He's been involved in technology for more than a decade and knows a thing or two about the magic inside a PC chassis. Given the difficulty we’ve had fiddling with individual leads, we’d like to thank NZXT for getting with the times with that one-piece connector. inch-deep motherboard (which might be dubbed "EATX," though some EATX boards are bigger and won't fit) behind a removable cable-concealing shroud, along with enough room to mount a 60mm combination of fans and radiator over the motherboard. com is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. But it is one thing that often gets overlooked in the shuffle between one glamorous chassis design and another unique feature set.

There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. If you were wanting to use more powerful (and power-hungry) processors, you would quickly encounter issues if not using all fan mounts.No, NZXT’s delivering everything on day 1, launching their H7 series with standard, Flow, and Elite series models from day-1. Placing the radiator on the top panel while using its fans as exhaust provides voltage-regulator cooling benefits, though at some cost in CPU temperature. Users that tried to pack more and more power hungry components in their cases got bitten with middling or unsatisfactory operating thermals.

We’re not going to name any particularly difficult products, but will instead point out that NZXT's H7 Flow is the very opposite of those.

A second set of tab holes and screw holes allows it to be moved about 19mm farther forward, but placing it there reduces the lower portion of the front radiator mount by the same distance. While the front filter and its corresponding hole seem unnecessary on a case that has a fully vented face, the same underlying chassis also fits the unvented face panels of its two sibling models. The H7 Flow’s thermal performance is interesting, because the other cases on the chart, besides the Y60, deliver brute-force airflow, especially the Fractal Torrent Compact with its 160mm fans and the Cooler Master HAF 700 Evo, which has two 200mm spinners. Those changes to the panels are welcome, however they fix problems that should never have existed in the first place.

That experience provided the credentials I’d need for the transition from industry supplier to industry observer. While NZXT’s H710 chassis has proved to be popular over its lifespan, the PC market has changed a lot since this case was introduced. The H7 Flow’s exterior is otherwise unblemished, while the H7 Elite and H7 have extra vents in their side panel to boost cooling, due to them lacking a vented front panel.

A smaller rectangular hole further back allows screwdriver access to the drive cage’s release screw. Again, this is a huge achievement for a chassis that ships with only two fans out of the box, and adding additional fans could result in further improvements to the H7 Flow’s cooling performance. According to NZXT, the cable channels have been widened a bit, which helped because there isn’t a ton of space behind the motherboard. Letting the GPU run at 75% fan speed enables it to maintain its power target while sticking to one set reasonable fan speed, so that the temperature is the only variable.

Unlike most of NZXT’s cases, the tempered glass side panel on the H7 Flow extends to the bottom of the chassis. This won't be needed as even the more power-hungry Core i9 and Ryzen 9 processors will only really require a single 240mm or 360mm radiator, making this case ideal for AIO liquid coolers. The H7 Flow,below, as its name suggests offers greater airflow potential thanks to a vented front panel rather than glass, but aside from the lack of the fan and lighting hub, is largely identical to the H7 Elite, except it also has just two 120mm fans rather than four 140mm fans. This change to the PC market has forced NZXT to include more fan mounts on the top of their H7 series cases, adding support for top-mounted 360mm liquid cooling radiators while redesigning their front panels to enable increased system airflow. Tom's Hardware is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher.Simple, it goes towards RGB fans, additional fans, tempered glass, and a dedicated fan/RGB controller. In addition we were delighted to find the panels are tool-free as that makes life considerably easier. NZXT was generous enough two include two of its F120Q Airflow case fans with the H7 Flow, and while they’re 3-pin, they’re surprisingly excellent. Some of them are preinstalled with more fans; this case comes with 2 fans, when the older H710 came with 4.