WEBVTT 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:15.679 Well, that's what you would think happened to this box. I have no idea 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:20.320 what happened to this box. Zman dropped it off and was like, "Hey, can you check 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.840 out this case?" And I was like, "Sure." Was somebody like eating the side of the 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 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:32.320 if in spite of the fact that this case 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:38.160 has apparently been shipped to and from the depths of hell at least once, 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:43.680 whether it is in okay shape on the inside. This is the Zelman Z11 Plus. It 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:46.320 is an ATX midtower case with a front mesh cover for ultra cooling 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:51.039 performance. It supports up to seven system fans, supports a bottom PSU 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:55.199 installation, and aperture for cable management. Really? I think they mean 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:59.120 cable management holes. Uh, black interior coating. Zelman's powerful HDD 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:05.199 cooling solution. Tool-free hard drive installation. Spacious interior for 00:01:00.879 --> 00:01:06.720 installing up to 290 mm or 29 cm video 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:11.119 cards. Acryil tuning side panel. I think they 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:14.880 mean windowed side panel. Supports two USB 3 ports. Front and bottom dust 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. 00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:24.560 Uh, separate apertures for convenient CPU cooler installation. I think they 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:29.840 mean a CPU cutout. And three in one bracket provided rear tube apertures for 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.520 liquid cooling systems. Somebody thinks 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:39.119 that aperture is an appropriate synonym 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:42.720 for hole in this case. And um, you could 00:01:39.119 --> 00:01:45.280 make that argument, but I don't think 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 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:56.880 foam. While it isn't my favorite, it is extremely thick, 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:59.920 very robust, and the case did by all 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:03.119 appearances manage to arrive in one 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:04.880 piece. One thing came loose, though. So, 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 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 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 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 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 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:30.959 slick looking case. It looks to have a lot of space inside. There is the uh 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 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:40.640 darkened subdued look. If you do put red lighting, it looks really, really good 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 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 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:58.080 off. So, that is protecting what appears to be a tray for storing like you know 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:04.319 screws and um u I don't know like 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.760 pocket chain and like SSDs that you 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.680 might happen to have lying around. You could store them there. Um I know this 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 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:18.720 lying around? Um, moving along, we have two front USB 3 ports, a reset switch, a 00:03:16.239 --> 00:03:22.159 hard drive indicator LED, two front USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:26.959 jack. And really, does this do anything? No, it doesn't. Okay. Power switch right 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:29.280 here, and a power LED under the power 00:03:26.959 --> 00:03:35.840 switch. Now, ventilation wise, at the front, we have almost a full mesh thing 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:40.959 going on, except where there are ventilation grills. So, it's grills or 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:45.120 its mesh or its apertures, whatever you want to call it. There is a lot of 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 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:53.040 filtered fan spot. And it looks like 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 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 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:06.239 their unique hard drive cooling solution, which uses these vent holes 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:08.159 here on either side to move air actively 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:12.640 directly over your hard drive. So, the side panels are pretty run-of-the-mill 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:17.519 steel construction with the plastic sort of aggressive car looking venty thing 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:21.440 going on as well as the uh the bulging out window that actually serves not only 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 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:33.759 case without any difficulty. at the back. You see here that okay from the 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:36.479 front it looks very more uh like um with 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 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:44.720 room for air flow coming from the inside of the case to be exhausted out the 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:49.600 back. Uh, at the back we actually see we've 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.680 got a 120 mm cooling fan, seven PCI 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:56.000 slots, bottom mounted power supply, and I think all of this was covered when I 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:00.720 was checking out the specs on the box itself. However, here we are reiterating 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 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:11.759 the side panel. So, here we go. That appears to be a 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:17.840 80 mil. That appears to be an 80 mm exhaust fan which is pulling air 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:21.680 directly from over the hard drives and 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:24.320 then exhausting that out here. Very 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:28.800 cool. Plugs in with a four pin Molex peripheral connector. Overall side panel 00:05:26.880 --> 00:05:33.039 construction is actually fairly solid. Not bad at all. All right. Once we Oh, 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 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 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:47.440 them are pulling air from that front intake fan and then exhausting them out 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:52.560 the case. And this one also plugs in with a four pin uh Molex peripheral 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:57.680 connector. And due to like this uh this plastic piece here, once again, it feels 00:05:54.400 --> 00:05:59.440 quite quite solid overall. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:05.039 Kind of unique design actually. Very cool. All right. So, there is the front 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.639 140 mm fan that I was talking about. And then here is the toolless hard drive 00:06:07.039 --> 00:06:12.000 installation mechanism. So, you just use these. Pull these out if you want to 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 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:20.800 can show you assuming I have one lying around, which apparently I do. So, if 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, 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 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.880 me a minute. All right. So, Slick tells me this is 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 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 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:49.039 order to remove the drive. Uh you can 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:52.240 also There we go. Put in an additional screw for added security if you're 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:56.240 worried about the drive coming out. However, you will lose some of the 00:06:54.240 --> 00:07:01.039 antiibration vibration dampening effects of the 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 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:08.639 got here in terms of accessories? So, it comes with an 8 pin extender. This is 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:12.720 actually a phenomenal value ad. These cost anywhere from about 5 to 10 bucks 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:15.680 to buy. So, it comes with the case for a bottom mounted power supply that 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 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 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:28.160 right, we got a couple PCI back plates, including one that is set up for these 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.919 USB 3 cables, which plug into the back. That's a little bit disappointing. Um, 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 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 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.680 cable ties, as well as a boatload of 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:48.240 thumb screws that look like they would be useful for all kinds of things, 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:54.319 including mounting drives. So, these guys are threaded with fine threads, 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:56.560 guys. So, 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 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:05.120 that slick. I think it's for mounting the motherboard. 00:08:03.599 --> 00:08:08.000 I could be wrong, though. Let's find out. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:12.720 Yeah, I think these are actually for mounting the motherboard. Cool. Because 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.039 all the standoffs are in here as well. I actually really like the look of 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 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 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:30.160 manual and let's get moving with the 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, 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 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:42.320 other fans that come with it that cool your hard drives. There's also room for 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:45.040 up to another two 120 or 140 mm exhaust 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, 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:54.320 that's going to be an intake. On the bottom, there's your power supply fan. 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:01.680 which is also filtered. That's good. And then finally, you can install another 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:06.160 fan on the back of the on the back of the motherboard where your video card 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:11.120 is. So that will actually for Okay, this is interesting because for video cards 00:09:08.160 --> 00:09:15.600 that use um aftermarket coolers like this one where they actually blow a lot 00:09:13.839 --> 00:09:19.040 of the heat down towards your motherboard, cooling the back of the 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:22.959 board is something that could be very useful. I've never seen that feature 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:27.200 before. So, that's uh that's an interesting touch. Uh what else we got 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:31.519 here? Right, all your included internal connectors. So, your front power switch 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:35.839 and LEDs and all that whatnot, hoo-ha, as well as your internal USB 2 header. 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:39.680 And then your internal USB or rather your external USB 3 cable. So, those 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:44.480 ones are going to go around to the back of the motherboard and plug in right 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:47.360 there using that PCI slot pass through. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:51.600 We have a fairly large CPU cutouts, some pre-installed 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:54.560 um motherboard standoffs. So although you'll have to put in the rest yourself, 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 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 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 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 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:14.959 all filtered, so they have foam in them, which will keep dust from accumulating 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.720 from air that is sucked in through the front of the case. Overall construction 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:23.839 is actually fairly solid considering what a value this case is. They haven't 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:28.640 uh they haven't cheaped out on the on the overall build quality of it. It 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:31.839 feels very solid, which means it may not be as much of a factor when 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, 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:41.440 especially if you're going to ship it anywhere, the cases that aren't built as 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:43.519 well, tend to show very quickly where 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.880 the problems exist. So, if you aren't doing things like reinforcing the 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:52.160 motherboard tray with these kinds of bends, which incidentally also gives you 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:55.120 um a lot of different cable routing options or that's Zelman has 00:10:53.760 --> 00:11:00.000 incidentally given you cable routing options as well as all these different 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.600 places to tie down cables. It's those little nice touches that make a case 00:11:01.839 --> 00:11:07.839 much easier to work with and much more solid. Look at this. Look at all these 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:11.120 cable hold downs. These are more handy than you'd think because there isn't a 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:14.640 ton of room on the back of this motherboard tray for cable routing. So, 00:11:13.040 --> 00:11:19.040 being able to lay everything down flat and cable manage it cleanly is going to 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:23.680 be the difference between a tidy case with all the cables running up the back 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:28.079 and an awful looking cable manage case with the cables running up the front. I 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:32.000 think that pretty much covers it. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing 00:11:29.680 --> 00:11:35.839 and first look at the Zelman Z11 Plus. Don't forget to subscribe to Finest Tech 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:42.480 Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Slick burned me. 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. 00:11:44.800 --> 00:11:50.320 Although, you know, you could put a hole in the other side panel, and you could 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:55.120 put a fan there if you really wanted to. If you wanted to execute my 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.880 well-intentioned plan of cooling the motherboard near the PCI slots better, 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.760 you could do that. Or you could just install your SSD here and run your cable 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.