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Review on Thermaltake Perforated Computer with Pre-Installed CA-1G6-00S1WN-A0 for Enhanced SEO by Micha Niemczyk ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A very high-quality product, I take it not for the first time.

Prior to this case, the Fractal Design Define R4 used for a long time. Define is an excellent body, but it began to annoy with its size. The desire to change it to something compact for an ATX motherboard has grown. I saw this thermal take and bought it. Case material - thin metal on the walls and back. The window is plastic. The front panel is plastic. There are two fans in front. Two valves can be hung on the ceiling. The far ceiling is attached with two screws, and it must be very thin because there is a riser for the video card under it. I installed Scythe Kaze-Jyuni 12mm thick. The bundled face fans are made of cheap hard plastic and cut the air roughly. I replaced them with a couple of corsairs faster and quieter. PCI slots can accommodate only one dual-slot video card through a riser. And nothing more. For the HDD, there are two plastic screwless, damperless baskets under the fans. In the baskets, the disks are tightly fixed in the transverse plane, but in the longitudinal they go by about 1 mm. You can optionally secure the HDD with longer than standard screws. At the bottom of the case there is 3 cm of empty space where you can try to shove one HDD, or elegantly plug 1-2 SATA SSDs. You can also put the SSD on a shelf in front of the bottom front fan. Information for owners of long video cards. The internal distance from the rear wall to the fan on the front side is slightly more than 31 cm. If you look objectively, then this case is four points out of five. Compared to the Fractal Design Define R4, the TT G3 has worse dust filters, worse HDD cooling, and worse noise isolation. On the other hand, it is a relatively inexpensive nice compact case made of real metal with a window. Then everything depends on the desires of the buyer, who cares what, those parameters will be significant, and the shortcomings will become features that you need to put up with. For example, I wanted a small ATX case - I got it and I don’t see any better options for myself. The goal is achieved, so I'll give the hull five points.

Pros
  • Compact metal case for ATX motherboard. Cute in appearance.
Cons
  • The main drawback for me is the dust filters. Compared to Fractal Design Define R4, there are none. The second drawback is that the seats for hard drives are located on the front side under the fans and are not ventilated in any way. When I had dropsy - HDD heated up to 42 degrees and above. I changed the dropsy to Noctua NH-L9x65 air and it got better. The third drawback is the inconvenience of placing the water cooling of the processor in the presence of an HDD. If someone thinks that they will cheerfully put a radiator from dropsy with a valve on the ceiling of the case, then no. There, the distance from the ceiling to the border of the motherboard and metal pins is about 4 centimeters. I tried to put a radiator on the face of the case, but then the HDD began to warm up. As a result of experiments, I came to the following cooling config. On the face are two conventional valves for blowing. On the ceiling in the distance, one thin valve for blowing. On the processor lies the Noctua airflow with the direction of air flow to the motherboard. This is how a compromise is reached, in which the HDDs are well cooled and the processor does not heat up too much. But if you don't have an HDD or don't have a fad about cooling them, put a dropsy in place of the front fan and don't worry.