WEBVTT 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:16.000 funny story guys I already unboxed this 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:22.000 but I was wearing a shirt that was a brand that NZXT competes with can you 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:25.279 imagine how they'd feel about that so we 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.199 are refiling this is the NZXT Phantom 00:00:25.279 --> 00:00:32.439 820 go above and beyond your maximum cooling is the tagline that goes with it 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:36.200 and on the side this is a 30 lb case guys and I'm unboxing it again I'm like 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:39.280 weight training today all right on the side we find a whole bunch of 00:00:37.559 --> 00:00:44.719 information about cooling this thing has three 200 mm fans included on the top 00:00:41.879 --> 00:00:48.840 front top and side it has a rear 140 included as well but you can swap it out 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:53.719 to a 120 if you want to use a a radiator size that's more readily available 00:00:50.559 --> 00:00:57.239 bottom 2x 140 or 2x20 meaning you can do 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:59.079 a bottom mounted uh dual 120 mm radiator 00:00:57.239 --> 00:01:05.080 so you can have up to a 360 mil r on the top a 120 in the back and a 240 in the 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:07.240 bottom like wow mind blown uh they give 00:01:05.080 --> 00:01:10.880 you specs in terms of how large your CPU coolers can be your video cooler can be 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:15.479 and how much room there is for cable management let me tell you 3 and 1 12 centm is a lot of room for cable 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:20.640 management you shouldn't have any trouble with that at all construction 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:26.360 there's that 32 lb weight it's fully XL ATX and eatx compatible and you can put 00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:30.640 pretty much whatever you want in it the original Phantom has been replaced 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:33.040 includes a four Channel digital fan controller with 15 watts per channel 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.399 that means you can do high powerered fans or even multiple fans per channel 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:41.720 to create cooling zones within your system uh you can also use their Hue 00:01:40.119 --> 00:01:46.560 lighting system and illumination system for exterior and interior and interior 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.000 lighting of your enclosure very cool stuff it you can have an infinite number 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:55.000 of possible colors using the integrated adjustments and controls uh this is more 00:01:53.799 --> 00:02:00.240 about the cooling which I kind of covered already although the pedestal 00:01:57.039 --> 00:02:02.479 that it sits on actually enhan is the 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:06.240 cooling potential because it means that you can get more air coming up from the 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:10.319 bottom it's not just for looks that's a reviewer guide you guys don't need to 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:14.360 see that this is a nice touch check this out instead of including a cardboard box 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:19.680 with all the stuff you need they have included a like badass plastic box that 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.599 has everything all compartmentalized and sorted by fan size and you got your 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:28.440 thumb screws and your radiator mounting screws and your cable ties all that is 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:32.640 included a nice little resealable box for you so that's pretty cool 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:38.560 they've also got what appears to be I don't know some kind of users manual 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:43.319 with like labels and stuff it's okay we'll figure it out as we go and finally 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:47.159 you've got a little brochure about how NZXT is sort of balling and they have 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:54.720 sort of Ballin products and you can buy them there you go next thing is to take 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:57.400 this down and dump it out and I guess 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:02.440 I'll just do that the size makes it a little awkward 00:03:00.519 --> 00:03:05.799 part of it is that the case is big part of it is that I'm a little 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:12.080 small now while I would have preferred 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:17.040 to see a soft foam as you can see our packing foam did get damaged in shipping 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.200 so this corner took a significant blow however there was no damage to the case 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:26.360 um so NZXT has a lot of experience shipping fully assembled systems in 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:30.519 their cases so I would hope that whatever they've done to design the 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:35.760 packaging of this case they have considered that you can see it's up to 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:37.360 two 2 and 1/2 in thick in some places so 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:43.319 as long as it doesn't get hit in the same place really hard a couple times in 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.000 a row you should be okay um just 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:49.480 something that you want to let's see if I can lift this 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:55.640 out uh just something you want to consider guys is that this Phantom 820 00:03:52.840 --> 00:04:00.879 did get shipped to me by ground from the US so this is pretty much I don't know 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:05.799 you like you can't say worst case scenario because and the couriers will 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:09.879 always find another way to uh to to beat something up more in transit but uh this 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:15.400 is this is not something that was shipped on a pallet and was 100% 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:18.199 protected during Transit so while I love 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:23.400 soft packing foam the packing material ouch whoa that got me really good did 00:04:20.479 --> 00:04:27.440 you hear that the packing material did hold up in transit so I can't criticize 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:31.800 it too much let's go ahead and peel off the plastic this is as far as we got 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.840 