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Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 ECO 80 ATX Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by jmke @ 2008-06-20

Arctic Cooling, well known for their low noise CPU and VGA coolers, has developed their own Silentium ATX case series some time ago. We take a look at the latest incarnation, the T2 ECO 80 which comes with a high efficiency 550W PSU, HDD noise absorption system and decoupled low noise case fans. Can this case live up to their high standards? Let us find out.

Test Setup and Test Methodology

Test Setup and Test Methodology

We used the following components from the Dollarshops Budget PC and transferred them from the In-Win Allure to the Silentium T2:

AMD AM2 Setup
CPU	AMD Athlon 3800+ AM2 CPU
Cooling	Evercool Buffalo CPU Cooler @ 5v
Mainboard	Jetway M26GTM
Memory	2Gb DDR2 PC2-6400 Memory
Other	VGA NVIDIA 8600 GT 256Mb (With Arctic Cooling Silencer S1) LiteOn HH Lightscribe 20X DVD Writer 1x Maxtor 80GB Sata HDD

Room temperature was 20°C during testing.

Realtime HDR and Orthos were used to stress the AM2 single core system; Speedfan to check the temperature of CPU, HDD. Rivatuner’s temp monitor checked the VGA GPU at regular intervals. Maximum values were recorded.

Reversed Airflow Path

We installed the AM2 system and although this motherboard also has 8-pin EATX connector it worked with only a 4-pin installed, lucky for us! Swapping out the PSU is not really recommended or even possible as it is such an integral part of the Silentium T2 case.

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Hot air is expelled from the case at the top and the fan on the PSU acts as exhaust at the front of the case. Fresh air comes inside from the backside.

We compared CPU temperatures with/without the fan duct installed:

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The difference is hardly worth mentioning, 1-2°C in best case scenario.

Onto our performance tests and conclusive thoughts ->

Comment from Henrik1967 @ 2008/07/31

I recently bought an Arctic Cooling Silentium T3 ECO 80 ATX Case - also with loose PSU fan.
But in my case, there wasn't included a set of new soft mounting rubber plugs in an envelope.

I've contacted Arctic Cooling via their form on their homepage - no answer.
Where can I buy these unique rubber plugs?

Local dealer won't help me, unless I return the whole cabinet (longer story).

Kind regards,
Henrik - Denmark

Comment from jmke @ 2008/07/31

hello Henrik, can you email me your details (full name, address) and I will contact my AC PR contact to have them send you a set!

jmke@madshrimps.be

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