NZXT Hades Mid-Tower ATX Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,900 words · ~9 min read
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so today I've got kind of a random unboxing to do this is the NZXT Hades
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they basically like dropped this off at our office they were like here's a
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sample do whatever you want with it so I figured I'll do what I do best I'll
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unbox it so this computer case includes
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dual 200 mm intake fans dual fan control
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triple temperature display wire management and a black interior I love
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black Interiors now I know nothing about this case I have done zero research so
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I'm going to be disc covering everything about it as we go along so if I say
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anything wrong please forgive me make a comment in the comments and say I don't
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know what I'm talking about or something cuz the reality of it is I do not okay
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so we have nine external 5 and a/4 inch Bays four internal 3 and 1 half inch
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hard drive bays and five external 5 and a/ qu inch Bas hold on a minute which
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one is it
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okay okay I don't get it seven expansion slots we have cooling fan options thanks
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for that it is included one 2 200 mm fan
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one 120 mm fan one 200 mm fan and
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another 140 mm fan is included for the top Dimensions etc etc etc bunch of
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different languages okay let's flip this around and the latest Hardware is
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supported including room for 300 or 30
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cm cards like the ATI 5970 okay oh I get it here we go here we
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go so you can either have 9 5 and 1/4 in Bays or 5 5 and 1/4 in bays and four 3
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and 1/2 in internal base cool I get it
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control the flow gaming overclocking our office work the Dual 8 watt per Channel
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fan control allows control over the Dual 200 mm fans that spin up to 150 C CFM
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each monitor your system etc etc etc wire routing pre-drilled water cooling
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holes on the back plate front M that's also for office work by the way okay so
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I mean this computer case is clearly not for office work now they did not drop it
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off unopened and I haven't opened it since so it's still technically an
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unboxing Bo in even though I'm not actually breaking any seals I know I'm
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bending the rules but what are you going to do let's flip this baby open or flip
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it open flip it over and get it opened up so this is the Hades so I think I'm
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turning it right side up right now and then I'm going to go ahead and take the
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styrofoams off oh that's a pretty small case actually so this is clearly a mid
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Tower it's not a full tower it's not a micro ACX Tower take the oh it's kind of
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nice looking actually okay so one thing about NZXT cases that you will notice
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right away is that they are not subtle they do not take sort of the the
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conventional approach when it comes to the Aesthetics so you can see this is a
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very sort of forward leaning design it's very bold it has a front door which is
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okay you can look right through it so that is a mesh front door that's going
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to give you the best possible air flow because that's what this case is clearly
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all about is delivering great airf flow once again you can see here at the front
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this is all mesh and I'm I'm not sure if there's some kind of a filtration system
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there or not but we'll get to that later okay so here we have our 4 5 and 1/4 in
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Bay here are our two fan controls okay so you got a couple little knobbies
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there that's kind of nice there's your power button okay and then I think that pretty
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much covers that in terms of front panel connectors you've got your two audio
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connectors so you got headphones and microphone you got two USB and one e
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SATA here on the top we can see either 2
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140 mm fans or 210 mm fans it's nice
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that they give you the option for that I really appreciate that and then on this
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side you can see clearly where the 200 mm fan is located we got thumb screws
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included with the case which is great because I do not have a screwdriver on
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me I was not ready to take a panel off if I didn't if it didn't have thumb
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screws all right so let's just slide
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that back it's pretty standard as far as that goes so again more mesh here at the
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front so that's going to be useful for air intake I mean if you got lots of
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graphics card power going on back here behind the panel it's going to be great
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to have more air coming in this way this is designed to blow down right on top of
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the graphics cards it uses a three pin fan header so you can plug that into
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either their fan controller or a motherboard header even all right so
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let's get that panel out of the way oh it fell over okay it's all good inside
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we will find a user manual which is black and white there's nothing
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particularly exceptional about this but it does give you some of the basics and
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in terms of the case it comes in a few different languages okay so it shows you
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how to how to remove the side panel
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shows you how to use some of the wire management features shows you how to
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install drives okay inside here oh this is kind
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of neat actually okay well let's take the other panel off so that we can have a better look and you can see this one
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also has uh mesh at the front for more
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air intake which is great finish on the case is overall
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pretty good I mean it's it's not uh it's not the kind of finish that you'd see on
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something like a silver Stone but it's a reasonably adequate sort of powder
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coating finish you can see there's a little bit of specklin to it so that
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will make it a durable and B very fingerprint resistant which is something
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that a lot of high-end cases actually Overlook and it drives me crazy okay so
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here we've got the fan the power connectors for our top 140 mm fan which
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is included as well as our rear 120 mm fan and they've given you holes for 92
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as well which is pretty nice okay and you can see these are connected
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by three pin but you can also plug them
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into this uh for MOX power all right
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here they've actually gone ahead and they've taken the front panel connectors
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which is your eata your um your power
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your USB all that stuff and they've gone and they've routed it through the cable
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management holes for you and put it where it actually needs to go so in
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addition to those other things that you or to the standard stuff that you have
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here you have a coule what appears to be a
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temperature sensor for your hard drive you've got a temperature sensor for your
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CPU and then one other just random one for CIS okay you've got a couple more
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power oh yeah these are the power connectors for those fans you got your front audio you've got your front USB
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you got your front isata okay here you
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will find all of the accessories that you will need to mount a system in the
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Hades case all right so let's see what they've gone and included with this I
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don't have my knife great that's okay I'll just break
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it okay I can't even break tape that's
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pretty sad okay oh wow lots of Hardware
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here okay so these are Drive Bay adapters thank you for that it includes
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three of those excellent and I believe they've got one mounted already so
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they've shown you how to do it just like that you've got a whole bunch of thumb
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screws for mounting those things there you go there's a bucket of thumb screws
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as well as some hard drive screws okay and then you've got all of your standard
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mounting hardware so these black ones right here for mounting your Optical
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drives these silver ones are for mounting your motherboard they've got
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motherboard standoffs which are the little brass kind okay so that's all
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pretty standard and oh I love this they've included a 3 and 1/2 to 2 and
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1/2 in hard drive adapter so if you have an SSD drive or two maybe yeah it looks
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like it might hold two you can actually mount it in this case by default and
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I've got terrible light here I'm really sorry for that maybe if you move forward
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a little bit we'll be a to see this better oh they've included a bunch of
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zip ties too for cable management that's nice okay and then I oh yeah here at the
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front so here at the front that's why there's all that mesh there can you see
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through that way to the front fan oh you can oh that's great okay so there's the
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200 mm fan that's included in the front that's blowing all through the case and
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can come way out the back to all the included mesh PCI brackets it has a
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bottom mounted power supply here are your water cooling holes it looks like
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you can probably use 38 in tubing but I wouldn't expect to get half in tubing
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through those holes overall build quality of the case feels reasonably
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good I mean with value gaming cases a lot of the time you see them cheap out
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on the steel or they'll they'll cheap out on like a support brace here or
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something else there I mean really the standout features of this case are as
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follows black interior you've got the CPU cutout for replacing CPU coolers
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with a back plate easily and quickly you've got these wire management
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features I love these things Corsair kind of did it first with their obsidian
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800d but I I love seeing sort of more
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value oriented cases coming out that have this feature because it makes your
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wire management look so much tidier with zero effort you've got toolless mounting
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for your 5 and 1/4 in Bays okay you just take those out and then you pop them
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back in wherever you want the drive to go and that concludes my unboxing of the
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NZXT Hades
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case