Titan Silent 2 Review

[neatfeatguy]

Introduction:

Gamemax releases another full tower – Titan Silent 2 – to their already wide range of computer cases. As the name implies this is a second iteration of the Titan Silent M905S case that released some years ago and is aimed as a budget oriented full tower ideal for any basic PC build to a workstation PC.

Specifications:

Packaging:
The packaging is just a normal, run of the mill box that has an image of the case, logo and a specification table on the side of the box. The case itself comes in a plastic bag and rests between two Styrofoam, fitted moldings.


Contents:
The only other content that comes with the case is actually found in small box that’s the size of a 3.5” HDD. The box is securely placed in one of the HDD bays inside of the case itself. You will have to remove the side panel to locate this box. Inside you’ll find some twist ties, a Velcro tie, a bag of various screws for the MB, PSU, SSD and standoffs along with a couple of sound dampening pads with precut washers. There was no user/installation manual that came with the tower. If you are in need of one, then you need to visit gamemaxpc.com and find the manual for the Titan Silent 2 there.


Exterior:
The Titan Silent 2 has been designed with a more nostalgic look in mind; there are no flashy RGB lights nor any glass/acrylic side panels. The entire black matte finished case is enclosed, leaving what might be inside to the imagination.


The front of the case does not have a door despite what one may think due to the two small handle looking knobs extruding from the left side. Those are actually easy to remove dust filters for the front fans. Here you will also see there are 3 – 5.25” bays available to use for your ODD pleasures.


The back of the case you will see the PSU bay at the bottom. Above it there are 8 expansion slot spaces, lots of room for those that need it – whether you’re running multiple GPUs or other various PCI cards, this case gives you ample space for all your needs. The single fan spot on the back supports a 120mm fan. On the sides you will see a couple of small thumb screws that are used to securely hold the side panels on.


The main side panel is one piece of sheet metal, nothing fancy. And upon spinning the case around to the opposite side, you’re once again greeted with a single piece of sheet metal for the panel. A simple, clean look for the exterior for ideally designed for those that have no need for flashy looks in case.


The top of the case you’ll see a metal mesh cover. This cover is simple to remove, an easy push on the corners next to the I/O panel. Underneath the top panel you’ll see pop-out covers for the location you can mount up to 3 – 120mm or 2 – 140mm fans or various lengths of radiators from the size of 120mm to 360mm. The I/O panel has two fan control switches. Both switches can have up to 3 fans connected to them. The switches toggle between low/stop/high for the positions. Between the fan control switches you get the 3.5mm Combo Audio and Microphone port. Along with the power button (lower left) and the reset button (lower right), you get a total of 5 USB ports. The two on the left are 2.0, the middle is a Type-C Gen 2 and the two on the right are 3.0.


The bottom of the case there are two fan filters, one for the PSU and the other for an optional 120mm fan. On the feet, each one has a rubber pad to help prevent the hard plastic feet from possibly scratching any hard, flat surface it sits upon.


Interior:
Gaining access to the interior is simple, unscrew the two thumb screws on the back side of the case and then simply slide the side panel off. Both side panels come off the same. Here you can see the PSU cover, HDD cages and case wiring. At the bottom of the case you can see the PSU cover (currently removed). This can be removed by removing the small screw that holds it in place at the top, back right side. Once you remove the screw be cautious that you don't just yank the cover out just yet. You'll need to make sure you push the plastic anchor piece through the hole on the bottom of the tower. You can see it protruding from the hold, right next to the cutout slot on the fan filter. Push the clips together and up through the hole to fully remove the PSU cover.


Each HDD cage can hold 4 hard drives (HDD/SSD) for a total of 8. The top cage can be removed via the holding clips by pressing down on the top clip and up on the bottom clip and sliding the cage out. Each HDD tray is made of plastic, they appear to be 3D printed which makes them feel light, flimsy and cheap feeling. The trays are easy to remove by simply squeezing the side clips.


Behind the other side panel you’ll find the fan controller, 3 Velcro straps for wire management and the lower right corner is the SSD bracket where you can mount 2 – 2.5” SSDs.


Upon closer in inspection of the holes for routing cables, the metal is smooth and rounded to help keep cables from getting cut or damaged and this image provides a closer look at the SSD mount. You can easily remove it by unscrewing the two screws you see on the left side of it. This allows ease of access to mount 2.5" SSDs.


The front of the case you’ll see there are 3 openings for the 5.25” bays, the top comes uncovered. The other 2 have metals covers you can easily remove by bending the metal cover down and up until the small metal connecting the cover to the case itself breaks away. The bottom half you'll see the 2 – 120mm fans (included) with removable filter covers.



