CHF189.– was CHF208.–
Thermaltake Core P8 TG
ATX, mATX, E-ATX, Mini-ATX
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8 reviews
Better than expected
Heavy I mean that you have to be very careful with the case regarding the many glass and is a bit too heavy.
Pro
- more than enough space
- big tower
- nice look
Contra
- heavy
Very high quality
Very nice case just heavy and big times just lift around not so easy😅.
But it is also protected against theft🤣
No, on the whole I am very satisfied, especially visually it makes a difference.Pro
- Finally space for everything
- Beautiful workmanship
- Lots of glass
- You can disassemble and move everything
Contra
- Weight 22kg
- riser cable 4.0 not included only 3.0
- Airflow could be better therefore upper glass disc out.
- A bit fiddly with the power supply as it is in the housing and the toggle switch is now also in the housing.
The big elephant full of compromises
The case has Thermaltake's usual good workmanship, but offers frighteningly little for the monstrous size if you want to install a custom water cooling system!
I wanted to install 1x 360/120, 1x 360/140 and 1x 140/140 radiators.
My Thermaltake View 71 has unfortunately given up the ghost (control panel dead), the case is about 10cm less high and deep compared to the Core P8, but I had significantly more space and more freedom for my water cooling.
You can't install a front radiator together with a side radiator if you want to mount the fans on the inside (as shown in all PR pictures). - About 2cm of space is missing! It's unbelievable, you could have simply moved the cut-outs for the right-hand side 2cm deeper into the case and there would have been plenty of room! The fans have to be mounted from the outside, whereby they are then no longer visible and also have to work constricted by the side panel.
The distance between the glass panel and the fan at the front is very small. If you want to place spacers between the fans and the radiator, you can only mount them on the inside. From the outside, the fans then almost touch the glass. 1.5 cm more distance would have been something....
The worst point concerns the installation of the top radiator: The upper glass plate is 2cm above the sheet metal end, so nothing can be mounted from the top outside. But if you install a radiator and fan from the inside, the fans practically touch the mainboard! Here again: My 7mm spacers had no room. In the end, I put the radiator on top of the case from the outside (and now have to leave the glass plate off the top). How can something like this go through? The mainboard bracket 2cm further down (there would have been enough space!) and you could have let off steam here.
Last but not least: The PCI riser function. An absolute joke! In View 71 the layout was "standard" and then there was the riser adapter. So you could show off the graphics card and plug everything else into the mainboard as normal. In P8 you can only do either / or. So everything with riser or everything normal. You can argue that you no longer use many other PCi components, but come on....
My conclusion: Certainly well suited for air cooling, unfortunately a disappointment for water.Quite Okay
Pro
- Chic
- TG
Contra
- May be 5cm lämger aein so that fit around 420 radis
6 out of 8 reviews
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