The tests were performed in a controlled air conditioned room with temperatures maintained at a constant 22c.
Idle temperatures were measured after sitting at the desktop for 30 minutes.Load measurements were acquired by playing Battlefield 3 for 30 minutes and measuring the peak temperature.
All fan settings were left on automatic.
The load temperatures of the CPU and GPU are higher than we generally like to see and we do have some minor concerns about prolonged gaming sessions if the system is placed in a TV unit or cabinet of some sort.
Exccellent – I like it – especially the RAID performance!
Really good performance results. I dont think 80c is too high. 85c is cutting it close though. Interesting to see dual SSDs being used a lot more now, which is wise as it is critical to an overall system performance result.