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so hey guys we are at the NZXT booth here with the new phantom 5:30 this is the 2013 edition you know it builds up on all the phantom updates throughout throughout the time within 60 so it basically takes your original phantom adds up all the additional updates that the entire phantom lineup has had and this is what we have so the final outcome is the 530 so one thing is you notice right away well this is a glossy red edition we also have the glossy white and the glossy black also we are told that matte black and matte gunmetal black is going to be available soon as well so those are options again available $10 extra now one the most predominant features again we can see the NZXT you know they have figured out their internal design pretty well so not much changes going on here again some little updates that again modify this case to be a little bit better for water cooling and just more components to be fitted for the inside so if we look in the back one of the SSD cages has been removed instead of two you only have one we're still plenty of room for all your cable management tons of grommet holes you know NZXT does a really good job with cable management plenty of cable tie grommets you know good spacing for your 8 pin CPU large CPU cutoff as well and this is where we have our all the SSD and HDD brackets now one thing that you guys know that I have complained about these a lot because of how flimsy they are but look at these now you know they're not completely modified but they have been made sturdy so that's a good sign from NZXT good job guys but we are told that these will not be used in future cases so that's a good sign we'll see me perhaps something off more sturdy but again we see we have the fan controller at the top we have two USB 3 ports audio jacks power and reset buttons and we also have a single fan controller 30 Watts that can be plugged in into the into the fan hub in the back so you can still control all your fans with this we see the door open it's a magnetic door so it is kind of difficult to open there you go one thing that I notice right away is also the mesh in the front has been enlarged so there's a larger volume of air going through the front this is a 200 millimeter fan in there now one issues that we've had with the fan cases is that the angle have been the one is some of the issues we've had with NZXT cases is the front airflow because it's you know it's cut off here so they've enlarged this area here so we get maximum airflow for this sort of angular design so again available in two and three colors so it's $129 for a full tower and one last thing is that triple fan support so a 360 degree 360 millimeter that is supported for the top there's also those additional spacing so for those 140 millimeter radiators that have different spacing between the fans that will be supported with this case and the last thing we want to mention is the side panel we have the same angle design acrylic side panel so revealing a lot of the internals I'm gonna be seeing your graphics card your CPU cooler of course a little bit of hard drive but that's that's not an issue but also also notice the the mesh no snow no dust filter here but it will still absorb some of us that you can clean it but this is a 140 mm at a fan that will deliver some airflow towards your your hard drives installed on the right and also deliver some airflow for the graphics card so not a bad place to put it a little extra airflow for the internals especially at the bottom it will deliver a cold air from below from the side also cold air from the front so a good integration for airflow from the side panel so another case we have here and NZXT is the h2 30 now it takes up the same initial design of sound dampening foam that we see here on the panels both on the front panel and in the back panel as well now it takes the sort of this concept of silence and integrates it into a mid tower that's is budget-friendly so $69.99 the retail price and also incorporates the sound dampening materials same internal layout that we've seen you know basically on mid towers throughout three so six in total of your any of the 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives three optical drives so when it comes to the airflow on the h 230 the front air flow is sacrificed because the only venting we see is on this side and not on the other so it is a little bit a disadvantage because the front air flow will suffer and any of your new drives here aren't going to be cooled appropriately because this is the only vent thing that we see on the side so hopefully we can see some integration of more ventilation perhaps on this side or something something else but we are looking at the sort of a silent chassis that is budget-friendly that has ATX support and if we look at the back again NZXT pretty well known for their cable management we don't see any rubber grommets but this is a sort of a budget oriented case but still would be nice to include them plenty of cable a notch is fairly small CPU cutout so that may be a an issue for some and also we see a 8 pin connection there that is just hidden but it is there so that's a good thing to see the the drive carries if you look at here that we've been we've criticized them quite a bit because they are very flimsy would be nice to have the new caddies integrated like the one that the Phantom 530 but I guess we can't have it all all right it's also in the top we have two USB 3 power reset and your audio jacks so these are have been the two cases that we are seeing here at Computex 2013 the h2 30 and the Phantom 530 so thank you guys for watching and stay tuned for more Computex coverage you