Thermaltake Core V21 SPCC Micro ATX, Mini ITX Cube Gaming Computer Case Chassis, Small Form Factor Builds, 200mm Front Fan Pre-installed, CA-1D5-00S1WN-00 Black

Es mi primer computadora ITX, entro todo bastante bien. Es fácil de ensamblar (mi segundo ensamble). Utilice para esta build una mother Asus B850-I y una fuente Corsair SF1000 y una Refrigeracion liquida (AIO) Corsair iCue Link Titan 240 y entro todo bien y anda bárbaro. Por el momento tengo una GPU chica, una 4060, pero mas adelante la pensaba ampliar a una 5070 TI. No puedo comentar mucho sobre esto. Llegó a Chile sin problemas y en perfecto estado.Lo único que tengo algunas dudas es si entrará una GPU de la serie 5000 de alta gama, como 5080 o 5090, ya que son un poco mas anchas que las de gama media y baja (en algunos modelos). Tampoco sé que tan bueno es el Cable riser PCie 4.0 que viene incluido. Creo que en un futuro lo cambiaria pero ya por un PCIe 5.0 de una calidad mejor. Pero bueno, la verdad es que es un plus y no me quejo, todo lo contrario.

Excellent case and easy to work in. The case body is built well and feels very solid. Intelligent use of space and placement for cable management and good air flow. Only complaint is the top plexiglass is really low quality as I had a smudge on the inside from doing the install and cleaning it with a soft towel scratched it badly. So heads up to only use something like a micro fiber cloth on that. Otherwise this is a solid case for a micro ITX build and a really good deal.

While I have built pcs for a long time & more recently for friends, I haven't upgraded since 2013. I plan to keep the old one since it still works for office/school/music so I could focus on a gaming pc for my living room. Too bad 2021 sucks for that! But I did the best I could & I may make changes later, but I'd rather have a pc in my living room than dealing with a console or those sticks.For the case, it's awesome. It's fully modular, & it's not really clear what that means until you get it. [Side note, somehow my first order got lost in delivery? Amazon sent a replacement a couple days later.] When I got it, as much as I wanted to put my pieces together, I studied what could be done with the case.I went with what would be a classic arrangement: front of mobo & side of GPU facing the glass (the popular alternate is facing the fans to the glass to show off more of what you got). It does a couple of strange but cool things. First, instead of the power supply being under all of that, it is instead directly behind the mobo. That causes two issues: I'm going to have to put in a 2nd M.2 behind the mobo at some point, & the center of gravity is kind of high.But it allowed me to have a really beautiful looking as well as a functionally cool build. I can run Red Dead or GTAV on 4k at 60fps with marginal gpu fan noise. I could probably do a little better with cord management (thinking the Homer Simpson meme) but the cord sleeves & the case really do the work hiding what goes on between the power supply, front i/o, rgb, & fan cords crossing paths. With a fully modular power supply from the same company, it was easy to get all the cords slick-backed & tidy.With airflow, the big fan in the front might not have the clearest path, but it provides plenty of forward pressure. I have one 120mm fan on the bottom pushing straight to the gpu (with magnetic fan mesh filters I bought seperately) & one at the exhaust behind the cpu cooler. Personally, I wanted to go all air-cooled even though this case is very liquid capable. I have one extra fan that I will probably reposition soon, but it is from the back panel (same as power supply) directly to the gpu. I want to raise it up but I don't know the best way to do it without ziptie-ing it.Lastly, I wasn't going to get into the RGB, but once the corsair ram sticks glowed (cheapest/only available at that size), I figured I should finish the job. I use the Asus Aura software & the rainbow is mesmerizing.The case size compared to the large three-fan GPU, large Hyper 212, & tiny Mini-ITX mobo is pretty interesting. It kind of looks like one big holder for the gpu. It's kind of goofy but so am I & I don't have to worry about temps while gaming or if my pc is capable to play a game.Here's the part list:-AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO-Asus ROG Strix X570-I Gaming Mini ITX-Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3000-Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280-Asus Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB TUF GAMING OC Video Card(via Newegg @ $1323.99, yeesh!!!!!)-Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 PE 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply-Windows 10 Home Key from Kinguin-VIZIO M-Series Quantum 55" Class (54.5" Diag.) 4K-Full Motion TV Monitor Wall Mount Bracket Articulating Arms Swivels Tilts Extension Rotation for Most 13-42 Inch-VIZIO - 32" Class - LED - D-Series - 1080p-Airgoo Magnetic RGB LED Strips-Phantek 120mm fans x3-Cord Sleeve from Newegg that looks like carbon fibreTotal: $2930ish but that's including the tv's.

