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this is the silverstone at KU y KL 0 7 which is the company's best attempt at a discreet silent focused PC that still retains some cooling ability by way of 3 installed 140 millimeter fans and ventilation in the top and front panels today we're reviewing this case and testing it versus other cases in the market like the fractal defined C V be quiet pure bass 600 and the entire rest of the case testing suite that we've done in the last few months before getting to those that this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and their 1080p is c2 which we've recommended fairly highly for its build quality and the icx sensors which are kind of fun to play with you can check our full sc2 review for the 1080i if you're curious to learn more or you can click the link in the description below to find the product page for the 1080i sc2 so starting with the basics for the case before getting into the thermal and noise testing and the build process needs of installation it's a mid tower supports ATX motherboards standard ATX power supplies and has a power supply shroud as the trend now also as is the trend this is a silverstone case that has moved away from the ventilation like you see on the RL 0 6 and instead it goes with a more sleek design which is again a bit of a trend ever since the s2 40 by md XP so that's the design for the case it's got some ventilation in the top and on the front side which helps out a lot with the breathability as we'll see in testing includes two 140 million fans in the front pre-installed and they are installed on a cage that's easily removable so you can more readily access the fence this also means that you're only dealing with two screws rather than eight for the fans and they're a lot easier to access not the first time we've seen something like that but it's always good to see a focus on these function features in a case like an $85 unit from silverstone as for the hard drive cage also another function feature the cage can be relocated to one of two or three different positions so that you can push it away or pull it in towards the power supply that way if it's a longer PSU you get more room for the cabling otherwise you get some clearance to the front end for another fan or a larger radiator the KL 0 7 follows the current trend of that smooth blank exterior services with the exception of some fractal asks side ventilation and decorative grooves wandering across the front and top panels power and reset buttons are hidden within these grooves leaving a seamless surface except for the i/o panel including USB type-c and a nearly invisible silverstone logo at the bottom silverstone has experimented with flashy plastic panels on cases like the primary 0 1 but there's none of that here and neither is there a side window windows are a compromise on cases that claim to be noise damping and the target audience likely won't miss it anyway the interior is plain but easy enough to build in this is a similar layout for the RL 0 6 with a few optional ads to improve ease of installation three tools SSD bays behind the motherboard are cleverly made if sometimes finicky there's only one possible orientation for the drives of SATA and power facing the right side towards the rear of the case the bays are attached to the chassis by hinges which allow them to swing out and accept the 2.5 inch drive this may not add much in the way of functionality but it feels efficient and it eliminates more screws it means that it's quicker to install the system these are also well placed for cable management something that silverstone has needed to work on for a while now and they're getting better the fractal does still beat them out in terms of that scale management along with NZXT and the S 240 series so no messing about with screws with these and the two list bays offer a bit more clearance pre heat dissipation anyway unfortunately the middle bay is prevented from fully swinging out by rubber grommet underneath which is a bit of an oversight by silverstone and possibly the one up top as well if cables were routed over it so we're going to get into testing straight away here starting with noise and then thermals as always the link of the description below contains full testing methodology alongside Patrick Lathan's written review on the website if you prefer the written format he also goes into more depth on the build process and cable management if those aspects are more important to you started out with noise testing this time so you know Silverstone 10 millimeter thick foam padding is the centrepiece of the cases marketing silverstone uses foam that's more similar to studio pyramid phone rising higher than most other cases on the market while still retaining the dimples in the material this theoretically helps break up the sound wave as it collides with the foam primarily useful for minimizing high-frequency noise low-frequency noise will have an easier time escaping the enclosure but the only effective way to stop that is with thick case materials like 2 to 3 millimeters thick aluminium as used in some in wind or the Omni enclosures but this is obviously very expensive this helps deaden lower frequencies the best still silver storms approach is to deaden high frequencies and that's a no-go on scene as coil wine fan wine and pump wine all tend to be in the higher frequency spectrum anyway we're not yet testing frequencies but with simpler DBA testing we're seeing the silverstone KL 0-7 operate at around 30 4.2 DBA when the case is included at 3 140 millimeter fans are maxed to 950 rpm making it effectively identical in performance to the s3 40 elite at 10:50 rpm the fractal define C which is at 30 4.8 DBA and the be quiet period 600 with its pop open and fans max running 30 4.2 DBA the fractal to find see technically places below the others on the chart