Results
The strength test went well with no bending of the construction or any weaknesses being made obvious. We stomped on the top fan grill of the case – which showed no sign of any weaknesses. This is great news to hear for any active LAN gamer who’s regularly transporting their rig about.
Setting all fans to high speed, the case is horrendously loud. However, when setting the fans to low speed, I got a bit of a shock – the fans drop in noise enormously and the annoying sound becomes a slight whirring. This is perfect for any gamer – as the noise from gun shots and bombs would easily block out this noise.
All the temperature recordings below were calculated with every fan set to low as this is probably the most common fan setting users will likely use on this case.
The ambient temperature which the case was tested in was 23 degrees Celsius.
The hard drive temperatures prove that the front 120mm fans which are seated in hard drive cages are doing a good job of cooling the disks as the temperatures at both idle and load are very low and don’t differ much.
The idle temperature of this CPU is very good with it at 34 degrees and as this is an overclocked e8400 –we expected to have much higher temperatures. Even at full load the temperatures are great with it at 45 degrees. Normally we’d expect the load temperature to averaging somewhere in the 50 region.
By far, the ambient case temperatures are very impressive with the idle temperature being just 1 degree more than the testing environments ambient temperature. At load, we see this increase by 2 degrees – a minor increase.
The chipset, just like the other temperatures is very impressive. At idle we see it peaking at 34 degrees whilst at load it reaches 43 degrees – a 9 degree increase. This is a little lower than the normal temperature you’d expect to see and as this system is overclocked, the chipset would normally be a bit hotter than average. In that sense, the temperature is bang on.
