money shot like I'm gonna cut right to the point here Phanteks does excellent
jobs making cases that are affordable and premium so this right here is a $60
enclosure and you get tempered glass included I'd like you to meet the P 300
I know I'm a bit late with this review everyone else released theirs earlier in
the day but this is a smaller take on the P 400 from Phanteks which was
already a great value in fact a tempered glass edition of that case was my
favorite case for the longest time up until fractal released their defined C
tempered glass Edition so like I said the P 300 has a smaller chassis than the
P 400 that's why it's a 300 not 400
also the basement is kind of like a part of the chassis so you can see and feel
the basement on the exterior of the case and the tempered glass actually only
goes down to where the basement begins actually think it's pretty cool gives us
case a bit of flavor and definitely distinguishes it from its competition
also being this is only a $60 enclosure seeing tempered glass on board is
definitely a plus and no it's not extra tinted it's just slightly tinted just
enough in my book in terms of hardware support we're looking at ATX
motherboards and smaller only because there is an indention here kind of like
the fractal defined C case that gives more room in the back for cable
management cable storage in general I think that this is a worthy compromise
most people aren't going to use EI TX cases the few that do are always going
to make a big deal about how these cases don't support ei TX but the fact of the
matter is a majority of people are using a EXI as motherboards and smaller so I
don't see a problem going with the better cable management in the back
speaking of which it's very clean back here it's very easy to kind of maneuver
cables and store things that you really don't need especially if you don't have
a modular power supply I love the space in the p300 it's actually an easier case
to build in believe it or not than the P 400 regarding fan and radiator support
this actually takes on kind of like an NZXT s340 vibe so you've got a single
120mm fan support in the back you have up to a 140 millimeter fan on top only a
single one and it does have a dust filter included just a little magnetic
one so at least there's that that's something that the S 340 elite
does not include a pretty sure and then up front here you
have support for up to a two hundred and eighty millimeter AI oh I have a 240 in
there right now you can see there's plenty of room still for a larger
radiator but you can't put a triple rat in here and I'm about to show you why so
if you remove the front panel of the case you'll find the hard drive tray
actually turns sideways so that you can access your drive base from the front
this is actually pretty cool and at the same time it does kind of cut into space
in the basement so I have a really large power supply here actually there are
power supplies larger than this one on the market but this one's considerably
larger than the average power supply for a mid tier build and it will not fit
including the cable links there's no way to get this power supply to fit in here
so I had to use a smaller form factor power supply because the hard drive tray
was left intact if you want more space down here you can remove the hard drive
tray of course though there's nowhere else to put three and a half inch drives
keep in mind this is still considered a mid tower case so there are seven PCIe
slots at the rear again that 120mm fan rad support up top you have your
motherboard rear i/o cutout down below just a simple power supply mounting
system no extra you know hinge or anything like that to worry about here
just like your power supply in from the right side of the case the p300 stands
firm on the ground with its four large feet I'd say that's about an inch or so
of breathing room for the power supply if you orient your fan downward and on
the bottoms of the feet you'll find little foam pads to keep things from you
know getting scratched up on your desk that's for front i/o the case is
sporting a headphone jack microphone jack and two USB 3.0 ports I can't
really complain here it's a $60 case so having the XP USB ports would have been
nice but at least you got some up here also there is an RGB cycle button up
front which will change the color of the power button up top as well as the thin
LED strip at the front of the case on top of the basement
the p300 also includes extra wiring harnesses if you want to attach some
compatible LED strips or even sync it up with your motherboards lighting system
pretty cool how they've done this so if you want a full on RGB build or just a
rig that is you know suiting one color scheme then you can actually control it
all with this one button up top if you really wanted I am a bit concerned about
the front panel this has always been fan Texas Achilles heel so there are two
very tiny dust filters here and this is basically reminiscent of how much
this case is gonna offer you at least four fans up front there is another best
filter kind of integrated down here at the base so there are dust prevention
mechanisms built into the front panel but the front panel itself is rather
constricted I would say this is more restrictive than the typical defined see
defined s from factored design also maybe even slightly more restrictive
than the s340 elite because there are these grill little slots here and it's
not just an open space for air to flow through so this is probably the the most
inconvenient thing about the P 300 then again it was also inconvenient for the P
400 snaps in nice and sturdy there are two other issues I have with this case
at this point I'm just really being picky because if you consider the $60
price tag this case is a huge bargain I'm gonna recommend this case to anybody
looking for a relatively affordable case it also includes some amenities like
tempered glass and RGB integration the one thing that I'd like to see in with
the basement is a cutout for VGA cables there's not one of those which means you
have to route your graphics card cables through the slots at the rear where you
would funnily 24-pin at USB 3.0 and such and that's the other thing I want to
complain about I'm not the biggest fan of the way they've done this they're
angled at 90 degrees so the cutouts are gonna make your cables look slightly and
I just crushed and constricted I've liked we're seeing maybe a 45 degree
angle here or just simple cutouts facing the right side of the case but I've got
to be honest in this regard as well this is a huge bargain huge bargain for 60
bucks cannot stress that enough despite the few downfalls that really I mean you
can't you can't chop this case for it's 60 bucks this is one heck of a bargain
I'm gonna recommend it to anybody looking for a case that's not $100 this
is yeah this is probably the best case of 60 bucks period and I say that with
confidence I haven't built in anything this cheap that is this nice to build in
it's this easy to build it and that looks this good either as always you can
find this product linked in the video description along with this P 400
counterpart slightly large case but it does offer a bit more breathing room for
custom loops in one I'd be pretty difficult to fit a custom loop in here
you'd have to really cut back on radiators and and things that are fairly
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