Testing
Methodology
At Tech-Reviews we test cases for a number of different factors: Strength, Noise and Temperatures.
The way in which we test strength is fairly simple. We stand on the top of the case and jump up and down on it – this is quite a fun test and can really show the effectiveness of the construction. A case which is strong should not be damaged from this test at all; whereas a weak case would bend and buckle.
Testing noise is quite difficult as expensive sound equipment is needed which unfortunately, we don’t have access to. Instead, we use our own God given human ears to give you an ‘as accurate as we can get’ explanation on the case’s noise with a comparative conclusion of its noise.
Temperatures are recorded using a mixture of programs. To measure CPU temperature, we take 3 temperature readings at 10 second intervals and then record an average temperature. This test is done with the CPU at both idle and load state. Recordings are measured using the CPU’s own diode and SpeedFan.
The next component to test the temperature of is the chipset. This is measured using SiSoftware Sandra and just like the CPU, is tested at idle and load states with the final recording being the average of 3 temperatures.
The Hard Drive temperature is measured using HD Tune in the same way as the rest of the components.
To record the systems temperature we use a digital thermometer to firstly calculate the environments ambient temperature at the time of the tests and then we measure the systems temperature when at idle and load states. Averages don’t need to be done for this as the temperatures often stay at a fixed point; however we take averages just like the other tests to make the test fair.
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