Installation report
Those who know my case tests, know that my test routine always includes a short installation report. And this time I can say in advance that the torrent really excited me, but more about that in a moment.
The system to be installed was the “usual” one I have used so far to maintain consistency in every case test.
NVME, memory and CPU are always installed before the board is allowed to move in. The other components and the CPU cooler were also ready.
In the first step I neatly routed the cables belonging to the case, i.e. from the pre-mounted fans, the front panel and the button, and mounted the graphics card bracket.
Under the hood there is a large space for the power supply and also a little reserve for possible cable tangles.
The motherboard is retracted and with a regular ATC format, the rubberized cable grommets fit perfectly in terms of spacing.
After the power supply was installed, the cables were also laid within minutes. Although the system looked a bit chaotic at first glance, the cables all almost eerily fell exactly where they were supposed to. Considering the time invested, a more than acceptable result, although there is of course still room for improvement.
Finally, the graphics card quickly pure and the system could be started.
Thermal behaviour
For the measurements, I of course again used my tried and true system consisting of the overclocked Ryzen 7 1700X and the KFA2 RTX 2060 Super to maintain comparability to previous tests. Whereby the comparison with previous cases is once again worse than a pirate with a wooden leg, because air and water cooling are actually not really fair comparable with each other. Nevertheless, the test delivered highly interesting results, as the following table shows. The course is the same as always: 30 minutes of Cinebench R23, 30 minutes of Furmark, and finally 30 minutes of Red Dead Redemption 2 (endurance run along the cable car line).
Compared: 360mm Custom Loop in a moderately ventilated case (grey), 420mm Custom Loop in a well ventilated case (green) and the air cooling in the Torrent case (blue). All fans (CPU, GPU, radiator, case) and the pump are fixed at 60%.
Please pay attention to the room temperature! In the future, I should probably use the delta-T values for the sake of clarity.
It is immediately apparent that the measures taken in favour of the airflow in the torrent are having a very impressive effect. Of course, the air cooler doesn’t have the reserves of a good custom loop (and it’s undoubtedly not that quiet either), but overall very impressive values were measured indeed. Particularly interesting was the felt very low temperature inside the case, although with the standard equipment actually only the power supply unit transports warm air out of the case. And that one actually felt surprisingly cool, too. However, I also have to mention, this system (despite rather low revolutions) already was loudest system within table.
An additional test with four 180mm fans will follow next week!
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