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meet the NZXT h 700 I than isn't it beautiful the H 700 I we have here is in a way a successor to the H 440 which was a previous large mid tower case from NZXT you still buy it by the way kind of look like a mini-fridge I didn't really like that design very much this design though much better in my opinion save a few details that I would personally change the next time around we're gonna talk about all of the very cool unique features about this case especially the cable management at the rear will go really in depth with that and then we'll also follow this video up with a build in this case we're gonna put a white motherboard in here and try to make this case just look as cohesive as possible it already looks beautiful without anything in it I can't wait to throw in components that follow suit with the color scheme let's start with the dimensions first this is an H Series case like I said so it's gonna be a bit larger in total volume and then say the s340 elite which I'll be comparing this case to quite a bit this is about 23 centimeters wide just over 50 centimeters tall and about 50 centimeters deep it's constructed from steel and tempered glass at the front and weighs just over 12 kilograms alright anything else really important in here that we want to talk about not really it's got the usual H Series fan and radiator config so you can fit up to three 120 milligrams of top along with radiators or a space for that you also get a removable tray up top which is pretty cool as well and then at the front you can fit this same config to three 120mm fans or radiators and there is a large space in the basement that does span across the entire length of the case for extra room you want to put a radiator there maybe even a pump down below and have those tubes run up you're doing something like a hard line tubing a build then this case is it definitely suited for that there is a problem though with the cable shroud we'll talk about that later I'm not really a fan of this I'm really I think it's a little too ostentatious and can get in the way of some very precious pipe routing you can fit up to seven SSDs in here which i think is pretty cool three of which will be situated in the front of the case somewhere they'll be exposed to the room because two of those are on top of the basement and one is in front of the basement this is a similar config to the s340 elite but the improvement here with the 700 I is that the top to SSD trays are modular in the sense that you can move them pretty much anywhere you want along these grooves atop the basement just grip the lever on the right side of each and you can well do whatever you want here move them further towards the back of the case or you can move them further forward you can even rotate them sideways you've been wanting really fancy with it although just from a cable mender standpoint keeping them roughly where they are is the smartest way to go there's also a harddrive shelf down below which you can slide forward and back depending on how big your power supply is and how much room we need in the front for cables radiators and reservoirs you'll want to talk about what else you get with the case there are three included 120 millimeter AER fans from NZXT in the front and there is one 140 MLA or fans situated at the rear but these are pretty cheap just at first glance there's no rubber grooves anywhere to mitigate the the sounds of vibrations won't really be helped in any sense here and I'm really disappointed that despite this case having integrated like an integrated RGB strip up top which i think is really cool you don't get the RGB fans the RGB AR fans from NZXT with this case not that they would you know do much at the front because of the front panel is not transparent at all but having one at the rear maybe would be a nice touch just just something to make it feel premium this is a $200 case and getting some cheap fans in this case is really disappointing I would like to have seen something nicer than what we're getting with these fans here despite the cheap fans though this case doesn't look too bad from an airflow perspective it has about an inch of clearance between the front panel which is not perforated and the chassis and where the fans are mounted so decent space for air to move in but again laterally so we're not talking about air flow moving directly in from the front which is always going to impede your cooler or your fans ability to pull in air also on top of that this is going to be a louder case because the air does have to make such a sharp turn to enter the the large space inside there is a large dust filter up front that spans all three fan slots it's magnetically attached as well to the chassis which is nice and there's a second dust filter underneath the case protecting the power supply there is no dust filter included at the top of the case and these little holes on the side aren't into a great job of mitigating dust buildup so only run an exhaust config at the top of the case don't pull air in from the top because really makes no sense anyway right heat rises so run an intake set up here at the front exhaust setup on the top and a single exhaust fan at the rear and you should be fine the slightly negative pressure build up you'll have in the case should be protected by the dust filter up front the H 700 I does have some subtleties that I would like to point out however one of which is included in the front io config so there are two SB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports the standard you know microphone headphone jack the power button and these are attached to the chassis by the way so you can remove the entire top panel not have to worry about dealing with cables attached to the case and this front IO but the USB 3.0 hubs are actually painted purple instead of the typical blue color which is nice I mean that's that's NZXT G's color scheme anyway with purple white and black so it's really nice to see that in this case just a small thing a small detail that they did not miss also there is a cutout on top of the PSU shroud for routing and gore VGA power cables so that if you're worried about that it is still there I'm glad that they included that most cases nowadays are overlooking that but this is something that I'm glad to see still existing in NZXT cases another cool feature they've included a smart device which is what they're calling it but it's basically a fan hub / RGB strip hub it's basically everything all-in-one it's included with the purchase of the case it better be for 200 bucks and it all can be controlled via cam software and a USB 2.0 connection to the motherboard so you can control fans with this thing you can control the colors of RGB strips and RGB fans with this as long as they're compatible and you can look all that up on their website then it can all be controlled via cam software which is really cool it's all integrated it is included with the case again like I said