last time so this is my first time actually seeing the case itself as you 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:41.479 can see it's wow that was quite the static shock 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:43.080 there it is quite large it is here we'll 00:04:41.479 --> 00:04:48.520 start at the back actually CU that'll give you guys a better idea of how 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.919 freaking big this is so that is like 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:57.080 hold on a second how does this work give me a sec guys and I get it so you can 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:59.080 move around the 120 mm or 140 mm cooling 00:04:57.080 --> 00:05:01.880 fan that's a neat feature so if you if it's going to interfere with a radiator 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:06.039 you can move it down if you want it closer to your vrm you can move it up 00:05:03.919 --> 00:05:12.360 very cool stuff four included water cooling brommet and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:18.319 PCI slots meaning you can install even the longest XL ATX motherboards with no 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:23.560 difficulty bottom mounted power supply with very very high pedestal check this 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:26.520 out so you can see these uh these pieces right here that support the power supply 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.240 keep it nice and high off the bottom of the case plus the fact that the entire 00:05:28.479 --> 00:05:33.880 case sits on a little ped meaning you're going to get lots of cooling into your 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:37.160 power supply I actually recently had a power supply die due to not getting 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:40.520 enough cooling through that bottom fan cuz it was sitting on carpet and the 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:45.039 case did not have a pedestal here's the fan filter that can be easily removed 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:48.520 and clicks into place which is very convenient for those of you who like to 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:52.479 remove things without you know tools and hassle all right let's have a look at 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:56.400 the side panel so side panel has that 200 mm cooling fan very neat shape to 00:05:55.000 --> 00:06:00.960 these vents actually see that they've got some 3D sort of Pop to them some 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:05.240 texture to them so looks uh looks really neat there you go see you guys can see 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:09.479 that and then the window I usually like to see a bit bigger of a window although 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:13.080 they are at least showing the parts that uh like the key parts that matter around 00:06:11.400 --> 00:06:16.560 that CPU socket area where you're going to have lots of cool liquid cooling 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:21.400 tubes and all that kind of good stuff let's go ahead and tilt this bad boy 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:22.560 down now got another 200 mm cooling fan 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:25.919 right there remember you can do up to a triple radiator up here and the way 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:30.639 they've designed the top of the case this time is all about cooling so you 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:34.800 see this mesh here more mesh down there and this is all ventilated so you'll be 00:06:32.479 --> 00:06:41.000 able to get an ample amount of air flow coming out of the top of the case front 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:45.080 USB they are not skimping on four USB 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:47.400 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports and then all 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:53.160 the ports that you could ask for over here so this looks like uh switching 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:56.000 between the various you know what I'm going have to figure out how this works 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.400 but there's your front panel headphone and microphone there's your power switch 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:04.160 there's your reset switch here is some of that included lighting effect stuff 00:07:01.280 --> 00:07:08.840 that they got going on let's go ahead and have a look at the front so the 00:07:06.599 --> 00:07:13.160 front reminds me very much of the original Phantom in fact not a whole lot 00:07:10.520 --> 00:07:18.080 has changed about the styling although there's more filtered intakes which you 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:24.879 can go ahead and pop right back into place there are four 5 and 1/4 in Bays 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:30.479 ah cool card reader love that SD card reader is included you can change the 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:32.560 LED modes change the Hues using ah using 00:07:30.479 --> 00:07:37.680 the dial right here and then you can control the io led oh that's really cool 00:07:36.039 --> 00:07:40.879 neaty ke and then there's more lighting effects here and under here here check 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:45.960 this out so there's more lighting effects right around 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:52.639 there very very cool okay so going back to the front uh what else we got here so 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:56.440 very nice finish NZXT has done traditionally a really good job of color 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:01.720 matching their plastic to their metal so check this out this is about as close as 00:07:59.919 --> 00:08:06.360 you can get see the challenge is that the plastic has a much smoother finish 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:09.280 than paint so you end up with well you know you end up with no matter what you 00:08:07.960 --> 00:08:15.280 do it'll always look a little bit different but as soon as you get more than I'd say 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:16.879 about um 2 to 3 fet away you can't tell 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.120 the difference at all which is about as good as it gets other side panel has 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.479 some again some like some texture some 3D to it so this pops out this gives you 00:08:24.599 --> 00:08:30.080 lots of room for cable management and anything else you'd need to get over to 00:08:28.280 --> 00:08:33.719 your drives and all like let's finish with a look at the bottom 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:37.839 of the case which as I mentioned before is sitting up on this pedestal that has 00:08:35.560 --> 00:08:42.479 lots of holes in it for ample air flow to get in the sides here there you go 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:47.000 