NZXT H7 - CM-H71BW-01 - ATX Mid Tower PC Gaming Case - Front I/O USB Type-C Port - Quick-Release Tempered Glass Side Panel - White

Pros: Airflow in this case is awesome. Ive got three 140mm fans as front intake and the thermals are great. Can fit 360mm AIO up front or up top. It accommodates the largest of GPUs. Great looking case and excellent build quality. Cons: I know they just updated this case (the older H710 wasnt that great), but the bottom intake fan (like the new H5 Flow) wouldve been great to have. The black H7 Flow tinted tempered glass is a tad on the darker side, crank up the RGB brightness.

Well built. Sturdy.

This case is the best Ive ever built a PC in. Ive built something like 25 from-components PCs over the years for myself, friends and family, in various cases and combinations of hardware. This case felt amazingly easy to work in and around. For example, the power supply bay isnt cramped; you can expect to set up your cables on a modular supply and put the supply in with ease. No cramped, hand-banging experience getting inside the case to unplug a power cable. Mounting a 360mm AIO and the motherboard was a breeze. All panels, front, top and both sides, come off with simple snaps, rather than screws or complicated mechanical fasteners. This means that access to the case interior was simple and everything was easily reachable. Airflow looks like itll be quite good. Maybe not the best possible airflow, but certainly good enough for most typical thermal loads. It wasnt possible, because of the use case, to mount the AIO in a puller configuration to move warm air out of the top of the case; it had to be mounted in the front, pushing cooler air through the radiator and through the 120mm rear opening. That wasnt ideal for the GPU and motherboard, but it should be fine in daily use and gaming. For overclocking as a daily-driver, Id say that this case would not be suitable, but if youre a serious overclocker, youre probably doing it with a test-bench rig and custom water cooling anyhow. Cable management, which to be fair was minimal (motherboard held the boot / storage drives on M.2 slots, so other than the GPU, there wasnt much to plug in) was easy and intuitive. The channels for cables and their velcro straps were well-designed and everything was kept in place without undue cable strain. Mounting the front-panel connections was about as easy as Ive ever seen. For starters, the Power On/Off, Reset Switch, etc., were thoughtfully bundled together into a single plug, so that, for once, there wasnt a need to carefully seat a tiny Power On cable onto motherboard pins. Of all of the things that havent changed about the ATX standard over the last 20 years, the fact that this is still how things work is sad, but this case gave users a best-in-class solution. For newbies, the mounting of the motherboard is often the scariest part. NZXT made this almost idiot-proof, by putting a fixed pin into the ATX layout that will make it obvious where the motherboard should be, and when its located correctly. I think that this could be improved, by making the pin out of a softer material, so that newbies cannot damage the back of the motherboards while figuring things out, but it was well-designed. Were there any bad points to this case? Its sheer size, perhaps, is a non-starter for a number of folks. Its not quite full-tower, but its quite large by modern standards. That said, none of that space is wasted; this was a case obviously designed by a good team of engineers. Its perhaps not the quietest case ever designed, either; while the sockets for the panel mounts are very intuitive and appeared to be reasonably sturdy, there will almost certainly be a little extra vibration over time, but that could be addressed with some simple fixes, such as a little pad in a trouble spot. Upon initial assembly, however, the noise levels were totally fine. Im sure that others will not like the aesthetics of this case- its basically just a box. But to me, and most other people, the box wont be seen or really noticed once its built, so I dont care, and the glass side panel is sufficient for showing off a custom water loop or RGB stuff, etc., if you really want people to know how much money and time youve spent on your rig. Personally, I prefer that my machines run silent and dark and dont look worth stealing, lol. In conclusion: if youre trying to figure out a case to buy, this is far and away the best Ive ever seen, especially for newbies trying to assemble their first PC from scratch. The people who designed it clearly understand how PCs are built and thought about most of the major problems really carefully. This is pretty rare, in an industry where most cases are built to be either cheap or aesthetically pleasing, or both, at the expense of function. Its totally worth the asking price.

I really wanted to like this case. Nice clean look, tasteful, airflow-centric design, seems solid at a glance. Cable management looks really well laid out, and I like the cable management bar a lot more than grommets. It seemed like this thing was just about perfect. Unfortunately, when I put it up on my desk I noticed something: the screen filters are wrinkly and sagging, not taut and flat. Its not really visible in low light, but when I turned my overhead light on I could see it very clearly. It looks really bad and its impossible to miss because the metal screens shine through the matte paint of the panels. Im really not sure why theyd use screens thatre warped like that. It ruins whatd otherwise be a really premium-looking case. Id expect this kind of issue on a $50 case, not a $130 one. Theres too much competition at this price point to let something like that slide.

Overall this case is great, I just wish this case had perforated metal plates (the ones you remove to add your GPU). I had to remove all of mine because they don’t have any holes and reduce airflow to my GPU. Every other case manufacturer has holes on those removable plates except NZXT. For a flow model, you would think they would allow more airflow. I like the removable dust filters and it looks sleek.

Great case with a ton of soace.

Great mid tower case with great air flow. Using some Lian Li SL120 Infinity fans to cool the system in this case and it performs well.

installation was so ez with this case aswell as fans are nowhere near as noisy as I’ve seen reviews saying they are gonna be, cooling is completely fine with my rtx 3070

This is a big mid tower case. Make sure you got the space for it and the table to support it because once you build your computer using this case, its going to be heavy, especially as gpus get bigger and bigger. So what I like about the case is that there are vents and corresponding filters so airflow isnt a problem. The case is metal, so its got a nice heft to it. Since it is a large case, it is very easy to work in. (This is my first pc build, and it was a breeze with this case) HOWEVER the thing that really really bugs me about this case and why I gave it 3 stars and not 5 is that taking off and putting on the panels is by far the worst thing ever. Its enough for me to not recommend getting the case. This is because the panels are held on by a snap-on mechanism, where its plastic nubs on the panels being shoved into plastic holes. The physical connection is solid, but it is too solid in some areas to the point where you feel like youre going to break it (which I did already, one of the holes broke when I was removing the side metal panel). So if youre someone thats constantly going in and out of the case, or just wants to show off the inside, it is a hard pass because my bet is that those connections will fail over time. The entire case is metal and everything else is great, but who came up with this stupid idea for holding the entire thing together? Im guessing it was for aesthetic reasons, but for functionality it ruins the whole case. My friend got the Corsair 4000 flow, and the glass panel is held on by thumbscrews. Thats what I wish NZXT did here. So for $130, getting this case is like ordering a porterhouse steak but it has a giant piece of grizzle. Its good, but that one flaw really ruins the whole experience and leaves you feeling regretful.

I love this case. I would use this as a nightlight if I could next to my bed, or in fact, any room, because I cant stop staring at the front when its turned on. Lets not forget that the cable management built into this case is top notch. Now, Im not an expert in building PCs by any means. My husband told me that this time he was going to guide me while I put all the pieces together. This case made it easy for me, and he even made the comment that this PC was much easier to build than the one he built 2 years ago. There are velcro straps holding in cables that come with the case already, so I incorporated the new cables from the build into those same straps. Brilliant. The tempered glass side is also easy to pop on and off, but not so easy that youd be afraid of it coming off randomly when carrying your PC around.