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Thermaltake Armor VA8000SWA ATX Full Tower CaseThermaltake is proud to introduce their knight & shiny ""Armor&quo t;". With a whole look and design, The Armor is a...
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Thermaltake is proud to introduce their knight & shiny ""Armor"". With a whole look and design, The Armor is a fully compatible Total Thermal Chassis. With its protective shield and prideful stance, the Armor is ready for any type of battle that comes its way. Galloping through an air cooling system with two 120mm fans on the front and rear of the chassis, The Armor has an additional 90 mm fan in the top of the chassis for high efficient ventilation. With a structure so extreme, it is able to provide an excellent airflow throughout its entire body. Jousting among a liquid cooling solution, The Armor is a fully compatible Water Cooling System. It contains retaining holes for any type of water cooling kits and is definitely the best choice for users who intend to use water cooling solutions. In addition to winning the hearts of all, The Armor is a powerful and constructive chassis for fanless systems.
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5 Reviews from Shopping.com
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Excellent case
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Pros: Very low temperatures, durable, blue lighting, see-through panel, quiet, looks great!
Cons: Very heavy. Space consuming.
The Bottom Line:
I'd buy this case for another machine anyday! Great price, high quality, versatility.
I built:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADA3800CUBOX; GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard; BIOSTAR V7602GS51 GeForce 7600GS 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail; Corsair 4MB 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM.
I must say, although Armor is the heaviest case on the market for home-office PC, that is the only flow I can report. It is cool-lit with blue lights built into the two main fans. There's also an exhaust fan on top, so the case is probably the coolest non-liquid cooling can offer. My videocard typically idles around 40 degrees Celcius (compared to 60 and up in a run-of-the-mill Dell Dimension). The AMD chip - the same. Although this system is huge and has lots of fans in it, it's not loud. Bays are plentiful, you can easily put in two CD/DVD devices, a floppy (don't know why), removable storage device - all will fit above the huge intake fan inside its own cage, which consumes the bottom 3 slots. There's so much space inside! I have a 500W power supply with enough extension cables to power up Pentagon (j/k), and all that spagetti is not getting in the way of the air stream. Just use plenty of ties to keep everything orderly. Installing components was a breeze. I struggled a little bit with power supply installation (fitting it in the top compartment) but nothing major.
The "doors" they put on this thing are kind of meaningless, though they do look cool. See-through panel - awesome. The slots through which air is coming in are equipped with filters that prevent dust and other crap from getting inside - components are immaculate when you open it up. Lots and lots of peripherals - USB ports on top, plus headphone connection there. And, of course - the price is truly unbeatable. I ended up building a special stand for this thing, because it does consume quite a bit of space. Overall - excellent case, looks a lot more expensive than it sells for. I bought this item on Newegg.com for mere $144.99.
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