Phanteks Evolv Shift 2

For cool and fun factor, this is a pretty interesting case, but there are other ITX cases that do better for not that much more money, so it earns a 4...

The upshot for me is that the Evolve Shift 2 Air is a confused and confusing case. Over the last number of years I've reviewed a great many cases, a f...

As I said it is easy to build in as well and I do think it's priced pretty good. It's a hundred bucks. It's $99

Overall though I'm really happy with the changes that Ventex have made to the Evolve Shift 2.

Build quality is great and the frame feels sturdy. The build went smoothly and wasn't too complicated (considering that this case has a volume of 11 liters). While I haven't done any proper temp testing, the components aren't running super hot and they are certainly running cooler than in the hotbox that is the Phanteks Evolv Shift with all panels installed. For now I'm really happy with my purchase, time will tell if there are any issues I haven't noticed yet.

It's a mini-ITX case that's bigger than a "mid-tower" ATX. There's lots of wasted space on the frame and panels that could have been trimmed down for a much more compact profile. It is just way too big. It is solidly built, but if you are looking for an actual sffpc case, I'd suggest looking elsewhe...

Fit and finish on the case are high quality and the cooling performance is a significant improvement from my previous case (Phanteks Evolv Shift Air 2). The clam-shell center compartment makes cable routing and management a breeze and the cutouts for flow-through coolers appear to be effective. The vertical GPU with IO down allows for efficient heat-pipe function while eliminating sag and stress on the PCI-E connection.

So if you're using a gen 4 PCIE GPU i.e. 3060, 3070, 5700xt, etc. you need to replace the riser cable that comes in the case with a gen 4 compatible riser cable. You can get around this by going into your motherboard BIOS and restricting your PCIE lanes to gen 3 but this is only a stop gap. Asides f...

Wow finally another Vertical case, not seen anything as similar to the Phanteks evolv Shift X. This looks quirky, will have a look into it.

It's 2022 (over half way through it) and customers are getting shipped High End Cases with parts from over 2 years ago. Todays Cards are Gen4, and have been for a while. Including the Case with a Gen3 Riser Cable is just irresponsible. Case Build and ease of installing a board, power supply and GPU....