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welcome back to taking our city this is the dark coming back to you guys today with not a review of this TV but a review of this little guy over here the Zalman z3 Plus which is a mid-tower ATX sized case now also this big screen here I'm going to be getting the overclocking tutorial done for you guys on the AMD FX CPU so that will be coming soon as well I'm also going to be getting a review done of this CPU cooler but without further ado let's get on with the review today of the sound and z3 plus case today we have the Salomon z3 plus edition which differs from the z3 and then it has a mirror here and it has USB 3 and a fan switch button and so today this case is only 40 dollars might add so today I'm going to be reviewing this case for you guys telling you all the ins and outs of this case and also you probably wondering the format's a little bit different yes this is going to be my work PC and I'm also going to quickly showcase this PC at the end of this video for you guys and the audio might be bad as well so sorry about that I'm just recording off my EOS digital camera so anyway without further ado let's go into the review of this case now I'll get the negatives damaged straight away because there's not many negatives about this case first of all first negative is that these clips at the back once you take them out you cannot put them back in so unless you're welcome so that's the first little negative I could only find in this case the next is the paint here actually differs slightly from the top to the rest of the case it's a slightly different white so it may annoy some of those people who are very picky about things and also the next negative that I could only find is generally the space of the case it's not that big however that can be a positive as well in people who want small cases I just found with something like a GTX 670 big fan like this the CP NS 14 and a 651 pounds but there wasn't that much space to move around especially with the cable management so that is a little negative for me but personally since this case is so small and it only weighs 6 kilograms I see that as being a positive as well okay ultimately cable management was fine and we will take the side panel soon to show you guys what's inside this rig the next positive is and the next negative is well the last little negative is of this fan switch button it literally just doesn't work I don't really notice a difference much between the fan speeds when I hit this on and I hit this off it just doesn't do anything the fan speeds don't really change they just stay the same speed all right let's get on with the positives because there are a lot of positives about this cases okay so now moving on to the case itself there's a lot of positives to talk about with this case so let's look at firstly the build quality of the case and the aesthetics this thing this case looks absolutely phenomenal for 40 dollars I really fell in love with the Artic white on this case as well as the included 120 millimeter fan at the front which lights up blue so the design and the build quality of this case definitely impress me everything on this case there's no sharp edges at all so salmon have really paid attention to making sure that even a person say with diabetes and thin skin on their hands one cut themselves so I really like that there's no there's no sharp edges the build quality is really good I also like the fact that this case has very easy I say I'll show you up here very easy support for installing hard drives so you just put these two clips here on my hard drive and you can slot it in and out I'm not actually going to do it because the hard drive is already it's working at the moment this here comes out with relatively relative ease but it also at the same time feels solid so put in and that will install your 5.25 drain and drive base you'll also see here that there's a cutout here for an SSD as well which really impressed me because this this case ultimately it's just get up towards the game up we've also got here this cutout here which is an intuitive design which will run over for a two slot cooler to slide as you can see here to slot this and one thing to notice is that this motherboard is actually a little bit further down than what's usual this is the and the 990 fxg d65 motherboard it's usually a little bit up so this card would run an extended card wouldn't Ryland absolutely fine you could fit any graphics card that I can think of would fit in this a 290x at 2:19 a 780ti would you want to fit two of these I would say no because this is only a GTX 670 and it's already coming out hitting it further than this metal bracket here so if you want to go with SLI I would recommend it only for two mid-range cards so two gtx 760 s or maybe two reference 777 okay but anything like a 780 or higher probably won't fit to and won't fit in there the one will definitely fit and I think ultimately I can recommend this case for any single graphics card configuration setup let's have a look now also what you get with the case Zalman also include this bracket here which unfortunately I can't fit due to this crappy it's sad because this case is really good but this Zalman cooler is really crap so I'm going to be reviewing the sound and cooler for you guys soon but this it comes included with this which doesn't fit unfortunately but this is actually really good design because it will support either two graphics cards if you decide to flip it this way it will support either two graphics cards if you decide to flip it this way or you can flip it this way and have it fit a CPU cooler and a say GTX 780 so and you can I mean