Aerocool GT-S White Full Tower Computer Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by leeghoofd @ 2014-02-07

Today we review the Aerocool GT-S Full tower case, which exists in two flavors.  The model we received from the eTONIX crew is the white and blue model, however there is also a black and red themed version available. Taiwanese Aerocool Advanced Technology (AAT) was founded way back in 2001 and has settled as one of the leading names in the Do It Yourself Market. The GT-S case was designed for these DIY enthusiasts and also targeting heavy duty gamers, allowing maximum hardware compatibility, ease of installation and great out of the box cooling. Without further ado lets put Aerocool's latest sibling to the test.

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Test Setup and Methodology

Compared to previous case reviews Madshrimps opted to install a single AMD 7970 graphics card instead of the regular two GTX480s we usually used when reviewing gaming enclosures. For the cooling tests the case is equipped with the Corsair H100i Hydro cooler.

The hardware comprises of the following parts:

 

For the IDLE tests we allow the setup warm up during a 30 min period. The temperatures of the CPU cores are monitored by the Realtemp software. The temperatures of the motherboard components are read out by the ASUS Thermal Radar software. For the stress test we go flat out and test our the six cores of the overclocked i7-3960X CPU (4500MHz) with the Prime95 64bit software with a custom 12-12K setting. For the GPU test we ran a 3 time loop of the Futuremark Vantage 3D bench software to heat up the graphics core.

Here are some screenshots of the ASUS Thermal RADAR software in action:

 

 

 

 

SPECIFICATIONS:

  • Form Factor: Full-tower with side panel window
  • Motherboard support: ATX, E-ATX, XL-ATX, mATX, SSI CEB
  • Material: plastic and steel
  • Storage: 7 x 3.5"HDD/SSD,  5 x 5.25" optical drive bay
  • Expansion slots: 10
  • Cooling: 2 x 200mm and 1x 140mm fans, expandable to 7 fans ( see above chart )
  • Water cooling: 120/240mm rad only
  • Front I/O: 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, Headphone & Microphone jacks, Power/Reset buttons & 4 step Fan controller
  • Maximum CPU Cooler Height: 185mm
  • Maximum GPU length: 333mm
  • Weight: 16kg
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