WEBVTT 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:18.920 the h440 from NZXT comes packed pretty unexceptionally yours will of course 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:24.039 have a picture on the side of the box but other than that you got some styrofoam unexceptional styrofoam would 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:28.599 have liked to see better styrofoam but this is the usual rig moral let's move 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:33.200 on to the case itself the h440 is a quiet optimized case they're going for a 00:00:30.759 --> 00:00:38.160 clean classy overall aesthetic and actually considering the price very very 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:41.640 solid build quality so we'll start at the front of the case where you've got 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:45.120 well okay you've got a clean aesthetic so you've got kind of a little pattern 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.480 here that we've seen on H series cases before and other than that you've got a 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:52.359 completely blank front with a tiny little NZXT logo down at the very very 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.840 bottom when you move over to the right hand side panel you find ah yes more 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:01.760 blank more empty just one little black accent line you've also got access to 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.920 some of the vents for the front now this case is not as airf flow optimized as I 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:11.000 would like even for a silent case all you've got on the front are these vents 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:15.960 right here some access from the bottom to fresh air and then all you've got on 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.799 the top are a couple of vents I think it 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:21.240 was at the back yeah there's a there's some ventilation at the back and then 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.360 there's some ventilation on the left hand side and that is pretty much it 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:30.720 when you consider that there's up to two 140 mm or three 120 MIM fans in each of 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.520 these locations it really doesn't feel like enough to me but that's not to say 00:01:32.759 --> 00:01:37.360 that your system is going to overheat it's just that those fans will be a 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.240 little bit on the starved side so let's move around to the left hand side where you can see the ventilation I was 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:46.079 talking about before an extremely nice looking side panel window I mean look at 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:50.040 that you can't see the power supply this is something we've been seeing as an 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:53.200 aftermarket mod for quite some time encasing the power supply and something 00:01:51.759 --> 00:01:57.439 really clean and Sleek looking you've also got an illuminated ncxt logo that 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:00.840 you actually don't have to leave lit up if you don't want to there is a switch 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:06.399 on the back that allows you to turn that on and off this also has the added sort 00:02:04.119 --> 00:02:10.759 of value ad here of there you go Illuminating the rear eyeo almost the 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:14.239 entire back of the case can be lit up so you can see what you're doing in the 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.760 dark and uh you can also have sort of like a neat rear glow sort of effect of 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:23.480 your system if you want okay also on the back we've got a 120 mm or 140 mm fan 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.720 Mount and this is something NZXT has been doing for a while with their 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.599 slidable fan Mount so you can have the fan up a little bit higher a little bit 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:33.599 lower this will help you not interfere with other components such as tall vrm 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:37.440 heat sinks on a motherboard you can also see that it's seven PCI slots you've got 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.519 those stupid grommets that I have no idea why anyone keeps including and then 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:44.200 finally your power supply at the bottom you've also got those vents that I was 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:52.319 talking about in the back and that pretty much wraps things up for the outside except for the top IO so it has 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:57.200 two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports headphone and a microphone jacks as well 00:02:54.280 --> 00:03:02.840 as a power switch and a reset switch now let's open her up and find out where the 00:03:00.519 --> 00:03:08.920 magic truly is well one thing that's magical is the fact that in almost as 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:11.560 many places as they could NZXT has gone 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:15.239 and included these little retainers for their thumb screws so that when you take 00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:19.159 the screw out of the side panel or when you unscrew it it doesn't fall out and 00:03:17.239 --> 00:03:23.280 you don't lose it the next thing that's magical is this is feels like actual 00:03:21.040 --> 00:03:27.840 neoprene on the inside so they seem to be using a very very dense foam for the 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.040 sound dampening material on the inside of the case it is a little bit bulkier 00:03:29.959 --> 00:03:36.400 than the bitman for example that fractal design uses but it has a very nice 00:03:34.519 --> 00:03:40.319 quality feel to it it's a little bit spongy um and I obviously I'd need an 00:03:38.799 --> 00:03:45.120 anaco chamber or something if I was going to test the actual efficacy of it 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:49.000 but um it at least looks and feels good Cable Management looks exceptional right 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:52.239 so you've got this bottom compartment where it's hiding the power supply and 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:56.680 all the power supply cables even though it's a modular power supply there are quite a few cables plugged in as you 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.040 guys would be able to see if I could show you that so it's nice to have that 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:03.480 hidden away there's two 2 and a half in SSD mounts down here that are