NZXT Vulcan Case Review
Inside Vulcan
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Both panels are fastened to the case using black thumbscrews, which is excellent. Before talking about the internals from Vulcan, let’s take a better look at the left-side panel, as shown in Figure 8. As explained, this panel supports the installation of one big 200-mm fan and the holes for attaching screws feature rubber rings, which help reducing the vibration produced by the fans and thus their noise level. Unfortunately the manufacturer didn’t add an air filter on this huge mesh.
Figure 8: Left panel.
In Figure 9 you can have an overall look from inside Vulcan. As mentioned, the interior from this case is painted black. The motherboard tray has a huge opening on the area where the CPU is located, so if you want to upgrade your CPU cooler in the future with a model that comes with a different kind of back plate you won’t need to remove the motherboard from the case in order to install it. The motherboard tray doesn’t go all the way to the front panel, leaving a huge opening on the area behind where the disk drives are installed for you to route cables from behind the motherboard tray. The motherboard tray also has a hole near where the power supply is installed with the same function, plus several clips for fastening zip-lock
ties.
Figure 9: Overall look.
Figure 10: A view from behind the motherboard tray.
One important feature is that this case supports video cards up to 13 ¾” (35 cm) long and CPU coolers up to 6 ½” (16.5 cm) high.
On the next picture you have an overall look at the inside the case. It seems that NZXT has been reading our reviews, because we always complain that cases should come with thumbscrews for fastening expansion cards, and NZXT added this feature on Vulcan.
Figure 11: Overall look.
In Figure 12, you can see the place where the power supply is installed. As already mentioned, Vulcan has a mesh featuring an air filter to match the power supply fan. It also has rubber stands for holding the power supply.
Figure 12: Place for installing the power supply.