Zalman MS1000-HS2 Mid-Tower ATX Case
May 24th, 2010 | By NivedhI’ll be testing the cooling performance of the Zalman MS1000-HS2 with the following setup:
- System Configuration:
- CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 X4 BE 2.6GHz
- Motherboard: Asus M3A78 Pro
- Memory: OCZ Vista Upgrade Edition DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) 4GB (2x2GB)
- Video Card: HIS ATI Radeon HD 3650 IceQ3 512MB
- Hard Drive: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160GB SATA II 8MB cache
- Optical: Lite-On SATA DVD±RW
- OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
- Cooling: Stock
- Cases:
- Zalman MS1000-HS2
- No case
Case temperature measurements were taken under different conditions using Lavalys Everest Home Edition 2.20. Idle measurements were taken with the computer idling at the desktop for 2 hours and no CPU or hard drive intensive programs, such as antivirus software, running. Load temperatures were taken while running SP2004 Orthos and HD Tach’s “Long Bench” test multiple times. The maximum temperature over five different runs was taken and reported. I left the fan speeds at the default settings.
The ambient temperature was approximately 25ºC throughout all the tests.
Interestingly, the MS1000-HS2 had lower temperatures than with the motherboard without a case. This may be due to the airflow.
In terms of noise, the MS1000-HS2 does make some noise with the fans it comes with. However, it is not terribly loud and the cooling performance makes up for it.
