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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the tempest 410 elite so the elite version has a side panel window this is a crafted mid tower according to NZXT and what do we have to say for ourselves on the front so it has a two year warranty although that's pretty much completely irrelevant because if the case isn't DOA it probably will maintain its core functionality over the course of its lifetime I guess maybe the fans might matter okay they expect out their clearances they expect out the cooling what's included what's not included bays and expansions so seven expansion slots so this is a standard ATX case on the back let's see what NZXT blurb is I always enjoy these blurbs an aggressive cooling solution forged for your ring the tempest 410 Elite mid tower completes your fine-tuned machine by taking advantage of the air flow required for the enthusiasts overclocking needs the tempest legacy expands it's maximized ventilation through the extra-large honeycomb mesh design so my understanding is this kit actually uses honeycomb mesh for all of its openings that are designed for airflow that's kind of neat gives you better airflow cool dual radiator support and dual touch powered front fans oh okay I lost my borrow was in the sentence there it's okay in addition to the basics the elite includes USB 3 in an acrylic side panel for interior viewing if you're looking for a new cooling edge for your gameplay the temperature for 10 will bring you the results of epic win well alright then I am going to go ahead and break the seals on this epic win result and we will have a look at this case and see what we think of it so let's go ahead it's like in heavy I've done a few case unboxings here and I'm like getting warm so just gonna go ahead and get rid of that before I start sweating all over camera here okay we've got our packing materials these are very very thick the real ow these are very very stiff very thick foam - look at that they've actually see this the kind of consideration that I really like to see check this out so you've got kind of standard one inch on the sides you've got kind of thin on the front okay why did they do that I'll show you why they did that because they thickened it up at the back to prevent weight up front okay Oh cuz it's smaller no but here's something they have done is they recessed the screws so many companies forget to do this that's what I was looking at when I was thinking of that they put a recess into here you can see the same thing at the bottom so even though it uses a stiff foam the screws are not going to break it I've seen so many cases come with broken packing materials these screws pressing into it and cracking the foam as soon as this foam is cracked it loses its integrity because it's not a closed cell phone which you'll see in the higher-end cases it is a like more of a stiff a hard foam so what happens is as soon as it's cracked it's pretty much useless it's designed like a helmet for one major impact and then beyond that you don't expect too much this actually looks really nice it has a good overall feel to it good weight so it's not super light but it's not super heavy and very very sort of okay it's not clean lines because it's more of a gaming styled case as we've come to expect from NZXT but it's not over-the-top either to the point where it's very polarizing like like some of their competitors gaming lines of cases where people either love them or they just hate the look of them I don't think there's anything to really hate about the look of this case so why don't we start with the front so on the front we find lots of honeycomb mesh so you can see this not only has honeycomb mesh but also like a fine mesh behind it for dust filtration presumably these come out very easily this is a feature that I love on NZXT cases because I hate around with these things it's a pain if you just feel like that comes in comes out you don't have to like math it out from the from the back or anything like that also in the front oh and these are my these are my favorite okay this is something that I first saw introduced I believe with the h2 there we go how's it going there we go so both sides check this out oh no fan cabling what do you think of that so you see these contacts right here that's your four pin PWM that's just a simple pass through so then on here you see the contacts for power and then you can actually adapt any fan for use with this with this LED here that goes our sled cage whatever you want to call it that goes into the front or rather three pin just by plugging this in here and then by taking the whole thing and clicking it into the front love that I think that's a great feature because wiring up the front the front fans on a given case can be a total nightmare and as often it just really really clumsy the way it's done this is very very elegant I'm gonna go ahead and pull these out just so that we have access to the front loaded three and a half inch hard drive trays and check out how many there are yes that is eight three and a half inch hard drive cages also with support for two and a half inch SSDs so you can see the holes are here and then here okay that is not how that is meant to work and don't worry that should not reflect poorly on the case itself let me show you how that is intended to work if you put it in straight and it clips in if you put it in had an angle and it falls right through so ah be careful when mounting hard drives in this case because if you put it into a random angle you're gonna drop a hard drive into the back of your computer it's gonna break your video card you're gonna have a bad day alright front panel connectors we've got front panel oh these aren't labeled okay well it's not the end of the world I guess you just have to try and remember one of them is Mike one of them is headphone front USB three front USB two times three and we've got our front hard ride and power LEDs power switch is acts from here from the top and then we have a reset switch all in addition to that here we find a little storage compartment which is kind of neat and what's also neat about this is check this out okay we've got a cable routing channel here so what happens is I've got a pair of headphones that have about oh man they must have like a three meter cable on them typically my gaming Tower sits sort of next to me right about here do I need three meters if I'm plugged into the front panel audio I don't think so so what you can do is you can plug in your front panel audio run the cable just up here into this channel coil it up in here run it out this channel and then you can take it sort of down here and over to where it needs to go without interfering with your optical drives or anything like that so that's pretty cool and then finally there's a little bit storage Cheryl look at that it stays where you put it smart alright also on the top of the case I realize I'm spending a lot of time on the top of this case but there's a lot of stuff here we have honeycomb mesh once again and we have a dedicated spot for a dual 120 millimeter water cooling radiator and fans so the whole thing just clips in like that covers it up or doesn't cover it up whatever you prefer so you can