Zalman Z7 Plus Case Review

Inside Z7 Plus

Both panels are fastened to the case using silver thumbscrews, which is excellent. Before talking about the interior from Z7 Plus, let’s take a look at the left panel from this case, which is portrayed in Figure 7. There you can see the 120 mm fan, the fan speed controller and the place for installing a second fan.

Figure 7: Left panel.

The interior from Z7 Plus can be seen in Figure 8. Being a budget unit, its interior isn’t painted black. The motherboard tray features a huge hole for you to have access to the backplate from the CPU cooler, allowing you to replace it without having to remove the motherboard. However, no holes are available for you to route cables behind the motherboard tray. In fact there is almost no space between the motherboard tray and the right panel, so we think it would be difficult to store cables there anyway.

Figure 8: Overall look.

Figure 9: A view from behind the motherboard tray.

Expansion cards are held in place with the use of individual plastic retention mechanisms, which can be seen in Figure 10.

Figure 10: Overall look.

According to Zalman this case allows the installation of video cards up to 12” (30.5 cm) long and CPU coolers up to 6 3/8” (16.2 cm) tall.