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Thermaltake Armor+ VH6000

By Aloysius Low - 25 Dec 2007

The Interior

Interior Design

You should have noticed by now that one of the side panels is actually transparent and comes with a huge 230mm fan with a blue LED Light. Oddly enough, despite its larger size on paper, we got the feeling the fan wasn't as big or as solid as the Big Boy fan of the Antec P190. This is probably because compared to the Big Boy, the plastic one on the Armor+ looks just like an ordinary cooler fan, albeit much larger. Performance wise, the fan spins at 800RPM while only emitting only 15dBA of noise, much quieter than the P190's Big Boy fan.

Going one up on the Antec P190 Big Boy fan is the 230mm on the Armor+. Comes with a blue LED too!

Located just behind the removable drive cage is a 120mm fan that should help cool all seven hard drives.

Mounting hard drives is relatively easy, simply by unclipping a tray and mounting a hard disk onto the tray before re-inserting the drive. It is relatively painless and took us one minute, compared to our experience with Thermaltake's SwordM V5000BNA. Additionally, the whole HDD cage can be detached for mounting an additional 140mm VGA cooler, though it strikes us as odd, as the fan would be blowing out hot air taken in from the mounted hard disks. Seeing as there are no vibration dampeners in the HDD cage, this feature strikes me as really odd.

The removable HDD cage can accommodate up to five hard disks, and uses a tray loading mechanism. Two more HDD slots are located at the bottom of the casing.

The two HDD slots at the bottom can be removed and replaced with either 120mm or 140mm fans for even more cooling. Also, while the Armor+ can hold up to 10 expansion slots, more than the usual seven found on most casings, these extra slots come at the expense of the bottom HDD/fan slots, so if you're using an Extended ATX motherboard, those HDDs have to go. Of course, with support for up to five HDDs already, we doubt most users would mind.

The bottom HDD trays as mentioned earlier are removable and fans can be placed in the slots instead for even more cooling.

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