Installation report
Now the most interesting part of the review begins: The assembly of the system. Once again, the AM4 test platform including RTX 3070 Ti is used. For the optics, there are a few black cable extensions and a 90° PCIE riser cable, so that we can install the graphics card vertically. Cooling is done with the TH280 V2 Ultra AIO, which comes with the matching CT140 ARGB fans, so I can use the two pre-installed fans for the interior.
The first step was to install the power supply.
The two pre-installed ARGB fans from the front of the case moved to the rear and lid, and the non-illuminated black CT 140 got kicked out instead.
CPU, RAM and NVME were already installed on the board outside the case. The center spacer has a centering feature and holds the board in place for mounting – very exemplary.
The Ceres 300 doesn’t have a radiator tray in the front, but installing the AIO still went off without much fiddling thanks to good accessibility. If you have problems here, you can also attach the fans with only 2 grub screws first and push the long screws for the radiator through the remaining screw holes.
The TH280 V2 Ultra uses the stock mounting points of the AM4 socket to mount the CPU block. Simple, but I liked the old solution with four spring screws better.
There is plenty of room for cable management, and the pre-mounted Velcro fasteners are in the right places, practically pre-determining the cable routing. Even with the rather rigid cable extensions, there were no problems.
Of course, the graphics card had to be installed vertically for the appropriate show factor. Thermaltake provides the following spacers for this:
These can then be used to mount the 90° PCIE riser, which is unfortunately once again not included in the scope of delivery, which actually went off without a hitch, but also just didn’t make the most stable impression.
Fits:
Visually quite well done, I would say.
Even in the shrunken Ceres 300 there is more than enough space. Despite the AIO in the front, the 32cm long 3070 Ti has more than enough space, so that even a push-pull configuration on the radiator would be possible.
Attached is a small size comparison between Ceres 500 (white) and Ceres 300 (black):
And finally, the most exciting question: Does the system run? – Of course!
Makes a good impression even in “small”!
Ready to rumble:
37 Antworten
Kommentar
Lade neue Kommentare
Urgestein
Urgestein
Mitglied
Neuling
Urgestein
Urgestein
Urgestein
Urgestein
Veteran
Urgestein
Veteran
Urgestein
Veteran
Urgestein
Urgestein
Veteran
Urgestein
Urgestein
Veteran
Alle Kommentare lesen unter igor´sLAB Community →