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Thermaltake Armor A30 Mini Tower Case Review

Discussion in 'Articles and Reviews Comments' started by Julio Franco, Jan 24, 2011.

  1. Steve TechSpot Staff

  2. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe

  3. captaincranky TechSpot Addict

    Yeah, this case definitely needs a handle. With that said, think how ugly it would be if it had one. I've seen toolboxes with more personality. Alright, that might be a little harsh. But only a little, mind you.

    I've seen a LAN concept case, that came with a nylon sling affair. Wish I could remember who made it.

    Perhaps something like this; http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ECAR00003&cat=CAS except it needs to come with the case.

    Oh look, here's pretty much the same thing, for 7 times the price; http://www.crazypc.com/products/8150.html
  4. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe

  5. captaincranky TechSpot Addict

    Wow, that's super! If you get too drunk, you can let your St. Bernard carry the computer home from the party....:rolleyes:
  6. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe


    ROFL!

    and I knew better...
  7. Kibaruk TechSpot Paladin

    Indeed I fan the can more atractive, also you can stack them up a bit so you can really meassure it ;)
  8. Kibaruk TechSpot Paladin

    Wow... not even me understood what I just said there...

    The can is far more atractive, there =P
  9. captaincranky TechSpot Addict

    I speak some Spanish, so you could try that. Julio frowns on that a bit, in the English forums.

    I have to say your post #47 was mystifying at best.

    "? Que dice ?"
  10. Most excellent review! Thank you!

    I purchased this case because of this review. I also purchased a Corsair Hydro Series H70 and I think I can make it work by removing the 3.5" bay and cutting off the bottom bracket for the 2nd 5.25" drive. That leaves enough room for the radiator and both fans on the h70. I am using a 2.5" SSD and an optional 2.5" Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB drive. I'm building this week, but will take pictures if there is any interest.
  11. Hi Steve,
    Nice review.
    I know that the ideais going to look akward to most of you but I was wondering if I could use this case to make a (relatively) compact NAS. That would require converting the 2 5"bays into 3 "bays to ge to 6 SATAs.
    Can you tell if one of these bay adapters would fit? Of course otherwise there would always be the good old tinkering approach ;)

    Cheers
  12. I bought the case 2 weeks ago, but was very disappointed once I had finished my build. As a matter of fact, I'm replacing it next week by an NZXT Vulcan (other alternative was a Lian-Li PC-V354).

    Not only do the 2 rear 90mm fans emmit quite a bit of noise, the case features a horrible design flaw. Depending on your PSUsize (mounted at the top), almost 50-70% of the 200mm top exhaust fan is blocked. As a consequence, the back of the case(mostly between CPU and PSU) is heating up as the rear 90mm fans are unable to expulse that much hot air... while the front of the case remains super cool. Needless to add that the rising temperature increases fan speed of the CPU and GPU cooler resulting in... even more noise.

    I was looking for a solid, (relatively) quiet, transportable LAN PC but ended up with an ill designed noisy case.