Review System

Assembly

Installing a motherboard with the Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro is done via traditional means, using spacers and screws. Adding the GPU is done by ordinary means as well, with plenty of room for long units. Only those setups that opt for thick liquid cooling on the side of the chassis will be limited to 330 mm. The GPU support bracket works extremely well, and is equipped with a foam capped plastic spacer to ensure minimal contact to the GPU itself.


As the tray within the backbone is the main hard drive installation method, we opted for this, even though it hides your storage units. One of the black mountings can hold a combination of two differently sized drives, which are screwed in place. Once these are secured, simply put the plate back and pin it down with one thumb screw.


Thermaltake sent us a total of nine of their SWAFAN 12 RGB to use for the build, so we sandwiched up the 360 AIO in the front with these units, and installed the remaining three on the side of the chassis with lots of room for airflow. Thanks to the cable routing opening all around, any mess can be kept to a minimum as well. While we used the standard fan blades on the side of the Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro, the ideal scenario would utilize the alternative fan blades the SWAFANs come with, to reverse the flow of air. You can read our review of these fans here.


The PSU bay can hold up to 200 mm long units according to the specifications table. It employs a mounting plate and a support frame. While it is technically possible to use even longer units, you potentially won't have proper access to the cable routing hole.


With everything installed, the Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro looks good overall. While once can easily hide cable management shortcomings in a classic chassis, this is not possible with this type of enclosure. As such, it would have been nice to see grommets on the openings around the motherboard, and a way to route cables out of the side from the front, past the side opening, which is unfortunately not possible.

Finished Looks

Once the glass panel and rear steel cover are in place, the black cables blend into the background well enough with this black version of the chassis, however, those opting for the white "Snow" edition will have a bit of a harder time. A big blue LED lights up as soon as the system is turned on.


The front of the Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro looks spiffy, with the three intake fans on the radiators clearly visible. As you can see, the cables disappear into the small cutouts, which doesn't look that bad as a result. In the rear, with the traditional setup, things are pretty much exactly where you would expect to see them in a mid-tower chassis, but naturally with no framing, as such everything is exposed.


The side fans look great as well and while we installed ours to push air out the side, this position is most likely best for AIO users, so that they may install intake fans in the front instead. But, as we were going for a six fan sandwich AIO, that has been mounted in the front.