Thermaltake Commander MS-I Snow Edition Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Now that we have our system fully built into the Commander MS-I, we wanted to give you a view of what things will most likely look like with your components installed, but from the outside perspective. The small window allows you to see some of the major components and gives off a nice look at your build.

Taking the side panel off reveals all of our lovely components, in all their glory. You can see that cable management isn’t the strongest aspect of this case, though it does fit most of latest and largest pieces of hardware. A lot of the cables ended bunching up towards the bottom, near to the hard drive cage, though it’s still not as tidy as we would have preferred.

Sadly, due to the size of this case, fitting any form of watercooling into it is nigh on impossible, and that goes for all-in-one loops like the Corsair Hydro series and Antec Kuhler range of units too. The case simply doesn’t have room to accomodate, and that led us to using the EVGA Superclock CPU cooler instead which added some extra funky lighting effects for the purpose of this review, so it’s not all bad.

Installing an optical drive was a painless task due to the included drive locking mechanisms. Sadly they only include two and we’re not sure at this point, as to if Thermaltake sell these separately as extras.

Installing a 3.5″ drive was a similar, easy installation due to the locks, but you will find that when using multiple drives, it will restrict you in terms of longer graphics cards, but being based at gamers, we’re sure that you’ll want a better graphics card, opposed to extra strorage.

Installing a 2.5″ SSD ended up being installed into the bottom, which involved manual labour of using a screwdriver. Sadly the drive can’t be rotated to assist in cable management as the front of the case doesn’t permit the extra room needed.

When installing the power supply, you’ll find that their is sufficient room for larger units, such as the ToughPower series of units, and plenty of cable routing holes are available for keeping things nice and tidy.