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Further Analysis
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The Nvidia artwork is well executed and tasteful.
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Ask for it by name.
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Physical support for hardware ranges from good to excellent.
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The holes on the left allow access to PCI cards without removing the motherboard tray. | |
The TJ10, while not truly tool-less, should still save you from breaking out the powertools and your array of screw drivers when it comes time to pop the hood - thumbscrews are the rule. Cards are still held down with the standard retaining screw, and while drives are as well, they are screwed onto a pair of removable drive sleds that slide smoothly free and click securely into place. That's not all the love, though - they also get their own dedicated 120 mm fan, pushing air through their own dedicated airflow path. On the subject of fans, there are five, all 120mm and all LED lit in radioactive green. The other four are placed very well - two lower intakes, one placed perfectly to blow on a large PCI-E graphics card or two (or three - the Temjin is certified for 3x SLI) - more precisely, on their air intakes. The back intake is perfectly placed to blow on most CPU coolers and is blasting directly through the fins of the test system. The other two are top-mounted exhausts. In addition, there are pre-punched holes for water cooling - this case is clearly meant to grow with a system as it matures from stock, to overclocked, to watercooled monster. The icing on the cake? The power supply even has its own airflow path - a dedicated vent on the bottom of the case serves as a constant supply of cool external air, while the waste heat is vented through the backplate.
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The fan blows right over and through the heat sink fins on many coolers.
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Full size graphics cards would get blown just as well as the processor.
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Heat rises: all the hot air from the system is evacuated through two 120mm fans.
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| Temjin in the wild: as it all looks with the case closed. | Once more with the case cracked: note the hard drive fan on the bottom right. | From the front, the only illuminated part is the power light. And the glowing wall. |
Moving on to drive bays, there are four 5 1/4 bays under the front drive door plus a 3.5" bay for legacy storage (Does anyone still use floppies?) or 3.5" card readers or fan controllers. Internal, occupying the space between the front of the case and the side-mounted inlets, are two banks of three hard drive slots, each with a drive sled that can be removed and replaced without tools. Drives are secured to these sleds by screwing them through 1.5mm closed-cell foam for fairly effective vibration dampening. As said, six internal hard drive bays are provided - this should be adequate for the most demanding personal-storage junkie, and the low end of servers. One additional 3.5" drive bay has frontal access - some of you still need a floppy drive for legacy purposes - accessing old files from the bad old days - and some of you have a library of Zip disks. I'm not here to judge, just to let you know that it's not a problem. The four 5.25" bays provide adequate space for a bay card reader, fan controller, or a hard drive caddy - even double-wide ones should not pose a problem. One caveat - the Temjin doesn't use one of the comparatively modern drive rail systems on the market. This probably won't be a deal breaker for anyone, and also has the happy side effect of broad compatibility with baybus devices or fan controllers. Recent models only screw into the front two screws; a rail-compatible version would need to screw into the back in order to keep the drive rails steady in a tool-less case. As a result, you become free to choose the best solution for you, instead of focusing on the fit of such a system in your case. And with all those fans, you probably will want a fan control device to keep things silent.
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