SilverStone Nimiz Temjin III
by Purav Sanghani on March 16, 2004 11:04 PM EST- Posted in
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Case Fans
A total of 4 case fans are included with the TJ03. Two 80mm fans sit vertically at the back of the case above the add-on card slots to exhaust warm air from a video card and the CPU. Another 80mm fan is placed at the top of the case at mid-depth while a large 120mm fan is placed at the front of the case behind the bottom door as an intake. Since this larger fan is the one and only intake, SilverStone has added an air filter behind the bottom door to prevent buildup of dust and lint inside the case. The filter can be removed easily and cleaned to reuse over again, which is also a cost effective solution. All included fans are dual ball bearing 2000rpm and are noise rated at 21dBA.
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One small setback with the fans is that only the top and front 120mm fans have 4-pin power pass-through adapters while the two 80mm fans at the back have only the 3-pin DC adapter for motherboards. This could pose a problem for older motherboards, since most have only one or no system fan (3-pin) power connections onboard. The 120mm exhaust, on the other hand, has both the 4-pin power supply pass-through adapter as well as the 3-pin motherboard adapter.
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When all fans are operational, the airflow seems to make complete sense. Air is pulled in to the case from the front by the 120mm fan. Since the hard drives sit directly behind that fan, the temperature of the drives remains low. The air then flows throughout the entire case before it is exhausted at the back with the two strategically placed 80mm fans and also at the top of the case with another 80mm fan. The end result is a more efficient air flow system, which helps keep components running at lower temperatures.
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lbmcleod - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link
Nice case, except for the fact that yet again the drive bays have been rubbishly constructed -just a peice of bent alu without even guide platforms machined out. Even cheap cheiftecs and aopen cases have better drive bay constructionZepper - Thursday, March 18, 2004 - link
The UL file number on the silverstone PSU is listed as Enhance, which makes decent PSUs..bh.
Zepper - Thursday, March 18, 2004 - link
The price is around $250. on newegg..bh.
TrogdorJW - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
Forget the Silverstone cases. I'm just not that interested in a light aluminum case. What I would like to know is how their power supplies perform. Any word on that? Specifically, I'm wondering if the 120mm fan is really quieter and if the power supplies are a good alternative to the 350W Antec PSes that I usually get.puravsanghani - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
#5-#6: The links are put at the top of the page by the marketing company. We passed on to them information about the error and have removed the link.hirschma - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
#5 - Oops, they have the wrong price listed. Anyone know how much this thing actually costs?And yes, I think that my Lian-Li is worth every penny. It comfortably houses my Tyan Dually Opteron board, as well has 7 hard drives, and is quiet and cool. Like this case, you can upgrade to one of those neato redundant/hotswap power supplies. It was very difficult to find anything that would do the trick.
Jonathan
hirschma - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
Why is this case expensive at $85?I just bought a Lian Li PC-75 for a big server I'm building. It is an excellent case, but missing some nice features that this case has - and it goes for over $220. The two are directly comparable.
What am I missing here?
And yes, Aluminum is the way to go with the big cases, unless you want to damage yourself lifting the machine once you've built it :)
Jonathan
Schadenfroh - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
crap, i just ordered a sonata, this thing looks cooler, darn, should have waited 1 more dayaraczynski - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
>personally< i don't understand the fascination with aluminum cases. the only benefit of them is weight reduction, other then that, its all prepubescent hype with a higher price tagmy >personal< taste (if i wanted to bleed money) would be to get an IBM industrial PC case (anyone that worked/works in the automation industry might know which i'm referring to). If you know the older IBM AT keyboards and love(d) them, you would drool over these things. They're about the only thing that has ever impressed me from IBM, and quite frankly the ONLY case that has ever impressed me. solid design/engineering.
anyway, since working with these cases a few years back, almost everything else since then has felt/looked cheap in comparison, and i would put these aluminum cases in that same (cheap) category.
maybe i'm just 'old school' ;)
decptt - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link
It's cool. I love 03 but too expensive for me.to webmaster, Anandtech deal shows wrong model 'TJO1' instead of review 'TJ03'