either take your radiator and put it on the top actually yeah yeah so you've got space for they've given you all the flexibility in the world here you can either run your tubing down this side or you can run your tubing down this side so you can have the radiator on top for a nice clean clean aesthetic because you'll just see radiator fins through here or you can put your fans on the top and mount the radiator directly to the case and you can see like your LEDs or whatever else like that so that's that's also a pretty cool thing that they've thought of with this case let's look at the back so at the back we find a 120 millimeter cooling fan these things which I'm not a huge fan of especially when you have like a dedicated place to mount a dual rad in the top so I don't see why you'd do an external water cooling setup IO seven PCI slots bottom-mounted power supply and look at this a hard drive sled alright let's open this baby up these thumb screws are pretty tight I'm gonna go ahead and got my screwdriver so just for a change of pace we're gonna do the back panel first I've removed the screws now so remember they're not always tight if you put them in finger tight you'll be able to get them out with your fingers so it's not like oh these are magic thumb screws that only work with a screwdriver guess they might as well not abuse some screws it's not like that it's just a matter of them being tightened a little bit too much at the factory so it was hard to get off all right on the back here we have lots of room for cable management check that out in fact 23 millimeters of clearance is what they are specking out here and I believe it that looks very good we've also got lots of room for cables to come through here come up through here up through here up through here so there's your eight pin connector that's where that one's gonna go and then this is this is also something I really love to see lots of little loops see these little loops these are all four zip ties so you can take all of your cables that you're managing zip tie them so that they stay nice and flat and so it doesn't interfere with each other and make it difficult to close the other panel of the case they've also reinforced the strength of their motherboard back panel by putting in these bumps like this they are actually significantly adding to the rigidity of the motherboard backplane this can be important when shipping a system particularly so if you're ordering a system online you can be pretty confident going with something like a tempest 410 Elite other than that I see places to put screws into your optical drives I see places - I don't know what those are for do you guys know what these are for let me know because I don't I see places to plug in the fan leads to those front fan connectors and other than that I think we're pretty much done with the back panel let's move over to the other side where we have a nice side window design all right which gives you a view of your hard drive cables okay that I could sort of maybe going this way might have been a little bit better but that wouldn't have looked as good with the overall slant of the case and the overall design but either way you're gonna be able to see your graphics card your CPU all your fancy-pants hardware and I'm just gonna lay it down to make my life a little bit easier here guys so here are all of your internal connectors so there's power that's gonna power those fans in all likelihood we've also got front USB three front USB two HD audio other more different front USB two front panel connectors so your power switch your reset switch all that good stuff and these are all black cables love it even the USB 3 cable is black up to the point where it plugs into the motherboard but it has to be color-coded very nice love to see it in terms of included accessories and documentation it's all in here so 17 different languages good on you ends at XT you clearly intend to sell these worldwide or have really sort of strange policies about selling only in the US if I really don't know how many people speak oh no oh no these are seventeen hahaha seventeen things that are labeled in this picture in only one two three four five six seven eight different languages so I was wrong alright so that gives you the steps for how to install most of the stuff in the unit 410 I'd rather the tempest 410 elite here we've got some zip ties very nice we've got some look at the bags are all labeled so you got standoffs you got m35 flats you've got some 632 screws flat and six thirty two screws hexagons very nice so we got here we have thumbscrews so I guess that's somewhere to store additional thumbscrews or what actually it looks like that may be the case these look like optical drive bay screws you know what give me a second I'm gonna find out what these are so figured out what it is it's in the manual go figure read the blank manual so I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna show you guys what you do you install the hard drive you take this out it's a really long screw so then you go ahead and put it here and you secure your hard drive in place that is what you do with it all right so let's look more closely at the inside of the case as a whole so in the front we've got our two 120mm fans we can put one more 120mm fan here we have a filtered see there's a fan filter on there there's a mesh we have a filtered gap for the power supply to get fresh air from the bottom of the case we also have rubber fen or rubber case feet that will keep it off the ground or table or wherever you're keeping it so you're going to get some airflow to your power supply no big deal power supply you can have almost any length of power supply even up to like here so you're not going to have any clearance issues with your drives in terms of video cards though I'm not sure but I'm gonna go ahead and grab a 69 90 since I happen to have one handy here I guess I'll have to do a GTX 590 first on account of I can't get the hold on oh sure whatever lab count I can't get the 6990 out without taking these first so one 590 move Apple 590 okay let's try that one so the Apple 590 is gonna go right about here so you're gonna have to be yeah you're probably gonna have to take out a couple of hard drive cages if you want to put a 69 90 in here although I mean very few people actually buy 69 90s it's just the kind of thing I like to mention if it comes up so as soon as I as I take these out I should have enough room for that particular Pathak's card that that and yeah so that would fit so it will fit up to a sixty nine ninety which at this time is the longest most power-hungry graphics card out there all right on the top we've got those dual 120 s or dual 140 s in the back we've got that 120 and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the tempest 410 elite this is actually a really nice looking case great quality to the paint finish I love the finish of the paint on here and it matches between the metal and plastic parts very very well which is difficult to do so the inside looks very similar to the plastic top here you actually can't really see much difference here at all that should not be taken for granted like I said very very difficult don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos