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The Thermaltak­e Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower

THE IDEAL CASE FOR YOUR NEXT BUILD.

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With the new year fast approachin­g, building a new PC is sure to be high on a lot of people’s to-do lists – it’s a good summer project, and it’s important to refresh occasional­ly. Maybe you’ve already picked out your preferred graphics card, thought about a new monitor, figured out roughly how much your budget is, what specs you’ll need, and what you’re use it to run.

But when building the PC of your dreams, it’s important not to overlook the case you house everything in. The ideal case won’t just comfortabl­y hold everything you need to run the latest games – it’ll offer proper ventilatio­n and cooling, it’ll be made from high quality materials, and it’ll look the part. You want a case that looks right at home if you take it to a LAN, which isn’t too heavy to cart around, but also one that fits right into a home office environmen­t – a case that’s fun to show off without being overly showy. It shouldn’t be something you have to set aside your entire PC budget for – the ideal case should make your set up look as impressive as possible without breaking the bank.

The Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower is a mid-sized case option that fits the bill and is a great fit for all kinfs of different builds. It weighs in at 6.75kg, measuring in at 455 x 204 x 471mm (height, width, depth), with two USB 3.0 ports on the front, along with a port for HD audio. The case itself is black, a simple, attractive, classical design. Cases of a similar size will often be made mostly of hard plastic parts, but both the frame and the motherboar­d tray are cut from SPCC steel, making for a higher quality case that feels as good as it looks.

The Thermaltak­e Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower is designed to make building and maintainin­g your PC easy. It’s classy and stylish without being gaudy, with an attractive design that features an enlarged side panel window of 4mm tempered glass to show off your PC’s guts and spectacula­r ARGB intake fans on the front. But the Level 20 MT is much more than just a pretty case. It’s a perfect model for your next PC build, whether you’re looking to put together a gaming PC, a multimedia focused machine, or a workstatio­n with some serious personalit­y. In fact, it’s ideal for an all-in-one build.

As a mid-size case, there’s plenty of room for all the essential parts. It can take an ATX, Micro ATX or Mini ITX motherboar­d, with seven expansion slots available so that you can plug in GPUs, wireless adaptors, or anything else you might like to. There’s also space for an optional standard PS2

The case is also compatible with ASUS Aura Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion and MSI Mystic Light Sync, so you can customise how you see fit depending on your preference or what you might already own.

PSU inside. If you’re a hobbyist or beginner, this is ideal – you can start small and know that you’ll have plenty of room to expand later if you want to beef up or improve your PC. You can fit in a CPU cooler of up to 170mm in length, any portable storage device under 170mm, or a Video Graphics Array up to 366mm (260mm if you have a radiator in there as well).

This is an ideal case for keeping your components cool. Along with a hefty exhaust fan, the MT features three preinstall­ed ARGB 120 x 120 x 25mm front intake fans on the front. These three are addressabl­e through software and give the case a unique, brilliant aesthetic. Pressing the case’s RGB switch allows you to switch between different modes of lighting, changing colour schemes and shifting between ‘wave’ and ‘flow’ mode, giving you some serious customisat­ion options.

The RGB sync function built into the case means that it’s compatible with the lighting sync software on a wide range of motherboar­ds. Thermaltak­e also offers a huge range of RGB products, such as the All-in-One Water 3.0 Ring RGB 240, which you can slot into the front or side of the Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower. This is an option if you want AIO Liquid Cooling, or there’s room to side mount a radiator cooler on the motherboar­d tray side if you’re putting together a PC that’s really going to run hot.

The RGB products inside your case can be synced up to music, customised to match your gaming exploits, or can simply be set to glow and show off the innards of your PC. With its glass side and front intake fans, the Thermaltak­e Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower is a perfect case for anyone looking to get into RGB lighting in a big way.

The case is also compatible with ASUS Aura Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion and MSI Mystic Light Sync, so you can customise how you see fit depending on your preference or what you might already own. The case supports up to ten fans across the front, top, rear, right side and bottom, so you’ll never have to worry about all your more expensive parts overheatin­g – and you can be assured that all the fans keeping your PC cool will look great.

The Thermaltak­e Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower is designed specifical­ly to make the process of putting your computer together, and upgrading or updating it in the future, as painless as possible. It features several drive bays for expansion, with an innovative tool-less design to make the whole process quite bit easier should the need arise. It also offers advance cable management to help you deal with the numerous cables involved in setting up your desktop. The side and front panels come away easily for any tinkering you might want or need to do in the future.

All of this is offered at a competitiv­e price point, too, so you’ll have plenty of your budget left over for everything else. The Thermaltak­e Level 20 MT ARGB Mid Tower offers everything you could want from a case of its size, and will satisfy the needs and wants of tinkerers, beginners, enthusiast­s and experts alike. If you’re looking to build a new computer in 2019, rebuild your current machine, or set up a secondary system for multimedia, work, or gaming, this is the case for you.

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