Inwin N515 Mid Tower Black Gaming Case

The power supply also mounts up top, on the opposite side from the radiator mount. A slit pattern on the steel right panel provides exhaust for any side-mounted radiator, but it will more likely feed unfiltered air into the power supply if no upper-chamber fans have been installed.

The front-panel ports comprise two USB 3.0 Type-A and one USB 3.2 Type-C, the former using a Gen 1 and the latter a Gen 2 internal motherboard header. Headphone and microphone jacks are separate, and two holes between the power button and ports provide a line of sight to power and drive-activity indicator LEDs.

A full-length fan filter slides out from the left edge of the N515’s bottom panel and covers three additional 120mm fan mounts. These mounts are drilled in two positions to provide greater or lesser motherboard clearance as desired, and we found nothing but PCI Express card placement to prevent super-thick radiators from being installed here despite In Win’s claims that only slim radiators are suitable.

An ARGB lighting cable is the only thing that prevents easy removal of the N515’s front panel, behind which are two 120mm fan mounts suitable for securing a dual-fan radiator without getting in the way of card installation.

A button on the rear of the case unlatches the top of the glass side panel, allowing it to pivot outward and be lifted from tab slots on the bottom rail of its opening. A hole in the button allows users to further secure the side panel with a small padlock.

While the manual appears to indicate that the filter covering the upper radiator mount might be removed by squeezing some tabs and pushing up, our experience was that yanking it off by the two tabs at the bottom is the only method that really works. Users can then install a “360mm” radiator that’s up to 405mm long, with 95mm of power-supply clearance exceeding the manufacturer’s stated 80mm combined radiator and fan thickness limit.

Drive support is via two 2.5-inch trays on the front and two 3.5-inch/2.5-inch trays on the back of the motherboard tray. A total of four drives may be mounted.

Designed exclusively to fit the builder’s choice of liquid coolers, the N515 has just one included fan: an 1,800rpm Luna AL120 ARGB model mounted on the rear panel as an exhaust. The fan includes passthrough connectors for both its PWM and ARGB leads, allowing users to daisy-chain additional fans.

In Win claims a 200mm length limit for power supplies, but we found nothing short of the cable passage placement to prevent use from using power supplies up to at least 280mm, after which a short cable tie loop might get in the way. Passages for cables include an oddly shaped slot next to the power-supply bay for sliding in ATX12V/EPS12V cables, a center-left slot suitable for main ATX/EPS (24-pin) power, and a gigantic square hole for CPU water-block passthrough.

Front-panel cables include an AT-style power indicator lead with ATX-style pigtail, HDD LED, power button, HD Audio, ARGB for the front panel (with pass-through for the ARGB fan), a USB 3.x Gen 2 for the Type-C port, and a USB 3.x Gen 1 for the twin Type-A ports.

Installation hardware includes a motherboard screw pack with enough standoffs to support any ATX-based format up to 13 inches deep, M3 and #6-32 screws for drive mounting, a set of washers for radiator installation, 10 cable ties, an optional one-click ARGB controller that anyone with an ARGB motherboard header won’t need, and an extension for the factory-mounted graphics card brace. A rubber block that slides onto that extension is intended to dampen vibration. The user manual is nothing more than a QR code for the online document.

Despite is grandiose dimensions, the N515’s interior has very little top-to-bottom motherboard clearance. Those whose boards have built-in I/O shields will find that there’s only one way to install them: bottom first. Here’s what happened when we tried to tilt the top in first…

Even correcting our mistake didn’t get us much farther ahead, as the included fan blocked the top edge of our built-in I/O shield from sliding all the way back to its mounting face. We ended up having to remove the rear fan, install our motherboard, and then re-install that fan.

The good part of having a tight motherboard fit is that surrounding panels will act as an air duct over its components. The bad is that we won’t be able to reach the latches on our ATX12V/EPS12V connectors until after we remove our motherboard. It’s just too close-fitting up there.

Our standardized test hardware may lack the adornment of In Win’s fan-packed show configuration, but the included ARGB LED strip that surrounds the N515’s infinity-mirror front panel ornament still cycles color in the same pattern as its one included ARGB fan. It’s pretty nifty.

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