Thermaltake Level 10 Full-Tower Case Review

1. Introduction2. Box, Bundle and Packaging3. The Thermaltake Level 104. Installation5. Testing Methodology and Performance6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

For testing today we will be using an Intel Core i7 920 based system cooled using an Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme (Rev.2) CPU cooler (review following shortly).  Ambient temperature was maintained at 27c for the duration of the tests.

Test System

Chassis: Thermaltake Level 10
Processor: Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard: Asus P6T
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme (Rev.2)
Memory: 6GB (3x 2GB) Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 RAM
Storage: Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB 7200rpm (HD103SJ)
Power Supply: Corsair HX850W

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First of all we're going to look at the Level 10's airflow setup.

There is a single 140mm fan acting as an intake at the front of the main module and one 120mm fan acting as an exhaust at the rear of the chassis.  There is also a small fan cooling the hard drive.

On the whole the temperatures recorded were quite impressive, a likely result of decent airflow combined with the thermal isolation of different parts of the system thanks to the modular design.  We felt the CPU temperatures were a little on the high side but put this down to the cooler rather than the case itself.  We ran the test three times (including remounting of the CPU cooler) and achieved concordant results, making us sure that our findings are correct.

When overclocking the CPU to 3.8ghz (using 1.29V), we felt the temperatures were also quite impressive seeing increases in load temperatures of 13c.

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