NZXT H6 Flow RGB review

The NZXT H6 Stream RGB PC case is designed to showcase your {hardware} with an uncompromised view by seamless entrance and aspect glass panels. It gives a neat diagonal fan structure, flush decrease fan mounts, a twin chamber structure with loads of house for cable tidying, and tool-free panels. There’s some stiff competitors within the dual-chamber dice case house, however with three RGB followers as normal, wonderful air and water-cooling help, plus an affordable price ticket, the H6 ticks loads of containers.

In some ways a smaller model of the NZXT H9 case, which earns a rightful place on our greatest PC case listing, the NZXT H6 Stream RGB is extra restricted for house inside however is a slicker-looking possibility for individuals who don’t want an extra-large case.

NZXT H6 Stream RGB specs

NZXT H6 Stream RGB specs:

NZXT H6 Stream RGB design and construct high quality

The NZXT H6 Stream has the motherboard and graphics card in its giant primary entrance chamber the place the entrance and aspect glass panels present clear views of your most valuable parts. Due to the panels needing no helps the place they meet, your view is totally unbroken for this half of the case. In the meantime, the ugly PSU and storage drives reside in a hidden chamber behind the motherboard. It’s not a model new case design concept – the likes of the Lian Li O11D have completed it for fairly some time – nevertheless it’s a wonderfully executed model.

All of the non-glass panels are vented, with the case counting on small vent holes to protect towards mud fairly than utilizing precise filters. The metal panels pop on and off the case, eradicating the necessity for instruments, though the roof part isn’t detachable like a few of its opponents, which might assist radiator set up.

This NZXT chassis sits at 415mm deep and 435mm tall so whereas its width of 287mm is way wider than your common ATX case, it’s nonetheless compact and stable feeling, though you’ll need it in your desk fairly than the ground because the entrance ports and switches are situated on the bottom of the entrance panel. Whereas a bit of limiting, this finally ties into why you’d need to purchase a case like this anyway – all these glass panels are there to indicate off your case.

There are two variations of the H6 Stream, with the cheaper H6 Stream retailing for $100 and together with three black 120mm followers in comparison with the $120 H6 Stream RGB that provides RGB followers. These three followers are situated in a diagonal entrance part and level air in the direction of the graphics card. In addition to making the c That is undoubtedly a greater design than aspect followers, which blow air right into a case fairly than at particular parts.

NZXT H6 Stream RGB options

In addition to the included three 120mm followers, two 140mm base fan mounts sit recessed and stage with a raised plate, in order that they sit flush with the case. These are designed to direct airflow at your graphics card, with one other 120mm fan mount within the rear of the case to assist CPU cooling. The roof part has three 120mm or two 140mm fan mounts and is the best location for a 360mm AIO liquid cooler too. Nonetheless, the decrease fan mounts may additionally play host to a 280mm radiator, and we additionally discovered a 240mm radiator may match within the diagonal entrance fan mounts too, albeit with out utilizing all its screw factors.

Regardless of the dimensions of the case, there’s just one 3.5-inch laborious disk mount, which is a bit of disappointing. That is along with two 2.5-inch SSD mounts, however housing tens of terabytes of storage isn’t the H6’s forte – though fashionable motherboards have upwards of 4 M.2 SSD slots, different giant storage options can be found. It’s additionally unable to deal with E-ATX motherboards, restricted to ATX, whereas CPU coolers 163mm tall or much less will match, which incorporates the overwhelming majority on the market. The GPU size restrict is 365mm, which once more means solely the very largest fashions will really feel cramped – meaning all the alternatives on our greatest graphics card information ought to match.

The entrance panel has the same old mixture of ports; two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A ports and one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C port, with a headphone jack and energy button. Cable tidying is superb with the massive second chamber offering the right place to cover cables with giant Velcro ties included to anchor cables.

NZXT H6 Stream RGB cooling efficiency

The CPU temperature was one of many lowest we’ve seen out of the field, with our Core i5-12600K sitting at 72°C beneath full load, undercutting instances such because the Cooler Grasp MasterBox TD500 Mesh V2 by 4°C. It’s chilly instances forward on your CPU even when the case lacks a rear fan out of the field. Including one solely dropped the CPU temperature by an extra 2°C.

The GPU temperature was additionally cooler than the Cooler Grasp MasterBox TD500 Mesh V2 at 67°C versus 70°C, however including followers into the decrease fan mounts noticed the GPU temperature rise, maybe inflicting turbulence or interfering with the airflow from the entrance followers. We’d recommend holding base followers at decrease RPMs to get round this and for higher CPU temperatures, there’s all the time the choice of a 360mm AIO liquid cooler on the roof.

NZXT H6 Stream RGB noise stage

We recorded a noise stage of 42dBA with the included followers at full velocity from two ft away, which was not too disagreeable to sit down subsequent to whereas seeming to shift an honest quantity of air. Knocking them again to 50 % velocity noticed this minimize to 38dBA and this was inaudible above the noise of the remainder of the system. We’d recommend discovering a cheerful medium together with your system, maybe avoiding full velocity, however permitting the followers to sit down someplace across the 80 % mark at peak velocity to keep up airflow with excessive warmth hundreds.

NZXT H6 Stream RGB value

The NZXT H6 Stream value is simply $100 for the non-RGB model, whereas the NZXT H6 Stream RGB is simply $20 extra for 3 included RGB followers, making each variations of this case wonderful worth.

Must you purchase the NZXT H6 Stream RGB?

Should you’re in search of a head-turning case with loads of room for air or liquid cooling, giant graphics playing cards, and loads of glass panels then the NZXT H6 Stream RGB is a superb purchase at simply $120 together with three RGB followers. Should you want your system with out lighting then the usual H6 Stream will prevent $20, however both mannequin appears implausible whether or not air or water-cooled.

They’re additionally simple to work with and help vertical GPU mounting. This case can be quiet and its diagonally mounted entrance followers will get loads of consideration. We’d recommend limiting airflow from any base followers as these can hinder GPU cooling if set too quick and be ready to purchase PWM and 3-pin RGB extension cables too, however other than these small inconveniences, NZXT is on to a winner.

So good is the H6 Stream that it instantly earns itself a sport on our greatest PC case listing.