Game Max Falcon RGB Case Review

1. Introduction2. Game Max Falcon: Exterior3. Game Max Falcon: Interior4. System Installation5. Testing: Thermals and Acoustics6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

Testing a case consists of finding out how the chassis deals with heat generated by the installed components, and how much noise it produces while doing so.

To create excess heat, I ran Prime95 26.6 and 3DMark Fire Strike simultaneously to stress both the CPU and GPU. After 15 minutes, I recorded the maximum temperature for each component to report here.

To test the Game Max Falcon, I installed the following components:

• Intel i7-4790K CPU
• be quiet! Pure Rock Slim CPU cooler
• 16GB Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz DDR3
• Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Motherboard
• GTX 1080 Founders Edition GPU
• EVGA 650W P2 PSU
• OCZ Trion 150 SSD

Thermal dynamics

Ambient: 20C.

As you can see, the Falcon's out-of-the-box cooling is absolutely fine. The above temperatures were taken with the fan controller set to low-speed as well – temperatures definitely benefit from having 2x 120mm fans intaking fresh air to the chassis.

Acoustics

With all 3 fans configured to the fan controller by default, the Falcon is as loud or as quiet as you want it to be. The fan controller actually gives you the ability to turn all the fans off as well, so when the system is not under heavy load you could turn off the fans for a truly silent experience.

When you do need the fans on, though, the ‘low' speed is still whisper-quiet, while even the ‘high' speed is far from intrusive. I left the fan speed on ‘low' the majority of the time while testing the case and thermals did not suffer at all, so Game Max have certainly come up with a capable fan-control solution.

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