NZXT Phantom 630 Gaming Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to another fabulous unboxing online as Tech tips this time we're
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going to be having a look at the Phantom 630 high performance modular full tower
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computer case from NZXT this is pretty
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similar to The Phantom 820 which we
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actually had a look at not that long ago except it has been decreased in size a
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little bit and it has also been decreased in price quite a bit so there
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goes my my video switcher which I sort
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of will need at some point but let's have a look at what NZXT has to say for
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themselves on the outside of the case so
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here we go we got four 5 and a/4 inch Bays cooling options Galore with two 200
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mm fans included and one 140 mm fan included lots of clearance for things
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like graphics cards cable management and CPU coolers and finally some Dimensions
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that comes with a 2-year warranty although I'd expect that with a case
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there's not a whole lot to go wrong Next Generation Phantom design both inside
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and out high-end water cooling support allows use of multiple radiators and
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multiple radiator sizes very cool SSD mounts behind the motherboard tray split
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level motherboard tray allowing increased rear Cable Management we will
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check that out I'll show you guys that on the back fully modular internal drive blazs allow you to customize the Phantom
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630s layout to suet your needs I think what they meant was suit but they tried
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give them credit for it okay easily removable dust filters illuminate your
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IO ports at the back this is cool that's a great feature integrated high power 30
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wat single Channel fan controller this is changed and we don't have the so full
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external peripheral support with multiple USB 3 and an integrated SD card reader okay so the things that seem to
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be missing so far are the customized lighting effects so that I wasn't I'm
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not talking about the lighting at the back to see your your peripherals I'm
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talking about the uh internal lighting that was in like you know different
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colors and stuff that was very very cool so that's missing and then
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H there we go uh that that seems to be
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sort of one of the biggest missing features so we've got a white version of
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the Phantom 630 apparently I actually had no idea what was inside the included
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foam is quite thick so you can see it's
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probably about an inch thick around the outside edges however that's not all the
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way so it's quite lightweight um I don't
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know if I would be a big fan of shipping an entirely built liquid cooled system
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in the stock box I would probably want to change it out for something a little
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bit more robust but the case itself is
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strong and feels rigid so far so that will actually help compared to if you
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had sort of a flimsy case inside of a hard foam packed box go ahead and take
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the plastic off here and you know what there's actually a lot of plastic wrap
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on this case so we're going to do that off camera and we're good to go so I'd
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love to have diesel do a nice pan of the front panel here because we are starting
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to get used to this Phantom look I remember when the first Phantom launched
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some people were not necessarily that impressed with the aesthetic I
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personally liked it but I think now that
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we've seen it a few times in a few slightly different variations of the
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case the 410 the original the 630 and the 820 I am definitely used to it I
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think it looks great and there's a lot of prct I ality that goes along with it
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so this is magnetic which is actually really nice and this right here this is
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a very loose mesh so you can see the fan very clearly which shows you how loose
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the mesh is you can also see there's a lot of space between the mesh and the fan that and there's a dust filter in
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the front which I just discovered and didn't know about okay so there you go
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so that actually is there for a very practical reason that makes it easier
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for the air to pass through the mesh without making additional noise there's
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also what appears to be a dust filter directly in front of the fan so that'll
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help with things as well up here in the front you can find those four 5 and 1/4
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in Bays as well as the built-in SD card slot and on the top of the case I'm
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going to get diesel to film that for me again two
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USB 3.0 ports two USB 2.0 ports headphones and microphone ah yes the
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other thing that was missing from the Phantom 820 is the very complex fan
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controller now we've just got a single fan controller so down middle up uh that
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turns the io lights on and off you've got power and reset switches here as
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well as indicator LEDs so this right here is just sort of you got one option
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or one you've got one setting for the fan speeds inside your entire case which
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I actually personally don't mind because quite frankly think about it this way
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how often are you going to be going oh well I'd like my CPU fan at high and I'd
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like my GPU fan at low and then my case band at medium I don't think that
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happens that often I think you're either idling and Diesel's putting his hand up
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cuz no forget it you don't do that um I
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think you're either going okay well I'm idle I want it quiet or I'm you know I'm
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gaming and I want to you know Crank It Up so those those are pretty much the
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options regardless of what sort of smart Alex on my production crew might be
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saying so we're going to go ahead and give you guys another look at it here so
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again you can see the mesh on the top is quite loose and there's one of those
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included 200 mm fans and I've totally got it on the wrong camera right now so
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now you can see what I'm actually talking about here there's an option for
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another 200 mm fan here and this is again quite a loose mesh with a lot of
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space so it's going to be very very low restriction which is great for cooling
