Thermaltake Unveils "Element S" Chassis Exclusive For US

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"Thermaltake is a well-known brand for producing high performance, premium quality and superior design product and widely recognizable by media around the world. In the beginning of a new 2009, Thermaltake presenting a whole new line of chassis “Element S” as the year featured chassis. The profound appearance and structure design, “Element S” will the most stylist and unique of the year. Element S will first release exclusively in North America, and absolutely fulfills PC professionals demands."

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Just because I feel like taking a p*ss at something:

- Cable management must be horrible, I'm spotting just two holes in the mobo tray, one of which is going to be fully covered by the motherboard.

- The front hurts my eyes

- Too few 5.25" bays

I guess this is what you get when you mix the Antec P182 inside layout with the HAF932 and some moderate external designing skills.

The black is nice though :p
 
ok it looks pretty cool for a mid case, sadly like i said its a mid case :rolleyes: im not good at comenting mid cases since the first thing i look at one is space / cable management and thats a little hard to get (specialy both) on a mid.

also like the guys said its a fusion of a antec with a Haf and some lian li cleaness outside (not much thougth)? :nutkick:

Soap.
 
I actually think cable management would be reasonable enough. Here is my reasoning why:

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(sorry about my paint skills :p)

I agree a few more 5.25 could have been included, but for me personally there is enough. At most I will use two of the 5.25 bays.

The front is a little garish and won't be to everyone's taste, however I do prefer this to some of the other cases they have thrown out in the past.
 
Don't compare thermaltake with thermaltake, every new case will look better. Luckily, it shouldn't be getting worse :/

Did you think about the upper cables with cable management? I have quite a few cables running just above my motherboard behind the motherboard tray. My CPU fan wires for example.

EDIT: do you keep in mind that the leftmost hole you mark is only a hole in the horizontal panel? The motherboard tray behind it looks solid. So to route your front panel wires you'd have to run them through the lowest hole, then the leftmost hole and then into your motherboard. That's quite in sight imo.
 
Why not compare them with previous cases. It shows they are making an improvement on how their previous models looked/functioned. Obviously they aren't in the same league as Coolermaster, Lian Li and Silverstone, but thats besides the point here.

CPU fan wires can be tucked under the mobo itself from my experience. There is also a small hole at the topmost left that some cables can pass through if necessary.

The leftmost hole is indeed a horizontal panel, but routing the front panels wires in the manner you mentioned shouldn't look bad if everything is kept nice and tight. A lot depends on where they are situated on the motherboard itself.
 
I'm used to comparing in price class. By looking at that way, some Cooler Master cases are in the same league.

But, when reconsidering I have to admit cable management could be worse. Hadn't even seen the very small top/left most tbh :$.
 
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