Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A

Cases & PSU/Cases by A-star @ 2003-06-11

A testdrive around the installation course with the Thermaltake Xaser III. Is it the best case out there or does it have some flaws? Find out in this review!

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Specifications (details)

Thermaltake Xaser III:

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When i got the box, I thought it was empty. It's very light. The box itself is very colourful, with a lot of drawings and pictures on it. But enough about the box, let's see what's in it.


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Here you have a front and side view of the case. You can immediately see the craftsmanship that Thermaltake has.


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Here you have a close-up of the mechanism used to fasten the 2 side-fans. They are fastened with a blue bracket which you can remove when you install your motherboard.


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Some more close-ups of the fan bracket.


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These are the fans located at the back and top of the case. All of them are fastened without any screws, so you can easily replace them if needed.


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These are the PCI-slots with their fast retention mechanism. You can fasten any PCI card with this. I had some small problems with this, but this is discussed later in the article.


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Here is an overview of the expansion bases. There is place for 4 5.25" devices (1 occupied by the Rheobus), 2 external 3.5" bays and 6 3.5" bays. The internal 3.5" bays are placed so that you can easily swap hard disk.


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These are the brackets used to fasten the hard disk and the CD drives.


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Thus is the top blowhole. Combined with USB / Firewire and sound connection jacks for easy access.


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At the back I found some keys, wonder for what these serve.


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With the keys you can open the front 2 doors of the case. 1 gives access to the CD drives and power/reset button, the other one let's you opens the door where you can clean out the dust filters or change the CD drives.


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There are dust filters installed on all of the intake fans (2 in front, 2 in side panel). You can easily detach them and clean them up.


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Last picture but not the most unimportant: The Rheobus. You can control 4 channels with this with this puppy, set an alarm temperature and monitor temperatures with it, that means that you can control all the fans in the case with it and keep the noice to a mininum. At full speed the fans make some hearable noice,


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