Cooling
Overview |
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case is obviously the cooling. As we already mentioned, the right side of
the case acts as a passive cooler for the CPU. Streacom is using
heatpipes to transport the heat from the CPU to this massive aluminum
profile. By using two small aluminum blocks and four screws as well as quite a decent
portion of thermal compound the heatpipes establish perfect touch with
the cooling block (aka the right side of the case). Streacom claims that this case can handle CPUs with
up to 95 Watt TDP. This means that the FC8 Evo should be capable of
adequately cooling an Intel Core i7-4770K processor with four cores and
eight threads, and this particular model we're using here features a TDP of 84 Watt.
When we were running prime95 we noticed that after 15 min the CPU
temperature hit 100 °C and apart from that the processor started to
throttle. When using this system as an office PC the temperatures rarely
went past 70 °C. In order to make the CPU go past that mark you have to
encode videos for quite some time. It was also interesting to see that
running wPrime 2.10 didn't make the CPU run hotter than 78 °C, which is
basically perfectly alright. If you don't run ultra heavy loads 24/7 the
cooling the FC8 Evo offers is definitely sufficient.
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Test Setup
| Case |
Streacom FC8 Evo |
| Processor |
Intel Core i7-4770K |
| Memory |
Corsair Dominator 16GB |
| Graphics
card |
IGP |
| Storage |
OCZ Arc 100 240GB SSD |
| Power
Supply |
Streacom Nano150PSU |
| Operating
System |
Windows 7 64 Bit |
| Software |
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| Ambient
temperature |
23 °C |
Temperatures |
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Streacom FC8 Evo |
Intel Stock Cooler |
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CPU Idle (FC8 Evo) |
48 °C |
39 °C |
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CPU Load - wPrime 2.10 (FC8 Evo) |
78 °C |
70 °C |
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CPU Load - 15min prime95 (FC8 Evo) |
100 °C |
97 °C |
Running our
test system in idle meant the CPU was at 48 °C, which is perfectly ok,
considering the passive cooling environment. Once we execute wPrime 2.10 the
temperature is climbing to 78 °C, which is actually the average over all four
cores. Also this value is alright. When runnig prime95 for 15 minutes we
recorded a CPU temperature of 100 °C, which is definitely high and the CPU
started throttling.
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