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welcome to my unboxing of the switch 810 this is one of those by popular demand unboxings because there have been a lot of requests for this unboxing and I can see why because I've never seen it yet in person but we're going to open it up but NZXT seems to be fairly confident about this guy welcome to the pinnacle of chassis design switches and epic good I'd like to square around that word epic hybrid Caseville for the hardcore pc enthusiast this full tower chassis introduces a first-of-its-kind concept for more versatile and adaptable to any configuration which is not grammatically correct at all but I think we get the point it can be modified for superior water cooling or superb airflow through seamless operation also doesn't really need anything but I think we get the point as an enthusiast you will have full control to customize all the features of the switch based on your preference so what are these features well first of all let's go through the basic spec which is that we have four or five no quarter-inch external base we have six internal three-and-a-half inch bays we have nine expansion slots so this is a full-sized XL ATX chassis meaning you can install even ludicrous motherboards like the gigabyte g1 assassin which is nine slots long it comes with it then it did the four 140 millimeter fans it can accept up to a whole bunch of 140 millimeter fans but you know what if you guys don't mind let me get this out of here first because it's kind of heavy and then we'll keep going the switch 810 uses a hard foam although it uses a very thick hard foam which means that it's unlikely to get damaged in shipping it's also not as heavy as one of the cases that I really harped on recently for using a hard foam for packing which was the cosmos 2 which weighs about 50 ah wait does it weigh 50 pounds yeah I think it weighed like 50 pounds before putting any hardware in it the switching Tenley is somewhere between 25 and 30 pounds before you put any hardware in it which means that it's less of a risk for damaging the packing material during transit so let's start having a look at all the nifty features that drives NZXT to proclaim that this is an ultimate case let's start with the outside so at the front we find ya you can stay over there fine I'll just move the case around we find four five and a quarter inch base we've also got access to our front panel connectors and just going to tilt that a little bit so it's got some light 2 USB 2 2 USB 3 and SD card reader that's handy love seeing that integrated right into the case headphones microphone reset pal and an LED switch interesting so where's the power button ah the power button is up on the top so that LED switches for something that I'm about to show you guys a little bit later that is actually phenomenally cool ok we've also got the power button up here so we saw that just a moment ago the while we're on the top this is really cool so check this out you can open this up all the way close it all the way so you can actually choose between optimal air flow and optimal silence which is kind of neat we can also take the whole thing off just like that and now we can see the liquid cooling options that we have so the radiator goes up here the barbs stick down through here and we can install up to a triple radiator in the top of this case without even taking out any of the spaces inside other than leaving the default fans where they are so you can either do triple 140s triple 120s or you can throw a radiator in there either air or liquid cooling doesn't really matter the choice is yours so I'm going to go ahead and there we are I'm going to put that in silence mood so now let's go ahead and have a look at the rest of the front of the case so we've got a hold on how does this work look at that front accessible bottom fan filter now there's an innovation because I had I've sort of started complaining about cases that have a bottom fan filter but it's only accessible from the back this is even easier to get at than the ones that do it from the side so that's very very cool the front comes off pretty easily here we've also got a removable fan filter here although it is held in with screws it's fairly accessible so you shouldn't have you see that huge gap there you shouldn't have much trouble blowing it out from the back and then just giving it a quick aa quick and blow from the side to get rid of the dust bunnies we've got space for dual 140 s or dual 120 s in the front it comes with one 140 millimeter fan so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put this back on it just uses a hold on there we go little click ease in order to hold it in place so I think that pretty much does it for the Oh check this out - a cool okay so let's turn the round remember that toggle switch I showed you guys next to the reset switch I'm going to show you guys what that's for that's very cool check this up there's a light right here there's an LED light that toggle switch turns it on so that you can easily see the i/o on your computer even setting it up at a dark land party or in a dark room or in the dark pretty much and what's neat about that is it shines all the way down so that you can you don't have to fumble around and try and figure out what you're doing now this one is accessible from the back so once again not my favorite although what they've done by having one in the front one in the back as we made it a lot shorter the problem I have with cases like an 800 D is the fan filters this long which means it has to be this far away from the wall in order to get it out this is actually not that bad at all bottom mounted power supply water cooling grommets which I can't imagine anybody using in a case like this that has proper support for a triple radiator inside so but they're but they're there in case you want to do an external external radiator pump sort of setup if the urge strikes you so let's go ahead and get this opened up NZXT has traditionally done a very good job of matching their whites on their plastic to the whites on their paint finish I'd say this one isn't quite as close as the centum but it's still very good so I'm not gonna take any marks off for it let's go ahead and take this off nice big window love the nice big window I mean I know it's kind of fashionable to change the shape of the window dramatically or make it small or arrow shaped or whatever the case may be not a big fan personally if I'm going to want a window if I'm going to have Hardware inside that's window worthy I'm going to want a nice big window so now that we're inside here we go this bad boy supports everything you can see all the different standards on here ATX micro ATX mini ATX flex ATX SSI CED SSI ee b so what that means is we've got support for large large motherboards even extended ATX motherboards as well as XL ATX motherboards so those ones aren't actually even on here but with nine expansion slots XL ATX is no problem and you can see this width over here with the e on it even though yeah yeah so that's pretty much a e-atx so very very cool CPU cut out gives us the ability to change the CPU cooler without any difficulty this has become pretty much a standard feature these days the back fans are cool because you can either do a single 140 millimeter or see these slots here you can actually change up the configuration of the fence so you can do dual 120 s by using the inside slot can you do dual 120 s I think you can actually give me a sec here guys sorry guys my dad it's not dual 120 it's single 120 or 140 but what these slots allow you to do is position the fan according to how thick the radiators and fans you have installed in the top are where your CPU socket is so where you want the heat exhausted from so that is a very very cool little feature now in terms of cable management you can see we've got umpteen bajillion cable management holes depending on where your motherboards