The side panels, on the inside come with built-in noise-reducing material as you can see. I don’t know what the sound dampening material is made of, but it feels like maybe it's plastic, perhaps ABS. The thickness is only about 1/32 of an inch thick. As to how useful they are for noise-reducing is hard to determine – even if you have access to a sound level meter – without having side panels without the noise-reducing material installed there is no way to determine the usefulness of it.


System Hardware:

*Not listed above are two Blu-Ray ODDs


Assembly:
Installing and securing the motherboard is straight forward. Line up the standoffs and screw down the board. 6 standoffs come already installed in the case for your standard ATX board. If your particular board by chance needs extra standoffs - such as mine needed 1 more - you'll find a few included in the small box of goodies that came with the case. The PSU cover needs to be removed before you can install the PSU, be mindful of the two anchor points for it; 1 is the screw on the top side that is secured to the back panel of the case and the other is the plastic anchor you need to push up through the hole on the bottom of the case. Once the cover is off, slide in your PSU and secure into place.

For the 5.25" bays, the top two have easy quick secure screws that let you lock in your ODD. The bottom bay does not have these screws, perhaps an oversight or maybe my case just didn't get them installed. Either way, not a huge deal. Just use screws to secure anything you install in bottom most 5.25" bay.



Along the back you see there is a lot of space for cable management, the trick is actually being able to get all these cables tied up and tucked away as much as possible. Here you can see a 2.5" SSD in the mounting tray at the bottom right. You can also see the HDD cage has 4 drives installed. Looking at the fan controller, no extra case fans have been added, just the original 3 the case came with (1 - 120mm rear exhaust and 2 - 120mm front intake) that are all connected to the controller.


On top you see the 240mm rad installed with fans in a pull position. To remove the plastic covers (there are still 2 small ones in this picture), you need to push the tabs through from the bottom side and the plastic covers will pop out.


Everything is now installed, no real issues or problems with the install. Everything is pretty much straight forward and easy to get to. I personally couldn't make use of the top 5.25" bay for my ODDs because of the location of the hoses from the AIO. They blocked access to connecting the SATA cables. I had to move my drives down to the middle and bottom bays. I think with some more time I could have improved the cable management a bit more, but everything is tucked away and tied back fairly well as is.


Here is the finished look - just like the original picture at the start of the review, aside from the two ODDs.


Temps and Noise:
I ran temps for the CPU and GPU in my previous case to compare them with this case. All the hardware stayed the same aside from case fans. I was using a Cooler Master HAF XB Evo that had 1 rear 120mm exhaust and 1 top 200mm exhaust fan and the two radiator fans were mounted on the front pushing cool air through the rad. Unfortunately I do not have any kind of decibel reader to compare the audible noise levels, I only have my personal experience to go by.

The Titan Silent 2 has 1 rear 120mm exhaust, 2 front 120mm intake and the radiator fans are setup to pull air out of the top of the case.

For the CPU I ran Prime95 small FFT for 10 minutes on each computer and for the GPU I ran Oblivion Remaster through the intro dungeon using Ultra settings with TAA.

HAF max temps:
CPU = 63C
GPU = 71C

Titan max temps:
CPU = 64C
GPU = 67C

The Titan is much louder due to more 120mm fans in use. It does seem to help keep the CPU temp about the same and slightly cooler for the GPU. I much prefer the quieter experience with the HAF XB Evo case over the increased fan noise, even if I do see slightly lower temps on my GPU. I do most of my gaming and video watching with headphones, so the noise shouldn't impact me too much.

Conclusion:
The Titan Silent 2 lists for $159.99 at the only online retailer that has it for sale in the United States; Newegg. As of the time of this writing (4/26/25) the current price on Newegg lists the case on sale for $114.98, as for how long the case will stay on sale is uncertain.

The Titan Silent 2 originally had news articles about the release of a workstation capable full tower for the sweet low price of $79.90 as per the original TPU topic back in November 2024 and even other sites reported the same, such as Guru3D. This low price was a big draw for me for a tower that doesn't have any RGB or clear sides, finally something practical for my needs that also has 5.25" bays, something that is becoming harder and harder to come by. I anxiously awaited for the case to go on sale so I could get something reasonably priced. After a couple months and not being able to find the case for sale yet, I emailed Gamemax customer support, inquiring about when and where I could purchase one of these, but my inquiry fell on deaf ears. I never got a reply back. Another month passed and I sent another email, but I was met with the same results. At the start of April I emailed them again and for a third time I heard nothing. This isn't boding well for the case to come to market. It's April, nearly 5 months since the announcement of the case and I can't find it for sale anywhere and the manufacturer isn't responding to my inquiries. I didn't give up hope, I kept searching like I have been every few weeks and finally on April 21st, 2025 I'm actually greeted from my search that the Titan Silent 2 is available on Newegg! Even though the price wasn't anywhere close to $79.90 as originally reported, I was willing to give the case a try for the sales price of $114.98.

