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Thermaltake V9 Case Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: October 1, 2008
Page: 3 of 6
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Antec LifeStyle Solo ATX Quiet Mini-Tower Case Piano Black SOLO K17801 Electronics Usually ships in 24 hours
Amazon: $89.99 Newegg: $89.99
Wal-Mart: $94.82 Buy.com: $93.03

Inside V9
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The side panels are fastened to the chassis using thumbscrews, which is great. Even though you can remove the right panel, the motherboard tray is permanently attached to the chassis. In Figure 6 you have an overall look from the interior of this case.

Thermaltake V9
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Figure 6: Inside V9.

In Figure 7, you can see the rear 120 mm fan and the top 230 mm fan. As already explained, the top fan actually uses 190 mm blades and all fans use regular 4-pin peripheral power connectors, with no speed monitoring.

Thermaltake V9
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Figure 7: Rear and top fans.

This case uses individual plastic screwless mechanisms for fastening daughter boards to the case, as you can see in Figure 8. We usually complain about the quality of plastic mechanisms, but on this case this mechanisms look sturdier than the ones used by other cases, especially because they move laterally (parallel to the motherboard) and not vertically (perpendicular to the motherboard) as the mechanisms used by other cases. If they will break after a while only time will tell.

Thermaltake V9
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Figure 8: Screwless mechanism for fastening daughter boards.

As briefly mentioned before, this case has a washable dust filter for the power supply fan, shown in Figure 9.

Thermaltake V9
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Figure 9: Washable dust filter.

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