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All temperature measurements are presented as Deltas – the ambient temperature has been deducted from the CPU/GPU temperature giving us a Delta. Dutch manufacturer Phanteks adds a new model to its high-end Enthoo range of PC cases. Now there is an Enthoo case to suit multiple requirements and price points.
Drive bays 4 x 3.5" (up to 12 x 3.5" with additional trays sold separately), 11 x 2.5" (up to 15 x 2.5" with additional trays sold separately) How so?Mainly due to the side fans, the typical designed video cooler breaths from were the 3 fans will be pushing air against. You have the fans of your GPU blowing air or trying to blow air at your card and you have these 3 fans blowing at the output of the card. Alternatively, the bottom of the case can be used to house a second system. The Power supply shroud doubles up as a motherboard tray where a mini-ITX motherboard can be installed and a separate rear panel with a rear I/O cutout and three PCIe slots is used.With so many options available, I expected there would be some limitations with the Enthoo Pro II. There are, but they are very minor and certainly wouldn’t stop me from parting with my own money to buy this case. The main area where the case could be improved is the width of the chassis. Adding maybe 20-30mm to the width would allow a little more breathing room for the vertically mounted GPU at the bottom, as well as a little more space for cable management behind the motherboard tray.
The main focus of the Enthoo Pro II is to provide a home for a huge amount of hardware. There are acres of space inside the chassis for water cooling, with four potential areas where big radiators can be installed. Both in the front panel and to the right of the top motherboard tray are mounting points for up to 480mm radiators, 420mm radiators can be installed in the roof and there is additional space in the floor of the chassis for a 360mm radiator too.KitGuru says: The feature-set of the Phanteks Enthoo Pro II makes it one of my favourite cases of the year so far. The modular design of the case means it can be configured for various usage scenarios and should please anyone looking for an affordable full tower chassis. Streamers and content creators should love this case too, a primary system in the top section can be used for the resource-hungry workloads while the bottom system can be switched on when the top is fully utilised, to carry on with other work or simply installed with a video capture card for next-level content streaming performance. I would refuse to pay that price for your nice case, that's just ridiculous, but if you have the cash, then why not. Cable cut-outs for the top system are also positioned just right to hide PCIe, 24-pin and EPS cables. Also, the two cut-outs on top of the power supply came in handy for routing front panel USB and Audio cables, However, rubber grommets on these cut-outs would be beneficial.
Other than the standard test suite, we did two more tests with the three 140mm intake fans: one without the filter, and one without the front panel or the filter. We tried doing these tests with the fans at full speed initially, but Phanteks’ 1500RPM SK fans pushed so much air that they erased any scaling, so that results with no front panel or filter were only one degree from baseline. That’s a promising result in itself, but we need to see some scaling, so we reran these tests with the fans set to the speed we used for noise normalized testing (45%). CPU Torture For our thermal tests, we decided to focus on the front panel that Phanteks is so proud of. Since there were no fans included with the case, we used three of Phanteks’ own 140mm SK series PWM fans as front intake for baseline testing. We consider that a normal starting point for the target audience of this case. Again, we recognize that most users will install some form of liquid cooling in this case, so we’re primarily comparing the case against itself to test the front panel and various airflow configurations. Even with liquid cooling, air still flows the same way.Thermals are up next, but since our thermal test bench uses air cooling and the Enthoo Pro 2 is clearly competing with the O11 XL for the large liquid-focused case market, let’s take a moment and compare them on those terms. Lian Li O11 XL vs. Enthoo Pro 2 Radiator Show-Down With so many radiator mounting options available in the Enthoo Pro II, a full custom water cooling loop should be easy to install inside. However, we have chosen two separate 280mm closed Loop liquid coolers, one for each CPU. Up top is a 280mm NZXT Kraken Z63 which fits with room to spare, so using tall memory modules shouldn’t be an issue with a top-mounted radiator. The fact that there are so many options with the Phanteks Enthoo Pro II is its strongest selling point in my mind. The case can be used for so many different scenarios in various configurations. If you are using a high-end PC for work during the day but want a separate system to use for gaming in the evening, it works for this.
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