 Corsair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 mouse are designed to provide best in class features and performance for gaming. Click now to learn more. The Phanteks Enthu Primo. You guys have been asking me for this for a while and here it is. We're gonna start with packaging. It comes in a box which you may or may not have expected. It's also got some nice soft close cell foam because of how heavy this case is and especially how heavy it's going to be once it's laden with hardware. Like man this thing's heavy. I wouldn't have minded seeing a little bit thicker foam like what Silverstone does on some of their higher end cases. But it should pretty much arrive in one piece even with a system inside in most cases. Let's start with the accessories. Inside the little accessory box that's included you get a radiator bracket. So this allows you to install up to a dual 120mm radiator on the side if you're willing to remove the hard drive cages. Don't worry there will still be SSD mounts. You also get a nice little kit full of screws. It's got little compartments for all the different kinds of screws that come with the case. It's amazing how many different kinds of screws are used on this case. It actually has more than the 10 compartments worth of different screws. Which I discovered when I undid this thing right here, the reservoir mounting bracket that was actually inside in the first place. Because it was unfortunately useless. If you have a gaming grade graphics card that's sort of a normal length then it's going to interfere with that anyway. The good news is that there are other places that you can mount your radiator without any difficulty. Finally, finally we've got the rest of the accessories here. We've got two little foam pieces in case you want to install a second power supply in the Enthu Primo. And then some zip ties as well as two more Velcro straps in addition to the ones that are inside the case. So let's start with the outside. The front of the case actually I didn't really like it that much before it was powered on. And before it had an entire system in it. It's got a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish. Now this is a bit of a double edged sword because it looks great out of the box. But if you get fingerprints on it it can stain over time. So just make sure you're careful with it. It has a blue LED strip illuminating not only the front but also the top. And then if you remove the front cover it's actually got two blue LED fans that give a very pleasing glow to the front of the case as well. The great news about all these LEDs is that you can actually toggle them on and off with a switch that's built into the front of the case. You've also got an extremely solid 5.25 inch bay door up at the front that conceals five 5.25 inch bays. It has a very solid feel to it and closes with a satisfying thunk because it is magnetized. So quite like the front of the case. The last thing to note about the front is that that removable piece that gives us access to those fans has a removable cleanable fan filter that's got kind of a complex design to it. You would just I guess run the whole thing underwater as opposed to removing the actual filter from the front piece. Because the way it's constructed allows the front bottom air vents like the kind of the side front bottom air vents to intake air and still have it be filtered in addition to any air that's coming through the front of the case. Which brings us to the top which is also gorgeous you know brushed aluminum finish two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports that have little rubber you know covers on them that will get lost immediately. Power reset switch as well as that LED control switch that controls not only the LEDs on those front fans and the LED strip but also can control additional LED fans in the case. There's actually a bunch of leads I believe there's four additional leads inside the case and it can control control your internal case lighting because it has a molex connector that it powers as well. So you could have your interior lighting and you can hook up pretty much whatever you want to it and have the whole thing turn on and off with the push of a switch. Speaking of pushing we can remove the top fan filter just like that go ahead and clean that or do whatever it is you need to do with it. This also reveals a ton of space at the top for fans and radiators you can do up to three 140 millimeter fans or four 120 millimeter fans. And because there's enough clearance between the top of the internals and the top of the and the bottom of this fan filter you can actually do a push-pull configuration with a quad radiator in here quite comfortably. In fact the Enthu Primo is a water cooling a water coolers wet dream so to speak because of all the options that are available in it. So let's go around to the right hand side where we find not a whole lot of much of anything there's two 120 millimeter fan mounts these are mostly only going to be used if you do decide to install that optional bracket or I shouldn't say mounts I mean two you know holes two ventilation holes. There's also a ventilation hole for the power supply intake the power supply only goes in well one of the power supplies only goes in one way in this case. On the left hand side we have two little windows one that reveals a fan tax logo and that's pretty much about it other than that it's just kind of a stealthed panel there across the three and a half inch drive cages and the cool thing about that fan tax logo is you can actually replace it quite easily. It's held on with screws from the back side so you can put in whatever you want and then a nice large sort of tinted window that gives you a nice look at your not your power supply. Ah yes it has a bit of an unusual internal layout so all it really shows you is your motherboard as well as your graphics cards and that kind of cool stuff so the slightly different internal layout let's go