*** Phanteks EVOLV Owners Thread ***

Needing a bit of help with my Evolv mATX, I want to keep the hdd bays in the bottom of my case as I have a 3.5 inch HDD but my psu is 180mm long which means very little room in the bottom for cable management. Aside from that fugly bracket / support on the other side is there no other location I could put my hdd?
 
I might be forced to, not an ideal solution however... the search for the perfect case goes on...

EDIT - One option I could consider is replacing the 3.5 data hdd with a 2.5 inch one. Can anyone confirm that they will fit in the trays normally used for SSD's?
 
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Really loving this case especially, the new silver one

hope phanteks announce a new full tower version at CES

the ATX one doesn’t have enough rad space
 
Just noticed I can run the fan hub without the SATA power connector, it's currently powering the 3 stock 140mm fans plus the 140 and 120mm fans on my Noctua NH-D14, which I thought was a little bit impressive. Not sure how much that is down to the mobo mind or how safe it is powering 5 large fans from the CPU fan header alone, I'm sure I've heard of 2 fans killing fan headers but that was probably a decade ago.

Not really had any issues with the fan hub either, only thing I've noticed is a fan not being able to restart until rebooted after stopping it manually and they don't like very low RPM, anything below 700rpm and the phanteks fans will stall now and then but 700 seems pretty much perfect, so much so my MSI 7950 TF3 fans have needed to be quietened and I'm now painfull aware of the constant clicky noise my HX850 PSU is making, that is actually driving me insane, so i'll see if Corsair fancy sending me out a replacement fan rather than me RMAing an otherwise perfect PSU, 7 year warranty on this thing only just noticed on the box after retiring a few cables not needed in the phanteks :D

I do intend to replace the fans with RED themed ones sometime next year for the new build these look nice come in 120 and 140 and they actually have LEDs in them from what I read, which isn't immediatly apparant. I'm open to other fan suggestions at this point if anyone has any.
 
Transferred my pc into this case today, bit of a pain but that's mainly due to cable legnths and what not.

Also finding the fans a little louder than what I was expecting.

Long shot, but is anyone using an Asus P6T?
 
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Hey all, about to do my 1st water cooled build in the atx evolv once the last of my parts arrive and have a few questions I could do with some help with

The plan is to use a 360 rad in the front and a 240 slim in the top was planning on using all the rad fans to pull air into the case and exhaust via a single 140 out the back - good idea/bad idea?

The plan is for the inlet/outlet ports from the 360 to be at the bottom of the case and I was going to use y fitting in the feed from the rad to the pump to get a drain point in the bottom of the case.
I haven't had the rads delivered yet so can't check but I'm now starting to think there might not be the space for this - is this likely to be the case if so has anyone got ideas for locating the drain point

The pump/res combo is a d5 pwm and the fans are a mix of corsair and the ocuk silver stone 3 pin's, I'm using an x99 krait mobo which has 2 cpu pwm headers.

I was planning on using the phanteks hub connected to the the 1st cpu header and run the fans from it and stick the pump pwm in the 2nd header, however I see a lot of reports about the fan hub being a bit hit and miss, is this the case or should I be looking for an alternative fan controller ?

Any advice and thoughts on the above would be greatly appreciated

Fritzo
 
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Finished build pics.

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Hi,

the pc looks top !!! how did you do that with the sidepanel?
 
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