![]() And if you have a board slightly larger than a full-size ATX board, you’re out of luck, as I found out when I discovered that the Asus Rampage II Extreme can’t physically fit inside the case. Full size ATX boards barely fit, and if the board has backwards facing SATA ports – something increasingly common – then attaching SATA connectors is a chore. The real downside of this case, though, is that it’s slightly too small. It’s bad, because you really need a good light to work inside the case there’s no contrast inside the all-black interior. It’s good, because the case looks good through that side panel. The interior is painted flat black, which is both good and bad. The case is set up to route wiring behind the motherboard tray. The reset button is small and slightly recessed, so it’s difficult to accidentally press – which is a good thing. The good news is that the interior lighting can actually be disabled from a button on the top angled bezel.Īll controls and ports are easily accessible from that top angled bezel. On the other hand, I’m not a big fan of transparent side panels, but the interior red light does set things off nicely. I actually like the look of the case, and the top mounted handles are actually sturdy, useful and don’t cut into your hands. The CM Storm Scout is slightly smaller and lower priced than the Sniper you can typically find it for around $90. CM Storm offers two cases, the Scout and the Sniper. But you can now find it for as little as $50, which makes it a relative bargain.Ĭooler Master’s latest brand, CM Storm, is meant to appeal to hard core gamers. When the Sileo 500 first arrived, it was priced at nearly $100 US, which is too much. But this is no “silent” case by any means. So it’s a little quieter, but if Cooler Master had stuck with steel case panels instead of aluminum, the case might have been even quieter. The interior of the case is roomy enough to accept full size ATX motherboards and long graphics cards the BFG 275 GTX OC currently lives inside the case, and it would likely accept the slightly longer Radeon HD 5870.Īs for being a quiet case: this is really a standard case with additional eggcrate foam lining the interior. It’s always entertaining to watch someone who’s never used the system hunt for the power button the first time. The power button is cleverly disguised as a transparent vertical strip at the bottom of the front bezel, which also serves as the power-on LED. The external panels are brushed aluminum, while the chassis skeleton is steel.Įxcept for the use of brushed aluminum and the oddball power button, there’s little to distinguish this case visually from similar Cooler Master designs, like the Centurion 534. In addition to being lighter, the case offers foam padding on the case side, bottom and top panels to muffle the internal noise. ![]() Performance is recorded using FRAPS and that FPS data is processed by a spreadsheet to provide Average FPS and Average 1% FPS lows.The Sileo 500 is a partially aluminum case, built on the same rough design as a number of the Cooler Master Centurion-style cases. Only a $4400 Xeon W-3275 or 2nd Gen Threadripper could even hope to measure up against our Threadripper 3960X.Īll game benchmarks are taken from a 3-run average using the game’s built-in benchmark utility. There’s very few platforms that can get close to rivaling the Threadripper 3000-series, so we benched against a dual-socket server platform we had available and a couple of high-end mainstream CPUs, for context mainly as you’ll soon see. With only a few days to benchmark the Threadripper 3960X, we had to carefully select a handful of programs to bench. ![]() Seagate Firecuda NVMe SSD (OS) Crucial MX500 1TB SSD G.Skill Sniper 3600MHz 4x16GB (64GB Total) G.Skill Sniper 3600MHz CL19 4x16GB (64GB Total) MSI Creator TRX40 GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS Xtreme We also used parts supplied by Crucial, Gigabyte, Phanteks and NZXT in the i9-9900K test bench. The rest of our Threadripper bench, as well as our 3900X and Xeon builds were built using components we already had on-hand and were not supplied by their respective manufacturers. GIGABYTE separately sent us their TRX40 AORUS Xtreme motherboard to test, which we ended up having to use for this launch review due to the MSI Creator TRX40 having an issue with what seems to be two DIMM slots. For our review, AMD sent us a Threadripper 3960X, MSI Creator TRX40 motherboard, NZXT Kraken X62, and a Corsair Force MP600 1TB NVMe SSD.
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