LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM
BUILT AND TESTED
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
Less is more
01 A Just like clockwork, we start our build off by taking our case apart. Seems counterproductive, right? Well, what this does is help us figure out what we’re working with and give us as much room as possible inside the case for later on. Trust us, when it comes down to cable management, you’ll be thanking yourself for doing this step at the start of every build. This NV7 from Phatneks has a lot, and we mean a lot of removable parts and panels. To get going, open up the door at the back of the case—this is on a hinge, and there is a gap at the bottom to open it. Then, we can remove this entirely by lifting it up. With this gone, it reveals the thumb screws that keep both the front glass panel and back metal panel on. Loosen these, and the panels will simply slide off. The smaller glass panel can now also be removed by sliding it forward. The last thing to do here is get rid of (put safely aside) the top panel by, you guessed it, sliding it off.
01 B Internally, there is a top RGB bar and a cover that sits around the motherboard. Before we get to installing that, we can remove these. The RGB cover slides right and pops out. There’s a small screw towards the bottom of the motherboard cover, and that then releases it, allowing it to be lifted out.
01 C Around the back, there are doors that we can open by loosening the screws that are attached. This will give us more room to keep our cable management neat and tidy later on, and provide us with a flat surface to install our Corsair iCUE Commander Core XT.
Working top to bottom
Unlike usual, we’re now going to install our PSU. Due to the different positioning of the PSU in this case, we wanted to get this out of the way first. Instead of sitting flat at the bottom, it
