Thank you SO MUCH for the FULL teardown of the case. It really helps potential buyers visualize different setups. Most of the time other channels just rotate case and describe what's in the instruction manual.
Got this case and that same aio coming from what I understand when you fill out the other fans (bottom and top) airflow is quite good. The issue is the ASUS board will default to letting the 12900k run with unlimited power. The fact it wasn’t thermal throttling is really impressive for that cooler. Even the Corsair H170i 420mm has a hard time keeping a 12900k under 90c with an unlimited power budget.
How did you get the 2 USB 3.x cables to work. Does your motherboard have 2 USB 3.x connectors, my Asus only has one. Are you not connecting the other cable and loosing 2 USB 3.x connectors?
This TT Tower 500 solves all the problems with the TT Level 20 HT that I have. The L20 HT is a beautiful case, but there are very limited fan and radiator mounting options where the fans aren't choked by a pane of glass or just recirculated back into the case. I have a full custom loop (CPU block, GPU block, 2 radiators, reservoir, and pump) and it even suffers from slightly higher temperatures.
I have this case. You said the "thermals are peculiar, the airflow comes in from the top, in from the side wich doesnt have fans on the side, in from the floor and expelled from the right side." If you put fans for intake on the front where the lcd screen is, intake on the floor where the psu shroud is, intake on the back behind the motherboard, and exhaust fans on top and exhaust fans on the right side, (see it as push-pull configuration, but then vertical) the airflow and thermals are actually very good.
I come back from a great evening out to a great video from Kitguru. Thank you Leo. I particularly liked your comments about Meccano and the fan brackets. I also liked how easy it seemed to be to disassemble the case. Thermaltake seem to have used a paint (powder coating?) that is even less reflective than normal which makes it very difficult to see the insides. Perhaps some additional front lighting would have helped? Or maybe it's just RU-vid's compression; I note that the 4k version of the video is not yet available. I have many years of experience with vertically mounted GPUs first with a Silverstone FT02 and then a FT05 and cannot recommend vertically mounting a GPU that does not have a blower cooler. My GTX 780 Ti and RTX 2080 Ti with heatpipes and fans really didn't like it in the longer term whereas my Titans with blower coolers were fine. (If memory serves some GPUs are not warranted in a vertical configuration.) With the 2080 Ti I ended up leaving the FT05 on its side. However, a watercooled GPU is possibly a very different matter and should you do a follow-up video, I hope you will investigate that.
If I was into big glass cases that's a pretty nice one. Funny that they call it a mid tower though, it's huge for a mid, though that thing screams custom loop and I havent seen an example of that yet. Happy with my solid Torrent though.
I do like this pop corm maker case. I almost got it for my home theatre p.c to be placed in my lounge. After a more serious thought on internal components I needed to fit into it and the flexibility I wanted down the line the case wasn't fit for purpose. Definitely will re look at this case for another project if applicable. I really do like it.
I wonder if this was a better buy if they added that second 360mm rad/fan bracket, or if they made it an up to 420mm set, that could allow the use of both sides for exhausts, either as AIOs for CPU and GPU or as the dual bigger rad setup in your loop, with top and bottom acting as intakes... or in a reverse orientation - by having two sides acting as intakes and having the chimney styled layout with the top for exhaust... Mayhaps there are huge differences in temps depending on not only components but the airflow orientation that the Tower 500 suffers from if inadequately configured...
I just got this and will be adding a few more fans to it. I am going to make the majority inlet to create positive pressure and see how that goes. I am running a 7900xtx red devil so it will be interesting to see thermals and an 5800x3d.
Well it's a chimney case isn't it? You need to create negative pressure. BUT. Yeah, needs testing. I just suggest trying out different fan arrangements.
9:46 Always good to see reviewers practice what they preach. ;) If I had the right motherboard to support all that front I/O, I might consider this. Actually, AMD's AM5 platform is supposed to have close to double the I/O, isn't it? Something to consider in the future.
