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The Phantom is here I have received endless requests to unbox and do a first look video first impressions video of this case it is NZXT t's most probably most anticipated case ever so the first thing we're gonna do is break the seals now this is an evaluation unit so it's not white the fit and finish of the product that's actually going to be available on retail shelves so like it's mostly done but there's a couple little things like you might find the side panel doesn't fit quite right etc etc so the tooling is not quite there yet but let's take a quick look at the outside of the box before we actually open it I know everyone's very excited to see this thing here we go so we have external 5 in the quarter inch base 5 we have 7 internal three and a half inch bays and then we have a standard ATX seven expansion slots on the top we have a 140 millimeter spot on the top oh sorry in the front we have a 140 millimeter spot in the top we have 2 by 200 millimeter with one included in the rear we have one 120 millimeter included and on the side we have one 200 or 230 millimeter and to 120 millimeters and those are included ok clearance we can accept up to 35 centimeter long video card so that's quite long that's like what thirteen and a half inches or something like that anything out there basically CPU support is 180 millimeters assuming you're not using the side fin and that pretty much takes care of everything here it's available in red black and white but black and white are the only colors that are going to be available right off the bat in terms of the other features Apple room for wire management that's one of the things that's got people really talking about this case as well as the e-atx support it has a nice roomy interior so you can actually see it right here it looks kind of like stormtrooper armor actually it's a pretty pretty cool color scheme with mostly white and then black accents very it also includes okay you got the seven cooling fans with the option of up to three large 200 mil fans and this is cool because this really ties in to how they've got the two hundred millimeter fan holes in the case you can support up to five 20 watt channel fans on the controller you have a fan controller that supports up to 20 watt fans per channel so that's very very cool because it means you can support big fans fans that move a lot of air and you can actually do it with the fan controller that's built right into the case here's a pictures of the two other colors so the one we have here today I believe is white seven hard drive screw this rails with SSD support and screwless five and a quarter inch design so mostly to lift but we'll have a look at the case itself very shortly here and we'll we'll definitely talk in more detail about all the innovations found within packaging is really good this is so important because unless you're buying the case at a retail store which I hope you're not because you should be buying it at NCIX it's important that the case actually survives its trip to you so NZXT has ample foam packaging built in around the case you can see they've got it molded to the shape of the top of the case itself here it looks really really good this is a nice sturdy closed cell foam very very important for ensuring that your case is going to arrive in one piece same thing for the bottom very nice all custom fitted if you surprised how few cases come adequately packed because while it may be enough for the case to ship on its own what if you ever have to ship a full system built in the case it becomes quite a bit heavier alright so let's take the protective plastic off and that is very very nice cameraman come get this angle over here right here I'm pointing with my finger where the cameraman needs to get all blocks the latest oh okay hold on here I'll adjust it for you so there we go so that is just a bright white you know what compared to the photos it really does look way more like stormtrooper armor here than it does then it does in the in the pictures so here's our five five and a quarter inch bays you've got these cool little tabs so cameraman can you zoom in so you can have a look at how these tabs work you just press the test a little button right there and it opens it right up so you don't have any any stupid metal blocking things once you've taken these off that's it that's the whole procedure now the case is made of plastic but it's a very very heavy plastic and it feels very solid so you look at like little things okay like the inside of the front door you've got like a matte plastic cover on the inside of the plastic outer piece so you've got these layers that's what gives it a rigidity that you wouldn't normally expect from a plastic case the hinge has also got large pegs so they're not going to just come out okay the door closes very very tightly so the the fit and finish even though this is a pre-production sample as I mentioned before is perfect on the front door the only reason there's fingerprints all over it or from me touching it here but they wipe off quite easily another thing that we should probably talk about actually is fingerprint resistant of a finish like this because it is quite shiny the white colour is really good for hiding it you can actually see that already here on the camera because I'm putting my hands all over it and we are not running sorry about that my camera battery ran out so okay fingerprint resistance looks to be very very good at least on the white colour let's start having a look at some of the features so right here we've got our fan controllers so this is conveniently coated now I I don't know what they all mean but I'm gonna guess that this one with the two big holes in it is maybe the two big ones on the top I mean you can play around with it and figure out what they all are but there you are that's where all of that is connected then on the other side we've got our power reset we've got our LED indicators we have an eSATA two USB 2.0 mic port as well as a headphone port alright so that's pretty straightforward and let's start let's have a look at the side panels because I think that's actually pretty note weight we're not quite done with the front ok cameraman if you want to come down here and have a look that's where your 140 millimeter fan mount is through that mesh right there so you can see these meshes even though they from a bit of a distance there they're very they're a very solid black so they give you kind of a nice patterned appearance to the whole case they're very free-flowing so if you get close you can see through it quite well and that means that you're gonna get lots of airflow traveling through them which is very very good of course ok so let's move on to the side let's start with this side just arbitrarily this side so this side has mesh poles here so you can see through to the harddrive cages there you can see the back of the motherboard plate there and we'll find out what those holes are well though I'll assume that they're for power supply cable management and we've got a thumb screw back here so why don't I go ahead and I'll show you that so the back is held on by optionally up to three thumb screws but that just comes with one which is fine because really unless you're trying to I don't know keep a you know cat or something out of your case you don't need to worry about too many screws holding on the side panel so there's a side panel itself in terms of the finish you can see it's just a white paint so this parts metal obviously so you can see the inside there okay but the white paint finish on the metal actually matches the white plastic finish on the plastic perfectly so you don't have to worry about like a