Performance
be quiet! will tell you that the specially designed air vents provide "excellent air permeability to ensure the best possible cooling performance," but slim angled vents are no match for a full-mesh frontage. Silent Base 601 ultimately favours low-noise operation over maximum cooling performance, but that's no bad thing - the case is more than capable of keeping our Ryzen CPU running cool, and we're expecting excellent results in the noise readings further down the page.
There isn't a great deal separating all of the chassis when it comes to GPU cooling performance.
Keeping noise levels down to a minimum is in our estimation the toughest challenge for a performance chassis. It's an area in which be quiet! excels, and the Silent Base 601 slots in toward the top of the chart alongside the Dark Base 700 and 900.
