Performance

With three 120mm fans and a 200 mm fan the Phantom did a great job keeping everything cool, I would still like to have that front fan but the two 120mm fans on the side panel did a good job keeping air moving over the hard drives. I didn’t enjoy taking the door off of the Phantom with those fans installed though, each time you would have to unplug them and plug them back in before putting it all back together. Noise levels weren’t silent but considering the amount of mesh on the case they weren’t to bad. The biggest part of living with the case is the worry of damaging the finish like I mentioned in the Installation section. It looks amazing but taking it to and from LAN party’s is going to take its toll quicker than a normal case finish. Speaking of finish, the paint on our side panel had a noticeable amount of orange peel giving the case a lower quality look in that area.

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garfi3ld's Avatar
garfi3ld replied the topic: #21743 22 Dec 2011 19:20
Thursday's Case Review
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Plague replied the topic: #21780 25 Dec 2011 08:26
Nice review... Sucks about the quality control on that one, couldn't believe it myself.

One question I had was were the LEDs orange or still the standard blue, I didn't see that in the write up.
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Brandonxcore replied the topic: #21782 25 Dec 2011 09:08
They're orange LEDs in the fan controller.
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Plague replied the topic: #21783 25 Dec 2011 09:22

Brandonxcore wrote: They're orange LEDs in the fan controller.


good... I really don't like the blues ones. I have manually changing them to green.
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Arxon replied the topic: #21784 25 Dec 2011 12:21
I want this case to match my headset i have. And my G15 keyboard.
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Brandonxcore replied the topic: #21785 26 Dec 2011 00:54
Im digging this case, it's currently on my desk :p It's pretty black and orange, haha, I feel like Im supporting the Bengals EVERYTIME I look over, lol.
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Kelf replied the topic: #21883 29 Dec 2011 21:54
They need alllll the support they can get... bahaha

But this case is sweet!
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Myndmelt replied the topic: #21915 30 Dec 2011 20:19
I haven't been a fan of the phantom look until I read through this review it seems like a nice case. I like the color scheme, this would be cool if I wanted to do a Komets theme PC or something.

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