Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 Case Review

A Look Inside

Taking the side panels off the case and getting inside is pretty easy. With the top of the case open you simply loosen the captive thumbscrews on each side and carefully pull the panels off. Taking the first panel off the case we can see this side of the case will house our graphics card as it has a removable graphics card mount. One thing I really like about this case is that it does support larger graphics cards up to 335 mm in length and 2.9 slot (59 mm) thickness. So many ITX cases will only fit graphics cards up to 300 mm in length and they strictly need to be 2 slot. The GPU bracket has an integrated riser, which allows you to mount it on the opposite side of where your motherboard is.

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The opposite side panel comes off of the case easily and we can see this side of the case will house our motherboard. If you haven’t guessed already this case only supports mini-ITX motherboards. There are CPU cooler restrictions as well, you can only install CPU coolers up to 85 mm in height. This means that something like the AMD Wraith Prism will not fit in this case. If you are going the air-cooled route you’ll have to get a low-profile cooler.

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The bottom part of the case will house your power supply. This case only has support for SFX and SFX-L power supplies. You’ll also notice the power adapter, this allows you to have the power connector at the bottom of the case. There is also a removable filter the pulls out from the bottom of the case. You can install a 140/120 mm fan in the bottom of the case, but it is not included.

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The front and back panels of the case come off much like the side panels, just loosen two screws at the top of the case and pull them off. Removing the front panel we find a few storage mounts. Towards the top of the case there is a mount that supports either a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drive. Moving down to the bottom of the case there is a removable bracket that supports two 2.5-inch drives.

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Removing the back we can see the pre-installed fan and room towards the bottom of the case for either another 140/120mm fan or a 120 mm radiator.

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