Are you ready for some ridiculous cooling power from the NZXT Zero? With an unheard of amount of fans included, can this case blow by the big boy brands and capture the overclocking crowd's heart? Read on for a comprehensive assessment.
Category: Case
Manufacturer: NZXT
Product: Zero
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Price: $149.99
NZXT has been aggressively pursuing the enthusiast case market for years, and has changed the persona of its gaming cases from gaudy to refined. Having previously reviewed the NZXT Adamas, the Zero is a crucial next step for NZXT to get brand name recognition with the overclocking crowd. Based out of China and Taiwan, NZXT seems like a company willing to go big when it comes to cooling. For full tower case lovers, this case packs an insane amount of air cooling which, as you'll read later on, really makes an incredible difference. This case isn’t without faults, but it is a good sign that NZXT continues to improve upon its weaknesses and strives for excellence, so that one day their cases will exceed expectations rather than simply meet them.
Hardware Configuration
- Case: NZXT Zero
- Power Supply: Antec TruePower Trio 650
- Motherboard: DFI Lanparty 939 nForce4 Ultra
- Processor: AMD Opteron 146 2.0GHz (Overclocked 2800 MHz)
- Hard Drive: Western Digital 100GB IDE HDD
- Hard Drive: Seagate 300GB SATA HDD
- Hard Drive: Maxtor 250GB SATA HDD
- Video: eVGA GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express
- Memory: OCZ Dual-Channel PC4000 Gold Edition VX 1024MB
- Optical: Lite-On 8x DVD+/-RW
- Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
- Cooling: Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler
- Cooling: Zalman VF900-Cu GPU Cooler
- Cooling: ThermalRight HR-05 Chipset Heatsink
- Media: Mitsumi 7-in1 Media Drive
- Display: Samsung Syncmaster 710N 17" LCD
Software Configuration
- Motherboard BIOS: NF4LD406 BIOS Update Revision A (2006/04/06)
- Chipset: nForce4 Series AMD Windows Vista 32-Bit v15.00 WHQL Certified
- Operating System: Windows Vista Business Edition
- Video Driver: NVIDIA ForceWare Release 100 v100.65 32-bit WHQL Certified
- Audio Driver: Creative SB Audigy 2 Series Vista Beta Driver 2.12.0001
- Test Software: Folding@Home Console Client v5.04
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