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SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 Mid-Tower Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by leeghoofd @ 2014-07-10

The company SilentiumPC was established in 2007 in Warsaw, Poland. Their main objective is to offer quality products at a very affordable price level; the latter is achieved by applying cost-cutting in banners, promo gear, packaging... however not in the quality of the product itself. The SilentiumPC lineup consists of cases, CPU air coolers, power supplies, fans, notebook cooling and other accessories. Today we introduce you to the SilentiumPC Aquarius X90: a mid-tower case, designed specifically for the liquid cooling enthusiasts in mind. SilentiumPC labels it as the ultimate choice for high-end gaming systems with compact dimensions and at an amazing value.

The Build

The hardware comprises of the following parts:

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79 mainboard
Intel i7-3960X OC'ed at 4.5Ghz 1.37Vcore
Corsair Hydro100i cooling and Noctua DH15
32GB CORSAIR 2400C10 RAMs
1 x ASUS 780Ti DCII OC GPU (pictures) and ASUS HD7970 for the temp tests
2 x Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green Hard Drives
1 x SAMSUNG 840 PRO 256GB SSD
Corsair HX1050 Power Supply.

The build was completed in under half an hour, without any real complications. The cable routing is normally a breeze thanks to the numerous cutouts and ample space between the motherboard tray and the side panel. Due to the usage of the ASUS Rampage IV motherboard, which is an E-ATX sized board, we however couldn't route the 20+4 pin connector through the provided cutouts.

Clearance between the DVD optical drive and the Hydro H100i cooler is only a few millimeters. Take note that the Aquarius case is fully compatible with all 240 and 280 AIO coolers out there. In our book a big plus for a gamer oriented enclosure where these AIOs are pretty popular.

To verify air cooler compatibility we also opted to install the monstrous Noctua DH-15 air cooler. The SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 has room to spare for this whopping air cooler. Secondly the GPU has got more than ample breathing room too.

Temperature tests:

For the IDLE tests we allow the setup warm up during a 30 min period. The temperatures of the CPU cores are monitored by the Realtemp 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 ran a 3 time loop of the Futuremark Vantage 3D bench software to heat up the graphics core.

During the temperature tests the humble Aquarius X90 stood up to the two high end cases of rival Corsair. Interesting are the slightly lower GPU temperatures, aided mainly by the front triple fan setup. Great cooling at a very affordable price tag! Nevertheless the main target for this case is the Do-It-Yourself water cooling builds.

The included 120 and 140 fans are low spinning rpm version (1200rpm), pretty balanced as these still allow them to shift some decent amount of air while remaining close to inaudible.

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