Enermax Ostrog ECA3250-BW Series Midi Chassis Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging & Bundle3. Enermax Ostrog Chassis External4. Enermax Ostrog Chassis Internal5. System Installation6. Testing Methodology & Performance7. Acoustical Performance8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

Today’s test system will give us a good idea of how well this case works in terms of thermal and acoustical performance.

Processor: AMD FX-4170 Quad Core @ 4.6 GHz.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-UD3
Cooler: Akasa Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler
Memory: 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1800MHz
Graphics Cards: XFX Radeon 5450 HD (GPU @ 700 MHZ, Memory Clock @ 650 MHz)
Power Supply: Seasonic 1000W Platinum Full Modular

Boot Drive: Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

OS: Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit
Pyle Digital Sound Level Meter PSPL25

Ambient room temperature was maintained at 18c throughout testing.

This thermal performance looks on par with cases of a similar design. The CPU temperature, although overclocked did not exceed 37 degrees, mainly due to the orientation of the Akasa Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler. The fans of the cooler are throwing heat straight out the top of the chassis.

That said, motherboard temperature did increase quite significantly, something we don't like to see. In fact, normally, we only see a few degrees temperature rise for a motherboard, so clearly there is some stagnant hot air which is not being sucked out of the chassis. This could of course be improved by adding another chassis fan.

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