 Alright, 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, the list goes on and 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 Roomba video that I have upcoming, but keep your review requests coming anyway. Save on select Intel 730 series SSDs with instant rebates during President's week, February 22nd to March 1st, 2015. Click now to learn more. So you guys often ask me for more affordable stuff. The Zonin 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 a mount for another. Although it's very unlikely you'd be able to fit a radiator here due to the motherboard clearance and issues that you might run into. The front of the case features a brushed finish and a stylized Zalman Z with a very stealthy, seriously, there does not appear to be a handle door that opens up to reveal the junkiest noise dampening material I think I have ever seen. Seriously, there are round plastic stickers applied to the magnets that 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 bay, a two 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 Cooler Master 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 fan on the only radiator compatible fan mount in the case, external water cooling grommet, seven PCI slots, and a bottom mounted power supply 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-less 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 tool-less 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-less five and a quarter inch cages is the Lamo 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, 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 tray, there are lots of cable management holes that are mostly actually pretty well positioned, one in the corner for the 8-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 in 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'll 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 at 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 two heavy expansion cards is actually a really nice addition. The mechanism is fairly rudimentary, you 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 said, 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 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, well, it looks like not a bad choice, and at the prices that I've seen people on the Linus 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 case's default config with the top panel closed, so, I mean, with the right promo, the R1 is a pretty killer value for a windowed case with a black interior, a stylish looking front panel, and all of the other things that it's got going for it, so it wins my, it might be good, but it really depends how much you'll be paying for it award. 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