hello
this is thermal takes a 700 and it is a rather large case I don't know how large
it's gonna be after we get out of the box so let's start with the unboxing
yeah you're gonna need some help with this so this is a bigger version of the
case that I believe came out earlier this year we think yeah it's the a 500 I
already came out this year this is a full Tower this is definitely a full
Tower you might wouldn't even say that it could qualify is I think what course
are called there's like a super Tower alright let's give this home say yeah
that's Count de Ville alright we did it we got it out it is a large case
sometimes I can't tell from the box I think it's gonna be large and then turns
out to not be large yeah Tower which is why it's not as fun as I
thought it was going to be we are treating with care because it has two
tempered glass sides to this
pretty hefty case it fits up to a e-atx it's what Thermaltake is calling a fully
modular design which means that you can kind of take out pieces I think the only
thing the only piece that you can actually move though is the art the
drive cages and you only move gonna move this like vertically along that with
what came in this box so these are gonna be your old school type that like
hearing a post beep codes we've got screws if ties your manual so
take a quick look at the manual and then we'll just start tearing this bad boy
down so before we actually tear down I wanted to do a quick size comparison
just so you have some context for how big this case is relative to a couple of
the others that we recently unboxed and tore down so here's the Coolermaster
h100 we get this I think in early June or so July this one's a mini ITX case it
has a 200 millimeter fan on the front for context and then we have the NZXT th
510 elite which is a mid tower a little on the compact size this one looks kind
of large compared to that but it's actually a normal sized mid tower even
though it's more compact compared to today's thermal take hey 700 oh yeah I
think we could fit one of those in there we could I think I like your way of
putting it earlier which was that you could fit at least four adult cats
probably high yeah I think so okay so here's your size comparison we're gonna
cut again to the actual teardown all right let's tear this sucker down
yeah let's do it first things first yes I have to get the keys keys
yeah so apparently this door requires these of the included keys to get in and
out I'm a little concerned because I never kept a diary when I was a kid and
one of the reasons why is that I always kept losing the key
would start a diary and then it would just kind of get stuck in the time
capsule cuz I wasn't particularly good about remember where my kids were so
these doors on both sides are mounted on hinges which is nice
and you can just remove it by lifting up okay so they're not locked in know
you've got these pins nice keep it there and these doors are kept in place by
magnets in the front as well Thermaltake tells me that you can pretty much pull
out everything and in looking at this case a little bit between the jumps here
it is the case and in some cases you actually have to pull things out to
install so it's not as straightforward as I personally preferred although over
this as we're tearing down but I actually think that this isn't quite as
nice as I would like to see out of a $350 case you know like so right here
some of the paint kind of smears a little bit I'm a little afraid to try to
buff that out because I don't want to actually pull off the paint from the the
correct part in fairness this is an early sample that we're getting so
hopefully the the final products that are rolling out after launch won't have
this because I also like know if you can see it but it's not like a lot of dust
on my fingers right now I kind of pulled a lot of it out but like just rub in
there you can just kind of kind of gets over everything so again this might just
be an early engineering sample but I thought I wouldn't mention that so let's
start with the kind of the claim to fame of this case which is the support for
vertical GPU mounting so this case comes with like a support bracket here and so
that way if you wanted to mount your GPU vertically if you wanted to do it like
this you have a system in here and it kind of supports the weight included in
the box are essentially like these little shims
and they come in two Heights so you can either if you eat choose to use the PSU
shroud the shorter height you kind of wiggle in there get in there and then
screw in sorry I think faces this light you screw it in there and that way it
just supports the weight of the GPU and you don't have to worry about sag like
you might have to worry and other cases if you choose not to use the PSU shroud
excuse me then you would use this longer shim and
just stand it right on top of the power supply and uh as we're pulling things
out I'll show you what that looks like the one thing that I also kind of feel
is a little bit of a bummer that at 350 dollars they don't include the actual
like riser cable to connect the GPU to the motherboard that's an accessory you
still have to pay for which they're surprisingly expensive yeah so if you
get the two hundred million two hundred millimeter length cable version that's
like about $30.00 I feel if you need another extra hundred millimeters then
that jumps up to what like $60 yeah so I mean I assume that two hundred
millimeters should be enough for most build so this works as that comes
becomes horizontal which is the standard way of installing for most people but if
you want to do a vertical mount GPU this whole bracket comes off rotate 90
degrees you put it back on and there's actually quite a few screws years and I
think there's five of these little screws holding this part in place and
two thumb screws holding this plate over pull that in place one thing I noticed
with this case too is that the threads are a little bit tight it's not as
smooth as some other cases I've used just a small tiny nitpick on my part I
tend to notice that a little more than other people just because I have a
little bit tendinitis in my wrist so the smoother a thread easier time I have the
building okay so this comes off first
it's just kind of having wedged in place a little with that right there and then
