April 10th, 2008
Thermaltake Shark Case
Posted by
Eric Hamby in
Computer
When the thermaltake shark case went on sale around november 2004 it wasn’t long before i had my hands on one. After 4 years here is my review. The first thing you noticed about this case is that it don’t have a windows on the side, it just got mesh over the “gills”. This may not seem like a big deal now days but in 2004 it was one of the first. What this meant however is that if your computer was currently kinda loud in its current case, you was going to have to be a handyman to figure out a way to keep the noise down in the shark case. most people solved this by going and getting a more silent cpu fan. The case didn’t come with a lot of extra slots for case fans so this also keep things quite. The case was more or less made for water cooling and i don’t think they had fans in mind when designing it.  But since i really like my computers loud i didn’t really see this has a downside. One of the few downsides to me was the lack of fan spaces. With one 120mm space at the front and another 120mm at the back, 2 fans was max without modifying the case. Another downside for me came to me because i have a lot of hard drives in all my computer. The case has four hard drive slots but after you get the case open you release that has with most newer cases there mounted sideways which means only sata drives can be used there. You can use ide but you have to use the old school flat cables and even then if you have more than two drives its not easy. All my ide cables are round so using the four slots for my ide drives was impossable. So i installed 4 sata drives there and decided to get a CM Stacker adapter to fit the ide hard drives up in the 5.25 bays. Luckily the case comes with 5 5.25 bays so you have room for 4 hard drives and one optical drive. So after it was over i had my case there with 8 hard drives and 1 optical drive. the next thing it needed was lights. So i went for 4 uv lights to make the green ide cables glow. The whole case comes in at 14lbs and is all aluminum. After 4 years i am still just as satisfied with the case has i have ever been. I have a few other cases i plan to write a review on later on but since i have had this one the longest i thought i would start with this one.  |
