Id this case! Pics inside

whitecrook · 14 Mar 2010 at 02:29

Hi all

I bought this case about a year ago for 99p no reserve. It's lay in my cupboard since then but I just hooked my board into it. Panels are pretty thin, maybe aluminium. It's missing it's feet and then fans have probably seen better days. Front door is hinged with a magnet, and on that there are 2 extra doors that don't seem to cover the whole front and they have grooves (like tongue'n'groove) in them presumably something is missing but what?

Can anyone identify it? I'm thinking it might work well as a disk server with the decent cooling, and the nice access to the disks.

PICS: (poor quality)

C64 · 14 Mar 2010 at 03:58

Looks like an old kind of thermaltake not sure

DampCat · 14 Mar 2010 at 05:22

it's an armour i think

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1277&ID=1405

An old one.

Steve2000 · 14 Mar 2010 at 16:07

Yes, it's definitely an old Thermaltake Armour. Horrible, butt ugly things they are.

whitecrook · 14 Mar 2010 at 19:46

Any idea of the vintage? mid 90's? mid 00's? I can't find anything on the interwebs.

What is the point of the 60% door coverage. I see the new ones have this as well. So there was actually nothing in between the doors?

pastymuncher · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:25

It's not a Armour. I had one of the originals and they have a crappy plastic shroud on the roof going back to the 92mm exhaust fan. The I/O sockets are under a round plastic cover built into the shroud. It's not big enough either. The Armour is a huge great thing. Power supply orientation is wrong as well.

Cursed · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:41

I don't know the case but I would say mid 2000's. You wouldn't really see cases like that in the 90's/ early 00's. Most of them were still beige boxes.

tankskun · 15 Mar 2010 at 21:22

whitecrook said:
Hi all

Thats some awesome ducting on the side window panel there :cool:

Tiamat21 · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:21

If its got magnet hinge side panel, most probably a thermal take.

whitecrook · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:41

The ducting is adjustable that outer sheath (oo-err!) slides back and forward.
The main door just clips, but the 2 front doors are magnetic, they have small brass/oily steel hooks at the bottom.

I think it's possibly an Armor 'clone' Build quality is not 100% IMO, panels are pretty thin and if I push the usb panel at the top it kind of kinks in and out like a biscuit tin.

My 50 quid midi tower Inwin from 1999 is a well built case, my coolermaster full tower is fairly decent in terms of weight and thickness, this feels more like the £9.99 casecom style cases.

Can still hear the fans at 7V and at 5V, although the rubbish PSU fan is now the loudest thing. Not sure if it's even worth tarting this thing up, Given I just got a Thermaltake HR01 Plus.