Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX - Bigger means better!
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,371 words · ~6 min read
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All right, guys. Welcome to the Fantex suite where we're checking out the Enthu
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Evolve ATX in anthraite gray. Anthroyes
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apparently some coal thing. Anyways, thanks to MSI for bringing us here this
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year. If you want to see all the stuff they're releasing at Computex, check their Bitly link in the description down
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below. Also, thank you to linda.com. Starting at the front of the case, you
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have an extremely industrialized look. And behind this little panel, which on
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the release unit will actually stick up there. It's just this is a
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pre-production model, so it is a little bit floppy. You have dual USB 3.0 0
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microphone, headphone, and a reset button, which is ringed in an LED that
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shows hard drive activity. And down in the lower part of the panel, you have a
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just solid white LED. The power button is actually up on the top, which is
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removable, but is screwed in by standard. It It doesn't just pop off
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like again some of their previous models. But if you want to get into the
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top in a different way, if you just open the side panel, you can then remove two
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screws on the main compartment side panel and three screws on the back. And
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then you can actually just slide out where you would mount those fans and radiator. If you noticed, the door isn't
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actually screwed on. So, it just has some kind of pressure clamps near the
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front which hold it in which you pop out or pop in, respectively. And then the
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hinges on the back can either be unscrewed or you can just lift the door
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up off the hinges if you do want to remove it out of the way. Although I
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expect most of you guys will just open the door because that's quite easy. For
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the radiator in the front, you can have fans on the on the more forward side of
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the grill and that they will stay out of the way. You can actually raise or lower those depending on what compartment you
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want to cool, but I'll get to that in a moment. If you want a bigger radiator,
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you can take this plate out. Now, this plate you can normally install a pump.
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They have they have cutouts for installing a pump there. But if you want a taller radiator, you can install the
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radiator there. Take the plate out and then install the pump down in the lower
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compartment, which is probably what I'd want to do anyways. Uh the as you can
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see, there's a bunch of Fantex plates just to the kind of left of where those
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fans are. And that is where you would actually install additional hard drives.
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There's two standard hard drive mounts for 3 and 1/2 in drives in the bottom,
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but you can install up to three more because of the sleds that you have by
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default or up to 1 2 3 4 five more if
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you want to buy additional sleds. Now, back to that basement cover. You have an
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SSD drive kind of holding spot if you want to show it off through the window
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on the front right hand side. And there's a cable management hole done for
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that. And you also have two more 2 and 1/2 in drives uh locations behind the
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motherboard. Now, you might have noticed there wasn't a sled for the one that's
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in the front of the case. That's because they give you two sleds by default. So,
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you can decide to have two in the back behind the motherboard or one behind the
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motherboard and one in the front or however you want. But to be honest, uh I
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usually just install SSDs with tape or nothing. Anyways, so you can pretty much
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install as many SSDs as you want in this case. And the another thing about the
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basement is that there's a cutout for the power supply. A lot of basements end
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up completely covering the power supply, which is nice because you hide the cables, but not nice because you don't
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get to see the cool branding of your badass power supply. So now you'll
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actually be able to see through the window and see what power supply you own. Right next to those hard drive
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mounts, there's also a place to mount a reservoir. And there's another reservoir
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mounting space just beside where you would mount any additional add-in cards
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that you might have. Above that reservoir mounting spot, there's another
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140 mm fan by default, which again you can slide up and down. So, if you if you
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need to be a little bit higher because you have an air cooler for your CPU and
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you want it to all be in line, then that's cool. If you want to be lower because you want to install a big
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freaking rad up there and it goes that far back for whatever reason, then
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that's also cool. No problem. big massive CPU cutout and a bunch of
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grommets on the right hand side of the motherboard and above the motherboard
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with two cutouts without grommets above the motherboard and three cutouts
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without grommets just below the motherboard for your like headers or
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whatever else you might have installed there. Before we go behind the
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motherboard tray, I would also like to point out the bottom of the case, which
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also has a filter in it. There's a filter in the front of the case, the bottom of the case, and the top of the
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case. Again, the top of the case, it's mostly just a solid uh plain metal panel
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with some a little bit of breathing stuff on the angled sides, but that's
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also where your power button is. Now, behind the motherboard tray, most of
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this was covered before, but there are still a few things. There's little feet
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for the power supply that can keep it up and keep any vibration noise away from
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it, which is actually quite cool. There's the pump mounting spot, which I
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referenced earlier. There's the hard drive cages, which I referenced earlier.
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There's the kind of like velcroy strap things which are actually really nice
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and commonly found on Fantex cases. And there is a six fan PWM hub. Much like
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the front, the top spacing for fans can fit either 3x 120 mm or 2x 140 mm. And I
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really like how far away from the motherboard tray they've actually placed
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this cooling. You can see in the tray as I pull it out that there's a bunch of
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spacing there. That's so you can fit a giant freaking radiator and still have
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clearance over top of your motherboard. You might have troubles if you install
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like massive dominator memory or whatever the heck. But if you install
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some fairly standard height memory, you'd be able to fit something ridiculous like one of those alphacool
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monster rads. All right, guys. Let me know in the comments down below. Is this
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the case for you? Is this a case you've been looking for or not quite yet? Or on
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Twitter, Luke LFR. Also, thanks to MSI
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for sending us here this year. It was a ton of help. They're a big part of the reason why we're here at all. And you
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can check out a bit.ly link in the description below this video to see all
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the stuff that they're launching at Compyex here this year. Also, thank you to linda.com. You can check out their
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link, linda.com/computex for a 10-day free trial and start learning today. While
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you're down there commenting, like, dislike, favorite, subscribe, share,
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whatever the heck you have left to do. Thank you guys for watching this video. If you want to see all the rest of our
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