Posted on: 06.07.2011 02:57:32
Test Rig Specs
- CPU - Intel i5 760 @ 4GHz
- CPU Cooling – Noctua NH-D14 (as supplied by Noctua)
- Motherboard - MSI P55-GD65 (as supplied by MSI)
- GFX Card – Inno3D GTX580 OC Edition (as supplied by Inno3D)
- Sound – Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
- Memory - 4GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 with Thermal Sensor (as supplied by Crucial)
- Disks – Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB (as supplied by Crucial), 2 x 500GB Samsung F3’s in RAID0
- Optical - Generic DVD RW
- Case – On Review
- PSU - Super Flower SF-700P14XE (as supplied by Super Flower)
- On Review – ThermalTake Chaser MK-I (as supplied by ThermalTake)
From the off, the Thermaltake Chaser MK-I was a pleasure to work with. The cases spacious-ness and cable-routing made a clean installation very easy with this case (as can be seen in the pic above). The build quality is top, and the stock-cooling seems up to the task of keeping my power-house of a system cool.
The HDD bays, whilst they don’t feature any obvious vibration-reduction, appear to work effectively at dampening vibrations – my HDD’s were not audible above other system noise.
The adjustable colour-scheme of the fans is going appear silly to some buyers, however personally I quite like it. In this particular case, I opted for the “blue” fan colour scheme as it reflects the blue-details of the Thermaltake Chaser MK-I case.
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