Temperature behavior
A brief preface to the test at this point. The Thermaltake CTE E600 MX comes to the customer without pre-installed fans. The measured values shown here can therefore not be used as a reference, as they are largely dependent on the choice of fans. The quantity and sizes of the selected fans are due to my private stock of Thermaltake fans and to a certain extent also to the prioritization of the most harmonious appearance possible.
Test system
The test system was the system that was last used several times, consisting of a Ryzen 9 3900X and a Radeon RX 7700XT. Four 140mm fans (intake) and two 120mm fans (exhaust) were used, the processor was cooled by a 360mm AIO.
General conditions
Room temperature: 20.7°C
AIO fans: 700 rpm
AIO pump: 2000 rpm
Case fans 120mm: 800 rpm
Casefans 140mm: 600 rpm
CPU Torture
Cinebench R23 was used again for the CPU test. After a good quarter of an hour of warming up, the temperatures had stabilized and I started logging. On average, the CPU was around 80°C, whereby a clock rate of 4 GHz could be maintained over the entire test period. Considering the pleasantly quiet operating volume (AIO and fans), this is a very respectable result.
Gaming workload
Borderlands 3 was again used to simulate a typical gaming workload. The game really hammers the graphics card in maximum details and also keeps the CPU moderately busy. The 7700XT from Sapphire generally runs quite cool and obviously feels right at home in this spacious and very well ventilated case. The GPU never reached the 60°C mark during the entire test period and was therefore able to maintain its boost clock in a relaxed manner. The hotspot problems that occurred in the previous CTE and The Tower series cases due to the suspended mounting of the graphics card are of course completely eliminated here. With an average of 81°C, the hotspot was a few Kelvin below the last tested FPS case.
During the gaming session, the CPU was as if nailed down in the mid 50°C range and only had to sweat briefly at the start of the game (compiling and loading process). The shape of the curve here corresponds almost 1:1 with that of the DeepCool CH560 test, where a massive tower cooler with a slightly higher speed was used.
Interim conclusion
Overall, the CTE design works quite well and, with the right fan and speed selection, very good temperatures can be achieved with acceptable background noise. Of course, as already mentioned at the beginning, the choice of fan has a significant influence on the result. At least according to my individual test methodology, the CTE design is not so superior to the usual designs, i.e. cold air intake at the front/bottom and warm air exhaust at the rear/top, that I would declare it the new “standard”. The design also comes with some inconveniences such as the complicated cabling (I/O under the lid, graphics card connections in the middle of the case), which in my opinion do not really justify the marginal advantage of the thermal design. It’s up to the manufacturer to decide whether they don’t get carried away and place themselves in a niche. However, it is nice to see that the design has now been made to work with all common graphics cards, even if the solution – using a complicated construction and a long riser cable to place the graphics card in the same position as it would be in a “normal” case – does seem a bit like an act of defiance.
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