Thermaltake The Tower 300 PC Case Review

Interior

Under the top cover, you’ll find a pair of 140mm fans, which are actually above the motherboard I/O and GPU I/O, and these will help pull air up and away from the hardware and exhaust out of the top of the case.

There are some thumbscrews holding this cooling bracket in place too, so you can move them out of the way fairly easily.

The fans are the Thermaltake TT-1425, which should give a smaller case like this a lot of airflow even at lower RPM.

There’s even some additional cable routing holes up here, so dealing with fan and power cables is made a lot easier.

Thermaltake sent their horizontal stand and replacement panel for the bottom of the case, which we’ll get to, but much to my own amusement, I realise I replaced the top panel with the new bottom panel, thus deleting the USB ports, but hey, at least you now know the panel that’s intended to delete the feet on the bottom of the case (more on that later), also works on the top… should you need to do this.

As you can see, I’ve removed the glass from the case, which is mounted with push-pins so it’s secure, but also relatively quick and easy to pop out too.

There’s a lot of room inside this case, and while it takes up a reasonably small foot print, it is still a pretty big case too, and there’s room in the bottom for a powerful ATX PSU, with some additional cooling mounts on top of the PSU shroud.

The rear panel has space for a mini-ITX or micro-ATX motherboard, and there’s a wealth of cable routing holes around the motherboard tray, as well as a very large rubber grommet towards the bottom.

As you can see, the motherboard rear I/O and the GPU backplates are located up in the top of the case.

There’s a huge amount of airflow from that mesh side panel, with the left allowing passive airflow to reach directly into your graphics card fans.

However, the right side has room for up to 3 x 120mm or 3 x 140mm fans, and can handle up to a 420mm radiator!

In the box, you get this replacement front panel, allowing you to fit the Thermaltake LCD panel (sold separately).

There are four huge feet on this case, with thick rubber grips, and there’s yet another filtered intake on the bottom of the case too.

Around the back, there’s a surprising amount of space for cable management, with the PSU in the bottom and some deep cable runs on the corners.

There’s also a set of large but flexible cable retention clips running up each side too.

The case is full of mounts for hardware, with room to mount SSDs in the bottom of the case, but also more cooling and storage can be mounted in the rear of the case with this versatile and removable mounting place.

Best of all, just about every component looks easily removable, such as the PSU shroud, the PSU mounting place and bracket, all the side panel, covers, and more, so it should be very modder friendly.

Speaking of the side covers, they use strong magnets at the top and a metal lip at the bottom, so again, mounted securely, but also easy enough to remove to clean, or to get more room to install your hardware.

Every new angle I look at this case, I see more mounts, more removable panels, allowing for SSD mounting, cooling and more.

I even managed to take up the USB hub with just two screws, handy if you plan to strip and paint the case, or perhaps upgrade this panel in the future.

The Stand

So, this case is vertical, until it’s not. Thermaltake send me their stand and it allows you to mount the case on its side, but also at a 45-degree angle for something more unique.

Wha-bam! Just look at that! Sure you lose pretty much all the space saving of the vertical design, but it’s still pretty damn cool.