Today, we’ll be taking a look at the Thermaltake The Tower 500 Snow Edition Chassis. This chassis is suitable for all ATX and E-ATX motherboards and comes with a Dismantlable Modular Design (DMD) allowing you to customize the cooling options and how you want the chassis to look. It’s compatible with 360mm radiators on the right side, 240mm (or 280mm) radiator on the top, and 240mm on the bottom.
A few years ago, Thermaltake released the Tower 900 chassis. It was a massive full tower case that really impressed us. It had a ton of customization for cooling, and it was perfect for DIY system builders, enthusiasts and modders alike. Having said that, it was a little “too big” for me. Then last year, Thermaltake launched the Tower 100 for Mini-ITX based motherboards, which I really love. I have a soft spot for Mini-ITX PC builds.
So waiting with anticipation, I only wished Thermaltake produced a Tower chassis series that’s kind of in between the Tower 900 and Tower 100. And finally, it looks they’ve granted my wish lol!
I’m sure many of you already know who Thermaltake is but in case you don’t here’s some info on the company. I would like to thank Thermaltake Premium for providing the review sample. This is what Thermaltake Premium has to say about themselves on their website:
TT Premium.com, the most comprehensive liquid-cooling and modding online shopping experience. The platform is designed to provide exceptional high-end products and services to customers worldwide. Thermaltake TT Premium includes several case modding products that support VR (Virtual Reality) gaming systems. Thermaltake TT Premium is the best high-end liquid cooling and case modding solutions shopping platform that provides client-tailored services and secure processing, to meet all user expectations. All products follow Thermaltake’s core values of Excellent Quality, Unique Design, Diverse Combinations, and Boundless Creativity. Thermaltake TT Premium has expanded its footprint to over 100 countries and territories by creating a seamless network connecting 5 major markets; the United States, Europe, Australia, Taiwan, and China (will be online in April) of seamless networking.
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Thermaltake The Tower 500 chassis comes in two flavours. The standard black version and the Snow edition. We’ll be reviewing the Snow edition because this is the chassis we’ll be using for our upcoming Funky Kit PC project build.
Right away, the Tower 500 looks pretty neat. It’s defintely smaller than the Tower 900 but big enought to fit a full-size ATX or E-ATX motherboard. In this case, we’ll be using an ASRock X670E Taichi motherboard which comes in the larger E-ATX form factor.
It also comes with 2 pre-installed 120mm cooling fans at the rear of the chassis, which are placed at specific positions to enhance cooling performance, preventing overheating for the CPU and GPU.
You’ll notice that the chassis has motherboards mounting that gives your motherboard a 90 degree orientation, meaning the I/O panel are facing vertical up. As far as cooling options go … there’s plenty, the chassis can easily fit a 360mm radiator on the right side, a 240mm (or 280mm) radiator on the top, and one 240mm on the bottom.
There are 3 side panels. The left and right side panels are a combination of metal mesh and tempered glass, while the front is a full tempered glass panel.
You can buy the Thermaltake The Tower 500 Snow Edition Chassis
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4 comments
I love the Tower 500, I’m curious about the GPU mount? Does it come in black? Where can I get it? How much was it? …Thank you, great video.
Thanks for your comments. I would like to apologies in advance if I misled anyone. The GPU vertical mount is not included with the chassis. I separately bought the vertical GPU mount … but I wanted to see if it would fit in the Tower 500. It fits ok. If you want to buy the verticla GPU mount go here … https://amzn.to/3J35C9E
im also curious about the vertical gpu mount. Im wondering how you would connect the hdmi or dp cable to the gpu? Im assuming this was only for aesthetics in this case? it would have to go thru the case and im not sure if there is a hole big enough in the back of the case for the connector end to fit through? just trying to figure this out before i actually order a 60$ part i might not be able to use?
What nobody seems to mention, is that the case doesnt suppport push/pull with AIOs on the side. The glass sits too tight. Also, if you are looking for a case that shines in airflow, Look elsewhere. It also says that 140mm fans fit up top. Well sort of, if you dont mind a couple fan screws not aligned. Really had to cram them in there. The side vents arent very functional, they donot flow well and they dont line up to an AIO well (very sloppy in this aspect) I leave a side off while I game to vent the heat. (Ryujin360mm/12700k/3070ftw3) I run 2 140mm fans up top one being an icegale xtra which moves serious air but, I may have to add another and replace the corsair QL140 thats in there beside it as the thing will still heat up a bit under heavy load. I Bought a TT CTE750. Much better display case imo. BTW, That diy GPU mod mount more than likely will require a right angle cable. Otherwise you wont be able to put the glass back on without bending the cable beyond its like. There are slots on the floor of the PSU cover, also on the wall under the motherboard mount. Cables are no issue in this case unless they are short.