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Corsair's offering does have slightly better thermal performance, which however can be easily attributed to the inclusion of stronger cooling fans. Unfortunately, we only have data from just one similar case to compare with at this point of time, the Corsair Carbide Air 240. The stock cooling fans are slow and they have been clearly installed for the best possible acoustics performance, but they do a very good job at keeping the temperatures of the components within very acceptable levels. Results and DiscussionĬonsidering the size and type of the Fractal Design Node 804, its thermal performance is excellent. During the advanced noise test, all stock cooling options of the case are disabled. This includes the installation of two noise-generating sources (strong fans) inside the case, one positioned approximately over the first expansion slot and one over the CPU area, which generate ≈ 44.2 dB(A) when unobstructed. Advanced noise testing is also being performed, in order to assess the ability of the case to dampen the noise of the components installed inside it. Standard noise testing has been performed with a background noise level of 30.4dB(A). Thermal testing is performed with all of the case's stock fans operating at maximum speed. For comparison purposes, we are also performing a test with a thermal load of 230W by reducing the CPU load to 90W, removing one disk load and using a low-profile, 50W version GFX load. As such, the thermal load is very high and only the best of cases will be able to handle it for more than a few minutes. Note that the total load is generally more important than the individual elements, and the total thermal load of the Micro-ATX test setup is up to 420 Watts. Finally, two 3.5' HDD dummy loads have also been installed, with each of them converting 30W of electrical power to thermal. The Micro-ATX version simulates a 180W CPU, 40W VRM, 20W RAM, and 1 × 120W GPU card thermal load. We have created three such loads, and we'll use the Micro-ATX load for this case. Laboratory data loggers are used to monitor the PT100 sensors and control the safety relays, which are fully accessible via our custom software.

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This allows us to test the thermal capabilities of the case alone, as if it would have to deal with the entire thermal load by itself, regardless of what system an end user might install in it. For our case reviews, we developed synthetic loads that emulate the thermal output of real systems, but these are passive, steady and quantifiable loads.

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Testing the thermal performance of any case with a typical real-world setup technically limits the comparability of the results to this setup alone, as an active system interacts with its environment and the change of a single component would alter myriads of variables. CPU: Intel Core i7-875K CPU overclocked to 3.Professional testing requires the emulation of real-world situations but with repeatable results thus, a perfectly controllable test setup and environment are required, especially for comparable results.Having recorded the ambient temperature in front of the main air intake of each case, we're then able to calculate the delta T - the difference between the ambient temperature of our lab and the temperature of the hardware. After at least 15 minutes, once temperatures have plateaued, we record the temperature of the hottest CPU core using Core Temp and of the GPU using GPU-Z. We load the system using the Small FFTs CPU stress test in Prime95 and the Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 GPU benchmark. We also lock the fan speed on the graphics card to 30 percent in order to prevent the automatic speed control from interfering with the results, making them inconsistent. We run this at a consistent 12V speed, but it is a low-airflow fan, so it will highlight cases with poor cooling for the CPU. The CPU is cooled by a Gelid Tranquillo with a Noctua NF-S12B ULN 120mm fan. This is an admittedly modest overclock, but as some cases that we have trialled previously made the CPU run at a Delta T of nearly 60☌, it's reasonable for a micro-ATX case. Cooling PerformanceOur micro-ATX test kit contains an Intel Core i7-875K CPU, which has been overclocked from 2.93GHz to 3.4GHz using a vcore of 1.175V and a CPU PLL of 1.86V.

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