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the inner max lick fusion 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler features a one-of-a-kind RGB sink water block with built-in flow indicator static pressure optimized RGB fans and a high efficiency ceramic bearing pump for exceptional durability and noiseless operation click on the link below to learn more so this is October's PC of the month back here again we're gonna do some testing this time around and just to refresh your memory we've got a core I 999 hundred K being cooled by a dark rocket Pro for from be quiet it's a giant air cooler right there and our graphics card is the Auris extreme gaming that gets extreme gaming I get confused with GPU names these days RTX 2080 and this is all being enclosed inside of the lovely silent base 801 from be quiet as the name suggests this chassis was built first and foremost with acoustics in mind but the issue that I've seen with a lot of silent cases is that they can deliver low noise at the expense of cooling performance so and bear in mind I mean it's got a front panel that's more or less closed off from the very front it does have two relatively thin strips on the sides of ventillation strips that you know from the naked eye at least doesn't look like there's a whole lot of air coming through there but you know who's to say so I kind of want to put the silent base 801 through its paces today in that regard and I think we have a lot of good example hardware to test it with because both our CPU and GPU can get fairly warm especially when overclocked and we will be overclocking both of them later today now excluding the graphics card and the power supply I believe we have a total of nine fans in the system we've got two that are mounted to our be quiet dark Rock Pro for cooler we have three 140 s at the front three more at the top and one at the back that being said having a bunch of fans in your system doesn't necessarily equal great airflow for example if you have a constrictive front panel or top panel then that's still gonna limit the amount of air that your fans are able to intake and exhaust and that's going to affect thermals in the long run so that's what we're up against today that's a riff sort of testing out mainly it's gonna be a case study if you will on the silent bass 801 so that said let's get to testing hope this guy doesn't explode all right y'all we're in GTA 5 just hopped in we're about seven minutes in so we're still letting the components heat up a bit in the meantime we're at five gigahertz on all cores for our ninety nine hundred K that's at one point three five volts and temperatures right now for what it's worth in the first seven minutes a gameplay are maxing out at 74 see our r-tx 2080 is currently rocking the 100 megahertz core clock off set a 700 megahertz memory clock offset that's of course with the power and GPU temps lighters maxed out we've got 100% on the voltage as well with those settings we're currently operating at a core clock speed of 2000 and 70 megahertz bear in mind that this card is factory overclocked we just gave it a bit more of a manual push there our maximum GPU temp right now is 71 C that is bound to climb a bit further as we continue gaming and right now we are at the medium fan setting on our built-in fan controller within the silent base 801 it seems to be a nice happy medium between acoustics and performance but the system is dead silent right now I mean it's literally like a foot away from my face and I cannot hear it even though there's no in-game audio I'm not wearing headphones or anything it is really really quiet so the fact that we're getting fairly decent temps right now is a good sign but let's see how we do in about 15 or 20 minutes all right so I've thoroughly pissed off the cops at this point and I've also given our Hardware a chance to heat up so taking a look at our towns we've got 74c on the GPU it's actually not bad I'll take it of course I got a commend Oris you know gigabyte whatever for the cooler that they've slept on to this RT X 2080 it seems to be doing a pretty good job but that cooler is completely useless if you're you know slapping it inside of a an air constrictive case if it's completely suffocated it's not getting any air flow to to those GPU fans then it doesn't matter how good of a cool you got on there so you know cheers to the 801 as well the style of bass 801 doing its thing as far as the CPU goes we're hit an 82 see on the package temp now that's not like a constant 82 see actually the the CPU seems to be hovering in the 60s most the time with more occasional spikes into the 70s but it did get to 82 at one point it was probably just for a split second or so which again I can live at that to you know five gigahertz on eight cores but air cooling is there's no easy task and I've also got to give it up to be quite stark Rock pro fork for doing a nice job there but the silent base arrow one's ability its intake ability is really important here because those front fans are aimed directly at that cooler so if you know if those front fans were getting choked you'd probably know it because the CPU would not be doing so well now of course I want to actually take these temperatures and be able to compare them to another set of data so what I want to do now is actually remove the front panel of the silent base 8:01 and play another 15 minutes or so of this game and then we'll circle back that way we can sort of compare and see how much of a difference or how much are these fans really being choked our temperatures might be good now but comparatively speaking if our temperatures drop you know 20 degrees after removing that front panel then you know it's it's really not as great of a picture as we're painting it out to be right now so let me remove the front panel really quick and I'll check with you guys in a bit alright so it's been about 25 minutes and our temperatures have definitely changed since removing that front panel for starters our r-tx 2080 is now maxing out at 69 degrees Celsius which is down five-seat from when the side panel or when the front panel was on whether or not that significant I guess it depends on who you ask what I can say is that our core clock speed has not changed we are still operating at 2070 megahertz there's absolutely zero change to the speed of the card regardless of the temperature difference however that's not to say that if you had different hardware in this case that the changes would be significant you might see a bit of a bump there on your core clock frequency moving on to the CPU we went from 82 degrees Celsius on the Mex package temp down to now is 68 that being said you also have to sometimes look at these max temperatures any max values as outliers because as I mentioned before during the initial test with the front panel on we were operating in the 60s most of the time we only hit 82 see like for a fraction of a second and then it went right back down to 65 or whatever so what I should focus on are just sort of the the current sort of average temperatures and right now we're actually hovering in the 50s more or less with occasional bumps into the 60s what that tells us is that we have dropped on average anywhere from 7 to 10 three Celsius on our CPU simply from removing that front panel and that I would say is pretty significant now granted it's not like we were thermal throttling before but this is just one scenario and someone who's running you know extra hot hardware let's say a 79 80 XC that they're trying to overclock to 5 gigahertz for example that's 7 to 10 degree difference with the front panel on or off it could mean the difference between thermal throttling and knots so that's something to bear in mind if you're going extreme overclocking and thermals are a primary concern as opposed to silence or acoustics then maybe the silent bass 801 isn't the case for you what I will say is if you are getting this case and you're throwing in some high-end hardware especially if you plan to overclock those components that I would ensure that you have a pretty beefy CPU and GPU cooling solution that's independent from the chassis because you don't want to rely just on the case to do all of your important cooling with the system's current configuration I would feel comfortable using the system on a daily basis gaming and editing but if I was cramming in some some heavier duty Hardware in here and I was trying to really push the hardware to its limits then I would probably look for a case that had maybe more open ventilation at the front panel to take more advantage of those intake fans those are my findings for today hopefully you guys found it helpful let me know if you did in the comments below and if you enjoyed the video toss a like on it to show your support it really helps and get subscribed to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon thanks for watching this one guys I'll see you in the next video