How To Build a PC in The Phanteks P200A - Mini-ITX Dream Case

welcome back to the workshop today we're going to learn how to build inside the phanteks p200a which is a versatile small compact case which is meant for mini itx but has support up to like a 420 millimeter gpu an atx power supply 240 millimeter radiator it just has a ton of clearance specs on paper but we're going to see if that lives up to the hype so let's find that out all right so the first thing i want to do is introduce you guys to the case and get familiar with it so in the front we have a mesh panel which is great for optimizing airflow for such a small case and then we have the front i o on the bottom of the case here on the bottom of the front panel which is kind of interesting but it also routes all the front i o cables very well from this position so that's probably why it's here we have the power button up on top of the case which is not too big of a deal but we have all our ports down here which is usb 3.0 we have two of those a type c port which is usb 3.1 a headphone audio jack and then we have the rgb buttons over here one controls the mode and one controls the color and if you want to remove the panel it's very easy you just lift up underneath here and you pull out over here and here you can see all the cables running through over here which is very neatly done in my opinion now there is no magnetic dust filter or anything like that which can be a good thing or a bad thing because sometimes the dust filters can create air turbulence which can then restrict airflow to some degree and for such a small case it's probably optioned out to maximize the airflow going in but the mesh in the front is already pretty fine so it already probably filters out a decent amount of particulates now you don't have to use the front panel for intake either you can use the bottom for intake if you wish to do so and this does have a mesh dust filter over here that slides out across the entire bottom of the case which is nice but you notice this mesh over here on the bottom of the case isn't as fine as the front mesh panel so that's probably where you would see more turbulence if you did have a magnetic dust filter over there so you have options for intake on the bottom or the front and to take out the side panel which is glass on this case now it does come with the option for a non-tempered glass side panel and does have mesh included on it if you wish to have that airflow option this is the tempered glass version so i went with that one now you'll notice over here there's a bit of an indent in the case over here and that is to pretty much wedge your finger in here and take off the side panel like so and it kind of hinges out and pops in so it's pretty easy to take off and pretty easy to put back in so i do appreciate that and it is also the same for the rear panel so like i said same story with the rear panel here and you also notice that we do have some mesh over here in case you decide to put a mount radiator on this side of the case as well plenty of mounting options for a radiator the front and the side for a mini itx that can fit a 240 millimeter radiator in two places is quite the feat in my opinion now back here might not seem like there's a lot of room for cables but it's managed pretty nicely so you have a channel running down in the bottom and through the middle of the case and also up here and this is your main channel over here your main embankment that will probably cater to most of your cables now you can also mount two two and a half drives over here and you can mount four three and a half drives now they want to be sticking on the side like so they would be kind of sticking outward like that all right so the first thing we're going to do here is just install the motherboard make sure to install your rear i o before you do so my motherboard comes with that already pre-installed to the back of it which is pretty nice so we're going to go ahead and do that all right and once you have your motherboard installed the manual says to install your power supply next now this does fit an atx power supply and since it says it can we're going to do that and not with just a little power supply we're going to do that with a dark power pro 11 750 watt from be quiet now this is an atx power supply and it's also fully modular so i would recommend at least going semi-modular or fully modular with your power supply option that you choose just because it's a lot less cables that you have to manage and it makes it a lot easier to kind of plan out your build especially when dealing with a smaller case it installs in this little bracket over here that you just unscrew and you screw it in and then you screw in the bracket with the psu attached back into the case and that is exactly what we're going to do i can't believe i put this psu in this little case i mean it fits so nicely and there's plenty of clearance so if you wanted to add extra cables in here you can totally do it before you add anything else in so for right now i just tucked all the cables out towards that giant cable cutout which it's supposed to be used for and i'm going to try to use all of that cable routing to hide all the cables out that way and not have any dangling in here so i'm going to try and get that done so now for this part i'm going to get the mounting hardware for the cpu cooler installed as well as doing some pre-wiring and for the cooler today we're going to use the new cooler out from fantax the glacier one 240 mp so it's a simple design aesthetic and i really like it and it's also going to match those drgb fans that come included with the case all right i went ahead and pretty much cable routed or pre-wired everything that i needed to before