1 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:15,679 Well, that's what you would think happened to this box. I have no idea 2 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:20,320 what happened to this box. Zman dropped it off and was like, "Hey, can you check 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:23,840 out this case?" And I was like, "Sure." Was somebody like eating the side of the 4 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:29,519 box? They said, "We don't know." So, we're going to open this up and find out 5 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:32,320 if in spite of the fact that this case 6 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:38,160 has apparently been shipped to and from the depths of hell at least once, 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:43,680 whether it is in okay shape on the inside. This is the Zelman Z11 Plus. It 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:46,320 is an ATX midtower case with a front mesh cover for ultra cooling 9 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:51,039 performance. It supports up to seven system fans, supports a bottom PSU 10 00:00:48,239 --> 00:00:55,199 installation, and aperture for cable management. Really? I think they mean 11 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:59,120 cable management holes. Uh, black interior coating. Zelman's powerful HDD 12 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:05,199 cooling solution. Tool-free hard drive installation. Spacious interior for 13 00:01:00,879 --> 00:01:06,720 installing up to 290 mm or 29 cm video 14 00:01:05,199 --> 00:01:11,119 cards. Acryil tuning side panel. I think they 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:14,880 mean windowed side panel. Supports two USB 3 ports. Front and bottom dust 16 00:01:13,119 --> 00:01:20,400 filters. 2 and 12 in hard drive SSD mount on the rear side of the motherboard tray. Tray place plate tray. 17 00:01:18,479 --> 00:01:24,560 Uh, separate apertures for convenient CPU cooler installation. I think they 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:29,840 mean a CPU cutout. And three in one bracket provided rear tube apertures for 19 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:33,520 liquid cooling systems. Somebody thinks 20 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:39,119 that aperture is an appropriate synonym 21 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:42,720 for hole in this case. And um, you could 22 00:01:39,119 --> 00:01:45,280 make that argument, but I don't think 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:51,119 that that's really what they meant. Okay, here we go. So, we've got a hard 24 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:56,880 foam. While it isn't my favorite, it is extremely thick, 25 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:59,920 very robust, and the case did by all 26 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:03,119 appearances manage to arrive in one 27 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,880 piece. One thing came loose, though. So, 28 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:09,679 I'm just going to check this out here. Okay, so this is just a little guy that 29 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:13,280 goes in the front right here. That's a 3 and 1/2 in drive cover. I think that has 30 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:17,200 to be installed from the inside. So, I'm not going to try for too long at this 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,959 because that will be boring for you to watch. So, we'll fix that after. We'll 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,040 just leave it out for now. So, this is the Z11 Plus. This is actually kind of a 33 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:30,959 slick looking case. It looks to have a lot of space inside. There is the uh 34 00:02:28,239 --> 00:02:35,280 smoked side panel window. So, it is not a 100% clear. It is for more of a 35 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:40,640 darkened subdued look. If you do put red lighting, it looks really, really good 36 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:45,599 with smoked dark side panels like this. We also have in terms of uh Okay, here I 37 00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:51,120 got to stay stay focused here. It's late and I'm tired. So, let's just take this 38 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:58,080 off. So, that is protecting what appears to be a tray for storing like you know 39 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:04,319 screws and um u I don't know like 40 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,760 pocket chain and like SSDs that you 41 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:09,680 might happen to have lying around. You could store them there. Um I know this 42 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:13,680 isn't the first world problem, right? Where am I going to store my SSD that's 43 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:18,720 lying around? Um, moving along, we have two front USB 3 ports, a reset switch, a 44 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:22,159 hard drive indicator LED, two front USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone 45 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:26,959 jack. And really, does this do anything? No, it doesn't. Okay. Power switch right 46 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:29,280 here, and a power LED under the power 47 00:03:26,959 --> 00:03:35,840 switch. Now, ventilation wise, at the front, we have almost a full mesh thing 48 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:40,959 going on, except where there are ventilation grills. So, it's grills or 49 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,120 its mesh or its apertures, whatever you want to call it. There is a lot of 50 00:03:42,799 --> 00:03:51,760 ventilation on this case. So, here we can see a front 140 mm fan. That is a 51 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:53,040 filtered fan spot. And it looks like 52 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,080 this does come off. Give me a second here, guys. It looks like we're going to 53 00:03:54,799 --> 00:04:00,959 be able to take this off more easily once we get the case open. So, we'll have a closer look at that, as well as 54 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:06,239 their unique hard drive cooling solution, which uses these vent holes 55 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:08,159 here on either side to move air actively 56 00:04:06,239 --> 00:04:12,640 directly over your hard drive. So, the side panels are pretty run-of-the-mill 57 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:17,519 steel construction with the plastic sort of aggressive car looking venty thing 58 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:21,440 going on as well as the uh the bulging out window that actually serves not only 59 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:26,960 an aesthetic purpose, but also a practical purpose because you can install very tall CPU coolers in this 60 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:33,759 case without any difficulty. at the back. You see here that okay from the 61 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:36,479 front it looks very more uh like um with 62 00:04:33,759 --> 00:04:41,280 fewer holes in it. And then uh from the back you can see that there is ample 63 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:44,720 room for air flow coming from the inside of the case to be exhausted out the 64 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:49,600 back. Uh, at the back we actually see we've 65 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,680 got a 120 mm cooling fan, seven PCI 66 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:56,000 slots, bottom mounted power supply, and I think all of this was covered when I 67 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,720 was checking out the specs on the box itself. However, here we are reiterating 68 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:05,680 it because I need to buy time while I take off these screws. Let's take off 69 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:11,759 the side panel. So, here we go. That appears to be a 70 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:17,840 80 mil. That appears to be an 80 mm exhaust fan which is pulling air 71 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:21,680 directly from over the hard drives and 72 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:24,320 then exhausting that out here. Very 73 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:28,800 cool. Plugs in with a four pin Molex peripheral connector. Overall side panel 74 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,039 construction is actually fairly solid. Not bad at all. All right. Once we Oh, 75 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:36,800 you know what? Here, I took these screws off. So, I'm sure to have that fall off 76 00:05:35,039 --> 00:05:41,520 if I don't do something with it. Now, this one is also exhaust. So, both of 77 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:47,440 them are pulling air from that front intake fan and then exhausting them out 78 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:52,560 the case. And this one also plugs in with a four pin uh Molex peripheral 79 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:57,680 connector. And due to like this uh this plastic piece here, once again, it feels 80 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:59,440 quite quite solid overall. 81 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:05,039 Kind of unique design actually. Very cool. All right. So, there is the front 82 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:08,639 140 mm fan that I was talking about. And then here is the toolless hard drive 83 00:06:07,039 --> 00:06:12,000 installation mechanism. So, you just use these. Pull these out if you want to 84 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:16,160 take out your drives. In fact, we should probably go grab a drive just so that we 85 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:20,800 can show you assuming I have one lying around, which apparently I do. So, if 86 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:26,240 you're probably if your first world problem happens to be where to store the hard drives that you have lying around, 87 00:06:24,479 --> 00:06:31,840 uh, Slick is telling me something, but I don't know. I don't know what it is right now. Something about screws. Give 88 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,880 me a minute. All right. So, Slick tells me this is 89 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:40,560 how I do it. I don't know if you can necessarily call this toolless, but uh 90 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:46,160 there you go. You slide it in like that, and then this piece is pulled out in 91 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:49,039 order to remove the drive. Uh you can 92 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:52,240 also There we go. Put in an additional screw for added security if you're 93 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:56,240 worried about the drive coming out. However, you will lose some of the 94 00:06:54,240 --> 00:07:01,039 antiibration vibration dampening effects of the 95 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:05,199 rubber mounts if you do actually happen to do it that way. Uh, what else have we 96 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,639 got here in terms of accessories? So, it comes with an 8 pin extender. This is 97 00:07:07,039 --> 00:07:12,720 actually a phenomenal value ad. These cost anywhere from about 5 to 10 bucks 98 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,680 to buy. So, it comes with the case for a bottom mounted power supply that 99 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,039 actually isn't even in that tall of a case. So, if you have a decent power 100 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:23,280 supply, you just use this and then like save one of these for a rainy day. All 101 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:28,160 right, we got a couple PCI back plates, including one that is set up for these 102 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:31,919 USB 3 cables, which plug into the back. That's a little bit disappointing. Um, 103 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:36,960 I'd expect at some point they'll revise this case to use an internal header, but 104 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:42,080 for now it isn't using one. We've also got all of our mounting screws, a couple 105 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:43,680 cable ties, as well as a boatload of 106 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:48,240 thumb screws that look like they would be useful for all kinds of things, 107 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:54,319 including mounting drives. So, these guys are threaded with fine threads, 108 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:56,560 guys. So, 109 00:07:54,319 --> 00:08:01,360 no, I don't think you're I don't think you're right. I don't think it's for 110 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:05,120 that slick. I think it's for mounting the motherboard. 