Hello all,
After some thinking I decided to upgrade my case from the Bitfenix Shinobi XL to the Phanteks Enthoo Primo case.
Specs:
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H
16gb Kingston Hyper X @ 2400mhz
4770k
Asus 7970
Crucial SSD
Corsair AX 750W PSU with black Pre-braided cables.
2 Mechanical drives.
Water cooling:
Bitspower Z-Multi res
XSPC AX360 Silver rad
EK-Supreme LTX water block
Swiftech Pump with the EK front.
EK Compression Fittings.
The build, sorry I did not take any photos of the box but when it arrived it was huge and very heavy!
and that was with no parts inside.
You get some accessories box which contains the usual small cable ties and Phanteks cables wraps (the case comes pre-installed with many) also what I like is the screw box which has the compartments for the various screws.
Parts removed from the old case and the new one ready to start:
Motherboard and rad mounted - just poked the pipe through the grommet to the water pump:
Roof was easy to remove and install the rad:
The case was very easy to build with and plenty of room to get in and not worry about cuts to hands!
Photo of rear, before cables installed:
Surged on and installed the Corsair pre-braided cables for the PSU, also you see the pump mounted and there is a option to mount a dual rad to the left hand side, and plenty of routes for the cables to go.
Also I used the on board speed controller, you see from the photo there is plenty of storage options, the SSD'S can be mounted on the side of the optical bays as well in the removable drive bays below.
The drive bays can be moved left or right depending if you wanted to install another rad in the front or can be removed completely.
Graphics installed and the res - but just, due to the gpu having the extra large cooler this touches the res and can be a little tricky to put in place, also the case does come with a bracket to mount the res on but with high end gpus, due to the length you have to remove this which is my only real gripe.
Pic shows the res mount installed before the gpu was put in, I only needed a couple of mm and I could have kept it
Again room to mount another dual rad if need and plenty of room.
Pipe work being installed and the water block installed:
The last bit of pipe work being installed and ready for the red fluid to be pored in:
Dog not looking a little worried and guarding the tool box!
Temp PSU to get the fluid round and get rid of any air!
Some final shots:
So far i am impressed, the next steps will be testing the temps and see how they fair, at the moment the cpu is running at 4.2ghz (was on air before) so I see if I get a little more out it.
I was getting full load temps of 79c ~ and quick test this morning whilst writing this I was getting 62c ~
There was a minor gripe of not being able to use the res mount on the back of the motherboard.
Going with the thread title the case is pretty heavy - even more now everything is installed
Thanks for looking
After some thinking I decided to upgrade my case from the Bitfenix Shinobi XL to the Phanteks Enthoo Primo case.
Specs:
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H
16gb Kingston Hyper X @ 2400mhz
4770k
Asus 7970
Crucial SSD
Corsair AX 750W PSU with black Pre-braided cables.
2 Mechanical drives.
Water cooling:
Bitspower Z-Multi res
XSPC AX360 Silver rad
EK-Supreme LTX water block
Swiftech Pump with the EK front.
EK Compression Fittings.
The build, sorry I did not take any photos of the box but when it arrived it was huge and very heavy!
and that was with no parts inside.You get some accessories box which contains the usual small cable ties and Phanteks cables wraps (the case comes pre-installed with many) also what I like is the screw box which has the compartments for the various screws.
Parts removed from the old case and the new one ready to start:
Motherboard and rad mounted - just poked the pipe through the grommet to the water pump:
Roof was easy to remove and install the rad:
The case was very easy to build with and plenty of room to get in and not worry about cuts to hands!
Photo of rear, before cables installed:
Surged on and installed the Corsair pre-braided cables for the PSU, also you see the pump mounted and there is a option to mount a dual rad to the left hand side, and plenty of routes for the cables to go.
Also I used the on board speed controller, you see from the photo there is plenty of storage options, the SSD'S can be mounted on the side of the optical bays as well in the removable drive bays below.
The drive bays can be moved left or right depending if you wanted to install another rad in the front or can be removed completely.
Graphics installed and the res - but just, due to the gpu having the extra large cooler this touches the res and can be a little tricky to put in place, also the case does come with a bracket to mount the res on but with high end gpus, due to the length you have to remove this which is my only real gripe.
Pic shows the res mount installed before the gpu was put in, I only needed a couple of mm and I could have kept it
Again room to mount another dual rad if need and plenty of room.
Pipe work being installed and the water block installed:
The last bit of pipe work being installed and ready for the red fluid to be pored in:
Dog not looking a little worried and guarding the tool box!
Temp PSU to get the fluid round and get rid of any air!
Some final shots:
So far i am impressed, the next steps will be testing the temps and see how they fair, at the moment the cpu is running at 4.2ghz (was on air before) so I see if I get a little more out it.
I was getting full load temps of 79c ~ and quick test this morning whilst writing this I was getting 62c ~
There was a minor gripe of not being able to use the res mount on the back of the motherboard.
Going with the thread title the case is pretty heavy - even more now everything is installed
Thanks for looking
