** PHANTEKS ENTHOO PRIMO - THE ULTIMATE WATERCOOLING CHASSIS **

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I build them. Several members have them under their EPs.. and some under other cases too. Seems every time I get one done and under my case someone needs one and I have to build another. :D
Trust me and we will get you sorted.
 
Primo black ordered just now guys, fed up waiting on the special editions and the new enthoo luxe. Had a few quid spare so thought id treat myself, (ive stopped gambling). Cant wait to get this case in, seen one in the flesh today at work. Gotta admit, the build quality is beter than lian li, (my yard stick for quality of build). £200.00 is peanuts for a case this good, i was sceptical about reviews. But seeing one in the flesh, (metal lol) they are truly amazing. I cant understand how phanteks make much money on this case tbh, the attention to detail is insane and the fit of every part. Ill be air cooling myself, (alpenfohn k2). But the way they have set it up for watercooling to cover various pump/res/rad positions etc is amazing attention to detail.
 
Nice one Setter. Look forward to seeing that :)

Been strongly debating grabbing one myself and I'm not sure why I haven't pulled the trigger tbh... Even got an extra 480 and a photon 270 sitting around waiting for something to happen :rolleyes:
 
Uncle Petey said:
Nice one Setter. Look forward to seeing that :)

Been strongly debating grabbing one myself and I'm not sure why I haven't pulled the trigger tbh... Even got an extra 480 and a photon 270 sitting around waiting for something to happen :rolleyes:
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Thanks mate, i was sceptical tbh until i seen an enthoo today. Yes it was case love at first sight tbh. Ihave a nice lian li a70f that would have been cheaper to mod. And my current shinobi xl, which i hate with a very strong passion. I was gonna put it in a skip, but it will do my old x58 rig. Im so loking forward to building in the primo, but it will be a day or two as i need to order more liquid ultra paste. Cant get my mobo out of the xl without taking the k2 backplate off.:(

Shinobi xl at present.
 
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Yeah, it just can't be beaten for the money.
Thing is, while it has all the features and rad space, it just doesn't do it for me somehow... :(

God knows how much it'd cane my wallet, but what does do it for me is the custom Parvum I've been working on:

Space for a 45mm 480, plus fans inside the top section.
Picture a black 'L' shaped floor to ceiling shroud covering the front intake fans and top rad tubing.
360 Monsta (exhaust) in the isolated bottom section with intake fans on the other side, which would also cool the pump(s) and HDD/SSD(s).
May even be able to stick a couple of Lamptron FC6/5's in the lower front section for a little more bling.

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Excuse some of the crude bits, it's just a rough mock up :)
 
Uncle Petey said:
Yeah, it just can't be beaten for the money.
Thing is, while it has all the features and rad space, it just doesn't do it for me somehow... :(

God knows how much it'd cane my wallet, but what does do it for me is the custom Parvum I've been working on:

Space for a 45mm 480, plus fans inside the top section.
Picture a black 'L' shaped floor to ceiling shroud covering the front intake fans and top rad tubing.
360 Monsta (exhaust) in the isolated bottom section with intake fans on the other side, which would also cool the pump(s) and HDD/SSD(s).
May even be able to stick a couple of Lamptron FC6/5's in the lower front section for a little more bling.

iYsBik5.jpg

Excuse some of the crude bits, it's just a rough mock up :)
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That looks sweet :cool:
 
Question about the PWM hub guys, ill probably be running 10 corsair sp/af fans. Two of theese for the cpu cooler are PWM fans the others all 3 pin models. I currently just use the bios fan profiles for my board. I assume 10 fans will be fine on the hub but will i be better of using Asus fan expert to control speeds? I do have a 6 channel 30w per header akasa fc6 fan controller, however it causes a bit of buzzing with some fans.
 
Phanteks PWM hub uses motherboard control software, so yes, Fan Xpert controls them. 10 fans should be fine.

I would use a Y-splitter for CPU cooler fans, assuming you have 2 CPU fan headers on your motherboard. Motherboard will power and control them. PWM hub will power with PSU and control from motherboard all other fans.
 
Thanks for the clarification scotty. Forgot about the door on the case and possibly clashing with the knobs. Using the hub will ultimately be a bit tidier as the controller is a bit messy anyway.

Board has dual cpu fan headers, one PWM sp 120 connected to each currently.
 
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Got my primo in today, certainly a very tall case. Fits under my desk with a few mm spare. About 3" higher than the shinobi xl or my old Lian Li A70F. Slight issue with the bottom front panel clips not catching properly, though ive read about this in this thread.
 
Best way to unlatch / latch the front cover is open the top door, remove the bottom 5.25 blank cover than with fingers behind and thumbs on front of lower cover squeeze until it clicks and releases.

The plastic cross-piece between upper door and lower cover flexes in when just pushing with thumbs and doesn't like to release.. Fingers squeezing from behind stops the flex. At least that works for me.
 
Will try that cheers. Also, with a gb wf 780 it seems that you cant use the reservoir bracket due to the cards length.

A further qwery guys, i take it the molex labeled 12v at the front is for the led strip on the top/side and the one labeled led strip is for an optional lighting module.
 
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setter said:
Will try that cheers. Also, with a gb wf 780 it seems that you cant use the reservoir bracket due to the cards length.

A further qwery guys, i take it the molex labeled 12v at the front is for the led strip on the top/side and the one labeled led strip is for an optional lighting module.
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I can't remember. :o
 
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