It is very hard to deny the awesomeness of the Core P5 from Thermaltake! With a bit of assembly and hardware installation, this wall hangable open air chassis is a real stunner that anyone can appreciate.

When the Core P5 first appeared, you could draw a conclusion that the new chassis shared some similarities with the Lian Li PC-O series of chassis. But even if that were the case – the Core P5 differs too much from the Lian Li models.

Flashy show-case at a moderate sales price; Can be used standing; lying or hanging; Optimized for the use of a powerful water cooling; Enough space for a high-end system; Cable can be hidden at sufficient length behind the tray; I/O panel with four USB ports

Open construction unfavorable questionable for dust protection; sound insulation and EMC; Less suitable for air cooling; no optical drive available

Creating something so unique in such a flooded market is no easy task and yet there were many examples last year. Lian Li's wall-mountable PC-O5S was practically a piece of art, being constructed from aluminum and a large tempered glass panel to show off the hardware inside.

The Core P5's flexible modular design allows for horizontal and vertical builds; Its open air design and broad liquid cooling support will give you a handle on heat, and it costs less than half the Lian Li PC-O7S

Liquid cooling seems necessary for the aesthetics alone and that's not cheap; Hard to reach the rear CPU cutout; Made of steel instead of aluminum with a plastic window instead of glass, but at least it's thick

This chassis is completely bonkers, and I can't help but love it despite it numerous flaws and rather over the top design. I've absolutely nowhere in my house to put it, at least nowhere suitable as the only supporting wall that's got room for a desk near it would be the master bedroom, and I don't...

Great build quality; Fantastic way to show off your hardware; Impressive water cooling support; Rock solid build quality; Room for huge graphics cards

Cable routing holes are tricky to use due to hard drive bays; Super long PSU cables ideally needed; Can be tricky to wall mount or find room for display in general; Open design is prone to dust and debris

There's no doubt that the Core P5 is one of the most fun builds we have had the pleasure to do. This chassis comes in at $139.99USD ($186.37CDN) at the time of this review, making it a little pricey but it does have the features and allure to back up that price.

Thermaltake's Core P5 will challenge your ability to build a PC with minimal instruction, but it rewards your effort with a geeky showpiece that you can hang on the wall.

Maximum visibility for components; Modular design gives you several build options; Ample space to hide cables; Allows graphics card to be mounted with artwork facing outward; Nice price

Instructions lack detail; complicating matters for first-time builders; Geared toward liquid-cooled PC builds; No support for mounting optical drives; Some cable-routing cutaways are ill-placed

The idea of mounting a system to a wall isn't one new to this editor, nor, probably, to many of you reading this. But how to get it up there has always been the problem, at least until now.

Maximum visibility for components; Modular design gives you several build options; Ample space to hide cables; Allows graphics card to be mounted with artwork facing outward; Nice price

Instructions lack detail, complicating matters for first-time builders; Geared toward liquid-cooled PC builds; No support for mounting optical drives; Some cable-routing cutaways are ill-placed

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, spying the inside of a finely crafted PC can be like gazing at a work of art. Whatof art is up for interpretation and the sculptor's skill level. Some PCs are hastily thrown together and draw comparisons to a wannabe Picasso. Others exhibit an attention to detail and aesthetics that clearly dominated the builder's mindset. You can see it not only in a clean layout void of obstructions to airflow, but in the careful selection of parts and their color combinations. These works of art model various forms of expression, some boisterous beneath an orgy of LEDs, others basking in quiet exhibition, figuratively and literally. There are countless combinations and themes—but the crux of any showpiece always comes down to the chassis, which is, in a sense, both the frame the canvas. If ever a case were ideally suited to show off a build, it would be a model like Thermaltake's Core P5, an open-frame chassis like almost no other. Most open-air cases ...

Thermaltake's Core P5 will challenge your ability to build a PC with minimal instruction, but it rewards your effort with a geeky showpiece that you can hang on the wall.

Maximum visibility for components; Modular design gives you several build options; Ample space to hide cables; Allows graphics card to be mounted with artwork facing outward; Nice price

Instructions lack detail, complicating matters for first-time builders; Geared toward liquid-cooled PC builds; No support for mounting optical drives; Some cable-routing cutaways are ill-placed

If you're wondering about our scores, as this is an open air case with little of any airflow design, testing it and applying a cooling score is rather pointless in the same way applying a cooling score to a test bench would be.

The main element that Thermaltake wants you to be able to accomplish with it new Core P5 Chassis, is for you to be able to show off your awesome PC system configuration that you have spent weeks working on so that it is near-perfect.