Level 10

[Zen00]

Hey all, I hope you've had a great holiday season!

My first review article ever has been posted online and I hope that you all can take a second to look at it. It's for the Level 10 gaming case built by Thermaltake and BMW.

Penultimate Gamers Case, Courtesy of Thermaltake and BMW Group | Tech in Hiding

Cheers!

 

[z3r010]

Great work - I love that case

 

[pebbly]

gotta get me one of them

 

[jfar]

Hi, nice review, and nice case.

 

[MrMephitis]

Well written article, terrible looking case.

 

[Zen00]

Thanks for the comments, MrMephitis, what do you not like about the design, I love it and would buy it if the price were to dip below the $400 range.

 

[MrMephitis]

Thanks for the comments, MrMephitis, what do you not like about the design, I love it and would buy it if the price were to dip below the $400 range.

Hard to say exactly, I just don't like it.

 

[TGSoldier]

Thanks for the comments, MrMephitis, what do you not like about the design, I love it and would buy it if the price were to dip below the $400 range.

Hard to say exactly, I just don't like it.

I'm with you on this one....

It's just.. umm.. Ugly

 

[zzz2496]

<rant>

I have one, and it's returned to it's box, and sit on the corner of my room...

The cooling performance is horrendous, it can't handle my current setup.
By far, TT LV 10 is primarily aesthetics and acoustic performance, you must put cooling performance at the lowest level or so....
Oh yeah, the fan on the 3.5" drive bays are useless for the lower bays, it only works for the top two disks, the rest will heat up (or roast) nicely...

</rant>

I do have to agree, the build quality is ABSOLUTELY TOP NOTCH, second only to Apple's Mac Pro.

Btw, Zen00... do you own the case? Or you just review it then return it?

 

[z3r010]

Will the case fit 3 gfx cards? I always end up cutting the bottom out of my case to accommodate the card in the bottom PCI-e slot.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Nice review.

 

[zzz2496]

Will the case fit 3 gfx cards? I always end up cutting the bottom out of my case to accommodate the card in the bottom PCI-e slot.

It should, but your 3 GFX cards will literally burn... My 2 GFX cards temps are ~70 deg C at IDLE, 80++ deg C at full load, that is 2 cards with quite some distance between them. I can't imagine 3 cards that sits side by side with less than 3mm slack... eww...

 

[Zen00]

To let you know, I've never owned the case, nor seen it in person, only in photograph. A lot of the information on it I found in several reviews online, one of which I like best is linked at the bottom of the article.

I compiled information from the official Level 10 site, with information garnered from the reviews to feature what I like best and dislike about the case.

I know that it fits a ATX motherboard, if you can fit three cards onto that board, then it will probably will fit in the case, to my knowledge.

The network, and me, are new to the reporting field, we're not big enough yet to be given review models. If you know how to get them, I'd love to know how so I can really do that kind of stuff.

 

[skunksmash]

Will the case fit 3 gfx cards? I always end up cutting the bottom out of my case to accommodate the card in the bottom PCI-e slot.

It should, but your 3 GFX cards will literally burn... My 2 GFX cards temps are ~70 deg C at IDLE, 80++ deg C at full load, that is 2 cards with quite some distance between them. I can't imagine 3 cards that sits side by side with less than 3mm slack... eww...

water cooling looks like the only way to happily run 3x GT200 cards in that tower.....

how would that work (tubing, pumps, rads)..??, it looks like the component compartments are a little too organized IMO

Great review BTW

 

[z3r010]

I dont think the temps would be a problem for me, I have 3 GFX cards sat together now and they work fine. I keep the room A/C'd to 19° and they never see any gaming.

 

[skunksmash]

I dont think the temps would be a problem for me, I have 3 GFX cards sat together now and they work fine. I keep the room A/C'd to 19° and they never see any gaming.

good point.

i dunno..... Air-con, how the other half live aye



so what do ya reckon boss, are you gonna grab one..??

 

[z3r010]

It's very temping.

 

[Lordbob75]

Regardless of how it actually performs, that is one sexy case.

~Lordbob

 

[zzz2496]

Will the case fit 3 gfx cards? I always end up cutting the bottom out of my case to accommodate the card in the bottom PCI-e slot.

It should, but your 3 GFX cards will literally burn... My 2 GFX cards temps are ~70 deg C at IDLE, 80++ deg C at full load, that is 2 cards with quite some distance between them. I can't imagine 3 cards that sits side by side with less than 3mm slack... eww...

water cooling looks like the only way to happily run 3x GT200 cards in that tower.....

how would that work (tubing, pumps, rads)..??, it looks like the component compartments are a little too organized IMO

Great review BTW

Hmm... I don't see how you can use water cooling externally... The Mainboard compartment "swivels out", see the pictures on tt's website to understand what I mean. Or maybe you can put a lot of slack on the inside? (*Starts to think about water cooling his rig*)

Regardless of how it actually performs, that is one sexy case.

~Lordbob

Indeed

 

[Zen00]

The case itself is not built for water cooling, though with a little effort (see the review linked at the bottom of the article) you can add a Corsair H50 CPU water cooling system.

There is room to add another fan, possibly, if you want to remove a panel on the front, I don't know for sure though, as I've not seen the pane removed, it's just hinted at at the end of the previously mentioned review.


One of the main things I like about the case is the heavy duty build, which will last virtually indefinitely, IMO.