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FPSLabs Home: Thermaltake LANBOX Case Review

By: Oscar Meade - Published July 02, 2007 at 4:13 AM EDT - Writer Archive
Small form factors were all the rage years ago, but the excitement fizzled off. Thermaltake is ready to set the scene ablaze again with one hell of a gaming chassis, read on to find out what makes this case so special.

Category: Case
Manufacturer: Thermaltake
Product: LANBOX
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Price: $139.99
 

Introduction
Since 1999, Thermaltake has taken the world by storm with their unique line of products ranging from power supplies to exotic liquid cooling systems. Today we'll be reviewing the Thermaltake LANBOX VF1000SWA micro-ATX case. Thermaltake has marketed the LANBOX to gamers who demand high performance PC's on the go - and judging by the range of quality computer cases lately, we're hopeful that Thermaltake can live up to its reputation. Thankfully, not only does Thermaltake meet these expectations, it exceeds them in every way possible. Of course we'll save the details for the review, but never has the D-I-Y enthusiast LAN party gaming crowd had such a quality enclosure that was this much fun to work with.

Specifications


Test Setup
Hardware Configuration

  • Case: Thermaltake LANBOX
  • Power Supply: OCZ Modstream 450w
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
  • Hard Drive: Seagate 250GB IDE HDD
  • Video: PNY GeForce 7900GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express
  • Memory: Mushkin EM6400 Dual-Channel PC2 6400 2048MB
  • Optical: Lite-ON 20x DVD+/-RW Lightscribe
  • Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
  • Media: Mitsumi 7-in-1 Media Drive
  • Display: Samsung Syncmaster 710N 17" LCD

Software Configuration

  • Motherboard BIOS: GA-G33M-DS2R F2 (04/24/2007)
  • Chipset: Intel INF 8.3.0.1013 Windows Vista 32-Bit WHQL Certified
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
  • Video Driver: NVIDIA ForceWare Release 100 v100.65 32-bit WHQL Certified
  • Audio Driver: Creative SB Audigy 2 Series Vista Beta Driver 2.12.0001
  • Test Software: Folding@Home Console Client v5.04
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