Thermaltake The Tower 300 - Bumblebee Build 🐝
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- KitGuru has previously reviewed the Mini-ITX Thermaltake's The Tower 100 and 200 models, as well as the E-ATX The Tower 500. Today it is the turn of The Tower 300 which is Micro-ATX and comes in a sporting yellow colour scheme that Thermaltake calls Bumblebee. In this featured build we are filling out the case with a huge 420mm AIO cooler from Thermaltake and a chunky RTX 4080 Super graphics card from Zotac. You can buy the Zotac card here: tinyurl.com/2d8cankz
00:00 Tower 300 Bumblebee Edition
02:44 MSI B650 board
03:20 AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
03:35 TT Toughram XG RGB D5 5600
03:48 Installing the mobo
04:14 Accessories in the box
04:57 TT Toughpower GF A3 1200W setup
07:40 Toughfan pro install
10:40 LCD Panel kit for the Tower 200 !?
11:30 Toughliquid 420 EX Pro ARGB Sync
12:13 Leos Thoughts on the cooler install
13:24 Zotac RTX 4080 Super AMP Extreme
15:05 PC is finished - some quick tests
15:54 Leos Thoughts and the horizontal rest
Specification:
Motherboard support: Micro-ATX, Mini-ITX.
Power supply support: ATX.
Expansion slots: 4.
Included fans: 2x 140mm CT140 1,500rpm top exhaust.
Fan mounts: 3x 120mm/140mm side, 2x 120mm/140mm roof, 2x 120mm/140mm rear, 1x 120mm/140mm power cover.
Radiator mounts: 360mm/420mm side.
5.25-inch optical drive bays: None.
Internal drive bays: 3x 3.5-inch/2.5-inch.
Front I/O ports: 1x USB 3..2 Gen 2 Type-C, 1x USB 3.0 x2 Type-A, audio.
Dimensions: 551mm H x 281mm D x 342mm W.
Test System:
Case: Thermaltake The Tower 300 with chassis stand
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake ToughLiquid 420 EX Pro ARGB Sync
Motherboard: MSI B650M Gaming Plus WiFi
Memory: 32GB Thermaltake ToughRAM XG RGB D5 DDR5-5600
Graphics card: Zotac RTX 4080 Super 16GB Amp Extreme
Case fans:
Thermaltake ToughFan EX12 Pro PC Cooling Fan - Swappable Edition
Thermaltake ToughFan EX14 Pro PC Cooling Fan - Swappable Edition
Power supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 1200W
SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 M.2 NVMe
OS: Windows 11
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Я бы купил у вас, но к сожалению я живу в России....
My favorite color combo, black and yellow. Really enjoying this build.
Go on the cats hurling KK
The best Bumblebee Build/review thus far.... I got stung and now I must have one to build in. Thanks Leo, thanks-a-lot!
We need more innovation like this in the gaming industry.
Do like this design been hoping you guys would review this ever since you featured it at CES.
I liked the board. Never saw that one before. Nice find Leo.
Quite funny that yellow on black colour scheme really makes it look massive.
Thank you for showcase this. Dang the end result is like the.. futuristic shooter loot box game.
Awesome build Leo. Love the laid back approach ❤
I love watching this guy's videos. It's like watching a little kid play with toys. Very thorough and informative!
Great review Leo.
Put it on castors, fit a filter bag & hose to make it double as a vacuum cleaner.
TY for the review, I bought the racing green one, and was hella fun to build in! I like how it fits on the desk next to your monitor, really shows off the hardware. On mine I added the SignalRGB software to make it all come to life playing games.
Is the finish on the racing green smooth and manufactured well ?
@@Maxverstappenracing-dz3pt Yes its a nice finish and sturdy! Old PC was a tower 100, the 300 is better in every way, takes about the same space on your desk.
Thanks. I’d just seen a few photos and the finish looked a bit uneven but nice to know it’s quality. Might pick one up for my next system in the bedroom.
I noticed how the fishbowl corner box became popular, and all brands started copying it. So if you are after a certain brand I bet they will all start making towers like the 300 soon. The 300 case is popular because initially trying to get one a month ago they were all sold out.
