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the $69 case Market is loaded with great options maybe $69 is just a great

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position for both the case manufacturer who doesn't have to worry about choking

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their profits and the customer who gets everything they need at the same time

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maybe it's just a good place to be when you want a satisfying experience for

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everyone so come with me let's see what this case at this price point has to

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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

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plastic cutout tabs that function as buttons for both power and reset on the

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left hand side these tabs have a decent if rather stiff tactile feel on the

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right hand side we have dual USB 3 ports and both headphone and microphone jacks

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then we come to the PS resistance the killer feature at this price point the

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USB type-c connector at the top of the case wow such beauty you can stick your

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cable in either way I can't wait before we move on note that the

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case does come with red accents like the name would imply but I went with black

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on black because that's more my thing and there are a couple more things

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to note here at the front once you remove move the front bezel you can see

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the USB cables for both the type- C connector and the type a front

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connectors are permanently attached to the front but having one of them at the

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top and one of them at the side makes it so that once you've managed all of your

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cables the front panel gets a little hard to remove which wouldn't matter

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except that unless you take it off you can't access the included and poorly

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mounted fan filter I get it it's better for the USB signal for them not to be

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removable but I still think there's room for improvement here okay I'm sorry I

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swear this doesn't normally happen but I seem to have started a little bit

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prematurely and forgotten the case the left panel has a large window cutout to

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reveal all of your glorious components for the world to see and the right side

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panel is just plain old metal moving on to the bottom of the case you have

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another fan filter this one easier to access under the power supply just

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behind the stamped on spray stencil made

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in China logo good thing that's on the bottom which brings to the top of the

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case do you see the problems here there are actually two main ones one of them

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is the positioning of the ventilation aesthetically it's pleasing because it

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goes right down the middle of the top but functionally it's a little

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frustrating because it goes right over the top of your motherboard this makes

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the installation of 140 mm fans more difficult than it needs to be and it

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also makes the installation of a radiator essentially impossible let's go

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back to the 140 mm fan thing for a moment though say you wanted to water

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cool you bought a dual 120 or 140 mm fan

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AO liquid cooler and put it in the front of the case instead of the top not a big

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deal while I don't personally prefer this approach there are plenty of cases

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out there where this is the most optimal position what now frustrates me is the

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spare 140 mil Silverstone fans that are left over where do you put them they

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don't fit in the back of the case so the top I mean kind of the fan filter up top

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is mounted through the 140 mm mounting

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holes already you can make this work

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rather well by just mounting each fan with three screws instead of four but

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that makes cleaning the filter a little Annoying this also could have been done

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better let's move on to what I think is the strongest aspect of the R5 the

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interior the main compartment of the case rocks a great looking basement

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cover two SSD mounting points on top of the basement cover although only one of

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them has a convenient cable cutout rendering the leftmost one a little bit

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more difficult to wire up cleanly looking upwards from here I really like

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what they did with the cable management on the right side of the motherboard

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this cable cover looks better in my opinion than the bunch of floppy rubber

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grommet cutout holes that have been present in every case since the 800d

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that being said I wouldn't have minded the aformentioned floppy rubber grommets

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for the cable management hole up top or the header and SSD connections down at

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the bottom bottom moving to the back of the motherboard tray there is a

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well-sized and correctly placed CPU mounting cutout two more spots for

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mounting ssds although it must be noted that for the four possible SSD positions

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there are only two included trays which to be fair is just as much or more than

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most people who will buy a $69 case will probably need then below that there are

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two hard drive bays and the power supply that sits up on some foam feet to get

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elevated from the floor and this is important I know lonus has personally

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suffocated a power supply with the fan facing downward on a carpeted floor

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tragic which leads us to the bottom line the R5 is a very solid case with tons of

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features to boot at a rather aggressive price point but one that doesn't enjoy

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the luxury of existing in a vacuum One fierce competitor also at $69 is the

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fantex eclipse P400 it comes with a

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magnetic external fan filter at the top rail mounted fan filters elsewhere a

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proper easy to remove front panel and an RGB light controller to name a few

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features a USB type-c connector is pretty sweet though so which $69

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