Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 Case Review: You Asked For It, You Got It
by Dustin Sklavos on November 27, 2012 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- quiet
- ATX
- Nanoxia
Noise and Thermal Testing, Overclocked
Stock results for the Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 with the case fans set to low were admittedly pretty poor outside of the noise levels, and that made me nervous about testing it with the testbed overclocked. For what it's worth, the DS1 was able to run our overclocked testbed, but I wouldn't be comfortable with the low-90s temperatures that the CPU reached. You'll see, though, that if you let the fans stretch their legs a little, Nanoxia's design starts to come into its own again.
This is the first time keeping the chimney open has notably improved cooling performance, but the DS1 is starting to have trouble competing with the performance-oriented enclosures and is only able to tie the Ghost and 550D. Everything else runs reasonably cool, though.
Fan speeds are much more competitive, though. The low fan setting has a hard time keeping up, but the high fan setting proves the case has a healthy amount of fight in it.
And then the other haymaker. Once again the DS1 is able to meet or beat the other silent cases while offering competitive if not superior performance. This isn't the coolest running case, but it's the quietest. Out of our high end cases, the only one that can produce comparable acoustic performance is NZXT's Phantom 820, a case that's going to cost at least twice as much.
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Grok42 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - link
What are you thoughts on the Nanoxia's door? I like the split door compromise.I personally have moved from loving doors for providing a clean look to wanting cases with no external bays and no door for the same clean look. However, given the size of the Nanoxia I can't fault it for some external bays as cases of typical size typically have 5 or more bays. If you scaled up most mid-ATX cases up to the Nanoxia's size they would have 20 5.25" bays.
johnsonjohnson - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
Looks like the Define R4's twin. If only they could merger into one..johnsonjohnson - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
..which they did to become the DS2. I'm sure Dustin will be looking at that one too. I wonder how it would fare against its future twin (R5) though.vhx - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
Looks more like an Antec P280 to me.martyrant - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
First off, well written and informative review Dustin.Second, sans the things you already mentioned (that were of course quite minor) the only major flaw I see that was not mentioned is the lack of a SD/card reader. They're already eating up the top 5.25" bay with the fan controller/reset button, there's obviously room to put at the very least a SD card reader there, which would mean most likely people would not need the 5.25" to 3.5" adapter.
Thanks for this review, I hadn't heard of this case before and would very much like it to come to the States in time for Haswell!
FragKrag - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
Doesn't really seem like that big of a flaw to me... I don't know any cases off the top of my head that come with an SD card readermartyrant - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
NZXT has one I believe, and if you already have almost everything perfect, there's no reason to not attempt pure perfection.Death666Angel - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
It would for some people. :DI personally don't need a card reader and don't want one either. All my stuff is handled by a USB cable to the necessary device (camera, phone, tablet...). If this had a reader, it would take away from the clean look and give me something ugly that's never getting used.
martyrant - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
Are your eyes not working? Ignorant? Not read the article or look at the case at all?The card reader would be behind the top front door...and would not effect aesthetics at all.
Death666Angel - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - link
Wow, you clearly have no issues with criticism.It would not destroy the aesthetics, except when I use anything that is behind the top front door....