Assembly

Installing the mainboard within the chassis is done by traditional means with the use of spacers. There is plenty of space around the mainboard so that you can easily install big CPU coolers and fairly long graphics cards.


Installing a hard drive is quite simple, thanks to the plastic trays. You may clip 3.5 inch variants to the tray without the use of any tools, while the 2.5 inch ones are pinned down to the underside of the tray with the included screws.


Once in place, just slide the drive into the chassis. Interestingly enough, these are pushed into place from the backside of the motherboard tray instead from the windowed side of the chassis. An interesting choice, which makes sense as you are required to detach the connectors of the drives anyways. With this setup, you only need to detach one side panel to remove the drives.


Installing the optical drives is a very similar matter. Unclip the front cover, push the drive into place, snap down the black plastic mechanism and lock it into place. It holds fairly well, but I would still use screws, just to make sure the drives stay in place and no vibrations are passed on to the chassis.


The PSU itself is held in place with thumb screws which are supplied with the Hale82 itself. You also have enough such screws as part of the package which ships with the Phantom 410 case. There is plenty of space within the interior to use longer units without having to sacrifice the two hard drive bays.


Once everything is installed, you can still see that there is still plenty of space. Sure, we did not fill the chassis with seven hard drives, four optical drives or dual graphics cards, but even so, you have the ability to hide and route the cables rather nicely.

Finished Looks

With the side panels in place the Phantom 410 makes the same impression as its bigger brother. The drives are easily accessible and the blue LEDs remind us of the large Phantom.


Once turned on, the Phantom 410 looks even better and the fans are just as good as the ones found in the taller variant. NZXT has formed the window in such a way, that you can clearly see the CPU and memory area of the PC. The large LEDs are noticeably different than the ones found on the larger version, but it looks quite good nonetheless. Thanks to the the fact, that it extents to the top and front you will always know if the system is running - even if you look at the chassis from below.