Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with pre-installed spacers and the supplied screws. As you can see, there is plenty of space around the board for cable routing, and reaching all connectors is not a problem. You could also reach through the top of the chassis if need be. With the Rajintek 120 mm tower cooler installed, it becomes apparent that a 140 mm unit will probably fit, but it will be a tight fit, even though the chassis is rather wide. This is due to the fact that a lot of its width is there to provide ample room to route cables with behind the motherboard tray.


Adding 3.5" hard drives does not require any tools. Simply take the tray of your choice, flip open its flaps, and place the drive on the tray. Push the little plastic wings back into place and the storage device will be held in place perfectly.


You may now slide the tray into any of the six bays. It will snap into place firmly once inserted completely, so you won't have to worry about it coming loose as you move your rig around.


While you could also install 2.5" drives onto those trays, Phanteks includes such a specific device on the motherboard tray. You can remove it without a screwdriver, but securing a drive does call for tools since traditional screws are necessary when it comes to the drive itself. Interestingly enough, the one in the Luxe was bent in a way that broke apart my sample drive, pushing its top cover off the bottom part. This essentially ruined my hard drive as it also broke the drive's containment seal in the process. While you will certainly take much greater care than I did while installing a drive such as mine, the entire issue could have been avoided had Phanteks only used little lips with holes in them to secure the drive instead, which would have also saved on a bit of metal while producing the same result. Regardless of this, the tray holds in place quite well after you place it back on top of its rubber-ringed mounting elements.


You will first have to remove one of three 5.25" covers to install an optical drive. This is easily done because of the large flaps on the insides of these protective pieces. Once free, slide the drive into place until the locking mechanism snaps down. Unlike with our Luxe sample, the ODD drive did not have any play, but you should still use a single screw to properly pin it down. Phanteks's tool-less securing mechanism seems to be a bit of a hit and miss as the Enthoo Pro essentially uses the same setup as the Enthoo Luxe only to fare much better.


To install the PSU, remove the protective cover, slide the PSU into place, and apply traditional screws, which will hold it in place. You can install virtually any PSU on the market as there is plenty of space to do so.


With everything in place, the Enthoo Pro makes a great impression. All the cables can be routed behind the tray nicely, and the opening around the CPU is large enough for you to easily access any cooler's backplate. Every cable within the chassis quickly disappears behind the tray, which keeps the clutter to a minimum. I chose to route both PCIe leads out through the PSU cover's opening and straight up to the GPU.

Finished Looks

Once fully assembled, the Enthoo Pro makes quite the underwhelming impression when compared to the Luxe. This is fine as some people rather spend less instead of having several lighting elements they do not need. Any drives you install into the front will easily be accessible, while matching the black of the chassis quite nicely.


Everything in the rear is where you would expect it to be, and all the connectors are easily accessible. Take a look at the chassis with its windowed side facing you, and you can see the hardware within ever so slightly. Naturally, as the employed cooler comes with a white fan, it is clearly visible, being in close proximity of the side panel. All other component are actually rather hidden due to the tint, which is not bad at all as you can get away with less tidy cable management unless someone takes a very close look.