A Premium Mini-ITX Case that checks all the boxes! The Ultimate Phanteks P200a Review

so fantex built a high airflow mini itx case called the p200a how is it well we find out next right here on robitech [Music] welcome to our first new format full case review if you want to understand how and what we do during these reviews in depth you can check out our video on the whole case testing methodology right here now by the end of this video you will be able to one know all of the features and an overview of the fantex p200a two see a full build and get an understanding of what building inside of a phanteks p200a is like three see the benchmarks and thermal performance of our build inside of the p200a and then four walk away happy because you felt that quality time you spent with me helped you just with that little bit of inner peace that you've been searching for for your entire life you have to admit four is probably the greatest part of this whole thing anyway what does fantech say about the p200a well they say the eclipse p200a is a high airflow mini itx chassis featuring the ultimate performance mesh to bring the highest cooling performance the open exterior offers plenty of space for standard atx power supplies triple slot graphics cards and plenty of 240 288 radiator options in the front and side of the chassis the eclipse p200a makes building a powerful yet compact itx system a breeze with a 30 liter volume it combines a compact form factor with next-gen hardware requirements such as large triple slot gpus up to 355 millimeters long high wattage atx power supply support high performance cooling options to keep clock speeds high and stable so coming in at 69.99 and newegg at the time of recording the phantex p200a is a large but premium mini itx case there are actually two different versions of the case the p200a drgb model and there's the p200a performance model which includes a side panel but it's mesh instead of tempered glass and it's all about performance without all the looky loos the p200a is an airflow case that uses what fandex calls its ultra fine mesh this one millimeter mesh perforation unique to fantech is set to keep dust out without the need of an added dust filter maximizing airflow pass through because the air isn't blowing through two different layers because we know that rgb makes everything run faster the rgb version does actually include the sk drgb sk120 fans and a nice and as a nice touch in the inclusion of both an led color button and an led mode button that allows you to control the lighting of the entire case both phanteks or anything that uses a standard 5 volt addressable rgb header without using software that's not to say you can't use standard rgb software to control the thing as well but it's a nice touch and there's a lot of options to choose from now given this is a larger enclosure at 30 liters that does mean there's a lot of room for both your gpu and cpu coolers given what is normally considered a small form factor the kit supports up to 355 millimeter long gpu cards up to three slots which means your 30 90 strix would fit in here and you have the option of both horizontal and vertical mounting thanks to the super cool modular system that have been built into the case you will need to buy a riser cable if you plan on vertically mounting the gpu but the case does come included with the mount to mount whew that is actually a thing the riser cable to the case for i o we get two usb 3 a microphone headphone a power and reset switch along with those amazing led controls now for cooling this case actually has a bunch of different options that change based on if you either horizontally or vertically mount your gpu the case supports up to seven 120 millimeter fans yes seven in a mini itx case or two 140 millimeter or plus five 120 millimeter if you want to get picky in other words there's a lot of fans you can fit in this case now you can side mount up to a 240 millimeter radiator or you can also either do a 240 millimeter or 280 millimeter radiator in the front so let's just knock out clearances real quick for motherboards this supports mini itx boards that are basically square at 170 millimeters both length and width and it supports many dtx boards of 170 millimeters by 203 millimeters if you want to get something a little off standard for radiators you can also add an additional 120 millimeter radiator in the back if you do your gpu in a horizontal orientation for height and width showing you here on the side you can get 279 millimeters by 120 millimeters on that front you can get 325 millimeters by 140 millimeters with a max thickness of 30 millimeters for the radiator behind the front panel if you were to mount it up front and that's in front of the you'll see the picture it'll make more sense when i'm showing it to you now for your gpu you can do a length of 355 millimeters and in thickness of 65 millimeters which i thought was cool that they actually included them now that's with the fans installed behind the front panel and not on the inside of the case if you want to get some airflow below and up into the gpu which this case has an option of you may want to stick to something closer to a 45 millimeter like the xc3 from evga or a founder's edition 3080 or lower