welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Tempest 410 Elite so the elite
version has a side panel window this is a crafted mid Tower according to
NZXT and what do we have to say for ourselves on the front so it has a
2-year warranty although that's pretty much completely irrelevant because if a
case isn't DOA it probably will maintain its core functionality over the course
of lifetime um I I guess maybe the fans
might matter okay they've speced out their clearances they've speed out the
cooling what's included what's not included Bas and expansion so seven
expansion slots so this is a standard ATX case on the back let's see what NZXT
blurb is I always enjoy these blurbs an
aggressive cooling solution forged for your rig The Tempest 410 Elite mid Tower
completes your fine-tuned machine by taking advantage of the airflow required
for the Enthusiast over clocking needs the Tempest Legacy expands its maximized
ventilation through the extra- large honeycomb mesh design so my
understanding is this case actually uses honeycomb mesh for all of its openings
that are designed for airf flow that's kind of neat gives you a better air flow
cool dual radiator support and dual touch powered front fans oh okay I lost
where I was in the sentence there it's okay in addition to the basics the elite
includes USB 3 and an acrylic side panel for interior viewing if you're looking
for a new Cooling for your gameplay The Tempest 410 will bring you the results
of epic win well all right
then I am going to go ahead and break
the seals on this epic win result and we
will have a look at this case and see what we think of
it so let's go ahead and open it
up all right oh man it's like heavy I've done a
few case unboxings here and I'm like getting warm so just going to go ahead
and get rid of that before I start like sweating all over the camera here okay
we've got our packing materials these are very very thick um the real wow
these are very very stiff very thick
foam so look at that they've actually see this is the kind of consideration
that I really like to see check this out so you got kind of Standard 1 in on the
sides you got kind of thin on the front Okay why did they do that I'll show you
why they did that because they thickened it up at the back to
prevent wait or did they thicken it up at the
front Okay why did they thicken it up at the front oh cuz it's smaller H well all
right then no but here's something they have
done is they recessed the screws so many
companies forget to do this that's what I was looking at when I was thinking of
that they put a recess into see here you
can see the same thing at the bottom so even though it uses a stick
foam the screws are not going to break
it I've seen so many cases come with broken packing materials due to the
screws pressing into it and cracking the foam as soon as this foam is cracked it
loses its structural Integrity because it's not a closed cell foam which you'll
see in the higher end cases it is a like
more of a stiff a hard foam so what happens is as soon as it's cracked it's
pretty much useless um it's designed like a helmet for one
Major Impact and then beyond that uh you
don't expect too much this actually looks really nice it has a good overall
feel to it good weight so it's not super light but it's not super heavy and very
very sort of okay it's not clean lines
because it's more of a gaming styled case as we've come to expect from NZXT
but it's not over the top either to the
point where it's very polarizing like um
like some of their competitors gaming lines of cases where people either love
them or they just hate the look of them I don't think there's anything to really
hate about the look of this case so why don't we start with the front so on the
front we find lots of honeycomb mesh so you can see this not only has honeycomb
mesh but also like a a fine mesh behind it for dust filtration presumably uh
these come out very easily this is a feature that I love on NZXT cases
because I hate fussing around with these things it's a pain and if you just go
like that comes in comes out you don't have to like mash it out from the from
the back or anything like that also in the front oh and these are my these are
my favorite okay this is something that I first saw introduced I believe with
the H2 there we go how's it come there we go so both sides check this out oh no
fan cabling what do you think of that so you see these contacts right here that's
your four pin pwm that's just a a simple
pass through so then on here you see the
contacts for power and then you can actually adapt any fan for use with this
uh with this sled here that goes or sled cage whatever you want to call it that
goes into the front or rather three pin just by plugging this in here and then
by taking the whole thing and clicking
it into the front love that I think that's a great feature because wiring up
the front the front fans on a given case
can be a total nightmare and is often
just really really clumsy the way it's done this is very very elegant I'm going
to go ahead and pull these out just so that we have access to the front loaded
3 and A2 in hard drive trays and check out how many there are yes that is eight
3 and 1/2 in hard drive cages also with support four 2 and 1/2 in ssds so you
can see the holes are here and then
here okay that is not how that is meant to work and don't worry that should not
reflect poorly on the case itself let me show you how that is intended to work if
you put it in straight then it Clips in if you put it in at an angle and it
falls right through so uh be careful when mounting hard drives in this case
because if you putot it in at a random angle you're going to drop a hard drive
into the back of your computer it's going to break your video card you're going to have a bad day all right front
panel connectors we've got uh front panel oh these aren't labeled okay well
it's not the end of the world I guess just have to try and remember one of them is mic one of them is headphone
front USB 3 uh front USB 2 * 3 and we've
got our front hard drive and power LEDs power switch is accessible from here
from the top and then we have a reset switch uh in addition to that here we
find a little storage compartment which is kind of neat and what's also neat
about this is check this out okay we've got a cable routing channel here so what
happens is I've got a pair of headphones that have about oh man they must have
like a 3 m cable on them typically my
gaming tower sits sort of next to me right about kind of here do I need 3 m
if I'm plugged into the front panel audio I don't think so so what you can
do is you can plug in your front panel audio run the cable just up here into
this channel coil It Up In Here run it out
this channel and then you can take it sort
of down here and over to where it needs
to go without interfering with your Optical drives or anything like that so
that's pretty cool and then finally there's a little bit of storage here look at that it stays where you put
it smart all right also on the top of
the case I realized I'm spending a lot of time on the top of this case but
there's a lot of stuff here we have honeycomb mesh once again and we have a
dedicated spot for a dual 120 mm water
cooling radiator and fans so the whole thing just Clips in like that covers it