The racing green is lovely. Quite like this yellow too. Strangely enough as I don’t like yellow usually. 😮
That is such a nice amount of hardware going into that case!
great looking build - love the yellow color scheme, i like what thermaltake are doing lately - not always (dont like their peripherals but some of their cases are great).
Nice build Leo 👌🏻
haha thats a fun build - loved it Leo !
It’s amazingly shallow really didnt notice that until you turned it around.
Great review!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Yeah have to chip in and say that’s really really different. Would look good in my Lamborghini. Just need to buy one now.
Nice. I have the og tower 100 mini since launch very pleased with it. The microphohe/headphone sockets are labelled wrong way round which took me a while to realise.
I think that is beautiful - wont appeal to everyone I guess, but I love yellow - cars, motorbikes - why not PC cases -- dont often see them !
Fire 🔥🔥
Always like Thermaltake stuff think thats a very cool design for a case.
Quite like the yellow makes a change from the usual black or white.
that bottom part with the psu looks a bit space restricted. I assume you got all the cables in as it was covered later.
Love that tower. Shame its only micro atx. i wonder if you can fit a standard atx?.
I was wondering if you were going to do a build... This is my next one.
If only they had installed the 'rear' io at the other end, making it a 'front' io, but at least it would have been useable.
i built a bumblee one just a couple weeks ago. Thermaltake has a software to rotate all their LCDs and customize them with whatever image or gifs you want. =)
however that software has nothing for ARGB fans, only RGB(with controller) - so you might want to download another program for ARGB.
surprised it could take such a huge gpu. Seems quite a good design overall for fitting high end components.
Would have been great to see some temperature testing. These vertical cases are known to often have issues with GPU's for example due to GPU Vapor Chamber orientation for example.
I’m trying to find this case to buy for a birthday gift !
I hve the small screen and TT RGB software allows you to flip the screen to be on portait
Id be more interested in the Thermals with this case.
Love the front LCD, love the case shape, hate that colour scheme.
Gorgeous build. I do like the case when it's on its side but I do think they've missed an opportunity to offer more USB ports, either on the replacement bottom panel or on the cut-out instead of the LCD.
One question: you mentioned that the Zotac is a triple slot card; does the case allow you to use the fourth expansion slot? For example in my mATX PC in a Kolink Citadel Mesh I have a RTX 3090 FE in the GPU slot and a 10 GbE NIC in the end x4 slot.
Thermaltake had a bad rep for along time, but this one almost makes me want to build a PC with this case!
looks like a vending machine 😊
arctic freezer II 360 will be a problem installing on this case right?
The box is very nice and the assembly is simple, but where do the normal 3.5 hard drives go and the rest? It doesn't come ready for the new boards that have the cables underneath, that stops me from buying it.
Kind of cool being able to orientate it horizontally. Where does the LCD display get its info? What exactly does it display?
The LCD is connected over USB and controlled by Thermaltake software. You can upload an image, select an image from a small library or pick system info from a list they provide.
Leo
Otima construção pena que no Brasil esse equipamento custa um rim, grato pelo video.
I love the look of that case but I'm wondering how feasible it is to get a custom hardtube loop in there, even if only for the CPU, with that 420 rad support that would be an amazing build
That would be challenging I think....
If you have the case on it's side, that would be doable i think. a 420 rad at the "top" as exhaust. A pump/res combo mounted on the PSU shroud. Every other fan set to intake. That could be a full CPU and GPU loop. It might also be doable with the case upright. If you could mount the pump/res combo to the rad.
thankfully it doesn’t have those white 25 anniversary stickers. Nice colour to be fair.
Fair enough!
cant put fans on the GPU side cover?
Lol. Banana for color coordination 😅
I was looking into this case for my next build, anyone know if you can set the 420mm aio as a pull intake? (so you can see the fans on the inside and easy cleaning)
OK I’m going to say it because no one else has. What a Ghastly colour scheme.
Front IO would have worked better in that case, or maybe its just me
why no one is showing where to connect HDMI, DP cables :D Never seen a build like this, I got White version and waiting on other parts.
When are they going to release this case for a regular ATX board???
