Placed inside X2000FN are five cooling fans 4x 140mm and 1x 120mm. X2000FN has these fans in key areas to maximise airflow, on paper the thermal performance should be good with a balance of intake and exhaust being used.
To discover the thermal performance of the X2000FN 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 highest setting.
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 Mushkin EM3-10666 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 Mushkin EM3-10666 DDR3
HDD Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATA-II
PSU FSP AURUM GOLD 650M
Noise
The noise emitted from the five fans inside X2000FN isn’t too bad at all. With the rear fans set to low there is very little to hear, turning them up to maximum and a full humming tone can be heard but this is by no means disruptive. The fan controller which Lian Li have implemented onto X2000FN is much better than most you usually find on computer chassis which only offer fixed states – two or three. The fan controller is variable since it uses an adjustment knob, meaning the noise/speed can be customised entirely by the user’s preference.
