Phanteks P200a Overview & Build - LBC#65 

Love this case. Glad to see the video

Hello love from India ❤️ , a humble request to make video on video recording setup and tools you use. ❤️😀😘

Tested it and was going back to NR200 due better temps

I bought a 5000D after watching your videos. It is my favorite now. That Phanteks is cute though.

finally a new LBC/LFC

Here's my problem with "small" form factor, it's not small, and saves no space. If you have your computer on your desk to your right, and if that case is a conventional tower in which the expansion cards plug into the motherboard directly at a right-angle, motherboard size doesn't matter, because the motherboard only occupies vertical space, and people don't arrange their surroundings vertically. Any conventional tower case will occupy an identical footprint, regardless of motherboard size. This case could be 2cm taller, and fit mATX boards, or 8cm taller, and fit ATX...so why isn't it? What were you going to fit in your room which now will not fit because your PC case is 2cm, or 8cm taller? The answer, I think everyone will realise, is nothing.

Front fans fit nicely outside and then the 280mm radiator does not interfere with the power button, also better to use 140mm fans for the 280mm AIO. Maybe with the fans outside the AIO would fit with the hoses down too.

Ayy. It is a nice looking case.

Not bad. I like that it doesn't look too flashy but I would be woried if I could fit all my drives in there.

Love your viideos. Keep up the good work!!!!

I think it is a bit too big for itx, just one pcie slot away from a micro atx. however also it looks designed for high end itx builds - front usb-c (only on expensive itx boards really), 3 slot gpu, space for water cooling. Thanks for checking it out and the build. Proper review.

Would have been nice, if those removable plastic cover plates (6:00) had a channel built into the left end for cable routing.

when I recently upgraded my case , I seriously looked at that case.. Ultimately though I went with the phanteks p360a in white, wehich is a midtower atx case that shares a lot of the same design features. even though I have a mini itx (ASUS ROG STRIX z390-i gaming) board in it I have my 3070 vertically mounted .. and it fills the space quite nicely ... big factor for me? the power supply basement .. makes cable management so much easier and cleans up the overall look of the build.. and size wise you really only add vertical height for the most part.

nice case good video

seeing the PSU at the top makes it seem like it's a case from 20 years ago

Lol I mount my PSU fan down so the radiant heat coming off it isn't just rising to upper components..... Jk that's kinda the reason I've done it in the past however current case has the PSU shroud sooo you kinda HAVE to mount it fanside down. And both PCs I have are on a table/desk. Never on the floor wouldn't mind building a small system eventually too though (: thanks for the upload!!

Yep, it's always a good thing to be able to limit how many Noodley Boys you have to connect to your front panel header!

I bought SEKIRA 500X and I am satisfied in 100%

Interestingly this ITX case has dimensions of 205mm width x 365mm height x 400mm depth and my Coolermaster Q500L that I bought after watching Graham's review of it is a full ATX case that has dimensions of 230mm width x 381mm height x 386mm depth. I think that if I want a small PC, I have made the better choice.

Love the case, Might buy one to replace an old Thermaltake Z11 Plus case with Mini ATX build.

Nice case but too big for just an itx, just my opinion, would be OK if it took micro-atx

Great review. As a shopkeeper and reseller you have a different perspective to the usual review sites which is most useful. You mentioned the limited space on the ITX boards: that case looks like it could fit a mini-DTX board which is a wee bit bigger, has two PCIe slots, and has just that bit more room on the motherboard. Also, is there room to fit the two front fans to the outside of the case behind the mesh? I did that on my Kolink Citadel mATX case to create enough room for my RTX 3090. Something you might like to try when building in these small cases is to use a fully modular PSU and run the PSU cables but not actually fit the PSU itself until very late or even last so as to increase your working space inside the case.

Should have been filtered ventilation on top for the option of the PSU to be mounted fan-up, IMO. The side fan mounting position seems impractical to me. You're going to use the front fans or the side fans but would you ever use both? Truth be told I would maybe have rather seen an "attic" shroud that conceals the PSU more and sacrifice one of those 2.5"/fan mounts. I rather like the front I/O at the bottom. As seen in your comparison, this is barely smaller in overall volume than the 220T (or the likes of my Meshify 2 Compact), so unless you have a weird unique desk setup with very limited height where the case needs to wedge in I just don't see a lot of point to this.

great review m8

I love the color theme on the computer you have in the background. What is or was that used for?

