James reviewed the Phanteks NV7 a couple of months again and now it’s time for the junior member of the household, the NV5. It is a mid-sized case with a great deal of glass and assist for as many as eight 120mm followers. Once we noticed the NV5 at Computex we have been instructed the worth could be £115, nevertheless a couple of days earlier than launch it was slashed to £85. Now that is an fascinating transfer!
Time stamps
00:00 Begin
01:08 A glance inside
04:30 {hardware} assist / storage assist
05:27 Cable Administration assist
05:40 RGB assist
05:56 {Hardware} for construct
10:15 Phanteks D30-120 Followers
13:02 Completed Construct and Check Outcomes
15:21 Closing Ideas
Essential options
- Close to-seamless glass panels for an ideal view of all of your system elements
- Elevated chassis width to assist wider fashionable GPUs and 12VHPWR cables
- Extremely-fine efficiency mesh design for top airflow with good mud filtration
- A complete of eight 120 mm fan positions for top finish cooling efficiency
- Detachable PSU cowl for simple entry and set up
- Built-in Digital-RGB lighting with software program free controller
- GPU assist bracket included
- Optionally available improve: NV5 Premium DRGB Package out there with a motherboard cowl
and extra DRGB lighting strips throughout the case ($70/£60)
Specification:
- Motherboard assist: E-ATX Max. 280mm large, ATX, Micro-ATX, Mini-ITX.
- Energy provide assist: ATX, SFX-L, SFX.
- Enlargement slots: 7.
- Included followers: None.
- Fan mounts: 3x 120mm facet, 3x 120mm roof, 1x 120mm rear, 1x 120mm flooring.
- Radiator mounts: 360mm facet, 360mm roof, 120mm rear.
- 5.25-inch optical drive bays: None.
- Inside drive bays: 3x 3.5-inch, 4x 2.5-inch.
- Entrance I/O ports: 2x USB 3.0 Kind-A, 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Kind-C, audio.
- Dimensions: 477mm H x 528mm D x 239mm W.
Testing
To place this case via its cooling paces we will likely be utilizing a take a look at system consisting of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics and an SSD. This method permits us to provide a considerable quantity of warmth and successfully take a look at the Phanteks NV5’s cooling capabilities.
Check System:
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
- CPU Cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360D30 AIO
- Case Followers: 5x Phanteks D30-120
- Motherboard: Gigabyte X670E Aorus Xtreme
- Reminiscence: 32GB G.Talent Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000
- Graphics card: Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Gaming OC 16GB
- Energy provide: Phanteks Revolt-X 1000W Platinum
- Energy provide cables: Phanteks Revolt Cable Package
- SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 M.2 NVMe
- OS: Home windows 11
Cooling Efficiency
Cooling Efficiency Overview
You’ve to remember that AMD runs its Zen 4 CPUs to the boundaries of the out there energy and cooling, so the actual fact our Ryzen 9 7950X was sitting at 95 or 96 levels C is a little bit of a pink herring. As an alternative have a look at the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card which was working at a gentle 50-52 levels C, which signifies the Phanteks NV5 flows loads of cooling air.
Closing Ideas
The Phanteks NV5 manages to mix giant glass home windows on the entrance and facet with first rate air stream, which is a neat trick.
A part of the reason is that this can be a fashionable case that ignores optical drive mounts and which strikes the entrance IO panel to the roof, however essentially the most vital design alternative is the transfer to contemporary air consumption on the best hand facet of the case. We have now beforehand seen this strategy from Corsair, Lian Li and Phanteks within the NV7 and contemplate it to be the brand new regular in fanatic PC instances.
Maybe essentially the most welcome function of the Phanteks NV5 is the way in which you may take away each the facet and entrance glass panels to go away an open construction that may be very sturdy and straightforward to work with. Ordinarily we’d complain {that a} case would not have a detachable fan rack within the prime or facet however with the NV5 it merely would not matter.
This case is excellent to work with, and that’s due to the intelligent design.
You should purchase the Phanteks NV5 for £84.98 from Overclockers UK HERE.
Professionals:
- Open design core chassis helps PC construct course of.
- First rate design and strong development.
- Massive glass panels look nice.
- Low ticket value.
Cons:
- Provided with out followers.
- NV5 solely helps 120mm fan models. You may neglect about 140mm.
- Putting in an E-ATX motherboard means you lose the GPU assist bracket.
KitGuru says: Phanteks NV5 is an efficient alternative for fanatic PC builders who’re blissful to accept a 240mm or 360mm cooler.
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