Benchmarks: Temperature
Keeping an array of extreme components running cool is always a challenge, and we're intrigued to see how the rotated SilverStone chassis performs.
Beginning with idle CPU temperature, we see 32ºC as a decent return for an air-cooled, hexa-core 130W chip clocked at 4.6GHz.
Putting the Intel CPU under extreme load by applying Prime95 to each core gets temperature to increase quickly, but the Phantek cooler, blowing upward, manages to impress by keeping the 4.6GHz chip running at under 70ºC.
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 is a well-engineered card and one that runs at acceptable temperatures for an enthusiast product, but putting two in close proximity does of course increase the heat output. Still, 85ºC for a quad-SLI configuration ain't a bad return and there's still enough headroom for NVIDIA's GPU Boost technology to kick in. During this test, we found that the GTX 690s were automatically bumping up from their default clock of 915MHz, to a more impressive 1,032MHz.
