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ich weiß new pure base 600 chassis fills a stout form-factor using a structure that shrinks as much as possible while still supporting standard orientation ATX motherboards this new $90 case focuses primarily on sound damping and quality of materials but misses a few points on cable management and thermal design and we'll talk through that in today's review of the new be quiet pure bass 600 case the most standout feature with this case or maybe lack of a feature is there are no RGB LEDs and also no tempered glass now technically be quiet as planning a tempered glass version that will come out in March and it'll be $10 more but we are going to pretend that won't exist for now because honestly it's been tempered glass cases non-stop for 8 months and I'm just going to cherish this non tempered glass option for a moment so this is a more standard case it's back to the roots of a case what a mid tower would be it's very simple there is a steel structure there are plastic panels and then it has one feature which in this case is noise damping aiding that noise damping as you'll see in b-roll of the front panel I'm sure is the fact that this has very restrictive airflow which although not great for thermals obviously is good for noise emissions and controlling them so we'll test the noise output and the cooling performance in today's review looking at the GPU and TV performance when under workload that are a bit more stressful than normally cooling isn't a primary focus with this case clearly as you won't be getting much air through that front panel that we pointed out and no air can exhaust out the top without adjusting the height of the panel that said the be quiet pure bass 600 uniquely intends for its top panel to be user configurable to fit specific needs and stock configuration the panel is pushed down and completely block stock exhaust consequently blocking noise and keeping it in for the most part you can pop the top panel completely out which does eliminate the purpose of the case or you can follow be quiet to guide and elevate it by one notch and the little clips that exist on the underside of the panel this grab some breathability while still offering control over sound waves escaping the box as for stock cooling be quiet ships with pure bass 600 with two pure wins two fans pre-installed in front and rear position the front-mounted fan is oriented by default to split airflow between the video card and CPU coolers maxing out its rpm around 1200 and again there's limited airflow capabilities behind all these filters so for filters you can pull the front panel off and there's a sort of mesh that's interlocks with another mesh which is purely a dust / noise thing but really tight in the front for air intake the bottom is reserved entirely for the power supply because it's a down facing fan to the power supply very little height here from the table or the surface of whatever you put it on to the case it's about an inch or so which is okay but because we're only pulling air into the power supply anyway that's kind of irrelevant the power supply doesn't need that much space to breathe it's not like we have a case fan down there there's a rear exhaust position for 120 pretty standard technically you could mount stuff in the top of the case but including radiators but you would really have to take off that top panel to get any reasonable use out of it now you could offset it by one notch up but as we'll see in our thermal test it doesn't really change a whole lot in terms of cooling performance it would be enough to force the air out of the case if you had an exhaust setup but it's really just a noise thing so that's what we've got for cooling options not a whole lot noise options there is foam padding on that side panel the right the left side panel and the front panel has just it's closed off so now it's noise is getting out of there anyway with regard to build features the hard drive cages are interesting and remind us in some ways of an internal version of thermal takes old level 10 case designed by BMW at a time the cages in be quiet pure base 600 mount to the chassis by 3 screws only suspending hdds from one side that be the chassis mounted wall these can be removed individually if not all are saturated also kind of unique because you don't have to remove entire cages and above those there are two non modular fixed five and a quarter inch bays for optical drive installation or front panels which is rarity in today's case market with regards the ease of installation building in this case is similar to building in an MDF ts3 40 elites or s3 40 for that matter or the Corsair 400 sea there are all roughly the same size some are easier to buildings and others like the s340 elite which we praised for its excellent cable management this does not have that the ATX form factor support means that if you do in fact install an ATX form factor motherboard you're the bottom of the boards can be right against the power supply eliminating usage of some of the cable pass-throughs and then the right side of the board will be covering or partially or entirely some of the pass-through is in the middle of the motherboard tray so that's a big issue with the pure base 600 because of the way the case is configured again the primary passage for cabling end up being in the drive cage area how though there's one passage that's usable near the