handled by 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:06.519 a single thumb screw then you actually screw the drive onto the sled slide it 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:10.920 back and they've got cable management holes specifically for those and for any 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:16.120 bottom cables that you want to Route such as the uh front IO or your USB 2 or 00:04:14.519 --> 00:04:19.440 your front panel audio all that kind of good stuff on this side we've got 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:23.800 another thing that we've seen as an aftermarket mod quite a few times in the 00:04:21.799 --> 00:04:28.600 last couple of years and this is a a stealth cover for all the where normally 00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:32.080 you'd have 5 and a/4 in Bays I wish that they had made this a little bit 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:35.120 stealthier uh they could have done it fairly easily by just putting another 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.600 panel here but that would have added additional cost so it's the kind of 00:04:37.080 --> 00:04:42.360 thing that you could easily put on as an aftermarket option but there you have it 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:46.479 at any rate that's there so instead of having any 5 and a/ qu inch Bay this 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.039 case is all 3 and 1 half inch Bays here in the front which I'll show you from 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:53.880 the back in a moment or radiator mounting options and then you've got 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:57.759 your two SSD cages right here so let's contrast what the front looks like you 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:02.800 got your cable management grommets right here and you know all your drives hidden 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:06.759 away behind a stealth cover and ah yes the back of the case so the thing about 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:11.000 that thick foam you can see that there's a lot of indentations here in it from 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:16.080 when I slid it onto the case the thing about that thick foam is that it takes 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:21.120 up a lot of space behind the motherboard tray that you would normally be able to 00:05:17.880 --> 00:05:22.759 use for cable management so even though 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:26.560 I like I thought that I had a ton of space back here because it looks like 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:31.319 well over a centimeter of space at every stage and then it actually widens back 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:34.720 here where the 24 pin needs to come down I really didn't have that much space and 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.600 you're going to need to make use of all the Ting bajillion little Cable 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:44.400 Management hooks that exist on the back of the motherboard trade the good news is that you have them so I was able to 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:48.199 tidy things up enough fairly easily just with a couple of uh twist ties that I 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:53.880 was able to close the thing up without any difficulty also here on the back of 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:56.600 the case we have an 11 Port fan power 00:05:53.880 --> 00:06:01.280 splitter this is awesome love to see that I wish that it was also fan control 00:05:59.919 --> 00:06:06.880 even if it was just something like a switch that I had to reach into the inside to do I mean I guess what you 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:10.880 could do is you could probably mod it and it's just a simple Molex power input 00:06:09.039 --> 00:06:15.199 so you could mod it and change the power in to 7vt or something like that but 00:06:13.479 --> 00:06:20.479 either way this thing is absolutely awesome so it's got one one intake or 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:25.800 one input on fan one I believe it is and then you can have 10 fans come off of it 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:27.120 so so sorry 10 10 fan power splitter um 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:31.160 the only thing I don't like about it is that if you add any other fans so the 31 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:37.199 20 mm fans that are included in the front are reasonably quiet the 1 140 mm 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.880 fan in the back is reasonably quiet but 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:42.160 any fans that you add will be running at full speed if you run them off this so 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:46.759 it would have been nice to see them able to be controlled now something I didn't do when I was actually building the 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:50.720 system and I just realize now is take off the front panel the panel both the 00:06:49.039 --> 00:06:55.080 front and the top are quite a bit heavier than they actually appear due to 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:59.199 the metal construction and as well as the neoprene foam so that gives you 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:03.280 access to the magnetic fan filter as well as the 3 120 mm fans in the front 00:07:01.479 --> 00:07:07.599 so you can do up to two triple radiators in this thing natively without any 00:07:05.479 --> 00:07:14.240 difficulty or you can opt instead for dual 140 mm or 280 mm radiators up here 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:18.520 we've got the little control the little power module for the built-in logo 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:22.160 illumination as well as the IED and all that good stuff and then other than that 00:07:20.479 --> 00:07:26.520 it's pretty bog standard back here except well for these hard drive cages 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:30.879 so ncxt has gotten away from the whole plastic hard drive tray thing 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:35.080 unfortunately theyve only included five of them so natively the case only 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:39.400 accepts seven or eight 2 and 1/2 in drives cuz there's one more Mount hiding 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:44.080 down here in the bottom or three 2 and 1/2 in drives and five 3 and 1/2 in 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:48.000 drives in these trays they have permanently attached the little rubber 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:52.120 grommets to them for noise and vibration isolation and there's actually one other 00:07:50.440 --> 00:07:56.120 thing I didn't really like about them and that's the fact that when you slide 00:07:53.960 --> 00:08:00.879 them in there's no