Thermal Performance
For all our future reviews we now have a preset component list designed to push any chassis to the limit, this is intentional and is to show just how capable any chassis is when fitted with the hottest hardware out there.We fitted the Cooler Master Mystique up with the following components:
| HEXUS Chassis test equipment specification | |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | Intel 955XBK |
| Processor | Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (3.2GHz, Smithfield core) |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1GiB) OCZ DDR2 PC4200 Value Pro Dual-Channel |
| Graphic Card | ASUSTek GeForce 6800 256MiB Ultra PCIe |
| Power Supply | Antec Neo HE 430W |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA |
| Optical Drive | Pioneer 110 DVD Re-Writer |
In order to put the system under the maximum load a double run of 3D Mark ’06 was executed and followed up by 3 consecutive burn-in tests using SiSoft’s Sandra Pro 2007.
The Mystique coped with everything we threw at it, and whilst the CPU did hit a peak of 62 degrees, the temperature-controlled fans soon brought it back into check after the burn-in tests were finished. The noise of the system was very noticeable under maximum load, and when pushed especially hard there were a few vibrations in the chassis, something that would have been helped had the chassis been fitted with some foam tape around key areas such as the PSU.
We will be putting the Mystique into a group review in the near future and will provide thermal comparisons to similar chassis then.
