Zalman Z7 Plus review

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Zalman Z7 Plus

The bottom of the chassis, as simple as it really is, we like to see the rubber feet. it will help protecting the chassis from resonating which helps your PC to be more silent. and this chassis definitely is quite noiseless.

Zalman Z7 Plus

The inside then, we see fairly decent space to work in. But how cool would it have been to see a black inside as well. But that doesn't fit the budget, of course. Makes total sense.

Eye catching is the huge hole in the motherboard tray. Initially introduced by Cooler Master last year and now being picked up by a lot of companies. It allows you to access to the CPU cooler backplate and makes replacing a CPU cooler a lot easier without having to remove the motherboard.

Here I should make a note immediately as well about video cards, if you use a lot of HDDs and a lengthy high-end graphics card, the two lower HDDs in the drive cage and the GFX card will bump into each other. The chassis as such is not lengthy enough, Zalman mentions video cards up to 12 (30.5 cm) long and CPU coolers up to 6 3/8 (16.2 cm) tall.

 

Zalman Z7 Plus

What draws out attention is that there is not real space for cable routing, there literally is almost no space between the motherboard tray and the right panel, being a closed design (no see-through panels) it should not be a big deal. But we like cable management as we like a PC clean and tidy.

Zalman Z7 Plus

In the upper compartment we can see the 12MM fan. 1300 RPM, and quite honestly, really silent. One-Touch PCI card holder enables easy adding or removing of PCI components. You can still secure the cards with a screw if you would like to do that of course.

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