NZXT H630 Review 9

NZXT H630 Review

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Value & Conclusion

  • The NZXT H630 clocks in at $150 without taxes or €150 including taxes.
  • Well-engineered interior
  • Plenty of space for hard drives
  • Metal front and top panels
  • SD card reader
  • Solid panels with sound dampening everywhere result in good sound encapsulation
  • LED light in the back of the chassis
  • Excellent ODD locking mechanism
  • One 200 mm and a single 140 mm fan right out of the box
  • Plenty of screws and zip ties included
  • Dust filters on intake areas
  • Single 2.5" slot behind the motherboard tray
  • Removable HDD cages
  • Loads of space for radiators
  • Support for 140 and 280 mm radiators
  • Extremely good paint job
  • More than enough space for the longest graphics cards, largest CPU coolers, or biggest PSUs
  • Individual hard-drive trays
  • XL-ATX ready
  • 2x USB 3.0 and 2x USB 2.0
  • Available in matte black and white
  • Heavy
  • Flimsy hard drive trays
  • Fan PCB for eight fans means you have to watch the overall power draw for high-end applications
  • No HPTX support
  • No 3.5" drive bay
  • Only two 5.25" bays
  • SD card reader takes two USB 2.0 connectors (two-row motherboard header of which one row is filled)
NZXT is clearly trying to redefine the H-series of cases with the new H630. Gone is the door and the plastic top cover. NZXT has instead taken metal for the front and top covers, which really takes the overall build quality of the series to the next level. All this makes the chassis heavy but gives it something other cases do not have. NTXT has also only equipped the chassis with two external bays to allow for a total of nine hard drives to be installed. This balance is a bit off in my books as three 5.25" bays is the bare minimum in my eyes because of a double-bay reservoir placement with the ability to hold an optical drive. The interior is, other than that, extremely roomy, which allows for an incredible amount of flexibility in terms of water-cooling, with more than enough room to hide a cable mess you might create. The external bays have excellent locks, but NZXT advertises these as tool-less, which is not quite the case as you still need to pry off the front cover and utilize a screwdriver to take the cover of your choice off. The use of still flimsy hard-drive bays is a sore sight, but these at least failed to break, and I could not find any points that discolored due to too much strain. NZXT might have switched to harder plastic. That said, the company will phase this type of tray out in future cases.

Clocking in at $150, it is not considered cheap, but does offer enough to make people shell out such an amount as it is a quality purchase. We can certainly recommend the H630 and look forward to what NZXT has in store for their H2xx, H4xx, or H8xx units in the future.
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