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5.0 out of 5 starsThis is a Big One. You need to know how to open the rear panel!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019
I love this case. I have not even yet assembled the PC, but I know it will be easy and will prove to be attractive and very functional. It is made almost entirely of steel and glass, so I know it will last. It is designed to be based primarily on SSD's, but you can use HDD's as well. One thing that is a little inconvenient for me is that it does not include or even make space for a CD/DVD drive, and it is necessary to use an external drive instead, but I will be able to get used to that.
The one point I want to make is one that I had originally presented a question about, and I came to find something like twenty other people had the same problem of being unable to find the accessory box and owner's manual. I put the question up, and NSXT was very responsive in asking me to go to a support site, for which the URL offered was unfortunately faulty. I ultimately came to find out on a YouTube review of the case that the problem was a simple one, and I suspect the others who had trouble had the exact same problem I did.
This case has means to open the back panel opposite the glass face that make it remarkably easy but not at all obvious to people like me who are used to having to remove thumb screws to free up the panel. In this case, there is a push button on the rear panel, above where the connections panel goes, that when pushed almost allows that back panel to fall out of place--in fact, you should open it carefully, with a hand on the panel. It just didn't look like a push button to me, and I didn't know I should be looking for a push button, so I wasted too much time looking and failing to find means to get into the space behind the mother board. It was so bad, I almost had myself convinced they had set this case up so you couldn't get there (it is that sturdily assembled).
Once you open that up using the push button, you will find the accessory box, with the manual inside it, in a 3.5" HDD enclosure in the lower chamber. I could not see it from the front, so thought I had not gotten it, but I suspect people will reliably find it there, if they know how to get there. Ironically, I basically initially needed the manual to find the push button, so I could find the manual. Again, I was fortunate to sort it out on YouTube, and I'd probably have done as well to check the online manual on NZXT's site. I have recommended to NZXT that they consider including a brief explanation of the push button within the main chamber of the case, which is opened in a more obvious, more usual manner, by removing screws, to simply avoid having customers end up believing they didn't receive items they did and to lessen the inherent stress associated with that.
The biggest issue, though, is that once you know how to open it, it is the easiest case to open and close that I have ever seen. I suspect the case will be very quiet. It is attractive. It is sturdy without being extraordinarily heavy. It is set up to allow running cables very neatly, and I suspect, although I have always been one to shoot for order in the case, that this will become the neatest PC I have ever built.
