Zalman Z11 Plus HF1 Edition Gaming Case Unboxing & Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and Showcase of the zelman z11 Plus hf1 or Hellfire one
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this is pretty similar to the Zalman z11 plus that we took a look at before so
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we're not going to go too much into the details of the case itself but more into
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what separates the hf1 Edition from the
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regular case you can also check Che out my previous unboxing of the
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zelman z11 plus just by searching for it
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on the YouTubes so let's go ahead and open this
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up you got your hard foam packaging not my favorite but the corners are well
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protected so I wouldn't expect you to run into any issues with this particular
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one now what's special about the HF sorry yeah HF one addition of the
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case is the fact that it has a pretty neat color scheme that if you're into to
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you know you know dark and demonic games
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like uh you know Dungeon Crawlers that involve like hell and fire that uh might
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be a pretty good match or if you wanted to do a theme system around something
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like that so let's go ahead and check this out so the right so the z11 plus is
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pretty much what we've come to expect good cooling so the whole front has got
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uh excellent ventilation let's go ahead and
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oh oh oh I was so close so close to
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getting it in one piece so at the front we've got our 120 mm cooling fan we've
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also got ample ventilation the hard drives get again ample cooling from the
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additional ventilation that's available here the side window is actually very
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very unique so it kind of pops out which might seem like kind of an odd design
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choice at the beginning but then if you go oh wait what if the end user wants
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a huge Tower cooler on their CPU that would be a way to achieve it
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cuz there's lots and lots of room for that at the top you've got a little tray
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for storing things you've also got your front USB 2 front audio front USB 3
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power switch reset switch and your hard drive indicator LED but I actually kind
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of like these designs as long as the manufacturer leaves enough space for
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ventilation where it looks clean from the front and you've got lots of cooling
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from the back so you know business in the front party in the back
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um this one like the design I've seen ones in the last little while that I
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didn't like it as much cuz there's like this much of a gap and like no actual
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room for air flow but this is this is fine okay from the back you got your IO
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you got your 120 mm fan you got seven PCI slots in your standard standard
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these days I guess it didn't used to be standard not that long ago but uh bottom
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mounted power supply so let's go ahead and uh open this baby up so you guys can
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whoops it's okay don't worry about it you can if you haven't seen the z11 plus
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yet you can have a look at it from the inside so there's an 80 mm cooling fan
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that's going to take care of your drive cooling also got a black sleeve cable
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it's good little details like that do count you guys and then in the front
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you've got your red LED fan in the back you've got another red LED fan in terms
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of included accessories you've got oh look at that they include an eight pin
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uh Power extension see again details
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detail that count all your included Hardware as well as a couple PCI
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brackets and then you can mount this is actually neat as well because a lot of
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the time the uh the back of your PCI E
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slots can get extremely hot because graphic cards are hot and they blow heat
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down on them so you can throw a little 60m fan in there to take care of that
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you've also got another 120 mm red LED
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fan up here in the top and these are all using silver cables I don't mind silver
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cables I'd prefer black but it's not the end of the world you got your cable
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management holes you got your motherboards CPU cutout for easy
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installation of large aftermarket coolers uh this is kind of disappointing
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you've got a USB 3 pass through so you'll plug these into the back of the
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board would have preferred to see an internal header in this day and age
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you've got another 80mm fan on the other side that might come in handy again for
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Drive Cooling and all of your drive rails are
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included where exactly hold on a sec yeah so apparently that's the same
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mistake I made last time that's an SSD Mount I mean a f you could put a fan
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there it's up to you uh as for the hard
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drive mounts you just use these rubber isolation grommets and screws slide them
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in here it's pretty much tooless although you have the option I guess of
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uh of installing a screw no probably not do you I don't see
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anything okay so they're tooless um all black interior which is a
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must these days and my opinion and ample
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room for cable management see I can even like jam my hand back there should I
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should I see fit so thank you for checking out my unboxing and uh stay
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tuned we're going to show you guys what this will look like with like a red themed color build inside it all right
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so we did a quick build it's not a complete build or anything like that but
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we've got a Maximus 5 formula in there we've got the zman cnps
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9900 and that's the red LED version so you can see the red LED fan that comes
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in the top the red LED fan that comes in the back you got a very cool glowing
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effect going on inside this system because it's got like a frosted uh or a
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smoked uh a smoked side panel you can
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see through the top it's got like kind of a neat sort of you know hellish glow
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the front again you've got a bit of a glow so overall would I say that the red
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hf1 Edition is cooler than the regular
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uh z11 plus yeah actually I mean it looks great we've got a fatality 1000 W
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power supply in there so that's why you got some additional red red glow coming
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from the bottom and then there's the it's very quiet too actually I kind of
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surprised at that I was usually you get those sort of I mean it's zman so that
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should have been my expectation but usually you get those like uh
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performance Edition parts and they tend to be like really really loud that's
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what it looks like the side panel off looking good actually okay so thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the zelman z11 plus hf1
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