Thermaltake Announces Immediate Availability of Highly Anticipated Level 10 GT

[Mussels]

i like the looks of the hard drive thing at the front, but the rest of it is about as attractive as my butt crack (pro tip: hairy, not attractive)

 

[TAViX]

But can it take SLI or Crossfire of dual GPU 35cm long cards????

 

[Mussels]

But can it take SLI or Crossfire of dual GPU 35cm long cards????

not sure on the measurements, but it does give a few inches room past the edge of a standard mobo.

 

[wrathchild_67]

A customer requested a build around this case. It just so happened that there was also an 850w PSU that came with it for the msrp price of $269 at TigerDirect. It's definitely not as ground breaking as the original Level 10, but it seems highly functional. If the case didn't include the PSU, I would have recommended another case. If anyone is interested, I can post pics of the finished build using this case.

The other components are going to be:

850w Thermaltake PSU
Asus Crosshair Formula IV
AMD 1100T CPU
Thermaltake Frio
4 x 4GB RAM
2 x Sapphire Radeon 6950 2GB
Zotac Geforce 240 GT 512MB (Physx)
Crucial C300 64GB
2 x Velociraptor 600GB RAID 0

 

[blibba]

A customer requested a build around this case. It just so happened that there was also an 850w PSU that came with it for the msrp price of $269 at TigerDirect. It's definitely not as ground breaking as the original Level 10, but it seems highly functional. If the case didn't include the PSU, I would have recommended another case. If anyone is interested, I can post pics of the finished build using this case.

The other components are going to be:

850w Thermaltake PSU
Asus Crosshair Formula IV
AMD 1100T CPU
Thermaltake Frio
4 x 4GB RAM
2 x Sapphire Radeon 6950 2GB
Zotac Geforce 240 GT 512MB (Physx)
Crucial C300 64GB
2 x Velociraptor 600GB RAID 0

That seems a very expensive system to build around a Phenom CPU, especially when, as the decision to use an Nvidia Physx card shows, this isn't an AMD fanboy/girl.

 

[wrathchild_67]

That seems a very expensive system to build around a Phenom CPU, especially when, as the decision to use an Nvidia Physx card shows, this isn't an AMD fanboy/girl.

It was, but it is the only high end system available with a viable CPU upgrade path. Sockets 1366 (much more expensive), and 1156 are dead, and 1155 isn't available right now nor does it offer full 16x PCI-Express bandwidth for multiple GPUs. At least with this setup, a Bulldozer CPU can be dropped in later and there is enough PCI-Express bandwidth available for future high-end GPU upgrades.

The Physx card was just icing on the cake. Not really necessary, but it fit into the budget.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

It was, but it is the only high end system available with a viable CPU upgrade path. Sockets 1366 (much more expensive), and 1156 are dead, and 1155 isn't available right now nor does it offer full 16x PCI-Express bandwidth for multiple GPUs. At least with this setup, a Bulldozer CPU can be dropped in later and there is enough PCI-Express bandwidth available for future high-end GPU upgrades.

The Physx card was just icing on the cake. Not really necessary, but it fit into the budget.

You need a new motherboard for Bulldozer. AM3 is dead too. Your client is fucked.

 

[Mussels]

until it comes out we dont know if AM3 CPU's work in AM3+ motherboards, or the other way around.

AM3 CPU's work in AM2+ boards, so IF they follow the trend, AM3+ CPU's may work in AM3 boards.

 

[wrathchild_67]

You need a new motherboard for Bulldozer. AM3 is dead too. Your client is fucked.

Yep, this single comment made me realize that his computer that was awesome just a few days ago is now completely worthless. Go back to inspecting porn.

until it comes out we dont know if AM3 CPU's work in AM3+ motherboards, or the other way around.

Let's hope so. Asus has done similar things with their BIOS in the past. At this exact moment you can't really build a future-proofed computer (in terms of gaming performance) unless you want to spend over $3000 and get an i7 6-core and some 580GTXs. When someone wants a computer right now, what are you gonna do?

 

[pr0n Inspector]

At least I'm not someone who bought a top-end AM3 system while thinking I could upgrade later.

In fact, I bought the 1090t instead of the more efficient, better performing and clocking 870 for no particular reason other than "What's it like to have an AMD system?"

 

[Mussels]

At least I'm not someone who bought a top-end AM3 system while thinking I could upgrade later.

In fact, I bought the 1090t instead of the more efficient, better performing and clocking 870 for no particular reason other than "What's it like to have an AMD system?"

i bought mine because i used the CPU on an AM2+ DDR2 board for a few months before getting my new board, so i had access to the 6 core earlier.

 

[blibba]

It was, but it is the only high end system available with a viable CPU upgrade path. Sockets 1366 (much more expensive), and 1156 are dead, and 1155 isn't available right now nor does it offer full 16x PCI-Express bandwidth for multiple GPUs. At least with this setup, a Bulldozer CPU can be dropped in later and there is enough PCI-Express bandwidth available for future high-end GPU upgrades.

The Physx card was just icing on the cake. Not really necessary, but it fit into the budget.

I guess I don't tend to make major upgrades so soon after buying a new system.