Cooling Performance

For cases capable of housing ATX or larger motherboards, we use our standard ATX case test kit. which includes:

You may have noticed that this is slightly different to our recent case tests with new hardware - this is due to the fact that we weren't seeing enough variation between cases so we've opted for a more demanding graphics card and slightly higher CPU overclock.

We disable the motherboard's onboard CPU fan control and all CPU power management features. The CPU fan is fixed at 5V with an adaptor while the graphics card fan is locked at 70 percent speed using MSI Afterburner. The system is loaded using Prime95 25.11 and Unigine's Heaven 4.0 benchmark. We use CoreTemp and GPU-Z to monitor the temperatures, taking the maximum values after 15 minutes - enough time for the readings to plateau.

Case performance - CPU Delta T

Difference over ambient

  • SilverStone Kublai KL05
  • NZXT Noctis 450
  • Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ATX
    • 57
    • 59
    • 63
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
°C, lower is better
  • CPU delta T

Case performance - GPU Delta T

Difference over ambient

  • Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ATX
  • NZXT Noctis 450
  • SilverStone Kublai KL05
    • 44
    • 46
    • 48
0
10
20
30
40
50
°C, lower is better
  • GPU delta T

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