partly due to its higher rpm and unmuffled side window but it's effectively the same volume to the human ear with low rpm 140 milliliter fans and near total foam coverage on the KL 0-7 Silverstone's case is on the low end of our noise chart in a good way and compares respectively to other noise damping cases that we've reviewed as we showed in the be quiet pure bass 600 review noise insulation and absorption also risks heat insulation as flat paneling with foam makes it more difficult for the heat to escape the case as no ventilation then the solace tone kale 0-7 that 10 millimeter thick foam blocks are larger than most other cases and what they have but the others often rely on rubberized foam and so eat into the airflow space more starting with our torture test to burn both the CPU and GPU with power viruses the KL 0-7 CPU operates at a steady state average of 56.3 celsius delta T over ambient which ranks it effectively tied with the Cullinan and a bit cooler than the SD 40 elite at 10:50 rpm the CPU didn't overheat or experience throttling but the KL 0-7 does have the unfortunate burden of being compared to Silverstone typically well ventilated cases it even come close to the are l06 is impressively low 47.8 Celsius CPU DT under load compared to the practical defined see the KL 0 7 operates about the same 56 top 3 vs. 55.8 sells itself T which is within our 0.5 s LT is plus or minus window of variance for GPU temperatures in the torture workload the KL 0 7 benefits from an intake heavy design that funnels air into our dual axial gaming X 1080 with the GPU DT reporting at 51 our one sells is under load or about equal to an RL 0 6 with similar fan rpm with 570 X - 7 erm : n are also nearby compared to other silent focus cases like the fractal define C at 57 not for Celsius delta T or the be quiet pure base 600 at 57.4 associate DT the silverstone KL 0 7 does well here blender rendering is next and give us a real world look at performance starting with a cpu render the KL 0 7 operates at CPU temperature of 39 Celsius delta T over ambient when rendering with the GPU warming up to 6.9 Celsius as it is hit by exhausted heat from the CPU we only just started these tests I don't have a ton of data on here yet compared to the RL 0 6 we see an increase in thermal to about 4 C which has been terrible given the silent focus of the KL 0 7 looking nice to a GPU rendering temperatures the KL 0 7 keeps the video card to 27.5 Celsius delta T which is 10 C cooler than the entry-level spec of 4k that throttled up in some tests and a bit warmer again than the RL 0-6 3d markiplier strike extreme looping for a half an hour gives us a gaming workload where both the CPU and GPU work to heat up the box in a realistic fashion the CPU ends up at 38 salty salty over ambience comparable to the open-air core p3 with the GPU at 55 out 3070 compared to the 50 4.5 Celsius in the open air case this is into throttled territory yet but it's not too terribly far the spec up for was throttling for perspective so you'd want to ramp up the GPU fan speed a bit to better deal with this scenario the silverstone Google i/o 7 this case does not appeal to any one specific market a lot of cases like the red line 0 6 appeal to a specific market so the red line was good for a performance oriented user who wants the high focus airflow in the front panel where you get pretty low and controllable thermals for something more silent driven really almost anything from be quiet would fit that bill and not necessarily any good in the cooling Department but they do target silence and then you're kind of left to your own devices to sort out the cooling this case was both decently but neither silence nor cooling performance the best so it is a middle ground jack-of-all-trades for silence and performance and if you want a little bit of each it's not a bad case to look at 485 dollars that's the big thing at the price point 85 dollars it's quite a reasonable Buy and this is something where as we do more and more of these case reviews this year it seems like it's becoming a trend to see that the cases right now that we're reviewing are actually pretty reasonably priced which isn't something that can be said for a lot of other aspects and components in the industry so cases at least I've got their heads on straight and keeps paint level but at 85 dollars you should not buy this for a performance-oriented build and if you want silence it's really not bad it does compete directly with the fractal defined see and the be quiet pure bass 600 but the thing with those is the define C excels and cable management in a few more ways than this does so define C if you're most focused on silence and cable management is the better choice but if you want some of the cooling performance from something like the red line series this would be a good half step and it would be the one that we recommend but again fractal does have better cable management and a bit better noise isolation in some scenarios it really just kind of depends on what kind of hardware you have in there because ultimately case reviews are the least scientific of all reviews no matter how much we work to control them because when you change the components of the build really everything else can change so it all does depend on what you build with but if your build is similar to ours then this data should help you make a choice as far as if you're using a dual axle fan which let's be honest it's one of the most common set ups anyway so that's it for this one if you are interested to learn more about this case click the link below for the review we also have a link a link to the product the KL 0 7 some competing products in the description and as always subscribe for more patreon.com slash gamers next ourselves that directly stored out gamers axis by night for shirts thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you