Cooling Options
The Suppressor F31 case was designed with quiet operation and good air-flow in mind to keep all your high-end gaming hardware running cool and reliable. There are up to nine different case fan mounting locations along with support for liquid cooling.
Air Cooling
The Suppressor F31 comes with two Thermaltake fans preinstalled. One 120mm intake fan on the front panel and one 120mm exhaust fan on the back panel. Each fan is rated for 1000rpm and they are very quiet; but they do not move a lot of air. Additional fans can be added if you want more airflow.
(120mm front intake fan – included)
(120mm rear exhaust fan – included)
Note: Nearly all the fan mounting locations feature slots instead of just holes, which allow adjusting the position of fans to meet your specific application.
Optional fan mounting locations:
(Courtesy of Thermaltake)
Is it just me, or does this
Is it just me, or does this look nearly identical to the Fractal Design Define R5?
There was a whole scandal
There was a whole scandal earlier in the year where thermal take was accused of stealing the design. Not sure where it was left of, but I have to agree their exteriors are very similar.
Also there is a model similar
Also there is a model similar to caselabs aluminum cases. Personally I can’t complain, I love fractal design cases, I love the define s, but they don’t have resellers in this part of the world and otherwise thermaltake yes. so at last here we can find something similar.
btw, only 3 HDD slots? really thermaltake?..rly?
ppthfft! NZXT S340 is WAY
ppthfft! NZXT S340 is WAY ahead of this and it’s an older case. If you’re using a motherboard that has M.2 and use a 2.5 inch SSHDs, why would you need more than one 3.5 HDD bay for? Unless you like loading games on a slow SATA mechanical drive. This is DESKTOP case. Why would you being building a SERVER farm using something like this?
Slow SATA mechanical
Slow SATA mechanical drive???? Harddrives are still very relevant and useful. Using them for backups and media libraries is a common use case, therefore more than 3 slots would be preferable for a case in this price range.
Why would people use SATA
Why would people use SATA drives? I don’t want to spend $2000 for 4 TB of space. You may be made of money but I am not.
And in case you haven’t
And in case you haven’t noticed, games use more than just the files installed on your hard drive to play it. They have many updates and large patch files to download and when you have a large number of games, that becomes alot of space. Basically, if you have to ask that, you have never been to a decent sized lan party with 15 people or more who need updates or patches for all of the PCs to work together so all can play the game. In short, it’s not that SATA hard drives are lacking as you imply, but that your experience concerning games is lacking.
They are making a VR headset
They are making a VR headset powered BY an FX8800P(35W) APU, PCPer please review it when/if it becomes available!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/4aczv2/new_vr_headset_sulon_q_powered_by_amd/
Question, it says it supports
Question, it says it supports USB 3.0, does this include USB 3.1 or is the wiring/connector different?
Go to part 3(A Detailed Look
Go to part 3(A Detailed Look from the Outside) of the review it’s Type-A hardware so having any USB Type-C form factor/electrical standard plugs will have to come from the motherboard maker and be run out the back, or maybe some other user modded way. I’m sure that there is probably a way for some modding to get some Type-C connectivity to the front/top of the case as long if the motherboard comes with a USB 3.1 controller chip built into the chipset, or on motherboard.
Remember the Type-C plug is not tied into getting any USB 3.1 speeds as the USB Type-C Gen 1 is for the USB Type-C plug paired with a USB 3.0 controller chip, and the USB Type-C Gen 2 is the Type-C plug paired with a USB 3.1 controller chip. It’s also going to be up to the motherboard maker just what USB Type-C electrical ability the USB Type-C port supports as that will come from the motherboard OEM also, So go to the USB-IF website and see just what parts of the USB Type-C plug’s electrial standard that the motherboard OEMs have the option of supporting, so that will be up to the Motherboard’s OEM.
I’d would like to get thunderbolt 3 supported motherboard as even that will be delivered through USB Type-C form factor plug with the TB3 wires added to the USB Type-C receptical in addition to the other standard USB wires. There are even going to be USB Type-C plugs that have display port wires also! So the USB Type-C plug standard supports the TB3, and DP additions/extentions to the USB Type-C plug wiring standard, in adition to the USB Type-C’s electrical power delivery standard.
Great answer! Thanks.
Great answer! Thanks.
Nice review Lee.
This case
Nice review Lee.
This case is Thermaltake unashamedly copying the Fractal Design Define R5 as close as possible without getting sued. I don’t like that, and will avoid Thermaltake for my next build. I do understand that incorporating the best parts of competitors cases is how the market works, but Thermaltake should have tried a bit harder to differentiate their case from the Define R5.
How do you know that both
How do you know that both Thermaltake and Fractal Design do not get their parts supplied by the same subcontractor! Just look at laptop cases! And PC cases are mostly rectangular boxes. So the case’s sub-parts(Grommits, fan shrouds, standoffs) as well as sheetmatal stamped parts, plastic parts, and such may just come from other suppliers that supply the entire case making industry!
I’m building a new pc and
I’m building a new pc and looking at the cases on the market has me deciding on a few different cases.
Corsair 400C 450D
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M
Fractal Define R5 and Define S
I ended up with Thermaltake F31 Why?
– All of the things I didn’t like about the Fractal cases are not present here
– can mount 3.5 and 2.5 on the same racks behind motherboard, can use still use 5.25 bays for dual SSD mounting also.
Supports more sizes of Fans and radiators on the top, front and bottom,
– Top mounted magnetic dust filter
– bigger side panel window
front side intakes are dust filtered.
Hi iam looking for a cooler
Hi iam looking for a cooler and quieter case i use a elite 120 but with a kavari overclocked with antec 950 along with gtr black rx480 i cant stay cool with cables from my semi mod power supply my question is about fan headers as i only have cpu fan using my antec 950 and one other fan header which goes to a 120 fan but this f31 has 2 fans and room for more how is this done hase the case got fan headers ? Many thanks gar d