This review is about the Thermaltake Core V1 SPCC Mini ITX Cube Gaming Computer Chassis.I haven't built a computer in 20 years, and a lot has changed in 20 years, so it's taking me a couple weeks to get all the proper parts. I decided to get a smaller form factor, so I chose the mini-ITX case. This case is not that small, by the way to be called a small case. In fact, it's about 1.25 times as big as my QNAP 5-drive NAS, but still it's small enough to fit in the stand where I keep my lab equipment. Check the dimensions of this case - don't assume it's small just because it's designed for a mini-ITX board.I had to brush up on the sizes of motherboards. So, there's ATX, micro-ATX, mini-ITX, and now there's also a mini-DTX. The biggest of these is ATX, followed by micro-ATX, followed by mini-ITX. What about mini-DTX? Well, for now, the mini-DTX motherboards are very rare to come by, but the benefit of them is that they are just a little wider than the mini-ITX motherboards, so you could potentially find one with two PCIe slots. The mini-ITX board only has room of one PCIe slot. The good news is that this case is designed to accommodate both mini-ITX and mini-DTX motherboards. In fact, there are two openings for PCIe expansion cards' backplates on the back of this case. It took me a few days to figure out why there are two openings for the PCIe expansion cards in this case, and at one point I thought that maybe the second slot for to put a micro-ATX motherboard in this case. However, after I got dimensions for the micro-ATX motherboard and measured inside of this case, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the micro-ATX motherboard will not fit in this case.So, if you need two PCIe expansion slots (let's say one for a secondary NIC and the other one for a GPU), and if you can find a mini-DTX motherboard with two PCIe expansion slots that can accommodate your CPU, then you can for sure use this case to mount a mini-DTX motherboard in it. Otherwise, in the absence of mini-DTX boards right now, your only choice is a mini-ITX motherboard to mount in this case.I bought a 20 cm Noctua PWM fan and replaced the front case fan that comes with the case. The Noctua fan is not very expensive, but it looks and feels much more quality than the fan that comes with the case. The back of the case has a place to mount two 80 mm (8 cm) fans, but the case comes without fans to be mounted on the back of the case. Therefore, I bought two 80 mm Noctua PWM fans and mounted them to the back of the case. The Noctua fans come with all the necessary mounting clips as well as a 2-to-1 splitter to be able to connect both 80 mm fans to one 4-pin (or 3-pin) connector on the motherboard. So, you dont have to buy a separate 2-to-1 splitter because after you buy two Noctua fans, you will actually have on extra splitter.For the CPU cooling solution, I bought a Noctua vertical CPU heatsink with an integrated 90 mm fan. Initially, I bought the Noctual heatsink with a 120 mm fan, but when I received the case and read the instructions, it says that the maximum height that this case can accommodate for a vertical heat sink is 140 mm. Unfortunately, the Noctua vertical heatsink with a 120 mm fan has the total height of 158 mm, which is too high for this case. Therefore, go with the Noctua heatsink with a 90-mm fan.Additionally, this case comes without a PSU. So, buy a PSU for this case. I purchased a 500-W Be Quiet (BQ) PSU, for $120, which is the quietest PSU I could find.I am building a Ryzen Gen 3 based computer - it's actually not going to be a gaming PC; it's a server to run VMWare ESXi for my lab. The unfortunate thing is that I have to choose either to have two NICs or one NIC and a GPU on the mini-ITX board because mini-ITX motherboards only have one PCIe expansion slot. Therefore, I chose a 8 core / 16 thread Ryzen CPU with an integrated GPU to be able to boot ESXi and be able to make the initial configuration via the connected monitor. The CPU I chose is Ryzen 5700G (G stands for integrated graphics) with 65 W of TDP. This is the highest-end Ryzen gen 3 CPU that comes with an integrated graphics. I would prefer to have a 12-core/24-thread CPU, but all those come without an integrated GPU, so I would have to occupy the only ESXi expansion slot on the motherboard with a GPU card. For my ESXi lab, I prefer having a two-NIC setup on my ESXi server (one NIC is used for Virtual Machine traffic, while the other one - 2.5 Gbps one - is used for iSCSI directly to the NAS that has all my iSCIS datastores, so I had to find the CPU that has an integrated GPU in order to free up the only PCIe expansion slot available on the mini-ITX motherboard.As for the motherboard, I used the Asus ROG Strix B550I motherboard, which is the only motherboard that has an Intel 2.5 Gbps integrated NIC. All other AMD M4 compatible motherboards with 2.5 Gbps integrated NICs use a Realtek chipset, which is not supported in VMware ESXi. The Intel 2.5 Gbps Ethernet chipset that comes on the Strix B550I motherboard is I225-V, which has community driver support. As far as I know, this is the only motherboard of all AMD M4 compatible motherboards with 2.5 Gbps integrated NICs that is supported in VMware ESXi. Of course, if you are building a computer for Windows or Linux, then you don't necessarily have to go with an Intel NIC chipset on the motherboard, as the Realtek 2.5 Gbps NIC chipset will be supported just fine under those Operating Systems. Therefore, for a non-ESXi build, you can go with any motherboard that supports the M4 based Ryzen generation 3 CPUs. However, I can vouch that the Asus STrix B550I motherboards fits really well inside of this case, whereas I heard that there are issues with some other motherboards not properly fitting and some metal work required to grind down some of the case metal parts to properly install those mini-ITX motherboards.This case has a lot of vents in it, so I think with the proper number of quiet fans (that's why I went for Noctua and Be Quiet fands/PSUs), you can have a really well cooled and quiet computer in this Thermaltake Core V1 SPCC Mini ITX Cube Gaming Computer Chassis case.