Within PC-O8 there are five 120mm cooling fans – three at the front and two attached to the HDD cage. Unfortunately four of these fans are focused on the secondary compartment which concerns the PSU and storage – therefore the CPU and other critical components have just a single rear exhaust cooling fan.

To discover the thermal performance of PC-O8 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 20 minutes have elapsed.

The delta temperatures are recorded for the test with the ambient being subtracted from the reported maximum core temperatures from the test.

System Components


Noise

By having thick tempered glass and aluminium panels the PC-O8 does a great job in damping any noise from the five cooling fans which are installed. Although there are a considerable numbers of fans inside the chassis they don’t emit that much noise at all.