The case is pretty and flexible as far as configurations go. Normally I choose cases that meet my hardware needs. Granted, I did buy a Phanteks Enthoo Luxe for my Threadripper build. Roomy, pretty, and had the space I needed for my NAS drives, optical disc drives and USB 3.1 expansion bay. If the Tower 500 had been around back then I think it would have made my short list of cases for that project. Not sure if I like the rotated motherboard, though. I have a lot of I/O cables and having them be visible would kind of crash the aesthetic. Fine review except for that little detail. Are the cables routed out the back? Does it take a 90 degree-type video connector to accomplish that? As for the LCD accessory screen, I think that price is pretty steep for a cosmetic enhancement.
Realy liked the looks of this, was way too expensive here if I recall correctly, but a beautiful case. I like the GPU positioning, I would say does not need a bracket with such a position.
I too own this case. Have mounted base fans.to assist bottom to top air flow. I have absolutely NO issues with high temps! I don't know what you have done, supposedly incorrectly
I have this case and I love it. Hate that the AIO is installed with the tubes coming out the top in this video... They should be coming out the bottom for a better install.
Not sure if you could have but you should have had the rad tubes at the bottom of the rad. ThTs how they are designed to site in that position, prevents air bubbles at the top.
I love the Tower 100 with a top mounted rad. the 900 is still what I want eventually, but that would be spending a whole PC extra for rads, blocks, pump res, and fans. My main rig is in the wall mounted TT case. the P3 I believe. I've enjoyed many of their cases over the years, I have 2 View 71's in the closet right now that I no longer use but selling or shipping would be a pain. I want the W200 with the additional pedestal chassis from them as well but it's too big for my current place. I also loved the Core X9 they made a few years back. I helped a friend do a wild Threadripper workstation build in that monster a while back.
THIS was the LAST case that i ever bought mate!......I still love it to this day !! OOOPS never mind i have the 900....i bollocked that up to be fair......
The Tower 100 was a vg itx design despite being a larger itx design. The 500 and 900 are just rubbish bin vending machines and look waaaay too large and a bit too pricey. Especially £90 for the lcd screen 😳 WTF!
Haha they should make a Tower 300 which is microATX. Maybe then it would be a regular sized PC. BTW, it looks like the bottom intake isn't filtered, that's a huge oversight.
I can't see how external cables are attached to the MB rear panel ports. I'm wondering about the rear where the Display Port cables go into your motherboard/cards. Please let us know.
Is there any problem putting the AIO tubes down in the case as if tubes are down the pump will not get air in it. For the price they should have also added a second set of fan racks.
Wish they can also release a Tower 300 which is slightly bigger than the Tower 100, has a bit more clearance between GPU and side panel, and able to install a 240mm radiator on the top. I’m now using a Tower 100 with Suprim X 3070Ti, the huge GPU is too close to the side panel and cannot get enough air to breath…
I like this reviewer, but I don't think this was right. There's all kinds of fan mounting options and it's a custom loop chassis. It would be fairer had a custom loop on CPU and GPU been done.
The thermal test was a simultaneously run of Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) and Time Spy Stress (not extreme)? I think at this privileged point in time I'd likely prefer the TT Ceres 500.
Can the AIO mount on the other side of the rails causing it to be closer to the exterior vented wall? May allow it to draft more external air for cooling. I really want to like this case, I love the tower styles but they're just not as great as I wish they were.
The case and cooler are not the problem here. The flow is all wrong and the side brackets for the GPU side should be populated for intake if your CPU cooler is set to exhaust as it is here. You're missing much of the potential by not using the side intake set up. Also with this build as it is, the bottom fans should be drawing in cool air as well, you'll see a good numbers drop.
