Thermaltake CA-1F5-00F1WN-00 Core W200 Unique Design Super Tower Chassis - Black

I bought this to house my new lab , which is now two ATX type cards with a total of 32 cores. I wanted to tidy things up (loose all the interconnecting cables). I have seen some reviews of this unique case, let me say now if you want a small neat case; this is not for you .... it's big !!It's nicely made , no burrs , sturdy but not too heavy. The way it fits together is well thought out and the manual is accurate and easy to follow. Due to the underlying solid engineering no part of the case rattles and its size means you can cool it with lots of slow spinning large fans. The space inside the CPU area allowed me to put in some really big cooling towers on the CPUs. The amount of space for disk is massive.The result is a massively powerful system which whispers next to my desk.Five star product !!! - I will consider other products from this manufacturer in future.

The case is excellent and very spacious. One can decide to position the pedestal section ( Thermaltake Core P200 Cube Pedestal) on either the top or bottom, or simply get two for both top and bottom which I have done. I am quite annoyed at Thermaltake as this case is very expensive. Thermaltake decided to only provide 5 internal hard drive cases when there is space for 8 more. The other very annoying thing is the Thermaltake CH00168 Core W&P Series Case ODD Brackets. You only get six but need a lot more. I have contacted Thermaltake and at first they refused to respond but I managed to get in touch with them via Facebook and money talks. I did not stop asking for additional internal hard drive cages ( because non of the Thermaltake companies based in Europe were selling them ) until Thermaltake USA later offered to sell me 7 of the Set of HDD cage with two HDD trays. I also managed to get Thermaltake USA to sell me 8 pairs of the Thermaltake CH00168 Core W&P Series Case ODD Brackets.Another issue with this chassis is that for such a large size chassis, the detachable motherboard tray should have been wider to support an EEB or HPTX motherboard like Caslelabs's THW10 does. This is because I use dual CPU socket boards ( Asus Z10PE-D8 WS and Asus Sage C621E). I am trying to find a company that could make an an extended version of the removable motherboard tray to support an EEB boardFinally, Thermaltake should understand that a side acrylic window is not for everyone, and wish one could get a side ventilated door for both sides so at least I could install the fan cages on both sides.I managed to get a 3d company in Greater Manchester (manchester-metrology.co.uk) to scan the detachable motherboard try with some extra adjustments (making it wider to support my Asus Sage C621e dual cpu socket motherboard.) They sent me the scanned file in STL and STEP file. If you ever send out the detachable tray to get 3d scanned, ask the company to scan the screw threading in the screw insert holes.If anyone wants a company that can actually sheet metal print the tray for this chassis with any adjustments, I would highly recommend this company based in China: nice-rapidtooling.com (why? they were cheaper to the rates the UK companies were asking for incomplete work at £549 excl VAT. and they got the job done accurately charging me £292 inclusive of VAT and DHL postage from China to the UK) The technique they used is Cold Rolled Sheet metal and the paint powder used is Type 7737 sand grain black (quality is better than the original tray.) I had to use a dremel metal sander to slightly wider the edge hooks that slide and secure the tray to the chassis. This was not the fault of the metal company because they only went by the 3d scanned file. The 3d scanning company may have slightly miscalculated using Solidworks. I used a dremel drill with a metal filer and the tray fits perfectly. I drilled the exra holes for my motherboard tray and I am all good.I managed to purchase 2x air side panel doors from Thermaltake USA. Thanks to a man named ZachI hope my review helps someone wanting to do the same thing.I do love the fact that without the Thermaltake P200 pedestal, one can install 4x Alphacool Eisbaer Extreme Black Edition AIOs in the Thermaltake w200. That AIO is large