The case itself is sturdy. The sheet metal used doesn't feel flimsy and pulling the case apart is pretty simple, aside from a couple of things such as removing the PSU cover and removing the plastic pieces that cover the front panel for the 5.25" bays. Be very careful popping them out (from the backside of the front panel), the plastic tabs are very small and very easy to break which won't allow you to snap them back in should you need to re-install them.

The installed "sound dampening" material on the insides of the side panels doesn't appear to really offer any kind of sound dampening. The sheets are very thin, about 1/32 of an inch thick and they don't appear like they would offer any kind of sound dampening. Perhaps they're of a selling gimmick over something that actually serves a purpose.

I like the fact you can remove the top HDD cage. It is very easy to slide in and out, just push the tab down on the top of the cage and push the bottom tab up and slide it out. As for the HDD trays, they are pretty light and flimsy feeling. From closer inspection they appear to be 3D printed. Be careful with them, while they do flex enough to allow ease of inserting and removing 3.5" HDDs, just be careful you don't crack them in the process.

Use of an ODD in the top bay may not be possible if you're mounting an AIO in your system and plan on having the radiator mounted to the top of the case. The hoses on the AIO were in the way for me and I was unable to safely connect the SATA cables to the ODD. I had to move my ODDs down to the middle and bottom bays so I could maneuver the hoses enough to allow proper connection with the cables.

The only part of the case I couldn't not test and confirm it is functional is the Type-C port on the top I/O panel. My motherboard does not have a location for me to connect the port to. Also, my MB only has 1 USB 2.0 header so I had to make a choice on if I was going to connect the front panel USB ports to it, or connect the USB cable from the Corsair H100i AIO I'm using. For me, since I'm not a fan of the iCUE software I decided to forgo the use of the iCUE software. I ran the USB cable for the front IO panel to the USB header and for my AIO I simply connected the fans to the CPU1 fan and CPU2 fan headers.

Overall I'd say the Titan Silent 2 is a decent full tower option for anyone wanting to find something with 5.25" bays and doesn't want flashing RGB lights dancing everywhere or the clear panels, giving you that overly used fish tank look a lot of cases these days have. I wish the price was actually the originally reported $79.90 and not the $159.99 it is listed for at Newegg. For $159.99 I wouldn't suggest this case for what it is. Sub $100 and it would be a helluva steal for what you get and what you can use the case for. I'm not educated with workstation cases so I cannot say if this case at the current price is ideally suited for someone in needs of a workstation tower, however at the current sales price as of this writing the case could be a good purchase at $115 if you feel it fits your needs well.

 

[RootinTootinPootin]

The installed "sound dampening" material on the insides of the side panels doesn't appear to really offer any kind of sound dampening. The sheets are very thin, about 1/32 of an inch thick and they don't appear like they would offer any kind of sound dampening. Perhaps they're of a selling gimmick over something that actually serves a purpose.

personally the Fractal Define series does justice to the "Sound dampening" thing, nice case for a home server or sort, plenty of drive bays too..but yeah, it kinda looks flimsy..

 

[_roman_]

Those fan controllers pcb have to go. It is a dirty bad design. I instantly removed that from my fractal design meshify 2.

Good job on the review. I wrote myself also a review for a Jonsbo D41. I know how many hours it takes to write a review.

I'm not sure if I'm fond of the psu is on the motherboard side of the case thing. It's harder to get vertical gpu in place, or those gpu standoffs. I also prefer to have nearly separated my psu from my other parts. You never know when you drop a screw where just below the power supply unit is.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Those fan controllers pcb have to go. It is a dirty bad design. I instantly removed that from my fractal design meshify 2.

Good job on the review. I wrote myself also a review for a Jonsbo D41. I know how many hours it takes to write a review.

I'm not sure if I'm fond of the psu is on the motherboard side of the case thing. It's harder to get vertical gpu in place, or those gpu standoffs. I also prefer to have nearly separated my psu from my other parts. You never know when you drop a screw where just below the power supply unit is.

