thermaltake soprano silver no window

vincent1989 · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:54

hey, my first post, i was thinking of this case for my second build, i wanted the windowed version, but this is the one OC sells, and i wanted to know if anyone had any pictures of this case with hardware installed, and what experiance they had had with it, quality etc, i looked through the new case thread but couldn't see it, maybe i just missed it, but thanks anyway

ReeceKB · 4 Oct 2006 at 19:29

Hi There

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I'v got a ThermalTake Soprano with a window. Realy good build quality and very strong. I'm getting a DFI lanparty so the case is empty but I will try and find some older pics.

ReeceKB · 4 Oct 2006 at 19:44

Here you go

Its a nice case

Hamoodii · 4 Oct 2006 at 20:12

nice pics, shame that A8N-E had to go

ReeceKB · 4 Oct 2006 at 20:34

Hamoodii said:
nice pics, shame that A8N-E had to go

Yea but I got a DFI now. Should be here tomorrow

red11 · 4 Oct 2006 at 20:37

I've also got the windowed version, it's a nice case, looks good, has very good airflow, the only downside is the cheap flimsy door and the pointless locks on the window and front of the case.

Sultan of Ping · 4 Oct 2006 at 21:31

I really like this case too, the fans are good quality and pretty quiet too.

As a previous poster said, the locking mechanism on the door isn't very well designed - but the paint jobs are good and the tool-less drive mounting system is useful. The ports usually reserved for front-mounted positions on other cases are on the top of this case, under a spring-loaded flap, so take this into consideration also.

It comes with a polishing cloth too, which I find makes an excellent spectacle-cleaner also! :cool:

smsmasters · 4 Oct 2006 at 22:31

Here's mine, I recently rewired the inside as it was so untidy at first.

First built May 2006:

Installed an Arctic Freezer Pro 7 to cool down my Pentium D 930 OC'd to 4ghz:

Rewired yesterday, took out the graphics cards and all my 3 hard drives:

vincent1989 · 5 Oct 2006 at 00:41

thanks a lot guys, really helped, but i put in for some extra over time at work and i think i'm gonna get the tsunami

, black windowed, they look pretty similar though, so it still helped to see space wise etc, thanks for the pics

i'll be changing all three fans for coolink, mainly so i can stick the free ones (or at least one of them) in my sonata II :rolleyes:

thanks again

smsmasters · 5 Oct 2006 at 10:09

Does anyone else have the same case as me? I'm thinking about fitting some cold cathodes but I'm not sure where is the best place to install them inside the case.

Thanks

smsmasters said:
Here's mine, I recently rewired the inside as it was so untidy at first.

First built May 2006:

Installed an Arctic Freezer Pro 7 to cool down my Pentium D 930 OC'd to 4ghz:

Rewired yesterday, took out the graphics cards and all my 3 hard drives:

smsmasters · 5 Oct 2006 at 12:42

bringerofdecay said:
thanks a lot guys, really helped, but i put in for some extra over time at work and i think i'm gonna get the tsunami , black windowed, they look pretty similar though, so it still helped to see space wise etc, thanks for the pics

i'll be changing all three fans for coolink, mainly so i can stick the free ones (or at least one of them) in my sonata II

thanks again

The front fan might be a bit hard to replace. I don't know how.

red11 · 5 Oct 2006 at 14:09

The front fan is very easy to replace, there are easy release catches holding the front of the case, just press them from inside the case and hey presto, you should now be able to unscrew the front fan and replace it.

smsmasters · 5 Oct 2006 at 14:20

Linoge said:
The front fan is very easy to replace, there are easy release catches holding the front of the case, just press them from inside the case and hey presto, you should now be able to unscrew the front fan and replace it.

But isn't it a bit hard to remove the fan from the inside after? The hard drives cages are blocking it.

red11 · 5 Oct 2006 at 15:42

smsmasters said:
But isn't it a bit hard to remove the fan from the inside after? The hard drives cages are blocking it.

No, you just angle the fan and remove it. It's the first thing I did when I got this case, to replace all the fans with Akasa 120mm ambers.

james.miller · 5 Oct 2006 at 15:43

ive got the non windowed version. its a fine case really.

smsmasters · 5 Oct 2006 at 15:48

Linoge said:
No, you just angle the fan and remove it. It's the first thing I did when I got this case, to replace all the fans with Akasa 120mm ambers.

Nice, I might try that. Do the Akasa 120mm fans blow more air, quieter?

james.miller · 5 Oct 2006 at 15:57

i cant say the original fans are loud at all. mine arent anyway, and believe me ive got a quiet pc. if you wanted to do thats i'd suggest getting the system up and running in the case first before spending 15-20 on replacing the case fans if theres nothing wrong with them

red11 · 5 Oct 2006 at 17:24

smsmasters said:
Nice, I might try that. Do the Akasa 120mm fans blow more air, quieter?

They can blow more air at quieter volumes, and they have a nice sweet spot when you have them all connected to a fan controller and you lower the voltage, they are very quiet.

james.miller said:
i cant say the original fans are loud at all. mine arent anyway, and believe me ive got a quiet pc. if you wanted to do thats i'd suggest getting the system up and running in the case first before spending 15-20 on replacing the case fans if theres nothing wrong with them

True, but I already had a few spare Akasa Ambers lying about the place, the stock fans you get with this case are quite good and quite silent.

vincent1989 · 5 Oct 2006 at 21:31

james.miller said:
i cant say the original fans are loud at all. mine arent anyway, and believe me ive got a quiet pc. if you wanted to do thats i'd suggest getting the system up and running in the case first before spending 15-20 on replacing the case fans if theres nothing wrong with them

yes, thats a good idea if you do not intend to use one of the fans for your older antec sonata system, and i wanted to continue the blue theme from the front LED's, so it made sense to get the coolink fans...i didnt want the case to glow to much, hence i'm not getting blue LED fans...but i will be getting 1-2 blue cathodes, and zalman aero flower (LED version) and the zalman LED graphics cooler, so BLUE

ReeceKB · 6 Oct 2006 at 10:14

james.miller said:
i cant say the original fans are loud at all. mine arent anyway, and believe me ive got a quiet pc. if you wanted to do thats i'd suggest getting the system up and running in the case first before spending 15-20 on replacing the case fans if theres nothing wrong with them

Yea I must say there very quiet but thats because they hardly blow any air