Review System

Assembly

To install a motherboard within the Phanteks Eclipse P200A, simply screw it into place in the bottom-left corner of the chassis.


You may add an SSD by installing it into the metal plate behind the motherboard tray, but we have seen that many times over. Thus, for this build, we chose the plastic cover residing next to the motherboard. Simply screw your drive in place and clip the whole thing back into position.


Adding a PSU is easy, too—simply screw the frame onto the unit and slide it into place. The only downside here is that the frame itself feels a little fragile. Phanteks bent the frame around the expansion slots on its edges to give it extra rigidity and could have done something similar to the PSU frame. The two thumb screws do hold it in place tightly, but the PSU can still be made to wobble up and down a little bit.


With everything in place, the interior of the Phanteks Eclipse P200A Performance is quite clean, but this is also due to all the room inside the chassis. On the opposite side, all the little cable-management additions really pay off nicely, as we did not have to use a single zip tie to achieve a really clean, functional look.

Finished Looks

Once the panels are put back into place, and the full system is turned on, you will clearly see the white LED ring around the power button in the ceiling.


Looking at the front, you can see all the way to the back of the case through the fine metal mesh filter. On the side, the glow of the green LED strip of the Palit GeForce GTX 2080 can be seen when looking closely as well. In the rear, everything is accessible with the power cable at the very top. If you look closely, Phanteks even went as far as to include the ability to screw down the side panel covering the backside of the motherboard with an included thumb screw. Just in case these put pressure on the panel so it can't pop out on its own—a nice touch!