Superpower Landmark KS-299 ATX Mid Tower

The Test

As always, we used the procedures outlined in AnandTech's case testing methodology, which includes temperature and noise testing following reader suggestions and requests. We've created a whole page with all the details of the method.

The KS-299 ships standard with a secondary case fan mounted at the bottom front of the case and this is the configuration that we tested it in.

The maximum sustained temperatures shown above are unfortunately a bit higher than we've found in most other cases. The power supply clearly does a poor job of removing the hot air from the system and there aren't enough vents to allow cool air in.

AnandTech has found that CPU temperature does not vary greatly from case to case as long as a quality heatsink/fan combination are used.

In the KS-299, hard drive temperature started out fairly high while just idling and rose quite a bit more, albeit slowly, to a lofty 120F.

With the ambient temperature near 75F, there's no reason the case temperatures should be this high. At idle, the KS-299 was already a full 10 degrees above the Palo Alto ATCX, and by the end of the 1 hour tests hit 102F and possibly could have continued to rise.

After the above data, it's no surprise that average temperatures were unusually high inside all areas of the KS-299. Temperatures could of course be lowered through the use of the optional tertiary case fan, especially in a situation like this where ventilation holes were minimal.