The tempered glass aspect panel of the Ceres 500 is simply 3mm thick, whereas most of the aforementioned competing producers are utilizing 5mm glass. Personally, I dislike the latching knob system that Thermaltake makes use of on many circumstances, the Ceres 500 included. That is simply my private desire although, and a few might actually just like the comfort or look, so I’m not going to provide it detrimental marks for that. I additionally discovered the sheet metallic of the Ceres 500 to be thinner and extra versatile than I might usually prefer to see on a chassis of this value.
In a earlier Thermaltake enclosure assessment a couple of motherboard standoffs had been put in cross-threaded from the manufacturing unit. Within the Ceres 500 all three of the centermost standoff (center prime, center row, and backside row) had been over tightened, and stripped out the bottoming threads within the motherboard tray. When putting in a motherboard, and making an attempt to safe the screw in any of those three standoffs, they’d simply spin.
I ended up having to make a short lived repair by making use of some tremendous glue to the standoff threads the place they protrude by way of the bottom of the motherboard tray. I’m conscious that this solely capabilities as a short lived repair, and using a small nut to those threads would completely remedy the issue, however once more this can be a $170 case. A problem like this could not occur, and it appears to be a recurring problem from Thermaltake.
