 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Tempest 410 Elite. So the Elite version has a side panel window. This is a crafted mid-tower according to NZXT. And what do we have to say for ourselves on the front? So it has a two-year warranty, although that's pretty much completely irrelevant because if the case isn't DOA, it probably will maintain its core functionality over the course of its lifetime. I guess maybe the fans might matter. Okay, they've specced out their clearances, they've specced out the cooling, what's included, what's not included, bays and expansion, so seven expansion slots. So this is a standard ATX case. On the back, let's see what NZXT's blurb is. I always enjoy these blurbs. An aggressive cooling solution forged for your rig. The Tempest 410 Elite mid-tower completes your fine-tuned machine by taking advantage of the airflow required for the enthusiast's overclocking needs. The Tempest Legacy expands its maximized ventilation through the extra-large honeycomb mesh design. So my understanding is this case actually uses honeycomb mesh for all of its openings that are designed for airflow. That's kind of neat, gives you better airflow. Cool. Dual radiator support and dual touch-powered front fans. Oh, okay, I lost where I was in the sentence there, it's okay. In addition to the basics, the Elite includes USB 3.0 and an acrylic side panel for interior viewing. If you're looking for a new cooling edge for your gameplay, the Tempest 410 will bring you the results of epic win. Well alright then. I am going to go ahead and break the seals on this epic win result, and we will have a look at this case and see what we think of it. So let's go ahead and open it up. Alright. Oh man, it's like heavy. I've done a few case unboxings here and I'm like getting warm so I'm just going to go ahead and get rid of that before I start like sweating all over the camera here. Okay, we've got our packing materials. These are very, very thick. Wow, these are very, very stiff, very thick foam so look at that. They've actually, see this is the kind of consideration that I really like to see. Check this out. So you've got kind of standard one inch on the sides. You've got kind of thin on the front. Why did they do that? I'll show you why they did that. Because they thickened it up at the back to prevent, wait, why did they thicken it up at the front? Okay, why did they thicken it up at the front? Oh, because it's smaller. Oh, well alright then. No, but here's something they have done, is they recessed the screws. So many companies forget to do this. That's what I was looking at when I was thinking of that. They put a recess into, see here you can see the same thing at the bottom. So even though it uses a stiff foam, the screws are not going to break it. I've seen so many cases come with broken packing materials due to the screws pressing into it and cracking the foam. As soon as this foam is cracked, it loses its structural integrity because it's not a closed cell foam, which you'll see in the higher end cases. It is more of a stiff, a hard foam. So what happens is as soon as it's cracked, it's pretty much useless. It's designed like a helmet for one major impact and then beyond that, you don't expect too much. This actually looks really nice. It has a good overall feel to it, good weight. So it's not super light, but it's not super heavy. And very, very sort of, okay, it's not clean lines because it's more of a gaming styled case as we've come to expect from NZXT, but it's not over the top either to the point where it's very polarizing. Like some of their competitors, gaming lines of cases where people either love them or they just hate the look of them. I don't think there's anything to really hate about the look of this case. So why don't we start with the front? So on the front, we find lots of honeycomb mesh. So you can see this not only has honeycomb mesh, but also like a fine mesh behind it for dust filtration, presumably. These come out very easily. This is a feature that I love on NZXT cases because I hate fussing around with these things. It's a pain. If you just go like that, comes in, comes out. You don't have to like mash it out from the back or anything like that. Also on the front, oh, and these are my favorite. Okay, this is something that I first saw introduced, I believe, with the H2. There we go. How's it come out? There we go. So both sides. Check this out. Oh, no fan cabling. What do you think of that? So you see these contacts right here? That's your four-pin PWM. That's just a simple pass-through. So then on here, you see the contacts for power, and then you can actually adapt any fan for use with this sled here that goes, or sled cage, whatever you want to call it, that goes into the front, or rather three-pin, just by plugging this in here and then by taking the whole thing and clicking it into the front. Love that. I think that's a great feature because wiring up the front fans on a given case can be a total nightmare