Thermaltake View 270 TG ARGB Mid Tower PC Case Review

Peter Donnell / 3 months ago

A Closer Look – Interior

It’s a good size case, just big enough in here to comfortably fit an ATX motherboard, with some support for wider E-ATX motherboards (12″ x 13″), which may cover some of the cable routing holes, but that’s pretty common for mid-tower cases with E-ATX support. What’s great is that both the left and front glass are tool free, moving them out of the way gives you lots of room to install hardware!

There’s a fairly basic but usable cable routing setup, with a couple of large routing holes to the right of the motherboard, some above, and a few below. No fancy grommets or anything, but at this price range, I can let that slide.

The PSU shroud is heavily ventilated, and allows for up to 3 x 120mm fans to be placed on top of it. Of course, this could be a problem if you’re wanting to use larger devices such as a soundcard or second GPU in the bottom PCIe slots, but will be fine if you’re just using a single large GPU. This gives you a way to pull a lot of cold air up into the case and right at your GPU.

The mounts to the right of the motherboard allow for a further two fans, or you can get a radiator here if your GPU length isn’t going to interfere with it. Keep in mind, this is still a smaller form factor mid-tower, so you have to be sure to measure twice before trying to cram too much into it, but at the same time, I do like these more compact case designs too.

Behind the motherboard, there’s a reasonable amount of cable routing space, but nothing too crazy. The bulk of the heavy lifting is going to be done by the space under the PSU shroud, and all your excess cables should fit down there should be relatively easy.

There’s a HDD cage towards the front, but even with that installed, you can fit a 220mm ATX PSU. However, taking it out (if you don’t need it), will certainly make it easier to do some lazy cable ~~routing~~ cramming.