Thermaltake Core V71 Tempered Glass Edition E-ATX Full Tower Tt LCS Certified Gaming Computer Case CA-1B6-00F1WN-04

This case is LARGE. (room for)Four 200mm fans is an accomplishment, size prerequisite. But it is relatively quiet as a result. 200 mm fans may not be the "static pressure" king, but their size affords them a relatively premium airflow to rotation speed ratio. I've got a 5900x under a deepcool ak620 with an rx6900x in this case, and thermals are absolutely not an issue. As configured, despite running entirely air cooled in an "older" style case, the system benchmarks above average for the hardware. Better airflow can of course be had at a better price, and in a smaller, more practical case. That is, unless you'd also like an optical drive. BD-XL anyone? This is easier said than done in 2022. (I'm reviewing on 1/2/23, but I purchased this case for a build several months ago.) There is the Fractal Pop Air. Notably cheaper, still decent airflow, I think it can fit a pair of 140mm up front. I wasn't aware of that case at the time, and I'd say this is probably a bit better airflow still. This is on the nicer end of cases. The build quality is quite sturdy. The side panel is tinted tempered glass, and extends the entirety of the panel. There are high and low controls for the three preinstalled 200mm fans, but an additional y-splitter would be necessary to install a fourth matching fan to this controller. They are three pin fans, so no on board power management. Likewise, if you swap to different fans, you'll be forgoing the fan and light controls on top of the case. The included 140mm rear exhaust fan is also a simple three pin, but will be the only one that needs to be connected to the board directly. (no controller space by default) The stock fans are nearly silent on low, and still quite quiet on high. They are some of the cheapest 200mm fans you can buy if you need to replace, or just want that fourth slot filled. And, they are beyond perfectly adequate for consistently strenuous use. My 5900x tops out low-mid 60s under a dual tower cooler, and the hot-spot on that 6900xt peaks about 80. And the size of this case will easily facilitate dual water cooling solutions. I plan on using this case for an unreasonably long time. It's so good. Thermaltake offers retooled variants of this case with closed off panels, the drive bays removed, and 200mm fan support removed... if you're into that sort of thing. Check out newer models in the "core" series for decreasing value as time presses forward. This is a nearly extinct breed of magnificently versatile PC case.

BIG inside, you can mount most anything in there. I like the three cages for drives that are individually removable. I removed one in the middle and created a lot more air flow from front fans , over the PCH and on to the back fan. The front, back, and top included fans are large, quiet and move a lot of air. The top mounted controls and USB ports have nice long cables that reach all headers on an ATX form. Plenty of room to fit the largest length graphics cards (PCIE). At bottom after an 850W psr leaves a lot of room for more fans, spare drives etc. The only down side item are the side door mounting screws, they don't fit very well. Difficult to screw in but they do hold. Large clear glass door on left side allows sight of the lighted fans inside. Heavy and tempered glass..

Space, on the same level as my HAF-32. Took the 8 drives, and 3 SSD's in the back. Has filters to keep the dust out. Added massive fans 2 top, and 2 front, 2 120's on bottom, 140 exhaust. Ryzen 3800X at 4.2, 32 gigs Gskill Trident Z. For power, I went with a bit coin 1600 watt power supply, because it offered lot's of connections, and then some. I can game full tilt with the Evga GTX 1660, and not ever once blow hot air out of it. Bought the power supply right here. Has not skipped a beat. MOBO is an Asus AM4 X570 TUF GAMING With WIFI, these boards are new. Booted out of the box and never looked back. Fans supplied by Dark Flash. Case is epic. It will also take a couple liquid coolers. Drive cages are mods, you can change the case to how you need it. You know you want one. :) ROCK SOLID. There is also a 1TB Crucial 3D NAND NVME on the board. Heat sink matches design of board. Cheers!

