What shall we install, how about a nicely overclocked P4 Prescott to stress the case's heat dissipation capability.
Test SetupAdditionally we installed a "Noise Isolator" fan controller and a 4-sensor Digidoc into the case to control fans speeds and monitor the temperature from different components inside.
System stability at 3.9Ghz was tested by looping
Memtest86 v 1.40 for several hours;
We then proceeded by installing
Windows 2000 SP4 and
Speedfan, a system monitoring applications which allows you to log CPU, motherboard and HDD temperatures. With everything installed the we obtained temperatures under load with the help of
Prime95 and
Sisoft Sandra.
Let's take a look inside the case which is sealed by 2 side panels which can be easily removed thanks to the use of thumbscrews ->