ahead and oh boy this thing's heavy. I'm going to try and move it around a little bit here so you can see that the power supply is actually vertical that's what allows you to install up to two power supplies in the case you can also put a 120 or 140 millimeter fan here at the back should you so desire. There's another reservoir mount here thankfully so that original one that wasn't very good we don't have to use that also at the back we've got either 120 or 140 millimeter fan mount you can go ahead and slide that up and down as needed the last thing I do want to show about the outside is oh wow it's heavy. Ouch got my finger even more removable fan filters so you go ahead and click these ones down here on the bottom and they slide out from the side this reveals ah yes you can have up to a triple or rather quadruple 120 millimeter radiator mounted in the bottom as well. So that gives you two 480 millimeter rads both with filters and potential for awesomeness of course you would have to remove the three and a half inch drive cages if you wanted to do that now the fans that are included with the case not the greatest you know workmanship ever they have a bit of a quite a bit of flex to them they don't feel like the greatest thing but fan text does include five of them which is pretty generous considering the case is large feature rich and cost 249.99 I don't usually mention price. I don't usually mention pricing but cases don't change much so there you go the good news about them is that especially with the included fan controller they are quite quiet so I was overall pleased with the included fan quality and quantity so there's two 140's in the front one 140 in the bottom a 140 in the back and finally a 140 in the top this is kind of funny I have an H100i that I've managed to install in the system so there's another 100 and sort of slightly less than 120 millimeter gap here and then there's two 120's over here in the five and a quarter inch bay there's a 140 here managed to install that without even removing any of the stock fans so we still have all of the original air cooling which is sort of funny to me the manual is great because it gives you a couple of useful matrices there's one for radiator installation so it gives you a little checklist of where all the different radiators fit and all that good stuff it also gives you a little matrix for all the different places you can put fans so while it's not as good as someone like Silverstone's manuals where they actually walk you through the entire process of building in it I'd say it's complete enough to give you a good idea of what you are up against now I say up against but experienced builders really won't have that much of a challenge the side panels are unexceptional on the inside except you can see that the one with the two 120 millimeter vent spots on it is actually blocked by default so you can go ahead and pull that off if you do decide to mount fans or a radiator there now why it's not challenging is because they actually do a lot of the wiring for you so we're gonna go ahead and move around to the back check this out I love the way that Phanteks has done most of the cable management out of the box so they've got their nice little velcro ties which are all down here all down here for the 8 pin across here for the bottom where you're gonna run your USB to your front panel audio and all that good stuff and they've also got a ton of the other little standard hoop and loop tie off things that go along with the zip ties that they've included actually gives you a ton of cable management options but I didn't undo most of it all I really did was I took the fans out of here and then I routed them all here to the integrated fan controller this can support up to 11 fans that are all controlled via PWM it actually works incredibly well more on that in a little while so I've routed all the fans there I routed my 24 pin my 4 PCI Express connectors up here there's a reason I installed two graphics cards in the system I wanted to see if there was going to be enough clearance here to be able to run two graphics card worth of PCIe cables and a 24 pin and USB 3 and all that stuff and there was and then I just doubled back with a couple of these ones to where they needed to go and that was pretty much it other than that cable management is a breeze in here and even though I didn't do a great job of managing things you know carefully up the side here or laying things flat and utilizing the back of the motherboard tray better it looks incredibly clean and it looks great from the front now this is something that I sometimes feel really good about and sometimes don't feel as good about something that I sometimes bothers me about Corsairs cases is that they don't leave much room for flexing they come meant to be wired a certain way and everyone's build will look great in it and that's fantastic but everyone's build will kind of look the same Phanteks has taken that approach with a lot of the pre-wiring but they haven't gone too far down that path you have a lot of options you can actually remove the 3.5 inch bays here you can actually remove the 5.25 inch bays although you will need to drill out some rivets if you want to do that and you can just fill the bloody thing with radiators you can put your power supply on the other side you can still do things differently it's just that I just generally wouldn't really recommend it because the way that they have it wired up here is quite nice installing the power supply was like the easiest thing ever you just kind of drop it in there there's a lot of space to work with next to the power supply here unless you install a pump on the included pump anti-vibration rubber pad which is awesome it happens to have the correct holes for the Lang D5 or Swiftek MCP655 which is my personal favorite pump nothing else really matters to me it's great to see that included there's also more room for a reservoir over here should you so desire if you're