Thermaltake Intros View 21 Tempered Glass Edition Case

[btarunr]

Thermaltake today introduced the View 21 Tempered Glass Edition case. A variant of the View 21, this ATX mid-tower comes with 4 mm-thick tempered glass panels along both its sides, and front. The case features a contemporary horizontally partitioned layout. The larger top compartment holds the motherboard tray, with room for add-on cards as long as 42 cm, and CPU coolers as tall as 16 cm.

Storage options include two 2.5-inch mounts along the partition between the two compartments, two 2.5-inch and two 3.5-inch bays behind the motherboard tray. Cooling includes three 120 mm front intakes, a 120 mm bottom intake, one 140 mm top exhaust, and a 120 mm rear exhaust. Measuring 208 mm x 471 mm x 492 mm (WxDxH), the case weighs a little over 8 kg. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[drade]

Glass and RGB the trend of the century.

Not a bad looking case tbh.

 

[tonyd223]

I'd like 4 x USB 3, 280mm rad support, and I hate that external screws on the expansion slots - so it needs a bigger brother...

 

[Xajel]

Any Type-C ports ?

 

[Fourstaff]

Any Type-C ports ?

Highly unlikely, View 31 comes with USB3.0

http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model_Specification.aspx?id=C_00003012

Edit: nope

http://www.thermaltake.com/Chassis/...w_21_Tempered_Glass_Edition/Specification.htm

 

[ZoneDymo]

Highly unlikely, View 31 comes with USB3.0

http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model_Specification.aspx?id=C_00003012

Edit: nope

http://www.thermaltake.com/Chassis/...w_21_Tempered_Glass_Edition/Specification.htm

damn adoptions rate goes way too slowly....
The should just make half the ports C-type and then added adapters for those ports.

 

[Hood]

Another case with glass on both sides - why? Generally speaking, the right side panel faces a wall, and if it doesn't, nobody wants to see a lot of wires, no matter how neatly arranged. It also makes the case a lot heavier. Same goes for the cases with glass on front and top - adds a lot of weight and severely restricts airflow. Glass looks good, and it's a premium case material, but who the hell decided that people would rather have good looks at the expense of good cooling performance? Not me. If Corsair would release a glass left panel upgrade for my 750D, I'd buy that, and keep my great air flow.

 

[atomicus]

Another case with glass on both sides - why? Generally speaking, the right side panel faces a wall, and if it doesn't, nobody wants to see a lot of wires, no matter how neatly arranged. It also makes the case a lot heavier. Same goes for the cases with glass on front and top - adds a lot of weight and severely restricts airflow. Glass looks good, and it's a premium case material, but who the hell decided that people would rather have good looks at the expense of good cooling performance? Not me. If Corsair would release a glass left panel upgrade for my 750D, I'd buy that, and keep my great air flow.

Well, I would have 100% agreed before I had an Evolv TG... but one really nice effect is that when up against a wall, with an LED strip on that side, it casts a really nice glow behind the case. You're right no one wants to see cables (well, almost no-one, I'm sure some cable nerds love it), but you don't anyway with the case against a wall, but the option for light emanating from it is very cool.

 

[micropage7]

Nice steel drive trays but too bad not support many 3,5 inch hdd

 

[Hood]

Well, I would have 100% agreed before I had an Evolv TG... but one really nice effect is that when up against a wall, with an LED strip on that side, it casts a really nice glow behind the case. You're right no one wants to see cables (well, almost no-one, I'm sure some cable nerds love it), but you don't anyway with the case against a wall, but the option for light emanating from it is very cool.

I hadn't considered that, but you're right. In all the years that cases have had plastic side windows, nobody ever thought of putting windows on both sides, I guess because RGB LEDs weren't added to every component, until recently. Not sure whether to laugh or cry, so I might as well just stare at the pretty lights and try to forget about the time when people still cared more about how it ran than how it looks.

 

[atomicus]

I hadn't considered that, but you're right. In all the years that cases have had plastic side windows, nobody ever thought of putting windows on both sides, I guess because RGB LEDs weren't added to every component, until recently. Not sure whether to laugh or cry, so I might as well just stare at the pretty lights and try to forget about the time when people still cared more about how it ran than how it looks.

Yes, this RGB thing has got wayyyy out of hand IMO, certainly in respect to this obsession with making a PC look like a 70's disco and with little regard for performance. On the other hand, I do like a simple static colour or two... and the only way to achieve exactly what you want in that regard is with RGB, plus you can change it to anything you want to suit your build. So that side of it is positive at least. Just because you have an RGB set-up capable of pulsating 16 million colours in a rhythmic psychedelic pattern, doesn't mean you HAVE to lol!

 

[warrior420]

Man, it's almost like I've seen this case before...