the $69 case Market is loaded with great options maybe $69 is just a great
position for both the case manufacturer who doesn't have to worry about choking
their profits and the customer who gets everything they need at the same time
maybe it's just a good place to be when you want a satisfying experience for
everyone so come with me let's see what this case at this price point has to
offer and what I'm going to offer to it
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video description starting with the front of the red line 05 there are two
plastic cutout tabs that function as buttons for both power and reset on the
left hand side these tabs have a decent if rather stiff tactile feel on the
right hand side we have dual USB 3 ports and both headphone and microphone jacks
then we come to the PS resistance the killer feature at this price point the
USB type-c connector at the top of the case wow such beauty you can stick your
cable in either way I can't wait before we move on note that the
case does come with red accents like the name would imply but I went with black
on black because that's more my thing and there are a couple more things
to note here at the front once you remove move the front bezel you can see
the USB cables for both the type- C connector and the type a front
connectors are permanently attached to the front but having one of them at the
top and one of them at the side makes it so that once you've managed all of your
cables the front panel gets a little hard to remove which wouldn't matter
except that unless you take it off you can't access the included and poorly
mounted fan filter I get it it's better for the USB signal for them not to be
removable but I still think there's room for improvement here okay I'm sorry I
swear this doesn't normally happen but I seem to have started a little bit
prematurely and forgotten the case the left panel has a large window cutout to
reveal all of your glorious components for the world to see and the right side
panel is just plain old metal moving on to the bottom of the case you have
another fan filter this one easier to access under the power supply just
behind the stamped on spray stencil made
in China logo good thing that's on the bottom which brings to the top of the
case do you see the problems here there are actually two main ones one of them
is the positioning of the ventilation aesthetically it's pleasing because it
goes right down the middle of the top but functionally it's a little
frustrating because it goes right over the top of your motherboard this makes
the installation of 140 mm fans more difficult than it needs to be and it
also makes the installation of a radiator essentially impossible let's go
back to the 140 mm fan thing for a moment though say you wanted to water
cool you bought a dual 120 or 140 mm fan
AO liquid cooler and put it in the front of the case instead of the top not a big
deal while I don't personally prefer this approach there are plenty of cases
out there where this is the most optimal position what now frustrates me is the
spare 140 mil Silverstone fans that are left over where do you put them they
don't fit in the back of the case so the top I mean kind of the fan filter up top
is mounted through the 140 mm mounting
holes already you can make this work
rather well by just mounting each fan with three screws instead of four but
that makes cleaning the filter a little Annoying this also could have been done
better let's move on to what I think is the strongest aspect of the R5 the
interior the main compartment of the case rocks a great looking basement
cover two SSD mounting points on top of the basement cover although only one of
them has a convenient cable cutout rendering the leftmost one a little bit
more difficult to wire up cleanly looking upwards from here I really like
what they did with the cable management on the right side of the motherboard
this cable cover looks better in my opinion than the bunch of floppy rubber
grommet cutout holes that have been present in every case since the 800d
that being said I wouldn't have minded the aformentioned floppy rubber grommets
for the cable management hole up top or the header and SSD connections down at
the bottom bottom moving to the back of the motherboard tray there is a
well-sized and correctly placed CPU mounting cutout two more spots for
mounting ssds although it must be noted that for the four possible SSD positions
there are only two included trays which to be fair is just as much or more than
most people who will buy a $69 case will probably need then below that there are
two hard drive bays and the power supply that sits up on some foam feet to get
elevated from the floor and this is important I know lonus has personally
suffocated a power supply with the fan facing downward on a carpeted floor
tragic which leads us to the bottom line the R5 is a very solid case with tons of
features to boot at a rather aggressive price point but one that doesn't enjoy
the luxury of existing in a vacuum One fierce competitor also at $69 is the
fantex eclipse P400 it comes with a
magnetic external fan filter at the top rail mounted fan filters elsewhere a
proper easy to remove front panel and an RGB light controller to name a few
features a USB type-c connector is pretty sweet though so which $69
building experience do you think will be a more pleasurable one let me know in
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