it is just really good I really like the Zelman have paid attention to detail with everything on this case as you can see here deep in the case you've got cable management cut out options and ultimately I mean there's nothing super fancy it's kind of I see this case as being in Jack rather than an ace and anything but ultimately it does the job really well with everything I mean it's a solid case and I just keep reminding myself in this case only costs $40 now if we look here in the case we can see that these fans people were complaining about the fans and honestly I found the fans to be absolutely fine especially for a case that includes four and for $40.00 people were complaining that the fans were not strong enough I found them to be ample fine for a person who wants to mildly overclock their cpu say the 4.2 gigs or 4.4 on an AMD and mildly overclock that grabbers card say to you know 10% overclock on their graphics card this thing will do the job as well we've also got the bottom cutouts of here for the power splay honestly after using bottom cutout palce place I really like the power supply when it's at the bottom we've also got a dust filter underneath which you can take out and clean with relative ease and Zalman also have put really solid rubber feet on this case as well so the whole build quality of the case again impressed me I'd give it for $40.00 I'd give this case a 10 out of 10 for build quality now if you're hearing any noise as well it's probably because of this epns fan it's actually again when I do the review of this cooler I'll show you tell you how crap this thing is but anyway let's move on now to the front of the case okay so the front of the case includes pretty much mesh and it's nice black and white theme and it's got the Zalman logo badged on there as well now these metal brackets here there's two of them for two 5.25 inch drive bays they've come out with relatively relative ease and you can also put them back in if you want to so that's actually a really good feature I like that they've done that they've also got a cushion there and ultimately yeah I mean everything I love this case so far let's pull this let's pull the front of this case off for you guys so that that comes off with relative ease and I really like the tension of it it's not too weak but at the same time it's not too strong as well so I really like that Zelman have paid attention to the build quality at the front of the case as well it feels pretty well built I mean everything on this case feels really well built the fan as you can see here it's a nice clean cut out here if you want to take this fan off and replace it you can replace this with really easy to replace you've also the drive bay installations were a breeze I could fit this drive bay in and out with no problems at all and putting it back on is I mean it's not too much of an effort just bang it on and it goes back on like that so it's really good the design of the front of the case is really good so now moving on to the front of the top of the case sorry we've got the Zalman logo here we've got the fan switch button which I found was useless the reset and the power buttons and you've got a mic in and an audio headphone out there you've also got 2 USB 2 slots and you also have a USB 3 slot there now we also get to 120 millimeter fans which blow at the top of the case and I really like these fans and they really look subtle you won't notice they're there and I did mention that the build quality was pretty good at the start like even things like this I don't see waiting so again they've paid attention to the build quality in this case it really looks good I really like it now let's move on down to the rear of the case so moving up to the reference case we've got mesh here we've got two cutouts here we've also got mesh here which I found useful for cable management since my power supply is from 2002 also we've got here the this this really does this impress me as well the power supply mounting options there was like six mounting points as well so if you've got different sort of mounting positions on your power supply to be able to mount this power supply with relative ease we've also got the screws there I mean there's just lots of features on this thing the cutouts here I did mention that is a negative they don't go back in once you cut them out so be mindful of that and yeah everything on the green looks pretty good let's move on now to the back side of the case there's nothing too fancy here there's actually a nice bump out here which sort of adds to the style of the case and I also found it really good in this situation where I had a lot of extra cables because my power supply was not modular I was able to sort of tough a few cables in here and it sort of solved my of having too little space so that's something that's on the back side of the case let's now move on now to the conclusions of this case because I'm going to be putting my recommendations on this case which this case does get a high recommendation okay so let's move on now to the conclusion of this case basically this I'm sorry also I forgot to mention it comes loaded with screws more than you're ever going to need if you're just doing the average install of a single GPU gaming rig so lots of screws included also I forgot to mention as well that at the front here you can also put in an extra hundred 20mm millimeter fan if you wish to cool your hard drives so they've paid attention to detail and in conclusion I can recommend this case to anyone on a budget who's not going to be going crazy with the overclock so it's not going to be installing water cooling and honestly if you've got enough money for water