Test Hardware Configuration

Supporting dual 120 mm top-mounted radiators, as well as 120 mm and 140 mm rear-mounted radiators, Nanoxia’s top-performing Deep Silence 1 is retained from our previous cooling round-up.

While most cases don’t have a pop-down top-panel cover, our does. We removed this cover to simulate the open top panel of "typical" top-vented cases.

Asus’ overclocking-friendly P9X79 is also retained from our previous cooling round-up.

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Test System Configuration
CPU	Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E): 3.30 GHz, Six Cores O/C to 4.25 GHz (34 x 125 MHz) at 1.325 V Core
Case	Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
Motherboard	Asus P9X79: LGA 2011, Intel X79 Express, Firmware 0906 (12-22-2011), O/C at 125 MHz BCLK
RAM	G.Skill F3-17600CL9Q-16GBXLD 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR3-2200 Benchmarked at DDR3-1666 CAS 9 defaults
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 580: 772 MHz GPU,  GDDR5-4008 Maximum Fan for Thermal Tests, SLI
Hard Drives	Samsung 470 Series MZ5PA256HMDR, 256 GB SSD
Sound	Integrated HD Audio
Network	Integrated Gigabit Networking
Power	Seasonic X760 SS-760KM ATX12V v2.3, EPS12V, 80 PLUS Gold
Software
OS	Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce 296.10 WHQL
Chipset	Intel INF 9.2.3.1020
Benchmark Configuration
Prime 95 v25.8	64-bit executable, Small FFTs, eight threads
RealTemp 3.00	Highest core reading at full CPU load (60 minutes) Highest core reading at 30 minutes idle
Galaxy CM-140 SPL Meter	Tested at 1/2 m, corrected to 1 m (-6 db), dB(A) weighting