SilverStone’s FT04 features two 180mm cooling fans – both these fans are positioned at the front of the case and act as intakes to bring cool air within the chassis and across the system.
To discover the thermal performance of the FT04 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.
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.
Fan controller will be set to ‘high’.
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
FT04 and its 180mm cooling fans have a handy controller to adjust the speed of the fans. This allows the user to find the sweet spot between temperature and noise. With the fans set to ‘low’ there is very little noise emitted and set to ‘high’ they are noticeable but not disruptive thanks thick panels and noise damping material at the top, front and bottom of FT04.
