*ALL NEW!!*, *Innovative!* Thermaltake HTPC case!!
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It's not a Nexus up front, Thermaltake just copied the orange color and made their own fan. The orange Thermaltake fans sound nowhere near as good as the orange Nexus 120mm, or any other Nexus for that matter.GUNNER wrote:Interesting case. Biggest minus is if (according to the referenced review) a full ATX mobo really prevents a full-size CD from going in the fold-down bay spot.
Looks like a Nexus as the front fan, so why 2x60mm for the exhaust?
Guys, any time Ralf puts the words "Thermaltake" and "innovative" together in a sentence, he's probably being sarcastic.
FYI, The company is known around here for making stuff that's similar to what the competition has already produced. Not copycat products, but sometimes they are obviously "inspired". Decent quality and decent prices, high availability, and highly inflated noise specs (their stuff is never as quiet as advertised). At least, that's my impression of Thermaltake.
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Well it can't be the Nexus because it's a 80mm intake fan. And the Nexus 80mm is not orange.It's not a Nexus up front, Thermaltake just copied the orange color and made their own fan. The orange Thermaltake fans sound nowhere near as good as the orange Nexus 120mm, or any other Nexus for that matter.
But on the Big Typhoon Thermaltake uses the Nexus fan, well they use the orange Yate Loon D12SL-12. Not exactly the Nexus but almost.
Two 60mm exhaust fans are useless, you can't get them quiet, so I don't think it's a very good case unless you use your PSU as the only exhaust.
Oh boy that thing is an aesthetic train wreck. Can someone please tell what is the point of spending time and money to construct a PC that's inaudible, so as not to call attention to itself, if every time you walk in the room it leaps out from under the telly and slaps you around the face with a couple of haddock (still frozen, naturally)???
Still, looking at the other non-HTPC cases on their website its maybe not suprising! Whatever happened to less-is-more? Whoever invented the blue LED should be shot. Repeatedly. With frozen haddock.
Still, looking at the other non-HTPC cases on their website its maybe not suprising! Whatever happened to less-is-more? Whoever invented the blue LED should be shot. Repeatedly. With frozen haddock.
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Anything Thermaltake gets instantly bashed here... I think some people would have said it was a nice-looking case if they hadn't been biased by the brand.
I personally don't like cases like this at all, but it LOOKS as good to me as, say, a Silverstone case.... .which are highly overrated in terms of looks.
Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
I personally don't like cases like this at all, but it LOOKS as good to me as, say, a Silverstone case.... .which are highly overrated in terms of looks.
Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
It looks like one of those ridiculous shiny white plastic designs with blocky/exaggerated curves that you always see in "IMAGINE WHAT TEH FUTURE HOUSEHOLDZOR WILL LOOK LIKE IN 30 YEARZ!@$" exhibits/demos.Mar. wrote:Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
And yeah, that drive door (and baby equalizer sub-door, how cute) is pretty silly.
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I'm the same person who very much likes the Tsunami Dream for usage in my dual radiated water cooled system, so you can't call me biased by the brand.Mar. wrote:Anything Thermaltake gets instantly bashed here... I think some people would have said it was a nice-looking case if they hadn't been biased by the brand.
I personally don't like cases like this at all, but it LOOKS as good to me as, say, a Silverstone case.... .which are highly overrated in terms of looks.
Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
On the other hand, I've never had a ThermalTake product that was even halfway decent. The ONLY exception I would ever make is a heatsink I got from them, the TR2TT TR2M1. It's a simple aluminum fin/copper base Socket A heatsink, but what sets it apart are two things: its very low price (around 8 bucks on newegg), and its incredibly low build quality: The copper base is actually held on by SCREWS. It also came with an extremely cheesy clear LED fan that I cut the LED's off of, then later replaced. BUT, it cooled very well for its price, even with a slow fan on it.
Thermaltake steals ideas, and cuts corners on them. I have to admire their efficiency, they don't even need an R&D department, and they have lower build costs than competitors. But everything they make sucks, so it's a bit of give and take.
Thermaltake steals ideas, and cuts corners on them. I have to admire their efficiency, they don't even need an R&D department, and they have lower build costs than competitors. But everything they make sucks, so it's a bit of give and take.
