Phanteks Eclipse P400A D-RGB Midi-Tower, Tempered Glass - schwarz

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Hyte have also thought about the practicality of their design. There is an included PCIE 4.0 Riser cable canopy. This is a design developed specifically for this model and allows for half-height PCIE cards in a protective shroud behind the vertical graphics cards.

The bottom filter is unusually large for a case that has a PSU shroud, covering the entire floor of the case at approximately 40cm x 16cm. For the most part that’s a positive, but there are two problems with it that other cases have already solved: first, it’s a rear-eject filter, so taking it out for cleaning will require pulling the case out at least 40cm away from whatever is behind it. Secondly, the rails for the filter are bulky and extend the full length of the case. They work well for their intended purpose, but they also form a skirt around the edges of the case that restricts airflow. The case legs are already stumpy at just under 2cm, and the plastic rails cut that space in half, so there’s a less-than-1cm gap for air at the bottom edges of the case. There’s a reason this matters: the PSU shroud is fully ventilated and has two 120mm fan mounts on top (one of which is unusable because of the power supply, but still), the case floor is fully ventilated, and even the HDD bay has perforations in its surface. The intent here was clearly to allow bottom intake, but the execution leaves something to be desired. For any users who want to try installing fans on the surface of the PSU shroud, we’d recommend finding a way to boost the case legs. Lian Li’s own Lancool II Mesh takes a similar approach with fan mounts on top of the shroud, but it has both more room for airflow underneath the case and plenty of ventilation along one side of the shroud. Although this isn’t the end of the world, for those utilising an AIO, it does limit your fan setup options. For an optimal setup we’d recommend running a 360mm AIO in the front of the case, with 3x static pressure optimized 120mm fans, followed by two of those airflow fans in the roof, and one in the rear of the case acting as exhausts. This should give you a fairly balanced setup, and provide plenty of internal airflow for additional components such as twin graphics cards, and hotter PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Aging Internals? Acoustic testing is next. At full fan speeds for the Phanteks fans, the P400A measured 38.6dBA, surprisingly quiet for a mesh-fronted case with three 120mm fans running at approximately 1300RPM separated from the user by a perforated metal screen and nothing else. Getting the case down to our 36dBA threshold for noise-normalized testing only required turning the case fans down to 75% speed in BIOS, or approximately 900-1000 RPM as logged by external measurement tools. So, Phanteks Eclipse P400A was one of those PC cases I wanted to review myself as I’ve seen quite some praises from other content creators. As I’ve used it in one of my recent PC Build, I have a chance to deep-dive and present P400A features and thermals to you guys.That in itself is fine. However there really isn’t anything new here outside of the inclusion of those three fans, and an assortment of different front I/O options dependent on the version you buy. Alright, let’s have a look at thermal numbers. To stress the CPU I was running a Blender and at the same time, I was stressing a GPU with MSI Kombustor. We requested the old P400 panel as well because that’s the real benchmark for the P400A: how much better it performs than its sealed-off predecessor. We couldn’t simply seal off the vent holes in a P400A front panel because the P400 actually has filtered ventilation strips at the top and bottom that aren’t present in the P400A, so that air will be directed through the front panel instead of behind the top and bottom of the panel as it was in the older case. The P400A has no filters at all, and we like to see this on cases with fine mesh fronts--plenty of dust gets caught in the external grille, and adding another layer of filtration behind it only serves to kill airflow and defeat the purpose. The old P400 has bad airflow, and the new front panel design of the P400A is the reason we chose to review it in the first place.

Noise-normalized results are up now: The speed reduction resulted in a CPU dT of 50.5 degrees over ambient, impressively close to the baseline temperature. That’s handily the best noise-normalized result on our limited, new chart so far, with the NR600 in second place at 54.7C dT. As you can see here, the top I/O remains relatively unchanged compared to the original Eclipse. You get 2x USB 3.0 ports, headphone and microphone passthroughs and a large illuminated power button on top, and that’s it. Located at the front, on the underside of that top panel, you’ll find push buttons for both reset, and illumination control (or fan control on the non-RGB version). Compared to the other cases, 48C is excellent, beating the P400A slightly and landing among the best GPU thermals we’ve measured in this test, tied with the likes of the RV02. Competition is tight here, with the TD500 only a couple degrees warmer at 50C dT, but the P500A is ahead. Noise + Noise Normalized With the same configuration but medium fan speed, CPU temp dropped by three degrees and a GPU by two degrees celsius.Also, have in mind, when using 360 and possibly 280mm rad at the front, you will need to remove a plate. Depending on how you want to mount your fans – inside or outside, you might need to remove a drive cage as well. Storage Support If your product develops a fault outside of the manufacturer warranty or PB Tech warranty period, we offer a full repair service and are an authorised repair agent for leading brands such as Samsung, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo and more. Along with the normal tests and the tests with alternate front panels, we also ran a pass with an added exhaust fan, like we usually do. We took one of the nearly-identical fans from the non-RGB P400A for a total of four fans, three intake and one exhaust. For this particular case, we validated testing 3 additional times beyond our norm to ensure accuracy, so it has been through the ringer and been validated heavily. As always, all fan speeds and all voltages are controlled manually to ensure that each test is without variables imposed by the system. CPU TORTURE We loved the tempered glass side panel, so you can see everything going on inside, turning this into a bit of a statement piece. Although, it’s not all looks. The roomy interior allows for 280-360mm radiator up front, and vertical GPU mounting. Not to mention room for up to an EATX motherboard also available. As for the form factor support, the usual statement about so-called “EATX” cases applies: this case will support motherboards that line-up with the CEB form factor, but not SSI-EEB, so it’s not really appropriate to say it supports “E-ATX,” since that’s a made-up form factor that doesn’t mean anything. SSI-CEB is the motherboard support.

P400A features an edge-to-edge tempered glass side panel. It’s held in place by a few thumbscrews. Just make sure you place your hand below a glass when removing it. The side panel sits quite well even with no screws, but I suggest securing it as soon as possible. The case is one of the hottest we’ve ever tested, and yet it has 12 included fans -- among which are custom-molded fans that not only increase cost, but decrease efficacy. The case is a veritable oven for components, and we remarked in our review that we cut some of the testing passes short because we didn’t want to permanently damage our testing equipment.Ask our experts tohelp you find just the right material or material combination for your application. The Beneq P400Acan go from room temperature up to 550°Cand easily handle gaseous,liquid,and solid precursors, including toxic, pyrophoric, and corrosive precursor materials.

The 215 diverges from Lian Li’s traditionally high-end aluminum enclosures, and instead is closer to its recent Lancool II and Lancool II Mesh designs (as the name implies). Lian Li partnered with another company to produce the ultra-budget steel-and-glass case with the express goal of getting the best possible airflow at the lowest possible price. To achieve that, the 215 comes with two 200mm ARGB front fans, a 120mm rear exhaust fan, and a wide-open mesh front panel. The chassis isn’t really built for such large intake fans and to some extent they’re wasted, but they still do a good enough job to put the 215 near the top of our cooling charts on a regular basis, and performance was especially good in our noise-normalized thermal test. Big fans are quiet by nature and move a lot more air thanks to the larger hole, it just tends to be at lower pressure; since Lian Li’s mesh front isn’t too restrictive, the pressure wasn’t as much of an issue as you’d see in acrylic-fronted cases of the past, like the H500P. The P500A’s advantage, like the 215’s, comes from having multiple large, relatively slow-moving intake fans pulling air through an unrestricted front panel. The P500A has a total of three 140mm intake fans, which take up the entire front of the case and push tons of air while remaining quiet. As usual, mesh-fronted cases top the chart in this category, since even at reduced RPM, the case fans are still more effective than they would be spinning at maximum speed in a sealed noise-damping box. With the P500A, we had to set the case fans to 50% speed to hit the threshold for the noise normalized test (below 900RPM), and thermals were still excellent.Just read it now in 2020 - I am a bit cautious to compare the CPU&GPU temps when using two different coolers, even in the same P400A case (the Noctua12A and a 240mm AIO). Sure, it's also a comparative between the three cases in the same conditions, not only a comparative between fan placement and coolers. Still, I had an impression that an Asetek 240 AIO and Noctua 12a though not too far away from each other in terms of general performance, might still be in favor of the AIO by 2-4 degrees C (that's we're talking about in a review like that). Hence the comparison btwn a 240 AIO and Noctua12a might not be so representative for the CPU in the first place. The Metal Mesh Front Panel is first and foremost designed for use on the Eclipse P400A, it can however also be used on the Eclipse P400 to help provide improved airflow. What needs to be taken into account here however, is that the replacement front panel cannot be centred precisely in the middle on the Eclipse P400 (See Images). Find our noise normalized & fan normalized testing methodology here: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3477-case-fan-standardization-tests-noise-normalized-thermals Thermals & Noise We’ve already covered some of the positive aspects of the 4000D: it looks good and has taken care for color matching, all the way down to the magnet color, and its cooling performance is overall fine. Corsair’s 4000D was a strong return for the company after a series of anemic case launches. Prior to load testing, we collect idle temperature results for ten minutes to determine the unloaded cooling performance of a case's fans and air channels. Thermal benchmarking is conducted for 1400 seconds (23 minutes), a period we've determined sufficient for achieving equilibrium. The over-time data is aggregated and will occasionally be compiled into charts, if interesting or relevant. The equilibrium performance is averaged to create the below charts.