Thermaltake The Tower 200

Während dem Tower 100 noch Einbaumöglichkeiten für eine potente AIO und Monster-Grafikkarten vom Schlage einer 4090 oder 7900XTX fehlten, bietet der leicht gewachsene Tower 200 nun Platz für 280mm AIOs und 380mm GPUs. Wo die Stärken und Schwächen des schicken Towers liegen, lest ihr im Test.

Mit dem Thermaltake The Tower 200, welches für 123,90 Euro erhältlich ist, bietet Thermaltake ein robustes & zugleich leicht zu bestückendes Gehäuse, in Thermaltakes ikonischen The Tower Design an. Dabei verfügt es neben seinem ansprechenden Design, über reichlich Platz für moderne GPUs. Aufgrund der rundumlaufenden und großzügig bemessenen Lüftungsflächen verfügt es über gut Kühleigenschaften.

While the Tower 100 still lacked installation options for a powerful AIO and monster graphics cards like a 4090 or 7900XTX, the slightly grown Tower 200 now offers space for 280mm AIOs and 380mm GPUs. Read about the strengths and weaknesses of the stylish tower in the review.

I said three years ago that the Tower was one of my all-time favourite PC cases. It was just so unique and interesting. Sure, it got a few jokes for looking like a popcorn dispenser or a toy grabber machine, but honestly, I’m pretty OK with that, that’s fun, isn’t it!? This one is much the same, it looks like a china cabinet or something, but if that’s what it takes to show off your sexy new PC hardware, then why not! Thermaltake built the old model for mini-ITX gaming, and typically that means smaller GPUs, less powerful hardware to deal with the limitations in cooling that are on offer, and what did the community do? Crammed in extreme hardware regardless then pulled a shocked face when everything got hot. Alas, Thermaltake just makes their small case bigger this time, and while that comes at the cost of the left and right side panel windows, having a larger front panel window and full mesh on each side is certainly an upgrade, not a downgrade. There are a lot of little improvements here really, and they all add up to make this a premium case experience. There are more dust filters on this case than, well, actually any other case I can think of. There are two on the left, two on the right, two on the front, one on the bottom, one on the top, and one in the back… All intakes/outtakes are filtered, so regardless of how you configure your fans or where, it’s all kept clean, which is awesome. The cable routing is superb, with room under the PSU shroud, this case can handle a surprisingly large PSU of up to 220mm, with room to spare for cables. Then behind the motherboard, there’s about a 1″ deep section with cable clips and routing holes to deal with a significant number of cables with ease. It actually puts cases many times its size to shame in this regard, very impressive. Thermaltake also massively increased the fan support, not just the airflow, and there are now two of their lovely CT140mm fans installed as standard, but also room for a 280mm radiator on the right side, which means that you can cool a high-performance CPU much easier than you could in the Tower 100. Plus, even if you went for air cooling, the larger case design means that a big tower air cooler shouldn’t be an issue either.