Xigmatek introduce PC tower case - Zest

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For years PC enthusiasts cried for cases with good airflow. Now case makers put acrylic/glass panels on the front of the case cutting almost if not all airflow in favour of aesthetics. Good lord people have become so dumb with this RBG trend... At the moment I'm looking for mATX cases for my next build and god it's awful difficult to find something beautiful as well as functional with a low price point.
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That's only the case with poorly design computer cases that don't leave enough of a distance between the fans and the front cover or have too few and very restricted air vents, This problem existed way before RGB was a trend but became more apparent now with all the tempered glass and acrylic front panels. Sadly, in today's market, we're seing an exponential growth in Chinese budget cases being rebranded and sold with RGB by many case manufacturers. This case reminds me of a Thermaltake Core P attached to a standard computer case!
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Where does the air come in the front? I don't see any side vents on the front panel at least? Or is there a gap between the plastic and glass on the front panel I'm not seeing?
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vbetts:

Where does the air come in the front? I don't see any side vents on the front panel at least? Or is there a gap between the plastic and glass on the front panel I'm not seeing?
Looking at the pictures i say they left some space between the fans and the front panel and there's probably an opening at the bottom of the front panel that's responsible for all the air intake...it's a design feature shared by many cases. Let's hope the vent is big enough to not be restrictive.
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Wolfskin07:

Looking at the pictures i say they left some space between the fans and the front panel and there's probably an opening at the bottom of the front panel that's responsible for all the air intake...it's a design feature shared by many cases. Let's hope the vent is big enough to not be restrictive.
If the only air intake for those two large fans is at the top & bottom of the front panel, then that's not gonna be anywhere near enough airflow to feed those fans. I have a Phanteks P400 case which only has vents in said positions, and when I modded my case by cutting out a large vent hole in the front panel directly in front of the case fan then this lowered air temperatures around the GPU by a whole 7 degC, which is effectively a 7 degC drop in GPU temperature. The fans were severely air starved with only 2 vents at the top & bottom, so this case had better not apply that same design because it won't be worth buying.