NZXT H440 Mid-Tower Case Review
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Anonymous
April 1, 2014 12:00:04 AM
Big changes are afoot at NZXT. The company's new H440 mid-tower chassis doesn’t have any bays for externally-facing 5.25-inch drives. The company assures us that there are plenty of features to take up that space and make your system look even better.
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brarboy
April 1, 2014 12:59:56 AM
Phillip Wager
April 1, 2014 1:03:33 AM
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doron
April 1, 2014 1:56:59 AM
ta152h
April 1, 2014 2:03:43 AM
No drive bay, because no one ever uses Blu-Ray drives, or DVDs? How this trash even gets made is a surprise, how it gets 'reviewed' is less of one. Being different, in a bad way, isn't good. I have a great idea, I'm going to make an ugly rectangular case out of polycarbonate, and it's going to have some great features - it won't have space for a motherboard of power supply, but it will have plenty of space for fans and lights. The nice thing is, regardless of the motherboard you have, it's right for you. You can just as easily not put your Mini-ITX in, as you can your E-ATX. No doubt, this will warrant very favorable reviews, due to this innovative and hipster approach, while maintaining the ugly rectangular shape. My motto? "It's now, it's wow" for the hipster dorks, and for the low-brow crowd, "Yo' mama so ugly, even I won't mount her". That's sure to bring in the degenerate, sub-human, buyer that was on the fence, or eating it.
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-15
AMD Radeon
April 1, 2014 2:27:29 AM
tomfreak
April 1, 2014 5:00:50 AM
Perfect case with a few minor draw backs.
1. It is a mid tower/ less expansion slot, only 7. putting 3rd double slot GPU will be a trouble.
2. Poor use of 3.5 HDD space. Could have easily house 10 HDDs while still have some gap for ventilation
3. while dropping 5.25 bay is a good thing since 5.25 optical ROM drive are pretty much obsolete now but there are still a lot of enthusiast front panel like fan controller are still on 5.25 bay.
1. It is a mid tower/ less expansion slot, only 7. putting 3rd double slot GPU will be a trouble.
2. Poor use of 3.5 HDD space. Could have easily house 10 HDDs while still have some gap for ventilation
3. while dropping 5.25 bay is a good thing since 5.25 optical ROM drive are pretty much obsolete now but there are still a lot of enthusiast front panel like fan controller are still on 5.25 bay.
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2
I really think NZXT makes the best cases out there right now. They really think when they design cases. They don't block the intake fans with nearly solid metal drive cage mounts like many other cases in all price ranges and drive cages and mounts are removable. They tuck SSDs neatly out of the way on the back of the motherboard tray or like with this case just above the PSU. They have the cutouts. They don't have too many 5.25 bays (if you're building a burn station, this might deter you). Fan power headers with variable speed switches right on the case (why the heck not???).
They're just really easy cases in which to build a PC. They are the only company I've seen that's moved case design forward other than Corsair with the 350D (although you need a different type/amount of floor or desk space to accommodate this design). Every other case company seems to put out the same rectangular shape with intake fans blocked by nearly solid sheets of metal and tops too close to the top of motherboards so you can't push/pull your AIO cooler's rad, or case width too shallow for a decent air cooler and a fraction of a centimeter behind the motherboard tray by which you can't very well manage cables.
They're just really easy cases in which to build a PC. They are the only company I've seen that's moved case design forward other than Corsair with the 350D (although you need a different type/amount of floor or desk space to accommodate this design). Every other case company seems to put out the same rectangular shape with intake fans blocked by nearly solid sheets of metal and tops too close to the top of motherboards so you can't push/pull your AIO cooler's rad, or case width too shallow for a decent air cooler and a fraction of a centimeter behind the motherboard tray by which you can't very well manage cables.
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6
Ozan
April 1, 2014 5:42:41 AM
inveriti
April 1, 2014 6:47:04 AM
Can someone please explain to me how 5.25" bays are "obsolete" when you still need them to install your OS? I'm sorry, but most of us don't have a spare rig sitting around dedicated to mounting bootable ISOs onto a flash drive. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be put in stocks and publicly humiliated, and whoever OK'ed this as a "smart buy" should be fired.
