We tested the TJ11 with an X58 platform, installing on C ore i7 920 CPU heatsink Thermalright TRUE Spirit 120, with an ambient temperature of about 24.0 ° C inside the cabinet (there could be a one degree change in a positive or negative) .The use of this heat sink will be exclusively in high performance mode with two fans Prolimatech BlueVortex from 1550RPM. Tests will be carried out exclusively in configuration Push / Pull (P / Pull) in order to verify the performance of heat dissipation within the cabinet, and consequently verifying the type of air flows dedicated. Will also be used a EVGA GTX 480 with backplate and EVGA HighFlowBracket, with reference cooler, in essence, is the graphics card that heats most of all and then candidate for the test session. In order to assess the best possible efficiency of the heat dissipation of the case, we used a profile of the fan GTX 480 RPM with fixed 85%, to allow a more accurate assessment of the comparative and individual models taken into examination.

We tested the TJ11 temperature using an X58 platform, with a Core i7 920. We used the Thermalright TRUE Spirit 120 heatsink in the following system, with an ambient temperature of about 24.0 °C inside the cabinet (there may be a degree of variation in a positive or negative). We will use this heatsink exclusively in high performance mode with two fans from Prolimatech, the BlueVortex at 1550RPM. Tests will be carried out only in push / pull (P / Pull) to verify the performance of heat dissipation within the cabinet, and consequently to verify the type of dedicated airflow. It will also be used an EVGA GTX 480 with EVGA backplate and HighFlowBracket, with the reference heatsink; generally it’s the video card that heats most of all, so it is the perfect candidate for the test. We will evaluate the temperatures of CPU, VGA and HDDs in each cabinet, obviously with fans at fixed RPM. test. We will evaluate the temperatures of CPU, VGA and HDDs in each cabinet, obviously with fans at fixed RPM.

Will be compared to its efficiency of heat dissipation with other cabinet models of the latest generation

We chose to use a Core i7 920 D0 CPU because it can put a proper stress on the heatsink, thanks to its 130W TDP. Regarding the RPM values they can vary in the range of +/- 10%, as specified by almost all fan producers. However, minor differences between the speeds on the same fan do not change the overall result.

We measured the temperatures at idle and full load with the software Realtemp. The full load temperatures were measured after 25 minutes of Prime95 "InPlaceLargeFFTs" (maximum stress and consumption), benchmark known for its ability to stress the CPU heavily, much more than any video game. The thermal paste used is the Arctic Cooling MX-4. We emphasize that the procedure for measuring the temperature is very rigorous and each reported number is verified, recalculated if suspect, using additional tests; a lot of attention is also placed at room temperature (Tamb) so that the results are as realistic as possible, reproducible and fundamentally correct. You can be sure that what you read here, with the same configuration and settings match, within experimental error, it’s the true value. 

Regarding the test session, we used the following settings: