February 15th, 2011

Thermaltake Element G

Installation

Test Rig

Processor	AMD Phenom II X4 955
Motherboard	ASUS M4A785TD-V Evo
Memory	OCZ Platinum DDR3-1600MHz (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card	Sapphire 512MB 4770
Hard Drive	Seagate Barracuda 3.0GB/s 7200.10 500GB
Power Supply	Antec TruePower 750W
Enclosure	Thermaltake Element G
OS	Windows Vista 64-bit

Let’s start off with the drives; the optical drives are just a case of slot it into position and then secure it with a few screws. Conversely, for the HDD, four screws with large rounded ends screw into the drive and then the drive simply clicks into place.

Make sure that the screws are put into the correct holes on the hard drive or else it won’t slot in. The picture below shows which holes the screws much attach to.

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The rest of the installation is pretty standard to all cases: standoffs need to be screwed in for the motherboard and the PCI cards are secured with a screw.

The PSU slots in under the cage which is very useful for cable management as the unused cables can be tied away and the required ones routed up through the cage.

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Overall, it’s a very easy installation and although not a tool-less one, everything works as it should and there were no problems at all with any of the installation process.