optical drive phase and the 24-pin power header fortunately be quite did also get its EPS 12-volt pass-through replacement correct accommodating the left side and centered placement alike this is particularly good for motherboard that users with additional power headers for overclocking although that seems unlikely given the price of this case if you're planning to use ATX in the case be aware again that it'll feel like the entire thing should be about an inch longer and maybe half an inch taller to better route the cables the upshot of the quiets design is that the backside does have the usual cable tie anchors so once you've got things managed and routed it's not too difficult to tie them down that said the SSD cases are pretty tight against that side panel wall and it's foam so do be careful that you don't snap the SSD headers once you've got it connected all parts of the case both the steel and the plastic components are fairly rugged and durable there's an exception of the plastic top cover which isn't stable on our review sample when it's at its full height and everything fits together pretty well there were no unintentional gaps between the side panel in the case of the good things considered a noise focus and all the paneling lined up for a flush fit unlike some of the cheaper cases on the market the quiet has impressed us in the past with the quality of their materials and machining as we've seen previously with the silent based cases and the dark base case a 600 is no exception despite its price the top cover can either be pressed flush to the case or lifted one or two notches above it for airflow but its stability at maximum height depends on whether all the plastic tabs at the same angle not a huge deal since snapping the cover down one notch locked it in firmly but both side panels must be removed in order to adjust this cover kind of a pin and it can't be done on the fly you probably wanna shut down to do that every time this isn't like the old Rose well-thrown or you can flip a switch and latch them up or down we were particularly pleased to see that the front IO connectors and buttons are mounted directly to the chassis and the frame rather than the front panel so you don't have to deal with wires and untangling on one removing the palan there's also less of a chance of pushing connectors out of place of course speaking of front i/o it only includes a two USB 3.0 plugs and no 2.0 at all so if you're running some older and three platform with no USB three support then maybe don't get this case or get an adapter this is possibly necessary given the size of the panel but I guess it's more of a move forward and be quiet trying to get away from USB 2.0 getting into the thermal and noise testing as always if you're curious how we do this hit the link in description below for the testing methodology and Patrick Lathan's full review here and the test and worked with the case the most so we've got all that to find there the very basics we're using delta T numbers for temperatures which means that we have a thermocouple reader that's actively monitoring the internal ambience of the case which is really only used for an ambient chart and that probe is placed sort of triangulated between the front intake fan the CPU fan and the GPU fan sits right there in the middle of them now in some cases that make temperatures look really bad like the in one case where there's no front intake the 805 infinity but that's where one of them goes the other one that monitors the environment temperature room temperature more or less and that's what we use for our delta T value which again you can read about in the description below and so something had to be sacrificed for silence on a budget the number one thing on that list was airflow front intake is through two filtered slits on either side of the panel and that's it bottom intake is reserved for the PSU as discussed the cover is impractical to adjust at the top when the system is running and so users are forced to make a decision between silence and cooling and presumably you would choose silence since you're buying a case from a company called be quiet exclamation point testing with the top panel open that versus closed and with the same fan rpm between each test we're seeing the difference of about 1.6 Celsius load or about 4 to 5 Celsius idle considering we're brushing against 90c territory when factoring ambiens back in it's clear we're going to need more than a better top ventilation to improve thermals with our desk configuration stock the pure base 600 outperforms in wind fanless 303 case and a single fan 805 infinity which is really not a particularly ringing endorsement you could completely remove the top cover but you'd still be limited at the intake level and you'd then be exiting the only use case for this chassis which is reduced noise just a reminder our temperature testing for cases puts it under a worst-case scenario so we're looking at 100% GPU and CPU load that's not common or really active in any type of gaming for the most part but the test is designed to stack cases hierarchically based on their cooling performance only and that's all we need to know so what we know what we learn from that this case is worse than the others at cooling that's what we want to know now in terms of real-world scenarios you probably won't be as hot as we're seeing here unless doing some sort of 24/7 rendering or long render