Unboxing the Switch 810
First look is nice, I like the matte paint feel to it. It feels very nice when you touch it although colour isn't perfect matching but it isn't that bad.
Plain & simply at the back of the casing, take note that there is leds at the back I/O panel.
I would prefer if the window is square instead of this shape.
Top panel is piece of shit! So flimsy, in fact it came broken! Basically there is two tiny plastic holding the top panel for its quick removal feature. All you need to do is press the panel & pop it out but 1 of my plastic was broken so it's very hard to get it in place.
This is what I am talking about.
Can fit 3 fans at the top panel, makes it easier to clean the fans.
Cable management is great in this case, lots of big rubber grommets. All the cables are black colour so that is a good thing, even for the fans too.
It came with a fan hub, so you can plug all your fans over here. Little things like this makes the building experience easier.
Cable ties that it came with is pretty small in length, they should made it longer in length.
It also came with 8pin power extension cable.
All the front panel cables etc...
Another feature is the quick removal side panel feature. Basically all you need to do is push this screw downwards & pop that side panel off. It gets stuck sometimes, probably need to spray the mechanism with WD-40 to lubricate it. You can also secure the side panel with two more screws to add that extra security
The casing came with 4 x 140mm fans. This is great for people who do aircooling but since I am going to watercool it, I have no use of it. I am going to get corsair sp120 fans, so I might just sell all this fans off. The exhaust position at the back is adjustable, you can position the fan in the middle, top or bottom any how you like. This is great as it gives quite a lot of clearance to the radiator at the top.
This is another great feature. It allows you to mount your hdd/ssd into your 5.25 drive bay. Just mount the hdd into the tray & slot it into the drive bay. It will connect to this pcb & you can plug the cables into this.
Notice those holes at the drive bay? Basically if you mount a radiator that is too long, your fans with push pull setup can still be installed. The holes allows airflow for the fans.
This is the built in optical drive cover. Its quite smart actually, if you look at the casing pictures at the front, there is a optical drive cover with a button, basically you press that button & that will press your dvd drive button from the inside. The tray will come out & this cover will move downwards. This maintains the clean look outside of your case when you dont use the dvd drive.
This is another feature to allow air flow the the hdd & cpu/gpu depending on how you position it. I dont need this though so makes no difference to me because I need that space to mount my radiator.
The 3M tape that they use is crap. In fact why did they use a 3M tape instead? Basically a rubber grommet should be under that hole but it was making too much noise as I change the fan directions. Because it was moving here & there.
This is what I was talking about. It should be under that hole there but I removed it as it was secured properly. They should have used super glue instead.
This was the hdd/ssd drive bay I was talking about.
You can mount a monster psu in here without a problem. Comes with nice solid pads at the bottom.
This is where the hdd/ssd drive tray goes in.
Front fan filter comes out easily. Just push it & pop it out.
All the fan filters in the casing is great! The filter holes is quite small so this will ensure less dust particles will enter but this will add more restriction to the airflow though. I dont mind because the previous cooler master casing that I was using, the fan filter was shit. The holes was quite big & the casing still gets dusty overtime.
You can fit 2 x 140mm fans or 2 x 120 fans.
The hdd drive bay is easily removable. Just unscrew few screws & pop it out like this.
Take note the fan filer isnt covered at the bottom. Not sure why nzxt did this but bear in mind dusty can come in from here. What I plan to do is buy custom filter & glue it by myself later on.
Casing came with a dead cockroach. Wtf?
Fan filter at the bottom, 1 at the psu & another at the front. Both are easily removable by pushing it & sliding it out. The front filter is longer in side which is good otherwise the psu filter will be long & you might need to move your casing from the wall in order to get it out.
Thats about it. Great casing overall with some pretty heavy weight to it. Lots of nice features here & there but I hate the top panel though. Came broken some more but I discussed with cyntrixtech & they say they can RMA that top panel so I shall wait for a replacement, otherwise might need to buy some top panel & mod it myself.
