it's running

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they do give you a lot of room for cable management which is nice and these

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channels up here it's nice that they've both added little cable channels in here

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so you can route it like that if you wanted to so another thing i'm not a

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crazy big fan of is a lot of people seem to like this like bar design that kind

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of hides everything but personally i prefer nice rubber grommets that you can

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just feed everything through it still looks really pretty and the cable

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management actually does look really good once you're done i'm not a big fan

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of the ones that put their PCIe ones here i like that it's got this one here

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kind of near the front so that's neat then you've got the rest

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of your standard case audio you've got a f panel header which is very nice

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because we don't have to put in the little tiny like two pin headers uh you've got your hd audio uh your usb 3.

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uh this is an RGB header looks like no this is usbc cool i don't know if this

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board has a usbc um connection on it but we'll plug it in

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if it does front fan these are only three pin fans

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i would prefer if they were four pin pwm but

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it's not the end of the world uh nzxt i would love just love a little

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bit more headroom because i honestly

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don't even know if i can plug this in from here i mean that being said like

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so far building in this thing it's not too bad

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aside from the little really minimal amount of

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space to get your eight pin in i mean i also have a pretty beefy cooler

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let's be real here let's take a fan off

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this is a lot better i actually have room to put my hand in there now plug your eps

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your CPU connectors in before you do any top fans if we had a

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fan there there's no way there's not a chance i could have gotten that in this has got to be one of the easiest to get

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to filters i've seen

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so definitely props to you guys for that inclusion i almost didn't take out my

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slot covers um

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that's probably for like a vertical card but i kind of hate these little extra

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slot cover systems this stuff is all really tight all these little things

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really kind of add up right so when you're trying to save a buck when

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building your pc you'll think i'll buy a cheap case and it'll be fine

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yeah sure once you're done building it'll be fine but building will be a

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nightmare like that was what i did for my first like real pc was i bought like

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the cheapest case i could find and it was a mistake before i cable manage

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anything let's actually test it really quick sweet

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always test before you bother spending half an hour cable managing or you're

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going to hate yourself you might get lucky

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you don't usually but you might one thing that these guys do that a lot of

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others don't is this like top and side

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channel here watch the LTT when we do this properly because we'll actually

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take more time to cable manage it nicely with the phanteks cases and the fractal

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cases these tend to go a little longer so like right now you don't have a lot

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of room to strap the velcro should extend up to right here

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up to this metal part because then you'd actually get much better contact because

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like as soon as i move this it's going to pop out so i'm just not going to move it another major complaint here is that

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like i'm trying to use their provided straps and they're provided like loops

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and even if these aren't meant for cable ties and most other cases that have these little loops here you can put

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cable ties through them run out cable ties zip ties really easily so i don't

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know why even with these tiny ones i'm like struggling

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to get it through let's just hide all this stuff with the panel this is killing me

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oh there we go this wasn't the most intuitive panel i've had to

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attach though but hey it's an affordable inexpensive case that looks awesome like

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here check it out it's clean yeah so fresh and so clean right so this guy's

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pretty easy to put in it's mostly tool-less except for this one screw at

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the back and it's got little clips on the inside that it like pops into when

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you push it in i forgot to put this back panel on too

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the worst i hate these things we've got just one

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fan in the front like this is full stock configuration uh and the one in the back

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and what i'd really recommend is you want either positive or negative airflow

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you just you don't want it to be all the same you don't want equal airflow you

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want it to either be pulling through the back or like pushing

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from the front so what i do is i put two 140s on the front and then two 120s on

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the back the one that's stock on the back here and then put another up here

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and you should have pretty good airflow like we'll let steve tell you whether

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that's right or not i guess but uh that would probably do it for me would i

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buy an ache hold on we gotta

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peel that was not an elegant peel at all

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it looks great it was okay to build in not my best experience but far from the

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worst like so far from the worst now that it's actually got this front mesh

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panel yeah i would actually go ahead and recommend the h510 flow to friends of mine you

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don't have to worry anymore about everything in this case just becoming

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way too hot are there better cases for airflow out there definitely at this

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price point probably but at this point you're going

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to be looking more for looks and affordability and i think nzxt is doing

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that here and this was basically unrecommendable before this gets in the

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recommendable category which is better than it was if you were afraid of this

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guy because there's no airflow but you love the look of it no more worries go

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ahead and get the flow i think it's a great improvement on nzxt's case line

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and as long as they just keep it up keep adding small features like this that

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make a huge world of difference while not breaking the bank then they've got a

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pretty good product at the end of the day if you're interested in any of the stuff we showed here today check out the

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meshfy that alex just unboxed recently that was pretty fun that's probably my

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favorite case