Zalman GS1000

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Despite it's admittedly excellent cooling ability, we still have a lot of reservations about the GS1000. It's significantly noisy with the included fans which is a major let down, especially as in the past Zalman is a company you'd associate with quiet, well-built and innovative products. Needless to say that the GS1000 doesn't continue this trend, and is certainly not a quiet case; you'll definitely know if this is turned on or not even with a passive graphics card. If you swap out the fans though, you'll compromise cooling performance too. In that respect, if we fitted the Lian Li and Akasa with high CFM and noisy fans, they would perform a lot better too - any case would as a wind-tunnel.

All this could have been resolved by including an in-built fan controller, allowing the user to choose how much they want to compromise cooling ability / noise levels, but this feature is likely another victim of Zalman's economy drive.

The build quality is frankly rubbish, thanks mostly to the choice of plastic as an exterior material, which has led to ill fitting side panels and noticeable gaps . It has clearly been used instead of aluminium as a cost saving exercise to allow the Zalman GS1000 to compete with other cases in this price band, but if the compromise is shoddy build quality, its obviously not worth it; If you spend over £100 on a case, you at least expect it to fit together properly - this isn't IKEA flat pack furniture after all.

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