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all right real talk time the review requests that I get from viewers are

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usually terrible I mean we're talking stuff no one could possibly care about

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ancient products that have been reviewed to death already products that simply

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aren't available in my region of the world blah blah blah the list goes on

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and on but I still love getting review requests because without them I wouldn't

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happen across little things like this

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one right here I'm still mostly going to pick stuff myself like the long overdue

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room video that I have upcoming but keep your review requests coming

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anyway save on select and tell 730 series ssds with instant rebates during

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President week February 22nd to March 1st 2015 click now to learn

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more so you guys often ask me for more affordable stuff the Zan R1 is

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definitely that is is it the cheapest case on the market no that would be some

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homemade affair with cardboard and packing tape something that seems cool

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in theory and then you're all like oh no there's no front USB 3 which I guess

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leads us pretty well into the tour of the outside of the R1 the top mounted

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I/O includes a power switch to USB 2.0 ports a USB 3.0 Port audio jacks and a

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reset switch that's actually not as susceptible to cat feet as it looks

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since it needs to be pressed in pretty far to activate also on the top top is a

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removable panel that covers one of the three included 120 mm fans and amount

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for another although it's very unlikely you'd be able to fit a radiator here due

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to the motherboard clearance and issues that you might run into the front of the

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case features a brushed finish and a stylized Zalman Z with a very stealthy

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uh seriously there does not appear to be a handle door that opens up to reveal

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the junkiest noise dampening material I think I have ever seen seriously there

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are round plastic stickers applied to the magnets that help the door stay

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closed so it won't accidentally like stick too much and like pull it off as

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far as I can tell there's 25 and a/4 inch bays in here a 3 and 1/2 in

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external Bay a two fan speed controller that cleverly supports low high and off

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for up to those two fans I just mentioned and a removable cover that has

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Fine removable plastic mesh in place of

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a normal filter that reveals another of the three included 120 mm fans this with

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LED lighting as well as another spot for an extra although much like The Cooler

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Master silencio that I reviewed recently I fail to understand where the front

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fans are going to draw air in from there is a small gap between the front door

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and the front bezel and there are small mesh vents on the side of the bezel but

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that's still going to be very restrictive so I wouldn't recommend

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putting your dual R9 29x config in this

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case on the bottom of the case are some taller than average feet good for keep

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keeping your power supply with its bottom mounted fan supplied with fresh

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air and on the right is a bulged out side panel to give you some room for

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cable management because there's almost none between the motherboard tray and

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where the panel would normally be and even then there is not a lot even with

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the Bulge on the left side is a tasteful window that will show you the CPU socket

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area and graphics card and finally around the back is the final included

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120 mm fan on the old only radiator

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compatible fan mount in the case external water cooling grommet seven PCI

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slots and a bottom mounted power supply slot so let's open this baby up we'll

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start with drives there's a single 2 and 1/2 in Mount above the four 3 and 1/2 in

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tooless mounts it's nice that it only requires screws on one side and keeps

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your SSD up high enough that you won't have clearance issues with the cables at

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the back so no complaints here but the 3 and 1/2 in mounts are frankly terrible

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the left side plastic rail doesn't allow a screw Mount and the right side one

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doesn't latch to the case like there's no handle on it so to reiterate no hard

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Mount and one of the least secure toolless tabs that I've ever seen do not

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buy a pre-built system in this case there is a good chance your drives will

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slip out in shipping although it's less of an issue if you're just buying the

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bare case the only exceptional thing about the tooless 5 and 1/4 in cages is

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the layo cable management holes nearby for the front panel connector

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everything but USB 3 fits through the one hole to be cable managed at the back

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um but the USB 3 one has to go through a separate one it's not a huge deal or anything it just feels a little bit

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shortsighted around the back of the motherboard trade there are lots of

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cable management holes that are mostly actually pretty well positioned one in

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the corner for the 8 Pin EPS connector well spaced ones on the side of the

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motherboard and the bottom near the power supply and only one for the front

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panel audio conspicuously absent and there are lots of cable management loops

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with a CPU cutout for easier cooler installation back here as well there are

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also some weird vent holes back here that I feel like probably should have

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been just left solid the motherboard tray in this case is quite flimsy as it

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is and punching more holes in it just feels like tickling the bear so to speak

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with that said it feels fine once your motherboard is in just make sure you run

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your 8 Pin power connector before mounting your board or it will not fit

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through the hole and also make sure your board is no wider than standard ATX or

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it'll interfere with this Bend in the tray power supply mounting is pretty bog

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standard there's a filter on the bottom of the case but unfortunately it's kind

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of a pain to get at unless you flip the case over but this support brace that

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screws into the top and bottom of the chassis and prevents saging up to two

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heavy expansion cards is actually a really nice addition the mechanism is

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fairly rudimentary you just kind of unscrew it where it is and then screw it

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back in where you want it to be but it really works with that said I suspect

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part of the reason that it's needed is that the metal used for the rear of the

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case is quite thin so heavy cards are much more likely to warp the PCI slots

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and seg and while I'm complaining about those really zelman onetime use PCI

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covers I hate those what if I change my card load out and I don't want to leave

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a gaping hole in the back of my system but I guess it's all kind of a you get

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what you pay for thing the MSRP for this case what told us enough to know that it

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wasn't going to be you know super amazingly built but it's certainly

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functional and surprisingly goodlooking so for a single GPU gaming rig well

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looks like not a bad choice and at the prices that I've seen people on the line

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of tech tips Forum saying they've gotten this case for on sale I'm willing to

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forgive you know boneheaded stuff like

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the pre-installed top 120 mm fan that will literally exhaust no air in the

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case's default config with the top panel closed so I mean with the right promo

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the R1 is a pretty killer value for a

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windowed case with a black interior a stylish looking front panel and all of

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the other things that it's got going for it so it wins my it might be good but it

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really depends how much you'll be paying for it award speaking of depending how

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