Thermaltake Mozart Tx Case (VE1000)

Let's start breaking things down a bit.  The front bezel has its useable areas toward the top.  I'm used to saying a case has 'X' number of 5.25" bays and 'Y' number of 3.5" external bays.  The Mozart Tx is a 5+1+1 set up.  5+1+1 as in five 5.25" external bays, one 3.5" external bay and one 7" bay.  The last for the optional 7" retractable LCD monitor.  The front access ports are also a joy in that you have four USB ports right here at your fingertips.  With most mainboards sporting eight or even ten USB ports possible, the Mozart Tx takes full advantage.  Also present is a Firewire port, High Definition compatible audio jacks, an external SATA port and SATA power jack.  Rounding all this out is a 90 x 25mm smoked window just below the access ports that is designed to accept Thermaltake's Media Center display.  

Here's another shot of the upper section of the front bezel.  Here you can see the power, reset, power activity and HDD activity lamps on the right edge below the expansion bays.

Turning Thermaltake's industrial sized wonder 90 degrees to the right, we find a two sectional window giving a nice view inside of the upper and lower half of the case.  Let me take a second here to point out that the Tt Mozart Tx is designed into four sections; upper right, upper left, lower right and lower left.  Each section has a purpose; the top right and top left sections are for the internal 3.5" drive area and optical drive areas respectively while the lower right and lower left sections are for the primary system and secondary system + case's power supply respectively.  Each section also has fans dedicated to cooling that portion of the case.  More on that as we go.  The entire side panel opens out like a door of sorts by means of two latches that you can see below with a key lock on the upper latch.

The rear of the Tt Mozart Tx is where you can see that this case is about raw cooling potential.  Because the case is so large, it dwarfs the fact that the upper four fan mounting areas are for 120mm fans.  Aside from conversation value, this also serves to fit an otherwise awkwardly sized water cooling solution inside the case such as Thermaltake's 240 x 120mm sized Bigwater 745 kit.  At the top edge of the case you can also see two places where the case can accept a hanging type reservoir - as if there isn't enough room inside.

  

The lower part of the rear wall has several items of note.  The lower sections have a fan mounts so each section is cooled; an 80mm and a 120mm (120mm included).  The power supply is mounted here also toward the bottom of the case, sideways fashion.  In the first shot below, the vent area on the right side panel is not a traditional blow hole, it is for a bottom mounted fan on a PSU to allow external air in to keep the PSU cool.  Tool free expansion card clips are present and so are some water cooling access ports. 

If you look closely along the bottom edge you can see several stamped places where 1/2" hose can be routed through for external water cooling rigs.  Thermaltake includes four plastic guide covers to keep the metal from wearing into the hoses.  Nice touch.

  

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