Description
The Phanteks EX5 PLUS is an ATX mid-tower built around a compartmentalised chamber design that isolates the motherboard, graphics card, power supply and CPU cooling into separate thermal zones. Each area receives its own fresh air rather than recirculating warm air from neighbouring components, which improves temperatures while needing fewer fans. A Glacier One 360S25-SE all-in-one liquid cooler is fully integrated with concealed tubing for a clean no-tubes interior.
Compartmentalised Chamber Cooling
The EX5 abandons the dual-glass fish-tank layout that has dominated case design and instead separates the motherboard, graphics card, power supply and CPU cooling into distinct compartments. Each zone draws its own fresh air rather than sharing one volume of increasingly warm air, so the graphics card is not breathing what the processor has already heated. The practical consequence is that fewer fans are needed to reach a given temperature, because the airflow that exists is directed rather than stirred. A pre-installed rear mainboard fan blows directly across the VRM and memory, an area that receives almost no airflow in a conventional case.
Integrated Glacier One 360S25-SE AIO
The bundled Glacier One 360S25-SE is a 360mm liquid cooler built into the chassis rather than fitted afterwards, using a 90-degree tube outlet and concealed routing to create the signature no-tubes look. Its S25 ARGB fans are mounted in a single frame and connect with one cable, which removes most of the wiring a three-fan radiator normally introduces. A large copper base and fin array handle high-end processors. Buying the cooler separately would add around eighty pounds, so the PLUS and MAX effectively bundle it at a substantial saving.
Hardware Support and Anti-Sag
Graphics cards up to 358mm long are supported, with GPU thickness depending on where your motherboard places its primary PCIe slot: up to 4.6 slots on Slot 1 layouts, 3.6 slots on standard ATX and 2.6 slots on lower-pla
