this is the old nzxt h510 and i hate
this case it looks great don't get me wrong but oh my god the airflow like all
you've got is a strip here you've got this room for one fan on the
top like i think that might be room for a 140 but it's not enough it's come on
especially with you know the 30 series and your ryzen 5000 processors like you
need some more if you want to air cool anything even liquid cool like what are
you going to do you're going to put a whole radiator like across the top here no because that's just
solid casing and this is just not even usable so today
let's get the bad guy out of the way today we've got the h510 flow
get it for airflow nzxt gets it
oh come on please it's a locking mechanism is it actually
this is based off the h510 elite so there's some slight differences but not
a whole lot so i haven't even actually built in
one of these because i don't like i avoid them i think they look amazing but
like i said like i tend to air cool everything
here's the big new front mesh panel that they've got here and it looks good
they've got like a little actual filter behind the
front mesh part of it here we'll try to take that off
later and see how easy it is to clean the filter out they still haven't
changed this top here which is kind of a problem
basically a lot of aios you don't want the 120 millimeter they're not big
enough i mean they're big enough if you have a smaller CPU i guess but you want
to leave some headroom so just go to 240. like honestly i don't i don't think
people should really bother with the 120 mils uh i don't use mini aios so i could
be wrong but can you just mount the radiator in the front of the case yes
jono you could just mount the radiator in the front of the case but sometimes
it's not that easy right like sometimes it's a lot cleaner if you can mount it
on the top because the tubes just go straight up and you can hide all the wiring really easily whereas on the
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
preference thing but hey you do you back still comes off no problem it's just
captive thumb screws which is always nice some manufacturers have moved to more
tool-less designs recently and i mean that's always preferable but
hey captive is good too there it is yep
so that just pops off internal bracket this looks like it can be removed yeah
if you take these thumb screws off and so you can mount stuff out of the case
really easily on a radiator mount like that
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
having trouble finding what the big differences are nzxt probably just took
a whole bunch of their old cases that hadn't sold yet grabbed the front and
drilled them through no i'm kidding they they've done some work here to actually
like make this filter accessible i'm guessing oh hey okay so yeah that's
pretty easy actually that is nice i take it back they've done a good job here i
mean it's tool-less and you can just like pop it on pop it off it just comes
out like this cool there you go you got your filter
you've got your mesh front pretty much everyone's started uh
making these mesh fronts at least a year or two ago nzxt does make a really
pretty case so it's okay that they took a little longer to catch up for the
riley's and the minimalists of you out there you say that but then look it's
got like nzxt branding i don't know i'm just kind of against branding i mean i
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
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
it all depends on how much you care about like showing off brand logos and
stuff it's still got their same like cable running stuff here they're
cable ties that you can close up on them and stuff you've got your SSD mounts
your front i o they've just got a full panel header this is even better please
every case manufacturer out there if you don't switch to just a preset or power
switch at least put it all in here this thing is pretty nice don't get me wrong
but the perfect case for me is probably i'm a big fan of fractal and phanteks
but i also air cool everything i just i know it's relatively safe i mean not
even relatively it's safe these days especially aios i grew up with people
water cooling with the most jank setups in like the early 2000s and stuff you
know you're seeing like home hardware hardware and it's just like no i don't
want to do that ever and you hear all these forum posts about oh my god my
build leaked and i don't know what to do so what i do instead is i just air cool
everything because it's not going to fail and you know air cooling is going to get your hardware to a pretty nice
and cool space most of the time unless you're trying to do some crazy overclocking or something like that my
favorite case would probably be the new meshfy 2 maybe even the compact version
those are really nice anything by phanteks is typically pretty good as
well like the p500a or the p500a digital i think the p600a is probably coming out
soon too so keep your eyes posted for that i guess
once again i'm still really disappointed that they haven't added more mesh up
here to let me put a radiator up top because i typically go uh two or three
fans in the front and then two up top and then one in the back for like
that kind of air cooling don't think of this as a new case you need to upgrade
to think of it as nzxt cases are as well
the h510 specifically is finally viable for air cooling at least if you get the
flow version and you don't want to drill through it comes with one fan in the
front and one fan in the back so that's pretty standard for most cases these
days that are worth more than like 60 dollars really uh you should get a fan
or two at least coming with it otherwise yeah i mean let's just throw stuff in
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hardware box this is okay i don't even know where this was it was just hidden
in here somewhere and it fell out while we were handling the case it seems bare
bones they have a bunch of cables what are these for oh okay so they do have
another front panel header thing maybe if you've got an itx board or something like that and it's a little harder to
reach you can just add this on there we're not going to use it because
they've given us this nice front panel connector and then this is a splitter
looks like an audio splitter i'm honestly not sure why they would
include this with a case this is typically something that would come with like your headphones or
your speakers or something like that but hey maybe they're just like let's give
them all the accessibility attachments this is a big manual
that gives me a lot of useful information that i don't need to know
yeah okay so the cage comes in pre-installed uh oh and it screws okay
that's great so these guys are for the HDD cages which makes it
really really easy to just pull them out if you don't need them because guess
