Test System

Assembly

To aid in assembly, you may remove the motherboard tray from the chassis. Because of the incredibly sturdy frame, doing so does not degrade the enclosure's structural integrity at all, so you won't have to worry if there are big radiators attached all around, for example.


As mentioned previously, there is some assembly to be done. The manual is not 100% clear about which screws to use where, so I went ahead and just used some thumb screws to hold the plate with the expansion slots in place. As with many other high-end Thermaltake cases, you may also install it horizontally to showcase your GPUs, but the AH T600 does not come with a ribbon cable, so we will stick to the traditional format for this review.


With the motherboard and GPU installed, there is plenty of room to clean things up and pre-route any cables. Putting the whole tray back is quite easy as well.


The storage trays may be taken off the motherboard tray as well. I went with a mixed 3.5" and 2.5" installation, which reduces the maximum capacity from three to two. The 3.5" drive is secured directly to the larger plate and held in place by screws with rubber rings.


The 2.5" SSD, on the other hand, is screwed down onto the small metal tray, which is then placed back on the larger tray next to the traditional spinning hard drive.


Lastly, you may secure it to the backside of the motherboard again with a single thumb screw. This modularity will also make it easy to update your storage configuration in the future.


To add the PSU, place it inside its tray and secure it. With that done, the whole contraption is placed into the chassis with the fan facing upward, as there is no opening in the floor of the chassis.


With everything installed, you can clearly see that there is loads of additional space. As the AH T600 is an open-frame case geared towards custom liquid cooling, there are no pre-installed fans.


The last step in the assembly process is to install the top panel with the four biggest included thumb screws.

Finished Looks

Once the side panels are back in place, the Thermaltake AH T600 really does look a lot like an attack helicopter with its slanted forward design. I can totally see someone placing a small action figure of a fighter pilot with a helmet and all into the front—just for fun. Even though the case did not come with any fans, I dug up some ARGB units to give the final images a little more bling. Naturally, all our tests were performed with the stock case configuration, thus without any of these fans. The large power button in the very top nicely lights up in blue to let you know the system is running as well.


While the glass panels are tinted slightly, you can still clearly see all the parts within on both sides, which should make it interesting to those with lots of lighting and maybe even SSDs with RGB.


The glass panels in the front aren't tinted, so you can see the fans, while the rear looks very much like a classic open-air frame, with the exposed I/O area of the motherboard alongside the gaps between the PSU and the expansion slots.