Thermaltake Armor Revo GENE Snow Edition Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅06-03-13
Thermal Performance Testing

Placed inside GENE are three cooling fans. A single 200mm intake fan at the front, a 140mm rear exhaust fan at the back of the case and a 200mm exhaust at the top. Both 200mm fans operated between 800-1000RPM whilst the rear exhaust operates at 1000RPM.

To discover the thermal performance of GENE 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.

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





Noise

We were actually quite pleasantly surprised by the noise levels emitted from GENE during usage. The fans are barely even noticeable when the system is powered up and present no disturbance at all – even with three bundled.

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