SilverStone Sugo SG09 Case Review: Someone at SilverStone Loves Tetris
by Dustin Sklavos on October 20, 2012 6:35 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- SilverStone
- MicroATX
Testing Methodology
For testing Micro-ATX and full ATX cases, we use the following standardized testbed in stock and overclocked configurations to get a feel for how well the case handles heat and noise.
| ATX Test Configuration | |
| CPU |
Intel Core i7-2700K (95W TDP, tested at stock speed and overclocked to 4.3GHz @ 1.38V) |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 |
| Graphics Card |
ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DCII TOP (tested at stock speed and overclocked to 1GHz/overvolted to 1.13V) |
| Memory | 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer DDR3-1600 |
| Drives | Kingston SSDNow V+ 100 64GB SSD |
| CPU Cooler | Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo with Cooler Master ThermalFusion 400 |
| Power Supply | SilverStone Strider Plus 750W 80 Plus Silver |
Each case is tested in a stock configuration and an overclocked configuration that generates substantially more heat (and thus may produce more noise). The system is powered on and left idle for fifteen minutes, the thermal and acoustic results recorded, and then stressed by running seven threads in Prime95 (in-place large FFTs) on the CPU and OC Scanner (maximum load) on the GPU. At the end of fiteen minutes, thermal and acoustic results are recorded. This is done for the stock settings and for the overclock, and if the enclosure has a fan controller, these tests are repeated for each setting. Ambient temperature is also measured after the fifteen idle minutes but before the stress test and used to calculate the final reported results.
Thank You!
Before moving on, we'd like to thank the following vendors for providing us with the hardware used in our testbed.
- Thank you to Puget Systems for providing us with the Intel Core i7-2700K.
- Thank you to Gigabyte for providing us with the GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 motherboard.
- Thank you to Crucial for providing us with the Ballistix Smart Tracer memory.
- Thank you to Cooler Master for providing us with the Hyper 212 Evo heatsink and fan unit.
- Thank you to Kingston for providing us with the SSDNow V+ 100 SSD.
- And thank you to SilverStone for providing us with the power supply.
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dingetje - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
so what's the best matx case guys? SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E ? orrrrrr...?piroroadkill - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
Fractal Design Define Mini gets my voteEnzoFX - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
TJ08-E if you want small. Define Mini if you want it to be easily quiet. Both great.CknSalad - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
I still think tj08-e is the best matx case. It looks simple, elegant, and is the 2nd smallest or So. You also have the option of using the top 2 Bays and bottom slot for hard drives if you need 3 hdds with a good air cooler. This new offering by silverstone is ambitious but has a few issues where my main concern are the temps for the hard drives. Also i would prefer having more than two hard drive slots than having up to 4ssd slOts. Anyways, i hope to see more matx cases asi feel they are the best of both worlds in terms of size and performance. Unless you need more than two cards and need the extra expansion slots, most users and even the Gamer will have a single gpu, wifi card, and possibly a dedicated audio card. This is just my two cents. Those that disagree i would be happy to hear what you have to say about this. Overall if the desktop market wants to have decent sales on the consumer side of things, they are going to have to make a better effort off releasing more sff parts without the big dip in performance.n13L5 - Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - link
Silverstone cases almost always have a clever layout with good cooling concept, but:Material quality, fit and finish is usually a DOG'S BREAKFAST!
If I could merge Silverstone's Layout prowess with Lian Li's sense of quality and aesthetics, I would.