Review System

Assembly

Adding a motherboard is done by traditional means, with screws and spacers. Thankfully, NZXT has pre-installed the latter, so you simply put the board in place and screw it down. There is very little space above and below it, reducing accessibility to connectors along the motherboard's top edge when cooling or AIOs are used in the ceiling. That said, thanks to the offset mounting position, you won't have to worry about such a cooling setup colliding with your motherboard or memory.


Installing an AIO in the front is probably the better location anyways, as you have loads of room to place the fans in the front and the radiator behind the frame. Those using 240 mm radiators may even be able to do a sandwich setup by moving the rad towards the front as well, with the interior layer of fans on the inside of the bracket. However with 280 mm rads, that is not a possibility, so you would be forced to remove the cable routing cover to make a push/pull configuration fit. This is unfortunate, as the previous H510 provided the needed room.


Adding drives to the combo bracket is straight forward and utilizes screws. Thanks to the metal bracket and thumb screw, you now won't have to worry about breaking anything or the element popping off the chassis for some reason, which is a nice step up from the H510.


Adding a PSU is pretty unspectacular. Simply slide it in, screw it down, and connect all the components. There is plenty of room, so you should be able to use any unit regardless of size.


With everything in place, the NZXT H5 Flow makes a solid impression in terms of clean cable management. The case could have looked cleaner if NZXT had opted to make the openings in the shroud slightly smaller and added white grommets to them. Secondly, that opening for the GPU power cable is also sorely missed. In the back, thanks to the now plentiful number of zip ties you can easily secure all your wiring very nicely, and the simpler Velcro equipped channels actually work quite well.

Finished Looks

Turning the NZXT H5 Flow on, it does look very nice in all white. The use of clear vs. tinted glass also really allows you to feast your eyes on the internal components. A white LED lights up around the power button to let you know your system is turned on.


In the front, you can clearly see the ARGB elements of the AIO, which also hints at how the NZXT H5 Flow Elite could look as that variant sports ARGB fans for example.