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-4
burkhartmj
April 1, 2014 6:56:36 AM
@inveriti I can't even remember the last time I used any kind of disc to install an OS. I have flash drives dedicated to Windows 7 and Windows 8 as part of my troubleshooting setup, and keep an ISO of Ubuntu hanging around for quick jobs. An 8GB flash drive is 7 bucks or less, and price to GB mostly goes down as you increase capacity. Just grab a flash drive big enough for the OS install of your choice and some room for file backup and suddenly that DVD drive just got a lot less useful.
Also the same logic applies the other way. I actually don't have a way to burn a disc if my desktop goes down [my Surface pro can make bootable flash drives, but it can't exactly burn a disc]. We all have a billions USB drives lying around collecting dust, why not put them to use?
Also the same logic applies the other way. I actually don't have a way to burn a disc if my desktop goes down [my Surface pro can make bootable flash drives, but it can't exactly burn a disc]. We all have a billions USB drives lying around collecting dust, why not put them to use?
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4
toddybody
April 1, 2014 7:21:03 AM
inveriti said:
Can someone please explain to me how 5.25" bays are "obsolete" when you still need them to install your OS? I'm sorry, but most of us don't have a spare rig sitting around dedicated to mounting bootable ISOs onto a flash drive. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be put in stocks and publicly humiliated, and whoever OK'ed this as a "smart buy" should be fired.Most of us do have USB ports on our rigs.
External optical drives are the way to go. It was the same thing with 3.5" disks. There was an abundance of affordable external USB 3.5" drives before they were no longer in use. Again, unless you're setting up a burn station, there's no real practical use for more than one 5.25" drive bay. Even most would argue that an external optical drive would suffice and they are quite affordable now.
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4
Dolsenenator
April 1, 2014 7:41:20 AM
ceeblueyonder
April 1, 2014 8:26:51 AM
i checked out this review because the case is in white. i think they need to make cases in white or aluminum. i know the pc crowd is less interested in aesthetics/design than the apple crowd, but to me, a white case blends in better in a room. i have a fractal design r4 and even though it's a mid tower case, it is still large and my room is small. but, having the tower in white, to me, makes the tower look smaller, perceptively-speaking, against the white walls of my room. i also think that changing the color of the case to white scrutinizes the design of the case even more so than a black case where everything blends in or masked by the color since a dark color absorbs light. aluminum is even better since it reflects light. just a though.....
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0
vagrantsoul
April 1, 2014 8:26:54 AM
Absolutely love this case, the only gripe would be wishing for a more secure method of having the feet attached, had one pop off from stripping screw threads on teh case, superglue and teflon tape fixed it and is unnoticable...Built in the black/red version ... here's a few fast shots.http://imgur.com/a/CBjCl#0ample room, quiet, overclocked i5 4670K to 4.2 ghz, temps never rise above 36cignore the post code, needed a bios flash when i took this.
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1
ceeblueyonder
April 1, 2014 8:32:54 AM
Quote:
Absolutely love this case, the only gripe would be wishing for a more secure method of having the feet attached, had one pop off from stripping screw threads on teh case, superglue and teflon tape fixed it and is unnoticable...Built in the black/red version ... here's a few fast shots.http://imgur.com/a/CBjCl#0ample room, quiet, overclocked i5 4670K to 4.2 ghz, temps never rise above 36cignore the post code, needed a bios flash when i took this. Score
0
rayden54
April 1, 2014 8:56:12 AM
Every time I see a case with no optical drive slot my first thought is JUNK. It's good all of you people've got super-high-speed internet connections that you can download 50GB like it's nothing. Not everyone can get a decent internet connection and I am so SICK of you people acting like you're the only people in the world.
