This year, Thermaltake has plenty of new cases to bring to the market, covering everything from hard-core gamers to small form factor solutions for things like home media servers and beyond. The latter of which we really took to at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, when the company was showing everything off.
Specifically, it was the new Thermaltake TR100 Mini Tower Chassis that got our attention. Not to be mixed up with the company’s Tower 100 case (which is also a great small-factor case, but larger and more for those looking to show things off visually), the TR100 Mini Tower is just that: a mini tower (case).
This tower is the perfect mini ITX size for those looking to reduce their footprint without sacrificing anything important. You can even squeeze in an RTX video card and proper cooling to make sure that your media server can handle HEVC transcoding perfectly fine (something coming soon to the public release of Plex), or even some gaming on the side if you want a dual-purpose setup. It isn’t the smallest ITX solution out there, but it seems like one of the friendlier ones we have seen.
Although it is very compact, it has a lot going for it when it comes to options. When you open the left side panel (like most of Thermaltake’s cases now, it simply pops right off), there is a space there for a video card to install flush to that panel, using a riser cable to bring it away from the board’s PCIe slots. You could potentially build one powerful little beast using this.
What’s nice about this one is that you can easily turn this into the perfect covert mini-server solution that you can tuck away somewhere and forget about. It’s modular when it comes to popping panels off, it’s strategic when it comes to routing and placement and still has connectivity across the front for any peripherals.
It’s also one of the cases that offer the space for an optional display (front-top section, as seen in the above image). It will retail for around $120 and will be available in black, white, and blue. We don’t have an exact release date for it, but it should be launching this year, and likely sooner than later (although Thermaltake might make a modification here or there before officially launching it).
Thermaltake cases can be found on Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, as well as many other retail websites and stores. If we wind up building one to test out, we’ll make sure to come back with the full update/review.
