Cubitek HPTX Tank Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅11-04-11
Interior

Removing the side panels we can finally see the spacious expanse inside. The interior is rather reminiscent of the Lian Li PC-A77F that we reviewed last year. The HTPX-Tank probably does lend some of the ideas from this case, albeit different mounting techniques. The motherboard tray has lots of cut-outs for cable management. HPTX Tank is able to house XL-ATX motherboards such as the new GIGABYTE G1 Assassin and EVGA SR2. With so many different sized boards available for installation it is needful to have various cable management cut-outs. As you will appreciate, installing a large graphics card within this case shouldn't be a problem at all. There is even a pillar positioned in the middle to allow for graphics card stability support.

Around the back, again plenty of space for cable storage behind the motherboard tray although there are no brackets for clipping cables and around the HDD storage rack there are no cavities to hide messy cabling.


Prominent side panel off showing lots of space



Behind the motherboard tray


Taking a closer look at the interior, at the bottom is a seating area for the PSU to drop in. Here we have mesh and anti-vibration strips for keeping noise down and preventing metal-on-metal scratching. The bonus with HPTX Tank is that we can also accommodate long PSUs, those that extend to 220mm.


PSU mounting at the bottom of HPTX Tank[/i


Moving up, we have the 10 expansion slot covers. Each of these covers is polished aluminium, perforated and fixed in place via thumbscrews.


10 expansion slot brackets for multi-GPU options


Above this we have the 140mm red LED fan that acts as a rear exhaust. This fan has a 3-pin connector for plugging directly into a motherboard fan header.


140mm rear exhaust fan - with red LED


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