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learn more. Welcome to my much requested
unboxing and overview of the NZXT H230.
This is a quiet optimized case from H
from H230 called the H230 from NZXT and
it is the followup to their H2
something like that is what it was called. Anyway, the point is it's more
better and more optimized and just
generally changed. So, let's go ahead and get her
out of the case. Now you can see they are using a hard foam which
makes sense given the more value optimized price point of this particular
case compared to some of the more high-end stuff that they've done in the
past. And I can't get this box open because of ah yes
my enemy and yet my friend punch through
handles. Never quite sure what to think of them.
Ah I got zapped. Knew that was coming too. I could feel the static, feel the
burn, feel the burn of the styrofoam
and the other more different styrofoam. All right, so there's not as much
padding as I would have liked to see on the corners. But the good news is that it's a fairly lightweight case, so it's
going to be less of an issue than if it were a very heavy case. But with that
said, even lightweight cases once you fill them up with hardware can tend to
get quite heavy. So, if I was ordering from someone like a system integrator
and I was ordering an H230, I might uh, you know, opt for like a heavy duty
shipping box or something along those lines. So, it comes with plastic on the
front which reveals a glossy front panel that
you can see is probably about reflective enough for me to catch B-roll operating
the camera there. I'm sure you can see that. Uh, not too bad. But overall, a
very clean aesthetic. So, on the right we find not a whole lot. On the left we
find not a whole lot. And on the top we find not a whole lot except for IO. It
actually kind of reminds me of like Antex's old Sonata concept where it's
got like what they were calling at the time piano black finish and then just a
very very clean overall aesthetic. So let's go ahead and open up this front
door here and have a look at what's inside. So no noise dampening material.
Again this is a more value budget conscious case as uh you know us you
know folks who don't like to use the word cheap might say. So, there's three
five and a quarter inch bays as well as a fan filter here that uh actually looks
like it's uh not removable. You're going to want to pull off the entire front
piece in order to gain access to that
cleanable filter. So, then all you have to do is pop these off, however those
work. And then you can Yeah, there we go. There we go. So, it pops off like
that. Let's just pull it off that way. All right. which reveals the single 120
mm quiet fan in the front as well as another spot for an additional 120 mm
fan. On the top of the case, we find our IO. So, there's your power switch, which
has an integrated LED, microphone, headphone, USB 3, as well as a reset
switch. Then, on the back of the case, we find not a whole lot to write home
about. a 120 mm fan IO, seven PCI slots,
additional ventilation, and a bottom-mounted power supply. So, I'm
going to go ahead and throw this back on. We're going to open it up. We'll be back in a moment. One thing NZXT is good
about is typically their cases, the thumb screws, aren't over torqued at the
factory, so you're able to get them off with your hands, which is kind of nice. We open it up to find noise dampening
foam. So, the front relies simply on
layers of material in order to block noise from reaching the user, whereas
the side panels do use a uh like a soft
foam that's glued to the inside of both side panels, the right and the left. So,
we're going to go ahead and pull both of those off. There you go. You can see more noise dampening foam over there.
And that leads us to the interior where we don't really find too much that's
that different. Although on a budget oriented case, haha, see, I'm avoiding
that word again. Uh, it's nice to see this removable hard drive cage. So, you
can install pretty much whatever graphics card you could possibly want.
And those front intake fans, so if you were to put a very high-end graphics
card in here, I'd probably throw another fan in that top slot. They're not going
to be starved because they're going to draw air in from these vents that are positioned on the right and on the well
on the one side anyway. So, there you go. Uh, it accepts six 3 and 1/2 in or 2
and 1/2 in drives and it's got hard drive sleds that are actually accessible
from the backside on this particular case. This is something NZXTS has
started doing recently. So, you can see the 3 and 1/2 in drive mechanism is
toolless whereas the 2 and 1/2 in drives get screwed into the plastic retention
sleds. There we go. So, those clip in just like that. On the back, we find all
of our cable management room. So you can see that what they've done is they've
actually punched out the space near the power supply and along the path of the
24 pin to provide just enough room for a 24 pin cable here. Whereas on the bulk
of the back of the motherboard tray, we see things like reinforcements punched
into it as well as lots of little hooks.
This is another thing NZXT is great for is lots of little cable management hooks
all over the freaking place. like they are just like all over the back of this
motherboard tray. It's great because it allows you to keep your cables flat and
get your side panel on without it like warping out away from it. And there's
not a whole ton of room back here for cable management. So, I do like to see
that. Um, very large CPU cutout, so
you're going to be able to swap your CPU cooler regardless of whether you feel like taking your motherboard out or not.
And the interior cables, even though it's not a windowed case, I still like
to see this, happen to be black. So, there's your front USB 3. There's your
front HD audio as well as your front panel connectors. And finally, a Molex
connector. And I will have to figure out what the devil that is for. My guess
would be a fan controller, but I didn't see one. Just a moment. And the last
thing here is a four pin Molex connector or three pin fan connector. So, that's
for that front fan. Other than that, we've got full toolless for the 5 and
1/4 in base. That's internal toolless as well as a toolless mechanism for
actually removing the things here. So, you just pull on these little clips and you can pull them out. Just a little
something like you could drop them inside the case could also do that. And
then last but not least, we've got a removable filter down here in the
bottom. So, that's going to keep that air coming into your power supply
filtered. And these feet are going to keep the case up off the floor enough
that it's not going to suffocate even if you put it on a carpeted surface, which
I've actually had happen with a computer before. That was uh that was very
unfortunate. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview of the NZXT
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