Thermaltake Ceres 350 MX Mid-Tower Case Review

A Closer Look – Exterior

Well, there’s one thing that’s completely obvious here, I have the bright yellow and rather garish Bumblebee edition of this case. Sure, this isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste, and it’s certainly too bright for my humble gaming corner. However, I love that Thermaltake has such a broad range of colour options, especially in a market that has gone black, grey and white for so long, we need more unique colour options to keep things interesting.

The colour looks fantastic, with the material finish being premium throughout on all the exposed metals and plastics. There’s a large crystal clear tempered glass window on the left side of the case to show off your hardware, and the PSU shroud has this cool ventilated section on the side too.

There’s quite a lot going on with the design, with the front panel having this folded design that flows into the main case, and the main panel for the front tucks in behind it. This isn’t a unique design for this case, however, and can be seen across quite a few of the modern cases from Thermaltake.

Up on the top, there’s a huge amount of ventilation, with this lift-out cover acting as a massive dust/debris filter for the top-mounted cooling.

It is flush mounted into a shallow recess on the top of the case, but you can lift it out, allowing you access to all the fan and radiator mounts within the top of the case.

The front panel is well equipped, offering power and reset buttons, separate audio jacks for headphones and a microphone, two USB 3 ports, and a USB Type-C port.

The front panel has a lot going on, with a really deep cover design that allows for fans to be mounted on the outside of the main case interior, but obviously still behind/within the front panel cover. There are two versions of the panel included in the box, but the tempered glass one comes pre-installed.

Airflow shouldn’t be an issue, as there’s a massive gap down each side, giving you plenty of airflow, but also a full-size dust filter behind it ensuring that your system gets clean airflow throughout.

Interestingly, there’s also a smaller dust filter down here, a little odd, but I mean, more airflow is no bad thing at all, so I’ll take it!

The right side panel is another swathe of Bumblebee-coloured metal, but interestingly, it still has the additional ventilation for the PSU shroud much like we saw on the left side of the case.

Around the back everything is finished in a nice matte black, giving a striking contrast to the bright yellows, or whatever other colour of the CERES 350 MX you choose to order.

There’s room for a 120/140mm cooler at the back of the case, and I’m happy to see that Thermaltake has equipped it with one of their own 140mm fans as standard.

There’s an ATX mount at the back offering up seven expansion slots, What I do love is that each cover is reusable, ventilated and cut from metal; no cheap plastics or snap-off covers here! Furthermore, it’s fully removable and rotatable, allowing you to put the whole thing in a horizontal configuration for use with a riser cable (not included).

Then of course, at the bottom, we have an ATX PSU mount tucked under the PSU shroud.

Underneath the case, you’ll find a full-size dust filter which can be slid out from the front of the case, making it easier to remove and clean. There are four sturdy rectangle feet with tough rubber grips on each, and because the case is quite wide, it feels incredibly stable on them too.