The Sharkoon Rev300 Case Review – A different design with plenty of space for a custom Water Cooling

1 - Einführung und technische Daten 2 - Das Gehäuse stellt sich vor 3 - Die restlichen Komponenten 4 - Einbau der Wasserkühlung 5 - Testsetup, Temperaturen und Lautstärke 6 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

The Sharkoon setup

The mouse and keyboard are old acquaintances: The Sharkoon Light² 200 (approx. 40 Euro) and the PureWriter TKL approx. 70 Euro (my top recommendations!). In addition, there is a mouse pad with RGB edge lighting for 22 Euros. In total, you end up with about 130 euros – currently. If that’s too much for you, you can take the Sharkoon Light² 100 and a mouse pad for around 10 Euros and a Sharkoon SGK 30, for example. Then you end up with about 65 euros and have not bought cheap junk. Finally, all the items mentioned have been tested by us.

(there is the aRGB strip)

Now you only need a monitor… Since I have quite a bit to choose from here, I’ll go with the MSI MEG381CQR Plus for the time being. I wouldn’t recommend it from a price/performance point of view. With the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT, I recommend a 1440p monitor. The LG 27GP850, the MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD and the Gigabyte M27Q P are good choices. Depending on the price and preference. The LG and Gigabyte are typical P3 gaming panels, while the MSI still has Adobe RGB in its lineup.

Mech-Front und das ist gut so...

So könnte sollte jedes Setup aussehen, oder nicht?

Skiller SGH50 ein Must Have!

Großes Mauspad mit RGB gefällig?

Die PureWriter TKL - das ist Low Profile...

Leichte Maus mit super Sensor gesucht?

Ein optischer Leckerbissen... die Anti-RGBler werden das nicht verstehen!

I also want to stress the GPU a bit more, so the 3840 x 1600p resolution fits quite well. There is no benchmark and gaming parkour to be seen at my place today. You can certainly find the combination of Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Radeon RX 6900XT on YT. We are concerned about the volume and the temperatures.

Stress test

How could it be otherwise, I run Cinebench R23 in combination with Furmark for 30 minutes. First, you can see the idle temperatures after 20 minutes of idle.

I have set the fans to 1,000 RPM and they run like this. Should the CPU get warm above 80 degrees, then the fans would howl. With cooling, this is rather out of the question. The CPU is set to 125 watts P1 and 200 watts P2 (it can’t manage that anyway). The graphics card to 300 watts (the good bios, so to speak).

Raumtermperatur zum Teststart

Einmessen auf ca. 50 cm Abstand

1000 rpm = 38 dB (A)

Stresstest 1 neigt sich dem Ende

Cinebench Punktzahl nach 30 Min.

At idle, the temperatures are below 30 ° C and the volume is 38 dB (A). Since the temperatures do not move beyond the 70 degree mark, the volume also remains unchanged. As you can see in the following pictures, it gets a bit warmer at a fan speed of 700 rpm – but again, much quieter. We crack the 70 ° C mark! A delta of 7 Kelvin – compared to the test with 1,000 rpm.

Stresstest 2 neigt sich dem Ende

700 rpm = 32 dB (A)

Temps nach 36 min 700 RPM

However, you can clearly see that the water has really heated up. Five minutes are not enough to get back to 28 degrees at idle. If 38 dB (A) is too loud for you, you should really turn up the fans. If you let the fans run at 100%, it gets quite loud:

Gaming

To give you a rough idea of the gaming performance and temperatures, I ran three games for you. Without the usual benchmark slides today. The pictures from the game with the MSI Afterburner insertion are also enough.

Diablo 3 makes the beginning. A game where the GPU gets bored to death even in 3840 x 1600p in max. settings…

CoD MW (2019) multiplayer with resolution 3840 x 1600p and max settings (without DXR). There are unusually few FPS for me. Here I am spoiled 240 FPS..

And Ghost Recon Breakpoint concludes the test run for today. I ran the integrated benchmark on the one hand and then gambled for another hour. You can see the temperatures in HWInfo.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint Ultra Settings Benchmark

Eine Stunde Ghost Recon Breakpoint

As you could see, the PC is cool and quiet. The fans were still set to 700 rpm. Since I play with headphones – I would set the fans to 1,000 rpm. At least deposit a curve, if the CPU exceeds the 40 ° C, for example, then 1,000 rpm. Everyone is the architect of his own fortune. The performance is impressive in any case. So is my room temperature after two hours of testing around:

Electric heating! So, I have one more for you.

The Sharkoon Shark Blade fan test

Pascal took a closer look at the fans and locked them in the wind chamber. If I’m going to test a case, I want to know what the fans are capable of. It starts at 500 rpm (applies to both types), the 120 runs up to just over 1,300 rpm and the 140 up to 1,400 rpm. You can see the essence in the next pictures.

Shark Blade cfm

Shark Blade dB A

Shark Blade pressure

RGB vom Feinsten!

Licht aus - geht auch!

In any case, they are very quiet and have a solid airflow. On a 25 mm thick radiator, the performance then (unfortunately) already drops sharply. In other words, you can still do it on an AiO or the 30 mm thick radiators from Alphacool installed here. But I would advise an upgrade, there are from Sharkoon still the Silent Storm 120 mm under 10 euros and the Silent Storm 140mm for 12 euros. They have enough power. But now I should slowly come to the end for today. Last page please…