Deep Cool Steam Castle Micro-ATX Case Review

1. Introduction2. Deep Cool Steam Castle: Packaging and Bundle3. Deep Cool Steam Castle: Exterior4. Deep Cool Steam Castle: Interior and Installation5. Testing Methodology6. Thermal Performance7. Acoustic Performance8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

For our tests we will be using a Corsair H75 to cool the AMD Vision A10-6790K in the Deep Cool Steam Castle.  We manually overclocked the AMD Vision A10-6790K to 4.5 GHz by increasing the multiplier to 45x, leaving the baseclock set at 100 MHz. The voltage was increased to 1.39V to achieve this frequency.

Test System:

• Processor: AMD Vision A10-6790K
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A85XN-WIFI
• Cooler: Corsair H75
• Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2.
• Memory: 4 GB AMD Radeon Gaming Memory 2133 MHz
• Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X
• Power Supply: Corsair TX650W
• System Drive: Intel SSD 330 Series 120 GB
• Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM.

Software:

• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).
• CPUID Hardware Monitor.
• Prime95 64-bit.
• Furmark V1.10.6

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