the H2 from NZXT is available in a couple of different colors today we are
going to be on actually I don't know which one's inside here so I guess we'll
oh oh here we go on the side yes we are going to be unboxing the Black Version
but it is available in black and white so why don't we have a look at the
overall specs for this case right off the bat so it has three 5 and 1/4 in
external Bay eight 3 and 1/2 in internal Bay seven expansion slots it includes 2
12 mm cooling fans one at the front one
at the back it also supports a 140 in the top and a 120 at the bottom VGA
support is up to just over 12 in without the hard drives and 270 mm with a hard
drives would that be about 11 in 10 and 1/2 something along those lines okay
wiring space that's a good that's a good spec to have because basically NZXT has
taken into consideration how much wiring space you might need at the back of the
chassis and put in Lots so that you will be able to run all of your cables to
actually use the the cable management features that they have built in It's
Made of plastic with aluminum plastic SL aluminum uh yes with aluminum finishing
uh material is steel of black coating total weight you probably don't care too
much ooh USB 3 exciting all right what do we got here touch powered fans these
are neat I'll show you that later okay 30 w three three-step fan control this
is a big thing that I love about NZXT chassis they built in they build in
these fan controllers so you got 40% 70%
and 100% fan speed controller
uh 30 wat three step I'm not sure how many fans it supports but we'll find
that out shortly top hot swap capable SATA hard drive dock which is we've seen
this before but what we haven't seen before is a stealth one so we'll show
you that in a minute as well uh eight front facing hard drives for optimal airflow noise dampening foam and top
magnetic fan cover for minimal PC noise okay we'll show you that as well and
finally ample 25 space behind the motherboard tray for cable management
what else we got on the outside that's it that's all it's a very plain box
which is fun I would rather see companies spending
well because I work at an etailer we don't really have um as many retail
stores as we sell stuff online NZXT is a
great online shopping experience and for an online shopping experience you do not
need a fancy retail box so I would much rather see a higher quality product or
better packing or whatever else than uh
than a fancy shiny retail box which I mean you know what an an expensive box
like a really nice retail box can cost you you know in the neighborhood of five
bucks so you know don't underestimate how much it costs to add that to a
product all right we got foam packing
material you can see we've got about an inch of packing material on all sides so
that should keep it nice and safe this is not my favorite kind of packing material because it is the uh the
breakable stuff so it'll only really take it's kind of like a helmet it'll
only really take an impact once or twice and then you should pretty much replace
it unlike the soft closed cell phones
but it is definitely acceptable to get a chassis this size
from its source to its destination in
one piece which we will verify in a moment because this one has clearly
traveled from some kind of
uh origin to some kind of a destination
which is me and there it is the too so
why don't we start with the Aesthetics in our outside unboxing today so at the
front we see a very plain very slick
looking extern exterior okay we've got a
chrome finish around the outside plastic bezel around the very very outside and
then a brushed aluminum finish here you can see it's got a small accent that
breaks up the squareness of the front down here where it dips into a little
corner okay we're going to just just go ahead and open that up so it looks like
Yep this is magnetized I really like that because latches break magnets
pretty much don't they they just kind of work on the inside you can see the
magnets here you can see the screws that uh make up the construction of the front
panel very nice you can also see the foam that is part of the noise dampening
features of this chassis you can see the tooless 3 and 1/2 uh 5 and 1/4 in Bay
covers which can be removed and put in just like that just pull on that there
and you can see it's already open okay
next you can who if you don't drop it inside and ruin
everything ruined okay there we go you can also see this as a cool feature so
these fans if the case was powered on would obviously be on check this out so
NZXT has done away with the concept of
running fan wires around your chassis by building in power here so you actually
plug power into what is essentially like a fan back plane you can plug any fan
you want in and then all you do is slide it into place and it'll start spinning
so if there's no power which is caused by disconnecting it here and losing the
contact at these PowerPoints here so you can see you can plug in any fan as long
as you uh shorten the cable enough to plug into here and then you just go like
this and boom it's on just like that
really cool feature so the other front 120 mm fan does that as well we can take
these out and then once we've removed these we actually have access to install
up to eight 3 and 1/2 in hard drives or
2 and 1/2 in ssds or well hard drives if you really want to but I don't really
see the point um so you can see here these are toolis as well so you just pop
these back a little bit install your drive and slide it in 2 and 1/2 in
drives are mounted via the uh holes on
the bottom of the drive so just like that feels pretty solid overall as soon
as you put a drive in a mechanism like this it's going to gain a lot more
rigidity so so that is something to bear in mind now the 2 and 1/2 in drives
won't help with the rigidity Factor but they're also not heavy so you're not
going to have to worry about them flying around inside your case you got a little
foot here which has their NZXT branding on it very Tastefully finished as well
in kind of a gunmetal gray all right I think that's pretty much it for the
front of the case let's move up to the top cuz that's where some of the other
interesting stuff is here's our power switch here's our reset switch here is
our fan speed controller which is a switch style fan speed
controller we have front headphones front microphone one front USB 3.0 or
you can probably wire it up as 2.0 as well if you feel like it three front USB
2.0 so a total of four front USB in here you find that hot swappable
bake so all you have to do is put in a 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in drive you go
ahead and stealth that back up and it doesn't disrupt the look of your case
