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all right real talk time the review requests that I get from viewers are usually terrible I mean we're talking stuff no one could possibly care about ancient products that have been reviewed to death already products that simply aren't available in my region of the world blah blah blah list goes on but I still love getting review requests because without them I wouldn't happen across little things like this one right here I'm still mostly gonna pick stuff myself like the long overdue rumba video that I have upcoming but keep your review requests coming anyway save on select Intel 730 series SSDs with instant rebates during presidents week February 22nd to March 1st 2015 click now to learn more so you guys often ask me for more affordable stuff the Solomon r1 is definitely that is it the cheapest case on the market no that would be some homemade affair with cardboard and packing tape something that seems cool in theory and then you're all like oh no there's no front USB 3 which I guess leads us pretty well into the tour of the outside of the r1 the top mounted i/o includes a power switch two USB 2.0 ports a USB 3.0 port audio jacks and a reset switch that's actually not as susceptible to cat feet as it looks since it needs to be pressed in pretty far to activate also on the top is a removable panel that covers one of the three included 120 millimeter fans and amount for another although it's very unlikely you'd be able to fit a radiator here due to the motherboard clearance issues that you might run into the front of the case features a brushed finish and a stylized zelmans II with a very stealthy seriously there's not appear to be a handle door that opens up to reveal the junkie estoy sampling material I think I have ever seen seriously there are round plastic stickers applied to the magnets to help the door stay closed so it won't accidentally like stick too much and like pull it off as far as I can tell there's two five and a quarter inch bays in here a three and a half inch external day a to fan speed controller that cleverly supports low high and off for up to those two fans I just mentioned and a removable cover that has fine removable plastic mesh in place of a normal filter that reveals another of the three included 120 millimeter fans this time with LED lighting as well as another spot for an extra although much like the Coolermaster Silencio that I reviewed recently I fail to understand where the front fans are going to draw air in from there is a small gap between the front door and the front bezel and there are small mesh vents on the side of the bezel but that's still going to be very restrictive so I wouldn't recommend putting your dual r9 290x config in this case on the bottom of the case are some taller than average feet good for keeping your power supply with its bottom mounted fan supplied with fresh air and on the right is a bulged outside panel to give you some room for cable management because there's almost none between the motherboard tray and where the panel would normally be and even then there is not a lot even with the bulge on the left side is a tasteful window that'll show you the CPU socket area and graphics card and finally around the back is the final included 120 millimeter fed on the only radiator compatible fan mount in the case external water cooling grommet 7 PCI slots and a bottom mounted power supply a slot so let's open this baby up we'll start with drives there's a single two and a half inch mount above the four three and a half inch tool list mounts it's nice that it only requires screws on one side and keeps your SSD up high enough that you won't have clearance issues with the cables at the back so no complaints here but the three and a half inch mounts are frankly terrible the left side plastic rail doesn't allow a screw mount and the right side one doesn't latch to the case like there's no handle on it so to reiterate no hard mount and one of the least secure tallest tabs that i've ever seen do not buy a pre-built system in this case there is a good chance your drives will slip out in shipping although it's less of an issue if you're just buying the bare case the only exceptional thing about the tool is five and a quarter inch cages is the lame-o cable management holes nearby for the front panel connectors everything but USB 3 fits through the one hole to be cable managed at the back um but the USB 3 one has to go through a separate one it's not a huge deal or anything it just feels a little bit short-sighted around the back of the motherboard trade there are lots of cable management holes that are mostly actually pretty well positioned one in the corner for the a pin eps connector well-spaced ones on the side of the motherboard and the bottom near the power supply and only one for the front panel audio conspicuously absent and there are lots of cable management loops with a CPU cutout for easier cooler installation back here as well there are also some weird vent holes back here that I feel like probably should have been just left solid the motherboard tray in this case is quite flimsy as it is and punching more holes and it just feels like tickling the bear so to speak with that said it feels fine once your motherboard is in just make sure you run your 8 pin power connector before mounting your board or it will not fit through the hole and also make sure your board is no wider than standard ATX or it will interfere with this bend in the tray power supply mounting is pretty bog-standard there's a filter on the bottom of the case but unfortunately it's kind of a pain to get it unless you flip the case over but this support brace that screws into the top and bottom of the chassis and prevents sag and up to too heavy expansion cards is actually a really nice addition the mechanism is fairly rudimentary just kind of unscrew it where it is and then screw it back in where you want it to be but it really works with that set I suspect part of the reason that it's needed is that the metal used for the rear of the case is quite thin so heavy cards are much more likely to warp the PCI slots and sag and while I'm complaining about those really Zelman one-time-use PCI covers I hate those what if I change my card loadout and I don't want to leave a gaping hole in the back of my system but I guess it's all kind of a you get what you pay for thing the MSRP for this case what told us enough to know that it wasn't going to be you know super amazingly built but it's certainly functional and surprisingly good-looking so for a single GPU gaming rig whoa looks like not a bad choice and at the prices that I've seen people on the line of tech tips forum saying they've gotten this case for on sale I'm willing to forgive you know boneheaded stuff like the pre-installed top 120 millimeter fan that will literally exhaust no air in the cases default config with the top panel closed so I mean with the right promo the r1 is a pretty killer value for 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