going to remove those three and a half inch cages installing drives is a snap actually it's a kind of a really smart little system here so they have two little nubbins here and here and then they have these wings that come out see these snap out and then what you do is you just put the drive on click them into place there's no bending there's no flexing there's no goofy stuff like that and once you put it in it actually feels very very solid the one thing that doesn't feel that solid about the three and a half inch cages is the entire cage assembly itself they've made it modular so you can actually move it closer to those two 140 millimeter fans at the front to give yourself some more space over here you can take them out entirely but I feel like it could have used a little bit more reinforcement the other drives that I installed I put a single two and a half inch SSD in to one of their little removable brackets here now these little two and a half inch brackets can take up to two drives each but I think in a practical sort of unless you're buying adapters so you're gonna need to make sure you use straight cables you might have trouble putting two drives in them so be aware of that and then the other thing I didn't like about these was the fact that they don't screw in in any way there's nice little rubber grommets that they go ahead and clip into quite nicely and mostly you're gonna be installing SSDs in there so even if in shipping a drive came flying off and rattling around it would probably be fine if you ever put a hard drive there or if the SSD managed to like come loose and whack something I don't know I don't like things that don't at least have the option to screw in the cool thing is that when you're installing a hard drive that's going to get in there and actually it's going to be quite nice and flexible and easy to install but I feel like it's thing about this in terms of options is that you can go ahead and you can install it here on the back of the motherboard tray if you want, rather than over there. So you've got two brackets with up to three different places that you can install them. Moving around to the front, the amount of space in this case is just very obvious and apparent. I went with a sort of air-cooled and then all-in-one liquid-cooled configuration, but you can do pretty much anything with this thing. In fact, there were a couple of really cool build logs that I found on Linus Tech Tips Forum as well as Overclock.net, one where the bloke actually put rads in the bottom, front, and top, and then managed to hide all of the tubing without even being able to see it. And then the one on the Linus Tech Tips Forum was quite exceptional as well, and it shows the creativity that this case does allow. The fact that there is adequate cable management room for up to four graphics cards, they do have eight PCI slots in the back, and then the fact that you can put an EATX motherboard in here, these are all very, very positive things, and I think they've managed to make room for all of that without having it be full of empty space, like something like the Cosmos 2 tends to be. In the bottom here, by default, you can put a nice, thick radiator, or you can actually even slip a fan in the back here if you want. And I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it. Toolless five-and-a-quarter-inch drive cages, lots of cable management grommets, and that's pretty much it for the inside. So, cooling with air is actually very awesome, and this is actually, it's time to do my little demo here, so check this out, guys. The fact that it includes that PWM fan controller is really cool. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to intentionally let my CPU overheat by undoing two of the thumb screws here. Now, this isn't something that I necessarily recommend. You can hear the system in my lab running very quietly right now. So I'm going to go ahead and detach this, and without providing any additional power to the adapter on the back, to that fan controller, and you should check the Fantex website to make sure that your motherboard supports that. I can pull this off, and listen to this. The entire case works harder to keep that CPU cool, and now when I go ahead and pop the block back on there, the entire thing is going to quiet down again. This is an outstanding little feature, and then the LED control is also fantastic as well. Overall, what do I have to say about the Enthoo Primo? Very solid case. Considering the price, the build quality is what I consider to be what you would expect. You can see where they've spent money on things like the gorgeous aluminum finish on the front and the top, as well as on the tooling and the design that enables them to bring all this functionality into what is a fairly reasonable size when you consider how much stuff you can put into it. I don't personally like the weight, and I find it a little bit difficult to move around, but for some people that will be much less of a concern. Love the flexibility that it affords. I think the looks are going to be a take it or leave it, depending on how you feel about the two tiered, stepped look to the top, as well as the busy and yet black and monolithic looking front. Overall, I quite like it. I think it looks much better in person than it does in pictures and videos, and it looks much better once you've actually got a rig in it, and you can appreciate the efficient use of the space. So overall, definitely a thumbs up for Phanteks on this one, and I look forward to seeing the Enthoo Duo, or whatever more Enthoo's we might get in the future. Guys, like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Check out the link in the video description. I talked about the price in this video, so you don't need that to find out the price, but you might want to discuss the video somewhere other than the YouTube comments, you know, Wild West that they are. And as always, guys, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.