@@retiredcryptohunter9031 thanks for the reply, I didn’t build in that case yet when I commented. I’m currently loving my tower 500, thanks for the comment back tho
With the 4090s coming out soon, which case would give me little to no RGB lots of mesh and airflow with room for 2 ATX power supplies? I would prefer quite performance as this will be a HTPC gaming build.
@@jjlw2378 if you're going for the 1000D, then don't forget the enthoo elite. Either 1000D or elite are expensive monsters. Enthoo pro 2 is a good, affordable case.
The case is too big to be a desktop, because the i/o is impossible. So that leaves the floor, but then you can't really show it off? The airflow seems to lack direction or much thought, but Thermaltake stuffs that up all the time anyway. Don't like it. Its meant to be a showpiece type of case, but the only way that works is if you were making a truly modded type build to fill it out. But even then I feel this case looks, as you said, like a vending machine, and I think there are more pleasing cases to mod than this one.
Hi, is it posible to mount the gpu in frontal oriented way (with proper extention cable) and those vertical links that are used for aio radiators......and are gpu slots on top modular to go left to right or just front-back ? TY
In this instance an air cooler wouldn't work. Partly because there would be a huge amount of space and partly because Thermaltake specifically lists this case as suitable for AIO and Custom Loop ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NgQto-CSkTw.html You will note we did review The Tower 100 with an air cooler fo that very reason
@@KitGuruTech IIRC TT does not recommend air cooling on the Tower 100 either but people are using them with Noctua D15's. I want to do the same with the Tower 500. Considering there are fan mounts on the top, and the option to add 3x120mm fans on the right side instead of a radiator, there's no reason why air cooling shouldn't work.
@@randalldraco3822 You might find it interesting to head to Thermaltake's download section for this product where they have posted a full thermal report that gives a huge amount of information about the fan configuration of this case www.thermaltake.com/the-tower-500-mid-tower-chassis.html
Its much too big a design for my room, but its not awful. Not sure I am a fan of the shape, or size mind you, its quite an ugly big box. Also looks a bit flimsy in parts. Are those internal brackets any good or do they bend a lot in hand?
It might look good next to a 3D printer. Strange case. It's got some wow-factor but I'd never buy it (too big). I don't understand the placement of the 2 fans on the back plate. Are they blowing straight into the back of the motherboard? That just creates noise with no cooling. You should probably change the AIO to intake, to cool that CPU. It would increase the GPU temps but probably still worth it. I don't know if the side panels have filters but AIO on intake should make it a positive pressure case. Looking at the fan placements at 5:55 I think a good layout would be 2x140mm on the power covers pulling in air from the floor (I hope it's filtered), 2x140mm in the top exhausting air and your 360mm rad intaking air from the right side. That RGB PSU makes me wonder - has anyone put RGB strips under a case yet? It might be some nice back (under?) lighting, in the same way as putting RGB strips behind a monitor does.
The temsp are not testimony to chassis or AIO, they are just showing how rubbish the intel processors became. This is intel's FX9590, even more. And the build was rubbish, those fans on the back are useless, blocked by MOBO, they should be as intake or exhaust. With the cooling inside, AIO should pull the air from OUTside, and GPU should be fed by two fans on the other side pulling from outside again, directly into GPU fans. Positive pressure config with this case would not be a problem. The only issue with that might be VRMS on mobo, but it should be ok.
You might find it interesting to head to Thermaltake's download section for this product where they have posted a full thermal report that gives a huge amount of information about the fan configuration of this case www.thermaltake.com/the-tower-500-mid-tower-chassis.html
I don't like the case at all, nevertheless your matter fact presentation style is great. Don't you think that it would be much better if more case manifactuers to put the front IO at the bottom of their cases?
That's exactly what I thought for this style of case! If it's going to sit on a desk (instead of under it), there should be ports at the bottom, along with 5.25 bay options for card readers and disc drives.
i buying this gase noctua industrial 3000rpm fans full in gase maybe :P noise!! i dont give a shit :D :D i have now thermaltake core x9 but too big however!
