WEBVTT 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:10.880 Buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic Ticket 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:16.720 Giveaway for a chance to win great prizes. Visit intelgamingromo.com to 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:20.880 learn more. Welcome to my much requested 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:24.320 unboxing and overview of the NZXT H230. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:28.480 This is a quiet optimized case from H 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:32.640 from H230 called the H230 from NZXT and 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.760 it is the followup to their H2 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.879 something like that is what it was called. Anyway, the point is it's more 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:40.559 better and more optimized and just 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:45.120 generally changed. So, let's go ahead and get her 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:51.280 out of the case. Now you can see they are using a hard foam which 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:55.280 makes sense given the more value optimized price point of this particular 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:58.640 case compared to some of the more high-end stuff that they've done in the 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:05.920 past. And I can't get this box open because of ah yes 00:01:02.239 --> 00:01:07.439 my enemy and yet my friend punch through 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:11.840 handles. Never quite sure what to think of them. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:18.880 Ah I got zapped. Knew that was coming too. I could feel the static, feel the 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:20.720 burn, feel the burn of the styrofoam 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:23.759 and the other more different styrofoam. All right, so there's not as much 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:29.280 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 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:33.360 going to be less of an issue than if it were a very heavy case. But with that 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:37.119 said, even lightweight cases once you fill them up with hardware can tend to 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:41.680 get quite heavy. So, if I was ordering from someone like a system integrator 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:44.880 and I was ordering an H230, I might uh, you know, opt for like a heavy duty 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:48.560 shipping box or something along those lines. So, it comes with plastic on the 00:01:46.720 --> 00:01:52.880 front which reveals a glossy front panel that 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:56.799 you can see is probably about reflective enough for me to catch B-roll operating 00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:00.719 the camera there. I'm sure you can see that. Uh, not too bad. But overall, a 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:04.719 very clean aesthetic. So, on the right we find not a whole lot. On the left we 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:08.640 find not a whole lot. And on the top we find not a whole lot except for IO. It 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.879 actually kind of reminds me of like Antex's old Sonata concept where it's 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.840 got like what they were calling at the time piano black finish and then just a 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:21.360 very very clean overall aesthetic. So let's go ahead and open up this front 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:26.080 door here and have a look at what's inside. So no noise dampening material. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.959 Again this is a more value budget conscious case as uh you know us you 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.280 know folks who don't like to use the word cheap might say. So, there's three 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.680 five and a quarter inch bays as well as a fan filter here that uh actually looks 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:44.879 like it's uh not removable. You're going to want to pull off the entire front 00:02:41.760 --> 00:02:46.800 piece in order to gain access to that 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:53.519 cleanable filter. So, then all you have to do is pop these off, however those 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:57.280 work. And then you can Yeah, there we go. There we go. So, it pops off like 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:03.360 that. Let's just pull it off that way. All right. which reveals the single 120 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:08.319 mm quiet fan in the front as well as another spot for an additional 120 mm 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:12.000 fan. On the top of the case, we find our IO. So, there's your power switch, which 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:17.040 has an integrated LED, microphone, headphone, USB 3, as well as a reset 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:24.480 switch. Then, on the back of the case, we find not a whole lot to write home 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.840 about. a 120 mm fan IO, seven PCI slots, 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:29.680 additional ventilation, and a bottom-mounted power supply. So, I'm 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.319 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 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:37.280 about is typically their cases, the thumb screws, aren't over torqued at the 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:44.000 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 00:03:40.959 --> 00:03:46.319 foam. So, the front relies simply on 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:52.000 layers of material in order to block noise from reaching the user, whereas 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:54.560 the side panels do use a uh like a soft 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.799 foam that's glued to the inside of both side panels, the right and the left. So, 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:05.120 we're going to go ahead and pull both of those off. There you go. You can see more noise dampening foam over there. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:09.439 And that leads us to the interior where we don't really find too much that's 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:13.360 that different. Although on a budget oriented case, haha, see, I'm avoiding 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.479 that word again. Uh, it's nice to see this removable hard drive cage. So, you 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:20.639 can install pretty much whatever graphics card you could possibly want. 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.680 And those front intake fans, so if you were to put a very high-end graphics 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:26.960 card in here, I'd probably throw another fan in that top slot. They're not going 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:33.199 to be starved because they're going to draw air in from these vents that are positioned on the right and on the well 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:38.880 on the one side anyway. So, there you go. Uh, it accepts six 3 and 1/2 in or 2 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:42.479 and 1/2 in drives and it's got hard drive sleds that are actually accessible 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:46.479 from the backside on this particular case. This is something NZXTS has 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:50.080 started doing recently. So, you can see the 3 and 1/2 in drive mechanism is 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:55.199 toolless whereas the 2 and 1/2 in drives get screwed into the plastic retention 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:59.040 sleds. There we go. So, those clip in just like that. On the back, we find all 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:02.080 of our cable management room. So you can see that what they've done is they've 00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:06.479 actually punched out the space near the power supply and along the path of the 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:12.080 24 pin to provide just enough room for a 24 pin cable here. Whereas on the bulk 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:17.840 of the back of the motherboard tray, we see things like reinforcements punched 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:20.320 into it as well as lots of little hooks. 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:25.280 This is another thing NZXT is great for is lots of little cable management hooks 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:29.600 all over the freaking place. like they are just like all over the back of this 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:33.440 motherboard tray. It's great because it allows you to keep your cables flat and 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:37.039 get your side panel on without it like warping out away from it. And there's 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:42.960 not a whole ton of room back here for cable management. So, I do like to see 00:05:39.039 --> 00:05:44.320 that. Um, very large CPU cutout, so 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:49.440 you're going to be able to swap your CPU cooler regardless of whether you feel like taking your motherboard out or not. 00:05:47.919 --> 00:05:53.360 And the interior cables, even though it's not a windowed case, I still like 00:05:51.039 --> 00:05:56.639 to see this, happen to be black. So, there's your front USB 3. There's your 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:02.639 front HD audio as well as your front panel connectors. And finally, a Molex 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:05.919 connector. And I will have to figure out what the devil that is for. My guess 00:06:04.479 --> 00:06:10.000 would be a fan controller, but I didn't see one. Just a moment. And the last 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:14.240 thing here is a four pin Molex connector or three pin fan connector. So, that's 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:19.440 for that front fan. Other than that, we've got full toolless for the 5 and 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:23.520 1/4 in base. That's internal toolless as well as a toolless mechanism for 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:27.520 actually removing the things here. So, you just pull on these little clips and you can pull them out. Just a little 00:06:25.919 --> 00:06:31.919 something like you could drop them inside the case could also do that. And 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:36.639 then last but not least, we've got a removable filter down here in the 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.240 bottom. So, that's going to keep that air coming into your power supply 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:44.880 filtered. And these feet are going to keep the case up off the floor enough 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:49.280 that it's not going to suffocate even if you put it on a carpeted surface, which 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:53.039 I've actually had happen with a computer before. That was uh that was very 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:57.280 unfortunate. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview of the NZXT 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:59.919 H230. 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