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The room environment was maintained at 18c throughout testing. We measured temperatures when idle at the desktop for 20 minutes and after playing Far Cry 3 for 30 minutes.
Thermal performance is excellent for the system overall, while the GTX760 cards themselves do hit around 82 degrees under pressure. This is still a long way from the danger zone, but if you're a hobbyist and really want the icy-chill-factor, then you might want to look at an after-market cooling block for your graphic cards. The CPU temperature fluctuated from a low of 36 degrees to a high of 73 degrees, which is right where you would want it on an overclocked, watercooled PC.
Acoustically, the system benefits from the Corsair H100i and the Fractal Design chassis. Apart from the fans spinning up to full force for around 10 seconds when the system boots, things rapidly return to whisper mode and during testing we were more aware of the PC we were typing on than the MESH Elite G4.
When you factor in the wattage, considering there are two mid-range cards running at full speed, the overall draw is good. The system idles away at 60.6 watts, draws 152 when Cinebench is in full swing and claims 439 watts when both cards are in saturated gaming mode. The load draw puts a demand of around 58% onto the power supply – which is close to optimal.
Its a solid build, but I would be wary with that power supply. dont see much info online. also a bit disappointed to see such warping on the top GPU in the socket. not quite there yet…
The build is clean and most of the components are good good, but the PSU puts me off it.