NZXT Phantom 630 Ultra Tower Chassis Review

Now we move onto the really good stuff and while the Phantom 630 bears a striking resemblance to the other high end NZXT chassis, this is no bad thing. The extensive cable management cut-outs are offset by a recessed back plate, this allows for extra cable routing behind the motherboard, very handy when you have four GPUs to wire up neatly. A large rear cut away should also help with a little cable management and CPU cooler installations.

The front section of the chassis features a pivoting fan mount that supports either a 120 or 140mm fan, perfect for directing extra airflow to your GPU intake fans. Most interesting of all however is the hard drive bay configuration of 3+2+1, each of which can be easily removed and re-arranged in any order, any can be removed completely, or all can be removed completely to make way for a huge watercooling setup. If you need to move them but keep some drive space you can move the HDD bays to the left where NZXT have included another dock mount.

In the back of the chassis we get a better look at the PSU mounting area which comes well ventilated via the bottom of the chassis, 6 feet should keep even the longest of PSUs mounted nice and stable with good clearance for cooling. One thing I was surprised to see was that the expansion slot covers were flat head screws, not thumb screws. While most people prefer thumb screws for there ease of access, I think this offers a much cleaner look.

The top of the chassis has plenty to talk about too and as you can see the 200mm top mounted fan will really help shift a lot of extra heat from the chassis. The best part is that there is enough clearance for fans and/or radiators on either side of the top mounting plate. NZXT have also been kind enough to fit elongated screw holes for your radiators, ensuring maximum compatibility with most sizes of radiator and fans that are on the market, especially their new 140mm wide Kraken.

I normally find there isn’t much to talk about on the rear side of a chassis but this really isn’t the case here. Reverse mounted hard drive trays provide the front of the chassis with a clean appearance and the hard drive docks them selves are held in place with some easy to use thumb screws on either side of each section of the hard drive dock. You’ll also notice that below the CPU cooler cut-out there are two HDD mounts for 2.5″ hard drives, these are also easily removed via a single thumb screw and provide you with excellent space to stealth mount a pair of hard drives, very handy if you need to remove all the large HDD trays to make way for a crazy water cooling setup.

The fan controller on the top panel drives the 10 fan connection PCB driving a single channel of up to 30w for the entire chassis, while more than one channel would have been preferred for a fan controller its certainly better than not having a fan controller at all. Aside from that you will also find extensive cable tie down points, likely more than I’ve ever seen on any other chassis, so cable management and organisation in general should be superb here.

Not content with the extensive cooling options already on offer we find another high quality 200mm fan mounted as an air intake on the left side panel.