silverstone SG07 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:07:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png silverstone SG07 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Noctua NH U9B Cooler SE 2 with Silverstone Sugo SG07 https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/zardon/noctua-nh-u9b-cooler-se-2-with-silverstone-sugo-sg07/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/zardon/noctua-nh-u9b-cooler-se-2-with-silverstone-sugo-sg07/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:58:03 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=11254 Our recent review of the Silverstone Sugo SG07 stirred a lot of interest with our readers and I received emails asking if it would be possible to passively cool a high performance processor in this chassis. KitGuru seemingly has a core audience of readers who loathe noise, with a vengeance. In our continued efforts to …

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Our recent review of the Silverstone Sugo SG07 stirred a lot of interest with our readers and I received emails asking if it would be possible to passively cool a high performance processor in this chassis. KitGuru seemingly has a core audience of readers who loathe noise, with a vengeance.

In our continued efforts to focus on cooling we decided to revisit this brilliant chassis and to figure out if this would be possible, without too many compromises.

In our original Silverstone Sugo SG07 review we focused on high end video cards and overclocked our Core i5 processor and today we are going to find out if it is possible to remove as many fans as we can and still have a stellar media PC with gaming capabilities.

As we have had so much success with Noctua coolers in the past, such as their class leading Noctua NH D14 (dubbed by KitGuru as the ‘Austrian Sandwich') we decided to give Noctua a call to find out if they had a cooler that would fit in this chassis and something more substantial than the Thermaltake Slim X3 we used before. The Silverstone Sugo SG07 is a reasonably sized media chassis, but we found that most of the bigger coolers won't fit into it with a 117mm height limitation and we also found that even graphics cards such as Sapphires fabulous HD5670 Ultimate Edition were too tall also.

Noctua offered their new NH U9B SE2 which is a revamped follow up to the hugely successful original cooler which received over 100 awards when it was originally released. The new SE2 version is designed with HTPC's in mind and adds support for 1156 and 1366 motherboards with the new SecuFirm 2 multi socket mounting system. The unit is also supplied with two high quality 92mm NF 89 premium fans.

The Noctua NH U9B SE2 is 25% narrower and 30% shorter than the U12P – we reviewed its cousin, the C12p SE14 on Kitguru a short while ago.

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Silverstone Sugo SG07 Review (featuring Zotac H55 ITX) https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/silverstone-sugo-sg07-review-featuring-zotac-h55-itx/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/silverstone-sugo-sg07-review-featuring-zotac-h55-itx/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:55:04 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=9446 Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at. The Sugo range has been in production for many years now and the seventh series has …

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Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at.

The Sugo range has been in production for many years now and the seventh series has just been released … today we look at the Sugo SG 07 which aims to deliver enough cooling prowess to allow for high performance systems with maybe even a little overclocking.

The SG07 comes supplied with a killer 600W 80Plus Bronze power supply which copes with almost all single card solutions. Inside there is also a 180mm AP181 Air Penetrator fan, which we reviewed a short while ago. The main talking point however is the fact that this chassis can also house a graphics card up to 12.2 inches long which means, yes it can cope with a HD5970 (12.2 inches exactly) which we think is rather stunning.

Silverstone are also keen to promote the fact that the chassis and the power supply can handle the new nVidia GTX480 and even with the heat pipes on the top, it fits perfectly inside. All you need do is remove the fan frame (see above).

Chassis Silverstone SUGO SG 07
Colour Black
Material Aluminium & Steel
Weight 4.9kg
Form Factor Mini ITX only
Front Panel Power/Reset Switches, 2x USB 2.0, Stereo, Mic
Drive Bays 1x external slim 5.25inch, 1x internal 3.5 inch, 2x 2.5 inch
Cooling 1x 180mm Silverstone Air Penetrator SST AP181 fan (supplied)
Power Silverstone customised SST ST60F-SG 600W

For testing today we would like to thank Zotac for their kind support in offering a H55 Mini ITX board (Zotac H55 Mini ITX Wifi) which is retailing in the UK for around the £100-110 mark. This board is fully loaded and has such a comprehensive feature list you would be forgiven for thinking it was in fact full size. This board is a 1156 slot design on the Intel H55 chipset with support for up to 8GB of DDR3-1366mhz. It also has a full 16 x width PCI e slot for graphics cards.

Motherboard Zotac H55 Mini ITX Wi-FI
Chipset Intel H55 Express – passively cooled
Slot Intel 1156
Memory support DDR3 1066/1333mhz – up to 8GB (2x4GB modules)
Processor support i7,i5 and i3
USB support 14 USB 2.0 ports (10 on back panel, 4 on header)
Audio 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio
Graphics Intel graphics media accelerator HD with Dual Link DVI & HDMI outputs
Upscaling High quality DVD upscaling
Sata Support 6 Sata 3.0 GB/s, 1 eSata 3.0GB/s
Networking Wireless 802.11n Wifi (300mb/s) and Gigabit Lan
Additional features Blu Ray premium audio support, HDMI Deepcolor and x.v. Color Support, DirectX 10 with Shader Model 4 onboard
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