Thermaltake View 380 TG ARGB Mid-Tower Case - Black

Looks amazing plenty of room and easy to work with

I recently built a PC for my son using this case, and while it's mostly great, there are a few important things to note.First, the brackets on the back of the case need to be broken off into the case itself. If you install the motherboard first, there won't be enough room to break these off afterward. My advice: remove these brackets before installing the motherboard. For the PCIe slots, slot 1 corresponds to the second bracket from the top, so leave the top bracket intact. You’ll need to remove the second and third brackets depending on your GPU.We went with a top-mounted 360mm AIO cooler (Thermalright Frozen Prism 360 Black) that expels air from the case. The three side fans are set up as intakes, and make sure to install the dust filter on the outside of the ... MoreI recently built a PC for my son using this case, and while it's mostly great, there are a few important things to note.First, the brackets on the back of the case need to be broken off into the case itself. If you install the motherboard first, there won't be enough room to break these off afterward. My advice: remove these brackets before installing the motherboard. For the PCIe slots, slot 1 corresponds to the second bracket from the top, so leave the top bracket intact. You’ll need to remove the second and third brackets depending on your GPU.We went with a top-mounted 360mm AIO cooler (Thermalright Frozen Prism 360 Black) that expels air from the case. The three side fans are set up as intakes, and make sure to install the dust filter on the outside of the case behind these fans. We inverted the fourth fan (which is normally an exhaust) to push air into the case at the top, ensuring that cold air is directed at the top of the motherboard and the 360mm radiator.For our build, we used an Intel i5-4600K processor and an MSI Tomahawk MAG B760 DDR4 motherboard. Idle temps are around 29-30°C, which is excellent. The four intake fans create a positive pressure inside the case, preventing dust from getting in. We didn’t install additional fans at the bottom of the case, but when you receive the case, there will be a dust filter at the bottom. We removed it and placed it behind the three intake fans.I also picked up extra magnetic dust filters, which we attached behind the fourth fan. The cables that come with the case (for fans, ARGB, etc.) are more than long enough, so you won’t need splitters, hubs, or extension cables.When routing cables, here’s a tip: pass all the wires to the front of the case before installing the motherboard. Some wires go through the bottom, some through the middle, and a few up top. Specifically, make sure to route the two 8-pin CPU power cables from the PSU to the top of the case and connect them to the motherboard *before* seating the motherboard. This is a bit unconventional, as we usually install the power supply last, but this step will save you a headache later.For fan control, we connected each of the four intake fans to separate fan headers on the motherboard so we could control them individually. The ARGB fans are already daisy-chained, so only one ARGB header is needed.Once the build is complete, the back of the case will have quite a bit of untidy wiring, but there’s a lot of space to tuck it all away. We only used cable ties at the front to organize the two AIO cables (Pump_Fan1 and CPU_Fan1). No cable ties were needed at the back.A quick tip: wear latex gloves while handling the tempered glass, or you’ll leave fingerprints all over it.Lastly, the power supply is mounted midway up the case, which works out well because there’s plenty of cable length to reach the 24-pin, the two 8-pin CPU connectors, and the GPU header. Just remember to pass those two 8-pin connectors through before you install the motherboard!Lastly, the case looks amazing—not too big, not too small, just perfect. The two-sided tempered glass looks very elegant. Very lastly: Do not try to fit a 360 aio on the side (where the 3 intake fans are). It will NOT fit.