I bought this case because it looked like it would fit what I wanted. I have six SATA drives in my current PC and I needed a home for them and one more. I planned on using an Asus ROG RTX 3070 and an MSI PRO Z690A WIFI with an i9-12900K cooled by an MSI AIO water cooler with a 360mm radiator. The case fans are controlled by two buttons on the top of the case, so you can have them somewhat noisy, or really noisy, though not truly awful. But the fan speed is not related to system temperature, unlike motherboard driven fans. The case lighting is also not connected to the motherboard lighting. In a case of this sort there should be connections to the system lighting controls and fan controls. Forget about using a high power graphics card with the vertical mount. The thickness of modern cards, RTX 3070 and above, means that the fans will be up against the glass front. That means zero cooling and that will kill your expensive graphics card in minutes. The laughable documentation claims you can munt two graphics cards... the only way that is happening is if you have some very old graphics card. And the hardware doesn't support it. There are two rear panel slots, but most graphics cards will take both of them. The PCIe riser cables are very expensive for what they are, and there's isn't a great length. The 300mm seems long, but a 200mm might not reach. From the drawings and documentation the AIO cooler should fit easily. The docs show you can mount a 360mm cooler on the front or top. I chose to go for the front, because I didn't realize the coolant pipes won't reach from there to the i9 at the top of the motherboard. Coolers need the radiators mounted high, or with the feed pipes down so any air in the system can collect at the top and not in the pump. I haven't tried a 280mm cooler (39200 mm^2), they are only a 10% smaller in area than the 360 (43200 mm^2), and may allow the internal front bay to be used. I have not tried this. Since the front wouldn't work I went to fit the radiator in the top. Not good. The only quick swap front bay, suitable for a Bluray drive, fouls the radiator. There just isn't 360mm from the back to the drive bay. So the drive bay had to come out. Since this case lacks a USB-C port I was going to use a front panel port, but the Bluray drive had to move up on top. So no space for the USB front panel. With all the 3.5" drive bays fitted there's not enough room for the coolant pipes under the radiator, so the radiator has to be mounted with them to the rear, which means that now the pipes are long and press against the video card. But not too much. The three included 200mm fans should pretty quiet and should keep the case cool in normal use. They have their own controller built in. The cooler fans and the rear fan are attached to the motherboard, so they are temperature controlled. In the end I removed the connection to the case fan control and connected direct to the motherboard. I have plenty of fan headers. I also removed the top fan which was above the CPU cooler and its three fans. Now the case is not annoyingly loud, but it is still not as quiet as my old HAF 932 which I just rebuilt with the same motherboard, an i7-12700K and a GTX 1660 Super for my wife. I don't know of a better case than this, for my purposes, at present. But it is certainly worth searching for something quieter and with better front panel options if you want multiple optical drives, or some other front mounted option.

This would be one of my favorite cases, everything is modular and can be removed, or taken apart. This one unfortunately had one of the case USB's damaged, and I had to re-solder it to get it to work properly. After doing so it worked again without issues, the tempered glass is great quality. Really shows off my rig how I want it to, I'll be using the default fans until they die then I'll replace them with RGB fans. The blue honestly looks nice contrasted with purple LED, might as well get my money's worth out of this case because it certainly wasn't cheap. Plus having optical drives is a must, CD quality > Bluetooth quality.

solid structurally but I have some problems. one of two screws holding the tempered glass is completely striped and the front of it will not shut completely due to the plastic being broken and scuffs on it which is a shame when you pay so much money for a case.

This is the second time I have purchased this enclosure. It is just very attractive and roomy. I can remove the hard drive cages (since I use M.2 drives) and I can hide all of the cabling behind the motherboard mount. One side of the case is tempered glass and the other allows you to stash all of your excess cabling. In addition, the middle backside of the motherboard is visible from here allowing you to mount your water-cooled processor with ease and not have to completely remove the motherboard. Because of the glass there isn’t a side fan to move air over your video card, but you don’t need that. Why? Well, the case comes with three 200mm fans and one 14mm fan. This moves plenty of air over the video card. Larger fans are better for moving airflow and it keeps them quiet. Airflow follows a cubed relationship with RPM, so this case beats all. Slow fan RPM and high airflow and quiet. It is really designed for water-cooled systems, but works just fine either way.

The case is amazing in a lot of ways, it's easy to cable manage, roomy and looks nice. Lots of drive space, and bays for my needs. It was one of the few cases that had the features I wanted. There's only one gripe I have regarding it, and it saddens me that they had to cheep out on something when this is otherwise a good case. The fans are loud even on low mode, and they do not support PWM. I would not have mind if I could replace them, but this is not possible without causing buttons to become useless at the top of the case. The fans are wired in a non-standard way, but thankfully are not likely to be a fire hazard. I would have to plug replacement fans in the motherboard and have useless switches at the top. If tried to plug actual fans into the header, it would cause damage because the header incorrectly uses the third pin for the RGB. Like I said, this is unlikely to cause a fire, but will likely cause unexpected behavior with normal fans and potentially cause damage to either the fan controller or the fan itself. I was under the impression that the fan controller allowed replacement of the fans, but I guess I should have expected Thermaltake to cheep out on something that would cost them pennies to the dollar. I'm pretty disappointed with my case, and I'm strongly considering returning this and buying another case. The lack of fan options and the noise from them is unacceptable for a case in my eyes. Their other V71 looks promising, but I would be out of a case for over a week while I wait for the return process and for the refund to come back into my account. :(