Usually I'm more a fan of mATX (why go ATX, when you basically have no cards to plug in other than your GPU) but opt for ATX cases anyway because of the flexibility. Case and PSU are the most reusable components anyway.

I have the same MB in a Tower 100. No problems so far, not even the RGB as lackluster as it is. I would love to find an adapter to convert one of those red USB 3.2 gen 2 type A into a type E that runs into the type C on the case. I haven't found one yet.

Case would be good for a regular desktop but not really fit to bring around with that tempered glass cover unless you have solid cover (steel or acrylic) for travelling.

Why not install the m.2 drive,ram,cpu cooler before putting the motherboard in the case?

i really like this case but i feel like they could have made it work with micro atx as well without even having to make it bigger

Why didn't you placed the rad the other way round?

Hello sir, saw your dell monitor repair video, i have dell u2414h monitor, with the problem of black screen/no display, i visited the shop, guy there checked the screen and told me FL is the problem, other components are fine, but he is not telling me the actual cost for the repair. How much will it cost ? Im from india.

I swear the only thing ITX about these new ITX cases would be the motherboard compatibility. These cases are starting to look more like mATX. Not that I hate it, just an observation. 😂

Hi Graham, wondering if you can help me here...? I recently(ish) upgraded my CPU from a 3200G I got brand new to a 3600 I got used on eBay, but I only got round to installing it recently and it gave me several BSODs which increased in frequency (which I wasn't getting with the 3200G) while merely trying to do music production and 3D modelling, even though my friend said he knows someone running a 3600 on the same board as mine (Gigabyte B450M DS3H) with no issue - even though there are better boards out there I don't think a 3600 is asking too much of it. I tried several things to try and get this CPU to be stable - swapping PSU cables, reseating my RAM and graphics card / trying different RAM configs, running hardware tests which all passed (including even the CPU stress tests, and no I wasn't using the box cooler while running them - 67°C max. while stressed on a Fuma 2), clearing CMOS, updating BIOS, updating chipset drivers... without any luck. Eventually I went into the BIOS and disabled the default automatic clock speed control setting that enabled the CPU to boost to up to 4.1GHz or downclock to down to as low as 1.7GHz depending on what was required. The CPU is currently running at a manually set fixed speed of 3625MHz (it bounces between 3.6GHz and 3.62GHz) and that way it's stable, but it should work on default settings, and as it's not boosting like this it only slightly outperforms a 1600 on its default settings according to my testing. I asked the seller for a refund/return but he said it's been too long (over 2 months), that the RAM could be the issue as "Ryzen is extremely picky with RAM" (I have 32GB / 4x8 of HyperX Fury 3200MT/s, half of which was part of the original bundle), that the CPU was working completely fine on both boards that he used it on (an MSI X570 Gaming Edge and an Asus Prime B450M-A), and that he got BSODs on his 5800X at default settings and a whole bunch of issues, and to fix it he has to use higher voltage on the RAM and loosen timings/frequency a little. Sorry this is long, but do you think I should open a case with eBay or do you think I should just try adjusting these RAM voltage/timing/frequency settings...? Thanks either way, Rowan

Can you put the front fans in front of the case behind the mesh?

I prefer SFF builds. Thanks for the video.

Can you turn off the RGB lights? Most PCs are in bedrooms.

I have a question about the PSU gpu cables. Let's say i can use a single cable on a 8+6 GPU, but is it better to use it, or use the 2nd cable that the modular PSU offer on the 6 pin?

Hi, just want to know what is the benefit of having the PSU on top in this case? thank you 🙏🏼

Intro music?

As long as the NR200P exists cases like the P200a have no reason to exist! If you want to go ssf you either go NR200P and down in size or you dont go SFF at all.

I really don't like SFF cases, I prefer cases with space like the one I have now Sahara P75 is pretty big and can accomodate 12 case fans

Hmm... I think I'll do a build and put the AIO sideways just to really piss everyone off.

Could you please show the post screen instead of just saying, "it posted".

lol @ "you should not be bottom intaking"

He has "a little bit of a buldge" (in the case)

nice case good video