Any Advice on this Silverstone Case

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:56 am

I recently found this nice looking (specs and design) Silverstone case and was wondering what others thought of it. It's the Silverstone SST TJ08

found at http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-tj08.htm

and fron what I see, it looks like a nice quiet case, although I don't know about the quaility of the 120 case fans. Any advice about this case/brand is apprecitated.

Edit
Thanks for the direct link to the Silverstone Website.

SD-Plissken · Post by **SD-Plissken** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:28 am

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-tj08.htm theres also some reviews listed on the bottom of the page. from what i can see it does look kind of sweet as a microcase two fan setup would make for pretty good cooling mods ect.

stonyc · Post by **stonyc** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:54 am

There's another thread here with links to some reviews as well as a setup I made for my wife a month or so ago.[/url]

webdev511 · Post by **webdev511** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:26 pm

I just ordered one of thse to replace the horrible Aspire X-QPack that was supposed to house my wife's PC.

Will likely replace the stock fans with nexus models, but that's about it.

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:25 pm

webdev: I was thinking the same thing about the fans. Wont know till I actually get the case if they're any good.

stonyc: nice review and definately makes it worthwhile. Got a question for you. Using a Quiet Fan up front, does there appear to be enough airflow across the vid card to keep a passive 7600GS cool?

Right now I'm looking at the Scythe S-Flex 800 as I don't need fan controller to slow it down although it would be feasible to reduce to 7 volts and go damn near silent. Front/Rear and on the ThermalRight XP120 cooler should keep things chilly enough.

Mobo will be an Asus A8N-VN Business version with Venice 3000 and the drive will be Seagate 250 gig 7200.9 IDE plus Lite-On DVD burner.

stonyc · Post by **stonyc** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:03 am

I couldn't give you an informed answer about the 7600GS in passive mode, but if it helps I also moved this setup from an X-QPack that had a 7700cu constantly running at 1000+ rpm. Idle temps never got below 32-3C, whereas the TJ-08 (despite the tight working space, and cabling that could still use some improvements) with the Ninja idles consistently at 29-30C. I wish I'd done some more tests under full load with the previous system, but I'll see if I can run some stress tests later today or tomorrow.

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:00 am

thanks stonyc. Can you run something like a vid stress test and chek temp rise on your card?

Just trying to get a handle on cooling performance as it's early enough to change selections for cooler components

Edit
Dbl Chkd PSU requirements and all of the cards state 350 watts or better. Guess I'll max system ram to 4 gigs and stick with the onboard vid since it's the geforce 6150. Another change I'd planned was to install the Zalman BJ45 chipset cooler on both Nth/Sth bridges.

Starting to look like between the chipset coolers, S12 and the XP120 CPU cooler I can eliminate case fan usage completely, which of course means less noise.

SD-Plissken · Post by **SD-Plissken** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:41 pm

fastturtle the 6150 is good gpu provided your not gaming. if this is setup is just for normal net use or htpc then it should work fine. i got a 6100 based board on the way with 1gig ram, and sst-365 psu to run the whole thing.

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:08 pm

SD-Plisken:
I'm currently using an FX5200, so I'll be damn suprised if the onboard doesn't perform almost as well if not better. Will be my main biz desktop so my needs are pretty lite. Web, Email, Word, Excel and the ocasional game of freecell.

SD-Plissken · Post by **SD-Plissken** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:28 pm

S12 330 or 380 psu should fit the bill, and allow for upgrades if you see fit, and as for heatsinks have you looked in to the Scythe SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatsink. I have read some of the more extreme silent builders have figured ways to use this passively to cool their cpu's. in any case good luck with your build.

webdev511 · Post by **webdev511** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:59 pm

That's the case I ordered for my wife's new PC as a replacement for the less than spectacular Aspire X-QPack.

That system will be...

EVGA NF44 mATX nForce 4 Mobo
2 x 1GB Kingston DDR
Gigabyte 7600GT Silent Pipe2
1 Seagate 300GB Sata2 HD
1 NEC 3550 DVD R/ RW
Opteron 144 cooled by...
Thermalright SI-97a w/ 90mm fan
Seasonic S-12 430W pws

With two 120mm case fans and some creative ducting I could probably even swing passive cooling on the Opteron, but I'm not going to chance it.

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:08 pm

Got curious about possibility of Passive cooling. Seems as though my selected board may have the extra clearence needed for a Ninja although it may be as tight as stonyc's reivew pics. Took some effort but was able to review pics of the boards and I think there's between 1-2 cm clearence since the power connections near outside board edge instead of near the back plane as the DFI uses.

Looks like I may be able to go with the Ninja and passive cooling since the CPU socket sits has an extra 1-2 cm clearence over what stonyc showed in his review photos. Floppy connector at edge then PSU connection. DFI places the PSU connection on oposite side of CPU so it definately looks pretty good. Note that I've modified the board selection just a bit. It's going to be the A8N-VM CSM as it's got gigabit ethernet and 4 Sata Ports along with both vga & dvi connections.

fastturtle · Post by **fastturtle** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:18 pm

Big thanks to everyone who provided feedback/suggestions on this case. It now looks like I'll be able to go passive on the CPU cooling using a Ninja and have plenty of headroom for future needs.

So far, what I've come up with is the Ninja in Passive mode on a Venice Core A64 with an S12-330 for the PSU. I'm not going to plug-in the case fans in order to test temps. If everything stays sane, will leave em unplugged and have far less noise then expected.