111 00:08:03,599 --> 00:08:08,000 I could be wrong, though. Let's find out. 112 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,720 Yeah, I think these are actually for mounting the motherboard. Cool. Because 113 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,039 all the standoffs are in here as well. I actually really like the look of 114 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:20,639 mounting the motherboard with thumb screws. There's no reason you can't do it in any case, but uh as long as you 115 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:27,599 have screws that are threaded correctly for your standoffs, but I think it looks really sharp. So, there's a user's 116 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,160 manual and let's get moving with the 117 00:08:27,599 --> 00:08:33,599 case itself. Here we go. So, in terms of the fans you can mount in this thing, 118 00:08:31,599 --> 00:08:36,719 you have a ton of different options. So, there's the front fan. There's the two 119 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:42,320 other fans that come with it that cool your hard drives. There's also room for 120 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:45,040 up to another two 120 or 140 mm exhaust 121 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:50,160 fans up here in the top. A 120 in the back, a 120 or a 140 with a filter. So, 122 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:54,320 that's going to be an intake. On the bottom, there's your power supply fan. 123 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:01,680 which is also filtered. That's good. And then finally, you can install another 124 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:06,160 fan on the back of the on the back of the motherboard where your video card 125 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:11,120 is. So that will actually for Okay, this is interesting because for video cards 126 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:15,600 that use um aftermarket coolers like this one where they actually blow a lot 127 00:09:13,839 --> 00:09:19,040 of the heat down towards your motherboard, cooling the back of the 128 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:22,959 board is something that could be very useful. I've never seen that feature 129 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,200 before. So, that's uh that's an interesting touch. Uh what else we got 130 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:31,519 here? Right, all your included internal connectors. So, your front power switch 131 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:35,839 and LEDs and all that whatnot, hoo-ha, as well as your internal USB 2 header. 132 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:39,680 And then your internal USB or rather your external USB 3 cable. So, those 133 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:44,480 ones are going to go around to the back of the motherboard and plug in right 134 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:47,360 there using that PCI slot pass through. 135 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:51,600 We have a fairly large CPU cutouts, some pre-installed 136 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:54,560 um motherboard standoffs. So although you'll have to put in the rest yourself, 137 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:58,800 that's fine because this is pretty much what you need for ITX. Then for MATX or 138 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:02,880 ATX, you're going to go ahead and expand how many you have in there. 5 and 1/4 in 139 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,800 bays. I actually never did count those. We've got five of them with one of them 140 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:10,720 with the 3 and 1/2 in adapter that that piece was missing from before. These are 141 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:14,959 all filtered, so they have foam in them, which will keep dust from accumulating 142 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,720 from air that is sucked in through the front of the case. Overall construction 143 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:23,839 is actually fairly solid considering what a value this case is. They haven't 144 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,640 uh they haven't cheaped out on the on the overall build quality of it. It 145 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:31,839 feels very solid, which means it may not be as much of a factor when 146 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,640 it's just a case, but once you load it up with a bunch of heavy hardware, 147 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:41,440 especially if you're going to ship it anywhere, the cases that aren't built as 148 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:43,519 well, tend to show very quickly where 149 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,880 the problems exist. So, if you aren't doing things like reinforcing the 150 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:52,160 motherboard tray with these kinds of bends, which incidentally also gives you 151 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,120 um a lot of different cable routing options or that's Zelman has 152 00:10:53,760 --> 00:11:00,000 incidentally given you cable routing options as well as all these different 153 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,600 places to tie down cables. It's those little nice touches that make a case 154 00:11:01,839 --> 00:11:07,839 much easier to work with and much more solid. Look at this. Look at all these 155 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:11,120 cable hold downs. These are more handy than you'd think because there isn't a 156 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:14,640 ton of room on the back of this motherboard tray for cable routing. So, 157 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:19,040 being able to lay everything down flat and cable manage it cleanly is going to 158 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:23,680 be the difference between a tidy case with all the cables running up the back 159 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:28,079 and an awful looking cable manage case with the cables running up the front. I 160 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:32,000 think that pretty much covers it. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing 161 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:35,839 and first look at the Zelman Z11 Plus. Don't forget to subscribe to Finest Tech 162 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:42,480 Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Slick burned me. 163 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:47,120 That's the SSD mount on the back of the motherboard tray. That is not for a fan. 164 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:50,320 Although, you know, you could put a hole in the other side panel, and you could 165 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:55,120 put a fan there if you really wanted to. If you wanted to execute my 166 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:58,880 well-intentioned plan of cooling the motherboard near the PCI slots better, 167 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,760 you could do that. Or you could just install your SSD here and run your cable 168 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:06,000 around here to your motherboard and it would look very tidy and clean and that would be a good thing.