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NZXT Phantom Review

1823alex

So I bought a Phantom awhile back and didn't really think to make a review until I wanted to install a 200mm fan... So here's the review:

I bought the case hoping for a large amount of cable management and room for HDD/SSD and lots of air cooling. I got it in red I personally love the case except I wanted to add a 200mm fan to the top I took everything apart sidepanels cabels etc. The fan was a Cooler Master 200mm Blue LED fan to match the NZXT one that came with the case. The problem started when the fan was apparently less than 1/4 inch to large because they have no room up there and wanted me too apparently buy one of there NZXT 200mm fans. So I devided OK I'll try the side panel for airflow around the graphics card. I had another problem, the screw holes for the fans didn't match up on the side panel... Lovely again it was barely off. In the end I had to abandon the top fan and put some more holes next to the normal ones on the fan I bought since I didn't want to damage the case. In the end the side panel fan I wanted worked fine but it was a pain in the ass and a job that should've been less than 20 minutes ended up being 1+ hours because I had to find where I could put it and adding holes to the Cooler Master fan. And just so everyone knows that it's not a 210mm fan or something from the product page:

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It says NOTHING NOTHING about a Slim/Special type of 200mm fan or fan mount. Maybe Cooler Master made the fan a special way but really? A tiny bit off for each screw on the side and then the top fan mount is to small.

Anyways I love the case in general just this hiccup kinda pissed me off and made me wonder why they would do this. (Because they probably want you to buy there fans) But overall great case for the money loved making the build in it.
Hope this helped someone.

Also here's some pics from before I mounted that 200mm fan:

http://imgur.com/a/LWdUD#0

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