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the h2 from NZXT is available in a couple of different colors today we are going to be on actually I don't know which ones inside here so I guess oh oh here we go on the side yes we are going to be unboxing the black version but it is available in black and white so why don't we have a look at the overall specs for this case right off the bat so it has three five and a quarter inch external base eight three and a half inch internal base seven expansion slots it includes two 120 millimeter cooling fans one at the front one at the back it also supports a 140 in the top and a 120 at the bottom VGA support is up to just over 12 inches without the hard drives and 270 millimeters with a hard drive so would that be about 11 inches 10 and a half something along those lines okay wiring space that's a good that's a good spec to have because basically NZXT has taken into consideration how much wiring space you might need at the back of the chassis and put in lots so that you will be able to run all of your cables to actually use the cable management features that they have built in it's made of plastic with aluminum plastic / aluminum yes with aluminum finishing material is steel of black coating total weight you probably don't care too much you you sb3 exciting all right what do we got here touch powered fans these are neat I'll show you that later okay 30 watt 3 3 step fan control this is a big thing that I love about NZXT chassis they built in they build in these fan controllers so you've got 40% 78 percent and 100 percent fan speed controller 30 watt 3 step I'm not sure how many fans it supports but we'll find that out shortly top hot-swap capable SATA hard drive dock which is we've seen this before but what we haven't seen before is a stealth one so we'll show you that in a minute as well eight front-facing hard drive to optimal airflow noise dampening foam in top magnetic fan cover for minimal PC noise okay we'll show you that as well and finally ample 25 speeds behind the motherboard tray for cable management what else we got on the outside that's it that's all the very plain box which is fine I would rather see companies spending well because I work at an e tailor we don't really have as many retail stores as we sell stuff online and the xt is a great online shopping experience and for an online shopping experience you do not need a fancy retail box so I would much rather see a higher quality product or better packing or whatever else then then a fancy shiny retail box which I mean you know what annex an expensive box like a really nice retail box can cost you you know in the neighborhood of five bucks so don't underestimate how much it cost to have that to a product all right we got Holmes packing material you can see we've got about an inch of packing material on all sides so that should keep it nice and safe this is not my favorite kind of packing material because it is the the breakable stuff so it'll only really take it's kind of like a helmet it'll only really take an impact once or twice and then you should pretty much replace it I like the soft clothes cell phone but it is definitely acceptable to get a chassis this size from its source to its dust in one piece which we will verify in a moment because this one has clearly traveled from some kind of origin to some kind of me and there it is the h2 so why don't we start with the aesthetics in our outside unboxing today so at the front we see a very plain very slick looking external exterior okay we've got a chrome finish around the outside plastic bezel around the very very outside and then a brushed aluminum finish here you can see it's got a small accent that breaks up the squareness of the front down here where it dips into a little corner okay and we're going to just go ahead and open that up so it looks like yeah this is magnetized I really like that because latches break magnets pretty much and don't they they just kind of work on the inside you can see the magnets here you can see these screws that make up the construction of the front panel very nice you can also see the foam that is part of the noise dampening features of this chassis you can see the tool lists three and a half five and a quarter inch bay covers which can be removed and put in just like that pull on that there and you can see it's already open okay next you can look if you don't drop it inside and ruin everything okay there we go you can also see this as a cool feature so these fans if the case was powered on would obviously be on check this out so ncx tea has done away with the concept of running fan wires around new chassis by building in power here so you actually plug power into what is essentially like a fan backplane you can plug any fan you want in and then all you do is slide it into place and it'll start spinning so if there's no power which is caused by disconnecting it here and losing the contact at these powerpoints or you can see you can plug in any fan as long as you shorten the cable enough to plug into here and then you just go like this and boom it's on just like that really cool feature so the other front 120 millimeter fan does that as well we can take these out and then once we've removed these we actually have access to install up to eight three and a half inch hard drives or two and a half inch SSDs or hard drives if you really want to but I don't need to the point so you can see here these are two lists as well so you just pop these back a little bit install your drive and slide it in to the half inch drives are mounted via the holes on the bottom of the drive so just like that feels pretty solid overall as soon as you put a drive in a mechanism like this it's going to gain a lot more rigidity so that is something to bear in mind now the tuna 1/2 inch drives won't help with the rigidity factor but they're also not having to worry about flying around inside your case you got a little foot here which has their NZXT branding on it very tastefully finished as well in kind of a gunmetal grey alright I think that's pretty much it for the front of the case let's move up to the top because that's where some of the other interesting stuff is here's our power switch here's our reset switch here is our fan speed controller which is a switch style fan speed controller we have front headphones front microphone one front USB 3.0 or you can probably wire it up as 2.0 as well if you feel like it three front USB 2.0 so total a four front USB in here you find that hot swappable bake so all you have to do is put