NZXT Phantom 630 Ultra Tower Chassis Review

The build process took a little longer than usual and a complete build took me about 45 minutes. I tried to do something a little different here to show off some of the features of the 630 as best as possible with the components I had to hand. First you’ll notice that I stripped out the rear 140mm exhaust fan in favour of our Antec 920 Kuhler, which its self its inverted so the reservoir is at the top but you can see it still has extensive clearance from the top of the chassis.

The 140mm fan that I removed is now mounted on the swivel bracket behind our GTX 560 Ti, free to channel air from the front intake fan directly into the graphics card and towards our rear radiator. I’ve also removed the bottom two hard drive bays, now its easy to see just how much space can be made not only in the front of the chassis but also the bottom.

Our 2.5″ Kingston SSD is nicely mounted in the bottom hard drive tray, I could have mounted it in the rear of the chassis, but method better demonstrates the modular drive bays.

Around the back looks very neat and tidy, its just a shame to see such a big chassis with only a single GPU installed. However I have no doubt that rear airflow wouldn’t be an issue for those who do go for multiple graphics cards.

With the side panel in place the 630 really starts to make sense and we get a great view of our CPU cooler, ram and the top of our GPU. It’s a shame NZXT didn’t pre-installed the NZXT HUE Lighting Kit like they did on the 820, but it still look great either way. The modular hard drives bays are no longer visible and while they do offer a lot of customisation its mainly for functionality than style without a larger side panel window.