Thermaltake Overseer RX-I Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

November 15, 2011 | 07:53

Tags: #midi-case #mid-tower-case #thermaltake-case

Companies: #thermaltake

Overseer RX-I Cooling Performance

Our test kit includes an ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 graphics card and an Intel Core i7-870 CPU, which has been overclocked from 2.93GHz to 3.4GHz using a vcore of 1.305V and a CPU PLL of 1.9V. This is a modest overclock, but our test kit will spend most of its life under high load, so pushing it too far isn't in anybody's interests. More importantly, some poorer-performing cases push the CPU temperature to above 80°C, so even this overclock will prove to be too much for some cases.

The CPU is cooled by a Gelid Tranquillo CPU cooler with a Noctua NF-S12B ULN 120mm fan. The NF-S12B ULN is a low-airflow fan, so it will highlight cases with poor cooling for the CPU. We also lock the fan speed on the graphics card to 30 per cent to prevent the automatic speed control interfering with the results.

We record the temperature of the CPU using RealTemp, noting the temperature of the hottest core, and using GPU-Z to log the temperature of the graphics card. Having recorded the ambient temperature in front of the main air intake of each case, we're then able to calculate the delta T - the difference between the ambient temperature of our lab and the temperature of the hardware. To load the system, we use a combination of the Canyon Flight benchmark in 3DMark06 and the smallfft test in Prime 95.
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-870 CPU overclocked to 3.4GHz
  • Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6
  • Motherboard: Biostar TPower I55
  • RAM: 2 x 2GB OCZ 1,866MHz DDR3
  • Hard drive: 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
  • Heatsink: Gelid Tranquillo with a Noctua NF-S12B ULN fan
  • Power supply: Seasonic M12D SS-850EM

Case performance - CPU Delta T

Arranged by CPU Delta T

  • Cooler Master HAF X
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (Full speed)
  • Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 (Full Speed)
  • Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (minimum speed)
  • NZXT Phantom (Full Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Full Speed)
  • Lian Li PC-V1020
  • Antec One Hundred (Full speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (High Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Low Speed)
  • Thermaltake Overseer RX-I Review
  • Xigmatek Elysium
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Full Speed)
  • In Win Ironclad
  • Cooler Master HAF 912
  • Lian Li V2120
  • Corsair Carbide 400R
  • Antec LanBoy Air (Full Speed)
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Full Speed)
  • Fractal Design Define R3
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Maximum Speed)
  • Sharkoon Rebel 9 Aluminium
  • NZXT Phantom (Minimum Speed)
  • Antec LanBoy Air (Minimum Speed)
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Minimum Speed)
  • Lian Li PC-8FIR
  • Antec One Hundred (Minimum speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Minimum Speed)
  • BitFenix Colossus (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone PS06 (Full Speed)
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Minimum Speed)
  • CM Storm Enforcer
  • NZXT H2 (Maximum speed)
  • BitFenix Colossus (Minimum Speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Maximum Speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (maximum speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Minimum Speed)
  • NZXT H2 (Minimum speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (minimum speed)
  • BitFenix Survivor
  • SilverStone PS06 (Minimum Speed)
  • BitFenix Shinobi
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°C, lower is better
  • CPU Delta T
  • GPU Delta T

Case performance - GPU Delta T

Arranged by GPU Delta T

  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (Full speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Full Speed)
  • Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (minimum speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Minimum Speed)
  • Lian Li PC-V1020
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Maximum Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Full Speed)
  • Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 (Minimum Speed)
  • NZXT Phantom (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Full Speed)
  • Antec One Hundred (Full speed)
  • Cooler Master HAF X
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Minimum Speed)
  • Thermaltake Overseer RX-I Review
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Full Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Minimum Speed)
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Full Speed)
  • Xigmatek Elysium
  • In Win Ironclad
  • Lian Li PC-8FIR
  • Corsair Carbide 400R
  • Fractal Design Define R3
  • Antec One Hundred (Minimum speed)
  • Cooler Master HAF 912
  • NZXT Phantom (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone PS06 (Full speed)
  • Lian LI PC V2120
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Minimum Speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (Minimum speed)
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Minimum Speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (Full speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Minimum Speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Maximum Speed)
  • Antec LanBoy Air (Full Speed)
  • CM Storm Enforcer
  • SilverStone PS06 (Minimum speed)
  • Antec LanBoy Air (Minimum Speed)
  • NZXT H2 (Maximum speed)
  • BitFenix Shinobi
  • BitFenix Survivor
  • NZXT H2 (Minimum speed)
  • BitFenix Colossus (Full Speed)
  • BitFenix Colossus (Minimum Speed)
  • Sharkoon Rebel 9 Aluminium
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  • CPU Delta T
  • GPU Delta T

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