see the sides as well as through the bottom if it if it is if it needs to 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:52.399 there's all that filtered intake whatnot and there are the rubber feet that the 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:53.959 entire case sits on and you know what 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:57.760 let's turn the camera off while I open it up and then we'll be back in a moment 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.600 actually this is something I recognized from the switch so you take these these 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.839 two screws out and then you can actually turn the uh the side panels into a bit 00:09:03.160 --> 00:09:09.640 of a tooless thing here so you just go ahead and move that down pop the side 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:12.560 panel off and then you can lock it back 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:12.560 into place just like 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:20.440 that now the inside of this thing is actually fairly modular so I want to 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:25.279 start with those features at the very beginning here so you can actually slide 00:09:21.839 --> 00:09:27.760 out this entire Bank of hard drive cages 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:33.680 so the included hard drive sleds can support either 3 and 1/2 in D completely 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:35.839 tooll lessly or 2 and 1/2 in ssds on the 00:09:33.680 --> 00:09:39.800 middle of them without without any difficulty so you just kind of slide 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:43.920 those in from the back you'll have to open up the uh sort of the opposite side 00:09:41.959 --> 00:09:47.360 panel from what you'd normally expect in order to install a drive and once you 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:51.079 actually get a drive mounted in these they'll be quite a bit more rigid so you 00:09:49.560 --> 00:09:54.560 could just have to kind of arrange them carefully one time and then uh there 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:59.720 there you go so those are sitting in there once you do that you can actually remove four screws take this piece out 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:06.120 and that's how you're going to Mount that dual 120 or dual two or dual 120 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:09.760 dual 120 or dual 140 mm Radiator in the front that's going to draw air up from 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:15.480 the bottom of the pedestal here this one doesn't come out by the look of oh yes 00:10:11.920 --> 00:10:17.720 it does oh cool okay so you can pull 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:22.440 this one out too you can mount a 120 or 140 mm fan here using just two holes and 00:10:20.920 --> 00:10:26.760 then you can actually adjust it if you want it to point here then you just tighten the screw you loosen the screw 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:32.120 if you want it to point up more towards the CPU socket you go ahead and tighten it right there and the fanel sit kind of 00:10:29.800 --> 00:10:38.079 like that pulling air away over the hard drives and then up in this direction 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:43.519 Lots oh yeah right so you can take out these three 5 and 1/4 in Bays as well 00:10:41.560 --> 00:10:48.839 and you can see inside here that there's a secondary sort of top here uh so you 00:10:46.560 --> 00:10:52.639 can just yeah move things around and take them out as you see fit I mean 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:56.200 obviously you can't like I don't mean move things around but move them sort of 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:00.440 physically out of the case if you don't need Drive mounting here and you just 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:04.959 want that 200 mm fan blowing air right in so that's very cool stuff I mentioned 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:08.839 this before but you've got Ample Ample support for no matter what kind of power 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:15.959 supply you put in here and the cable routing options are fantastic so I often 00:11:13.160 --> 00:11:20.800 complain about this when you've got a billion Cable Management holes up here 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:25.279 and then you've got like one right next to the power supply because it's pretty 00:11:22.839 --> 00:11:30.720 simple math what goes in here must come out there at some 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:33.120 point NZXT has taken that sort of to the 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:37.480 next level here and they've got three Cable Management options right next to 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:40.200 the power supply one slightly above it this is more like for your front panel 00:11:38.839 --> 00:11:43.440 audio or whatever else and then you've got lots of different options up here 00:11:41.959 --> 00:11:47.880 for where it's going to come out that triple 120 mm radiator that I talked 00:11:45.880 --> 00:11:52.040 about before that'll go right here but right now there's a 200 mil uh fan 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:55.839 that's mounted in the top in its stead so you can easily pull that out here's 00:11:53.800 --> 00:11:59.839 the included case lighting strip so that's going to uh light up your case 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.360 well that's what case lighting does I suppose um and let's have a look at how 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:10.000 many more 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in drives can be mounted in the other side 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:14.320 here oh I just stepped on a Molex connector I'm going to need that later 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:20.120 but not now ow that hurt okay I'm good I'm okay thanks for asking uh Four 3 and 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:22.240 1/2 in sleds or 2 and 1/2 in sleds 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:26.199 whatever you prefer are in there then from the back you can see there is tons 00:12:23.920 --> 00:12:29.560 of room for cable management because you've got all this space that is I'm 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:34.240 trying to hold these out of the way all this space here remember it starts here 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:38.199 and actually bulges out over here so all this space here plus the space that's in 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:46.000 here as well so that's a total of 3 and 1/2 CM no big deal huge CPU cutout hole 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:50.079 so that's really convenient because you won't have to remove the motherboard in 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:54.480 order to mount a different CPU Cooler that has a back plate and check this out 00:12:52.160 --> 00:13:00.040 they include an individually sleeved 8 Pin cable extension that's fantastic so 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:03.959 they're assuming you got this super long case and a super tall case and your 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:06.800 power supply probably won't have a long enough eight pin they go ahead and throw 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:10.360 that in for you I think that's like a six or eight or $10 value or something 00:13:08.959 --> 00:13:16.120 like that that's what typically these individually sleeved things get charged 00:13:12.079 --> 00:13:19.160 so yeah that's that's awesome included 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:21.279 cables I mean look at this because of 00:13:19.160 --> 00:13:26.199 all the different stuff that this case has going on there are a lot of included 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:30.440 wires that you're going to need to Route so this is power for in all likelihood 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:37.360 your included Ed fan controller and door lighting system these oh 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:41.399 boy you know what I don't actually necessarily want to speculate as to what 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:45.279 each of these individual power connectors are powering but you've got a 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:52.120 SATA power and a Molex power I'm going to assume you need those for something 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:54.639 you've got uh fan here we go fan 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:57.639 harnesses that you can go ahead and plug fans into if you want to use them with 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:05.199 the integrated fan controller you can see they're actually labeled f r ft so 00:14:02.199 --> 00:14:07.639 front rear top and then there's probably 00:14:05.199 --> 00:14:14.160 one more zone I'm trying to look for a for a B1 um is okay sure whatever so 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:20.519 there's a ton of those you've got the integrated usb3 you've got you must have two 00:14:17.800 --> 00:14:24.480 headers for front USB 2 so here's one of them there must be a header somewhere 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:32.360 here's the other one for front panel audio which is no USB 2 USB 2 USB 2 oh 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:34.440 right sorry three USB 2s okay given how 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:40.079 many motherboards have three USB 2 front panel headers it makes sense I guess um 00:14:36.880 --> 00:14:41.759 HD audio and yeah you guys are going to 00:14:40.079 --> 00:14:45.000 want to work on your cable management a little bit the good news is ncxt 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:52.399 includes lots of cable management anchors here so all these here here here 00:14:48.160 --> 00:14:54.480 here here here here here here and just 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.959 generally all over the place allow you to anchor down cables just like they've 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:02.600 done here to make sure that everything lays flat enough that you're going to be 00:14:59.680 --> 00:15:06.399 able to close the casee once you are done with it I think that pretty much 00:15:04.199 --> 00:15:10.759 covers everything I wanted to say about the back so the last thing I want to do 00:15:08.680 --> 00:15:15.839 is throw a power supply in here just to check out this included lighting 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:19.440 system the integrated fan controller is outstanding so that turns out it turns 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:23.839 out that that's the Molex plug all you got to do is use the selector up here 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:28.360 which is the middle one to go okay so to front uh back so here we can actually 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:32.120 take see the brightness of the LED indicates how much power is being 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:34.720 delivered to it uh to the fan so go around and check out the back fan I'm 00:15:33.199 --> 00:15:40.519 going to turn it all the way down and it's actually going to turn that 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:42.360 fan right off very very cool although 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:46.120 the included fans are very quiet anyway see here I'm turning it back on now so 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:50.399 that's that's a really neat feature and it turns out the SATA power is for the 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:54.480 integrated LED lighting so let's go ahead and turn that on so you can see 00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:58.160 things are lit up green I'm going to go ahead and sort of kill the lights in 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:04.319 here so I can give you guys a better look at how this case looks with the 00:16:01.319 --> 00:16:06.279 integrated lighting effects so actually 00:16:04.319 --> 00:16:11.639 it lights it up really really well you get a nice even glow inside and I'm 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:18.399 going to go ahead and see what we can do in terms of uh changing things so I 00:16:15.959 --> 00:16:22.519 don't know what this does oh okay oh 00:16:22.920 --> 00:16:29.120 cool oo that's neat so it goes all the 00:16:26.839 --> 00:16:33.480 way up to White there you go and don't forget it's up here as well so there's 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:37.319 uh there's lighting here did you see the one over here I 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:41.319 don't know if you ever saw that one so there's one here so that changes colors 00:16:39.319 --> 00:16:46.199 as well and then the ones inside and then you can also ah there's the IED so 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:50.639 if you want to find a way to plug your tables in in the dark there's just a 00:16:48.040 --> 00:16:54.680 front switch there including your PCI slots which is very very cool as well 00:16:52.759 --> 00:17:00.639 and then there's LED modes so there's uh oh okay there we go 00:16:57.839 --> 00:17:05.720 so we'll cycle through these so there's none inside only which turns off the one 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:09.400 over here and then there's inside and outside so let's go ahead cycle through 00:17:07.520 --> 00:17:14.039 those colors a little bit very very cool that's the one I'd go with that looks 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:19.520 awesome I think I'm in the wrong mode ha 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:21.280 there we go nice like fuchsia interior 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:24.839 lighting balling thank you for checking out my 00:17:23.439 --> 00:17:28.919 unboxing and first look at the Phantom 820 from NZXT don't forget to subscribe 00:17:27.280 --> 00:17:32.880 to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos