Phanteks Enthoo Primo Full Tower Case Review

Final Thoughts of the Phanteks Enthoo Primo Case

For the first week I was very impressed with this case but further review and use brought some things to my attention that I have not quite heard about anywhere else and possibly unique to me. While I honestly do recommend this case I do have a couple of nitpick things to get out of the way. First off if the materials used to build this case. The doors felt very flimsy for the size and the outside front perticularly seemed to get marks very easy. While most of it could be rubbed off very easily it did seem that anything touching the finish in the front made a white mark on an otherwise very black case. Now let me put this into context before my next qualm about this case. I live in a 50-60 year old pier and beam house which means the floors have some give to them. When walking about my case I had issues with the installed fan from Phanteks in the bottom hitting the case and making unwanted noise. To make sure it wasn’t a defective fan I replaced it with another one of the same size and had the same result which tells me I either got a defectively built case (it happens so I can’t put blame on Phanteks) or a design flaw in the stability of base. If you have seen my rigs in forums then you know that my computer is not placed directly on the floor but on a pedestal of sorts to give it room to breath. Now in the end this case has so much air flow running though it I simply unplugged that bottom fan since it did not make a difference in temps after some testing. Using a CoolIT Eco II 120 liquid cooler I had temps of 30C and they didn’t change at all and my AMD Radeon Hd 7990 ran at a steady 54-55C at idle and 72C at full load with and without the fan. Now my last thing about this case I did not quite is the headroom between the top of the motherboard tray and the actual top of the case. If you have a cooler like mine it doesn’t give you a lot of room to work if you have to change anything out or unplug the auxiliary power in the top left corner.  While this is not a make or break thing it is just personal preference after using my HAF 932 for so long. I just see it with all the space that another inch or two wouldn’t have been a big deal. Having said that I am not an engineer for Phanteks so I give them a pass.

Now let me talk about why you could possibly and utterly fall in love with this case. If you are into custom loops then is a fantastic case to use. Unless you are building your own case then you would be hard pressed with a case that gives you so many possibilities for a custom loop to run anywhere from 1 GPU to 4 GPUs and have the space to liquid cool them all. The style and design I love with a very clean look to it but when you take the doors off it is anything but which is a great thing which leads me to my next point and something I have briefly touched on. You can basically choose any configuration you want with this case. Mild to wild this case pretty much should be able to house and keep it cool with the right components inside.

So overall as you can see the Phanteks Enthoo Primo case is rather solid and I would definitely recommend it. Even though I have other cases to choose from for my daily driver rig I am currently using this case. While the flimsy doors and issue with the fan in the bottom I will not push to hard on as being something terrible with the case since it would just be me I am very impressed for their first case and have set the bar high for themselves so now its just a matter of what they do to top this case.