 The H2 from NZXT is available in a couple of different colors. Today we are going to be on... actually I don't know which one is inside here. So I guess we'll... oh, oh, here we go. On the side, yes, we are going to be unboxing the black version. But it is available in black and white. So why don't we have a look at the overall specs for this case right off the bat. So it has 3 5 1⁄4 inch external bays, 8 3 1⁄2 inch internal bays, 7 expansion slots. It includes two 120mm cooling fans, one at the front, one at the back. It also supports a 140mm in the top and a 120mm at the bottom. VGA support is up to just over 12 inches without the hard drives and 270mm with the hard drives. Would that be about 11 inches, 10 1⁄2, something along those lines. Okay, wiring space. That's a good spec to have because basically NZXT has taken into consideration how much wiring space you might need at the back of the chassis and put in lots so that you will be able to run all of your cables to actually use the cable management features that they have built in. It's made of plastic with aluminum... plastic slash aluminum... yes, with aluminum finishing. Material is steel with black coating, total weight, you probably don't care too much. Ooh, USB 3, exciting. Alright, what do we got here? Touch powered fans. These are neat, I'll show you that later. Okay, 30 watt 3-step fan control. This is a big thing that I love about NZXT chassis. They built in these fan controllers, so you got 40%, 70% and 100% fan speed controller. 30 watt 3-step, I'm not sure how many fans it supports, but we'll find that out shortly. Top hot swap capable SATA hard drive dock, which is... we've seen this before, but what we haven't seen before is a stealthed one, so we'll show you that in a minute as well. 8 front facing hard drives for optimal airflow, noise dampening foam and top magnetic fan cover for minimal PC noise. Okay, we'll show you that as well, and finally, ample 25 space behind the motherboard tray for cable management. What else we got on the outside? That's it, that's all. It's a very plain box, which is fine. I would rather see companies spending... well, because I work at an e-tailer, we don't really have as many retail stores as we sell stuff online. NZXT is a great online shopping experience, and for an online shopping experience, you do not need a fancy retail box, so I would much rather see a higher quality product, or better packing, or whatever else, than a fancy shiny retail box, which I mean, you know what? An expensive box, like a really nice retail box, can cost you, you know, in the neighborhood of 5 bucks. So, you know, don't underestimate how much it costs to add that to a product. Alright, we got foam packing material. You can see we've got about an intra-packing material on all sides, so that should keep it nice and safe. This is not my favorite kind of packing material, because it is the breakable stuff, so it'll only really take... it's kind of like a helmet. It'll only really take an impact once or twice, and then you should pretty much replace it, unlike the soft closed cell phones, but it is definitely acceptable to get a chassis this size, from its source to its destination in one piece, which we will verify in a moment, because this one has clearly traveled from some kind of origin to some kind of a destination, which is me. And there it is, the H2. So why don't we start with the aesthetics in our outside unboxing today? So at the front, we see a very plain, very slick looking exterior. Okay, we've got a chrome finish around the outside, plastic bezel around the very, very outside, and then a brushed aluminum finish here. You can see it's got a small accent that breaks up the squareness of the front down here, where it dips into a little corner. Okay, we're going to just go ahead and open that up. It looks like, yep, this is magnetized. I really like that because latches break, magnets pretty much don't. They just kind of work. On the inside, you can see the magnets here. You can see the screws that make up the construction of the front panel, very nice. You can also see the foam that is part of the noise dampening features of this chassis. You can see the tool-less 5.25 inch bay covers, which can be removed and put in just like that. Just pull on that there, and you can see it's already open. Okay. Next, you can, whoa, if you don't drop it inside and ruin everything, ruined. Okay, there we go. You can also see this is a cool feature. So these fans, if the case was powered on, would obviously be on. Check this out. So NZXT has done away with the concept of running fan wires around your chassis by building in power here. So you actually plug power into what is essentially like a fan back plane. You can plug any fan you want in, and then all you do is slide it into place and it'll start spinning. So if there's no power, which is caused by disconnecting it here and losing the contact at these power points here, so you can see you can plug in any fan as long as you shorten the cable enough to plug into here. And then you just go like this and boom, it's on. Just like that. Really cool feature. So the other front 120 millimeter fan does that as well. We can take these out and then once we've removed these, we actually have access to install up to eight three and a half inch hard drives or two and a half inch SSDs, or hard drives if you really want to, but I don't really see the point. So you can see here these are tool-less as well. So you just pop these back a little bit, install your drive, and slide it in. Two and a half inch drives are mounted via the holes on the bottom of the drive. So just like that. Feels pretty solid overall. As soon as you put a drive in a mechanism like this, it's going to gain a lot more rigidity. So that is something to bear in mind. Now the two and a half inch drives won't help with the rigidity factor, but they're also not heavy so you're not going to have to worry about them flying around inside your case. You got a little foot here which has their NZXT branding on it. Very tastefully finished as well in kind of a gunmetal gray. All right. I think that's pretty much it for the front of the case. Let's move up to the top because that's where some of the other interesting stuff is. Here's our power switch. Here's our reset switch. Here's our fan speed controller which is a switch style fan speed controller. We have front headphones, front microphone, one front USB 3.0, or you can probably wire it up as 2.0 as well if you feel like it. Three front USB 2.0, so a total of four front USB. In here you find that hot swappable bay, so all you have to do is put in a three and a half inch or two and a half inch drive. You go ahead and stealth that back up and it doesn't disrupt the look of your case. Like I said, we've seen this feature in the past, but we haven't seen it implemented in a way that doesn't seriously detract from the appearance of the top of the chassis. I'm just going to go ahead and put that back on there and then finally we've got a magnetic cover for the top 140mm fan, should you choose to install it. You just go like that and position it where it goes, which I don't remember where it goes. I guess it goes right about there. There's actually, yeah, okay, you've got a little bit of clearance in the back here. I'm just going to go ahead and tip the chassis towards the cameraman so he can see it. So you can stealth the fan and you can have like, it's going to be quite a restricted exhaust or you can take it off and you can leave it open, which also looks fairly slick. Let's go ahead and put that back on for now. It's a little bit clumsy to position, but since you probably won't be doing it very often, I wouldn't worry too much. There you go, now it's in the right spot. So the side panels, we're just going to show you very briefly, very plain, very black. You've got the one small accent here where you've got that gunmetal grey piece along the bottom, so it kind of makes the chassis look like it has a bit of a foot, which is kind of nice. On the other side, same thing. Okay, so this is a silence optimized chassis. It's not about necessarily putting dual GTX 590s in it so you don't have any side panel intake fans for video cards, which is fine because it's all about building the right thing for the purpose you are trying to achieve. And you don't necessarily want to go and put a bunch of random fan holes into a chassis that's all about silence because you shouldn't be loading it up with 15 fans anyway. Okay, let's just take off these side panels and let's have a look at the back. So at the back, you can see we've got a 120mm fan. It's a white and black fan, which matches the overall look of the chassis itself. We've got our standard I.O. shield cutout. We have seven PCI expansion slots, two water cooling tubing grommets should you decide to use an external water cooling setup, some ventilation holes here, as well as room for a standard ATX power supply. This has all eight mounting holes so you can mount your power supply either facing with the fan down. Oh, actually, I shouldn't take off the side panel just yet. Either with the fan facing down into the filtered intake or with the fan up if you wanted to draw in hot air from the video card. So when we take the side panel off, we find more noise dampening foam. It's glued on quite securely for those of you who are wondering. Go ahead and throw that in here. Alright, I'm just going to take off the other side panel here. Just so that we can see all of the internal goodies that are in this case. Alright, so the first thing here is accessories. Let's see what we've got included for mounting hardware and what nots. Alright, so we have a manual. We have a speaker. We have some black cable ties. We also have a whole lot of mounting screws and yeah, more mounting screws. Lots of mounting screws. So in case you were lacking mounting screws, now you have lots. Okay, motherboard tray. Let's start with that. We've got a cutout here for CPU coolers that require a backplate. So you don't have to take your motherboard out, install it and put it back in, which is a real hassle. You can just install it from the back by removing the back side panel. All of the internal cables are black, which I really like to see. Really nice. Okay, so here is power for the front fans as well as power for the fan controller up at the top of the case. It looks like the fan controller supports one. Hmm, how many does it support? Two, three leads. Probably, oh, probably four. There's probably one running to the back fan as well. Let me just see where that is. They've actually here, this is kind of neat. Come around to the back. I think it supports four, but here, come to the back. Okay, so you can see that they've actually cable tied all of the wiring in place for you right off the bat. So we support one, two, three, four. Wow, looks like five fans. You know what? If anyone knows for sure, post it, everyone thumbs it up because I can't actually follow all the leads right back to the fan controller and find out where they're coming from necessarily. Okay, they've also pre-cable managed the, oh, you know what? Let's look at the back while we're here. So cable management holes are done via the rubber grommets here, here, and here all along the back. So you can run the cables up from your power supply to wherever they need to go without being able to see them. You can also see the two and a half centimeters of clearance at the back of the motherboard tray, which is enough to run a 24-pin connector. You'd be amazed how many chassis makers make that mistake so that you actually can't run it out here, bend it, because remember, that's a lot more than just the thickness of the cable once you try and bend it and run it up to where it needs to go. You've also got these little hooks right here for zip ties, which are very handy for keeping everything flat at the back. And we can put screws in, in addition to the tool-less mount for our five and a quarter inch bays. So speaking of the five and a quarter inch bays, here's the tool-less mount. I've seen this one before, and I'm a big fan. Okay, so it locks somehow or other. I can't remember. Yeah, there we go. So you put it out like that, lock it in like that, doesn't come out anymore. I like it. It just looks neat. It's like a little caterpillar. Okay, we've got screw storage all along the side of the case here. Okay, there's our three five and a quarter inch bays, nothing exceptional there. There's the eight three and a half inch bays, which we saw before. Down here we have our extra 120 millimeter fan mount, so that's for more intake, should you so desire. We have support for very long power supplies. You can put in pretty much whatever you want, as well as rubber grommets here at the bottom of the case to lift it a little bit up so that you aren't going to have any restriction when you're pulling air in from the bottom of the case. Okay, we've also got our front USB 3 is hooked up via the outside. So you can see there's a hole here at the back, so that'll plug into the back of your motherboard. It's not the most elegant solution, but it's also not the end of the world, because it took everyone forever to decide on a standard for internal USB 3. Here's all the front cables, including USB 2, another USB 2, HD audio, as well as all your front switches and LEDs, and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the H2. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Chips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.