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CoolerMaster's Cosmos chassis now under £100 AND under the lights!

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Winning a HEXUS.eXtreme Recommended award 'straight out of the gate', back in July, was pretty impressive. The latest price drop makes the Cosmos more attractive than ever - so here's a quick look under the bonnet...

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Posted by Andrzej - Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:20
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On that basis, I'd be interested in any feedback on areas within/around a product (like a chassis) that you want us to spend more time on

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Posted by j.o.s.h.1408 - Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:25
the cosmos does look like a neat case but i have heard that it has poor cooling especialy around the hdd area. the gpu air duck seems to be difficult to fit when you have a huge gtfx card like the 8800gtx or ultra.

with the anouncement of the new 9800gx2 which looks twice has big as an ultra, will it fit inside this case?
Posted by moogle - Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:45
j.o.s.h.1408;1305935
the cosmos does look like a neat case but i have heard that it has poor cooling especialy around the hdd area. the gpu air duck seems to be difficult to fit when you have a huge gtfx card like the 8800gtx or ultra.

with the anouncement of the new 9800gx2 which looks twice has big as an ultra, will it fit inside this case?

actually, now I've changed the case fans around the cooling in the HDD area is alright. Quite good infact. Without the fan the temps were 35 idle on the hdd drives but now I moved the fan above the hdd cages its dropped to 20 idle. plus it makes a lot less noise than my antec 900 :)
Posted by j.o.s.h.1408 - Wed 09 Jan 2008 12:25
moogle
actually, now I've changed the case fans around the cooling in the HDD area is alright. Quite good infact. Without the fan the temps were 35 idle on the hdd drives but now I moved the fan above the hdd cages its dropped to 20 idle. plus it makes a lot less noise than my antec 900 :)

what components you got inside one and whats your temps on your cpu and GPU?
Posted by moogle - Wed 09 Jan 2008 12:44
j.o.s.h.1408;1305996
what components you got inside one and whats your temps on your cpu and GPU?

I have (taken from my system <<<————-)

A Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz
4GiB of Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 DDR2 (Quite hot since I'm running them over stock speeds/voltage)
3 HDD's comprising of 2 x 250GB Samsung SP2504C and 1 x 500GB Samsung HD501LJ
Not to forget the graphics card which is a BFG GeForce 8800GTS 512MiB GDDR3. DVD drive in there too but that hardly generates heat.

My CPU's temps are..
C1: 26C
C2: 22C
C3: 33C
C4: 33C
CPU: 24C (Based on Everest, which is showing the same temps are CoreTemp so I dont really need to check CoreTemp)

GPU Temps are
Ambient: 37C
GPU: 48C

My Hard Drives are
24C 23C and 25C atm

and room temperature is a quite warm 23C

Oh yea mobo temp is 29C

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