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0
vagrantsoul
April 1, 2014 8:56:16 AM
ceeblueyonder
April 1, 2014 9:19:24 AM
rayden54, i hear yah. this case is deceptive in that it has a door hinge to cover fans. fans! the no 51/4 bay thingy in pc cases that is this large is just ridiculous. i know these pc case manufacturers have like 2 people working in their design team or know a relative to design their cases or outsource it to minimum-waged industrial designers working in who knows where--jeez!!!--just so tired of this idea that we are "progressive"--this case is "sooooo modern" because we have omitted 51/4 bays.... why can't a reasonably-priced case be reasonably-designed, too? is designing a case for a specific price point this hard?
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1
JackNaylorPE
April 1, 2014 9:58:29 AM
Very nice response to Phanteks Enthoo / Luxe cases incorporating many of the same features. Both have ...
-Adjustable rear fan mount
-Hidden PSU Compartment
-Max 30 watts on the Fan PCB-LED Switch
-Cable Routing Options
-Window hides HD bays
-SSD Mounting options
-Both even left out the rubber fan frame isolators on the case fans but identical retail fan has em.
I think the design could have accommodated a removable 5.25 cage....seems "the option" of going either way would make it more appealing.
I used USB to install my OS but it is a pain keeping three USBs around cause all wanna start off root, (one for memtest, one for OS ISO, one for BIOS upgrades. I also provide DVDs with all current drivers, benchmarks, utilities on it as a fall back for the user when I do a build.
I like USB's for data that changes .... prefer opticals for stuff that doesn't change ... and the fact that I can print labels makes managing 12 machines here at home / office rather easy..... would have hard time keeping track of all those USBs.
Opticals are also much cheaper and easier to manage for record documents for those who consult or work from home. Every time I design a building or other project, record copies must be filed w/ regulatory agencies. But even for those that shun opticals, they also cut out much of the enthusiast crowd with no place to mount a fan controller, OC Panels, Water Cooling Controller (Aquero 5/6) or temperature displays.
It does seem odd that the fan PCB thingie doesn't provide speed control like the Phanteks one does .... or that the PSU has no vibration isolation. The Phanteks one takes a MoBo Fan Header lead (PWM or Variable voltage) and lets you control up to 11 fans via the BIOS settings or software. I have to wonder if this might have been a feature that was missed because of the lack of documentation.
So hats off to NZXT .... great to see these features being incorporated by other manufacturers. I'd still choose an Enthoo Primo or a Luxe with the main reasons being, 1) The fan control PCB on the Phanteks, 2) a few features the 440 doesn't have (i.e. vibration isolated pump mount) and 3) even if I chose not to build with an optical, I don't like the permanence of being denied that decision if I changed my mind and 4) no place to mount controllers, OC Panels, LCDs or temp displays. An optional "bolt in" 5.25 bay, even as a purchase option, would remove that concerns.
I have had 4 portables .... found them not to be very durable or convenient w/ 12 boxes in the house. The SCSI one (cartridge 6-pak) from the mid 90s still works
. You can get away without opticals, you can get away without USB sticks.... however, whichever option works for you, I don't see why removing the choice is necessary....especially when ya not just taking away opticals but the above mentioned items also.
EDIT: All my formatting / paragraph breaks were removed on original post, edited to fix
-Adjustable rear fan mount
-Hidden PSU Compartment
-Max 30 watts on the Fan PCB-LED Switch
-Cable Routing Options
-Window hides HD bays
-SSD Mounting options
-Both even left out the rubber fan frame isolators on the case fans but identical retail fan has em.
I think the design could have accommodated a removable 5.25 cage....seems "the option" of going either way would make it more appealing.
I used USB to install my OS but it is a pain keeping three USBs around cause all wanna start off root, (one for memtest, one for OS ISO, one for BIOS upgrades. I also provide DVDs with all current drivers, benchmarks, utilities on it as a fall back for the user when I do a build.
I like USB's for data that changes .... prefer opticals for stuff that doesn't change ... and the fact that I can print labels makes managing 12 machines here at home / office rather easy..... would have hard time keeping track of all those USBs.