position you're going to want to run these differently there's also a ton of space on the other side so you can run 80 Eck's cables multiple pci express graphics cables whatever it is that you want without any hassle and these are all using very high quality rubber you can see that I can easily bend them really far away and they go right back to covering up the hole we've also got a gap up here for the eight pin or eight pins that go into your motherboard which means that we're pretty much managed in terms of which cables we need to be able to run we've got another intake down here so this is what that front filter was for you can see the filters meet up right about here that's what makes the back one not too long and we can install either 120 or a 140 millimeter intake here we've got little rubber off a little rubber feet that hold up the power supply so whether you have a short power supply or a long power supply whether you mount fan side up or fan side down it's not going to have any problems getting all the air it needs from either a filtered intake or from the inside of the case let me see so you can see the top from the inside that's where the radiator goes what's also cool about this is that you can install fans all the way over here without interfering with your top five and a quarter inch bay so you've got the radiator up top the fan here and your first five and a quarter inch bay right here so yeah it will perform quite as well as these two but at least you don't have to I personally I find it not very aesthetically pleasing to put my first optical drive in the second day so you won't have to do that in this case they did think of that we've got a hot-swap SATA cage here which is very cool and I didn't even notice the first time around let's go ahead and pull that off there we are check that out just like that you can install either a tune a half inch or a three and a half inch drive solid metal construction so no worries in terms of any kind of durability issues that you might you know potentially worry about with some kind of hot swap with some hot swap mechanisms also this looks like a straight pass through so I hope there won't be any compatibility issues now this is cool check this out guys two one is that these cages are completely removable so you just go ahead and remove the thumbscrews and check out these episode oh sorry sorry still held in I mean this will allow you to install an unlimited length graphics card in here per notch but I'm sure you'll still want some hard drive cages oops ohh slicks giving me a whole fan is plugged in ok well hold on a second guys and I'm going to show you removing the side panel correctly this time the last time I took out all three screws you don't actually have to do that you just move this screw down after you've taken out the top and the bottom and the side panel comes off just like that let's go ahead and unplug that fan which is going to be somewhat challenging because I they are all cable tight neatly back here for me so I'm just going to pull out my trusty knife hoping that I don't slice any of the cables while I'm at it because the knife is crazy dull and out there we go and we're gonna go ahead and pull this guy out of the integrated fan controller which I didn't even know was back here check that out one molex power goes to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 fans ah ah ah very very very cool while we're at the back here we might as well look at what we've got in terms of cable management so you can see the side panel goes all the way out to here which means that by the time you get up to this level you've got that much space for cabling which is pretty much unlimited as far as as far as those things go so with these 7 you can do two in the front three in the top one in the back one for your CPU and have the whole thing controlled it's tucked on with double sided velcro so you don't have to keep it if you don't want you can reposition it if you want which is a very very thoughtful thing some cases have built-in fan controllers but they don't allow you to reposition them so you're stuck routing cables to maybe somewhere that's inconvenient for your build this allows for more customization than that from this side you can see the tool lists hard drive slits so these are three and a half inch or two and a half inch whichever you prefer we've got six of those now plus the hot swap one here you can also see the tool the size of the five and a quarter inch base so you can put screws in here but you absolutely do not have to and I think that covers it for the back other than that we've got lots of cable management loops here you see all these loops these are going to allow you to be much much tidier than a lot of cases about routing your cables don't underestimate the importance of these they're very very cool so now let's switch it around to the other side where we left off with me trying to yank a cable out of somewhere not here so got my handles here those snap back into place what's cool about these is that not only do they hold hard drives but check this out all year so I've got a little plastic piece here so it doesn't get scratched you can lock it in place just by tightening the thumb screw and then you can loosen it push it down like that so what's the benefit of that you might ask the benefit I'm just going to throw this back in here there we go the benefit is that if you're not as focused in your build on beast graphics cards you can actually reposition this for better cooling more airflow for your CPU just very neat you can actually position this bottom one as well so you can point these fans wherever you need the cooling most in order to get the best performance out of your system both of these hard drive cages can be removed in fact why don't we remove them just to show you guys what it's gonna look like with them both out so I'm gonna make sure I have that oh yeah there's no fan plugged into that one right now so it's no problem there we go one there one there so that's what the switch 810 is going to look like if you pull the whole thing out in fact I would even speculate that by removing these screws you could probably throw another dual 120 millimeter radiator in here with a little bit of work so that's very cool yeah you can unscrew these sleds as well so you can make the whole thing out completely love seeing cases that are less riveted and more screwed because it means you can take things apart more customized more and get your build exactly the way you want it's one of the reasons I chose my case because the whole thing is held together with screws not a single rivet in the entire thing there's our tool is five and a quarter inch I actually like NZXT implementation I can't for the life of me remember how it works thank you push on this you unblock it hold on and there you go then you push on that snap it back in place lock it into place just like that all the screws that you need for your optical drives just in case you are going to ship your system around or whatever the case may be are all included here although there are a few accessories in a box in a three-year court three and a half inch drive cage take it off and let's see what NZXT includes with the switch eight ten screws hey look at that an eight pin extension very very well thought-out and it's one of those cool individually sleeved ones so this is a tall case being XL ATX this is a very long distance from your power supply to the top so what this does is it buys you so putting this through the back like this down to approximately where it'll be on your motherboard it buys you an extra few inches on the back to make sure that even if you have a cheaper power supply that has shorter cables you're not going to run into any trouble so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the NZXT switch 810 don't forget to subscribe to Lonnie's tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos