The NZXT S340 has undergone a significant upgrade with the new tempered glass side panel, which is not only aesthetically pleasing but also breathes new life into the case. The tempered glass is a clear improvement over acrylic or Plexi panels, allowing for better visibility of the system's components. This is particularly noticeable when using the AIO liquid cooler and lighting accessories, fan controllers, and other devices that require cable management.

One of the standout features of this upgraded case is its completely magnetic side panel. When turned at an angle, the camera reveals a strong magnet that sticks to any metal surface in the case. This means that the side panel can be easily stored away when not in use, without requiring any cable ties or velcro straps to secure it. The magnets are strong enough to keep the side panel in place, even if accidentally knocked over, making them a convenient and practical feature.

For those looking to upgrade their existing case with USB 2.0 connectivity, this new header provides a welcome addition. Three additional headers provide more ports for expansion, while two external headers make it easy to connect devices like lighting accessories or fan controllers. These headers are ideal for users who want to add more features to their system without having to resort to cable management clips.

In the build, we've seen that these new headers are not just a novelty but an essential component of the case's design. The side panel was easily installed and removed, thanks to its magnetic nature. This feature has made it possible to store the side panel in a convenient location without worrying about it getting damaged or lost.

The other notable upgrades include the cable management clasps at the back of the case, which are still somewhat cheap but get the job done. They provide a simple way to keep cables organized and tidy, making it easier to build and maintain the system. The SSD mount is also an improvement, with a new implementation that looks fantastic behind the tempered glass.

However, there are some drawbacks to consider. The SSD Mount at the front of the case requires routing the SSD cables through a 3.5-inch mechanical drive bay, which can cause issues if two SSDs are used in the same slot. Additionally, users who want to expand on the radiator solution may find that removing the cable management bar is necessary due to its size and placement.

Despite these minor drawbacks, the updated dust filter for the power supply is a significant improvement over the original design. This feature not only looks sleek but also provides improved airflow and reduced dust buildup inside the case. The Oculus Rift that hangs on the front of this case is another notable feature that utilizes the magnetic cable management puck and front panel HDMI port.

For users who are into VR or planning to build a VR gaming system, this case is an excellent choice due to its optimized design for VR applications. The tempered glass side panel provides a clear view of the system's components, while the magnetic cable management puck keeps cables organized and secure. This combination makes it perfect for users who want to build a VR system that looks great and performs well.

In conclusion, the NZXT S340 has undergone significant upgrades with the new tempered glass side panel, magnetic cable management puck, and other features that enhance its design and functionality. While there are some minor drawbacks, these upgrades make this case an excellent choice for users looking to build or upgrade their system with USB 2.0 connectivity.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys welcome back to the channel today I'm checking out a brand new case from NZXT this is their s340 Elite and if you're watching this video on the day of upload that means this case just launched today hey Brand news it's hot so obviously as the name suggest this is working off of or this is an iteration I should say of the original s340 already a very popular critically acclaimed case so there have been some much needed improvements of that case with the elite version and we're going to be going over that today now retail price first off MSRP in the US is $99.99 let's just call it $100 flat comes in full matte black there's not another freaking color on this thing it's just pure black I love it it's like the monolith from 2001 Space Odyssey however they are going to be releasing a matte white and a matte black and red version later this month so stay tuned for that if that's more your thing uh but I personally like the all black finish still get the very same simple and Sleek minimalistic design looks beautiful nothing really on the front it's just boom slab NZXT logo on the bottom on the back you've got a 120 mm fan mount with the included fan right there of course seven expansion slots and a power supply bracket with thumb screws for removable easy entry of your power supply however look at this you also get a power supply filter dust filter that doesn't suck the s340 the predecessor had a had jack for a for a dust filter it just had it just had the the screen there was no like casing around it there was no frame it was just a flimsy flimsy old screen held in by little tiny latches it was horrible this one's on a rail system it's not magnetic but still gets the job done very nice Improvement there and of course the one that's probably been glaring you in the face since this video started is the gorgeous tempered glass side panel this thing is 100% tempered glass there's no plastic or anything on here there is some black trim there's some black colored trim to match and blend in with the edges of the chassis itself but other than that left to right top to bottom 100% visibility of the inside of your chassis so none of your hard work that goes on inside of the case goes unnoticed makes me very nervous but it's also very beautiful to look at so uh good on your mates for for that NZXT you get four thumb screws to attach it there very securely with the indents for Philips head screwdriver always nice to see on the very bottom you get the same fourt with the rubber bottoms that you saw on the predecessor as well so it elevates your case now on the top of the case there are some interesting things here now apart from the uh 120 or 140 mm fan Mount which uh they do include a 120 here that's a 120 right yep that's 120 uh which is set to exhaust I wouldn't recommend intake because there's no dust filter on the top here you do get some very nicely updated front panel connectors to make your gaming desktop experience that much more simplistic and efficient particularly for VR so why don't we go down that apart from your headphone and mic Jacks you also get two USB 2.0 2 USB 3.0 and an HDMI port so there is an HDMI pass through cable inside this case with an HDMI port at the top so you can actually plug in a VR headset which is so much nicer if you guys are early adopters you have an HTC VI an Oculus Rift for instance you know that it's a pain in the butt to fish around the back of your case to constantly plug it in and and unplug it whenever you're not using it because a VR headset is not a peripheral that just stays on your desk 100% of the time you pull it out when you're ready to use it woohoo or you pack it up and you wrap it up when you're when you're done with it woohoo so the HDMI port on the front of the case makes it much easier to get in and out of your VR experience and they've also included this very handy magnetic Cable Management Puck I've never seen one of these before it actually comes apart so uh what what this does is it slaps to the the front of your case like so basically you can wrap up your your cable length all the cable length from coming from your stupid VR headset can just wrap around that thing and then you can either put the VR headset on top of your case which maybe I wouldn't recommend cu the matte finish while it's not very finger fingerprint prone can scratch a bit easily uh so maybe you could just hang the VR VR headset straight onto the puck or you can just keep it on your desk area either way a very elegant and classy solution for wrapping up them cables but also keeping your VR equipment near nearby when you're ready to use them and the reason why the puck splits apart is so if you have an extra lengthy cable you have more room to wrap it up with handy now obviously at this point you guys can tell that this is not a standard scripted review of mine in any way instead I thought it would be kind of cool a little bit different to actually just do a Hands-On build with the s340 elite get my hands dirty a little bit so to speak and uh just kind of document along the way what works for me and what doesn't with this new case so I think it's going to be fun I'm excited I think this build is going to look pretty badass by the end of it I just kind of scrambled scamed around for some Hardware in my room but it's looking pretty good I think it's going to look really good on that with the temper glass and the side panel and all right let's build the crap out of this thing all right so I have removed the side panel and I'm installing the motherboard so the s340 elite has pre-installed standoffs and the uh the center standoff is actually a raised post many of you guys are familiar with that just helps you to uh Center the board and keep it in place just like so while you install the rest of your standoff screws super cool going to go ahead and bolt this board down make sure it's nice and snug now onto the radiator installation we're going to have to pop this front panel off comes off just like so it's got a couple latches that easily uh allow you to remove it and replace it uh also just like the old s340 you've got tons of ventilation at the top and bottom here so even though it gives off a really enclos look it looks super Sleek doesn't look like much air is getting through there but there actually is it's coming through both sides of the chassis that way and then you've also got a magnetic dust filter very long one full frontal filtration very nice now a couple mounting options at the front here uh you can do 210s or up to two uh 140s so we've got again a two 280 mm radiator here however the caveat of the s340 and the elite as well you can't install the radiator first you have to install the fans first and then the radiator because there's just not enough clearance to install the radiator first due to the uh the front IO connectivity up here it's actually blocking this rather long radiator so what we're going to have to do is install the fans first so that can be that can be a bummer if that's not exactly the configuration you were looking for I was hoping to see maybe that NZXT had done something about that with the elite version but nah oh I'm installing these fans the wrong way damnn it Kyle have you never built a computer before so I'm going to go hoses at the top of the case and from here on out you kind of just screw you just screw your way to Victory oh I should also mention that there's plenty of cutouts uh Behind These fans here to route your fan cables through to the back side of the case so there's a look at the front and uh we're not quite done with the front yet we shouldn't be replacing the the front panel on just yet because we're going to install the the hard drive next you actually need access to this area right here in order to mount that so all right we've got a single 2 TB WD black that we're installing here I'm just going to slide that in like so there's uh two two bays for 3 and 1/2 in drives and these are just straight up Bare Bones there's no rubber anti vibration padding of any kind this I mean this looks like it could have been from like a a $50 case or something it's pretty it's pretty minimal here and you're probably asking yourself well why even the why are you doing the storage right now it seems kind of early in the build to do storage well there in lies potentially another shortcoming of this case and I'll show you that right here all right so here's the hard drive from the other angle and normally in in a typical build I would install the power supply first before ever touching the storage but in this particular scenario you can see you just saw me uh screw in two two screws from this side of the hard drive but there's a third one that we got to get on the right on the right side in order to get that one we kind of got to like put our hand in here and dig around for it it's not the easiest screw to get in there you kind of have to look and block the camera a little bit and there you go so as you can see I'm really using all the clearance I can get for my hand to be able to access this screw here you can see I've also switched to a shorter screwdriver in order to make that that uh connection there so having a power supply installed first would have made things a little bit more difficult especially with a certain cabl sticking out as it is not fully modular the unit that we're using today now another addition that NZXT is added to the s340 with the elite version is that you now get an SSD Mount at the front of your case right on the wall of your power supply shroud you still get the two that are uh on top of the power supply shroud with beautiful cutouts so you can route your SATA cables through um however you've also got this one on the front here which is much more visible through your tempered glass side panel and you've got a little cutout here to route your cables to the right of that SSD however those cables if you're going to be mounting your SSD there also need to pass through this hard drive cage for your 3 and a half inch mechanical so if you were to have an SSD mounted at the front and a second mechanical hard drive in this cage well you would kind of be blocking any SATA cables from that SSD because there's really not much room for them to pass through at this point with the uh two of the drive slots occupied so what you would have to do is probably either install the SSD somewhere else but if you really want to show it off and you want to have it in that slot you could slot your second mechanical drive at the mounting point at the very bottom of the case so you do have three potentially potentially three slots or three mounting positions for your 3 and 1 half in drives and uh this is pretty much at the very floor of the chassis you would have to basically turn the case on its side and bolt in or screw in this uh drive from the very bottom it also supports a 2 and 1/2 in drive down there so uh in total you get three 3 and 1/2 in Drive mounts as well as four SSD mounts two on top of the power supply shroud one at the front of the power supply shroud or on the side of it I should say and one at the very bottom of the case next up is the power supply installation which is pretty straightforward you've got this bracket at the back that I mentioned with these thumb screws comes out really easily like so Mount the bracket to the power supply shove all the cables in first through the back of the case and you want to make sure that the power supply is face down or the fan is face down on that power supply because you do want to take advantage of to that dust filter there isn't really much ventilation at the top of that power supply shroud so you would be starving your power supply for air flow if you mounted it the other way and then you just screw in the thumb screws voila bada bada boom boom so now we're going to go ahead and install our SSD here I've chosen this position because it's Unique to the elite version of the s340 so what I like to do is first undo the mounting plate with this thumb screw single thumb screw love that it's just one screw that you have to deal with so here's the mounting plate we're going to go ahead and screw the SSD to the plate just like that and then before we replace the mounting plate with the SSD attached what I like to do is actually route my SATA cables through the hole first so there's the data cable power cable is over here all right and I like to connect these first to the SSD before I install the plate back to the case just makes it a little bit easier you can kind of already bend the cables ahead of time knowing which way they're going to need to turn line up the plate with the notches on the case and replace that thumb screw done so now I think we're ready to start connecting and routing all of our cables in this system starting with the AIO we're going to Route our power and fan connector through here so you can see I'm routing it through a cutout that's directly above the motherboard it's a pretty spacious cutout it's got room to pass some through you've also got another nice big cutout by your eight pin EPS connector here by the CPU uh they're not grommeted but they are pretty damn high up there on the case so they're pretty much out of sight doesn't bother me too much as far as our USB 2 connector for the pump or I'm sorry for the uh the software support for this this Kraken we're just going to Route it through it just routed it through the one of the two cutouts that's on the power supply shroud and these cutouts are for little connectors like that your front panel connectors which we're going to connect right now as well as the two ssds that would go on your power supply shroud there and God said let there be sound and he plugged in the HD audio connector 8 Pin EPS in the house here comes the 24 pin ATX motherboard power connector which I am passing right underneath the uh Cable Management bar which is is uh a familiar familiar feature from the original s340 sure you guys remember that this bar right here it actually has a pump mount here as well um for custom water cooling um but this is a really nice solution that just offers a really clean aesthetic while hiding all the cables that'll be plugging into the side of your your motherboard like like your 24 pin ATX your USB 3.0 which on the Maximus 8 formula is actually a right angle connector which I think actually works out better with this particular cable management system Sata cable one and other Sata cable now one thing I want to point out about this Cable Management bar is that while it does a really nice job of concealing a lot of the motherboard cables here that plug into this side of the board it simultaneously blocks your radiator and it kind of limits the clearance of your front radiator support so for example I could not do a push pull configuration right now uh because this cable bar would be in the way there's just no physical way to get another two fans on here um even even at this lower section where the bar doesn't protrude quite as much there it's still covering up these uh these two uh screw holes here on the radiator so that's kind of a bummer if you want to do some custom water cooling you're probably going to want a thicker radiator than what's on the the Kraken x61 but unfortunately you're going to have to remove this cable bar which I believe it is removable yes there's 1 two 3 4 five I don't know five or six screws holding it in place which seems like a lot I don't know why there's so many damn screws holding it in place I mean it's also providing some structural Integrity to the chassis so perhaps that's why it's got so many screws in it but you would have to remove this if you wanted to expand on the front radiator solution of of your particular build so uh bear that in mind that I forgot about these front panel connectors didn't you well I didn't getting ready to install our video card now we've got uh this little metal plate at the back of the case that's held in place with two thumb screws easily comes off just uh gives you better access to the other thumb screws holding your expansion slots in place I hate it when manufacturers tighten thumb screws to the point where you need a screwdriver just seems counterintuitive damn it I just realized I installed the wrong PCI slot son of a here we go all right so we've got a GTX 1080 here Founders Edition I'm sorry this is a 1070 FAS Edition uh which is about a 10-in card I believe so obviously you can go probably 12 maybe even 13 in whoo on the graphics card length if you so wished so yeah I mean you can install pretty much any length graphics card for the most part if you're going to be rocking a similar setup as this bear in mind however if you were to remove the cable management bar and have like a super fatty Push Pull radiator at the front of your case that is going to limit uh how long your graphics card can be cable management time so here's our first look at the business end where all the cable management takes place and first off there's a pretty large CPU Cooler cutout here so you could replace your CPU Cooler without having to uninstall your entire motherboard you can just access the the CPU Cooler back plate from this area right here which is very very convenient and um you've also got a lot of tie down points that you can see strewn about the case which is uh also very handy however one of the big improvements here on the back side over the original s340 are these cable clasps right right here located here here here and here you get four of them in total and they are incredibly handy this is probably my favorite I don't know favorite Cable Management solution in a case I like this more than cable ties tie down points you know uh velcro straps all that sort of thing these are pretty freaking sweet the only complaint that I have here is that they feel a little bit on the cheap side uh especially when you open them all the way it kind of feels like the plastic gets really weak as soon as you open it you know any anywhere past about this point um which makes you a little bit concerned it kind of like I don't know it it causes a little bit of concern while you're building which is never a great thing um I haven't had any problems with them snapping or breaking however I've just started building with it right now if you were to do three or four builds in a case like this would these wear out over time and eventually maybe snap off possibly I don't know but from the looks of it um they they do the they do a great job they just feel a little bit on the economical side and I don't really want to test them too much further but why don't we go ahead and uh start wrapping things up here with the cable management of course you have plenty of space right in front of the power supply of course your mileage will vary if you have a really lengthy power supply you might not have as much free space down here for uh storing excess cables oh look what's that that's the HDMI pass through beautiful I have never seen one of these in the case before I guess there's a first for everything so that's kind of cool uh of course our our Founders Edition card does not support HDMI on the front there so we're going to tuck that away for now and I'm just going to go ahead and wrap up the rest of this stuff with the help of these handy cable clasps you know what in fact we actually have so much freaking room for cables back here that I'm going to add some of these extensions oh hello SATA hello SATA would you like to meet my other SATA port we can have a SATA party PCI Express sometimes you're so expressive now for your pcie cables that power your GPU you do still have that cutout on the power supply shroud if you wanted to Route it straight from the bottom there however personal preference of mine I still like routing mine from the side here peeking out through the cable management bar and then we've got fans yeah these cable ties make it super easy to remove or add any cables to the bunch with just like zero effort at all I mean I haven't spent any time I've barely spent any time on cable management in this case and it looks it looks like I have so that's that's definitely saying something and just like that our build in the s340 elite is pretty much complete but there is one more thing that I wanted to talk about before we close out the video and I give my closing thoughts on the case uh is this new product this other product that just launched with NZXT this is their internal USB hub it's a USB 2.0 Hub so something like this would come in real Handy where you'd actually plug this into your motherboard 2.0 header along with some DC to Molex power I do wish this was SATA that would be that would that would have been clutch guys that would have been super clutch uh but then it basically expands your USB 2.0 connectivity uh of course the uh the the the lead that goes to your motherboard connects to this white port here and then you've got three additional headers three USB 2.0 internal headers as well as two external header so this is just great for things like you know AIO liquid coolers for example or lighting accessories fan controllers all that sort of thing the best part about this probably my favorite is that it's completely magnetic so if we turn the camera up here so check this out boom how about this boom one more boom yeah you get it it's a magnet so it sticks to pretty much any magnetic surface in your case which makes it really easy to just store away in your build of course you wouldn't be able to put it here for example because it wouldn't have enough clearance for the side panel to go back on but if you wanted to store it say underneath your power supply shroud the magnets pretty much do all the work you don't have to like bust out any cable ties or velcro straps to to restrain it to make sure it doesn't get tossed around it pretty much just stays in place with that magnetic feature pretty cool I'll leave a link to this guy in the description below if you guys want more info on it if you need to uh future prooof your cases for uh USB 2.0 connectivity you need some additional expansion it's a pretty handy feature or tool to have I should say but on that note this build is complete so we're going to go ahead and slap the side panel back on and close this video out so here she is everybody all decked out with the side panel slapped on there and I will say with the tempered glass it it really breathes new life into the s340 it just looks amazing in person I don't know how how good it looks to you guys on camera but it just looks phenomenal in my opinion you can just really see a lot more of the of the system itself it's just tempered glass just there's no comparison compared to like acrylic or Plexi um so good on you guys Ed NZXT for that upgrade there's just so many little improvements that really add up to make this a much better case than the original um including those cable management clasps at the back even though they're a little on the cheapy side uh they still do a great job at keeping everything nice and tidy the side panel on the back went on like super easy uh no problem there also the uh the S the SSD Mount there were a couple cons here right the SSD Mount at the front while I do like this new implementation I think it looks fantastic having an SSD right behind the tempered glass uh you do have to Route the SSD cables through that 3 and 1/2 in mechanical Drive Bay which can can cause issues if you wanted to populate both of those slots however I did notice there's a small cutout to the left of the SSD which you could route your SSD cables through there but it looks like you would have to flip your SSD upside down and no one wants to really display their SSD in that inverted position so that's kind of a moot point there also the cable management bar still brings home all the same great assets that it did in the original case however it's just in the way if you wanted to expand on the radiator solution that you see here if you wanted anything thicker than a 50 15 20 mm radiator or you wanted to do push pull for example you would have to remove that cable management bar but that bar is such a a crucial element in terms of Aesthetics and feature set to the S3 uh the s340 line that would be kind of a shame to have to remove it for any reason at all also mad props to the uh updated dust filter for the power supply that's a huge Improvement as well and last but not least you guys probably noticed the Oculus Rift that's hanging on the front of this case utilizing that magnetic Cable Management Puck which I actually did have to separate because uh to to wrap the full length of that cord it's a pretty long cable and also utilizing that front panel HDMI port which if if you guys are into VR or you're planning on building a VR Gaming System this is the next case to get until more competitive options at this price point roll out with similar VR oriented features cuz it's just it's perfect for this sort of thing so um altogether great job NZXT if you guys want more information on this chassis you can find a link in the description below also feel free to check out my awesome sauce no it's bitwit now damn it my bitwit store where I'm still selling T-shirts like the you cooler shirt that you see me wearing here help support the channel and all that sort of thing also feel free to toss me a like on the video If you enjoyed it that is all for now guys be sure to subscribe for more Tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the next videowhat's up guys welcome back to the channel today I'm checking out a brand new case from NZXT this is their s340 Elite and if you're watching this video on the day of upload that means this case just launched today hey Brand news it's hot so obviously as the name suggest this is working off of or this is an iteration I should say of the original s340 already a very popular critically acclaimed case so there have been some much needed improvements of that case with the elite version and we're going to be going over that today now retail price first off MSRP in the US is $99.99 let's just call it $100 flat comes in full matte black there's not another freaking color on this thing it's just pure black I love it it's like the monolith from 2001 Space Odyssey however they are going to be releasing a matte white and a matte black and red version later this month so stay tuned for that if that's more your thing uh but I personally like the all black finish still get the very same simple and Sleek minimalistic design looks beautiful nothing really on the front it's just boom slab NZXT logo on the bottom on the back you've got a 120 mm fan mount with the included fan right there of course seven expansion slots and a power supply bracket with thumb screws for removable easy entry of your power supply however look at this you also get a power supply filter dust filter that doesn't suck the s340 the predecessor had a had jack for a for a dust filter it just had it just had the the screen there was no like casing around it there was no frame it was just a flimsy flimsy old screen held in by little tiny latches it was horrible this one's on a rail system it's not magnetic but still gets the job done very nice Improvement there and of course the one that's probably been glaring you in the face since this video started is the gorgeous tempered glass side panel this thing is 100% tempered glass there's no plastic or anything on here there is some black trim there's some black colored trim to match and blend in with the edges of the chassis itself but other than that left to right top to bottom 100% visibility of the inside of your chassis so none of your hard work that goes on inside of the case goes unnoticed makes me very nervous but it's also very beautiful to look at so uh good on your mates for for that NZXT you get four thumb screws to attach it there very securely with the indents for Philips head screwdriver always nice to see on the very bottom you get the same fourt with the rubber bottoms that you saw on the predecessor as well so it elevates your case now on the top of the case there are some interesting things here now apart from the uh 120 or 140 mm fan Mount which uh they do include a 120 here that's a 120 right yep that's 120 uh which is set to exhaust I wouldn't recommend intake because there's no dust filter on the top here you do get some very nicely updated front panel connectors to make your gaming desktop experience that much more simplistic and efficient particularly for VR so why don't we go down that apart from your headphone and mic Jacks you also get two USB 2.0 2 USB 3.0 and an HDMI port so there is an HDMI pass through cable inside this case with an HDMI port at the top so you can actually plug in a VR headset which is so much nicer if you guys are early adopters you have an HTC VI an Oculus Rift for instance you know that it's a pain in the butt to fish around the back of your case to constantly plug it in and and unplug it whenever you're not using it because a VR headset is not a peripheral that just stays on your desk 100% of the time you pull it out when you're ready to use it woohoo or you pack it up and you wrap it up when you're when you're done with it woohoo so the HDMI port on the front of the case makes it much easier to get in and out of your VR experience and they've also included this very handy magnetic Cable Management Puck I've never seen one of these before it actually comes apart so uh what what this does is it slaps to the the front of your case like so basically you can wrap up your your cable length all the cable length from coming from your stupid VR headset can just wrap around that thing and then you can either put the VR headset on top of your case which maybe I wouldn't recommend cu the matte finish while it's not very finger fingerprint prone can scratch a bit easily uh so maybe you could just hang the VR VR headset straight onto the puck or you can just keep it on your desk area either way a very elegant and classy solution for wrapping up them cables but also keeping your VR equipment near nearby when you're ready to use them and the reason why the puck splits apart is so if you have an extra lengthy cable you have more room to wrap it up with handy now obviously at this point you guys can tell that this is not a standard scripted review of mine in any way instead I thought it would be kind of cool a little bit different to actually just do a Hands-On build with the s340 elite get my hands dirty a little bit so to speak and uh just kind of document along the way what works for me and what doesn't with this new case so I think it's going to be fun I'm excited I think this build is going to look pretty badass by the end of it I just kind of scrambled scamed around for some Hardware in my room but it's looking pretty good I think it's going to look really good on that with the temper glass and the side panel and all right let's build the crap out of this thing all right so I have removed the side panel and I'm installing the motherboard so the s340 elite has pre-installed standoffs and the uh the center standoff is actually a raised post many of you guys are familiar with that just helps you to uh Center the board and keep it in place just like so while you install the rest of your standoff screws super cool going to go ahead and bolt this board down make sure it's nice and snug now onto the radiator installation we're going to have to pop this front panel off comes off just like so it's got a couple latches that easily uh allow you to remove it and replace it uh also just like the old s340 you've got tons of ventilation at the top and bottom here so even though it gives off a really enclos look it looks super Sleek doesn't look like much air is getting through there but there actually is it's coming through both sides of the chassis that way and then you've also got a magnetic dust filter very long one full frontal filtration very nice now a couple mounting options at the front here uh you can do 210s or up to two uh 140s so we've got again a two 280 mm radiator here however the caveat of the s340 and the elite as well you can't install the radiator first you have to install the fans first and then the radiator because there's just not enough clearance to install the radiator first due to the uh the front IO connectivity up here it's actually blocking this rather long radiator so what we're going to have to do is install the fans first so that can be that can be a bummer if that's not exactly the configuration you were looking for I was hoping to see maybe that NZXT had done something about that with the elite version but nah oh I'm installing these fans the wrong way damnn it Kyle have you never built a computer before so I'm going to go hoses at the top of the case and from here on out you kind of just screw you just screw your way to Victory oh I should also mention that there's plenty of cutouts uh Behind These fans here to route your fan cables through to the back side of the case so there's a look at the front and uh we're not quite done with the front yet we shouldn't be replacing the the front panel on just yet because we're going to install the the hard drive next you actually need access to this area right here in order to mount that so all right we've got a single 2 TB WD black that we're installing here I'm just going to slide that in like so there's uh two two bays for 3 and 1/2 in drives and these are just straight up Bare Bones there's no rubber anti vibration padding of any kind this I mean this looks like it could have been from like a a $50 case or something it's pretty it's pretty minimal here and you're probably asking yourself well why even the why are you doing the storage right now it seems kind of early in the build to do storage well there in lies potentially another shortcoming of this case and I'll show you that right here all right so here's the hard drive from the other angle and normally in in a typical build I would install the power supply first before ever touching the storage but in this particular scenario you can see you just saw me uh screw in two two screws from this side of the hard drive but there's a third one that we got to get on the right on the right side in order to get that one we kind of got to like put our hand in here and dig around for it it's not the easiest screw to get in there you kind of have to look and block the camera a little bit and there you go so as you can see I'm really using all the clearance I can get for my hand to be able to access this screw here you can see I've also switched to a shorter screwdriver in order to make that that uh connection there so having a power supply installed first would have made things a little bit more difficult especially with a certain cabl sticking out as it is not fully modular the unit that we're using today now another addition that NZXT is added to the s340 with the elite version is that you now get an SSD Mount at the front of your case right on the wall of your power supply shroud you still get the two that are uh on top of the power supply shroud with beautiful cutouts so you can route your SATA cables through um however you've also got this one on the front here which is much more visible through your tempered glass side panel and you've got a little cutout here to route your cables to the right of that SSD however those cables if you're going to be mounting your SSD there also need to pass through this hard drive cage for your 3 and a half inch mechanical so if you were to have an SSD mounted at the front and a second mechanical hard drive in this cage well you would kind of be blocking any SATA cables from that SSD because there's really not much room for them to pass through at this point with the uh two of the drive slots occupied so what you would have to do is probably either install the SSD somewhere else but if you really want to show it off and you want to have it in that slot you could slot your second mechanical drive at the mounting point at the very bottom of the case so you do have three potentially potentially three slots or three mounting positions for your 3 and 1 half in drives and uh this is pretty much at the very floor of the chassis you would have to basically turn the case on its side and bolt in or screw in this uh drive from the very bottom it also supports a 2 and 1/2 in drive down there so uh in total you get three 3 and 1/2 in Drive mounts as well as four SSD mounts two on top of the power supply shroud one at the front of the power supply shroud or on the side of it I should say and one at the very bottom of the case next up is the power supply installation which is pretty straightforward you've got this bracket at the back that I mentioned with these thumb screws comes out really easily like so Mount the bracket to the power supply shove all the cables in first through the back of the case and you want to make sure that the power supply is face down or the fan is face down on that power supply because you do want to take advantage of to that dust filter there isn't really much ventilation at the top of that power supply shroud so you would be starving your power supply for air flow if you mounted it the other way and then you just screw in the thumb screws voila bada bada boom boom so now we're going to go ahead and install our SSD here I've chosen this position because it's Unique to the elite version of the s340 so what I like to do is first undo the mounting plate with this thumb screw single thumb screw love that it's just one screw that you have to deal with so here's the mounting plate we're going to go ahead and screw the SSD to the plate just like that and then before we replace the mounting plate with the SSD attached what I like to do is actually route my SATA cables through the hole first so there's the data cable power cable is over here all right and I like to connect these first to the SSD before I install the plate back to the case just makes it a little bit easier you can kind of already bend the cables ahead of time knowing which way they're going to need to turn line up the plate with the notches on the case and replace that thumb screw done so now I think we're ready to start connecting and routing all of our cables in this system starting with the AIO we're going to Route our power and fan connector through here so you can see I'm routing it through a cutout that's directly above the motherboard it's a pretty spacious cutout it's got room to pass some through you've also got another nice big cutout by your eight pin EPS connector here by the CPU uh they're not grommeted but they are pretty damn high up there on the case so they're pretty much out of sight doesn't bother me too much as far as our USB 2 connector for the pump or I'm sorry for the uh the software support for this this Kraken we're just going to Route it through it just routed it through the one of the two cutouts that's on the power supply shroud and these cutouts are for little connectors like that your front panel connectors which we're going to connect right now as well as the two ssds that would go on your power supply shroud there and God said let there be sound and he plugged in the HD audio connector 8 Pin EPS in the house here comes the 24 pin ATX motherboard power connector which I am passing right underneath the uh Cable Management bar which is is uh a familiar familiar feature from the original s340 sure you guys remember that this bar right here it actually has a pump mount here as well um for custom water cooling um but this is a really nice solution that just offers a really clean aesthetic while hiding all the cables that'll be plugging into the side of your your motherboard like like your 24 pin ATX your USB 3.0 which on the Maximus 8 formula is actually a right angle connector which I think actually works out better with this particular cable management system Sata cable one and other Sata cable now one thing I want to point out about this Cable Management bar is that while it does a really nice job of concealing a lot of the motherboard cables here that plug into this side of the board it simultaneously blocks your radiator and it kind of limits the clearance of your front radiator support so for example I could not do a push pull configuration right now uh because this cable bar would be in the way there's just no physical way to get another two fans on here um even even at this lower section where the bar doesn't protrude quite as much there it's still covering up these uh these two uh screw holes here on the radiator so that's kind of a bummer if you want to do some custom water cooling you're probably going to want a thicker radiator than what's on the the Kraken x61 but unfortunately you're going to have to remove this cable bar which I believe it is removable yes there's 1 two 3 4 five I don't know five or six screws holding it in place which seems like a lot I don't know why there's so many damn screws holding it in place I mean it's also providing some structural Integrity to the chassis so perhaps that's why it's got so many screws in it but you would have to remove this if you wanted to expand on the front radiator solution of of your particular build so uh bear that in mind that I forgot about these front panel connectors didn't you well I didn't getting ready to install our video card now we've got uh this little metal plate at the back of the case that's held in place with two thumb screws easily comes off just uh gives you better access to the other thumb screws holding your expansion slots in place I hate it when manufacturers tighten thumb screws to the point where you need a screwdriver just seems counterintuitive damn it I just realized I installed the wrong PCI slot son of a here we go all right so we've got a GTX 1080 here Founders Edition I'm sorry this is a 1070 FAS Edition uh which is about a 10-in card I believe so obviously you can go probably 12 maybe even 13 in whoo on the graphics card length if you so wished so yeah I mean you can install pretty much any length graphics card for the most part if you're going to be rocking a similar setup as this bear in mind however if you were to remove the cable management bar and have like a super fatty Push Pull radiator at the front of your case that is going to limit uh how long your graphics card can be cable management time so here's our first look at the business end where all the cable management takes place and first off there's a pretty large CPU Cooler cutout here so you could replace your CPU Cooler without having to uninstall your entire motherboard you can just access the the CPU Cooler back plate from this area right here which is very very convenient and um you've also got a lot of tie down points that you can see strewn about the case which is uh also very handy however one of the big improvements here on the back side over the original s340 are these cable clasps right right here located here here here and here you get four of them in total and they are incredibly handy this is probably my favorite I don't know favorite Cable Management solution in a case I like this more than cable ties tie down points you know uh velcro straps all that sort of thing these are pretty freaking sweet the only complaint that I have here is that they feel a little bit on the cheap side uh especially when you open them all the way it kind of feels like the plastic gets really weak as soon as you open it you know any anywhere past about this point um which makes you a little bit concerned it kind of like I don't know it it causes a little bit of concern while you're building which is never a great thing um I haven't had any problems with them snapping or breaking however I've just started building with it right now if you were to do three or four builds in a case like this would these wear out over time and eventually maybe snap off possibly I don't know but from the looks of it um they they do the they do a great job they just feel a little bit on the economical side and I don't really want to test them too much further but why don't we go ahead and uh start wrapping things up here with the cable management of course you have plenty of space right in front of the power supply of course your mileage will vary if you have a really lengthy power supply you might not have as much free space down here for uh storing excess cables oh look what's that that's the HDMI pass through beautiful I have never seen one of these in the case before I guess there's a first for everything so that's kind of cool uh of course our our Founders Edition card does not support HDMI on the front there so we're going to tuck that away for now and I'm just going to go ahead and wrap up the rest of this stuff with the help of these handy cable clasps you know what in fact we actually have so much freaking room for cables back here that I'm going to add some of these extensions oh hello SATA hello SATA would you like to meet my other SATA port we can have a SATA party PCI Express sometimes you're so expressive now for your pcie cables that power your GPU you do still have that cutout on the power supply shroud if you wanted to Route it straight from the bottom there however personal preference of mine I still like routing mine from the side here peeking out through the cable management bar and then we've got fans yeah these cable ties make it super easy to remove or add any cables to the bunch with just like zero effort at all I mean I haven't spent any time I've barely spent any time on cable management in this case and it looks it looks like I have so that's that's definitely saying something and just like that our build in the s340 elite is pretty much complete but there is one more thing that I wanted to talk about before we close out the video and I give my closing thoughts on the case uh is this new product this other product that just launched with NZXT this is their internal USB hub it's a USB 2.0 Hub so something like this would come in real Handy where you'd actually plug this into your motherboard 2.0 header along with some DC to Molex power I do wish this was SATA that would be that would that would have been clutch guys that would have been super clutch uh but then it basically expands your USB 2.0 connectivity uh of course the uh the the the lead that goes to your motherboard connects to this white port here and then you've got three additional headers three USB 2.0 internal headers as well as two external header so this is just great for things like you know AIO liquid coolers for example or lighting accessories fan controllers all that sort of thing the best part about this probably my favorite is that it's completely magnetic so if we turn the camera up here so check this out boom how about this boom one more boom yeah you get it it's a magnet so it sticks to pretty much any magnetic surface in your case which makes it really easy to just store away in your build of course you wouldn't be able to put it here for example because it wouldn't have enough clearance for the side panel to go back on but if you wanted to store it say underneath your power supply shroud the magnets pretty much do all the work you don't have to like bust out any cable ties or velcro straps to to restrain it to make sure it doesn't get tossed around it pretty much just stays in place with that magnetic feature pretty cool I'll leave a link to this guy in the description below if you guys want more info on it if you need to uh future prooof your cases for uh USB 2.0 connectivity you need some additional expansion it's a pretty handy feature or tool to have I should say but on that note this build is complete so we're going to go ahead and slap the side panel back on and close this video out so here she is everybody all decked out with the side panel slapped on there and I will say with the tempered glass it it really breathes new life into the s340 it just looks amazing in person I don't know how how good it looks to you guys on camera but it just looks phenomenal in my opinion you can just really see a lot more of the of the system itself it's just tempered glass just there's no comparison compared to like acrylic or Plexi um so good on you guys Ed NZXT for that upgrade there's just so many little improvements that really add up to make this a much better case than the original um including those cable management clasps at the back even though they're a little on the cheapy side uh they still do a great job at keeping everything nice and tidy the side panel on the back went on like super easy uh no problem there also the uh the S the SSD Mount there were a couple cons here right the SSD Mount at the front while I do like this new implementation I think it looks fantastic having an SSD right behind the tempered glass uh you do have to Route the SSD cables through that 3 and 1/2 in mechanical Drive Bay which can can cause issues if you wanted to populate both of those slots however I did notice there's a small cutout to the left of the SSD which you could route your SSD cables through there but it looks like you would have to flip your SSD upside down and no one wants to really display their SSD in that inverted position so that's kind of a moot point there also the cable management bar still brings home all the same great assets that it did in the original case however it's just in the way if you wanted to expand on the radiator solution that you see here if you wanted anything thicker than a 50 15 20 mm radiator or you wanted to do push pull for example you would have to remove that cable management bar but that bar is such a a crucial element in terms of Aesthetics and feature set to the S3 uh the s340 line that would be kind of a shame to have to remove it for any reason at all also mad props to the uh updated dust filter for the power supply that's a huge Improvement as well and last but not least you guys probably noticed the Oculus Rift that's hanging on the front of this case utilizing that magnetic Cable Management Puck which I actually did have to separate because uh to to wrap the full length of that cord it's a pretty long cable and also utilizing that front panel HDMI port which if if you guys are into VR or you're planning on building a VR Gaming System this is the next case to get until more competitive options at this price point roll out with similar VR oriented features cuz it's just it's perfect for this sort of thing so um altogether great job NZXT if you guys want more information on this 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