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The other bay which located just below the 2 5.25″ bays will also handle 2 hard drives or a floppy drive and a hard drive depending on your particular needs. NZXT provides a package of thumb screws to satisfy the drives installed here.
If we look closely at the upper drive bays the underneath has a special insulation material attached. This has been placed there so that users that have extra long graphics cards like the ATI 5970 can install their card in the Vulcan without the card making contact with the base of the metal drive cage.
We are using a Radeon 5850 in our system build and can happily say it fits with plenty of room to spare so users with the 5870 and 5970 should have no problem fitting their card into this chassis.
We put in a request for the 200mm side fan, this is an optional item but here at KitGuru we think it should be part of the ‘out of box' experience. Since our sample of the Phantom arrived just as we were finishing up this article and the fan we requested had yet to arrive, we borrowed a fan from the Phantom to get this one completed. This fan uses a 3 pin connection to connect to the fan header on our motherboard.
| • | Size: 200x200x30mm |
| • | Connection type: 3pin |
| • | Current: .70A |
| • | Input: 8.4W |
| • | Speed: 1300 RPM +/-10% |
| • | Air flow: 166.2 CFM / 282 m^3/h |
| • | Air Pressure: 1.82 mm H2O |
| • | Bearing: Rifle Bearing |
| • | Noise: 37.25 dBA |
| • | Life: 40,000 hours |
Our system build went well without any major issue's to report. Space inside the Vulcan is limited but NZXT has presented a good job of maximizing every available inch of real estate. We recommend taking your time with the Vulcan when you build your rig as patience will pay dividends with this chassis. With our system build completed we can move on to some testing to see how well our components fare inside the Vulcan.
Seems like a nice little product, but its a bit skimpy they didnt include the 200mm fan with it. quite surprised they didnt;
Its a very robotic looking chassis isnt it? quite cool looking, but the removal of the fan, for such a reduction in temperatures seems self defeating.
Good read Steve, interesting looking case, I think its rather fugly mind you. cooling seems good, when you spend another £10 on a fan for it !
Price is good, but they should have upped it slightly to include the 200mm fan, seems like an oversight on NZXT part.
Personally I dont want the 200mm fan, at 39db its too loud for me, id rather opt for a high quality 200mm fan myself online if I needed it.
NZXT are selling in the UK/Europe now I see which is good, as they werent before. I am not sure if this appeals to me really though, its a bit ugly looking.
Looks seem to be splitting opinion here anyway. I rather like it, but its a shame the fan wasnt part of the pricing scheme, for what you get I think its rather costly.
Seems like a rather interesting product but im not sure im sold on the appearance.
Looks ok, I think there are better cases for the money however in todays climate.
I bought one of these a while ago and I can’t say im really that impressed. it is ok, but I wish I had opted for the silverstone SG07 SUGO I read about here last week, its more costly but it looks much nicer imo.
Very interesting indeed, and good review thanks.
Good review Steve – its not my cup of tea mind you, but the review was good.