Thermaltake Urban T81 Extreme Full Tower Chassis Review

Complete System

Total build time for the T81 was 45 minutes, this is a little longer than it usually takes me to put a rig together, but there is good reason for this. As you can see, I’ve stripped out all of the front hard drive bays and while I haven’t got a 360mm radiator in the front, this serves as a nice demonstration of how much room you can free up in the front of this chassis.

There is an extra panel here that allows for mounting of a 2.5″ and a 3.5″ hard drive, handy if you’ve stripped all the other hard drive bays out of the front, you do need some hard drives in your rig after all.

The build looks really nice, and you can see that I’ve mounted a 240mm radiator in the top and still been able to leave the 200mm fan in the top left.

I’m not sure this is what I would do for my own build, but again it serves as a nice demonstration of the fan and radiator capabilities available here.

With the hard drive bays removed, most importantly the bottom hard drive bay, you’ll gain access to the full length of the bottom of the chassis, giving you even more room for cooling components, pumps, mounting a reservoir, etc.

Cable routing throughout the case is superb, giving a nice clean build and while I thought space would be limited, I had no issues getting the right side panel back in place after routing all the cables.

With the side panels back in place and the doors closed, the T81 looks simply stunning and while it can hold a huge amount of cooling the design of the case does well to hide it out of sight while giving you a great view of the motherboard and expansion cards.

Of course should you need easy access to your internal components, just pop open the door with the release button and you’re in. Also, this build really does look stunning!