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nc.com welcome to the NZXT Suite where we've got a few new products on display
so number one is their h82 V2 series power supplies these are aiming to bring
fully modular power supplies down to Affordable price points so this right
here is a 550 W power supply it's 80 plus bronze it has a 135 mm cooling fan
and is of course I mean if they hadn't managed to make it fully modular then
they wouldn't have achieved their goal so the idea here is just that if you
want cable management and you don't need a huge High wattage power supply and
you're okay with 80 plus bronze then you can save a few bucks and get a Hal 82 V2
there's also another version of it the V2s which is a 750 wat power supply that
will only be available in 220/230 volt whichever the voltage is
countries so not in my country so let's move on on this right here is the
Phantom 530 this is the first time the
Phantom has been redone since well okay well it hasn't been that long since
they've done a new Phantom but this is the first time they've done what is essentially a redesign of the original
Phantom so what have they changed here number one is you might notice that the
window is bigger personally I think this is great because when you're going to
buy a flashy pants case you might as well show off the flashy pants Hardware
that you've got inside it number two is the fact that they have added uh a
mechanism that allows you to spin the case around with one oh wait no it so it
doesn't come with this right oh sorry
okay it does not come with the Lazy Susan underneath no but they've widened
the chassis a little bit so this has done a couple of things that allows them to mount a 140 millim fan in the back
instead of just a 120 they've still got that height adjustable thing that they
do as well as d da da da da here in the
front you can do a 200 mm cooling fan
down here or you can actually Mount some radiators instead so let's go ahead and
get this bad boy open after we show you the single channel 30 W fan controller
so let's go ahead and open this up don't worry the real one will we hold on this
is hard to do with one hand you guys there we go all right so inside there we
go so you can do either single 200 mm or
dual 140 mm or a dual 120 mm radiator up
in the top you've got full support for a
dual 140 mm radiator so that means the Kraken x60 is going to fit in here no
problem you've also got support for a single 360 mm radiator if you want to do
custom liquid cooling so you can actually fill this thing up with an
unbelievable amount of Radiators which is even better than the original Phantom
I guess if you're going to redo something you might as well do it better you've got metal latches for the 5 and
a/4 inch Bay personally this gives me some confidence but I'm still going to
opt to use the yes they're there optional screw-ins for those just
because you don't want them flying around during shipping you've also got 3
plus 2 plus one hard drive cages that are also compatible with ssds what I
like about these is the fact that they're modular these are some of the we're seeing some features here that
have been on higher end and newer NZXT cases for a while now but remember guys
the Phantom was their first fully custom designed by NZXT case so there have been
some Innovations since then it was probably time to do this so you can move
these around stack them however you want and let's move around to the back on the
back we see this this is actually one of my favorite things that they've started
to do this built-in Fan Hub so instead of having to worry about like oh well
I'm going to plug it in there and there and there and there one switch on the top of the case changes all your fans
12vt 7vt 5vt you plug all your fans into one place that's nice and hidden so you
can bring it back here they've got like I don't know what it is like 100 billion
little cable Loop Ties on the back here so that you can route all your cables
and keep them away from that large window that's going to make your system
look sexy now let's go over here where you can actually see that there are more
colors of the Phantom 530 this is white so there's white black and red at the
start and they've got a prototype product in here that is kind of kind of
ridiculous so liquid cooling on graphics
cards we've been we've been seeing this for years I remember Sapphire did like a
toxic like 5870 or some with an acitech
liquid cooler it was a total disaster because compatibility was a nightmare so
what NZXT has done is they've gone and made it Universal so with just this
Brack ET which you get for what like 19 bucks or something stupid like that 15
bucks these are dual Titans that are running this NZXT bracket they're
compatible with any acitech liquid cooler so this is just a kraken x60
running through the little bracket here and then it mounts a 92mm fan that cools
the card so they've got dual Titans running in here with a solution that
costs between this cooler and this bracket less than a 100 bucks which is
definitely less than a liquid cooling
water block I mean and sort of the flip side of that is Linus well it also
doesn't cool the whole card like a liquid cooling water block and you blah
blah blah it doesn't improve performance liquid cooling that much actually wrong
because with something like a GTX Titan with GPU Boost 2.0 keeping the card
cooler actually makes it run faster and the most important part to make it run
cooler is the GPU core itself so this is an incredibly smart way to address that
particular problem and I guess since we're here we might as well show you the
Black Version where they've got some custom liquid cooling running in here
I'm just going to go ahead and flip this around let my camera go check this out
so there's a 240 mm liquid cooler there 360 mm up here and then a couple of sort
of more traditional full cover GPU water blocks which leads us finally to a very
awkward change in position between me and my camera and everyone in the
suite's like running around to get out of my way here this is the h230 it is
available in black or white and it is generally very similar to the H2 a quiet
optimized case so you've got noise damping panels in here you've you've got
a removable cage right here all the drives are actually mounted from reverse
so you've got six 2 and 1/2 or 3 and 1/2 in drives full ATX motherboard support
and I personally really like the bezel design I think it looks really clean and
I mean I guess that's all there really is to say about it looks clean very nice
and I think that pretty much wraps it up guys don't miss any of our computex 2013
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evidently I was wrong that is an x40 not
an x60 clearly you cannot fit a 280 mm
liquid cooler in the front of the case sideways if you could we'd be looking at
like a cube case and this is clearly not one of those also I made AIT bit of a
mistake so NZXT point was not that with
nx40 and this bracket you could get it for under $100 because that would cost a
little more than $100 but it's compatible with other acch OEM liquid
coolers even from the likes of Corsair such as the H50 so if you grabbed an H50
paired it up with the NZXT bracket then you could liquid cooler your graphics
card for under $100