workloads where you might have the GPU of the CPU crunching on frames from two different directions you wouldn't want to do that in this type of case and then overclocking anything where you push in a CPU to a hundred fifty hundred 70 watts and Beyond is definitely going to be a bit toasty in here you might want to look elsewhere for an enclosure this is not something you would buy free cooling performance you maybe would look the course there's 400 C for that similarly priced much better at cooling but not this now in terms of the youth cases that's all going to be a noise which we'll get into next and then just a quick side note here because it is a $90 case it's more likely that purchasers would probably be on something like a ten sixty maybe ten seventy Max and those are going to be a bit cooler and some of the high-end cards that would be more overclocked focused and so let's take a look at noise this is where be quite undoubtedly specializes the pure bass 600 really comes into its own in acoustic tests and ideal conditions with fans turned all the way down which you thought I wouldn't really want to run like that too often other than idle and with the top cover closed the 600 is the quiet case we've used in our current batch of tests this is impressive if only because it's quieter than the stock and when 303 which does not have any fans included at all and that's entirely thanks to the sound damping panel design of the be quiet case which is containing the noise of our GPUs and and our CPU fan was both the 120 milliliter fans at the maximum 11 60 rpm and with the top cover open at least by one notch noise it peaked at 34.2 DBA making it slightly quieter than the NZXT s340 elite with its two 120 millimeter fans running at ten fifty rpm it may do some future testing on how much be quiet acoustic padding directly affects the noise and the a/b testing but for now it seems like it's really doing the job its advertised to perform the quites done well to design a case that excels in one category being quiet compared to nearby competition it's clearly better in the acoustics department if that's the thing you care about this is a good place to start looking it is both visually and aurally discreet outside really doesn't look like much of anything it looks kind of like an old Dell computer you might bind stuff in a corner somewhere so that's a valid thing to watch if you want that there you go I guess it's there in this way it is sort of similar to some of the fractal design cases which are often noise focused and discretion focused in terms of visuals so this would be in the similar price category for some of the fractal cases you may want to look there for options alternative to this in terms of cooling again if cooling is going to be a problem for your build don't buy this because if you are planning to run multi-gpu instantly you're gonna run into problems with temperatures and with clock rates being more limited thermally than by anything else almost certainly and then if you're looking at running things like higher temperature and - SSDs under steady state workloads pretty uncommon for our user base but a possibility you're going to be generating more heat on the board and it's going to have trouble getting rid of that heat even though thermal throttling on SSDs isn't that common generally just dumping a bunch of heat into a case like this is not exciting because it heats everything up so those would be the things to avoid - this case less temperature intensive fan are fine if you want visual and noise discretion this is the place to look as for competition that wasn't present in our tests either because we don't have it or haven't gotten to it yet we'd recommend looking into fractal design for alternatives in the noise space and then we may start working on some of their cases in the near future the corsair q series cases like the 400 q rather than the 400 c would also be worth looking into as they ditch the windowed side panel in favor of a noise damping side panel and Silverstone's got a couple offerings out there too though not too many that are current even though those competitors will have difficulty coming close to what be quite fun for noise at $90 this is a reasonable buy it's really one of the few products that we've reviewed in the past couple months that I can actually say the price seems fitting that's pretty rare normally these things come out a bit high and then the manufacturers have stepped them down later in this instance or this case it's really not bad 90 bucks is pretty okay $100 for a tempered glass version if you wanted it I guess will exist I don't know that I'd buy it I'd have to see what the tent is like and things like that but this case is really for being quiet tempered glass you're not going to have a whole bunch of noise escaping I would hope depending on how they implement it but it does just kind of seemed like a weird combination sticking with this is a good one tempered glass maybe not so be quiet overall not the sickest feel not the most robust plastics in the world for this case but at $90 they are fair to use if you're interested in learning more about the enclosure you can read Patrick Levin full review link the description below is the patreon link with post roll video we're going to patreon.com/crashcourse NEX itself without directly gamers necks have gotten that for the site thanks for watching I'll see you all next time you