ZALMAN Intros P10 Micro-ATX Mini Tower with Pillarless Corner

[btarunr]

ZALMAN today introduced the P10 series Micro-ATX mini-tower case, which comes in black and white variants. A striking design feature with the case is its pillarless front-left corner, where the front- and left tempered glass panels meet. You still get a glass edge, this isn't a single piece glass panel. Inside, the case features a horizontally partitioned layout, with the bottom portion only accessible by removing the right panel, which is mostly perforated for good airflow. On the left- and front, this portion is completely walled off, but has some side-facing vents for passive ventilation for the PSU bay.

The motherboard bay of the ZALMAN P10 offers maximum clearance of 38.2 cm for graphics cards, and 17.3 cm for CPU coolers. There are 5 expansion slots, and a graphics card reinforcement that can be adjusted to fit the thickness of your graphics card. It counteracts PCB bending of graphics cards over time. Storage options include a single 3.5-inch bay, and an additional 2.5-inch mount. Ventilation options include either three 120 mm or two 140 mm vents at the top; two 120 mm along the bottom; and a 120 mm rear exhaust. You can mount a 360 mm or 280 mm radiator along the top, and a 240 mm radiator along the bottom. The case measures 216 mm x 418 mm x 422 mm (WxHxD), weighing 6.1 kg. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[Chaitanya]

So overall a cheaper version of P30 and changes made to PCI slots is stupid with both cases carrying stupid HDD cage and choice of single USB A port(which seems to be trend as upcoming DeepCool CH360 cases also feature it). Other than that it seems like a decent pair of cases from Zalman.

 

[Daven]

Cases have come a long way since the days of cutting yourself on sharp metal edges and ridiculous drive cages riveted into the external structure. Cable management was joke and forget about air flow.

I will not miss those days.

 

[PLAfiller]

Looks good to me. I mean Zalman know their bracket and to be fair most of the time they do offer a good value in EU. At the €50-60 bracket they throw in 3-4 fans which are not loud and for new builders are perfectly fine without additional investement...so yeah, nice to trickle down some HYTE Y70 corner designs to the budget crowd.

 

[bonehead123]

y/A/w/N....

meet the new boss....(almost the) same as the old boss.....- The Who

 

[john_]

I wonder why they build cases that are wide enough to host vertical GPUs and don't add 2 or 3 vertical expansion slots for anyone wanting to try it. Instead you have Zalman in the product page describing that lost opportunity and useless part of the case's back as "Rear Air Vent".

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I have a Silverstone SUGO series case that stacks a full sized ATX PSU *above* the CPU/RAM Area, which really helps cut down on the footprint of the case.

One of the smallest M-ATX cases I have ever seen that still takes full sized components (its my HTPC, running a 5600X and my old 980Ti powered by a Corsair HX560W PSU).

Its just a shame the case is so damn old, cause it follows a lot of the dumb old design principals of riveted in sheet metal and mandatory disc drive slot, etc which makes it harder to work in than it has to be.