what it's 20 21 and yeah hard drives some people still use them but me
personally i'm trying to go to all SSD or even m.2 NVMe ssds
but let's remove them why not yeah i'm not taking that okay so uh
small thing nzxt at the factory really screws these
in tight we'll leave the hard drive cage in there that's perfectly fine this is
just a 3060 and i think a 5600x get
subscribed to LTT because we're going to do a full
um shoot between this guy the new flow and
then we're going to put the same parts in the old h510 and we'll see how bad
the thermals are we're also checking to see just how much uh air cooling can
actually air cool stuff in 2021 when you've got the most extreme components
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like this where i unbox stuff will it fit a better fit because it's nzxt's
motherboard going into their case the one thing i hate about this board
it's actually a pretty board and it looks great in here because you know
it's the white like oh just looks nice
i just lost a screw it's okay magnetic tip you can find the screws you lose
it's great it's fine don't don't worry about it oh
that's gonna be close oh my god it closes hey beautiful let's
throw the power supply in wire it up and see how it looks when it's running
they do give you a lot of room for cable management which is nice and these
channels up here it's nice that they've both added little cable channels in here
so you can route it like that if you wanted to so another thing i'm not a
crazy big fan of is a lot of people seem to like this like bar design that kind
of hides everything but personally i prefer nice rubber grommets that you can
just feed everything through it still looks really pretty and the cable
management actually does look really good once you're done i'm not a big fan
of the ones that put their PCIe ones here i like that it's got this one here
kind of near the front so that's neat then you've got the rest
of your standard case audio you've got a f panel header which is very nice
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.
uh this is an RGB header looks like no this is usbc cool i don't know if this
board has a usbc um connection on it but we'll plug it in
if it does front fan these are only three pin fans
i would prefer if they were four pin pwm but
it's not the end of the world uh nzxt i would love just love a little
bit more headroom because i honestly
don't even know if i can plug this in from here i mean that being said like
so far building in this thing it's not too bad
aside from the little really minimal amount of
space to get your eight pin in i mean i also have a pretty beefy cooler
let's be real here let's take a fan off
this is a lot better i actually have room to put my hand in there now plug your eps
your CPU connectors in before you do any top fans if we had a
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
to filters i've seen
so definitely props to you guys for that inclusion i almost didn't take out my
slot covers um
that's probably for like a vertical card but i kind of hate these little extra
slot cover systems this stuff is all really tight all these little things
really kind of add up right so when you're trying to save a buck when
building your pc you'll think i'll buy a cheap case and it'll be fine
yeah sure once you're done building it'll be fine but building will be a
nightmare like that was what i did for my first like real pc was i bought like
the cheapest case i could find and it was a mistake before i cable manage
anything let's actually test it really quick sweet
always test before you bother spending half an hour cable managing or you're
going to hate yourself you might get lucky
you don't usually but you might one thing that these guys do that a lot of
others don't is this like top and side
channel here watch the LTT when we do this properly because we'll actually
take more time to cable manage it nicely with the phanteks cases and the fractal
cases these tend to go a little longer so like right now you don't have a lot
of room to strap the velcro should extend up to right here
up to this metal part because then you'd actually get much better contact because
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
like i'm trying to use their provided straps and they're provided like loops
and even if these aren't meant for cable ties and most other cases that have these little loops here you can put
cable ties through them run out cable ties zip ties really easily so i don't
know why even with these tiny ones i'm like struggling
to get it through let's just hide all this stuff with the panel this is killing me
oh there we go this wasn't the most intuitive panel i've had to
attach though but hey it's an affordable inexpensive case that looks awesome like
here check it out it's clean yeah so fresh and so clean right so this guy's
pretty easy to put in it's mostly tool-less except for this one screw at
the back and it's got little clips on the inside that it like pops into when
you push it in i forgot to put this back panel on too
the worst i hate these things we've got just one
fan in the front like this is full stock configuration uh and the one in the back
and what i'd really recommend is you want either positive or negative airflow
you just you don't want it to be all the same you don't want equal airflow you
want it to either be pulling through the back or like pushing
from the front so what i do is i put two 140s on the front and then two 120s on
the back the one that's stock on the back here and then put another up here
and you should have pretty good airflow like we'll let steve tell you whether
that's right or not i guess but uh that would probably do it for me would i
buy an ache hold on we gotta
peel that was not an elegant peel at all
it looks great it was okay to build in not my best experience but far from the
worst like so far from the worst now that it's actually got this front mesh
panel yeah i would actually go ahead and recommend the h510 flow to friends of mine you
don't have to worry anymore about everything in this case just becoming
way too hot are there better cases for airflow out there definitely at this
price point probably but at this point you're going
to be looking more for looks and affordability and i think nzxt is doing
that here and this was basically unrecommendable before this gets in the
recommendable category which is better than it was if you were afraid of this
guy because there's no airflow but you love the look of it no more worries go
ahead and get the flow i think it's a great improvement on nzxt's case line
and as long as they just keep it up keep adding small features like this that
make a huge world of difference while not breaking the bank then they've got a
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