Thermaltake The Tower 300 PC Case Review

Complete System

Building a system in this case is easier than it looks, and while it is compact, anything in the way can be popped off, unscrewed or lifted out of the way with relative ease. I couldn’t fit the 420mm radiator in there from the front, then realised two small screws and the entire right side panel removed, allowing me to mount the cooler to it outside the case, then pop it all back in place!

Graphics card support is fantastic, with four expansion slots in the top, and the fact the case can handle a 420mm radiator anyway, you’ve got the same amount of length for the GPU, and that means that even the biggest RTX 4090 would fit, and our Sapphire 7900 XT certainly fit great too!

The bottom of the case is obscured, so it’s a great place to store any bulky cables and there’s a good amount of space behind the motherboard for routing them too.

Pop the mesh back in place, and the GPU is slightly hidden but still gets unrestricted airflow from the left side for optimal cooling.

This cooler makes no compromise on cooling, it’ll handle a pretty large air cooler, and as you can see, with room for a 420mm AIO cooler, it’s obvious that a 360mm, 280mm, or a 240mm will work just as easily.

As you can see, it slots down the bottom, so about 120mm of the third 140mm fan is below the shroud, but there’s so much ventilation on all four sides and on the bottom of the case, that this simply will not be a problem, and it promotes airflow around the storage and PSU area, so it’s a benefit if anything.

I haven’t use it, but I like the fan mount on the PSU shroud, again it’ll just help promote airflow throughout the case, pulling in cool air from the bottom of the case and the smaller lower section side vents.

I’ve used a mini-ITX motherboard (as that’s all I had to hand), but it will handle up to a micro-ATX too, which is great, and there’s excellent clearance for all your hardware around the motherboard.

Some mini-ITX boards have the CPU power connector in different places, but on mine, there wasn’t an appropriate routing hole to reach the header, so I had to bring it up the side instead.

The overall layout is excellent, and being able to get so much hardware into a relatively small footprint is great if you’re short on space, but make no mistake, this case is quite tall and I wouldn’t call it small.

With all the glass back in place, it is one damn fine fish tank! Makes a pretty slick-looking PC case too, and it is awesome for showing off your hardware.

Of course, as good as this looks in a verticle position, there’s an optional horizontal mounting kit that I was sent by Thermaltake.

I’m not sure this is the way I would want this case, and you need a bigger desk with more space to take advantage of this and put it at an interesting angle, but hey, I can’t deny that it’s a fun and unique idea, and I certainly have to give TT some credit for that.