real rails for them to sit on the entire time like they're 00:07:58.440 --> 00:08:04.599 just free until you slide them all the way in and then they hook onto the other 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.879 side so there's two thumb screws at the back of each one you loosen that and 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:12.280 then once you pull it out these are great again these thumb screws don't come out on their own so they'll they'll 00:08:10.919 --> 00:08:17.000 actually stay in there so once you pull it out it just swings freely until you 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:21.199 pop it into the little spot on the other side of that uh that stealth cover over 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:25.039 there so I love to see a return to Quality with metal Drive cages instead 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:28.960 of plastic ones but I wouldn't have minded seeing a little bit more of a of 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:34.000 of a solid support for it now I understand why they did these two things 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:36.719 so less support as well as fewer Drive 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:40.360 cages does give you more ventilation so that front those front fans at least if 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:44.720 they're going to be choked by the front panel they might as well not be choked 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:48.560 by the uh the hard drive cages behind them so I can see their point in doing 00:08:46.680 --> 00:08:53.959 this it's just not necessarily something that I 100% agree with inside this 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:58.320 little NZXT box of accessories we find all of the screws that we will need as 00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:02.600 well as a little NZXT sticker nothing truly exceptional in there oh yeah nice 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:06.200 big CPU uh cutout so you're going to be able to access your CPU socket pretty 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:09.000 much no matter what and then I did have one other complaint about the case 00:09:07.560 --> 00:09:13.200 although this is a fairly minor thing so I've got an ax1200i in here and the 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:18.920 modular interface is pretty hard to get at because you can't actually it seems 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.760 remove oh no wait uh no yeah it's riveted in so you can't actually remove 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:25.839 that stealth cover on the front of the case it's a little bit hard to get at 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.279 your modular interface in here especially once you have a bunch of cables plugged in but this is a minor 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:34.760 complaint because it's the kind of thing that you really won't have to deal with 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:39.240 all that often so all the io and all the cables are attached to the top of the 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:44.079 case here there you go very very simple very very clean so the way that you um 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.720 that you sort of get at the top is to just pop this off and then there's no 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:50.880 wires attached to it or anything like that it's extremely Hefty extremely 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:55.240 solid feeling and then the only ventilation is uh here along this side 00:09:53.760 --> 00:10:00.519 and here along the back and it's got more of that neoprene feeling foam on it 00:09:57.959 --> 00:10:05.800 you can also see now the h100i that I have installed there you go so we've got 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:08.839 two 120 mm fans and you can actually slide them around depending on exactly 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:15.240 where you want to position them and then you can put a third one here although it should be noted that if you do install a 00:10:12.839 --> 00:10:19.200 third fan and radiator here you won't be able to mount the radiator uh this way 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.240 around so you can see I have the tubing coming down on this side because that'll 00:10:20.760 --> 00:10:26.279 interfere with the top hard drive cage so that'll limit you instead to four 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:30.720 hard drives Four 3 and 1/2 in drives instead of uh 5 3 and 1/2 in drives 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:35.120 although if I was using this case I'd probably be going for like an ultimate 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:39.760 liquid cooling quiet machine or something like that so I'd get some nice 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:41.760 high static pressure fans like n2s I'd 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:46.000 get two triple radiators I'd run them at extremely low RPM and then I'd be able 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.560 to basically overclock the snot out of the system inside in spite of the fact 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:52.600 that it's extremely silent you would be limiting your expansion options in terms 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:56.320 of storage though because you'd pretty much be stuck with these two SSD mounts 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:00.160 and then the SSD mount in the bottom the good news about that though is that 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:04.880 there's nothing um limiting the height of these drives and Western Digital has 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:09.360 I believe a 2 tbte 2 and 1/2 inch drive that's a non-standard thickness it's 15 00:11:06.760 --> 00:11:14.560 mm or 17 mm thick so that gives you some great options in terms of both SSD and 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:18.160 um mechanical Drive expansion even if you're stuck with a 2 and 1 12 in form 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:22.200 factor I think that pretty much wraps it up guys thank you for checking out my 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:26.360 unboxing and I guess it's a review of the h440 from NZXT don't forget to like 00:11:24.880 --> 00:11:29.880 this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment on the 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:34.320 lineus tech tips for Forum where we're more likely to see it and you can engage 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:38.800 in perhaps more civilized discussion as compared to the YouTube comments which 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.680 are ruled by Bob as far as I can tell and as always guys don't forget to 00:11:40.480 --> 00:12:08.990 subscribe to lus techtips 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