Thermaltake The Tower 300 - Bumblebee Build 🐝

thermal take has sent kit Guru the tower 300 for a featured build and as you can see we have the Bumblebee Edition it's called that for obvious reasons the thing is the tower 100 was Mini ITX the Tower 200 was called mini ITX but was just about microatx the tower 500 is eatx this the tower 300 is officially microatx so here's a banana for scale and also some color coordination we're carrying out a featured build inside the tower 300 and thermal take has sent us a number of components to go in that build a load of fans a 420 mil AIO cooler and a 1200 W ATX power supply that's a lot of Hardware to go inside a relatively small case so let's clear the bench and pull off some panels to see what the tower 300 is made made of the main glass panel at the front pops out nice and easily these two glass panels at the side a simple pull moving around to the side panel magnetically retained fully filtered color coordinated and the same here and the top panel you can see nice and easy and again filtered and then we turn to the rear pull and release magnetic dust filter on the outside of the panel the case is more or less dismantled but not quite in the roof we release these two thumb screws slightly tight so screwdriver and out with the top fan bracket which is supplied with 240s you can see from the orientation these are set to exhaust and now you can see how the tower 300 works the motherboard is rotated 90° so the rear iio goes up that's why the PCI Express expansion is here a graphics card hangs down here this is where you mount AO cooler and we have up to 420 mil which is why thermal taker supplied us with the 420 air flow comes in from the right and through the AO cooler up through the power supply area out through the roof as you can see the power supply goes in the floor of the case and the rear doubles up both as storage and as cooling let's start putting some Hardware inside the tower 300 and then we'll see how the build progresses starting with the motherboard assembly my motherboard is this MSI b650 M gaming plus Wi-Fi microatx relatively basic I actually bought this board for cash money from Amazon because I needed a microatx board and they're not the sort of thing that companies tend to send out to reviewers strangely enough ATX loads of the things Micro ATX thin on the ground so that's what I've gone for and doesn't it just look spiffing processor AMD ryzen 7 7800x 3D and that's secured in place with a thermal right am5 secure frame or contact frame the SSD under that heat sink is a Sabin rocket 4.0 and the memory we have some thermal take tough Ram XG RGB D5 and it's rated at 5600 megga transfers and that's the motherboard assembly ready to install in the case the standoffs come installed and we're putting the I/O to the top there we are before we proceed with the build let's look at these two accessories that come in the Box this panel would swap out for this if we had the accessory LCD display which we don't we've used those displays with previous versions of the Tower and they typically C cost 880 to1 and you can use them to display CPU data for example put a little picture up so that's that obviously it's color coordinated to the Bumblebee case and then we have this which snaps in there as a cable cover however if you're using a long graphics card as we're going to be which is going to hang down all the way then we ain't going to be using that and we can put those two to the side okay next up I think it's power supply time which is this thermal te tough power gf3 A3 1200 W gold rated and atx3 load of cables and a surprisingly small fully modular power supply for a 1200 W unit just got to do a quick peel what cables do I need well big selection graphics card for sure main power I've got two 8 Pin eps's on the new MSI Motherboard one CPU two CPU not sure what accessories I need for the aiio possibly none so let's put a sat in the equation and an old school Molex just to be on the safe side I know there have been issues with the 12volt high power connector but when it works it's so much better than the traditional PCI Express second CPU remove this bracket from the rear of the case attach it to the power supply we're going to go fan down to draw air through the floor and we have a sticker telling us about smart zero fan and the operation of that switch there I think I'll leave it off that's fun let's just put that back snap on front panel As I push the power supply in the cables actually push it out so let's leave it out for the time being and I'll root the cables and once everything's satisfactorily in place we'll know it's all working I think I better sort out the cables and then we can proceed that's looking slightly more tidy if we go to the back of the tower 300 we see these black plastic Clips which we use to secure cables in place before I install the CPU Cooler on the right hand side and the graphics card in the left I'm going to use the space I have to install some fans I'm going to replace the stock 140s with these tough fan ex14 pros and I'm going to use these 120 ex Pros one on the power supply shroud and two around the back let's start with the 240s in the roof of the case so they're in this separate bracket and they are set to exhaust so we see the hubs from the inside air goes up top these are The Replacements I could if I wanted swap out the rotors and put them in exhaust and then have them upside down but that means You' be seeing this side from inside the case that doesn't make a lot of sense to me so let's use them in stock configuration and I think were this actually a PC I was going to build for my own purposes I think I'll be inclined to dremel out the extra bracket tree because a lot of the fan is shrouded the thing with these tough fan proses they link together magnetically pad to pin and then we have a cable and we ditch all that junk much cleaner and that's