Zalman S5 RGB Medium Tower ATX Case with Glass Panels

The case is very nice. The metal of the case is a good thickeness. Glass is excellent. The lighting on the front of the case and the rear fan is cool. Seems that airflow is good for my build. It is a ryzen CPU with RX 560 graphics card and 500 W power supply.

Case is good looking and has good cable management options. I am very pleased. It is quiet, USb and audio ports work well. Good value.

Very hesitant to buy to this because of the reviews regarding air flow but the aesthetics won me over. Unforunately, the air issue is true.The front plate doesn't have holes or any kind of opening to intake air, which means the fans will just blow hot air through the inside out the back of the case. It doesn't help when the case comes with only 2 fans. I recommend getting an additional 4 fans or more to keep it as cool as possible.I have an i5 cpu and an intel gpu for video editing and it manages to stay 60 degrees. However, I would be concerned about putting i9 or Ryzen 9 CPUs with high wattage GPUs that'll generate lots of heat inside the case when running intensive programs or games, especially during the summer.I LOVE the way it looks though! Very clean with nice looking RGB lights. The cable management is actually pretty good! It has a swinging door to cover the clump of wires. Getting inside the case is easy as well.I would recommend this case, but please bear in mind the air flow. If you know your components are going run hot, then I recommend a fish tank case or at case with a front panel that supports intake air flow. Casual use and less intensive tasks is what I'd use this case for.

I will start with the pros, this case looks really nice, I just love the modern sleek look, the combination of white and black is really nice, the RGB is decent and customizable. It’s got storage expandability for days. it’s got four 2.5 SSD mounts and 2 hard drive mounts. The cable management cubbyhole in the back is a nice touch with the plastic cover.Now the cons….Where do I start….If you have ever use a cheap case like Montech, then you’ll know what I mean, the metal is very thin, because of that when I got at the top metal of the roof was actually bent down, I had to bend it back, it’s 90% straight now.Where are you mount the graphics card, there’s this plastic cover, and the part where you screw it down to, hopefully your graphics card HDMI port isn’t right next to it like mine is, there was no way to plug in an HDMI, I had to shave some plastic off the cable to make it fit, it’s a poor design on the case. So I just have it physically removed which gives a big gap in the back, which isn’t a big deal, because the more airflow this case has the better.The RGB is exactly connected the same way Montech is with these daisy chained molex connectors. Which in itself isn’t a super big deal, if you’ve ever used other cases that require molex to power the built-in RGB. But this thing is like 8 inches long it takes up a lot of space, and is very awkward to cable-manage all the random cables attached to it.It has a front mounted fan on the bottom cooling the hard drives, I was going to install more fans in the front, when I discovered the way to pop out the front cover requires pinching these plastic tabs, and just over half of them are covered by the case and you physically can’t get to it. So that front cover is basically permanently attached.The ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM -The only air coming in from the front, is from this tiny little strip on the right side that is less than half an inch wide and goes from the top to the bottom, THATS IT. I have a similar case from thermaltake but at least it has a gap for air that’s about 2 inches wide on both sides and the bottom, this has a little half inch gap on the right, there is no airflow coming into this case from the front, so I had to mount a fan on the top to blow air in, which is not ideal. Be sure that whatever computer you put in this is not one that runs hot. Fortunately I put in a CPU and GPU combination that doesn’t get any hotter than 60 C.Conclusion : I otherwise really like the look of the case. This is definitely a beginner case. And if your on a budget. Sure why not. But there are other budget beginner “RGB” cases you can find out there that will probably be a better case than this, for 70$ or less.