type cards for those of you who want to air cool this case you do have options in both the horizontal and vertical mount positions for your gpu with 165 millimeters of clearance when a gpu is horizontally mounted this gives you lots of options for large tower cpu coolers or if you vertically mount you only get 72 to 92 millimeters obviously based on the thickness of your gpu meaning more than likely you're going to be using so something low profile finally and something unique to this smallish form factor case is the psu which given fantech's claim of making this an easy to build itx case not only do you get a lot of room but also supporting standard components like the atx power supply now you are putting in a massive silverstone 1200 watt behemoth in here but you could do a 3090 build realistically with a thousand watt evga g5 now before we get to the build let's talk a bit about your storage options out of the box you can do four dedicated ssd locations or if you need to stick to something a little bit more legacy and wanted to add some three and a half inch physical drives and make more of a mini nas you could pick up some of those stackable hdd trays from fantech and do four three and a half inch hdds and an additional two two and a half inch ssds to blow people's mind with your mini itx mass build let's do it i actually never mind let's not do it but if you want to do it you do have that option so that's an overview of the case we'd love to know if this format was helpful and if we should add anything to make it a bit clearer let us know all that stuff in your comments below but for now let's jump into the build okay so guys right here this is the phanteks eclipse p200a this is the newest case from fantax and going from here and you it's got very very fantasy looking right um the uh the version we have here 69 bucks which is actually pretty inexpensive and it comes with two of their sk120 fans but let's go and pop this open so let's go and pull this that's up oh there goes it just pops up so there you go just pop them off there's the sides one thing you'll notice right here on the side is that we actually have this side panel right here the main reason being is one thing that's super unique about this case is that you can do side mounted exhaust now we're doing all of the things on today's stream we're going to vertically mount the gpu we're going to side mount the radiator and stuff so you'll see all this today and we'll even talk about optimal airflow setup that we're going to do in this case um so yeah we're that's one of the things that's already different as you can see this right here these cable management channels are actually metal one of the things that's always a problem with mini itx cases is trying to get things to stay down you have sd mounts all that sort of stuff right here which is also modular and i'm gonna pull the front panel off there we go you actually have the option to vertically mount your gpu and the way that works and we're gonna set this up for vertical mounting right now is you can just take these screws off there we go and then this just comes apart like that there you go now you can set this for vertical mounting so we just set this like this okay so that screws in just like that and then finally you've got one more screw right here and then boom your thing you're set for vertical mounting let's talk about airflow in this case real quick so looking at this we're actually going to be singing sticking a single 120 down here at the bottom we're going to create a slight uh positive pressure inside the case we'll have three intake and two exhaust um we're gonna be sticking our rear we're gonna be sticking a side mounted radiator the way that basically works is there's these little doors right here and they shoot out like rocket ships boom so you got two little doors right there these are also you also have ssd mark mounting mechanisms on there but you can stick a 240 millimeter rod here on the side so we're going to be we're going to be doing a 240 in the front so we'll have intake exhaust but we'll also have intake here and again main reason being is with our vertically mounted gpu that will blow the hot air up and then out via the exhaust so um should be a cool setup okay so let's talk about the parts we're putting in here uh we're gonna be doing a ryzen 9 5900x we're going to be using the asus rog strix b550i gaming for ram we're going to be using the new vengeance rgb pro sl um we've got our intel uh ssd we've got a 512 gig just for the sake of doing the build to keep that thing nice and cool uh we're going to be using the fantex glacier one 240 mp i wanted to show you guys something uh as an option with these because a lot of times these come with high static pressure fans and a lot of times high static pressure fans don't have an rgb option so one of the things we're going to be using to kind of show you an rgb option for potentially high static pressure fans is what called the phanteks these are called halos these are called lux halos these are also made by fantecs we're going to be using a full atx power supply so we're going to use an evga 850 g5 we're going to be using a g4 nvidia geforce rtx 3070 founders edition i have one of evga's special sleeve kits