DIYPC Rainbow-Flash-S1 Case

Welcome to our review on DIYPC's Rainbow-Flash-S1 case

What's going on everyone, today we are going to be looking at another budget case, this time from DIYPC. The case in question is the Rainbow-Flash-S1. At the time of reviewing this case is $35 on Newegg, which is a very good price at a glance.
I won't be doing any thermal tests in this case today, as they would be flawed because my thermal solution I have in it now is a Hyper 212 heatsink with a random 120mm fan, not something that would be great to go by.
First impressions are pretty good. This case actually comes with a manual, a nice little bag or screws, all that jazz.

Here we can actually see that this is real tempered glass, not the shoddy acrylic that we see a lot in these cheaper cases. Very nice touch.

Here's the front IO. There's a power switch, reset switch, LED button, two USB 2.0 ports, a USB 3.0 port, and audio jacks. It's basic, nothing special.

Here's a picture of the inside, sorry for the bad lighting.
Anyways, we can see that this is actually a rebrand of the Sama case we reviewed previously! The build, the cable management, the shroud, and even the PCIe brackets are the same! The only differences pretty much is the tempered glass and the front panel! That's pretty cool to see.
So this makes us infer that there is one big factory or something of the sort that companies like Sama and DIYPC buy from, and then they change a few things.
Very very interesting.
This case actually does fit up to EATX motherboards. There really i'snt any cable holes for EATX boards, so I wouldn't recommend putting one in here, but you can.

Here's a shot of the front panel. It's completely solid with a vertical DIYPC logo. There is RGB lighting here.

Here's a picture of the side, where we can see that there are fairly large holes here for airflow, which might actually give better airflow than what people might expect from a solid front panel case.

So without further ado, let's put a build in this thing.
Here's a shot of my ever-so-crappy cable management.
And, just like the previous case review, its not bad.
This builds specs are: Core i5-2400, XFX RX 560, Biostar B75MU3+, 12gb ram, Hyper 212 cooler, 120gb WD green SSD, 750gb Seagate HDD, EVGA 500w W1 power supply. This one did take a bit more work on the cable management side than the last one, but still worked fine.
One note, the hard drive bay makes it pretty difficult to connect sata data and power cables to the hard drive.

Here's the build up and running! I must say, I am really liking this case.
This is just a shot of the side so you can see how it looks. As you can tell, there's not a lot of clutter or anything like that at all. One complaint I have is that there's not any closer holes at the bottom for USB headers when you have a micro ATX board.
Big thing to note: I'm not sure if this was just my hard drive or if it was the hard drive cage, but that drive is loud! It might be wiggling around a lot in there, and that's what's causing the noise. This is annoying because lots of people still use hard drives as secondary drives.

Here's a slight side shot of the build, still looks very nice. There are a lot of different LED modes. It's awesome.

Here's a shot of the front of the case. The LEDs are really vibrant, they're amazing! I'm pleasantly surprised by them.

So overall, this case is awesome for the price!
Pros: Cheap, tempered glass, awesome RGB lighting
Cons: Loud hard drive bay(?), funky cable management holes, mild airflow.

So, is it worth buying? I'd definitely say so! This provides awesome price to performance in a budget case!

OVERALL SCORE: 9/10

Link to this case on Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811353189

This review is not sponsored in any way, shape or form. This product was independently bought and reviewed with no bias in place.

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