Aerocool Strike-X Advance Black Chassis Review

1. Introduction2. Aerocool Strike-X External and Bundle3. Aerocool Strike-X Internal4. System Installation5. Testing Methodology and Performance6. Acoustical Performance7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

Today’s test system will give us a good idea of how well this case works in terms of thermal and acoustic performance.

Processor: AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition @ 3.9 GHz.
Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD- M Evo
Cooler: Akasa Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler
Memory: 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1800MHz
Graphics Cards: XFX Radeon 5450 HD (GPU @ 700 MHZ, Memory Clock @ 650 MHz)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 650W
Boot Drive: Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB

OS: Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit
Pyle Digital Sound Level Meter PSPL03

We are using the default fan configuration, which includes 2 intake fans at the front, and 2 exhaust fans, one mounted at the top and one at the rear.

While we have switched to a different graphics card from previous tests, the rest of the components are the same. At idle, the temperatures were a little higher than we'd expect but this was all due to our room temperature being 5 degrees warmer than normal. As such, load temperatures are very impressive as the processor only hit 54 degrees, even in these conditions.

The motherboard temperature also hardly increased – even with the processor and graphics card pumping out considerable heat. This highlights that the 4 fans are providing good airflow and extracting hot air and replacing it with cooler air very efficiently.

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