This is not a cheap case. Not by any stretch of the imagination. At $290 for this particular variant, it's verging on the absurd. To the point that even the most enthusiastic of system builders might find it hard to justify this thing in their cart. But NZXT believes it's worth it. It believes you're willing to stump up the cash. And I reckon it might be on to something here.
The H9 lineup is, without a doubt, NZXT's crowning glory. The flagship, the pinnacle of everything it can throw into good chassis design. I built with the most recent one, in its Elite configuration, complete with far too much glass and not enough intake, plus a Ryzen 9 9950X and an RTX 5090, and what I learned from that experience was that it seriously needed a lot more modern touches in terms of both cable management and how its cooling was handled. Yeah, it was good, but certainly not best case of the year kinda good; that's a fact.
