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my coverage of copy text 2018 is brought to you by gigabyte Coolermaster team group and thermaltake my next up on my Computex tour is Thermaltake and they have a ton of stuff on display they always have some epic systems and I'm actually gonna do a builds of Computex video later in my coverage so come back for that because I will be showing some close-ups of those but let's talk specifically about products that Thermaltake is showcasing and actually have a few new cases first off the thermal take a 500 now I thought this case had a pretty sexy and striking design it's got an aluminum top and front as well as vented strips that you can see along the top and front edges and they're kind of tucked into that two tempered glass that you get for both side panels does a steel frame internally and then the tempered glass side panels can swing open for access to the interior of the case there's a vertical GPU mount as well so you can set your GPU there to put it on display for everyone to see and it's got a modular storage rack so it has little Drive cages that you can position up or down on that rack a two cages are included so nice to have a little bit of modularity there I have seen designs like this in the past but thermaltake has decided to add it to theirs as well there's a dust filter on the bottom of the case that should be a requirement and for i/o you've got two USB three and two USB two on the i/o this is a more silent optimized case which is why they've kind of tucked the ventilation along to the sides there but for radiator support the front and the top both supports 360 rads or 280 read so 3 by 120 or 2 by 140 we're expecting this to launch at the end of q3 and they've told me the estimated MSRP is 229 dollars next up we have several cases that are all labeled level 20 now the level 20 is the successor to the level 10 case that they came out with like 10 years ago I was actually one of the earliest like super high-end premium cases from Thermaltake that I ever worked with with individually compartmentalized spaces for all the different components level 20 they showed off last year at Computex it was an extremely high-end case and it sort of took a lot of the designs from the original sort of brought it up to modern standards so now they have three new versions of the level 20s these are all expected to launch late in q3 and the pricing I'm going to tell you guys is tentative for now but I do have at least ballpark pricing let's go from small to big starting with the level 20 VT which is a micro ATX enclosure it's going to cost $99 estimated and it's going to come a 200 millimeter front intake fan now what they have setup for the display here is showing lots of RGB and stuff the fan it will shifflet's will not have RGB but it does have four tempered glass panels on both sides front and top at the entire rear panel as well as motherboard tray can all be rotated together so that gives you three potential configurations you can have it horizontal or you can twist it so the motherboards on one side or flip it around so the motherboard is on the other side that's a nice bit of flexibility there I also like that this is a micro ATX case because you don't tend to see a lot of love for micro ATX but good to have options here it is on the larger side for mark micro ATX but it's made to fit a full water cooling setup next up is the level 20 XT a bit of a step up from the level 20 VT sort of a taller still box like design this one's gonna cost 199 dollars estimated and it will come with one 140 millimeter standard fan they didn't include a lot of fans with these models because they're assuming that you're gonna want to choose your own fans to install there whether you want thermal take RGB ones or otherwise this case also has a tempered glass top front and sides and it's got a dual PSU mount at the bottom so it supports a ATX motherboards and there's just tons of space inside that you can see here so I imagined for modders or anyone who might want to figure out how to fit two systems in there there's probably is a way to do that the motherboard tray sits on a couple rails and that can actually be shifted forward or back or just expanded upon again for that EA TX support and you can fit some pretty huge radiators in here dual 480 millimeter rads can be fit at the bottom of the case or up at the top of the case and of course that's very ideal for water cooling the i/o is pretty nice here as well you get two USB 2.0 2 USB 3.0 as well as a Type C let's move on to the level 20 GT RGB this one's gonna cost mid $200 range they weren't quite as specific with their estimated cost for this one but this one is pretty cool because you can take the entire PCI Express tray where all the expansion slots and you can rotate that so that'll allow you to do standard mounting for graphics cards or by rotating that whole thing you can do vertical GPU mounts for SLI which is a bit more rare than just those single two or three slot vertical GPU mounts this one has locking tempered glass swing doors on both sides for easy access into the case and they wanted to point out that the tempered glass panels are actually spaced out away from the case so even though air can't blow through tempered glass around the edges there's a decent size gap so you can still get some airflow the i/o on this one is actually split between the two top sides of the case but it does include 2 USB 2 2 8 USB 3 as well as that type C 3.1 port this case does support up to 4 200 millimeter fans and since it's a little bit more on the expensive side they did ship it with fans included so you get 2 200 millimeter ring plus RGB fans for the front or you can reposition them and then 1 140 millimeter ring plus RGB as well also if I didn't mention these systems have like badass water-cooled systems installed in there so a good example of how you might kid out one of these cases if you happen to buy one now thermaltake has received a lot of praise for their RGB LED eco system and indeed it is pretty expansive with lots of different effects and they have control boxes that you can use to expand it out so for example not just having all the LEDs in your case but they like to make an entire wall full of their RGB LED fans to demonstrate just how many can be connected and controlled all at the same time it's called Thermaltake RGB plus and they've added thermal take AI voice control to it now which basically means you can use an app just tell it what effect you want it to do and it will load up that effect for you I don't know if that is artificial intelligence strictly speaking but voice control is nice for RGB LEDs they also have a couple new RGB LED fan designs so to go along with their original thermal take ring RGB LED fans which have again received lots of praise they now have the ring duo and the ring trio the duo has a pretty similar frame design to the original ring fans but they've added a second set of addressable RGB LEDs to the hub of the fan and they're also updating the fan blades and the housing around the side was sort of a frosty semi opaque finish and that will allow the lights to shine through while being diffused enough so you get a nice bit of soft diffusion the ring trio I think RGB fanatics will be very interested in because it has three sets of RGB LEDs as trio might imply it also has a new single piece frame that goes around the edge so that allows both RGB rings around the ringed outside to shine through and it's a separate set of LEDs on either side of the fan as well as that third set of LEDs in the fan hub altogether though this makes for a pretty impressive set of RGB components that can all be integrated together and they had sort of the ideal RGB LED fanatics desk setup going on there Thermal Mike was doing some demonstrations there they had the desk the computer all of the peripheral connected as well as all the fans up on the wall I particularly like some of the 2-tone RGB themes that they have set up with this like they had a white and yellow theme that I thought that was pretty cool but the software of course is also being developed over time I'm not gonna dive into that right now but you can easily go in there to select the different components setup themes change the colors and make it all go and be pretty but guys that's all the time I have for this video of the thermaltake booth at Computex 2018 I'd like to say a huge thank you to my sponsors thermaltake of course as well as gigabytes team group and Coolermaster I have more Computex videos coming down the pipeline so don't forget to subscribe hit the thumbs up button and we'll see you guys in the next video