Inside DS200 we have two cooling fans – a 140mm intake fan at the front and a 120mm rear exhaust at the back. This design follows traditional airflow techniques and should yield good results.
To discover the thermal performance of DS200 we will record idle temperatures after 20 minutes from a cold boot. We will then stress the system and temperatures will again be monitored after 30 minutes have elapsed.
Fan controller will be set to maximum – 100%
For the purpose of accurate analysis the idle and load temperatures for CPU and GPU will be recorded and the range between idle and load will be calculated to determine how efficient cooling is.
NOTE: Ambient temperature is 20C
System Components
CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz
Motherboard ASUS M4A89TD PRO
Graphics NVIDIA GTX 480 (Different from card pictured)
Memory 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3
HDD Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATA-II
PSU FSP AURUM GOLD 650M
Motherboard ASUS M4A89TD PRO
Graphics NVIDIA GTX 480 (Different from card pictured)
Memory 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3
HDD Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATA-II
PSU FSP AURUM GOLD 650M
Noise
The aim with DS200 is to reduce as much noise emitted from the internal components as possible. All of the panels are closed off and have insulation to assist with this and we can confirm that DS200 is indeed a very quiet case, the noise levels are barely audible even with fans set to 100%.
