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The NZXT Switch 810 is a gloss white, on matte black combination of steel, mesh, and plastic panels. It also includes an acrylic, angled window on the left side for admiring your epic hardware.
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The front of the chassis is brilliant white, with the subtle black accents. I for one, am a fan of the storm trooper look. It’s classy, and it’s not the boring beige PC of yesteryear. I did not think I would care for white, but having it unboxed and taking it all in I’ve changed my mind. It’s a style that works for me, and will look good in most settings.
It supports up to 4, 5.25″ drive bays, and has an additional bay like area that’s reserved for front panel connectors, USB2 or 3, a dedicated reset button, SD reader, and a switch. I actually did not really notice this until testing, and will cover this more later.
The front panel is split into two parts, the drive area; and the fan area. I’m relatively certain the drive panel area is removable; although I never found a reason to so. They did something better, the drive bay covers are easily removable with your thumb; however they stay completely in place during transport. This thoughtful engineering approach is applied throughout this case design, but noticing this was the beginning of my love affair with the design.
The bottom half of the front panel is a push in, pop out design that exposes the front fan, of the 140mm variety, with room for one additional below it. Upon inspection, you can see that the top fan is mounted directly in front of the top internal drive bay area. If you decided to load this beast up fully with drives, you will likely add an additional fan to the mix, but it’s definitely optional. The panel itself is lined with a fine mesh air filtration system, made of stiff nylon screen. It’s quite breathable, but it provides an awesome level of dust protection.
Directly below this lower half panel, is another push in, pop out tray that provides dust screen against the floor. There is one of these on the rear of the case too. These guys are serious about dust filtration, and it’s a very cool touch!
The power/sleep button is located on top of the chasis, which was both easy to find blindly, and had solid feedback for power on/sleep. There is an LED indicator near the power button, as well as a long LED tube on the corner for HDD activity. These are again, really subtle, but highly effective. It’s a personal preference, but I like the matching color white LED’s. these could have easily been green or red, and thrown off the whole theme of the case.
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The top of the case, is once again push in style to easily remove the entire panel. It’s also vented, and can either be fully opened, or fully closed; depending on the cooling configuration. There is none of the cool mesh filtration on this area as it’s intended to be an exhaust vent, not an intake. If you remove this cover entirely you are greeted with an area capable of supporting an additional 3 x 120/140mm fans. One single 140mm fan comes pre-installed. It’s also recessed for drop in installation of a water cooling system. I loved this design. If one were so inclined, you could run both in the same rig. I don’t know why, but then again nobody’s buying this type of hardware for pedestrian activity anyway.
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The rear of the case is oriented with the power supply on the bottom. There are also rubber grommits for external water cooling options. Once again, there is another push in, pull out tray to remove the lint cover on the bottom.
