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Hey. Check it out the NZXT Panzerbox, this things been around for ever,
and I've never seen one and never reviewed it.
I've been playing with it for the past hour, I love this thing, it's really cool.
Stay tuned, we'll be right back to show you whats so cool about it.
Alright the Panzerbox is awesome. I've been playing with this thing for
like about an hour now. Really really cool box. It's just such a great case.
All aluminum is the best part.
Aluminum frame, welded chassis, so there's no steel in there,
with aluminum panels. The whole things aluminum, it's actually pretty light,
for being a decent sized case.
It's a mid tower, a decent sized case is kind of misleading because it's small
but it's not. I don't know how to tell you. It's fat because it takes really
big CPU coolers and it has high end features. It can fit a 10.5 inch video card.
You can throw a couple of like GTex 225s in here and a nice Coroso motherboard,
it's still have like a light gaming system, really really cool design, great air flow.
Speaking of airflow, I don't know if you can see that, big 190 millimeter,
in the front right there. That's going to be your intake fan for this case.
You also have another very large 190 millimeter up here at the top.
You can see, everything up there is mesh. Really really cool, it's all mesh.
That means you have a lot of flow through the case.
You also have on the side panel over here, for your VGA, you have a nice
little intake panel. To show you the back and how this thing is laid out
your PSU is going to sit vertically right here, you've got 7 expansion slots,
and you have a 120 millimeter exhaust here, as well as the 190 exhaust on the top.
This means this case operates on a negative case pressure system about
300 CFM total air volume flows through here.
You have water cooling ports, lot of really good stuff, you've got thumb
screws, and you've got a removable motherboard tray, which is all
really cool. You can fit huge huge CPU coolers in here.
And here is another really cool cool part about it. That I thought was
incredible as far as NZXT goes, they made a bracket that actually goes up
here replaces the 190 millimeter fan,
and replaces it with a 2 by 120 set up.
So you can put a 2 by 120 radiator in here now.
Like I said all aluminum. I'm going to move over here.
Pull this out. All aluminum very very light.
Very nice set up in here.
Now as you see inside of here, we've got a very open set up.
They didn't put a lot of extra kind of like this kind of stuff up here,
for your hard drives all over, because they don't need it.
They just want you to have the basics so, big fan right up here in the front,
see that's that 190 sucking up in a lot and a lot and a lot of cool air,
is going to go through here, you have 3.5 inch racks right here, these are
going to hold your hard drives. You can actually put up to 3 in there.
Actually it's 2 here and you have an additional 2 up here, I don't know
if you can see those. Kind of dark.
And then up above you have 5 and a quarters, which pretty much you can
fill up with your external peripherals, DVD Rams and all like good stuff
is going to go in there. And now besides that really good options in here,
really nice stuff, it does support ATX, Micro ATX, Mini ATX,
and then the Flex ATX also called the baby AT.
Form factors say a lot of good stuff in here, you can see I'm going
to take off all of these thumb screws right now and I think I've got to take
off this one and I've got to take off that one over there in the middle.
And you will see one of my favorite
features on any case is a fully
removable motherboard tray size. As you can see this whole tray
slides out right there on those arms. And when you pull something like this out,
you actually, what's impressive to note is actually over here on the case,
look at the size of the entrance way, for the motherboard tray.
That means you can put a massive, massive CPU cooler in here.
and not have to worry. You know, I've seriously put entire computers
together almost I've put the motherboard inside of the motherboard tray,
I've mounted the CPU and the CPU cooler and the memory and I've done
all this stuff and I go to put it in the case and it doesn't fit
because the CPU cooler is like this big, you know like a thermal right,
a true an all tricks in 120, or an NH12UP from Natua
or a VA from Cooler Master.
You name it, if you don't have a lot of space, your not going to fit it
in with these and that kind of negates the purpose of having this motherboard
tray, it's kind of stupid to have if it doesn't fit with your big CPU Cooler.
So, you can fit just about anything in here, it actually comes with a
nice little guide right down here, it tells you exactly what's going to fit.
I don't know if you can see, it's all black, but ATX, Flex ATX, Mini ATX and Micro ATX
are all right there. It's going to tell you, and it even gives you a code
to show you which holes to use so you can put risers only in the right one.
That's not really necessary but hey they went to the extra step to do it
for you and I give them props for doing such a nice thing.
Besides that you've pretty much seen it all, the case is very very simple.
There's not really much to tell you about.
Let me see if I can get my list here, real quick.
No. Big cooling for air and or water. Awesome. Bigger cooler fits in here,
goes inside, big fans lots of flow, it's very light, great for Lian parties.
So if, you want to build a computer that doesn't take up a lot of space,
but that's going to have a lot of hardware, I7's and GTex 225's
or 295's or some 4870X2's, something that produces a lot of heat,
you need a lot of airflow, this is going to do that for you.
If you want to have water cooling on a portable set up, this is great too.
My personal idea was hey it's a 2 by 120
at the top use that for GTex 295's
and then do the core H50 unit for your CPU, you don't have to over clock
it too much, but you can over clock a little bit and you have a very very
powerful portable Lian party case, in case your a millionaire and you can
afford to put 2 GTex 25's in a Core 87, in that type of system, but very very
nice case, I'm very impressed. All aluminum construction, removable
motherboard tray, great airflow, big feature, small size.
Really good stuff, the NZXT Panzerbox, and if you have any questions on it feel
free to email me at that email address, and I will see you guys next time.
For more information on the NZXT Panzerbox
type in A406-1092 into
the search engine of any of these major retailers.
For Computer TV I'm Albert.