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Thermaltake Armor+ LCS
A Closer Look: Interior
If you haven't already been dueling at the exterior of this case, you better grab a tissue, it only gets better. The inside of the Thermaltake Armor+ LCS is large enough to support an Extended ATX board, and GTX280's will live their life in the lap of luxury within this case. With ten available PCI slots, and the ability to hold seven 3.5" HDD's you can begin to imagine that this case is quite large. The area where the motherboard is placed is 13.5" X 15"To help grasp the size of the interior, a GTX280, will fit in this case with over three inches of clearance (length).
The seven quick release HDD bays of the Thermaltake Armor+ LCS are phenomenal. This is by far the best design that I have personally come across in the hundreds of cases that I have seen. The HDD's simply screw into the holder, the holder then slides into the respective slot and snaps into place. The backside of the HDD bay is left completely exposed, allowing for both cable management and easy access.
5 of 7 HDD bays are placed in front of a 14mm fan for best cooling |
7 Total 3.5" HDD Bays |
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HDD easily mounts to tray for easy use |
Rear of HDD Cage |
The designers of the Armor+ LCS certainly had cable management in mind. Underneath the motherboard tray, there is about half an inch of clearance, allowing you to hide any amount of cables from sight and over all making your full computer case that much nicer to look at. The motherboard tray itself is completely removable. Many cases that offer this feature have openings that are too small to allow for larger video cards to remain on the board while removing. This is obviously inconvenient and not overlooked by Thermaltake. Whether you have an older GeForce 4600 or four GTX 280's in Quad SLI, you will have no problems removing your rig fully intact.
Removable Motherboard Tray Removed From Case |
Back Panel Removed for Cable Management |
The 5.25" bays secure their peripherals using a simple quick release, locking device. This is convenient for those of us that pull our DVD-ROM out of our computer on a weekly basis, to try out new hardware. Another feature that the Thermaltake Armor+ LCS sports is the removable motherboard tray. With an LCS case, you don't want to put the case on its side, as this may result in air bubbles floating around in your system, thus reducing the efficiency of your LCS. This is where the Removable motherboard tray feature comes in extremely handy. Unlike many cases with the removable motherboard tray feature, the tray of the Armor+ LCS can be removed with large graphics cards still attached, once again, showing the true size of this case. When the motherboard tray is removed, it still has a feel of rigidity that others lack. For someone that tears their computer apart and puts it back together about once a month, this feature is something that I can no longer live without. The PSU placement has been redesigned for the Armor+ making it lay flat, like most other cases and have an adjustable support beam to allow a custom fitment feeling. The extra space that is saved is turned into 10 PCI slots.
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Quick Release 5.25" Bays |
PSU and 10 PCI Slots |
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