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I really don't get this:
First there's this:
-and then, five posts later in the same thread there's this:Mar. wrote:Anything Thermaltake gets instantly bashed here... I think some people would have said it was a nice-looking case if they hadn't been biased by the brand.
I personally don't like cases like this at all, but it LOOKS as good to me as, say, a Silverstone case.... .which are highly overrated in terms of looks.
Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
Each of these is supposedly posted by the same person. Is this what people mean when they talk about "trolling"?Mar. wrote:On the other hand, I've never had a ThermalTake product that was even halfway decent. The ONLY exception I would ever make is a heatsink I got from them, the TR2TT TR2M1. It's a simple aluminum fin/copper base Socket A heatsink, but what sets it apart are two things: its very low price (around 8 bucks on newegg), and its incredibly low build quality: The copper base is actually held on by SCREWS. It also came with an extremely cheesy clear LED fan that I cut the LED's off of, then later replaced. BUT, it cooled very well for its price, even with a slow fan on it.
Thermaltake steals ideas, and cuts corners on them. I have to admire their efficiency, they don't even need an R&D department, and they have lower build costs than competitors. But everything they make sucks, so it's a bit of give and take.
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Or schizophrenia (sic?).Ralf Hutter wrote:
I really don't get this:
First there's this:
-and then, five posts later in the same thread there's this:Mar. wrote:Anything Thermaltake gets instantly bashed here... I think some people would have said it was a nice-looking case if they hadn't been biased by the brand.
I personally don't like cases like this at all, but it LOOKS as good to me as, say, a Silverstone case.... .which are highly overrated in terms of looks.
Functionally I'm sure it's not great, but come on people. Try to be a little more objective.
Each of these is supposedly posted by the same person. Is this what people mean when they talk about "trolling"?Mar. wrote:On the other hand, I've never had a ThermalTake product that was even halfway decent. The ONLY exception I would ever make is a heatsink I got from them, the TR2TT TR2M1. It's a simple aluminum fin/copper base Socket A heatsink, but what sets it apart are two things: its very low price (around 8 bucks on newegg), and its incredibly low build quality: The copper base is actually held on by SCREWS. It also came with an extremely cheesy clear LED fan that I cut the LED's off of, then later replaced. BUT, it cooled very well for its price, even with a slow fan on it.
Thermaltake steals ideas, and cuts corners on them. I have to admire their efficiency, they don't even need an R&D department, and they have lower build costs than competitors. But everything they make sucks, so it's a bit of give and take.
Exactly.alglove wrote:Nah. It's called, "Thinking things through to their logical conclusion."
Pretty much everything Thermaltake makes is garbage. BUT, does that mean we should completely reject every new product they release, before we even see it? No, but we should still be a little wary of low build quality and such before buying.
Wow!
The vitriol poured on Thermaltake here would consume many a case.
They do make some dog-ugly stuff - my Xaser III server is called 'Uglybox' on my network - but it does the job as far as keeping the mobo (Supermicro DP -see below) cool and supporting four drives with nice little plastic mounts that allow quick changes. The drive mounts have two fans on them with filters - not the greatest filters, granted - but they are filters. and the other fans have filters, as well. The airflow path could be better, but I could be 6' 8" tall and 22 years old again, too.
Now if you want to discuss Macs....
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Supermicro P3TDDE VIA Apollo Pro 266T 2 x Intel Pentium III-S 1.112 Ghz 'Tulatin' 1 GB PC 133 SD RAM 2 x PATA, 2 x PATA RAID 0 CD R/W Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head AGP 8x
The vitriol poured on Thermaltake here would consume many a case.
They do make some dog-ugly stuff - my Xaser III server is called 'Uglybox' on my network - but it does the job as far as keeping the mobo (Supermicro DP -see below) cool and supporting four drives with nice little plastic mounts that allow quick changes. The drive mounts have two fans on them with filters - not the greatest filters, granted - but they are filters. and the other fans have filters, as well. The airflow path could be better, but I could be 6' 8" tall and 22 years old again, too.
Now if you want to discuss Macs....
ss
Supermicro P3TDDE VIA Apollo Pro 266T 2 x Intel Pentium III-S 1.112 Ghz 'Tulatin' 1 GB PC 133 SD RAM 2 x PATA, 2 x PATA RAID 0 CD R/W Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head AGP 8x
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