Phanteks P400A Digital Case Review: High Airflow Mesh & Panel Testing
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Date: 2020-05-06
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zakura
RGB is about choice, not rainbow puke. The mob mentality of attacking it as some sort of lame joke or meme was old the moment it started. Do you really want to go back to the days of single color glass cathode tubes if you want some color? Or single color led? Imagine Asus going back to the faded gold mobo plastic glamour. Now, think about how best to advertise your color range and capabilities? the RGB spectrum soup, hoping people that see it will also see a representation of the color they want in all the seizure inducing patterns. If anything, the progress of RGB is something we should be grateful for, with much larger ranges compared to the 7 color choices we initially had; and I'd say most of them still have far to go in LED choice to be able to handle less power throughput while still putting out light to reach a greater range of colors at the lower end of light input, for example dark reds, blues, purples. I had the old glass tubes, they aren't flexible, they can break, and you had to accept it was a relatively soft version of the color you wanted. Blue was more baby blue, not say a stormy or vibrant blue. getting those solid glass tubes in a place you wanted to showcase your build, without being ugly or blocking most of the light could be a chore in a lot of cases. They also had a rather large box attached to them you had to find a place for as well, with limited cable length to do so. Please, appreciate the RGB revolution. It is not a stockholm syndrome, it is an evolution of case lighting that makes all of our lives easier, and it is only a bonus that we have flexible strips and hardware with built in controllable lighting with continuing more fine granular control of them for looks, for feedback, etc. The digital information panels is also the new interesting thing added to it. Now you can have your shade of whatever color across the whole system, or patterns if you wish. You can have it change color depending on load and/or temperatures. I don't see how all these things can be a bad thing. You can even. get this, turn them all off. Linus can have an all orange and black build. GN can have a white and blue build. Jay can have his green or whatever whim strikes him. It is all good.
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RGB is about choice, not rainbow puke. The mob mentality of attacking it as some sort of lame joke or meme was old the moment it started. Do you really want to go back to the days of single color glass cathode tubes if you want some color? Or single color led? Imagine Asus going back to the faded gold mobo plastic glamour. Now, think about how best to advertise your color range and capabilities? the RGB spectrum soup, hoping people that see it will also see a representation of the color they want in all the seizure inducing patterns. If anything, the progress of RGB is something we should be grateful for, with much larger ranges compared to the 7 color choices we initially had; and I'd say most of them still have far to go in LED choice to be able to handle less power throughput while still putting out light to reach a greater range of colors at the lower end of light input, for example dark reds, blues, purples. I had the old glass tubes, they aren't flexible, they can break, and you had to accept it was a relatively soft version of the color you wanted. Blue was more baby blue, not say a stormy or vibrant blue. getting those solid glass tubes in a place you wanted to showcase your build, without being ugly or blocking most of the light could be a chore in a lot of cases. They also had a rather large box attached to them you had to find a place for as well, with limited cable length to do so. Please, appreciate the RGB revolution. It is not a stockholm syndrome, it is an evolution of case lighting that makes all of our lives easier, and it is only a bonus that we have flexible strips and hardware with built in controllable lighting with continuing more fine granular control of them for looks, for feedback, etc. The digital information panels is also the new interesting thing added to it. Now you can have your shade of whatever color across the whole system, or patterns if you wish. You can have it change color depending on load and/or temperatures. I don't see how all these things can be a bad thing. You can even. get this, turn them all off. Linus can have an all orange and black build. GN can have a white and blue build. Jay can have his green or whatever whim strikes him. It is all good.
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DJ_Toast
The sickest thing is that it will fit a 360mm 3x120mm radiator in this case, this cheap Deepcool Castle 360 RGB cpu watercooler won't ruin you and also comes with rgb-fans and rgb-hub of 5 connections. You'd have to take off the top of the chassie and top controller panel to fit it and put it back together but i can confirm its a snug and awesome fit. You mount the radiator inside and the fans outside with the long screws and it holds it together by pancaking the front panel on the chassie. Since the built in fans have daisy chain 5v-digital-rgb connectors and a added power connection from the controll panel button in the chassie you will save a shitton of money. Just moving the triple front fans to 2x top 1xExhaust youd have 3xfront 2xtop 1xexhaust 1xpowerbtn 1xCPUpump all digital separately programmable rgb units for the price of chassie and the cooler you'd have 2 spare connections too and i cant find anything this good for that price anywhere else, freaking god job Phanteks xD Oh and you can also by a PCI-E Vertical mount for this chassie and man thats goodlooking xD The mounts name: PH-VGPUKT
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The sickest thing is that it will fit a 360mm 3x120mm radiator in this case, this cheap Deepcool Castle 360 RGB cpu watercooler won't ruin you and also comes with rgb-fans and rgb-hub of 5 connections. You'd have to take off the top of the chassie and top controller panel to fit it and put it back together but i can confirm its a snug and awesome fit. You mount the radiator inside and the fans outside with the long screws and it holds it together by pancaking the front panel on the chassie. Since the built in fans have daisy chain 5v-digital-rgb connectors and a added power connection from the controll panel button in the chassie you will save a shitton of money. Just moving the triple front fans to 2x top 1xExhaust youd have 3xfront 2xtop 1xexhaust 1xpowerbtn 1xCPUpump all digital separately programmable rgb units for the price of chassie and the cooler you'd have 2 spare connections too and i cant find anything this good for that price anywhere else, freaking god job Phanteks xD Oh and you can also by a PCI-E Vertical mount for this chassie and man thats goodlooking xD The mounts name: PH-VGPUKT
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Flat
Hello, I am having a hard time deciding between this and the cooler master h500 (no letter. I like the looks of the phanteks better but I have a feeling the overall quality of the cooler master is better. Can anyone confirm. Also on the phanteks if only using one 2. 5 ssd, can you remove the hard drive brackets that would hold the 3. 5 drives? Am also considering just buying the non phanteks RGB version and adding my own led non rgb fans maybe in just all blue or red? I am primarly concerned about the overall quality of the phantek case. I just purchase a NR600 from microcenter but will return it as I don't like that if you go up to 140mm fans, the holes are not set right for the fans to be centere. Odd design. I will say the build quality on the NR600 is really nice and solid. I also don't like that one of the 3. 5 hd rails is riveted while the other is removable. Odd again. Any thoughts or comments is welcome.
