Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
- Thermaltake V9 Black Edition Gaming Case with Top and Side 23CM Silent Fan.
- Side and Top 23cm silent fan Built-in Front 12cm Red LED fan for optimized air flow
- Black powder coating for stylish inward appearance
- Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
Side and Top 23cm silent fan Built-in Front 12cm Red LED fan for optimized air flow Black powder coating for stylish inward appearance Metal grilled front panel and stylish black interior Bottom-placed PSU design for better and easier installation. B
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List Price: $ 119.99
Price: $ 86.20
Review by Sulist for Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
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Basically, I am going to skip the review about the product, you can get those with a quick google. What I want to share took me many hours to discover in a buried post that made this case worth having. There is a problem with the upper fan, in the sense that some small grooves left from the plastic molding can hit the fan blades while it spins. This can damage the blades and it makes a ton of noise. It is however easily fixed.
1) Before you install anything, I recommend you take off the top of the unit via the 3 screws on the upper inside, where the motherboard would lay.
2) Slide top off and flip over, no need to remove the fan. Inside the top you’ll see 6 silver screws. Remove them, and the side pieces will come off. If you look on the side pieces, you’ll see 2 casting tabs on each where the fan was set. Just shave them off with a knife. They come off easy and it is simple enough to shave it flat to the plastic again.
3) Re-install sides with screws, slide top back on and lock into place, reapplying screws inside. Now it should run quiet and smooth.
I unfortunately had installed everything before I learned about the fan’s issues. Also, the screw-less system for the PCI slots is pretty weak, so I just unscrewed the 3 screws in the back and removed the piece, using the extra screws they gave to more securely put in my video cards.
The HDD and Drive Bay screwless system is pretty cool though, and the box is runnning great and keeping everything very cool.
After all that, I still recommend this unit for sure, if you’re willing to do some quick fix-ups that the company chose not to do.
Enjoy!
Review by ykza5 for Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
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I really like this case, it has lots of fan and lots of space, in fact, before buying this one I spent hours looking for a case that could fit in the nvidia 465 gtx, and it fits really good in this v9, I had some trouble with the locks for the video card wich would not fit in the hole so I just took them out and used screws as usual.
The ventilation is really good so far the temp seems good and the fan on the side panel helps a lot keeping d VGA cooled
Overall really good case no complains at all i highly recomend it
Review by Richard Craig Covington for Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
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PROs – Very functional case. I had an older mid tower case that was running around 107F inside with the CPU hitting 89F and the VGA at 120F plus. It had 3 internal small fans to help it cool.
I put the same mother board, cpu, power supply and VGA card in this case. I’m now getting 86F in the case,CPU at 68F and VGA at 100F. By the way, the room temperature is 67F. I also love the way it allows you to mount the hard drives sideways, allowing me to run the cables to the side vs to the back. The unit is also very quiet.
CONs – It seems strange mounting the power supply at he bottom with the air intake facing the bottom. It has a filter on the bottom and is indented enough to allow the case do draw air in from the outside bottom of the case through that filter. However, this is more psychological than practical. It really makes more sense to isoldate the power supply from the case.
I’m also paranoid about the reset button. It is easy to accidently hit the reset button when dragging my finger across the panel in the dark. Again, very minor.
OvERALL, an excellent case. The best case I’ve ever puchased.
Review by David G. Huss for Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
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Poor quality sheet metal. The sheet metal in the case is very thin and bends easily. It doesn’t fit together quite right. I cut myself several times on this case. It also doesn’t have enough room/holes behind the motherboard tray to do optimal cable management, I had to ziptie a lot of cables elsewhere in the frame. In fact like others, I had this case bend on me; a bad sign.
The two fans are nice but the side one will not work with most “tower” style heat-sinks. Also, if the fans do die there are no aftermarket replacements available (try to find one).
A much better choice is the Cooler Master 690 II Advanced (of which amazon has the best price around) Cooler Master CM 690 II Advance ATX Mid-Tower Case (RC-692-KKN2). A word of warning though, even though the CM 690 II is the same price, you will end up spending an additional 15-50 dollars adding fans to the case (it comes with 3-4 and can support up to 10 (I think)). Still there are some really cheap fan choices out there. For example amazon also sells a 4 pack of 120mm fans for about 10 bucks Cooler Master 120mm Silent Case Fan 4-in-1 Value Pack – (R4-S2S-124K-GP). Though, if you want to go with the optimal arrangement (120 and 140 mm fans) it’ll be a bit more expensive.
The CM case is much better made (better sheet metal, studier), you can actually find/replace any fans on it that you wish, and it has better cooling (the CM 690 II even has bottom mounted fans). I’d advise getting the Advance model (20 bucks more) as the SATA dock is useful and it comes with more fans.
Note, I’m not a thermaltake hater/CM fanboy. Despite hating this case (and replacing it with the CM) I love my thermaltake frio CPU cooler (though it didn’t fit in this case due to the side fan), the CM case is just better made, has better features, and, due to its use of more “standard” fans better upgrade and longevity (all fans die eventually).
Review by Ed for Thermaltake VJ400G1N2Z V9 Black Edition Mid Tower Marvelous Gaming Case with 23cm Silent Fan
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It baffles me to see high review scores for this case. This review may seem harsh, but it is an honest representation of my experience. I’ve assembled many computers over the years using many different case sizes shapes and brands. Early this year I was in a hurry to get a new PC assembled to work with, and skipped the ‘research’ phase (as well as construction… never again) and simply left case choice in the hands of my local computer store. I asked for something “solid with good cooling”. This was the case that was chosen. It is the worst case I’ve ever used.
Firstly, the system of “clips” to hold cards in their slots tends not to work. Even if you’re lucky enough to get the clip positioned with enough pressure to hold the card, my experience is that after any further un-clipping and card swapping, the clip will be too loose and unusable. Even the technician who was selling me this machine and talking up the brand had to forcefully pop out one of the clips so he could put a regular screw in to hold the video card. Pointless. The case seems cheap and flimsy in general.
Secondly, the fans tend to commit suicide. Early in my use of this machine the top fan would occasionally hit the side of its enclosure and come to a complete stop (BANG) before quickly spinning back up to speed. I couldn’t figure out what was happening at first, since it occurred after random long intervals. Was something getting in the fan’s way? A lead? As far as I could tell there was nothing there. The next impact broke one of the blades off, which fell into my machine. The now 3-bladed fan continued to spin, lop-sided, causing my whole box to shake violently. Needless to say I removed the fan.
Can you work around these issues with a bit of fore-knowledge? Sure… but you’re purchasing a new product. YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. There are plenty of equivalent products with no such problems. Buy something else.
It may also be worth noting that I also ended up with a Thermaltake power supply in the same machine, and that too has been the source of many difficult-to-decipher problems. I don’t know what this brand’s products are usually like but my first experience with them has been disastrous so I will be steering clear in future.