Thermaltake Armor A60 Review

Testing:

To test the Thermaltake A60, temperatures will be recorded for the CPU, GPU, chipset, hard drives, and the overall system temperature during load and idle phases. Load will be simulated by Prime95 small FFTs and HD Tune for one hour with maximum temperatures recorded by RealTemp. The GPU load will be the maximum value recorded by RivaTuner after five loops of 3DMark06’s Canyon Flight test. Each case is tested as is from the factory, including the fan configuration. As stated earlier, the fan configuration for the A60 is 1x120mm front intake, 1x120mm rear exhaust, and 1x200mm top exhaust.

Testing Setup:

• Processor: Intel i7 920
• Motherboard: MSI Eclipse SLI
• Memory: Mushkin Ridgeback 12800 6-8-6-24
• Video Card: nVidia GTX 260
• Power Supply: Mushkin 800w Modular Power Supply
• Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB SATA
• Optical Drive: Lite-On DVD-RW
• OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
• Ambient Temperature: 23 °C
• CPU Heatsink: Stock Intel

Comparison Cases:

• NZXT Phantom
• Thermaltake Armor A90
• Antec Sonata Proto
• Raidmax Quantum
• Xclio A380 Color Plus
• Raidmax Skyline
• IN WIN Maelstrom

The Thermaltake Armor A60 performed just as I expected. The temperatures are right on par with the Armor A90, though being that it is a smaller case, it fell behind by a few degrees in some tests. However, the Armor A60 surpassed the Armor A90 in CPU and GPU idle, though it did fall out to be a bit higher on the chipset temperatures. On the next page, I will wrap up my thoughts about this case.