Gigabyte GZ-P5 Plus Mid-Tower Case Incoming

Gigabyte is no stranger to the case market, so it was not too surprising to learn of a new model being completed, even if the company is more or less busy with motherboards.

The new case that Gigabyte created bears the name of GZ-P5 Plus and, quite obviously, is a revision of the GZ-P5.

Oddly enough, even though it is a bit larger than the original, the Plus ended up lighter, weighing 3.2 kilograms instead of 3.5 kilograms.

Speaking of size, the Plus measures 180 x 420 x 380 mm, which is more or less the same as 7.08 x 16.53 x 14.96 inches.

That said, the newcomer has all the features that people have come to expect of a desktop enclosure.

Space-wise, the inside of the chassis is big enough to allow for micro ATX and ATX motherboards to be installed.

Meanwhile, five internal 3.5-inch drive bays enable large storage capacities to be installed, either via hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs).

Granted, SSDs will need to get some special holsters, since they are commonly too small for those bays (2.5-inch).

Furthermore, the Gigabyte case boasts a pair of USB 2.0 connectors on the front, as well as the obligatory audio and mic jacks.

Finally, for some internal ventilation, Gigabyte threw in an 80mm fan at the rear of the GZ-P5 Plus. Not the greatest of spinners, but it will still blow most of the lingering heat waves away.

All in all, this is something of a mid-range PC product, which means it will not have too high a price when it finally appears.

Unfortunately, speculations are everything anyone has to go on at the moment, since there was no word on the exact date, nor on the price.

In the meantime, prospective buyers can check out the other things Gigabyte has been working on, particularly the motherboards for Sandy Bridge-E processors.