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right here on the tech yes bill desk is the very first NZXT case that I'm going to be building with at least here on the channel and this is the H 500 I currently comes in at a hundred u.s. or a hundred and 69 Ozzy I believe in the UK it's over a hundred pounds as well so if it's anything straight away the pricing I'd like to see it fixed at least in the UK and Ozzy compared to the u.s. pricing where a hundred bucks is pretty fair for a case they're for thirty dollars over the previous age 500 what do you get extra where you do get there Hugh plus and their digital fan controller on the back as well as an LED strip built-in behind this bar here this is also the white version they do have different color variants but since I'm going to be doing a white and black theme build here I figured this would be the best pick inside you've also got two SSD bays which are detachable and can be placed on the rear side of the motherboard tray behind we put your cables technically if you had another two of these trays you could mount four SSDs in total also for the drive storage for 3.5 inch mechanical drives you can mount three of these as well with a removable drive cage in the back on the top is two included 120mm black fans we're gonna be moving them to the front of the case this is we're gonna be using the ID cooling all-in-one liquid cooler on 8b 360 gaming three Wi-Fi motherboard with a core i5 8400 and the GTX 1066 gigabyte for the drives we've got a two terabyte and also a 240 by Corsair SSD going inside this puppy right here as well as a 700 watt an tech VP power supply which is really good value for money and since we got this nice clean power supply shroud at the front here we'd have to worry too much about ketchup and mustard and yes my hand is moving here which it shouldn't be but that's because there's usually a tempered glass panel in front here which is easily removable with one screw on the back you've got a solid panel with enough room for cable management too but with all that aside let's get this build montage done and then we can properly review this case and tell you is it's worth your hard-earned so it's now the next day you can pro you tell by the smile on my face I'm pretty impressed with this case it's a compact lightweight case but it still has tempered glass still has steel still has that build quality building in this thing there's no sharp edges cable management at the back really easy to do as well and this is even with that controller included now speaking of that control it's an extra $30 as I said in the intro that does give you the option to use their software which is actually pretty straightforward gives you CPU GPU monitoring and allows you to change all the RGB colors with different patterns and my favorite is the sensor control which will link up different colors to different temperatures of either your CPU or GPU so you know if something for instance a pump on your water pool is failing because the lights will suddenly go dark red in your case then you know something's wrong that's very functional use of RGB and this allows you to do it know that the automatic fan control in this case worked really well we're dumping about 200 watts in the case while we're playing pop G and the temperatures weren't that bad as opposed to taking the tempered glass off on the GPU we saw a three degree drop after we took the timid glass side panel off but the noise was very quiet I'll let you guys take a quick listen the CPU didn't change temperatures all that's probably thanks to the exhausting of that 120 all in one mounted at the back so you can mount a 120mm fan or all in one at the back up the top you can mount a 140 ml fan or 120 hasn't included dust filter and then at the front you've got an easy detachable plate where you can mount either to 140 ml fans to 120 s or you can mount up to 40 ml rad or a to 80 mil rad and it's great that you can separate the fans at the front of the build versus putting the radiator at the back and in this case I did put the fans at the front of the case and that allows me to route the cables through the back so they're completely hidden from the human eye moving back now with the actual case itself it is pretty compact in size yet it is pretty spacious I had no problems building in this thing there's actually no complaints whatsoever very straightforward inserting your power supply straightforward putting hard drives SSDs in easy cable management easy and that allowed me just to really complete this build in next to no time also if you are in an older platform like X 58 or X 79 and you want to use RGB it's a great thing with this case because that preset controller will allow you to control RGB without the need of a 12 volt 4 pin fan header a 5 volt 3 pin fan header for the RGB controls now speaking of extras with SSDs you can detach the Bay's if you want to and in that place there is an option to vertically mount a GPU though you will need an extra kit I believe from cable mod which cost around $60 so there's a little bit expensive to get that vertically mounted GPU at the top of the case you've got ample room to run cables and even with a radiator installed through there to get the top CPU pin for example where you want it as well as the fan headers movie the top of the case 2 USB 3 ports as well power light which has a white ring around it and your HDD activity as well as your mic in and audio out and ultimately when it comes down to it there's really not a whole lot I can critique about this case I actually really like the design that the tempered glass is actually sunk in as opposed to sticking out and it doesn't really add much weight to the case but still gives it that clean aesthetic that you're looking for also all over the case it's a very boxy simple design too so it will work well in an office and lastly it's coming in at a hundred bucks so it's not gonna break the bank and if you don't like the eye which stands for intelligent control I believe you can get away with that by going $30 down and going just with the H 500 which at $70 is a pretty good buy as well since it does include two fans so I think they're hitting hard in terms of getting a clean aesthetic good build quality and great value for money and in the u.s. the price is pretty good but like I said in the intro 169 AUD I think in PPP terms it is a little bit overpriced compared to the US and in the UK it's over a hundred pounds at the moment so if NZXT can get their pricing right internationally I think they'll have one big winner on their hand as they already have in the u.s. anyway guys hope you enjoyed this review if there's anything else you'd like to know about this case and be sure to let me know in the comment section below or if there's any questions you have I'll get back to you as soon as I can if you like this one be sure to hit that like button and I'll catch another tech video very soon peace out for now bye