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First up for testing is the Everest Stress test. This one stresses all the major subsystems of our test system except the GPU simultaneously. We are going to record and compare the temps at full speed as well as attached to the motherboard headers. The fans attached to the board will be controlled by the built in PWN function that automatically adjusts fan speeds based on temperatures. The ambient temperature in our test lab is a nice cool 17 degrees Celsius.
The NZXT fans were hardly audible when attached to our motherboard and when Molex powered they could easily be drowned out by the fan on the graphics card.
Even with these nice quiet fans the temperatures we encountered during the Everest stress test were very acceptable and only increased by a few degrees when switching from full speed to PWN controlled fans.
Once again after running Kombuster our temps were quite good. Overall system and CPU temps only increased by 2 or 3 degrees Celsius. The fan on the Asus EAH5850 was left on auto for this test and the GPU never surpassed 70c. That could easily drop considerably with a fan profile or fixed fan speed but also shows the stock cooler does a decent job.
Nice review Steve. its a good case, my buddy has one
Wicked thanks. good price that chassis. had been looking at it a while ago and it went out of mind. id love a silverstone chassis however.
Nice information, it seems to cool well for the price. I agree though after coming to this from the silverstone raven 02, seems rather a downgrade. its all about price though
Hi Steve, how did you find the noise out of the chassis? any rattles or things like that?
funny thing is I saw this a while ago and I never even looked twice. the box is so bad looking, with some weird dude and glowing eyes. Might check it out later or next time in the local store in cali here.
Nice all around review, and good information on the cooling. seems quiet capable although your room environment is freezing man !
Yeah I liked that review, its always nice to see all the angles inside so I can make my own judgements. not sure id buy one but it seems decent.
17c ! thats one hell of a cold room, tell Zardon to pay for electric ! Good review.
£80 is cheap really for what you get, it is steel, however I like steel for strength. its not the poor mans option many people make it out to be.
Id be interested in those fans, are they any good? loud etc?
Thanks steve, good review man
I like this chassis, there is a sale locally, think id order one.
no strange noises or rattles that I have encountered. Sound level are good but I dont have a dB meter