this slides out from these two right here where hooks in and as you can see
you could just rotate 90 degrees for a vertical orientation like this pop this
in here push down to seat it and then you can screw it back in I'm only going
to put just a couple of screws just for examples sake that goes there
this will rights this way now we're just the two thousand screws back in but I'm
not gonna do that actually because I want to show you how
this vertical orientation looks see we have everything set up properly I don't
have the actual riser cable and all that stuff here so I'm not actually positive
that this is in the correct business position it might not be worth
approximately this and then this would help hold up
that's how that works so for the power supply shroud in order to get the power
supply in unless you're willing to pull this out instead these two hard drive
cages I think you could pull it out this way and then put the pop try to put the
power supply in that way but I find that actually a little more of a pain and
then just pull this shroud out it attaches with five screws quite a few of
them one here and then four in the back actually it's six series that one got
stuck there's only just a little bit of a lip right here to kind of hold this in
place this just butts right up against this side and that's what all those
screws are holding in place and they likes your window here so I guess if you
have like a RGB power supply you can see it if you if it was logo based so this
case does come with little rubber stands for power supply and they've got like
sticky tape right there I'm not gonna peel them but you know they would just
go right here in solution and that takes up some of the room because if you don't
do that then if you use the taller shim it's still not quite tall enough
you have a nice firm hold and our power supply isn't super large so this as you
can see there's silken clearance if you have a beefier power supply that you
need to fit in there all right so next up we're just gonna look at some of the
places that you can put drives on the front here on the side as you can see
there's a spot right here for 2.5 inch drive and then you obviously these two
hard drive cages here that hold up to 4 3.5 inch or you know 2.5 inch drives as
well it looks like it's missing some screws yeah it looks like it is I didn't
take it out so they just might have they might forgotten to put those in at the
factory oh yeah I think this is just the early engineering sample that we got
which might explain why it's you know dusty and the threads aren't quite so as
smooth as I would have expected for a case of this price beyond these these
are the only things in this case that actually can be moved as opposed to just
straight removed so you can actually move this out the position along here
you know for wherever you would like it to be
one thing they did mention to us where it's so one of their sample photos you
know they have the motherboard in place and they have 360 millimeter you know
radiator to go with the all-in-one cooler on the CPU and it's actually
facing this way they mounted it this way no on the top and on the front but right
here and they said that if you're gonna do that obviously you have to kind of
remove these for clearance and also for air flow purposes so then you would have
to put all your drives on the back here there's one two three and these all are
removable so that for easier mounting so yeah you can either put three and a half
inch drive this way or two Q and a half drive side-by-side this way outside of
that mostly is just these that you can pull off because as you can
here like everything else is riveted though if you're actually looking for a
fully you know it's something that's easy to mod you know paint and all that
you're gonna still have to pull out all these rivets in terms of matching fans
so the back here included is a 140 millimeter fan in the front another 140
millimeter fan these top and front sections accommodate up to three 120 fan
to 140 s and up to two 250 200 millimeter fans for the top they
actually included some extra brackets as well for the 200 millimeter fans that
you can use when you're mounting that getting these off are actually quite
easy so yeah you can just put fans here obviously it accommodates a rat as well
a radiator for any you know liquid cooling try it oh that one went well
Adam was noticing earlier though that the paint colors don't quite match
between the top and the front panels on this particular case and again I'm
starting to think that this is just an early model so this comes off so you can
pull off the tool yeah that makes it easier to get the fans mounted with fans
and a radiator you have both again this accommodates up to 320 millimeter fans
to 140 millimeter fans and to 200 millimeter fans as I mentioned earlier
they have this set of brackets to go with the 200 millimeter fans if
you're a mountain top also in the front here as you can see the inputs supports
so we have two USB 2.0 to use the 3.0 and then we have one type C which is USB
3.1 but it's only Gen one speed as far as I can tell based on the actual cables
that plug into the motherboard so that's just a 5 megabits per second speed
that's just the same as USB 3.0 and then obviously you have for this case
honestly if you have dust Fant filters
run for the one for the front and then for the top though so that does it for
this particular teardown it it's an interesting case it's you know fairly
large it's wider than the a 500 which is the smaller version of this case one of
the reasons that they did that Thermaltake said was that some people
had been concerned about the vertical GPU mount style not getting enough
airflow because it was going to butt up so close to the tempered glass panel on
that 8500 so for the a 700 they made it wider so you would get more clearance on
that for $350 I don't know if it's as much of a value as some of the other
cases on the market but yeah outside of that I'm not really sure how to do for
thermals not really sure how how how it will do for noise unfortunately I'm not
going to be testing it for that so this video really is just about getting
inside of it taking a look seeing how it you know lays everything
out and how easy it is to get into it cool thanks Elena yeah catch y'all later