and is often just really, really clumsy the way it's done. This is very, very elegant. I'm going to go ahead and pull these out just so that we have access to the front-loaded 3.5-inch hard drive trays, and check out how many there are. Yes. There are eight 3.5-inch hard drive cages, also with support for 2.5-inch SSDs. So you can see the holes are here and then here. Okay, that is not how that is meant to work, and don't worry, that should not reflect poorly on the case itself. Let me show you how that is intended to work. If you put it in straight, then it clips in. If you put it in at an angle, it falls right through. So be careful when mounting hard drives in this case, because if you put it in at a random angle, you're going to drop a hard drive into the back of your computer. It's going to break your video card. You're going to have a bad day. All right. Front panel connectors. We've got front panel... Oh, these aren't labeled. Okay, well, it's not the end of the world, I guess. You just have to try and remember. One of them is mic, one of them is headphone, front USB 3, front USB 2 times 3, and we've got our front hard drive and power LEDs. Power switch is accessible from here, from the top, and then we have a reset switch in addition to that. Here we find a little storage compartment, which is kind of neat, and what's also neat about this is check this out. We've got a cable routing channel here. So what happens is I've got a pair of headphones that have about... Oh man, they must have like a three meter cable on them. Typically, my gaming tower sits sort of next to me right about kind of here. Do I need three meters if I'm plugged into the front panel audio? I don't think so. So what you can do is you can plug in your front panel audio, run the cable just up here into this channel, coil it up in here, run it out this channel, and then you can take it sort of down here and over to where it needs to go without interfering with your optical drives or anything like that. So that's pretty cool. And then finally there's a little bit of storage here. Look at that. It stays where you put it. Smart. All right. Also on the top of the case, I realize I'm spending a lot of time on the top of this case, but there's a lot of stuff here. We have Honeycomb mesh once again, and we have a dedicated spot for a dual 120 millimeter water cooling radiator and fans. So the whole thing just clips in like that, covers it up or doesn't cover it up, whatever you prefer. So you can either take your radiator and put it on the top. Actually, yeah. Yeah. So you've got space for... Look at that. They've given you all the flexibility in the world here. You can either run your tubing down this side or you can run your tubing down this side. So you can have the radiator on top for a nice clean aesthetic because you'll just see radiator fins through here. Or you can put your fans on the top and mount the radiator directly to the case and you can see your LEDs or whatever else like that. So that's also a pretty cool thing that they've thought of with this case. Let's look at the back. So at the back we find a 120 millimeter cooling fan. These things, which I'm not a huge fan of, especially when you have a dedicated place to mount a dual rad in the top. So I don't see why you'd do an external water cooling setup. I.O. shield, seven PCI slots, bottom mounted power supply and look at this, a hard drive sled. All right. Let's open this baby up. These thumb screws are pretty tight. I'm gonna go ahead and grab my screwdriver. So just for a change of pace, we're gonna do the back panel first. I've removed the screws now. So remember, they're not always tight. If you put them in finger tight, you'll be able to get them out with your fingers. So it's not like, oh, these are magic thumb screws that only work with a screwdriver. I guess they might as well not have used thumb screws. It's not like that. It's just a matter of them being tightened a little bit too much at the factory. So it was hard to get off. All right. On the back here, we have lots of room for cable management. Check that out. In fact, 23 millimeters of clearance is what they're specking out here. And I believe it. That looks very good. We've also got lots of room for cables to come through here, come up through here, up through here, up through here. So there's your eight pin connector. That's where that one's gonna go. And then this is also something I really love to see. Lots of little loops. See these little loops? These are all for zip ties. So you can take all of your cables that you're managing, zip tie them so that they stay nice and flat and so it doesn't interfere with each other and make it difficult to close the other panel of the case. They've also reinforced the strength of their motherboard back panel. By putting in these bumps like this, they are actually significantly adding to the rigidity of the motherboard backplane. This can be important when shipping a system, particularly. So if you're ordering