Accessories & thermal performance
Although we'd normally dedicate a page to the accessories that come with a PC system case, there's no chance of doing that here. All you get is a manual and a bag of screws. Consequently, the TJ-10 receives this hack's personal award for the most pitiful set of accessories seen in 2007.
We really would have expected more for our hard-earned, especially given the price tag of the TJ10. The TJ09 was little different but other makers have upped their game since then, leaving SilverStone lagging well behind.
Thermal performance
Not so long ago, we threw out our old hot n' toasty test rig and replaced it with new hardware that's more relevant to the current market. Below are the specs of our new test rig.
| HEXUS chassis test equipment specification | |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASUS P5K Deluxe |
| Processor | Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66JGHz 1333MHz FSB |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1GiB) CellShock DDR2 PC8000 |
| Graphic card | HIS Digital 2900XT PCIe |
| Power supply | Corsair HX620W |
| Hard drive | Hitachi GST 250GiB SATA x 2 |
| Optical drive | Pioneer 110 DVD rewriter |
After the system hard started, we let it idle for 15 minutes and then took some readings before cranking things up.
We started off by running SiSoft Sandra Pro's burn-in tests - with ATITool in the background to ensure that the CPU was running at full tilt.
During testing, the ambient temperature was 21.7 deg C
The TJ-10 managed to turn in the sort of results you'd expect from this size of chassis, although the CPU readings did give us some cause for concern. Things might have been cooler with optional fans fitted to the top but they're not provided as standard and will add to the expense.
However, the motherboard readings were pretty good and the results for the GPU were much as we'd expected - peaking at 71 deg C as we've seen with other cases recently.
Rather surprisingly, the TJ-10 produced similar case temperatures to the TJ-09 even though the CPU in our new test rig is cooler-running than in the old rig. However, we think that the culprit was the hotter-running graphics card - not the case itself.
