Fractal Design Terra Jade - Wood Walnut front panel - Small form factor - mITX gaming case – PCIe 4.0 riser cable – USB Type-C - Anodized aluminum panels

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Those concerns I just spoke of (difficulties of getting a full system into such a small enclosure) were completely unwarranted. While the other half would flow across the GPU, you wouldn’t really see any meaningful temperature differences, plus you would lose a large portion of the cable management space this case provides. Our 13600KF and RTX 4070 weren’t really held back, but ultra high-end choices like a 4090 or 13900K would force you into skimping on cooling somewhere and making an imbalanced build. The ID-Cooling IS-55 cooler I use on this test system has a 57mm height, so I set this to position 5.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. So of course you have to use an mITX mainboard and the power supply unit can only be an SFX/SFX-L model with a maximum length of 130 mm.MAG CH120 X Black Gaming Chair from MSI ENJOY A MORE COMFORTABLE GAMING EXPERIENCEThe durable steel framework on the MSI MAG CH120 X Gaming Chair offers a sturdy construction with specially molded foam to contour to your body for great body support. The Terra is less expensive and smaller, but won’t support liquid cooling or as long of a GPU as the EVO.

I'm worried I may have applied too much thermal paste, although I don't know if that would be causing any problems temperature-wise.Flexible specification options to meet your needs, fully configurable and of course, upgradeable in future. Discover the perfect equilibrium for your construction using 30mm of internal versatility offered by an uninterrupted, adjustable central partition. Without any chassis fans to force it out, you actually are relying on that slow natural movement of hot air to escape through the top or through the GPU.

The front panel features a small strip of wood along the bottom where the limited front I/O is located -- the type of wood depends on the case color. GPU is only hitting 65°C under load and is mostly staying under 55°C when gaming, although I haven't upgraded my monitor from 1080p/144Hz yet. At 77mm of CPU cooler clearance, coolers like the Noctua NH-L9x65 would fit at 65mm or the DeepCool AN600 at 67mm (which is what we used). Inspired by the homes of modern gamers, Terra incorporates boutique design features such as thick panels cut from anodized aluminum, CNC-milled details and FSC-certified solid walnut. Enjoy an impactful and organised experience, complete with the option to install a GPU of up to 322 mm length within a compact 10.This is primarily an air cooling case, and we’d like to see a spot added for at least one exhaust fan somewhere to get the hot air out. There was actually enough space to easily re-plug in the power button connector for the front panel after I had accidently pulled it loose at one point. The central spine runs from front-to-back inside the case and can be adjusted left to right by 30mm to allow for more room either on the GPU or CPU side.

There is not only enough space to plug the 24 pin, the USB 3 and USB C front connectors into the motherboard once it’s installed, but there is plenty of room allotted for cable management beneath the power supply. Given that the 4070 FE doesn’t totally line-up with the PSU in the Terra, this would likely matter even more with a larger or longer card like a 4080 FE or Gigabyte Aero, and less so with a traditional non-flow-through card like an RX 7900 XT. Corsair SF750 is probably the most popular SFX PSU available and not only is it very good but has much nicer braided cables. And with both the GPU and CPU getting so hot, I feel like there's some kind of fundamental thermal air flow issue going on.The Terra does make allowance for a 120mm fan to be installed at the bottom of the chassis, ideally as an intake, though I’m not completely convinced by the effectiveness of this location. Likewise, switching coolers between cases and putting them all on the same chart effectively becomes a cooler review, not a case review, which we do separately. The SF1000L fits, but the cables need to be preinstalled when mounting it because there’s not enough room below the PSU to comfortably plug one in after the fact. We’d prefer to see an alternate solution that doesn’t turn the entire door panel into a lever against such a small plastic part. In the GPU Test, the Terra equaled the best performance temperature performance of any SFF enclosure I’ve tested.