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BrandThermaltake
Item Height
56.8 centimetres
Item Width23.7 centimetres
Technical Details
- USB3.0 superspeed
- Top-mounted HDD hot swap Docking Station
- Liquid cooling ready
- Colourshift LED fans
- USB 3.0 x 2, USB 2.0 x 2, eSATA x 1
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Manufacturer's Description
Chaser MK-I is clearly one of its kind. ColorShift LED fans and the breathing logo on the front top lend it battlefield fierce looks. An oversized interior gives users room for aggressive upgrades of this XB ATX Tower (extra big). Highly advanced ventilation, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports can be directly connected to the motherboard. Ready for any galactic combat.
Product Description
Chaser MK-I PC Tower (VN300M1W2N) VN300M1W2N The Thermaltake Chaser MK-I PC tower is great for gamers! With a cool, futuristic design, the Chaser MK-I has a high performance fan system to protect your computer's components, even after hours of intensive use.Plus, practical front connections include two USB 2.0 ports to hook up Plug & Play devices.
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I first bought this Chaser Mk-I I was a little worried about the Size.
I was Described as a Mid-Tower but it is actually a FULL Tower Case, which means it can house full sized Graphics Cards and massive CPU coolers.
You have a Cable tidy area behind the mother board that will hide every cable that goes into your PC, as well as Grommets that will make the cables pop out right next to where they are needed to be rather than trail over some of the heat generating items. This is good as when you buy a case like this you worry about the Physical appearance of the case, and a couple of loose or hanging cables can make any case look "Tatty".
The elevated case means that your Power unit Does NOT take any air from Inside the PC, it takes air from the bottom of the PC and expels it to the back, there is also room for a 120mm Fan at the bottom, to help suck in air from the base of the unit into the system. Giving more cool air, up into the area where the Graphics card will be taking it from is always a great thing, even if you dont have a Hot GPU it always good to get more cool air into your computer to make sure that its cool, and the cooler the PC the quieter it can run.
The two massive Colorshift fans, that come with it, can be placed anywhere in the 200mm fan slots (2 on top, one at front, and one on the side panel). if you contact thermal take you can buy 2 additional colorshift fans, and a splitter to use 4 fans, other than that you can always get coolermaster fans :P. These are nice steady airflow making Fans, they keep the air inside the Case Clean, and are very useful when you are using Air cooling, even if you dont it is handy to make sure some form of Airflow is in your PC otherwise your cooling will fail.
It has nice expansion for Liquid cooling as, there are holes to place a 120x2 fan sized radiator at the top, I have noticed a similar holes at the front in place of the front 200mm fan.
also the exhaust fan (rear 140mm) can be made into a single rad fan, as well as getting one for the bottom. When you can buy water tanks that will be placed into the 5.25" bays (cd drive bays). and LOADS of room to hide a pump :)
Overall I feel that this is a Great Case for First time builders and Ofc Advanced Users. It offers so much Expand-ability, utility, and versatility.
With an Aggressive look and a well build feel when you get it, it makes a fine house for what ever you will place into it.
My only "Bad point" is that if you place a Side 200mm Fan it needs a little care to be taken when removing the panel to upgrade or look at the inside, due to the wire leading from the PSU (or back at the cable management) to the fan it self on the side panel.
Other than that, this is a Model case for any Hardware to be fitted.
If builders are interested my RIG consists of:
Chaser Mk-I case
Intel i7-2700k
Cooler Master V10 (massive cooler)
Sabertooth P67 Mother Board
Corsair LP 16GB Ram
Asus N15 Wireless PCI-e Card
Sapphire HD7970
Corsair GS800 PSU
Corsair 120GB Force SSD (red)
Westurn Digital 1TB Black HDD
Anyone would want help with Building or looking at products to Fit this case, feel free to Comment and ask :)
Thank you
I was Described as a Mid-Tower but it is actually a FULL Tower Case, which means it can house full sized Graphics Cards and massive CPU coolers.
You have a Cable tidy area behind the mother board that will hide every cable that goes into your PC, as well as Grommets that will make the cables pop out right next to where they are needed to be rather than trail over some of the heat generating items. This is good as when you buy a case like this you worry about the Physical appearance of the case, and a couple of loose or hanging cables can make any case look "Tatty".
The elevated case means that your Power unit Does NOT take any air from Inside the PC, it takes air from the bottom of the PC and expels it to the back, there is also room for a 120mm Fan at the bottom, to help suck in air from the base of the unit into the system. Giving more cool air, up into the area where the Graphics card will be taking it from is always a great thing, even if you dont have a Hot GPU it always good to get more cool air into your computer to make sure that its cool, and the cooler the PC the quieter it can run.
The two massive Colorshift fans, that come with it, can be placed anywhere in the 200mm fan slots (2 on top, one at front, and one on the side panel). if you contact thermal take you can buy 2 additional colorshift fans, and a splitter to use 4 fans, other than that you can always get coolermaster fans :P. These are nice steady airflow making Fans, they keep the air inside the Case Clean, and are very useful when you are using Air cooling, even if you dont it is handy to make sure some form of Airflow is in your PC otherwise your cooling will fail.