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and Phantom series is about nothing if not cooling with sort of cool looks so
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on the back you can do a variety of different sort of fan mounting options
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120 and 140 and then you can move them around as you see fit also it should be
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noted that this back piece here and it's actually going to be easier for slick to
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show you this this back piece here bulges out a little bit so can you see
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that that sort of that there you go you can see that bulge yeah you can see it
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now so it bulges out a little bit and there's a very good reason for that it again puts more space between the fan
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and the grill which reduces noise and reduces restriction very very good stuff
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we've got ah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine
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expansion slots so that means that you can put pretty much whatever uh whatever
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motherboard you want in there there aren't many motherboards that have more than nine PCI expansion slots in fact I
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can't think of any although if you had one that had nine and then you needed a
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dual slot card in the bottom that might be an issue but still I expect it to be
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fine and you've got a bottom mounted power supply that looks again sort of
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pretty pretty standard there so left side
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panel there we go you've got another 200
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mm fan that's the other included 200 mm
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fan with the is that three included 200
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mm fans now hold on just a minute no where's the 140 mil fan
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something in here must be a 140 mil fan well let's open it up and find out what
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the heck's going on because apparently there are three included 200mm fans one
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in the front one on the side one on the top even though it would appear that the
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ah yes no three included 200 mm fans there's also a window so the window lets
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you see pretty much just the CPU socket area and the yeah pretty much just the
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CPU socket area as well as a rear 120 mm
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mounted water cooling unit or something like like that like if you were to install something like an NZXT Kraken in
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here for example that would be a great fit and it would go perfectly in there I
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would show you the Kraken but it's actually on our test bench right now
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interior options so check this out you've actually got a lot of different
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options here so there's that 200 mm front fan and I can't see slicks in my
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way so I can't tell which camera we're on yep we're on the right one okay so
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there's that front 200 mm fan you've got a lot of other options here as well
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though so you can actually do dual 120 or dual 140 mm fans if you would prefer
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and then what's cool about that is I can't quite see how they come out it
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looks like it's on the other side but you could pull these Drive cages out and
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you could actually do uh you could put radiators here as well which is very
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very neat so we're going to show you that we'll pull this out you can also see oh check this oh look at this this
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is great so there's actually screws here
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so you might have to get kind of close to see that there's SC screws here so
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you can pull out not only the cages but also this guy right here which is the um
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the fixture that these cages actually attach to so Cable Management holes here
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at the back of them sliders here to Mount them and then the whole thing
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comes out if you just decide who cares I'm going to mount two ssds on the back
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of the motherboard tray I'm not going to need anything else and that's it that's
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all I need very very cool stuff Cable Management holes Galore so they're using
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an extremely soft rubber for the cable management holes you can see here that
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it's very very pable there you go see
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that one two three so this is where you'll run your graphics card ones this
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is where you'll run up from your power supply so that'll be down here there's a
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ton of room at the back for cable management look at that you can pretty much stuff flake my hand back there and
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not see check that out Pan behind the motherboard tray lots and lots of room
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uh this is a neat feature that we've seen on NZXT cases before this rotating
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piece right here so check that out so
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that allows to either sort of you you just put either a 120 or 140 mm fan
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there and you can either blow it up towards the CPU or across the graphics
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cards the choice is totally yours so if I had a graphics card that for example
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exhausted air this way then I would go and I would install that graphics card
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and then I probably actually wouldn't want to do that anyway because it would
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still be pointing away but okay don't worry about it uh the point is point it
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up there point it there the choice is actually yours there's also another here
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we go fan filter so the fan filters half
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and half you can pull out half of it from the front and half from the back that prevents you from having like the
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800d a fan filter that's this long that unless you actually keep your case 4T
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away from the wall you aren't even able to remove without lifting it up and
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moving it around which with these heavy cases can be a bit of a problem included
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cables are all black love to see this
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this is a good thing so we've got there's your USB 2 there's your USB
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other more different USB 2 uh there's your fan connect connector okay uh so
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that's for adding I guess looks like one more fan cuz the included ones are
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presumably ah yeah that's for attaching the side panel fan and then we've got uh
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front panel connectors and USB 3 so we're going to go ahead and open it up
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from the other side so you guys can check it out and it is apparently pretty
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tight so I'm going to go ahead and grab a screwdriver which I happen to have
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handy the odds of that actually were not very good I don't usually have a
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screwdriver handy for these unboxings I never really showed you guys
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the uh construction of the side panel so I'm just going to show you that right now so there's a little bit of flex to
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it but with a case this big that's to be expected um they're not it's not like
