Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅07-05-11
Interior

We’ve had a look at the outside, now it’s time to look at the inside. The Chaser MK-I is a big case, so it should have the features and space to reflect this. Taking the thick steel side panels off via the useful thumbscrews we get our first glimpse of the inside of Chaser MK-I. Coated in black, the internals reveal plenty of cable management cut-outs with soft rubber to easily thread through cables. This inside of Chaser MK-I will accommodate MATX and ATX motherboards and even has a large CPU cooler backplate cutout for successfully installing/removing the cooler from your motherboard without the need to unmounts the board. There are tool-less mechanisms for mounting optical drives, HDDs and PCI cards and so far, a very presentable interior.

Spinning the case round to the other side, behind the motherboard tray there is again a very clean layout here. Cables are neatly arranged to trail down the side of the HDD cages. Thanks to the covers on the other side, cabling running down here shouldn’t be seen anyway.


The side panel off to show a very tidy, spacious interior



Lots of cable management options for those who keep their systems tidy


Until only very recently case manufacturers have begun to include USB3.0 headers running from the front panel of their products. Unfortunately though, a vast majority are still implementing standard USB3.0 cables running from the front panel all the way to the I/O. This is not only untidy but it also takes up the few USB3.0 ports that are found on current motherboards.

To my delight, Thermaltake have implemented the USB3.0 header onto the USB3.0 ports on the front panel. The great thing about this is if you don’t have a USB3.0 header you can still use USB2.0 ports at the front anyway until you do move to a board with a USB3.0 header. Some cases only have USB3.0 ports up front so in that instance you would be scarpered if you didn’t have a USB3.0 header on your motherboard. It seems that Thermaltake have planned this case very well in terms of functionality here.


USB3.0 header is great to see – no more trailing USB3.0 cables!


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