SilverStone Technology Temjin 6: Another BTX Style in an ATX Form
by Purav Sanghani on September 25, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Internal Design
Since this is a BTX style case, which SilverStone has so carefully thought out in their design stage, the right side panel is the main access panel. Again, we saw this design in Lian Li's PC-V1000 BTX style case back in April. These manufacturers are sure whetting our appetite for the real BTX form factor.Upon removing the right panel, we are presented with a layout slightly different from the PC-V1000. First, the power supply and HDD mountings were at the bottom of the case in the PC-V1000. SilverStone has decided to move these up to the top of the case - the power supply where it would normally be in a standard ATX case, and the HDD mounts directly under it. We realized that the center of gravity in the Temjin 6 was much higher, possibly the highest it could get, compared to the PC-V1000 due to its location of two of the heaviest components in a PC.
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The motherboard tray is then shifted downward with the CPU and memory at the lowest point in the case. This allows for the two fans, at the front and the back of the Temjin 6, to create a wind tunnel with the clear plastic half tubethat was included to help cool the CPU and memory. We will discuss this feature in more detail in the "Cooling" section. This patented half tube does include an extension that allows the case to be used in dual processor applications.
Moving to the front of the case, there are a total of five 5-1/4" drive bays, all exposed, as well as two exposed 3-1/2" drive bays for floppy drive applications. These bays make use of metal drive rails, which are included in the package to make drive installation a much easier task.
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The HDD bays also utilize the drive rail system to mount them in the Temjin 6 under the power supply.
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Bonedoc1983 - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - link
Opps, regarding my LAST post.. the motherboard WAS a NEO2 Plat (MSI K8N - CPU placement is bad for this case) - sorry for the mistake.Bonedoc1983 - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - link
Just build one of these.Of note:
Noise, stock AMD FX-53 Heatsink/FAN (no o/c) was okay. PC sits on floor, barely audible.
HOWEVER the stock CPU/Heatsink (as described) does NOT clear the TUNNEL.. it tweaks it and puts a lot of pressure onto the CPU/heatsink combination. Not good. I had to remove the tunnel. Did not want it rubbing so hard onto the fan body.
Still get decent temps, but a bummer.
Otherwise, quiet, strong case (heavy) and overall great install, large inside and easy to work.
HDs in vertical vs Horizontal do not seem a p
threedd97 - Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - link
I own this case. I won it for free from SystemCooling.com. It's extremely nice. The only problems I experienced were my Cool Drive 4 would not mount at all with the brackets or screws. The way they instruct you to feed PSU cables to the motherboard and other devices is extremely hard to pull off and make it work without a ton of cluster between the motherboard tray and the left panel. Also, the 120mm fans are rated at 2200RPM, but my CD4 displays them running at 1080RPM.Neco - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
To #18 about trying the this case with the MSI Neo2 Platinum...you are right. The CPU placement is too high and the wind tunnel won't let you place a heatsink/fan on the processor.TimTheEnchanter25 - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
I didn't see anything wrong with the review. I've been trying to decide between the 5 and the 6 series and the temp results convinced me to go with this one.With all 3 fans running at only 21db, I can't see how anyone can be concerned with the sound.
I plan on adding another 120mm intake fan over the video card and possibly another 120mm exhust fan at the top between the psu and the top 5 1/4 drive.
Also, I can't find any info on the distance from the cpu to the plastic tunnel. I want to know if a "tower" cooler will fit. I'm thinking about going with the AeroCool HT-101, I think it is 76mm high. I plan on throwing 2 80 mm fans on that to boost the wind tunnel even more.
muddocktor - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
I thought the review was well done myself, except it would have been nice to see video card temps. However, I don't guess you checked that in the other cases tested so that's OK. One thing that kind of bothered me in the review though was Purav Sanghani's assertations that "everyone is looking forward to BTX". I for one, don't see why the motherboard form factor needs to be changed and this case proves my point; you can get the same cooling effect of BTX without changing mobo form factors and making everyone start over from scratch when they upgrade to a new motherboard. Other than that, good review, Purav.MEDISIN - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - link
Obviously comparing past benchmarks which included the PC-V1000 with a different test bed is pointless. I was asking why you didn't install the CPU/GPU/RAM/PSU you used in the Temjin 6 into a PC-V1000 and benchmark it like the rest of the cases you included.So what your saying is you didn't have a PC-V1000 available when you wrote this article. That's too bad - seeing as how it is the only other case (besides the PC-V1100) that I know of with the same upside-down orientation. It would have been nice to see if Silver Stone could outperform the best of Lian Li. Believe me, they couldn't, but it would have been nice to see anyway.
PuravSanghani - Monday, September 27, 2004 - link
MEDISIN:"Mentioned - yes, but why was it not included in the thermal benchmarks?! Being the only other case available with the upside-down orientation, wouldn't it make sense to compare it to the Temjin 6 in both thermal and noise?"
What i meant to say was that the V1000 was the only other case we looked at with this new BTX style. We did not include the V1000 in the charts because of the fact that we have changed our test bed since the PC-V1000 and it would be like comparing apples to oranges.
Same goes for that last statement, the difference in test beds kept us from comparing both cases' benchmarks, we were only comparing those cases with basically the same CPU/GPU/RAM/PSU combination.
Hope that helps!
Purav
MEDISIN - Monday, September 27, 2004 - link
In the conclusion Purav writes:"The only other case to which the Temjin 6 can be compared in the market right now is Lian Li's PC-V1000, which we mentioned numerous times in this review."
Mentioned - yes, but why was it not included in the thermal benchmarks?! Being the only other case available with the upside-down orientation, wouldn't it make sense to compare it to the Temjin 6 in both thermal and noise?
Or what about the statement: "Temjin 6...overall, performs much better." when its performance was never compared to the PC-V1000???
karrock - Monday, September 27, 2004 - link
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