Thermaltake V9 Case Review

Inside V9

The side panels are fastened to the chassis using thumbscrews, which is great. Even though you can remove the right panel, the motherboard tray is permanently attached to the chassis. In Figure 6 you have an overall look from the interior of this case.

Figure 6: Inside V9.

In Figure 7, you can see the rear 120 mm fan and the top 230 mm fan. As already explained, the top fan actually uses 190 mm blades and all fans use regular 4-pin peripheral power connectors, with no speed monitoring.

Figure 7: Rear and top fans.

This case uses individual plastic screwless mechanisms for fastening daughterboards to the case, as you can see in Figure 8. We usually complain about the quality of plastic mechanisms, but on this case this mechanisms look sturdier than the ones used by other cases, especially because they move laterally (parallel to the motherboard) and not vertically (perpendicular to the motherboard) as the mechanisms used by other cases. If they will break after a while only time will tell.

Figure 8: Screwless mechanism for fastening daughterboards.

As briefly mentioned before, this case has a washable dust filter for the power supply fan, shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: Washable dust filter.