Phanteks EVOLV X review

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Product showcase – interior

The Phanteks Evolv X is equipped with two 140 mm fans. You can install up to three 120/140 mm ones instead. This amount of space is enough to fit even 420 mm radiators.


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Here you can see the two LED strips running along the front panel.


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You can mount up to a 95 mm radiator + fan (typically 25 mm wide) setup, so the radiator itself can be as beefy as 70 mm. 

 

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The backside of the Phanteks chassis is super clean, with two metal covers which do a good job good hiding all the cables, and also serve as SSD mounting points.

 

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Even though a brilliant idea has been used here, the clearance is not as big as we would like it to be. It’s in the 20 mm range, and we’d appreciate at least 5 mm more to be on the safe side. At the lower-left side, there is a place for up to four removable HDD/SSD cages. The standard cables include USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C (not every motherboard has headers for that), and front panel connections (with HD audio), as well as two SATA connectors.


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One of these is used for powering up the lighting installed in the chassis. You can also connect it to Aura Sync and MSI Mystic Light Sync motherboards.


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The other one is for the fan hub. The cabling is black, which improves the aesthetics of the whole package. It’s possible to connect three 3-pin fans, four typical 4-pin (PWM) ones, and the last port is universal (3/4 pin). You need to connect the fan hub to a port on your motherboard to be able to control the fans.


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The last thing that I’d like to mention on this side is the GPU anti-sag bracket. The test system didn’t need it, as it’s an AIO-cooled graphics cards, not as heavy as some of the best air cooling solutions on the market (like the Asus Strix or the MSI TwinFrozr).

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