KitGuru KitGuru.net – Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards
Over the past 3 years NZXT have created some very impressive products for the PC enthusiast market. The company started out with chassis designs and have expanded to include coolers and other peripherals such as fan controllers.
Today we are going to look at the Switch 810 which they refer to as a ‘hybrid chassis' based on some of their new design implementations.
- Unique hybrid full tower chassis optimized for extreme liquid cooling, airflow, or silence
- Supports high-end water cooling solutions up to three fans for push and pull configuration
- 90mm of internal top space with top 360/420mm and bottom 140/240mm radiator support for unmatched liquid cooling
- Four watercooling cutouts for easy liquid cooling management on the rear panel
- Spacious CPU cutout for mounting high-end CPU coolers without removing the motherboard
- Removable top 5.25” plates to accommodate wide radiators
- Clever hybrid fin design allows the user to choose between maximum airflow or sound reduction
- Innovative right-mounted HDDs for easy hard drive replacement
- Removable HDD pull-out cages and large storage capacity for 7 hard drives
- Equipped with two 140mm pivot fan slots for directing airflow at 15⁰ to the VGA and CPU
- Dual high-speed USB 3.0, hard drive dock along with a SD card reader for transfer and quick access to multimedia
- 5.25″ hard drive hot swap with SATA III support
- Nine expansion slots for installing EATX motherboards with Quad SLI or Triple Crossfire
- Supreme cooling capacity with up to ten 140/120mm fans
- Ten large specialized cutout holes for easy cable management for stress-free wire management
- Large acrylic window with a view to show off the interior of your rig
Specifications:
| MODEL | Switch 810 |
| CASE TYPE | Hybrid Full Tower |
| FRONT PANEL MATERIAL | Plastic/Steel |
| DIMENSIONS (W x H x D) | 235 x 595 X 585 mm |
| VGA Clearance Maximum
|
375mm (w/out fan), 350 (installed), 285 (full pivot) |
| COOLING SYSTEM | FRONT, 2 X 120/140mm (1x 140mm included)
REAR, 1 X 120/140mm (1x 140mm included) TOP, 3 X 120/140mm (1x 140mm included) BOTTOM, 2x 120/140mm INTERIOR, 2x 120/140mm (1x 140mm included) SIDE, Large acrylic window |
| DRIVE BAYS | 4 EXTERNAL 5.25″ DRIVE BAYS
6 INTERNAL 3.5″ DRIVE BAYS Screwless Rail Design |
| MATERIAL(S) | Steel, Plastic |
| EXPANSION SLOTS | 9 |
| WEIGHT | 9.1 kg |
| MOTHERBOARD SUPPORT | E-ATX, XL-ATX, ATX, MICRO-ATX, Mini-ITX |
The weight puts me off, same as the coolermaster case they recently released at over 20kg. I move my case around sometimes, im not dealing with that, even with castors as they ruin the wood floor I have.
I like the styling but I wonder why they omitted a fan controller? I dont want to run many fans at full speed. you would need to spend a fair bit of cash getting silent fans for this case without the controller.