Kolink Aviator V Case Review

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 Kolink Aviator V, I installed the following components:

• Intel i7-5820K
• MSI X99A SLI Plus Motherboard
• 4x4GB Panram Ninja V 3000MHz DDR4 RAM
• Sapphire R9 285 ITX
• Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED CPU Cooler
• Corsair RM750x Power Supply
• OCZ Trion 150 SSD

Thermal dynamics

The Aviator V ships with three fans installed by default, and that provides solid cooling out-of-the-box. The front panel does not feature any meshed sections, though, which may explain the higher temperatures when compared with the Corsair SPEC-ALPHA. Still, the cooling is decent nonetheless, as demonstrated by the R9 285's  peak temperature of 69 degrees.

Acoustics

As I could not use the integrated fan controller due to it arriving broken, I plugged the included fans into the motherboard. Using the default fan profile, the case is impressively quiet. There is gentle whirr coming from the fans but it is very unobtrusive – the solid front panel likely helps in this regard. Under load, the fans do ramp up a little but the noise is still inoffensive and would be drowned out by quiet music.

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