Testing the Sharkoon Rebel C50 – how much hardware fits into a case for around 100 euros?

1 - Introduction and technical data 2 - Look and feel - Unboxing 3 - Standard-PC build 4 - NZXT N7 B650E mainboard in detail 5 - Kingston Fury Beast 6 - Seasonic Focus GX1000 7 - Alphacool custom PC build 8 - Temperatures and noise 9 - Summary and conclusion

The standard build

Since my inventory of PC components is manageable, there is no high-end PC right now. I’m using a B550 from Gigabyte (Gaming X V2), an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Kingston Fury DDR4 Ram with 3600 MHz CL 16, a Be Quiet! Silent Loop 2 (240 mm AiO), an Enermax Revolution D.F. 750 Watt power supply and the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT.

The motherboard is a price-performance tip if you still want to go for AM4. The equipment is sufficient, pre-installed I.O. Shield, cooled voltage converters, two M.2 SSDs etc. At this point, I’m going to take a little leap in time…

The Sharkoon Rebel C50 practically eats the standard hardware for breakfast. Even the really thick RTX 4090 graphics cards fit in there! Anyone who knows me knows that I always install the GPU vertically. I used an older PCIe 3.0 kit from Kabel-Mod for this, but upgraded it with riser cables from Sharkoon (PCIe 4.0). I have put together a small gallery for you:

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Of course, I also ran a few tests on the hardware. Starting with 3DMark, Cinebench R23 through to the stress test (Cinebench R23 Furmark).

Cinebench R23 Multicore

3DMark Time Spy

Stress test

The temperatures are ok after 25 minutes of continuous stress. The CPU is still just under 90 degrees Celsius (manual power limit 105 watts, PBO 2 all core negative Curved Optimizer: 20), the GPU is far from sweating at 72 degrees or 87 degrees at the hotspot. You can read all the other values for yourself. The fans were set to 1,100 rpm, unfortunately there are a few readout errors. The volume of the system was around 37 dB (A), which is also a tolerable level.

The Sharkoon Rebel C50 and the PCIe 4.0 riser cable were provided to me by Sharkoon. All other PC components for this build came from my private stock.

This could basically be the end of today’s case test, but does that really give you an idea of what you can fit into such a “small” case? I don’t think so. So let’s go one step further:

Rebel C50 in Weiß

Sharkoon - Vertikal Mount in weiß

NZXT N7 B650E und Seasonic Focus GX 1000

Ryzen 7600X und TeamForce DDR5 6000

Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 6000

Custom-Wasserkühlung Alphacool

To really be able to evaluate what you can build into the Sharkoon Rebel C50, I had to go other ways. At this point, thanks go to Igor, who provided me with the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and the TeamForce DDR5 RAM from his stock. NZXT, Kingston, Alphacool and Seasonic also took part in the project. On the one hand, I wanted to show what you can do with the Rebel C50 and on the other hand, I wanted it to be a real visual treat. So before I get to the conclusion, let’s take a look at the components in detail and, of course, the custom build. Let’s get started…