cooling then come on you should go by and really you know not in really expensive case but you should be buying something at least for $100 if you go water cooling that's just my opinion especially if it's custom water loop but you know even if you went with a small water cooler you could replace this fan here and mount a single radio like a h2o 920 or a 620 you can definitely mount it at the rear here and have it cooling your CPU so it does have some little options I just don't see myself mounting a H 100 anywhere in this case or anything custom but for $40.00 this case is great for someone who just wants that nice looking case that does everything pretty well so I would call this case the jack-of-all-trades I usually don't use that title and I I mean that this case just hits that title perfectly well it's not the best case I've seen for anything but it's not the worst case I've seen for anything as well I mean the drives installed relatively easy the build quality is really damn good the you know everything is just smooth the front comes off and uneasy the fans weren't relatively well so in this case honestly gets a big recommendation and the perfect person for this case someone who say using a gtx760 or an online 270x using say a for 670 K or an i3 or a 8320 or an FX 6300 and you're not going crazy like this CPU cool here this thing is really too big I'd say like an animosity for T or a cool monster to 12 then this case will be perfect for you I would recommend this case with SLI if you were going with say two GTX 760 s but that's one thing I would like Salman maybe the seen them do would be maybe to put two cutouts here I'm not cutouts but two options or cutouts here to install 220 millimeter fans covering the graphics cards if they did that then this case would be really perfect for SLI as well in my opinion so ultimately they've done a great job with this case for the single GPU even a GTX 780 I recommend but again I'll stress don't be put into GTX 780 s in this thing I don't think it'll fit or 209 290 X's but you know definitely two mid-range cards will fit in this fine and I ultimately think that this whole rig this whole case is designed for that gamer who's going to be putting an SSD in one hard drive 1 DVD Drive and it's going to have that long graphics card and also one thing to mention is well you may wish to get a modular power supply if you go with this case because it is really small it's actually not really small but ultimately I'll say I love the size of this case it's not I mean you could actually take this on an airplane with you if you're traveling and I don't think you'd get pulled up so it's actually a bit smaller than what I'm used to with cases and actually like it is sort of like almost as small as a micro ATX case so it only weighed about 6 kilograms I think and so it was relatively light as well so highly recommended from Salomon if you guys have anything that I've missed about this rig then please let me know in the comments below also if you have anything that a mist or if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up okay so before I go I will showcase this rig for you guys as well I said I would do it and now basically it's got the CP NS 14 X cool which I don't recommend but that's calling this CPU ample fine at four point four gigs at about one point four two volt and now if we go to GTX 670 in here gigabyte overclocked condition really good graphics card I love this graphics card especially I love the wind force coolers I think they're really good we've got a ocz power supply from 2002 this 600 watt power supply powers everything ample fine and this is why guys this is why I recommend OCC power supplies will I use to especially but they've gone bankrupt now but I used to recommend them because they supplied really damn good pass players hard drive Western Digital black 640 40 gigabyte DVD drives a standard DVD drive and yeah that's about it I may never think he is running ample fine so I hope you liked the build the cable management's not the best and that's mainly due to the cables here not being long enough that CPU cable and PCI Express not being long enough to route through and do proper cable management but out the way I did think I did a pretty decent job considering the limited limitations of this pass play so I hope you enjoyed this review and this quick look at the AMD rig if you have any questions please let me know in the comments and I'm gonna yes so one more time please give a thumbs up also did you like the new video format dude would you like to see me maybe get better audio on the camera and give you reviews like this or do you like reviews where I'm just sitting in my in my my lat laboratory so let me know I'd love to hear your feedback and also there is the overclocking tutorial coming for you guys very soon the folks on AMD and I'm gonna be doing another not recommended review and that's gonna be on this CPU cooler however the difference between this CPU cooler and the creative C was that sometimes in some circumstances I did recommend the creative Z for instance if you wanted to get a headphone amp and I thought the creative Z was recommended by I just didn't recommend it for some just want one solution this however I don't recommend and any circumstances I think the Animax t40 man I should have paid that extra three dollars because I was regretting it so this thing you can even hear it's probably not you can hear the noise the noise that you hear is coming from this CPU fan everything else here is really quiet this CPU cooler is making the noise and that's pissing me off anyways hope you enjoyed this review and I'll catch you guys later peace out for now bye