installing the aio you also see here i have a riser cable over here which is not included with the case but you can get it specific to this case because of its short cable length over here now just make sure whatever motherboard that you're using is using pcie 3.0 before you want to use this cable riser because 3.0 is what this cable riser is now it can be a little bit tricky to get your top mounted cables over here on top of the motherboard over here with the psu installed uh you can try installing this after if you find that easier it can go either way it's a little bit tricky but uh you have so much room to work with over here just try to use that to your leverage if you can also i would recommend using at least one three to one fan splitter if you have one it depends how many fan headers you have on your motherboard but for me i only have three so that being said i'm gonna install this bracket over here for the vertical gpu mounting and i'm also going to install the rear fan over here as well and then we'll move on to the aio actually a little bit of a correction here if you want to use the rear fan over here you cannot have a vertical mounted gpu so that'll be up to you what your preferences are but i'm going to vertically mount this gpu because if you want to vertically mount your gpu it's the only way you're going to get a 240 millimeter rad installed into the case at least that's what my representative told me from fantax okay and to get your bracket installed i would first install the riser cable to the bracket and once that's done i would install the bracket to the case and the case has two different areas you can either mount it a little bit closer or a little bit further so i like that they give you a little bit of distance from the glass panel over here to optimize that airflow and another plus is that you can fit an entire screwdriver vertically even with the psu installed to tighten down the screws that are holding the bracket into the case that's awesome and then the next thing you got to do is take out the expansion slots over here take out this little cutout and then flip this vertically and put this back over here so they kind of do a little bit of a trade over here so that you can mount your gpu vertically but we're not going to install the gpu just yet because we got to get that ao mounted so i'm going to flip these two around so that i can have the expansion slots vertically mounted and then we'll get to the water cooler all right so i have pretty much everything installed except for the gpu now i had to mount the water cooler or the radiator for the water cooler on this side of the case and i actually do have two fans on the other side of this radiator over here and i'm having that as an intake now technically you could have that as exhaust but i mean i really don't care so the front is gonna be intake in the side it's gonna be intake and we're gonna have exhaust on the bottom here and exhaust for the power supply is it probably wrong maybe right now it's really late so i'm really not gonna get too far into it and try to change it up now the radiator had to be mounted to this side for the size of the cooler that we have for the gpu that gpu being the hellhound 6700 xt from power color so it does fit over here but you need to mount the radiator to the side panel instead of the front panel now you'll notice i added another fan over here for exhaust as i mentioned earlier and this little bracket for the vertical gpu mounting does clear it actually so that is really nice if you want to add that in and if you did go with the traditional horizontal mounted gpu you could have another fan over here for intake or exhaust your choice also one more thing i wanted to point out i do have the gpu installed by this point is that the ao has room to mount the radiator higher than the pump which is great so that we don't have water accumulating in the pump if the pump was higher than the radiator all right so i've finished tidying up the cables it's not very neat but we do have some main channels going on here and i do get a lot of comments about people being mad about the cable management in the rear of the case and my motto is as long as it looks good on the display side it really shouldn't matter how it looks in the back but the important thing to take away here is that we have a lot of room back here with all this cable channeling going on so getting to the final thoughts and building through this case i think this is one of my favorite itx cases to build it that's that i haven't seen this much clearance in this size of a case and built so well with cable management in mind and just functionality and versatility all the way around and optimized for airflow i don't know what else i can ask for from this case honestly and the best part is this case with the two drgb fans and the glass side panel cost 70 dollars msrp and for the non-tempered glass with the ventilated side panel and the two regular fans in the front it's 50 i don't know how fantax is making this quality of the case at such of a price tier because usually when you get into the small form factor cases and hardware it gets very expensive because you have to consolidate all this technology and practicality down to a smaller size and it takes a lot more research and development i highly recommend this case that's all i can really say i would definitely use this for my personal mini itx pc case when i eventually downsized to it i just don't know what else to say i'm probably rambling on at this point hope you all enjoyed the video and found it helpful i'll catch you guys in the next one [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] um [Music]

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 22 2021