I've got a Fractal Design Arc XL tower still. It was designed a lot like this one, but it does have a tinted acrylic window built into the side panel that I was never a fan of (I prefer the plain looking cases like in this review and I even like the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo that I moved from for similar reasons; no RGB, no fish tank glass enclosure looking junk for the side panels). The main differences between the Arc XL and Titan Silent 2 are; PSU cover and ease of access to the top panel for mounting, otherwise both cases are pretty similar. The Arc XL has 1 fan controller where you are limited to 3 fans on it, after that you need another controller or MB headers for case fans. At least with the Titan you can have 6 out of 7 possible case fan spots easily controlled with the two switches.

Spoiler

At the time of me using the Arc XL I only had two spin drives and one 2.5" SSD. The SSD mounted on the backside of the MB and with 4 - 5.25" bays (only 2 being occupied by ODDs) I picked up a couple of 5.25" HDD mounting brackets and put my spin drives in the two unsed bays. This allowed me to compeltely remove both sets of HDD cages to allow better air flow from the front intake fans. Even with a setup like this, having 2 front and 1 bottom 140mm intake, 2 top and 1 rear 140mm exhaust fans I found that the HAF XB Evo provided better cooling with just the 200mm top exhaust and 1 120mm rear exhaust. I also liked the position of the MB so the GPU sits on top and doesn't hang, causing GPU sag (which was really bad with my 980Ti AMP! Omega).

I'm not sure how fast the "fast" option is for the Titan Silent 2 fan controller switches are. I can feel a noticeable difference in air flow from low to high. If I had to guess, low is probably around 30-40% and high is around 60-70%. They're clearly not going full steam when on high because the audible noise does increase if I force them to 100%. I'm on the fence about fan controllers. Generally they don't bother me, but at times it would be nice to have more control over them by actually setting up a curve over just the basic "low" and "high" presets that come built into cases. For now I'll leave the fans connected to the controller, should I add any other fans I'll connect them to the MB fan headers.

**Edit**
Just wanted to post before I forgot - one of the case's feet was damaged during transit. I didn't notice it until I was in the middle of building (see pic). The Styrofoam molding protecting the bottom of the case was damaged, clearly indicating it had absorbed a sufficient drop/hit. Thankfully the molding absorbed most of the damage. Unfortunately one of the feet was cracked (not visible in the images above). I've reached out to Gamemax, hopefully they can send a replacement. The feet just appear to be connected via a screw so it should be a simple swap if I get a replacement part. However, based on my previous attempts to Gamemax having gone unanswered, I'm not holding my breath.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I reached out to Gamemax through their customer support link on their webpage about the broken foot a week ago and I have yet to hear anything from them. I've looked through the spam folder for my email just to be sure and I have seen no reply.

I just wanted to post this for others to see, should they think about purchasing Gamemax items.

Seems like Gamemax is awful at replying to customer's inquiries. I'll be sure to completely avoid them from here on out.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Took almost two weeks, but I finally got a reply from Gamemax! Alright! Kind of....I mean, at least I got a reply.

First off, I wasn't really expecting a reply based on the fact that my past inquiries to their customer support went unanswered. I figured that if I were to get a reply it would be something they would offer to assist me with by sending a replacement part or at the very least allow me to purchase one, but this response is well, pretty crummy and just cements the idea that I won't be purchasing anything else from them in the future:

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for using our product

For broken feet, please contact with the shop where you bought.

Thank you

发件人: info@gamemaxpc.com <info@gamemaxpc.com>
发送时间: 2025年4月27日 21:16
收件人: info@gamemaxpc.com
主题: Gamemax Support！

 

name：Aaron
phone：
email：
message：I recently purchased a Titan Silent 2 from Newegg on 4/21/25.
The case arrived and everything is great except for 1 thing; during transit the box was dropped and the Styrofoam moldings helped prevent more damage than the case received.

One of the feet on the case is cracked and I was hoping I could get a replacement part sent to me.
Upon reply I can provide you my shipping information and a picture of the broken tower foot.
Please let me know if this is something you guys can assist me with.
Thank you.
-Aaron

What is Newegg going to do? They won't send me a replacement foot, they don't sit on spare parts for something like this and I'm sure as hell not going to be going through the hassle of breaking down my PC just to return the case because of a broken foot. That is just way too much work. The foot on the tower is functional right now, I'd just hate to see it get more damaged or break apart upon any kind of future moving of the case - which is why I was hoping to get some kind of option from them on getting a replacement for it.

So, this goes out to anyone checking out Gamemax. If you have to deal with their customer service your inquiry may go unanswered or take a long while to get answered with a response that's unhelpful. Depending on the issue you may never get any kind of useful resolution from them.

Maybe I'll check around my house, see if I have some kind of epoxy or at the very least some superglue that'll work on plastics in hopes to keep the foot from accidentally breaking more should I have to move the tower around.