It has nice expansion for Liquid cooling as, there are holes to place a 120x2 fan sized radiator at the top, I have noticed a similar holes at the front in place of the front 200mm fan.
also the exhaust fan (rear 140mm) can be made into a single rad fan, as well as getting one for the bottom. When you can buy water tanks that will be placed into the 5.25" bays (cd drive bays). and LOADS of room to hide a pump :)
Overall I feel that this is a Great Case for First time builders and Ofc Advanced Users. It offers so much Expand-ability, utility, and versatility.
With an Aggressive look and a well build feel when you get it, it makes a fine house for what ever you will place into it.
My only "Bad point" is that if you place a Side 200mm Fan it needs a little care to be taken when removing the panel to upgrade or look at the inside, due to the wire leading from the PSU (or back at the cable management) to the fan it self on the side panel.
Other than that, this is a Model case for any Hardware to be fitted.
If builders are interested my RIG consists of:
Chaser Mk-I case
Intel i7-2700k
Cooler Master V10 (massive cooler)
Sabertooth P67 Mother Board
Corsair LP 16GB Ram
Asus N15 Wireless PCI-e Card
Sapphire HD7970
Corsair GS800 PSU
Corsair 120GB Force SSD (red)
Westurn Digital 1TB Black HDD
Anyone would want help with Building or looking at products to Fit this case, feel free to Comment and ask :)
Thank you
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I have a Cooler Master Storm Enforcer and this is the basis of my comparison.
Positives:
Aggressive looks - marmite ! and I love it!
Configurable dancing lights, can be turned off - love it again! (though it would have been better of there were more combinations)
CPU cutout is huge which allows one to install any heatsink without removing the motherboard.
USB3,eSata, and a 3.5 docking station at the top front
Tool less design for attaching drives
Windowed side panel and a 200m fan can also be mounted
Negatives:
My GPU ran a lot hotter than when It was on my CM Enforcer, I have tried putting a 140mm fan at the bottom (blowing up) and another 120mm fan at the top (blowing down, not extracting) which made no difference. On closer inspection, the fans did not push much air in even when they were at full speed because the top cover was preventing this, and at the bottom, the mesh filter was like a cloth and didn't allow much air through it. Same thing happened when I removed the included 200mm fan from the top, replaced it with one high speed 120mm fan, and installed the 200mm fan on the side panel. The mesh again did not allow much air to pass through it.
A lot of plastic parts, and some looked fragile, I thought something would break after a few cleanings.
Not much space on the right hand panel for cable management, the CM Enforcer had more space. A few cm's additional space could have helped here
The side panels were thinner compared to the panels of the CM Enforcer, which made it even more fragile and can bend easily because it was a lot bigger.
Only 2 fan speed settings (low and high, fans cannot be turned off)
At it's current price tag of £132+ , I would look for other alternatives.
Edit:
After fiddling about and testing the bottom and side panel fans without the mesh, there was a very big difference in the amount of air that was pushed inside the case that affected the temps, but removing the filters posted another problem - dust!
At least I am happier now, and I'll up the score from 1 to 3 stars.
edit:
I have given this case much time and different configurations, and a lot of patience but it really doesn't cut it for me. It's now packed and awaiting collection. Poor thing I really like how it looks, but it fails on performance.
Positives:
Aggressive looks - marmite ! and I love it!
Configurable dancing lights, can be turned off - love it again! (though it would have been better of there were more combinations)
CPU cutout is huge which allows one to install any heatsink without removing the motherboard.
USB3,eSata, and a 3.5 docking station at the top front
Tool less design for attaching drives
Windowed side panel and a 200m fan can also be mounted
Negatives:
My GPU ran a lot hotter than when It was on my CM Enforcer, I have tried putting a 140mm fan at the bottom (blowing up) and another 120mm fan at the top (blowing down, not extracting) which made no difference. On closer inspection, the fans did not push much air in even when they were at full speed because the top cover was preventing this, and at the bottom, the mesh filter was like a cloth and didn't allow much air through it. Same thing happened when I removed the included 200mm fan from the top, replaced it with one high speed 120mm fan, and installed the 200mm fan on the side panel. The mesh again did not allow much air to pass through it.
A lot of plastic parts, and some looked fragile, I thought something would break after a few cleanings.
Not much space on the right hand panel for cable management, the CM Enforcer had more space. A few cm's additional space could have helped here
The side panels were thinner compared to the panels of the CM Enforcer, which made it even more fragile and can bend easily because it was a lot bigger.
Only 2 fan speed settings (low and high, fans cannot be turned off)
At it's current price tag of £132+ , I would look for other alternatives.
Edit:
After fiddling about and testing the bottom and side panel fans without the mesh, there was a very big difference in the amount of air that was pushed inside the case that affected the temps, but removing the filters posted another problem - dust!
At least I am happier now, and I'll up the score from 1 to 3 stars.
edit:
I have given this case much time and different configurations, and a lot of patience but it really doesn't cut it for me. It's now packed and awaiting collection. Poor thing I really like how it looks, but it fails on performance.
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