Level x GT Internal Blueprint

Getting inside the Level 10 GT is extremely easy equally you simply demand unlock the "System Security Lock" so printing in the button underneath the case and pull the door at the aforementioned time. Thermaltake has used their clever case door fan connector which allows the door to open with the fan continued.

The opposite case door opens in a more traditional manner equally it is secured using a pair of pollex screws at the back of the instance before you tin slide it off. We had a lot more trouble here as it was almost like the door was glued on. Information technology was impossible to remove by hand equally there is nowhere to gain leverage. Therefore I was forced to jimmy it off with a screwdriver, I felt similar I was trying to steal someone's car.

Anyway, with both doors open up I was able to go a skilful await at how the Level x GT works within. The motherboard tray which is non removable provides plenty of room to piece of work and the tray itself has undergone quite a lot of piece of work. The tray features 8 condom grommets along with a massive hole that provides rear access to the motherboard's CPU mounting bracket. Thermaltake has ensured that the pigsty is large enough to cater for all kinds of AMD and Intel motherboards.

There is plenty room to support graphics cards as long as 360mm which is considerably longer than even the Radeon Hard disk 6990. The maximum CPU cooler summit supported is 190mm and given that some of the taller heatsinks that we have worked with such equally the Prolimatech Armageddon only mensurate 160mm alpine there is plenty of headroom left in the Level 10 GT.

Nosotros noticed how Thermaltake has made strides to not just provide splendid cable management in the Level 10 GT, merely the cables that come pre-installed have also been neatly routed through the case. The fact that Thermaltake has also used black cables for everything is awesome, there are no ugly beige USB cables in this case.

Another thing that really impressed us was the iii.5" hot-swappable bay setup. The v trophy are powered via a single SATA power cable, and not just whatever SATA power cablevision. This is a custom made cable that is designed to fit the Level x GT like a glove. The user simply needs to connect the data cable to their motherboard and slide in some hard drives.

The 5.25" bulldoze bays are near equally impressive, every bit the correct side door hides the tool-less design that allows users to snap up to four 5.25" devices into place in only seconds. Securing the 5.25" drives from the contrary side of the instance is not really an option unless you take one-half of the case apart.

And then at that place are the 3.5" drive bays which are not attainable from the inside of the example, so this is non an area that we need to concern ourselves with right at present. The ability supply is meant to exist installed in the lesser of the example and in forepart of that is a mount for an optional 120mm fan. Both the optical 120mm fan and the fan that volition be featured in the PSU are provided a removable dust filter which is accessible on the underside on the case.

Thermaltake has pre-installed 4 case fans which include three massive 200mm fans. The intake fans consist of a front end mounted 200mm fan and a side door 200mm fan. The exhaust fans include a top mounted 200mm fan and a smaller 140mm rear fan. The 200mm fans are designed to operate at ~ 600 - 800 RPM generating 13 - xv dBA of racket. The smaller rear fan spins at 1000 RPM and makes 16 dBA of racket.

The internals of the Level 10 GT are constructed from SECC (Steel, Electrogalvanized, Common cold-rolled, Coil) which brings the total weight up to 28 lbs (12.7kg), which is considerably less than the 47 lbs that the original Level 10 weighed. In fact, the Level 10 GT weighs exactly the same as the Silverstone Raven RV02-Eastward which is very reasonable for a full belfry example. As you can appreciate from the pictures, the internal workings of the GT have been given a squeamish matte black paint job to match the residue of the case.