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alright guys so Computex has been filled with cases and I'm actually quite surprised at what thermaltake just launched with the new a 500 an enclosure that looks absolutely beautiful I think this is the most beautiful thermaltake enclosure that I've ever seen but before we get into that huge thanks to thermal take cooler master and fantex for making complex possible so this thermal take a 500 case it surprisingly does not even have any logos and it really felt nice too from a build quality perspective because there's absolutely no plastic anywhere on the case unlike on many of their previous cases that use plastic paneling and you know acrylics here we get an aluminum exterior steel frame and of course tempered glass the aluminum is sandblasted so they don't catch any fingerprints and the color of the aluminum is on the darker side so like space gray which looks awesome and I love the whole design language from the steel mesh ventilation up top and the front to this cool angular glass design on all three sides so the glass actually follows the structure of the frame instead of being you know a boring rectangle it swivels to open has magnets and the turning knob at the front instead of the traditional thumb screws I like this implementation there is no type-c up top just four USB ports and all the panels are removable so at the front you can access those triple 120-140 mounts and the same thing goes for the top and it's really nice to see that the i/o is attached to the frame so here we can do another 360 rad with super flexible mounting points you can see there's plenty of height available above the motherboard even with the radiator and a set of fans installed and on the interior everything is pretty much standard with proper ATX support a power supply cut out to show the model name vertical GPU mount is possible although it is fairly close to the side panel but it does leave enough room for other PCI slots so you can populate those no problem and Thermaltake is now using this new mounting system for the hard drive cage on the interior so you can basically change the height of it and behind the case cable management seems ok but I would like to see a tinted glass panel here to at least hide this area but velcro straps and plenty of cable tie points are available all over the backside I would not mind seeing additional panels to cover up these cables especially because that side is totally transparent but here yous gonna have to do your best cable management job to you know be satisfied with that look and overall I'm pretty happy with this new a series especially the elegant exterior so then what is the catch ah the price it's a bit more premium than I thought it's going to be priced at $229 and so what do you guys think about that price point and given everything that we've shown you today about the a 500 you know would you pay that much for a case like that it might be challenging given the if antics evolved ex just came out at $1.99 so potentially thermaltake will need to think of a better pricing strategy in order to be competitive with the eight 500 so let us know if you'd like to see a full review of the eight 500 when that launches thanks much for watching make sure to check out this other relevant content and we'll see you in next