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Opinions on this series. Are they good and worth the price tag??

the original phanto is awesome. the newer like the 630 have some issues with build quality. so they are okay

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the original phanto is awesome. the newer like the 630 have some issues with build quality. so they are okay

Does it actually? I thought it was just a side panel change. I don't follow NZXT cases closely as I can't stand there looks but yes they're good cases.

 

 

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I recently looked at the phantom series when looking to upgrade my case, they have excellent build quality but I ended up buying the switch 810 rather than the phantom 820/30 or whatever it is. I would wait until they release their new case which is looking like it will be a new switch

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I have the original white one. It's nice and big. You may regret getting such a big case if you don't utilize the space though. After all, there's little need for a case larger than micro atx or even mini itx nowadays.

As for the price tag, they're not that expensive for full towers.

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I have the original white one. It's nice and big. You may regret getting such a big case if you don't utilize the space though. After all, there's little need for a case larger than micro atx or even mini itx nowadays.

As for the price tag, they're not that expensive for full towers.

This pretty much. I own the Original Crafted Series Phantom because I loved it's aesthetics and features. I will be using it's full size in the future. It is well worth the $120 US that I paid for it. 

The built in fan controller is awesome (supports 7 fans IIRC). 

If you want to do heavy water cooling (480mm rad or equivalent of, such as 2x240mm), you will have to mod it. It natively supports a 360mm in the roof IIRC or it is very easy to mod it to make that work. Either or. 

But yeah, the newer ones basically have more and newer features, but I prefer the old one because of it's particular aesthetics over the newer ones. But that is just me. Completely worth it imo.

Do note that the NZXT cases have special 200mm fan mounts. The true dimensions are 192mm, so only NZXT "200mm" fans will work with a NZXT case unless you mod it. Conversely, a NZXT "200mm" fan will not work with any other case that is not NZXT unless, again, you mod it.

Never understood exactly why they did that, but whatever.

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