Opticals are also much cheaper and easier to manage for record documents for those who consult or work from home. Every time I design a building or other project, record copies must be filed w/ regulatory agencies. But even for those that shun opticals, they also cut out much of the enthusiast crowd with no place to mount a fan controller, OC Panels, Water Cooling Controller (Aquero 5/6) or temperature displays.
It does seem odd that the fan PCB thingie doesn't provide speed control like the Phanteks one does .... or that the PSU has no vibration isolation. The Phanteks one takes a MoBo Fan Header lead (PWM or Variable voltage) and lets you control up to 11 fans via the BIOS settings or software. I have to wonder if this might have been a feature that was missed because of the lack of documentation.
So hats off to NZXT .... great to see these features being incorporated by other manufacturers. I'd still choose an Enthoo Primo or a Luxe with the main reasons being, 1) The fan control PCB on the Phanteks, 2) a few features the 440 doesn't have (i.e. vibration isolated pump mount) and 3) even if I chose not to build with an optical, I don't like the permanence of being denied that decision if I changed my mind and 4) no place to mount controllers, OC Panels, LCDs or temp displays. An optional "bolt in" 5.25 bay, even as a purchase option, would remove that concerns.
I have had 4 portables .... found them not to be very durable or convenient w/ 12 boxes in the house. The SCSI one (cartridge 6-pak) from the mid 90s still works
. You can get away without opticals, you can get away without USB sticks.... however, whichever option works for you, I don't see why removing the choice is necessary....especially when ya not just taking away opticals but the above mentioned items also.EDIT: All my formatting / paragraph breaks were removed on original post, edited to fix
Score
-1
burkhartmj
April 1, 2014 10:05:36 AM
rayden54 said:
Every time I see a case with no optical drive slot my first thought is JUNK. It's good all of you people've got super-high-speed internet connections that you can download 50GB like it's nothing. Not everyone can get a decent internet connection and I am so SICK of you people acting like you're the only people in the world.Pretty sure you're ignoring literally everything people have said. Firstly, if this case isn't for you because you need an optical drive, cool, have fun with one of the THOUSANDS of other cases out there with that. This is marketed to the many people who don't need it, but the whole point of variety and specialization of features is that everyone can get what they want from something on the market, it doesn't have to be the same thing. Secondly, what are you downloading that's 50GB? It's only a special niche that downloads full, uncompressed Blu-Ray movies, and the largest OS image I've seen is around 8GB. Games can get a bit out of hand [though never seen one above 20GB], but personally I'd opt for an external optical drive for those one-off installs, then I can put it away and have a clean looking computer.
This would be like someone coming on here bitching about the lack of PATA ports on a motherboard. Sure, you might need that, and there are things out there that support that need, but technology as a whole is moving away from optical drives in favor of flash storage and web streaming.
Score
1
footman
April 1, 2014 10:06:12 AM
I bought this case a few weeks back and moved my overclocked and watercooled 3770K and pair of R9 290's in to it. The case looks fantastic in Black and Red. The lack of bays did not bother me as I have an external DVD-RW still.
What bothered me was the terrible airflow for my pair of 240 rads. With the front panel and top panel on my PC overheated and shut down and I was not able to run prime 95 or even BF4. With the panels off all was well and the computer ran fine. The last case I had was a NZXT Switch 810 and I had no issues with this case. My rads are low fpi and both had 1450rpm Corsair 120mm SP fans supplying them with air. I considered cutting some holes in the panels, but ultimately went back to my Switch 810. Now I have an H440 for sale :-)
What bothered me was the terrible airflow for my pair of 240 rads. With the front panel and top panel on my PC overheated and shut down and I was not able to run prime 95 or even BF4. With the panels off all was well and the computer ran fine. The last case I had was a NZXT Switch 810 and I had no issues with this case. My rads are low fpi and both had 1450rpm Corsair 120mm SP fans supplying them with air. I considered cutting some holes in the panels, but ultimately went back to my Switch 810. Now I have an H440 for sale :-)
Score
0
toddybody
April 1, 2014 10:08:24 AM
ubercake said:
inveriti said:
Can someone please explain to me how 5.25" bays are "obsolete" when you still need them to install your OS? I'm sorry, but most of us don't have a spare rig sitting around dedicated to mounting bootable ISOs onto a flash drive. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be put in stocks and publicly humiliated, and whoever OK'ed this as a "smart buy" should be fired.Most of us do have USB ports on our rigs.
External optical drives are the way to go. It was the same thing with 3.5" disks. There was an abundance of affordable external USB 3.5" drives before they were no longer in use. Again, unless you're setting up a burn station, there's no real practical use for more than one 5.25" drive bay. Even most would argue that an external optical drive would suffice and they are quite affordable now.
Finally took me buying a pretty case to understand that
Just took my 5.25" Blu Ray drive and placed it in an external enclosure...best decision I made. 2 less cables in case, exterior still looks pretty. I still need my ODD for playing Crysis and some conversion stuff...
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0
fatmaninMI
April 1, 2014 11:25:18 AM
ceeblueyonder
April 1, 2014 11:34:27 AM
Haravikk
April 1, 2014 12:35:47 PM
This is a great looking case, but with them ditching the optical drives entirely I just don't see the point of having so many hard-drive bays. They could have taken the opportunity to move three or four drive slots to the bottom of the case and made the whole thing a lot shallower (shorter from front to back). As it is the bulk of that front space is going to be wasted; granted people without an optical drive were wasting the space anyway, but if the drives aren't accessible from the front then there's not really any reason for them to be there. If they're going to keep the front drive position then I'd have much rather they'd stuck with a front door and add hot-swap hard drive bays instead, not that there's much need for RAID in gaming these days thanks to SSDs being so fast to begin with.
Score
0
tropicocity
April 1, 2014 1:35:12 PM
I have my H440 in White, and I must say the worst part of the entire case, in fact more or less the only thing that screws with it's awesomeness, is that for a case with so much sound-dampening foam, the fact that all 4 included fans are only powered off a 4-pin molex with no option for control built-in, means that literally they are running at way too high an RPM!My old case was a CM Storm Sniper, this had a mesh side panel instead of a window, mesh on the top, and mesh on the front (including mesh on the 5.25" bays!) and due to the H440's fans running so fast, it is actually LOUDER than my previous case by a decent margin.The front magnetic dust grill, whilst simple in nature and effective at blocking dust, creates quite a large amount of air-based noise with the 3 intake fans running so fast. When you couple this with the fact that those 3 fans cause vibrations to resonate either into the dust grill or into the front panel itself (I have tried repositioning them and came to this conclusion when unplugging the fans removed the noise entirely), you get a case that's aimed at silence, but in effect produces both noise And heat.Granted, I may be spoilt in that my previous case had 3x200mm fans and a 120mm exhaust, which due to the mesh all over I was able to run at their lowest setting (500rpm for the larger fans I believe?) So my idea of a "quiet" case is probably like an oil baron's idea of "cheap" if you catch my drift... but I dunno, NZXT made a stunner of a case but the exclusion of perhaps a simple fan control dial at the back where the LED button is would have made this case unbeatable.I have ordered a 3-pin Y splitter cable that'll allow molex power and motherboard control for 3 of the fans, but having to buy small extras to fix something that the manufacturer could have sorted out from the start does erk me some.
Score
0
mortsmi7
April 1, 2014 1:40:26 PM
vagrantsoul
April 1, 2014 1:53:32 PM
now, pardon my ignorance... but could you possibly hook something like this up in-line with the hub?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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0
RedJaron
April 1, 2014 2:08:22 PM
Someone Somewhere said:
Interesting thought: Why don't any cases put 5.25" bays at the bottom? No airflow issue because the PSU sits right behind it, and because they're rarely used it's not an issue if they're slightly harder to get to. Though on a desk drives at the bottom would actually be easier to access.I've thought the same. It might be a little awkward for floor units. But you're right, desk units would improve with this.
