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so today I've got kind of a random unboxing to do this is the NZXT Hades they basically like drop this off at our office they were like here's a sample do whatever you want with it so I figured I'll do what I do best I'll unbox it so this computer case includes dual 200 millimeter intake fans dual fan control triple temperature display wire management and a black interior I love black interiors now I know nothing about this case I have done zero research so I'm going to be discovering everything about it as we go along so if I say anything wrong please forgive me make a comment in the comments and say I don't know what I'm talking about her something because the reality of it is I do not okay so we have nine external five and a quarter inch bays for internal three and a half inch hard drive bays and five external five and a quarter inch bays away hold on which one is it okay okay I don't get it seven expansion slots we have cooling fan options thanks for that it is included one two hundred millimeter fan one one twenty millimeter fan one two hundred millimeter fan and another 140 millimeter fan is included for the top dimensions etc etc etc but different languages scales flip this around and the latest hardware is supported including room for 300 or 30 centimeter cards like the ATI at fifty nine seventy okay oh I get it here we go here we go so you can either have nine five and a quarter inch bays or five five and a quarter inch bays and four three and a half inch internal bays cool I get it control the flow Gaming overclocking or office work the dual eight watt per channel fan control allows control over the dual 200 millimeter fans it's been up to 150 seats CFM each monitor your system etc etc etc wire routing pre-drilled water cooling holes on the backplate from the others that's also for office work by the way okay so it's I mean this computer case is clearly not for office work no they did not drop it off unopened and I haven't opened it since so it's still technically an unboxing even though I'm not actually breaking any seals I know I'm bending the rules what are you gonna do let's split this baby open her flip it open flip it over and get it opened up so this is the Hades so I think I'm turning it right-side up right now and then I'm gonna go ahead and take the styrofoam ease aw oh that's a pretty small case actually so this is clearly a mid Tower it's not a full Tower it's not a micro-atx shall we fix it no it's kind of nice looking actually okay so one thing about NZXT cases that you will notice right away is that they are not subtle they do not take sort of the the conventional approach when it comes to the aesthetics so you can see this is a very sort of forward leaning design it's very bold it has a front door which is okay you can look right through it so that is a mesh front door that's going to give you the best possible airflow because that's what this case is clearly all about is delivering great airflow once again you can see here at the front this is all mashin I'm I'm not sure if there's some kind of a filtration system there or not that we'll get to that later okay so here we have our four or five and a quarter inch base here are our two fan controls okay so you got a couple of little nabis there that's kind of mixed there's your power button in terms of front panel connectors you've got your two audio connectors so you got headphones and microphone you got two USB and one eSATA here on the top we can see either two 140 millimeter fans or two 120 millimeter fans it's nice that they give you the option for that I really appreciate that and then on this side you can see clearly where the 200 millimeter fan is located we got fun screws included with the case which is great because I do not have a screwdriver on me I was not ready to take a panel off if I didn't if it didn't have thumb screws all right so let's just slide that back it's pretty standard as far as that goes so again more mesh here at the front so that's going to be useful for air intake I mean if you've got lots of graphics card power going on back here behind the panel it's going to be great to have more air coming in this way this is designed to blow down right on top of the graphics cards it uses a three pin fan header so you can plug that into either their fan controller or a motherboard head or even great let's get that panel out of the way okay pelipper okay okay inside you will find a user's manual which is black and white there's nothing particularly exceptional about this but it does give you some of the basics in terms of the case it comes in a few different languages okay so it shows you how to how to remove the side panel it shows you how to use some of the wire management features shows you how to install drives okay inside here oh this is kind of neat actually okay well let's take the other panel off so that we can have a better look and you can see this one also has mesh up the front for more air intake which is great finish on the case is when we're all pretty good I mean it's not it's not the kind of finish that you'd see on something like a silverstone but it's a reasonably adequate sort of powder coating finish you can see there's a little bit of a cleanness to it so that will make it a durable and be very fingerprint resistant something that a lot of high-end cases actually overlook and it drives me crazy okay so here we've got the fan the power connectors for our top 140 millimeter fan which is included as well as our rear 120 millimeter fan and they've given you holes for 92 as well which is pretty nice okay and you can see these are connected by three pins but you can also plug them into this four molex power alright here they've actually gone ahead and they've taken the front panel connectors which is your eSATA your your power your USB all that stuff and they've gone and they've routed it through the cable management holes for you and put it where it actually needs to go so in addition to those other things that you are to the standard stuff that you have here you have a cup what appears to be a temperature sensor for your hard drive you've got a temperature sensor for your CPU and then one other just random one for sis okay you've got a couple more power yeah these are the power connectors for those fans you got your front audio you've got your front USB SATA okay here you will find all of the accessories that you will need to mount a system in Cady's pace alright so let's see what they've gone and included with this all right great that's okay I'll just break it okay I can't even break the tape that's pretty sad yeah oh wow lots of cards right here okay so these are drive bay adapters thank you for that includes three of those excellent and I believe they've got one mounted already so they've shown you how to do it just like that you've got a whole bunch of thumb screws for mounting those things there you go there's a bucket of thumb screws as well as some hard drive screws okay and then you've got all of your standard mounting hardware so these black ones right here for mounting your optical drives these silver ones are for mounting your motherboard they've got motherboard standoffs which are the little brass kind okay so that's all pretty standard and all I love this they've included a three and a half to two and a half inch hard drive adapter so if you have an SSD drive or two maybe yeah it looks like it might hold two you can actually mount it in this case by default and I've got terrible light here really sorry for that maybe if you move forward a little bit we'll be able to see this federal they've included a bunch of zip ties too for cable management that's nice okay and then oh yeah here at the front so here at the front that's why there's all that mesh there can you see through that way to the front tent oh you can't oh that's great okay so there's the 200 millimeter fan that's included in the front that's blowing all through the case and can come way out the back to all the included mesh PCI brackets it has a bottom mounted power supply here are your water cooling holes it looks like you can probably use 3/8 inch tubing but I wouldn't expect to get 1/2 inch tubing through those holes overall build quality of the case feels reasonably good I mean with value gaming cases a lot of the time you see them cheap out on the steel or they'll they'll cheap out on like a support brace here or something else there I mean really the standout features in this case are as follows black interior you've got the CPU cut out for replacing CPU coolers with a backplate easily and quickly you've got these wire management features I love these things Corsair kind of did it first with their obsidian 800 D but I love seeing sort of more value oriented cases coming out that have this feature because it makes your wire management look so much with zero effort you've got to list melting for your five and a quarter inch bass okay you just take those out and then you pop them back in wherever you want the drive to go and that concludes my unboxing of the NZXT Hades case