a system online, you can be pretty confident going with something like a Tempest 410 Elite. Other than that, I see places to put screws into your optical drives. I see places to... I don't know what those are for. Do you guys know what these are for? Let me know because I don't. I see places to plug in the fan leads to those front fan connectors and other than that, I think we're pretty much done with the back panel. Let's move over to the other side where we have a nice side window design, alright, which gives you a view of your hard drive cables. Okay, that I could sort of... Maybe going this way might have been a little bit better, but that wouldn't have looked as good with the overall slant of the case and the overall design, but either way, you're going to be able to see your graphics card, your CPU, all your fancy pants hardware, and I'm just going to lay it down to make my life a little bit easier here, guys. So here are all of your internal connectors. So there's power. That's going to power those fans in all likelihood. We've also got front USB 3, front USB 2, HD audio, other more different front USB 2, front panel connectors, so your power switch, your reset switch, all that good stuff, and these are all black cables. Love it. Even the USB 3 cable is black up to the point where it plugs into the motherboard where it has to be color-coded. Very nice. Love to see it. In terms of included accessories and documentation, it's all in here. So 17 different languages, good on you NZXT. You clearly intend to sell these worldwide or have really sort of strange policies about selling only in the US, because I really don't know how many people speak. Oh no, oh no, these are 17, ha ha ha, 17 things that are labeled in this picture in only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 different languages, so I was wrong. Alright, so that gives you the steps for how to install most of the stuff in the Elite 410, or rather the Tempest 410 Elite. Here we've got some zip ties, very nice. We've got some, oh look at that. The bags are all labeled, so you've got standoffs, you've got M3 5 flat, you've got some 632 screws flat, and 632 screws hexagon. Very nice. So what else we got here? We have thumb screws, so I guess that's somewhere to store additional thumb screws or what? Actually, it looks like that may be the case. These look like optical drive base screws. You know what, give me a second, I'm going to find out what these are. So figured out what it is, it's in the manual. Go figure, read the blank manual. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to show you guys what you do, you install the hard drive, you take this out, it's a really long screw, so then you go ahead and put it here and you secure your hard drive in place. That is what you do with it. Alright, so let's look more closely at the inside of the case as a whole. So in the front we've got our two 120mm fans, we can put one more 120mm fan here, we have a filtered, see there's a fan filter on there, there's a mesh, we have a filtered gap for the power supply to get fresh air from the bottom of the case, we also have rubber fan, our rubber case feet that will keep it off the ground or table or wherever you're keeping it so you're going to get some airflow to your power supply, no big deal. Power supply, you can have almost any length of power supply even up to like here, so you're not going to have any clearance issues with your drives. In terms of video cards though, I'm not sure, but I'm going to go ahead and grab a 6990 since I happen to have one handy here. I guess I'll have to do a GTX 590 first on account of I can't get the, hold on, oh, sure, whatever that'll count, I can't get the 6990 out without taking these first, so, one 590, ooh, Apple 590, okay let's try that one. So the Apple 590 is going to go right about here, so you're going to have to be, yeah, you're probably going to have to take out a couple of hard drive cages if you want to put a 6990 in here, although, I mean, very few people actually buy 6990s, it's just the kind of thing I like to mention if it comes up. So as soon as I, as soon as I take these out, I should have enough room for that particular graphics card. So I'll move that, move that, move that, and yeah, so that would fit. So it'll fit up to a 6990, which at this time is the longest, most power hungry graphics card out there. All right, in the top we've got those dual 120s or dual 140s, in the back we've got that 120, and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Tempest 410 Elite. This is actually a really nice looking case, great quality to the paint finish. I love the finish of the paint on here, and it matches between the metal and plastic parts very very well, which is difficult to do. So the inside looks very similar to the plastic top here, you actually can't really see much difference here at all. That should not be taken for granted, like I said, very very difficult. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.