Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with pre-installed spacers and the supplied screws. As you can see, there is plenty of space around the board to route cables, and reaching all connectors is not a problem. You could also reach through the top of the chassis if need be. With the Rajintek 120 mm tower cooler installed, it becomes apparent that a 140 mm unit will probably fit, but it will be a tight fit, even though the chassis is rather wide. This is due to the fact that a lot of its width is there to provide ample room to route cables with behind the motherboard tray.


Adding 3.5" hard drives does not require any tools. Simply take the tray of your choice, flip open its securing flaps, and place the drive on the tray. Push the little plastic wings back into place and the storage device will be held in place perfectly.


Once ready, you may slide the tray into any of the six bays. It will snap down firmly once inserted completely, so you won't have to worry about it coming loose as you move your rig around.


While you could also install 2.5" drives onto those trays, Phanteks includes two specific trays on the motherboard tray. You can remove both without a screwdriver, but securing a drive does call for tools since traditional screws are necessary when it comes to securing the drive itself. Placing the tray back on top of its rubber-ringed mounting elements, it does hold in place quite well.


You will first have to remove one of three 5.25" covers to install an optical drive. This is easily done because of the large flaps on the insides of these protective pieces. Once free, slide the drive into place until the locking mechanism snaps down. With our Luxe sample, the ODD drive did have quite a bit of play so you will probably be forced to use screws to properly pin it down. Its tool-less securing mechanism is a bit of a hit and miss as the Enthoo Pro essentially uses the same setup only to fare a bit better.


To install the PSU, remove the protective cover, slide the PSU into place, and apply traditional screws to hold it in place. You can install virtually any PSU on the market as there is plenty of space to do so.


With everything in place, the Enthoo Luxe makes a great impression. All the cables can be routed behind the tray nicely, and the opening around the CPU is large enough for easy access to any cooler's backplate. Every cable within the chassis quickly disappears behind the tray, which keeps the clutter to a minimum. I chose to route both PCIe leads out through the PSU cover's opening and straight up to the GPU.