assembly sits up top like that that's much better and now let's turn to the fans at the rear which we will install in the rear panel before we do that let's get rid of the drive mounting because we're not going to be using it out with the Drive Mount and then the fans can go in that rear panel the mounting holes in the back panel mean that I have to separate the two on 12 M fans so I can't connect them together magnetically and therefore I have to have one cable per fan not a big deal but slightly more mess than I would have liked speed these cables through and then I'm going to add a 120 mil fan to the power supply shroud because it's in intake but I want to look presentable I've got the reverse rotor installed that's going to go on there sneak it under the 24 pin connector and then we have four screws that will hold it down and that's the fans installed I've had a route around and I've found this LCD panel kit for the Tower 200 in snow or white and look at this [Music] voila so when I said I don't have the accessory LCD for the tower 300 it turns out I do next we have the thermaltech tough liquid 420 ex Pro argb sync that's a mouthful liquid cooler which is going to go in the right hand side of the case as you'd expect 3 140 fans great big bag of accessories and a hefty great big cooler the tower 300 has a rack in the side that I can remove and I need to remind myself as I put the hardware in place this is in intake so air is being drawn in and then the other fans can take it out the back and up the top installing the cooler was more tricky than I expected and the issue is this cutout in the power supply shroud which is very tight for 420 36 again without any trouble whatsoever I ended up having to put the radiator in place and then I offered up the frame with the fans and then I put the screws through putting in the entire assembly just wasn't going to work anyway uh they say it accommodates a 420 they Supply a 420 it does accommodate a 420 if you work at it next step is to put some thermal compound on the processor and attach the pump and block and then on with a pump C block assembly I think we can agree the cable for the taco is rather long as the header I'm using is only here the final stage is our graphics card and our graphics card is this Zotac RTX 480 super amp extreme and I'm going to let you into a secret this is my first hands-on experience with a 4080 super I've used 480s previously the 4080 super is obviously a variant on the theme but still my very first go with one happily Dominic has reviewed many RTX 4080 supers I'll install the graphics card and then we'll talk about it a little more triple slot and it's practically the size of a house however there is space in the tower 300 and that's what counts and then we connect the 12v high power cable and I have to say that's looking the part when I asked Dominic what I could expect from the Zotac RTX 480 super 16 GB ampix stream against a regular RTX 4080 he pointed out it offers more Co and F memory than a regular 4080 for the same price but you also get a number of RTX benefits in particular he mentioned dlss which boosts frame rate dlss 3.5 also offers Improvement to image quality when you enable Ray tracing thanks to AI capabilities in cyberpunk 2077 at Native 4K you might see sub30 FPS however with dlss 3 on you could see up to 80 FPS which is a massive boost and Nvidia reflex technology reduces latency by about a third which makes your games even more responsive the PC is finished the fans are set to about 50% of maximum speed I've got a rainbow Marquee working on the RGB and I'm going to run times by extreme just to see how it performs and also whether it's noisy or not I have every confidence the combination of RTX 480 super and ryzen 7 7800 X 3D will do quite nicely taking some spot figures from the LCD on the front of the tower 300 GPU 2.6 GHz GPU temperature 74° C ambient at the minutes 19 and in the CPU element of the test toward the end there the clock speed dropped to 4.7 4.8 GHz and the temperature Rose to a trivial 59° C performance is good cooling is good noise levels abs absolutely fine the ability to put a lot of Hardware inside the tower 300 also happy one point worth noting as we have with previous the tower designs is the access to the rear IO which is on the top don't forget is slightly awkward the fact you have the removable fan rack helps because you can use that to fiddle cables through connecting to the back of the graphics card is slightly tricky connecting thumb drives and so on inside the case pretty much impossible Wi-Fi antenna and so on you can forget about those while I like the look of the tower 300 bumblebee I just want to give this accessory a quick outing it's a rest so we can lay the case on its side and that means you're exposing the floor of the case on the one end so we have this replacement panel so the top and the bottom mirror each other so let's just install that and see how it looks switching out the bottom panel is a simple matter of removing the stock dust filter removing the two feet each secured with two screws and then popping on that cover and it's a mirror of the top so it's fully filtered functionally that's all great but I think I've discovered something because the PC is laid down it means necessarily this accessory LCD is now rotated 90° and the TT software from thermal tick that you use to power the display to upload an image or to display text has no function to rotate text 90° I wonder if that's why they didn't include this accessory display I like the finished look we can now see our Zotac RTX 480 super proudly displayed through the glass it's a funky piece of work remember head over to kit guru.net to read our full reviews and also you can find us on Tik Tok [Music]

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Length: 17min 47sec (1067 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 29 2024