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Hello, I am having a hard time deciding between this and the cooler master h500 (no letter. I like the looks of the phanteks better but I have a feeling the overall quality of the cooler master is better. Can anyone confirm. Also on the phanteks if only using one 2. 5 ssd, can you remove the hard drive brackets that would hold the 3. 5 drives? Am also considering just buying the non phanteks RGB version and adding my own led non rgb fans maybe in just all blue or red? I am primarly concerned about the overall quality of the phantek case. I just purchase a NR600 from microcenter but will return it as I don't like that if you go up to 140mm fans, the holes are not set right for the fans to be centere. Odd design. I will say the build quality on the NR600 is really nice and solid. I also don't like that one of the 3. 5 hd rails is riveted while the other is removable. Odd again. Any thoughts or comments is welcome.
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ChrisKadaver
I don't understand why they do the same thing with the P300! I prefer the smaller formfactor while keeping the ATX standard. But the total closed off front turn me off. Why I don't like the meshify C is because it's too open in the top. I want mesh front and closed off top of the case. Why is it so hard to make? Or I'd acually prefer a solid front but mesh just over the fans in the front. Fractal Design Define C with better airflow while keeping sound dampening material would be perfect.
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I don't understand why they do the same thing with the P300! I prefer the smaller formfactor while keeping the ATX standard. But the total closed off front turn me off. Why I don't like the meshify C is because it's too open in the top. I want mesh front and closed off top of the case. Why is it so hard to make? Or I'd acually prefer a solid front but mesh just over the fans in the front. Fractal Design Define C with better airflow while keeping sound dampening material would be perfect.
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Commodore
Is there anyone who doesn't add additional fans to their cases? I think it would be appropriate to test this case with the max amount of fans possible, as that's what (I'm assuming) most of us are going to do anyways. Either way, super informative. I just ordered the white model this morning. Coming from a nzxt h500 so I'm pretty excited to have actual airflow lol.
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Is there anyone who doesn't add additional fans to their cases? I think it would be appropriate to test this case with the max amount of fans possible, as that's what (I'm assuming) most of us are going to do anyways. Either way, super informative. I just ordered the white model this morning. Coming from a nzxt h500 so I'm pretty excited to have actual airflow lol.
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Denzil
To any Phanteks reps/higher ups checking this video us P400/s Owners NEED THIS FRONT PANEL! We love the case, its better than a corsair case to work in, the space in it is great and looks ridiculously good even with minimal RGB I will pay actual money for this front panel! You will have a lifetime buyer if you make this available, I am not even kidding!
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To any Phanteks reps/higher ups checking this video us P400/s Owners NEED THIS FRONT PANEL! We love the case, its better than a corsair case to work in, the space in it is great and looks ridiculously good even with minimal RGB I will pay actual money for this front panel! You will have a lifetime buyer if you make this available, I am not even kidding!
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Arison
Very new to building a PC and I have not finished the whole video yet. Just wondering tho if this is case would be fine with a 280mm radiator? I've read the older p400 was very airflow restrictive with a 280mm radiator since they only had space on the front. If anybody could help me understand better, I appreciate it!
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Very new to building a PC and I have not finished the whole video yet. Just wondering tho if this is case would be fine with a 280mm radiator? I've read the older p400 was very airflow restrictive with a 280mm radiator since they only had space on the front. If anybody could help me understand better, I appreciate it!
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John
now, all I need is USB plugs in the side panel, as I keep my case on my desk next to me (tot he right) so ports right there would be SUPER handy. even so, I have this case on back order waiting for it to arrive in Australia in april 24(ish) a long wait for my new ryzen 3600 sitting here in a 30 year old server case.
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now, all I need is USB plugs in the side panel, as I keep my case on my desk next to me (tot he right) so ports right there would be SUPER handy. even so, I have this case on back order waiting for it to arrive in Australia in april 24(ish) a long wait for my new ryzen 3600 sitting here in a 30 year old server case.
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NorthsideChamps16
Thanks to GN for this video. I was looking for a case for my first PC build and was looking at the p400 but the airflow sucked. Stumbled onto this video only to discover a mesh version with great thermals. Bought the case today. Thanks GN. You've been an amazing resource for my first build.
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Thanks to GN for this video. I was looking for a case for my first PC build and was looking at the p400 but the airflow sucked. Stumbled onto this video only to discover a mesh version with great thermals. Bought the case today. Thanks GN. You've been an amazing resource for my first build.
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SHMedia
I run H115i in the front, 9600K OC and a 2070S 3 fan with additional 2x140 fans on top. NEVER above 58c on cpu (all cores on 4. 6) and never ever above 66c during stress tests, Firestrike and all those. No problem what so ever. Not even GPU goes above 67C, even OC'd (slightly 100 + 500) Good case. :)
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I run H115i in the front, 9600K OC and a 2070S 3 fan with additional 2x140 fans on top. NEVER above 58c on cpu (all cores on 4. 6) and never ever above 66c during stress tests, Firestrike and all those. No problem what so ever. Not even GPU goes above 67C, even OC'd (slightly 100 + 500) Good case. :)
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