contrast in between those okay so that side panel you know what we'll have a closer look at that after let's have a look at the back we've got a 120mm fan here standard ATX layout here and room for a standard ATX power supply here so that's all pretty straightforward we have up to four water cooling tubing grommets all along the back of the case and let's go ahead and look at the other side panel before we take it open take it apart and look at the inside so here we've got our huge 200 or 230 millimeter fan mounts and then we have to leave those are 140s help me out here on the side to 120s ha you know what I bet that's what that code is for the two two circled next to each other oh well it's okay alright so we'll take off our other wow these are long thumb screws check this up can you see that a huge thumb screws okay let's take that off side panel comes up go like I said Fintan finish might not be quite right because this is not not a retail case so here's the two fans that are included there they're NZXT black-and-white fans so I'm going to go ahead and put this panel down since the cameraman has done staring at that fan and then we'll have a look at the inside so this is a very roomy interior alright we've got an accessory box here we've got our seven three and a half inch drive mounts here so why don't we have a look at how this system works this is oh you know what I like the system this is used as a rubber grommet so here I'll hold this in the Sun so you can see it so you basically just push the little metal pieces out push them all out you slip in your hard drive you push them back in and it seems flexible now but once you get a hard drive in there it's actually much much sturdier it's you've also got the holes here for a two and a half inch drive so then all you do is slide that in there and boom your hard drives installed very very very simple okay in terms of the five and a quarter inches you unlock them here and okay come look at this this is cool okay so you just slide the lock and then it's actually like a little flexible piece of plastic and that's what that's what drives the spikes into the side of the drive can you see those spikes so you just bend it up and then bend it back down and then lock it and then it doesn't go anymore that's pretty cool I've never seen one quite like that before all right let me just take out this twist tie here that was holding in our accessory box and let's have a look at what else we've got here so you've got room for quite a long pal supply although not entirely unlimited in terms of length and you can mount your power supply one of two ways they have a here there's a filter at the bottom here so you can have either a filtered intake at the bottom or you can flip your power supply around the other way and have it take in case air although I definitely recommend this because they've got these rubber mounts here that'll keep your power supply elevated off the bottom of the case and with the filtered intake that's definitely going to be your best option it supports up to e ATX motherboards so that means you can go all the way over to here with a very very large potentially dual socket motherboard if you felt like it you've got a CPU cut out that's going to support most motherboards CPU locations so that means that you can take off a large tower heat sinks or water blocks and put them back on without taking the motherboard out of the case here's our 120mm fan let's have a look into the top of the case here all right so there's our 200 mil cooling fan and there's our spot for another one this one is filtered and this one does not appear to be filtered although I couldn't tell you why at this time oh it's possible that it's because the way this is set up is for negative airflow right now so that's why the open intakes are actually filtered that would be my that would be my educated guess okay and let's see what else that we want to take a look at here now one forty millimeter intake comes in here let me just have a quick look at where those so these 200 or these 120 millimeter fans here are blowing all over your drives and they're also bringing air into the front where I can then be drawn across the video cards and hopefully you have rear exhaust video card I really think that would be optimal for a case like this let me see what else we should do why don't we have a look at the included accessories so pull up my tech tips knife that I now actually carry almost at all times I cut myself with it the other day check this out I tried to close it I was like closing it like I don't know how I did it but I managed to close it like right on to my right onto my nail it didn't hurt that much but well there you go knives are dangerous be very careful with them etcetera etc okay so here is a little metal bracket - metal brackets okay this is uh screws long screws okay here's some cable ties as well as a PC speaker because there's no integrated speaker into the case you just plug a little speaker thing into the top of your motherboard and here's all these screws that we will potentially need to assemble our system all black screws I love it those little touches that is what really sets apart a premium case from a me-too case so those are your 632 screws so those are your hard drive screws all right here's your motherboard standoffs here's your 630 two screws flat so those ones are probably for installing something presumably motherboard although there's not enough of them there's only eight okay so I don't actually know what those are for and we have 632 longer ones okay I'm sure there is an instruction manual well there is an instruction manual I'm sure it tells us what to do all the follow these a bunch of thumb screws so there's a little baggie of thumb screws cool and then here we have some fan screws here we have some 632 hex screws so those I'm presuming here for the power supply and then we have some m3 screws so those would be used for optical drives if we wanted to double secure the optical drive so you can see you can use the little flexi note thing here and then there's also two screw holes right in the front which the cameraman cannot see from that a little bit he'll try and cameraman wants me to look at the back of the case for some reason anyway as for those screws go and oh right we haven't looked at the back of the case yet that's why the cameraman is not pointing over there so here's all of the included cables this is getting to be quite a long video but hopefully you can bear with me here here's power for your fan controller this uses nice beefy wires because you are providing up to 20 watts per channel or maybe it's 20 watts total either way it can provide power to some pretty decent fans so I wouldn't worry too much about it hard drive LEDs so there's all your front connectors nice black cable happy to see that we've got a you sat out front connector right there and then what else do we have here we've got HD audio there's a USB header and these are nicely sleeved black and then we've got a couple of oh right these are for the three aspects of the fan controller that are not located up here so the ones that are not already plugged in so you can see we've got two more up here so there's your five five leads off the integrated fan controller just like that okay well I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to talk about get one more dramatic shot of the front here because I really think that is what stands out about this case more than anything else is the look of it from the front and kind of seeing the top as well thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NZXT phantom I hope you've enjoyed it I certainly have I can already tell you these are going to sell like hotcakes