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Zalman Z11 Plus HF1 Edition Gaming Case Unboxing & Showcase Linus Tech Tips

2012-08-28
welcome to my unboxing and showcase of the sallman z11 plus h f1 or hellfire one this is pretty similar to the Zalman z11 plus that we took a look at before so we're not going to go too much into the details of the case itself but more into what separates the hf 1 edition from the regular case you can also check out my previous unboxing of the Zalman z11 plus just by searching for it on the youtubes let's go ahead and open this up you've got your hard foam packaging not my favorite but the corners are well protected so I wouldn't expect you to run into any issues with this particular one now what's special about the hf sorry yeah hf 1 edition of the case is the fact that it has a pretty color scheme that if you're into you know you know garden demonic games like ah you know dungeon crawlers that involve like hell and fire that might be a pretty good match if you wanted to do a PV system around something like that go ahead and check this out so be it right so the z11 plus is pretty much what we've come to expect good cooling so the whole front is got excellent ventilation it's just go ahead and oh oh it's so close so close to getting in one piece so at the front we've got our 120 millimeter cooling fan we've also got ample ventilation the hard drives again again ample cooling from the additional ventilation that's available here the side window is actually very very unique so it kind of pops out which might seem like kind of an odd design choice at the beginning but then if you go oh wait what if the end user wanted a huge tower cooler on their CPU that would be a way to achieve it because there's lots and lots of room for that at the top you got a little tray for storing things you've also got your front USB 2 for an audio front USB 3 power switch reset switch and your hard drive indicator LED but I actually kind of like designs as long as the manufacturer leaves enough space for ventilation where it looks clean from the front and you've got lots of cooling from the back so you know business in the front party in the back um this one like the design I've seen ones in the last of a while that I didn't like it as much because there's like this much of a gap and like no actual room for airflow but this is this is fun ok from the back you got your i/o you've got your 120 millimeter fan you got 7 PCI slots and your standard standard these days I guess it didn't used to be standard not that long ago but bought a mounted power supply so let's go ahead and open this baby up so you guys can whoops it's okay talk about if you can if you haven't seen this up in place yet you can have a look at it from the inside so there's an 80 millimeter cooling fan that's going to take care of your drive cooling also got a black sleeve Kaiba let's get little details like that do count you guys and then in the front you've got your red LED fan in the back you've got another red LED fan in terms of included accessories you've got on look at that they include an 8 pin power quick extension see again details details they count all of your included hardware goes PCI brackets and then you can mount this is actually actually neat as well because a lot of the time the the back of your PCIe slots can get extremely hot because graphic cards are hot and they blow heat down on them so you can throw a little 60ml fan in there to take care of that we've also got another 120 millimeter red LED fan up here in the top and these are all using silver cables I don't mind silver cables I'd prefer black but it's not the end of the world got your cable management holes you've got your motherboard CPU cut out for easy installation of large aftermarket coolers ah this is kind of disappointing you've got a USB 3 pass through so you'll plug these into the back of the board would have preferred to see an internal header in this day and age we've got another 80 millimeter fan on the other side not might come in handy again for drive cooling and all of your drive rails are included where exactly wholeness that yeah so apparently that's the same mistake I made last time that's an SS now I mean if fact you could put a fan there it's up to you as for the hard drive mounts you just use these rubber isolation grommets and screws slide them in here it's pretty much toolless although you have the option I guess of installing a screw no probably not yeah I don't see your favorite okay so there tool is um all black interior which is a must these days in my opinion and ample room for cable management see I can even like Jam my hand back there should I should I see fit so thank you for checking out my unboxing and stay tuned we're going to show you guys what this will look like with like a red food color dulled inside it alright so we did a quick build it's not a complete build or anything like that but we've got a maximus 5 formula in there we've got the Zalman CMPs 9900 and that's the red LED version so you can see the red LED fan that comes on the top the red LED fan that comes in the back you got a very cool glowing effect going on inside this system because it's got like a frosted or a smoked a smoked side panel you can see through the top it's about my kind of a neat sort of you know hellish glow the front again you've got a bit of a glow so overall would I say that the red hf1 Edition is cooler than the regular as the 11 plus yeah actually it looks great we've got a fatality 1000 watt power supply in there so that's why you've got some additional red glow coming from the bottom and there's the it's very quiet - actually it's kind of surprised at those usually you get those sort of I mean it's almond so that should have been my expectation but usually you get those like performance Edition parts and they tend to be like really really loud that's what it looks like the side panel off looking good actually okay so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Zalman z11 plus h f1 edition don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for 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