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Thermaltake Element T Case
Author: Matt Published: July 13th, 2009 10:06 AM Category: Cases, Reviews
The Thermaltake Element T (Interior)
The interior of the case is made entirely of steel and is the raw grey colour.
There are four bags of screws included with the Thermaltake, these can be found attached to one of teh drive bays. The Element T has been designed in such as way that it only requires screws to hold the hard drives in place.
As we mentioned on the previous page, this case sports a bottom mounted PSU. Also, it features a mount for your PSU to allow air to flow underneath to provide extra cooling. There are ridges on the mount ensuring the PSU doesn’t slide out if the screws come loose.
Up to 11 drives can be installed in this case including 3 x 5.25" and 1 x 3.5" accessible drives and 6 x 3.5" and 1 x 2.5" hidden drives. As mentioned previously, all of the hard drives are held and secured in place with the use of thumb screws only but there are two security clips for one 5.25" drive and one 3.5" drive. There is also an option to install a card reader or FDD reader in the 3.5" space provided. For extra cooling, fans may be installed in front of the hard drives. They can be installed in a variety of ways:
- 120 x 120 x 25 mm fan x 2 or
- 140 x 140 x 25 mm fan x 2 or
- 200 x 200 x 20 mm fan x 1
In the image below you can see the 200mm fan (top) and 120mm fan (rear). The 200mm top fan glows a bright red once turned on.
There are not too many places for cable management but more than normal cases. Behind the motherboard plate there is a large hole which is positioned underneith where the processor would be mounted. The reason for having a hole underneith the processor is because many high-end CPU Coolers require a back plate to be installed on the bottom of the motherboard, so this is a very useful feature for someone who changes their hardware often.