for founders editions this build all up would be about 2 000 okay so we're gonna grab our ps or motherboard out of here okay so let's go and get our cpu in here we have a ryzen 9 5900x okay so here we go we're just going to put that to 90 degrees then we'll pop that in just like that and then we just pop this down and there it is okay so let's put our ram in the way ram is going to work unclick that there's a little slot in the pcb right there just going to pop it in just like that but then listen to this oh that was a solid solid click oh that one was not as solid that was not a solid terrible click let's go and grab our let's go ahead and grab our nvme now and that's going to go right here there's an m.2 here and then there's also an m.2 on the back as well so this actually has both two m.2 slots which is kind of nice [Music] we're going gonna take this just pop it in just like that there it is you know it's plugged in okay so there we go um what we are gonna do now though is we do need to put in our our bracket for our aio we're gonna put this in that little bag this aio is actually a really cool aio now we're going to go ahead and throw thermal paste on this just in preparation because again we've used this aio before okay now let's go ahead and grab our case um what we're going to do real quick is let's go ahead and install our fifth fan okay so there we go now our fifth fan is in the way our fan our our airflow is gonna work is we're gonna have intake intake intake and then we have exhaust out of the back okay so let's get our aio finish building okay so we're gonna grab our halos so we can still have the high static pressure fans to blow through the radiator but still have the rgb we really want the question is will this fit with this right here is the question nope okay remove our fans to the outside to give it more room now our radiator's mounted now we turn this over keep this turned over and quickly get our cables together and all the rgb is plugged in you guys have witnessed a miracle a miracle of epic proportions let's go and get our aio mounted real quick though [Music] but let's go and put in our vertical gpu mount now and boom we're ready to vertically mount our gpu let's go and do the rest of our psu first because i want to make sure i get all those cables managed so then all i have to do is plug in the gpu and we're good first let me oh i love you know what honestly yankee candle i feel like they're missing an opportunity right here with the psu smell you know what i'm seeing yeah smell tests are proof for sure i need one sata there is a motherboard and then we have a cpu and that is all we need i am not going to do cable extensions for this okay so now our psu is installed looks not beautiful right now because we haven't run everything the right way we're going to run our cables real quick gpu time right here rtx 3070 ready to go there it is right there ready to go there we go okay now it's it do the rest of the cable management call this thing done okay so let's put the back on okay back is on okay let's go and put the front on rgb will be controlled by the um case so we should be able to play around with the case lights here we crammed a lot into this thing there it is here we go flipping the switch whoa that is cool look at those lights [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so you just saw a full build inside of the p200a and now for the fun part how is this case thermally it sounds dirty when you say it how's this case thermally and how do these particular components perform in benchmark so let's talk about case thermals here we are looking at thermal performance numbers for this case in the configuration of three intake two exhaust with a slight positive pressure using phantek's sk sk120 rgb fans on the default fan curve so for our cpu thermals we're seeing this case sitting in an idle with our 5900x sitting at a nice and frosty low 40s in both an open and close case scenario when we turn up the heat literally by making the cpu do its job we see those numbers jump up into the high 70s in an open case into a nice and toasty 80 in our closed case scenario now this is still plenty of headroom for our cpu in this case and the lack of delta between open and closed means that the case is doing a good job of managing airflow and getting to the components with the current fan configuration now for gpu we had a few options and we had to test them with the case of course i mean come on we can't be like half-butted about this so in the numbers i'm showing you you're gonna see both a vertical and horizontal mount configuration for the gpu for this pc now we did because we aren't monsters change the configurations of the fan to try and make it optimal for both configurations so when in a vertical mount you would see a 120 millimeter fan at the bottom and for a horizontal we mounted 120 millimeter in the exhaust at the back because of their super cool mounting mechanism now it is important note that we could have added another 120 millimeter in the bottom for the horizontal gpu configuration but given that it would only work for a limited number of gpus given those super thin certain classifications for like xc3s or founders editions we wanted to make sure the thermal