ThermalTake Armor -- is there an intake filter?

[imported_BikeDude]

It's hard to tell from TT's webpages (urk), so I turn to you guys... Is there a filter in front of the 12cm intake fan?

 

[Mickey Eye]

Yes there is, everyone of the front bays excluding the floppy bay (in the movable power switch module) has a dust filter. As you can move the hard disk bay around (with the fan attatched) it automatically has a dust filter. The top however does not have a dust filter and seems fairly open to me.

Mine arrived a few days ago, construction seems good enough. Had some trouble removing the mobo backplate but nothing important. Everything fits in pretty snug and when I finally get it running (Friday) it looks like it will run fairly cool. Jury still out on the toolless PCI slots.

Also I bought the black one which is steel and weighs a ton (something like 16 kilos). The silver one is aluminium and weighs half that.

 

[imported_BikeDude]

I guess with the big heavy steel case, vibration from the hard drives is not much of an issue?

On a related note:
tomshardware.com recently reviewed a bunch of cases, including ThermalTake's Shark case. The reason I'm looking at TT Armor is that TT's webpage claims no EATX support in the Shark, whereas Tom lists EATX support in almost every case he reviews. Is the Shark motherboard tray optional? (My guess is that it is the tray that's not EATX friendly...)

 

[imported_llama]

the shark isnt EATX or BTX the armour is

 

[McArra]

The armor is a great choice but dust is something you will have to clean in the front panel. It want go into the PC there but you have to clean it often in the black colour (the sweetest colour for the case ). The upper hole might be more problematic, but you can always put something there