Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Case Review

Inside Thermaltake V3 Black Edition

In Figure 11 you have an overall view from inside Thermaltake V3 Black Edition interior. As we mentioned before, its interior is painted in black. The motherboard tray has a hole around the CPU area, which means you don’t need to remove the motheboard if you need to upgrade your CPU cooler with a model that requires you to install a backplate. There are no holes to route cables behind the motherboard tray.

Figure 11: Inside view.

In Figure 12, you can see the rear panel from inside. There is no toolless mec
hanism for holding expansion cards, but this case uses a plate that holds all the expansion cards with only one screw. This system proved to be pretty practical, but we preferred to see thumbscrews here.

Figure 12: Rear panel.

In Figure 13 you can check the area where the power supply is installed. A nice surprise was to find a removable air filter here. A drawback is that you need to remove the power supply if you want to clean this filter, because it is installed inside the case between the case floor and the power supply. In this picture you can also see the place for installing a 120 mm on the bottom panel, that must be installed under ventilation mode, i.e., blowing air from outside the case to the inside. Thermaltake could have included an air filter here as well.

Figure 13: Power supply compartment.

In Figure 14 you can check a computer built using V3 Black Edition. We installed a very big motherboard (ASUS Rampage III Extreme) and it fit just fine and we still had some room between the motherboard and the disk drive bays.

Figure 14: Computer assembled inside V3 Black Edition.

We measured the available space and the reviewed case supports video card up to 10" (25 cm), but if you use only the lower 3 ½" bays you can install video cards up to 12" (30 cm) long.