APC Australia - September 2019

$115 | WWW.THERMALTAKE.COM.AU

CASE

Thermaltake H200

TG Snow RGB

An affordable case that offers

beautiful simplicity and user

friendliness.

Netgear Nighthawk

X6 Tri-Band WiFi

Mesh Extender

ExtendyourWi-Fi just bypressing

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sn’t it refreshing to see

a case that doesn’t look

like it belongs in a

Transformers movie!

Thermaltake’s H200 Snow

is a case that’s delightfully

modern and subtle. The

Thermaltake H200 is a

white mid-tower chassis

capable of holding a full

sized ATX board and GPU. It

comes with one 120mm fan.

It can house two dual fan

radiators, giving it

excellent cooling

capabilities. It’s also got a

tempered glass full window

and a PSU shroud to hide

ugly cables.

Building a system with

the H200 was a breeze. The

case is full of thoughtful

cable management features

with well-placed holes and

indentations meaning even

thick PSU cables can be

routed and hidden with ease.

The H200 comes with an

attractive RGB light bar

along the left front of the

case. An adjacent TT logo is

also lit. These are controlled

by a button on the top of the

case. Seven pre-set colours

can be set to breath, remain

fully lit, or they can be cycled

through. In total there are 19

modes. Of course you can turn

it off too if you prefer.

Judging a case on looks is

always subjective, with

opinions depending on the

eye of the beholder. The H200

Snow Edition should appeal to

users looking for something

easy to work with whilst

offering a fantastic subtle

look that allows the focus to

be on the build thanks to the

tempered glass window.

Thoughtful design cues, cable

management options and

affordability make the H200

anexcellentcase,and easy

torecommend.

Chris Szewczyk

Verdic t

The TT H200 looks fantastic, it’s

also great value and super easy to

work with.

$245|NETGEAR.COM.AU/

N

ot everyone can
afford a swanky
new Wi-Fi 6 router
(or multi-node mesh
system), but not everybody
needs one. If your Wi-Fi is
letting you down and you
want to boost it in the
simplest, least-intrusive way
possible, this Mesh Extender
will turn your head.
Mercifully, unlike rivals, it
doesn’t resemble a very-bulky
plug – it actually has a power
lead. Setting up involves
powering it on and pressing
the WPS button. That’s
literally it. A few minutes
later it will have seamlessly-
extended your existing Wi-Fi
network without appearing
as a separate extender
network. If you don’t like
using WPS, then simply
connecting to it and adding
your Wi-Fi passwords
manually works fine.
We tested in our three-
storey Sydney townhouse
using a Linksys AC router,
iPad Pro and a 115/5 Telstra
cable connection. We
positioned the X6 one floor

above the router and ran our

first test next to it. On the

2.4GHz band download

speeds boosted from

15Mbps to 19Mbps. Another

floor up it managed 8.2Mbps

(up from 4.7Mbps).

Meanwhile, on the 5GHz

band, first-floor

performance boosted from

22.8Mbps to 24.5Mbps while

on the top floor it went from

11.1Mbps to 23.8Mbps.

These are rather modest

improvements and we

expect more for the money

as rival extenders cost

less-than half and mesh

systems are only slightly

dearer. That said, the ease of

useandabilitytomaintain

justonenetworknamewill

beattractivetomany.

Nick Ross

Verdic t

The simplest way to extend your

Wi-Fi. But performance isn’t

spectacular.

WI-FI EXTENDER