CM Storm Trooper Review 8

CM Storm Trooper Review

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Value and Conclusion

  • The CM Storm Trooper should set you back around 150 Euros incl. taxes or 190 USD excluding taxes.
  • Very detailed & cool looks
  • Very good quality of metal and plastic used
  • 2.5 inch hot-Swap bay in the front
  • Unique drive bays for hard drive bays
  • Two 4-in-3 hard drive cages included
  • Four fans part of the chassis
  • Excellent cable routing possibilities
  • Surprisingly comfortable and sturdy handle
  • Separate bays for 2.5 inch drives
  • Easily removable front covers
  • Multi-stage fan controller included
  • 9+1 expansion slots for quad-SLI setups
  • XL-ATX compatibility
  • Anti-Theft cover in the rear
  • Hidden compartment with lock
  • Dual-Layer metal mesh on side panels
  • Dust filters on top and bottom
  • Enough space behind tray for cable routing
  • Screw-less 3.5" hard drive installation
  • Case only level when front is filled with hard drives and optical drives to weigh it down
  • Heavy even empty
  • No thumb screws for 5,25" bays
  • No real dust filter on side mesh panels
Cooler Master has created a big line-up of cases over the years. From time to time there are some which stick out and tend to become big milestones. Such cases are the Cosmos or the HAF series, which still tend to turn heads long after release - proof that such cases can withstand the fast pasted industry successfully. The CM Storm Trooper may well be such a chassis. It offers an incredible set of features, executed to near perfection. I tried finding things wrong with the chassis, but as you can see in the short list above, the positives far outweigh any of the small shortcomings. The CM Storm Trooper does not only look menacing in the best sense, but is surprisingly good to work with, spacious clean and even really comfortable to carry around. If you are a LAN party gamer, want to have something to go with the whole Counter-Strike image (especially with the new version coming soon), there is simply no way around the CM Strom Trooper - well done Cooler Master!
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