it better be for 200 bucks or so but it's it's already mounted actually to the front of the case and they've done a great job blending it in with the rest of the design so they're just kind of showing it off in the front which i think is really cool now on to the one thing that's really bugging me about this case and it's pretty obvious it might not be obviously that's bugging you but it's bugging me a lot and it's this stupid cable shroud like I get that there's some functionality - it like would blocking the cables making it more difficult to connect your 24 pin to your motherboard that's I'm sorry I'm really really not here but I think this thing is just stupid and they made it worse by making it more prominent in the H 700 I also the smaller variants of this case which are also linked in the description I get what they're trying to do here I really do but it's it's just gonna get in the way I think that it is just a showpiece it's just like the the icon of NZXT cases at this point they've made it more defined it wraps around the entire front side of the case and it's it's just a nuisance it's a pain to work around it's a pain to run cables through I really think that they need to subdue this somehow keep some sort of design quality that makes an Indy XD case look like an NZXT case sure but don't impede my own building ability to make this thing look the way you want it it's really the only major concern I have about this case that and maybe airflow will run some tests but the the shroud is just it's I really just see it as a showpiece it sticks down like I would say probably three or so inches and it can it's just I don't know what it's doing like what is it what is it doing here some people like this design more some people like the design of the s340 elite more I would lean more towards that design from just a theme standpoint but the functionality of the Aged 700 I does trump the functionality of the s340 Elite they've done a lot more here at the front they've done a lot more also at the rear of the case on the right side of the case which I want to talk about next there's a lot going on back here and it's mostly good stuff so to remove the right panel all you gotta do is push this button here at the rear super easy to do just make sure you have a hand there to catch the panel it will fall once you push that button and you just click it back into place once you're finished with what you need to do on that side very nice I think all cases should follow this design I'd like to see a bunch of different things kind of mesh together from multiple companies until one altima case this right here this quality I want to see in every case from NZXT from this point out now on to some more good stuff you can see there are a bunch of cable management guides there's one big one here for the rerouted cables from the front IO and from the included hub you have space for routing 24 pins you have your eighth and EPS you can wrap do all kinds of crazy stuff with you have two SSD trays that are secured via single thumb screw and plenty of tie straps to keep everything else nice and tidy if you're willing to remove the hard drive bay in the basement you'll have plenty of space for mounting a d5 modular pump which you can then use to route piping up to the rest of the components in the case and there is plenty of space on top of the basement that little cutout in the front there for squeezing odd not only a radiator a thin radiator at that but it's still got the space for it and the tubing necessary to mount a pump down there that was an issue I had with other cases where like the cutout would only be enough for a fan and radiator config but the space between that and the end of the cut out where the basement begins on top would be too small to to route tubing so it's nice to see the extra space here you can put a thicker rad or you can put tubing here instead so there's nearly an inch of cable management space on this right side and that's that's more than enough not only that but you got the grooves you've got the tie straps this should be a breeze to throw any sort of modular or even non mantra to power supply and here you could stuff cables down below especially if you're willing to remove the hard drive bay and then the rest of it you can reroute very cleanly up to the ports on your motherboard and elsewhere look I'm really like in this case a few things keeping me from just going all in on it including the price including the stupid shroud I'm sorry I just don't like it I just I thought it was interesting looking at first it's like oh that's obviously an NZXT case but then why when I started looking at like just how its how its integrated and what it's actually supposed to do I I I just don't like it I don't like there's enough space between the the motherboard tray and the start of the shrouds your cables are going to be squished as always they were that way in the sv40 as well and I just don't like how much space there is between this and the top panel I just it just looks weird that's that's all it just looks a little weird to me and I'm just removing it makes things look so empty in here so they need to do something but they don't need to do this this is the one architectural issue I have with the H 700 enough to prevent me from recommending this case no it's not I still think it's a really nice case I think it's overpriced yeah and you can say oh well they included an RGB strip and a Smart Hub and whatever okay you want to compare this price to the previous aged 440 price it's just it's slightly overpriced for what you're getting and I think that an sv40 elite will serve the same purpose basically with the exception of additional water cooling support but then again this is really gonna bother you if your water cooler this is like right in the way of everything if you want to route tubing from your CPU block maybe to a radiator up top or up front this stupid thing is just gonna get in the way it's the one issue I have with it again and it's the only thing keeping me from just going all-in and wanting to build a custom loop in the age 700 I so I've got some raw opinions yeah but they're just that their opinions and I've been building in several several cases throughout the years and this one is it's not the best it's really not considering there's so much space in here to work with it feels limited by the cable shroud just does what do you think let me know in the comments below if you want to see a build in this it'll be sure to if I don't know do do something I'd like the video that'd be cool like the video or you can just dislike it for whatever reason no I'm just kidding I'm gonna build in this case anyway stay tuned for that you can find the product description and the info where to buy this thing in the video description I think as of right now is of the uploading date and publishing into this video you can only buy tan NZXT each website but it is coming soon to new egg and 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