MSI MPG VELOX 300R AIRFLOW PZ Case Review
Thermal Testing
MSI MPG VELOX 300R AIRFLOW PZ 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.
1,000 RPM
Clearly, MSI’s fancy dual-layer fans are doing something good, as this case is giving us strong thermal results. Not bad for a case that only has three fans. Even at 1,000 RPM, both our CPU and GPU thermal deltas are kept at 50 degrees or below. Noice!
Max RPM Fan Test
Maxing out the fans on this case pushes thermals down another step, delivering better thermal results while remaining fairly quiet. Another solid result from MSI.