in a three and a half inch or a half-inch drive you go ahead and stealth that back up and it doesn't disrupt the look at your case like I said we've seen this feature in the past but we haven't seen it implemented in a way that doesn't seriously detract from the appearance of the top of the chassis it's gonna go ahead and put that back on there and then finally we've got a magnetic cover for the top 140 millimeter fan should you choose to install it so you just go like that and position it where it goes which I don't remember where it goes I guess it goes right about there and there's actually yeah okay you've got a little bit of clearance in the back here so I'm just gonna go ahead and tip the chassis towards the cameraman so he can see it so you can stealth the fan and you can have like it's gonna be quite a restricted exhaust or you can take it off and you can leave it open which also looks fairly slick it's a little bit clumsy to position but since you probably won't be doing it very often I wouldn't worry too much there you go down to the right spot about that so the side panels we're just gonna show you very briefly very plain very black you've got the one small accent here where you've got that gunmetal gray piece along the bottom so it kind of makes the chassis look like it has a bit of a foot which is kind of nice on the other side same thing okay so this is a silence optimized chassis it's not about necessarily putting dual GTX 590 s in it so you don't have any side panel intake fans for video cards which is fine because it's all about building the right thing for the purpose you are trying to and you don't necessarily want to go and put a bunch of random fan holes into a chassis that's all about silence because you shouldn't be loading it up with hands okay let's just take off please have a look at the back so at the back it's a white and black fan which matches the overall look of the chassis itself we've got our standard i/o shield I'll shield cut out we have seven PCI expansion slots to water cooling tubing grommets should you decide to use an external water cooling setup some ventilation holes here as well as room for a standard ATX power supply this has all eight mounting holes so you can mount your power supply either facing with the pen down I'll actually do I shouldn't take off the side panel just yet either with the fan facing down into the filtered intake or with the fan up if you wanted to draw in hot air from the video card so when we take the side panel off we find more noise dampening foam it's glued on quite securely for those of you who are wondering all right I'm just gonna take off the other side panel here just so that we can see all of the internal goodies that are in this case alright so the first thing here is accessories let's see what we've got included for mounting hardware and whatnot alright so we have a manual we have a speaker we have some black cable ties we also have a whole lot of mounting screws and yeah more mounting screws lots of mounting screws so in case you were lacking mounting screws now you have lots ok motherboard tray let's start with that we've got a cutout here for CPU coolers that require a backplate so you don't have to take your motherboard out install it and put it back in which is a real hassle you can just install it from the back by removing the back side panel all of the internal cables are black which I really like to see really nice okay so here is power for the front fans as well as power for the fan controller up at the top of the case it looks like the fan controller supports one hmm how many does it support two three leads probably Oh probably four there's probably run one running to the back fan as well let me just see where that is they've actually here this is kind of the neat come around to the back I think it supports four but here comes the back okay so you can see that they've actually cable tied all of the wiring in place for you right off the bat so we support one two three four Wow looks like five fans you know what if anyone knows for sure post it everyone thumbs it up because I can't follow all the leads right back to the fan controller and find out where they're coming from necessarily okay they've also pre cable managed the oh you know what let's look at the back over here so cable management holes are done via the rubber grommets here here and here all along the back so you can run the cables up from your power supply to wherever they need to go without being able to see them you can also see the two and a half centimeters of clearance at the back of the us at the back of the motherboard tray which is enough to run a 24-pin connector you'd be amazed how many chassis makers make that mistake so that you actually can't run it out here bend it because remember that's a lot more than just the thickness of the cable once you try and bend it and run it up to where it needs to go you've also got these little hooks right here for zip ties which are very handy for keeping everything flat at the back and we can put screws in in addition to the tool list mount for our five and a quarter inch base so speaking of the five and a quarter inch bays here's the tool if mount I've seen this one before and I'm a big fan okay so it locks somehow or other I can't remember yeah there we go so you put it out like that lock it in like that doesn't come out anymore I like it it just looks neat it's like little like caterpillar okay we've got screw storage all along the side of the case here okay there's our three five and a quarter inch base nothing except still there there's the eight three and a half inch base which we saw before down here we have our extra 120 millimeter fan mount so that's four more intake should you so desire we have support for very long power supplies you can put in pretty much whatever you want as well as rubber grommets here at the bottom of the case to lift it a little bit up so that you aren't gonna have any restriction when you're pulling air in from the bottom of the case okay we've also got our front USB three is hooked up via the outside so you can see there's a hole here at the back so that will plug into the back of your motherboard and it's not the most elegant solution but it's also not the end of the world because it took everyone forever to decide on a standard four in usb3 here's all the front cables including USB to another USB 2 HD audio as well as all your front switches and LEDs and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the h2 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos