Silverstone LC01 Review

04 May Review No comment

Review for Silverstone LC01

A small form factor platform looks inevitably great for home theater PCs. The best suited for the all the home theatre PCs would be an ATX cabinet. But not all the ATX cabinets are good. The person much be careful in choosing the ATX cabinet for a high end system. The obvious solution would be the desktop cases form the Silverstone which are the best solution for the high end home theater system.

First impression

The first aspect that has to be noted is the weight of the Silverstone LC01. It is as light as the feather and weighs 4.2 kg with a sturdy alloy construction and a non breakable case.

External

The most salient feature that any one would notice about Silverstone LC01 is the gorgeous black exterior finish with polish silver stripes, and also available in various colors of user choice. It also uses external drive bays to camouflage the caseâ€™s external bays and port cluster. It is enriched with its stylish finish with matching colors in accordance with the interior. It also has a power button and a Led display and various other salient features like PCI ports, USB etc.

Inside

The most attracting feature is the stiff spine at the centre which makes the enclosure look as light as the feather, which is also easily removable by just removing a few screws. It can accommodate two 2.5â€ drives, two external 3.5â€ drives and four 3.5â€ drives which almost no other system provides.

How about cooling?

The most important aspect of a cabinet is the cooling methods. Here we use the only active cooling element an 80mm exhaust powered but a fan from Everflow. This fan is powered by a 3 pin header that will work with all standard motherboards. This does not include any adapter with it which provides an excellent ventilation facility.

How we test?

Its is tested with the Intel Pentium Celeron processor 2.6 GHz, NVdia Fx 5200 and high end performing RAM.

A Virtual dub DivX encode was used to simulate a disk and CPU workload. All the load test run for ten minutes, before noise and temperature measurements are taken. After testing system was powered down and outer shell was removed for another ten minutes. The temperature was 29C. It is called as the benchmarking sweatshop.

Desktop was set at 1024*768, 32 bit color with 75 KHz screen refresh rate. Thus under the most ideal test condition our Silverstone LC01 proved to be most stable.

Tell me about noise

This test is taken using an digital sound level meter. It is placed one inch from the front in order to monitor noise level change. The system proved to be quite with fans powered down, but, it proved to be quieter with the fans running because of True power 380 W power supply temperature control to have spin faster and quieter.

Conclusion

Reaching the most important part of the product, I would say Silverstone LC01 is one of the best solutions for your home theatre PCs. The attractive style, size, weight and a System friendly environment inside, which probably no other cabinet can provide. Perhaps its stylish exterior and its roomy interior, makes it one of the best products available in the market. Despite all its mind boggling features it comes at a very affordable price which any one could afford to make their PC the best home theatre solution.

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