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Cooler Master Silencio 650 Mid Tower Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by leeghoofd @ 2013-01-11

Today we introduce to you the flagship of Cooler Master's Silencio range: The 650 model. We already saw the prototype at Cebit 2012 and the specification list was impressive. Cooler Master promised us an integration of a fan controller, a hot swappable bay, a selection option of the boot drive. In a typical Cooler Master design and retailing at a moderate price tag. It's predecessor, the Silenco 550 was a decent silent case, but had a few shortcomings, especially the cable management was a rough ride due to the small clearance between the motherboard tray and the side panel and a bit too small cutouts in the motherboard panel. However for a 70 euro case it was a great addition to the silent Silencio enclosure range for Cooler Master. The new Silencio 650 model, due to the extra features retails at plus minus 110 euros, time to stop the chit chat and open the box.

Test Setup and Specifications

The Silencio range are targetted at the "I want no noise" crowd. Thus Madshrimps opted to install a single GTX 480 GPU in stead of the regular two we usually use when reviewing gaming enclosures. For the cooling tests the case is equipped with the brand new Corsair H80i Hydro cooler, running at the balanced preset in the Link Software for the temperature tests. Retesting at silent mode for the noise measurement tests.

The hardware comprises of the following parts:

ASUS Sabretooth X79 mainboard
Intel i7-3960X OC'ed at 4.5Ghz 1.37Vcore
Corsair Hydro80i cooling (silent, balanced fan setting)
16Gb G.Skill RipjawsZ 2133C9 RAMs
1 x GTX480 Fermi graphic card
2 x Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green Hard Drives
1 x Intel 520 240GB SSD
Corsair HX1000 Power Supply.

For the idle tests we let the setup warm up during a 30 min period. The temperatures of the CPU cores are monitored by the Realtemp software. The temperatures of the motherboard components are read out by the ASUS Thermal Radar software. For the stress test we go flat out and test our the six cores of the overclocked i7-3960X CPU (4500MHz) with the Prime95 64bit software with a custom 12-12K setting. For the GPU test we run a 3 time loop of the Futuremark Vantage 3D bench software to heat up the graphics core.

Here are some screenshots of the ASUS Thermal RADAR software in action:

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