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Conclusion
The Ceres 300 is a very well thought out and well done case. With a price of around 100 euros, Thermaltake has turned the price screw in comparison to the Ceres 500, but has also had to make cuts in some areas. The three included 140 mm fans relativize the price a bit, but the fact that only two of them are equipped with ARGB lighting is almost a bit annoying.
The current price range is of course highly competitive and therefore the Ceres 300 has to compete with established cases from BeQuiet!, Corsair, Fractal Design, Lian Li and Co. With the rotatable PCIe bracket for vertical installation of the graphics card, the decent fans and the optional LCD display, the Ceres 300 is quite well positioned and offers a rather rarely encountered attribute thanks to the reduced depth and the resulting compact dimensions.
Personally, I find the slightly more compact dimensions to be ideal for virtually all current mid-range systems. Cooling capacity and airflow of the Ceres can easily handle a 300W graphics card, which may still be about 35cm long despite the installed AIO – it’s rather rare that you really “need” more space in this respect. The decision to remove the possibility of mounting two more SSDs to the left of the cable openings for the motherboard could be critical. However, the trend is clearly going towards NVME SSDs and I have rarely seen more than two 2.5″ SSDs in mid-range systems.
The case was provided by Thermaltake for this review. The only condition was that the lock period was adhered to, there was no interference or compensation.
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