The Xigmatek Pantheon moves away from traditional airflow cooling. It doesn't have a front mounted fan to draw in airflow across the motherboard. Instead there are 2 fans directed towards the HDD cage. As I stated previous throughout this review it will be interesting to see if this has a negative impact on the overall system temperatures. It would seem to do so from the outset.

To discover the thermal performance of the Pantheon I will record idle temperatures after 20 minutes from a cold boot. I will then stress the system and temperatures will again be monitored after a 30 minute have elapsed. Fans will be operating on the lowest setting via front panel controls.

System Components
CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz
Motherboard ASUS M4A89TD PRO
Graphics ZOTAC NVIDIA GTX 480 Amp!
Memory 4GB Mushkin EM3-10666 DDR3
HDD Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATA-II
PSU Enermax Revolution 85+ 850W









As I predicted, the Xigmatek Pantheon does suffer slightly from a deviation of traditional airflow cooling. Whilst CPU and motherboard temperatures aren't as low as other cases we have tested HDD cooling is going to be somewhat better.

When fans are turned up to the highest setting the noise is quite disruptive. It's certain that no-one would sit there with the case fans running at this setting. The low setting that was used for the tests here means that the fans run fairly quietly.