Corsair FRAME 4000D PC Case Review
Thermal Testing
Corsair FRAME 400D PC Case Cooling Performance
Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look great from the outside, but all of that is for nought if your PC has the internal temperature of an oven. Your PC case needs enough airflow for your components to remain cool under load and to prevent any form of thermal throttling. For our test, we used the following hardware using fixed fan speeds (so that only the case and its included fans can influence thermal performance).
Intel i9-9700K @4.8GHz at 1.2V
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming @ 100% Current Capacity/ LL lvl16
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition @ 9V via Fan Speed Reducer
Nvidia GTX 980 Reference @ 60% Fixed Fan Speed
Corsair LP Vengeance LP (Grey) @ 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 NVMe SSD
Corsair RM550X Power Supply
The graph below showcases Delta temperatures with a controlled ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius.
1000 RPM
Overall, the FRAME 4000D sits in a similar place to its predecessor, which is unsurprising. All fans are mounting in the same places, and these fans generate the same amount of airflow in the same places. This case delivers similar results to competing cases with similar designs. If we mounted more fans at the base of this case, we could lower GPU temperatures. If we used an AIO CPU liquid cooler, we could use this case’s airflow pattern more optimally and lower CPU thermals.
All-in-all, this case gives us plenty of airflow, you just have to use it optimally.
Max Fan RPMs
When we max out our fans, we see CPU and GPU temps drop a little. Again, we would get better results by adding bottom mounted fans, or by using a more modern GPU with axial fans. Overall, we have results that are decent. That said, we can do better with more optimally placed fans or by using a more modern hardware configuration.
