A Detailed Look – at the Inside
I removed the side panel and was greeted with a very familiar interior layout for a mid-tower PC case. NZXT uses a tool-less design for all the optical bays, hard drive cages, and PCI slots to help minimize the time it takes to install new hardware. I appreciated that the chassis was painted matte black like the exterior panels. Overall, there is plenty of room for high-end graphics cards and multiple hard drives and other cable management features improve airflow too.
As I mentioned before, the 410 Elite uses a tool-less design that includes using thumbscrews to secure add-on hardware in the back panel’s PCI slots.
The Tempest 410 Elite supports a variety of motherboard form factors including ATX, Flex ATX, micro ATX, mini ATX, and mini ITX. The motherboard tray also has a large area cut out to install CPU backplates to mount high performance, air-cooled heatsinks.
Here’s an upclose-shot of the eight-bay hard drive cage that uses plastic mounting brackets to install 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives and solid state drives. NZXT has used this hard drive mounting system in several of their latest PC cases this year.
NZXT also reused their custom optical bay mounting system that easily secures three optical devices to the 410 Elite. I’ve seen a lot of quick release systems in PC cases, but NZXT has designed one of the best and most functional I’ve seen in years.
There’s plenty of real estate behind the motherboard tray and hard drive cage to hide extra power and data cables. There are also convenient rubber grommets to help conceal unsitely cables and keep the front of the case clean and organized.
What would it take to see a
What would it take to see a dual radiator placed in the case? I see many cases with areas stated to be capable of supporting dual or triple radiators, and the grommets out the back for tubing, but rarely to i see a review that actually makes use of those features. They’re often brought up or mentioned, but not taken advantage of. I realize this would add some time to the review process for leak testing, tubing routing, etc, but with many new cases making some effort to accommodate watercooling setups, i’d like to see those aspects evaluated in reviews along with other parts of the case.
Ryan, make it happen!
I think one of the reasons
I think one of the reasons you don’t see sites using water cooling setups in case reviews is the simple reason that constant connection/reconnection plus twisting/pulling on all of the hose connectors is not very good for them and they won’t last long.
Would be possible of course just to show a radiator in place without all the tubing, but they probably place more priority on showing a fully installed system.
The NZXT preview video
The NZXT preview video contains a shot of an installed 2x120mm radiator. Perhaps the NZXT website would have more information on the installation/finished appearance.
I like the style of it…. it
I like the style of it…. it reminds me of a PS2 from the shape of the plastic and orientation of the USB ports, etc.
Is that h50 set up as intake
Is that h50 set up as intake or exhaust? I cant help but to wonder what it would look like with the H50 installed where you put the 120mill fan and attached a pull fan to the other side of the H50 in where the mesh is and had it exhausting, then you could use the rear fan as a cool air intake 🙂