up or doesn't cover it up whatever you prefer so you can either take your
radiator and put it on the top actually
yeah yeah so you've got space for look at that they've given you all the
flexibility in the world here you can either run your tubing down this side or you can run your tubing down this side
so you can have the radiator on top for a nice clean clean aesthetic because
you'll just see radiator fins through here or you can put your fans on the top
and mount the radiator directly to the case and you can see like your LEDs or
whatever else like that so uh that's that's also a pretty cool thing that
they've thought of with this case uh let's look at the back so at the back we
find a 120 mm cooling fan these things
which I'm not a huge fan of especially when you have like a dedicated place to
mount a dual rad in the top so I don't see why you do an external water cooling
setup IO Shield seven PCI slots bottom mounted power supply and look at this a
hard drive sled all right
let's open this baby up these thumb screws are pretty tight I'm going go
ahead and grab my screwdriver so just for a change of pace
we're going to do the back panel first I've removed the screws now so remember
they're not always tight if you put them in fingertight you'll be able to get
them out with your fingers so it's not like oh these are magic thumb screws
that only work with a screwdriver guess they might as well not have used thumb screws it's not like that it's just a
matter of them being tightened a little bit too much at the factory so it was
hard to get off all right on the back here we have lots of room for Cable
Management check that out in fact 23 mm
of clearance is what they're specking out here and I believe it that looks
very good we've also got lots of room for cables to come through here come up
through here up through here up through here so there's your eight pin connector
that's where that one's going to go and then this is this is also something I
really love to see lots of little Loops see these little Loops these are all for
zip ties so you can take all of your cables that you're managing zip tie them
so that they stay nice and flat and so it doesn't interfere with each other and
make it difficult to close the other panel of the case they've also
reinforced the strength of their motherboard back panel by putting in
these bumps like this they are actually significantly adding to the rigidity of
the motherboard back plane this can be important when shipping a system uh
particularly so if you're ordering a system online you can be pretty confident going with something like a
tempest for1 Elite other than that I see
places to put screws into your Optical drives I see places
to I don't know what those are for if you guys know what these are for let me
know cuz I don't I see places to plug in the fan leads to those front fan
connectors and other than that I think we're pretty much done with the back
panel let's move over to the other side where we have a
nice side window design all right which
gives you a view of your hard drive cables okay that I could sort of maybe
going this way might have been a little bit better but that wouldn't have looked
as good with the overall slant of the case and the overall design but either
way you're going to be able to see your graphics card your CPU all your fancy
pants hardware and I'm just going to lay it down to make my life a little bit
easier here guys so here are all of your internal connectors so there's power
that's going to power those fans in all likelihood um we've also got front USB 3
front USB 2 HD audio other more different front USB 2 front panel
connectors so your power switch your reset switch all that good stuff and
these are all black cables love it even the usb3 cable is black up to the point
where it plugs into the motherboard where it has to be colorcoded very nice
love to see it in terms of included accessories and documentation it's all
in here so 17 different languages good on you in
zxt you clearly intend to sell these worldwide or have really sort of strange
policies about selling only in the US cuz I really don't know how many people
speak oh no oh no these are 17 ha 17
things that are labeled in this picture in only 1 2 3 4 5 6 7even eight
different languages so I was wrong all right so that gives you the steps for
how to install most of the stuff in the elite
410 or rather the Tempest 410 Elite here
we've got some zip ties very nice we've
got some oh look at that the bags are all labeled so you got stand offs you
got M35 flat you've got uh some 632
screws flat and 632 screws hexagon very
nice so what else we got
here we have thumb screws so I guess that's somewhere to
store additional thumb screws or what actually it looks like that may be
the case these look like optical drive
base screws you know what give me a second I'm going to find out what these
are so figured out what it is it's in the manual go figure read the blank
manual uh so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to show you guys what you do
you install a hard drive you take this out it's a really long screw so then you
go ahead and put it here and you secure your hard drive in place that is what
you do with it all right so let's look more closely at the inside of the case
as a whole so in the front we got our two 120 mil fans we can put one more 120
mil fan here we have a filtered see there's a fan filter on there there's a
mesh we have a filtered gap for the power supply to get fresh air from the
bottom of the case we also have rubber fan or rubber case feet that will keep
it off the ground or table or wherever you're keeping it so you're going to get some air flow to your power supply no
big deal power supply you can have almost any length of power supply even
up to like here so you're not going to have any clearance issues with your
drives in terms of video cards though um
I'm not sure but I'm going to go ahead I'm going to grab a 6990 since I happen
to have one handy here uh I guess I'll
have to do a GTX 590 first on account of
I can't get the hold on oh sure whatever that'll count I can't get the 6990 out
without taking these first so
590 oo Apple 590 okay let's try that one
so the Apple 590 is going to go right about here so you're going to have to be
yeah you're probably going to have to take out a couple of hard drive cages if
you want to put a 6990 in here although
I mean very few people actually buy 6990
it's just the kind of thing I like to mention if it comes up so as soon as I
uh as soon as I take these out I should
have enough room for that
particular graphics card so I'll move
that move that move
that and yeah so that would fit so it'll
fit up to a 6990 which at this time is
the longest most power hungry graphics card out there all right in the top
we've got those dual 120s or dual 140s in the back we've got that 120 and I
think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Tempest 410
Elite this is actually a really nice looking case great quality to the paint
finish I love the finish of the paint on here and it matches between the metal
and plastic parts very very well which is difficult to do so the inside looks
very similar to the plastic top here you actually can't really see much
difference here at all that should not be taken for granted like I said very
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