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The $59 Tempered Glass Case - Phanteks P300

2017-05-29
what's up there I'll meet you in our connection fan sex is not forgetting the budget-conscious buyers they're not forgetting about tempered glass and they're not forgetting about you know some water cooling support in it because this is the Neo fan --tx it could speed 300 following a very similar you know structural nature of the P 400 which you can check out reviews of below but this is the P 300 at $59 tempered glass enclosure let's check it out our complex trip is brought to you by fan tech schoolmaster and MSI alright so there are several reasons why this case is so cheap the primary one being the power supply chamber that is actually the bottom part of the case so that reduces the material use internally and externally as the glass panel is much smaller than normal full sized panels because it doesn't cover that power supply chamber area the glass mount here however is still pretty solid with rubber inserts thumb screws and tinted perimeter on the glass to hide the edges the i/o is pretty standard dual USB 3 and chrome plated audio jacks the front panel is only ventilated at the top and bottom that are covered with a dust filter behind which there are dual 120 and 140 million mounts so you could go with a 280 millimeter all-in-one here and they did manage to reduce the width of the case too by rotating the drive cage towards the front with an appropriate cutouts for SATA cables on the right of them and there's also an SSD caddy behind the motherboard tray the interior is very very basic but seems to be functional with built-in cable management channel that it's part of the frame with several cutouts on it to pass the cables so this is actually quite similar to the layout we've seen on the s3 40 by NZXT there's even a 140 mm or fan mount at the top with a dust filter and at 59 bucks you can overlook the lack of rubber grommets but to flare up a little bit there is a very thin power LED right above the Centex logo on the left side that is also RGB alright so another cool thing we saw here antics are the Halos RGB fan frames adding really cool and ambient lighting to your non lit up fans it's finally possibility with 120 140 millimeter frames they just simply have are inserted on top of them and the illumination is actually quite nice it's ambient it's not harsh in any way and we have both halos and halos lux so that's kind of two versions the halos is more plastic frame but the halos blocks is an actual aluminum frame so this is what we have here and it's quite beautiful it's going to be anodized in black sandblasted color so the material is awesome and it will have a little bit of a shine and have a mirror finish on the inside to give us a little bit more of a reflective nature and stuff and so when things are showing them inside the new n2 Pro special edition and so pro M so it's got the white interior tempered glass Edition black exterior and yeah so what you see here at the top are black blades and white blades for the bottom row to demonstrate how these brackets light up different colors of the fan blades and the profile of the bracket is actually pretty thin and the color is nicely ambient and it's also uniformed you can still make out a little bit of the lighter spots where the LEDs are but they're not harsh so that's good and the brackets can be daisy chained together and connected to either the fantex case lighting and be controlled that way or you can connect them to an RGB header on your motherboard and have full lighting control that way two sets of screws are provided to either attach the frame to the fan only or longer screws to attach the frame to the fan and then to the case so price-wise it's $10 for the Halos plastic frame for both 120 and 140 millimeter sizes while the aluminum luxe version is $18 and $20 for those sizes respectively so it's a bit on the expensive side but you know maybe the $10 frames sound like a good way to light up your interior of a case without adding LED strips while still keeping your favorite fans and finally this little water cooling part got our attention it's a thin in a small reservoir pump combo that attaches to either a 120 or 140 mm fans and can fit in spaces a bit more comfortably versus more common tube reservoirs so here at the back there is an aluminum heatsink that helps to cool the liquid plus if you install a pump inside the bracket itself the heatsink portion can be relocated to cool the pump also so for anyone experienced with water cooling let us know what you think of this prototype I think the attachment mechanism is pretty good as you can installed horizontally or vertically on one of your fans and that seems pretty convenient so guys that's it for the p300 coverage let us know what you think of it and the fans as shown in this video thanks for watching we'll see you in the next
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