Haravikk said:
This is a great looking case, but with them ditching the optical drives entirely I just don't see the point of having so many hard-drive bays. They could have taken the opportunity to move three or four drive slots to the bottom of the case and made the whole thing a lot shallower (shorter from front to back). As it is the bulk of that front space is going to be wasted; granted people without an optical drive were wasting the space anyway, but if the drives aren't accessible from the front then there's not really any reason for them to be there. If they're going to keep the front drive position then I'd have much rather they'd stuck with a front door and add hot-swap hard drive bays instead, not that there's much need for RAID in gaming these days thanks to SSDs being so fast to begin with.I agree wholeheartedly. Why keep so much extra room at the front?
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If you find yourself [loving the absence of external 5.25" bays], you're going to appreciate the extra space for peripherals (like fan controllers and reservoirs).Sorry, Kai, this makes very little sense. What peripherals are you going to put here that you can't access from the outside? You can't put a card reader or any type of system monitor display. And, what kind of fan controller do you intend to use without an external bay? Do you plan to mount it backwards inside? If you have to crack your case just to get to the fan controls, doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of having the controller in the first place?
As for reservoirs, this seems like a moot point. This is a $140 mid-tower case. You've got quite a few options at that price point, and nearly all of them have at least four external bays ( most have five. ) At seven card slots, you're maxing out at three GPUs. And if you're considering this case, it means you're not planning on an ODD in your build. Now I'm not a liquid cooling expert, so I may be wrong, but I don't believe LCing a CPU and three GPUS would require more than three bays worth of reservoirs ( leaving one open for the aforementioned fan controller. ) And when you mount a front radiator you lose some bays to mount reservoirs. So how is this extra room supposed to be a boon when nearly every other four-bay mid-tower has enough room to do the same?
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0
Astrodroid
April 1, 2014 2:32:57 PM
Astrodroid
April 1, 2014 2:49:58 PM
Karadjgne
April 1, 2014 5:03:28 PM
While it seems like there are more than a few here who are dedicated gamers, the are also more than a few who are not. I am one of the later, and I find it rather imbecilic for people to claim that internal optical drives are obsolete. So now I need another external object cluttering up my desk, just because its the latest fashion? All by kids baby pictures are in DVD/BR, why? Because a DVD properly stored lasts longer than a HDD, doesn't have sectors suddenly burn out, there's no motor to fail (my last Seagate, non recoverable) and I have backup copies. Not to mention the small fact that every game I do own and Windows too, is all on disc. My entire system is recoverable in a matter of hours. Contrary to popular belief, unlimited cable internet is not unlimited. My 'unlimited' account is actually a block of 100Gb per month. Normal usage will never cover that in a month of streaming, dl, surfing, but to replace over 20 BR worth of photos, 10 games of over 10Gb each plus all the other stuff on the HDD? Not likely. My pc is not a burn station, its not an over-powered x-box replacement, its not a miner nor a workstation. It's just a frikkin PC and will always be just that, including the internal optical drives.
Score
-1
cocosoy
April 1, 2014 5:10:37 PM
For all of you hating on this case because it has no optical drive slot, please, obviously this case is not designed for you if you need the slot. There are PLENTY of cases that have the slot, why hate on something that's not targeted for you? It's like a 3D enthusiast hating on a great TV because that model doesn't support 3D. There ARE other models out there that fits you. You are not the only person in the world, there are people like us who has no use of the optical bay and love this case. Leave us alone.
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1
Karadjgne
April 1, 2014 6:35:30 PM
Thought for the day: NZXT H450. A H440 with hinges on the front panel to make it a door, and 2 optional 5.25 bays up top that can be changed out to HDD bays or a third 120mm fan. In the door include 2 transparent or smoked 'windows' and 2 door material covers for ODD slots so users who want to use led fan controllers etc can still 'see' them through the door, or if not, are covered to look like the door.This covers every option, including ease of filter cleaning, 3 fans, no ODD cages, 1 or 2 ODD cages, fan controllers, led readouts, card readers, hot swap bays etc and still maintains the integrity of the case as is.That I feel would be innovative, a truly modular case to satisfy anyone's priorities and needs and esthetics
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-1
dennphill
April 1, 2014 7:25:49 PM
Jeffrey H
April 1, 2014 8:10:51 PM
Well I know one thing, those who want a Mini Server or get a Card that supports Drives that need the 5.25 Bays to change out Drives(Uses for Mini Servers) are not going to be happy of this, I mean I know most of the 2.5 to 3.5 Bays will increase let alone my Case has 4 of them, I think leaving them out is not going to make people want to buy Cases that remove them, besides again this is where Old School Cases will be the factor of this.
