A Closer Look - Inside

To access the interior, simply loosen three thumb screws. NZXT has designed both panels in a way that ensures no other mounting elements are visible. The windowed side panel is framed black on three of four edges and has no tint at all. The interior of the NZXT H510 Flow looks very much like that of other H-Series enclosures.


The glass panel on the H510 Flow is 3 mm thick, which is right in line with what we would expect. However, NZXT chose to tint it quite heavily, which is different than the clear one on the classic H510 or even H510i and seems to be a step in the wrong direction.


The NZXT H510 Flow comes with the same two cable trenches we have seen on the other H500 series cases, as well as two plastic 2.5" HDD mounting plates. Also, by today's standards. there are not a lot of well-placed hooks for cable management besides a row in the front and those embedded in the plastic cable trenches.


In the rear, starting from the bottom, the PSU bay is pretty standard, with loads of space for even the longest units. Above that, the seven expansion slots are protected by individually reusable covers that are held in place by traditional screws. A sliding cover where the vertical GPU slots used to be allows for easier assembly, giving you some room to wiggle any expansion cards into place.


Below the shroud, in front, is a 3.5" hard-drive cage that may hold up to three such storage units. Interestingly enough, NZXT has chosen to stay clear of any drive trays, which means you will have to take the whole cage out of the system to then attach your drives with traditional screws instead. If you have some sort of liquid-cooling setup or long PSU that doesn't allow for the cage, you may still screw a single drive down on the floor of the H510 Flow. Above that, the entire front and top of the chassis are intended for air or liquid cooling. You may detach the mounting plate for it from the chassis for easy assembly. This is a welcome remnant of the original H510, which needed this setup—as the front panel was non-removable, their engineers built a removable frame into the front for up two 120/140 mm cooling units or a 280 mm liquid-cooling setup you can simply place back into the chassis.


Looking at the ceiling, there is the opening for a 120 or 140 mm fan. The design and dimensions of the H510 Flow don't make this space usable for radiators, so you have to make do with just fan cooling here.


Every cable with the exception of the one for case power/reset/LEDs is of the default variety. Unlike the vast majority of brands which make you connect four tiny leads, NZXT offers them up in a simple header. This is certainly something system integrators will love.