A Closer Look - Inside

You may take the Core P6 apart all the way down to the metal rods holding the side panel in place. That makes it an open-air frame similar to what the Core P5 achieves by default. That said, if you are opting for the Core P6, odds are you want to take advantage of the additional mounting for cooling, so all you need to do is take off the glass panels by sliding them out after removing the stoppers at the corners.


Taking a look at the insides of the Core P6, the layout is actually quite traditional for a modern chassis. There is a shroud that hides the PSU bay—lifted off the floor of the chassis, you could even install fans and have the PSU positioned like this. Thermaltake also added the vertical GPU mounting bar and two options for 2.5" hard drives. You may also install the GPU-support bracket here to hold the GPU up as long as it doesn't interfere with the graphics card fan. Towards the front is another plate on the floor of the chassis to install a reservoir or pump, but it may even be used for a third 2.5" drive in this area of the Core P6.


Looking at the opposite side of the chassis, there is the side fan/radiator mounting space for up to two 140 or three 120 mm fans. Alternatively, a radiator of up to 360 mm will fit without interfering with the GPU.


Next door are two separate mounting plates for additional storage, which may each hold three SSDs or two 3.5" HDDs. This means the Thermaltake Core P6 can hold a whooping seven to nine hard drives. Lastly, there is the solid steel VESA mounting plate with various holes for 200x100, 100x100, and 75x75 mounting variants, so hanging the whole system off your wall is an option, a unique element most Core P series cases offer.


Looking at the front, there is yet another possibility for two 140 mm, three 120 mm fans, or radiator of up to 360 mm. Thanks to the recessed side-mounting position, you should be able to fill both areas without issue as well.


Thermaltake has included the ability to rotate and install your PSU vertically. This is only possible if you opt for an mATX or ITX motherboard, and you have to remove the default shroud first to make room. While it is nice to have this possibility, I doubt anyone would buy a case of this size to install a smaller board and forgo the vertical GPU-mounting possibilities. In other words, Thermaltake could have skipped this little feature and the parts required for the most part. With everything removed, you can clearly see the two 140 mm or three 120 mm fan mounting possibilities on the floor of the case. Even with the PSU installed, a radiator of up to 240 mm would fit. Thermaltake has placed another white, magnetic metal mesh dust filter here, which is nice, but it really needs stronger magnets to stay in place as it fell off numerous times before I took this picture.


The expansion bays are covered by seven reusable black covers, and you may rotate the whole expansion-slot frame to enable vertical GPU mounting. Naturally, you will need to buy a PCIe ribbon cable to do so, but there are plenty of options to choose from in the retail space these days. The big downside of this rotated setup is that you won't have horizontal expansion slots for other add-in cards.


In the very top at the rear is just the 120 mm fan-mounting position. Looking at the ceiling, this area once again allows for either two 140 mm, three 120 mm fans or up to a 360 mm radiator. You could, as such, go for up to thirteen 120 mm fans or three 360 radiators alongside a 240 mm variant on the floor of the Core P6. To say the case is made for liquid cooling is possibly a bit of an understatement.


All the cables within the Thermaltake Core P6 are sleeved black and of the default variety. The USB-C cable is flat, which makes routing it slightly easier as well. The cabling is incredibly long, so you should have no problems routing cables to the right corners of your build, either.