numbers were far more universal so let's get into the numbers for the gpu idle in vertical we saw it sitting in the mid to high 30s with a slightly higher idle temperature of the high 30s to low 40s when the gpu was in the horizontal or orientation orientation yes orientation now when we put the gpu pedal to the metal the differences between these two became negligible as in both orientations saw temperatures in the mid 70s one interesting note though is that we did see a drop in gpu temperature in the closed case for the horizontal mounted gpu and we ran this test multiple times just to make sure because it benefited from the focus air when the side panels were actually on which is yay phanteks p200 now how does this compare you ask well for an airflow case this is right on par with what you would expect these are good thermals for a case and i would dare say above average when it comes to gpu cooling it's also good to see that the delta between the two is minimal meaning that the case really does do a good job flowing air through the build and depending on the components you choose here both fans and slimmer components upgraded fan curve or adding more fans you could actually even see better results now for the benchmarks of this build we chose because if you want to build the exact same build in this pc or another case which you wanted to do we also ran our awesome and amazing benchmarks so let's talk about our single-player rtx experiences given this is an nvidia gpu paired with a ryzen 9 5900x as a founder's edition 3070 or any other rtx 3070 for that matter for tomb raider running at 1440p with dlss on and highest presets we saw an average frame rate of 121 frames per second across the runs that we did on the game for metro exodus also running at 1440p running ray tracing on high and dlss set to balance we saw an average fps across all of our runs at 78 but what about the mp games i mean that's what everybody really plays right well for apex legends running on low visual settings at 1440p optimized for competitive gameplay and high fps we saw an average frame rate of 143 frames per second across multiple game sessions for call of duty again set for competitive gameplay and maximizing for frame rate we saw an average frame rate of 87 fps and finally for all our fortnite fanatics again 1440p low visual settings set for competitive uh so you can pone fools like a bus we were sitting at a whopping 436 fps easily good enough for one of those sweet 360 fps monitors that you have out now from razer or whomever now remember if you drop down to 1080p you will see those numbers jump up actually in some cases probably significantly and if you jump up to 4k those numbers will go down but 1440p is our baseline so there you have it guys you have the features you've seen a build you've seen the thermals and the benchmarks but what about the building experience oh kumbaya yeah that's my favorite now i remember the whole time i built in this case i kept saying how amazing it was to work in especially working in cases like the tomahawk mini itx can i get an amen right there josiah you remember that from a razor for as cool as they are you definitely felt that itx tax that comes with a small form factor build like this one i kept waiting to hit that with this case but honestly i never did from the ample amount of room to put almost everything you could want in it including your cable management by the way i never felt like this case was truly limiting me to how and what i wanted to build this case always felt premium and unlike some cases like the montex sky 1 it actually felt like fantas cared about the building experience or heck had built inside of the pc themselves then when you add the modularity and the ability to do both vertical and gpu mounting right by the way not just throw two screws in there but actually having different cooling options as well as a really great mounting mechanism that's ideal for it you really do have a great case for both circumstances which our thermal showed so let's boil it all down the phanteks p200a is truly a builder's dream for the mini itx space of builds but at 30 liters of space this is anything but a true sff build meaning small form factor that being said if you are looking for a small footprint good air flow case that is really fun to build in and gives you options for part without taking up all that room on your desk i would say 69 usd would consider the fantex p200a a solid option anyway guys i hope you enjoyed this and i'd love to know down in the comments below what you thought about this review did this have all the information you wanted please let us know all of that feedback down in the comments now while you're down there make sure you slap that subscribe button with that like button and ring that notification bell so you get a notification each and every time we go live or post a new video right here on robytech now speaking of live we have a live show every monday wednesday and friday starting at 5 30 p.m pacific time both on twitch and right here on youtube if you want to talk about our community maybe get some more data you can hang out with us 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Length: 23min 19sec (1399 seconds)

Published: Thu May 13 2021