There is an obvious opening in their product stack for The Tower 400
Leo
Scale the banana with another banana. We don’t know if that banana is up to banana size standards
I prefer BPF (Bananas-per-feet) for measurement it's more consistant.
From the outside of the case, you got 2xUSB3, 1x USB-Cm and audio. That is it. Access to anything beyond that, is really, really a mess. The case is wide enough to accommodate a full ATX MB, but due to a design choice of placing that AIO where it is, that is not supported. Thus, this case is deliberately wider than it needs to be. Also, why use a 420 AIO for an 7800x3d? Due to the design choice, there need to be extra room below the PSU and there is a ton of room on top of the PSU till the end of the mobo. There is quite a lot of space between the rear IO and the top fan, but I am not sure that there is the needed 80mm of clearing. If the cables are too long, they get cut by fan blades. Also, the choice of having fans on the top, further extends the height, as to accomdate fans on the top. That is, at least 105mm is needed above the rear IO, to fit it all.
I simply don't get this design. It is un-elegant in so many ways, that I simply don't like it. I just don't get why? Why don they design this way? To what end? What is the vision? What is the expression? Seems like I would get a ton of functional answers, but not really any answers as to form. Not to mention the resulting "functional" size, which is enormous. Why this huge size is functional for what it is, I just don't get?
The one fail? Laying it horizontal. The asymmetry ... No. Just NO! Otherwise, I wanted one in British Racing Green the moment I laid eyes on it at whatever show they first previewed it at, I like it in Hydrangea and Pink too. Now Bumblebee; a Mancunian thing appropriately. Curiously they all come out ahead of Snow.
Qualifying the 12VHPWR as "good when it works" is a terrible attitude. It's a plug, there should be no option for it not to work, especially when the failure mode is property damage or worse.
Fairly sure that was a joke. They have discussed the problems before in videos. This is a build not an analysis of Nvidia issues which Dominic talked about in the past
Actually we have created articles on this subject over on www.kitguru.net and Dominic has spoken to nvidia about it in the past, reported on it, created videos, and I have spoken to companies like Seasonic about what was causing it, why, and how to avoid it. I touched upon it in my power supply reviews as well over here: tinyurl.com/25beprnv. The standards have changed multiple times since the early days too. Its massively indepth.
This isn't 'qualifying' anything today, this is a build video and Leo cracked a semi joke in passing, it was not an indepth analysis of cabling standards. I appreciate you arent a regular, but we have done some work on this before - but if we were to hijack a build video for thermaltake and start delving into problems, solutions and cures on cabling, it seems a bad place to do it (again). thanks Allan (Editor in Chief).
Just don’t bend the cables into the gpu. It’s simple. Solved ages ago.
I don't know why no reviewer talk about the problems of vertical gpus temperatures. 90% of gpu or more with heatpipes and also with vapor chambers have problems in this mounting position. This posizion, with i/o panel facing up to ceiling is the worst position and some gpus reach 110 degress hot spot and more than 10 degrees mid temps !! Some cases, like Corsair 2000D can mount gpu opposite of tower 200 (with i/o panel to the floor) and the temperature are normal...no, are better than classic horizontal position! Anyway....NO ONE TELL US ABOUT THIS ! Why ? because $$$$$$$
p.s.: this is not a spam comment, this is a comment from a pc builder for pc builders
I literally showed you GPU temperatures
Leo
@@KitGuruTech I was about to say, its in the video - boy oh boy.
Ok guys, but it's a thing to say. I've tried a lot of case and positions, and it's a common issue. This Is a thing to say everytime when the build Is a build like that, but i repeat: no one tell about this problem! Showing temperature, when GPU hasn't got the problem doesn't mean anything. You review a case, a lot of people Will buy this case but not all Will buy the same card . Good Surprise when their GPU Will reach 110 junction temps and fan Will reach 3000 RPM. Oh, what a sound, and what a hot.
I’m afraid I’ve no idea what you are saying mate 🤷🏻♂️
I dont get their drawings for their instructions! They are so 1980s! Havent they heard of a colour printer?
Bit plastic looking isnt it.
all this plastik lasts 5 years at the most. no thanks. (Phantecs Evolve Shift X did this kind of design years ago but nothing comes close to that quality anymore)