like I said we've seen this feature in the past but we haven't seen it implemented in a
way that doesn't seriously detract from the appearance of the top of the chassis
so just going to go ahead and put that back on there and then finally we've got
a magnetic cover for the top 140 mm fan
should you choose to install it so you just go like that and position it where
it goes which I don't remember where it goes I guess it goes right about there
and there's actually yeah okay you've got a little bit of clearance in the
back here some I'm just going to go ahead and tip the chassis towards the
cameraman so he can see it so you can
stealth the fan and you can have like it's going to be quite a restricted
exhaust or you can take it off and you can leave it open which also looks
fairly slick so let's go ahead and put that back on for
now it's a little bit clumsy to position but since you probably won't be doing it
very often I wouldn't worry too much there you go now it's in the right spot
about that so the side p panels we're just going to show you very briefly very
plain very black you've got the one small accent here where you've got that
gunmetal gray piece along the bottom so it kind of makes the chassis look like
it has a bit of a foot which is kind of nice on the other side same thing okay
so this is a silence optimized chassis it's not about necessarily putting dual
GTX 590s in it so you don't have any side panel um intake fans for video
cards which is fine because it's all about building the right thing for the
purpose you are trying to achieve and you don't necessarily want
to go and put a bunch of random fan holes into a chassis that's all about
silence because you shouldn't be loading it up with 15 fans
anyway okay let's just take off these side panels and let's have a look at the
back so at the back you can see we've got a 120 mm fan it's a white and black
fan which uh matches the overall look of
the chassis itself we've got our standard IO Shield
um is Shield cutout we have seven PCI
expansion slots two water cooling tubing grommets should you decide to use an
external water cooling setup some ventilation holes here as well as room
for a standard ATX power supply this has all eight mounting holes so you can
mount your power supply either facing with the fan down oh actually here I
shouldn't take off the side panel just yet either with the fan facing down into
the filtered intake or with the fan up
if you wanted to draw in hot air from the video card so when we take the side
panel off we find more noise dampening foam glued on quite securely for those
of you who are wondering go ahead and throw that in
here all right I'm just going to take off the other side panel
here just so that we can see all of the
internal goodies that are in this case
all right so first thing here is accept accessories let's see what we've got
included for mounting hardware and
whatnot all right so we have a manual we
have a speaker we have some black cable
ties we also have a whole lot of mounting screws and yeah more mounting
screws lots of mounting screws so in case you were lacking mounting screws
now you have lots okay motherboard tray
let's start with that we've got a cutout
here for CPU coolers that require a back plate so you don't have to take your
motherboard out install it and put it back in which is a real hassle you can
just install it from the back by removing the back side panel all of the
internal cables are black which I really like to see really nice okay so here is
power for the front fans as well as
power for the fan controller up at the top of the case it looks like the fan
controller supports one hm how many does it support two
three leads probably oh probably four there's probably run one running to the
back fan as well let me just see where that is uh they've actually here this is
kind of the neat uh come around to the back I think it supports four but um
here come to the back okay so you can see that they've actually cable tied all
of the wiring in place for you right off the bat so we support
one 2 3 4 wow looks like five fans you
know what if anyone knows for sure post it everyone thumbs it up because I can't
actually follow all the leads right back to the fan controller and find out where
they're coming from necessarily okay they've also pre- managed the oh you
know what let's look at the back while we're here so Cable Management holes are
done via the uh rubber grommets here here and here all along the back so you
can run the cables up from your power supply to wherever they need to go
without being able to see them you can also see the 2 and 1/2 cm of clearance
at the back of the uh at the back of the motherboard tray which is enough to run
a 24 pin connector you'd be amazed how many chassis makers make that mistake so
that you actually can't run it out here bend it because remember that's a lot
more than just the thickness of the cable once you try and bend it and run it up to where it needs to go you've
also got these little um hooks right here for zip ties which are very handy
for keeping everything flat at the back and we can put screws in in addition to
the tooless mount for our 5 and 1/4 in Bay this speaking of the 5 and 1/4 in
Bas here's the toolless mount I've seen this one before and I'm a big fan okay
so it locks somehow or other I can't remember yeah there we go so you put it
out like that lock it in like that doesn't come out anymore I like it it
just looks neat it's like a little like Caterpillar
like okay uh we've got screw storage all
along the side of the case here okay now there's our 35 and 1/4 in
Bay nothing exceptional there there's the uh eight 3 and 1/2 inch base which
we' saw before down here we have our extra 120 mm fan Mount so that's for
more intake should you so desire we have
support for very long power supplies you can put in pretty much whatever you want
as well as rubber grommets here at the bottom of the case to lift it a little
bit up so that you uh aren't going to have any restriction when you're pulling
air in from the bottom of the case okay we've also got our front USB 3 is hooked
up via the outside so you can see there's a hole here at the back so
that'll plug into the back of your motherboard into it's not the most elegant solution but it's also not the
end of the world because it took everyone forever to decide on a standard
for internal USB 3 here's all the front cables including USB 2 another USB 2 HD
audio as well as all your front switches and LEDs and I think that pretty much
covers everything I wanted to say about the H2 don't forget to subscribe to lus
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