Features:
The R2 Toast is surprisingly available 7 colour options. These include; black, white, lime green, orange, pink, ocean blue and sky blue. The colour I received to review today is the ocean blue one. All the colours are quite strong and eye catching as you can see in the picture below! The inset area where the optical drive ejects into is either white or silver depending on the colour of the body. A blue LED bar at the top of this inset area provides a soft illumination, as is also pictured below. On the top edge of the front bezel, under a cover, you'll find two USB ports, a headphone plug, mic plug and the reset button. The power button lies in the middle of the front bezel and the optical drive eject button is on the left edge.

When you first take the R2 Toast out of the box and start checking it out you'll be quick to notice that it's a very shallow case compared to most other mid-towers. The area that adds a lot of space to most cases is the drive cages - something the R2 Toast completely lacks. The optical drive mounts under the front bezel, vertically, and to keep up this space-saving design GMC chose to also mount the dual 3.5" hard drive bay vertically on the inside of the case. Since no drives will be laying horizontally in the case to waste space, the chassis is greatly compacted in terms of depth. With GMC choosing to mount the hard drive caddy at the top of the case, the bottom portion still gives you lots of clearance for long video cards (about 10" max in length).

  
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Although it is more compact than most, the R2 Toast is still a mid-tower case that will accept all standard ATX, micro-ATX and Full-ATX motherboard sizes. The power supply also isn't anything special; any standard size ATX power supply will fit (Although none is provided. I'll be using the GlacialPower 650A for the purpose of this review). Keep in mind the drive cages are right across from the power supply at the top of the case, so if you're using a longer power supply then you might have a tight squeeze for your wiring. The same goes for long optical drives because the cables need clearance to bend and go through a hole to reach inside the case. For reference, I had problems mounting any optical drives that were longer than 6.75" in length.

Cooling is provided by up to four 80mm fans (the fourth would take the place of the side panel air duct). Since no front cooling can be installed due to the optical and hard drive bays, the fan layout provides room for two 80mm fans on the rear on the case, one on the bottom of the case, and if you remove the side panel air duct you could put a fourth one there. GMC includes one GMC-branded 80mm brushless fan in the rear which connects using an available molex connector from your power supply. With most new case designs on the market using a 120mm exhaust fan, I was slightly let down to see the R2 Toast still using 80mm fans for cooling (a much noisier and less effective method). I would have rather seen them make the case slightly wider and cool it with a 120mm fan in the rear. Not only would a larger fan help move more air (with the lack of intake fans) but it would also be a lot quieter.

 
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