Thermaltake Level 10 GT: Monument to Excess
by Dustin Sklavos on July 26, 2011 11:50 AM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- Thermaltake
- Full-Tower
Noise and Thermal Testing, Stock
Given the price tag of the Thermaltake Level 10 GT compared to the much less expensive enclosures we've tested so far (it's easily at least $100 more than each), it's not unreasonable to expect it to provide performance commensurate with the increase in price. It's true there's a bling factor involved with the Level 10 GT, too, but we don't want something that's just for show.
As far as temperatures go, the Level 10 GT isn't the biggest winner but it's close enough to the top that you could probably count it within the margin of error. Note that the difference in thermal performance between running the fans at low or high is minor bordering on academic. There's a second side to the thermal story of course....
The biggest difference between the two fan settings winds up being the noise. Idle noise levels are slightly higher than the BitFenix and NZXT cases, but load noise came in at the top of the charts with the fans on low. Unfortunately, the charts don't tell the whole story, as when the Level 10 GT is loud, it's an ever so slightly high-pitched sort of loud that isn't particularly pleasant to listen to. Thankfully the Level 10 GT doesn't actually need to run at high, in which case it's one of the quietest cases we've tested, although the character of the fan noise isn't quite as low as the SilverStone Raven RV03's.
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B3an - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
Yep thats one seriously ugly case! Just what this market segment needs... yet ANOTHER ugly case.Why is it so hard for these companies to design nice looking cases that dont look like cheap tacky shit??!
If i see this at a friends house i would think a blind family member built it, or they found random old cheap case parts in a dump and glued them all together.
Sunburn74 - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
Second that thought. Own a FT02. Case is amazing. There is nothing on the market I'd replace it with, even if the replacement was free (even including some of those $400+ lian lis)etamin - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
agreed. I saw the Level 10 GT at microcenter and the entire exterior surface looks like it's covered in wads of incompletely melted plastic pellets. The market needs more clean cut refined box towers with all 90 degree angles (hint hint look at Lian Li)Built three Lian Li's: PC-A71F, PC-B10, PC-9F
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Stuka87 - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
No Sir, I don't like it.I actually really liked the original Level 10. It had a cool look. But this one just looks like a cheap knockoff.
It actually reminds me of a cheap plastic RC car that has the same basic shape as the real thing, but with many of the details filled in. So you end up with a plasticky looking knock off.
It seems to cool decently, but its *really* a stretch to say its worth the price.
Tetracycloide - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
Could not a agree more, this is a huge step down in aesthetics from the previous generation which and a much slimmer, sleeker look and feel to it. This one looks like some kind of grotesque, mutant hybrid offspring of the original Level 10 and the stereotypical 'enthusiast' case with plastic and mesh everywhere.ViperV990 - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
The original Level 10 wasn't something I'd have associated with ThermalTake.This Level 10 GT here however, definitely belongs.
etamin - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
"This one looks like some kind of grotesque, mutant hybrid offspring of the original Level 10 and the stereotypical 'enthusiast' case with plastic and mesh everywhere."Spot on. You read my mind.
marvdmartian - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
Personally, I'd love to know who thinks it's a good idea to build a case that looks like some half-mad person slapped together a modular home, over a 40-year period of time. Add a box here, add something there, etc.Looks like something a teenager would build, to tell the truth. And at that price point, I'm 100% certain that one of these will never cross my home's threshold!
don_k - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - link
This over a Lian-Li? I would say no.