Thermaltake’s View 32 TG RGB Edition Chassis Offers Lots Of Bling & Lots Of Glass

Nearly a year after I took Corsair’s Crystal 570X chassis for a test drive, I find myself still admiring its overall design. It’s not the easiest chassis to work with, a given with tempered glass on all sides, but the finished product looks fantastic – especially if you have some LED fans.

I am not sure if Thermaltake’s View 32 TG RGB Edition is the first chassis from the company to sport a similar design (I couldn’t find a non-RGB version), but this one in particular reminds me a lot of the aforementioned Corsair Crystal – even down to an absent PSU shroud cover (making it harder to hide cables). Despite that, the overall build still looks sharp:

The View 32 TG (doesn’t stand for Techgage, as far as I’m aware) sports 4mm thick tempered glass on all sides but the back – since it’d be nice to be able to plug peripherals in, and not to mention let air move out through the back. The chassis supports up to 3x 120mm intake fans, 2x 120mm at the top, and a radiator size up to 360mm.

Thermaltake notes that this chassis supports CPU tower coolers up to 160mm in height, so whatever cooling you want to slap in this thing should be no problem at all. It also supports dual-GPU at up to 400mm for each card, as long as the HDD bays are removed.

Also on tap is a built-in fan controller, allowing up to eight fans to be controlled with a single button (found on top). If your goal is to keep LED fans all in sync, you’ll want to be using Thermaltake’s Riing RGB fans, the only ones its support manual lists as being officially supported.

One thing this chassis does do better than the Crystal 570X, in my opinion, is that it has a freaking reset button. I have no idea why chassis vendors feel like a reset button is a pointless addition, but I have two chassis here without them, and they both annoy me for the same specific reason. Of course, if you don’t troubleshoot as often as I do, it might not bother you so much, but it’s as strange to remove as the headphone jack on mobiles to me.

The View 32 TG RGB currently sells for $139.99, which is less expensive than the $173.96 Corsair Crystal 570X. I can’t attest which one is better in the end, but I think your decision should be largely based on which you prefer the look of more, or believe will serve your cooling needs better.