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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Most of SilverStone Technology's products have incorporated a sleek look - nothing too fancy or colorful, no themes like hideous spiders or masks on the front, and definitely, no unnecessary modding to make the product stand out in the market. We enjoy looking at a SilverStone Technology case because it doesn't hurt our eyes the way other cases have in the past.
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The bezel is designed with a monolithic façade, standing tall, yet in the simplest manner possible. The top half is composed of drive bays with matching black aluminum covers. There are five 5-1/4" bays and two 3-1/2" exposed bays on the bezel.
The bottom half of the Temjin 6 is composed of the power button and LED, the HDD activity LED, and the reset button positioned vertically down the middle in that exact order. Also placed vertically is a 3-inch wide grate, which aids in air circulation.
Again, the bezel features a clean look no matter what the color (black or silver), which makes the Temjin 6 stand out from the rest in a good way, like its predecessors, the Temjin III and Temjin V.
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Moving to the left side, we see a few different features that were also implemented in the Temjin V. SilverStone has placed a key lock at mid height to lock the bezel door, which we will discuss later. Visually, the lock is implemented nicely and does not interfere with the rest of the visual features. Towards the bottom of the Temjin 6, on the same left side, are the auxiliary ports, which include color-coded head phone and microphone ports, a group of 4 USB ports, and a single FireWire port all lined up vertically. From the front of the case, they are not at all noticeable.
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The rest of the outer shell continues the simplistic design with solid steel panels, leaving out windows and fans. The side panels use the sliding plastic clips to secure onto the case. We realized that these clips, if not taken care of, can be easily broken. There are holes cut out to secure the panels with screws in the traditional way, but a better design would have been to use thumbscrews instead.
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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
"Hideous spider cases"...Chenbro Xpider
http://www.systemcooling.com/chenbro_xpider_ii-01....