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-1
Zhyr
April 1, 2014 11:06:33 PM
Karadjgne
April 2, 2014 4:33:51 AM
If the H440 was an ugly case, and none of the extras like lighting and window and hidden psu, and was a piece of junk plastic built by a 5th rate case manufacturer, ppl wouldn't bitch. Unfortunately, its a gorgeous case (especially the black/red in my opinion), its got some great features and is built by a superior case manufacturer! And in designing this case, they have taken away my, and many others, personal choice of owning one. It's a honey covered carrot on a stick bandied just out of reach. THAT'S why ppl are bitching, Guess ppl will just have to settle for a Fractal Design R4, since the option of the H440 has been denied.
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0
ceh4702
April 2, 2014 6:39:44 AM
enonu
April 2, 2014 8:11:39 AM
For the folks complaining about a lack of 5.25" bays for OS installs, you can buy a $30 external DVD drive for the 2 times a year you'll use it. Additionally, most folks do not watch video from disc from their PCs unless it's an HTPC, and this is not an HTPC case. It's time to welcome the lack of 5.25" bays for more modern case designs.
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1
clinaman
April 2, 2014 8:48:31 AM
I personally use two of my external bays as slots for removable bare hard drives. My favorite way to do a backup. Pop in a hard drive, backup to it, put it back in the hard case with antistatic foam.It's a question of personal taste. I suppose it's neat that they make a case for people who prefer to do things this way.
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1
vagrantsoul
April 2, 2014 11:21:49 AM
all things aside, the lack of a 5.25 bay was somewhat obviously forseen by NZXT as a detractor for wide adoption at this point... hence the supplies running so low so fast, they DO lose sales from unavailability on top of personal choices.
I really do like this case, coming from a 690II advanced in the rig it replaces... I even installed the OS on a test drive while waiting for my SSD to arrive with an internal drive hooked up and sitting on top of the open case, then shut down and removed it.... worked fine..
there's a wide variety of cases for a reason, personal aesthetics and requirements vary... everyone's mileage may vary
I really do like this case, coming from a 690II advanced in the rig it replaces... I even installed the OS on a test drive while waiting for my SSD to arrive with an internal drive hooked up and sitting on top of the open case, then shut down and removed it.... worked fine..
there's a wide variety of cases for a reason, personal aesthetics and requirements vary... everyone's mileage may vary
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1
grokem
April 2, 2014 7:42:21 PM
Wow, no 5.25" external bays! Sold! I would have purchased this case if it had caught fire during the review and seriously cut someone. The fact that it's actually a very good case is just bonus. I don't have a need for it currently but I want to support manufactures that think different. I don't understand all the posts complaining about a flood of "cases without 5.25" external bays". As far as I'm aware there are exceedingly few of these and almost none with no external bays like this one. Why can't you pick one of the other 1,978 cases with 6 external 5.25" bays and let us enjoy just this one?
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Billy Gates
April 7, 2014 3:56:04 PM
sebastian869
April 7, 2014 4:34:06 PM
Great "basic" case. My only concern is DUST!!!!!! my mortal enemy does anyone know of a case similar to this (mid tower) that has great dust protection and easily removable filters so that it's not too much of a pain to wash them. If so PLEASE email me at REDACTED - SS or through THG if possible.
I would really be grateful, for some reason I can never buy a case "for life" my last one a lian li u have to disassemble the front to get at the filter.
I would really be grateful, for some reason I can never buy a case "for life" my last one a lian li u have to disassemble the front to get at the filter.
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