| NZXT Switch 810 Full-Tower Computer Case |  |
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| Written by Hank Tolman | ||||||||
| Tuesday, 07 February 2012 | ||||||||
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Detailed Interior FeaturesOne of the biggest features that cases have been touting for a while now is cable management methods. Most cases now use the area behind the motherboard tray to route cables and keep them out of sight. The NZXT Switch 810 is no different. In fact, the Switch 810 has no less than 10 grommeted holes to thread your cables through. That mass of cables already routed through to the back of the motherboard tray is just the cables included with the NZXT Switch 810. Additionally, the Switch 810 has nine cable tie-down points. Under that mass of cables is another feature being adopted by many case manufacturers now. There are seven four-pin case fan headers all attached to a junction that takes input from a standard molex power connector. 
The underbelly of the hollow top of the Switch 810 has room for another three 140mm fans. You can mount these fans underneath any water cooling radiators that you have installed. The NZXT Switch 810 comes with a single 140mm fan installed on top here, and another 140mm fan installed inside the rear of the case. Both of these fans are exhaust fans for warm air radiating from the CPU cooler. 
The view below shows the backside of the internal drive bays. Each of these bays has four mounts for either a 3.5" or a 2.5" internal drive. Installing a 3.5" drive using this mounting system is completely tool-free. There are small plugs that line up with the screw holes on the drive. The mounts then just slide into place. They are kept there by tension on the plastic arms. 2.5" drives can also be installed, but you'll have to screw them into place.
As I mentioned before, a ninth internal 3.5" or 2.5" drive can be installed in the hot-swappable bay that takes up the fourth external drive bay. This image shows the backside of the hot-swappable drive bay on the NZXT Switch 810. All it takes to power the drive is a molex power connector and a SATA cable. If you want to use this drive bay as a 5.25" drive bay and get rid of the hot-swappable bay, its as easy as unscrewing this backplane and removing it. 
In the image below you can see just how massive the case is and just how much can be installed into it. The system pictured below includes a large radiator at the top of the case with a smaller radiator and a pump down at the bottom of the case. Even with three graphics cards installed, the full ATX case leaves plenty of room in the Switch 810. You can see that there are mounting holes for larger motherboards to be installed, and there is plenty of space between the graphics cards and the hard drive bay, as well as under the graphics cards and above the PSU.
This system shows the NZXT Switch 810 with the bottom of the two internal drive bays removed. In all reality, you could conceivably remove the top hard drive bay as well and simply use the hot-swappable drive bay if you only use a single hard drive. Removing the top drive bay, even if you leave in the bottom one, would open up space for virtually any sized graphics card.
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Comments
"Four fans isn't bad, I suppose, but one thing abuot the fans that other cases of this size have included is fan speed controllers."
"It's funny, because there are only four fans in the case"
And if you didn't get it already, there's only FOUR fans.
Anyways, screw built in fan controllers, they're 9/10 garbage compared to a cheap 20 dollar controller from any retailer.To conclude, there are only four fans, did you count them? 1, 2, 3, 4 FANS.
People are just not so bright these days.
But you're right, people really aren't very bright these days.
In several places you mention 480mm radiator compatibility, yet it supports only a 360 radiator up top. You even mention 140mm fans with radiators that can only use 120mm fans.
Do you actually proofread what you write? If I were the editor I'd be redacting this article with a can of red spray paint. And then have someone else write it.
-Hank
You say 420mm radiators are not mentioned in this article?
Do YOU actually read what YOU publish? By not disagreeing with a statement of the NZXT spec sheet, then you obviously agree with it.
Unless, of course, you never actually read it.
I stand by my OP.
Are you people always so vindictive of a persons opinion that you publish private citizens e-mail addresses?
My only excuse this time is being slightly pissed off.
Perhaps you should learn to give constructive feedback, because you neither comprehend the author's details correctly nor have the fortitude to write an article yourself. Now go troll some other website and complain about how you're presented with their hard work for free.
I can't really pick out anything I don't like about this (of course I have not tried the top or front panels as you have). I love the bays, the cable management, the looks, space for all the fans and rads. I have been thinking about going from closed loop water cooler to a more traditional loop, and a case like this could convince me to go ahead.
I think, due to its size, they might have considered some casters, and I would still like more than 4 5.25" bays (bay reses and fan controllers) but it still looks pretty sweet to me...