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they've just gone and built it out of sort of an incredibly thin steel or
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anything like that although we've seen that trick before not from NZXT I don't
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think I showed you guys the tooless 5 and a/4 inch Bay actually before we oh
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no way these are made of metal very very nice so there you go
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you can hear that snap to them and then you can also screw them in should you so
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desire now this is the second time we've seen this in the recent past but it
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looks like the uh the 3 and 1/2 in Bays actually come out from the right hand
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side instead of from the left side this is a bit of a unique design to me uh
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because I would normally think of sort of opening up the left side panel to get
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it anything on the inside of the case but I guess it doesn't really matter 2
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and 1/2 in drives go here in the middle 3 and 1/2 in drives are on rubber
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isolating mounts here and you can see there's some Flex to it so it's designed
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to to bend easily there but once you put a drive in it that'll firm right up and
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you won't have to worry about it sort of going anywhere oh there's the included
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fan controller love this so sorry that
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one's just on there and it's specifically pre-run for you to plug in
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that side panel you can run 10 fans off
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of the included controller I think it supports up to 20 watts so you don't
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have to worry too much about over loading that no difficulties there here
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on the back you can see that there's tons of cable management space so I'm
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going to get slick to kind of have a look here where you can there's more
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than enough space to put a 24 pin cable back here and then there's actually some
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parts that pop out a little bit more like up here where the SSD Mount is but
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that's not an issue because you should be running your 24 pin here if I don't
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know if you can see this but this is out a slight slant here so this is further
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in or this is further in than this which is further in than this so there's a
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there's a shape to it here so you run your 24 pin over here and up here and
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you'll have enough space and then there's lots of space back here for
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things like your eight pin or whatever else like that uh what's also cool about
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the back is they have a ton of cable management spots so you can clip or you
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can uh zap strap cables here here here here here here here here here you can
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tell that ncxt here and here and here and everywhere here here here you can
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tell ncxt actually puts a lot of thought into how people are going to Cable
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manage the case to to keep all the wires flat and make it so that it's easy to
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close the other side panel without sort of fighting with it and forcing it into
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place the SSD mounts are here so they are mounted with just a thumb screw you
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pull these off put in the four screws into the SSD and then you are whoops I
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was on the wrong there you go so you put four screws into the bottom of the SSD
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you put it back into place and then you screw it back in this is a lot more
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elegant than what we saw in the Define R4 where you basically couldn't
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uninstall the SSD with the case actually with a
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motherboard installed because you had to screw it in from the other side which is
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not really an optimal configuration
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and okay you know what we're going to do this off camera okay I think we pretty
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much figured it out so you have a number of different options so number one is if
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you so desire you can actually just
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install these by hanging them from the ceiling so there you go so now you don't
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have to have anything here which means you can pull this out and mount a
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radiator on the bottom remember that's a filtered intake so that's that's a good
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thing you could also just pull them all out so you have a single a double and a
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triple giving you a total of six 3 and2 in so you can pull them all out and you
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could Mount radiators here in the front Okay so that that's another option you
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could take your single one and put it here although you can't take the double
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one and put it there because there's no room at the back to pull the hard drives
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out this is would have been an argument you know that I would have made at ncxt
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if I worked there for mounting the hard drives the other way because then you
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wouldn't have to worry too much about that you could just sort of you know not
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worry about that and mount things the other way but um I wasn't there so
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nobody asked me so you can also make things sort of more low profile here and
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you can have more space here for presumably the longest graphics card
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ever made uh the the twinky Edition
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graphics card because the Twinkies are see product placement maybe we're
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getting money from Hostess which doesn't actually um exist anymore so that's
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probably not what's going on um so yeah
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that's pretty much it I mean you can just sort of put a single triple one
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here and there you go you just basically bolt
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them in at the back and I'm I keep missing here but you guys get the point
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it does work and that pretty much wraps up this particular unboxing thank you
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for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Phantom 630 from NZXT which
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actually is not over yet because I didn't show you the 140 mil fan at the
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back as well as more importantly the options for radiator mounting here in
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the top so you can do a triple 120 looks like you can do a combination of no
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looks like you can do dual 140s and then
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they've used slits instead of holes so you can actually have a lot of
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flexibility in terms of where you position the fans and you can do a dual 140 radiator as well and then last but
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not least you can leave in those dual 200 mm fans with filters and go that
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route now we're done thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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