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Battle of the Titans: Super Coolers from Scythe, Thermaltake and Zalman Face to Face (page 23)

Category: Coolers

by Doors4ever

[ 10/21/2005 | 11:44 AM ]

More Tests in a System Case

I could have stopped at that, but like with the Scythe Shogun I was harassed by the thought that I hadn’t made full use of the capabilities of the Thermaltake Sonic Tower – I hadn’t tested it with two fans. Since such a test was only possible in a system case, I decided to do some more research work.

I took a rather good ASUS Ascot 6AR system case, manufactured by HEC Group. This case is equipped with two quiet 120mm 1400rpm fans (intake and exhaust). To test under real-life conditions I replaced the Matrox Millennium with a hot NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT graphics card. The rest of the testbed was left unchanged. I set the temperature of the thermal chamber at 24°C . The temperature of the CPU cooled by the Sonic Tower and loaded by S&M grew up to 71°C and the system rebooted automatically.

I also wanted to test the Scythe Ninja in the passive mode –with the two system fans only – but the attempt failed completely. The CPU temperature grew up to 72°C , even when the Ninja had a fan on, and then a BSOD appeared (the Ninja kept the system running for somewhat longer than the Sonic Tower, however).