Thermaltake Commander MS-I (VN40001W2Z)

Zitat: Pro: + Rocking a blue LED fan. + Back panel provides plenty of room for cable management. + Very gamer-esk front panel. Contra: - Cheap feeling and looking. - Hardware layout is outdated and not neat for cable management. - SSD mounting to the bottom makes cable connections difficult. Overall, the case is about what you’d expect for the cost. I would however say still that the NZXT Source and Tempest are better cases at lower costs. They just seem to be better thought out. This case unfortunately feels cheap, as it is cheap. The front of the case makes it look a little nice, and really puts off the Thermaltake "in your face" factor. However, the body itself is of low quality and is a bit disappointing to work in. Hardware placement was a little difficult and getting the video card in wasn’t exactly easy with the external mounting system. The case definitely needs to be laying down, to do this with only one person. The floppy bay is still a laughing joke to me, but I guess it’s hard to get rid of old things sometimes. The small bays are somewhat useful for other things, perhaps a small fan controller, or some nifty nobs and switches! I cannot say I’d be jumping to buy this case, as I feel it isn’t quite the quality that Thermaltake usually reaches. But, it is much cheaper than a lot of their "nice"cases. Overall I’m not impressed, it being much like another case that has disappointed me. I can’t be any more enthusiastic about being disappointed now twice.

Zitat: A bold design and a great price, but it runs hot

Zitat: The Thermaltake Commander MS-I is the ideal case for someone looking to build a nice system for someone not asking for too much. It offers all the is necessary in a case like good air ventilation when you take in account all the available fan options, USB ports (in this case USB 3.0) in an easy to reach location and plenty of room for storage devices like hard drives and solid state drives. Thermaltake could have left the case alone at this point but they choose not to. There is the all black interior, dust filter for the power supply and an external 3.5” bay which seems to be not too common in today’s’ case. The Commander is offered in several different versions: a USB 2.0 model, a USB 3.0 model and an all-white model. The first two models are costing about the same price online making the pick between the two not very hard. The snow white version was nowhere to be found at the time of this writing. The only issues we found with the Commander were the lack of space behind the motherboard for cable management. The only place for extra cabling is up near the HDD cage.