Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Limited Edition Red

Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Limited Edition Red - Performance

Details: Category: PC Cases; Published: Tuesday, 26 July 2011 03:13

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Performance

With our focus being on a home server use of the Centurion 5 II most of our testing was limited to noise output from the hard drives and fans. Cooler Masters tool-less design for hard drive mounting is both easy to use and very quiet. At no point during testing did I even notice a hard drive spooling up or vibrating. Considering the amount of use we put it through this was impressive. The two fans did a great job keeping everything cool, even after we moved this box into a closet we had no overheating issues. I did notice the sound of the fans when they were running, but I wouldn’t call them loud. If I were to rate them between 1 and 10, 10 being a house fan and 1 being silent, I would give them a 5.

Posts in discussion: Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Limited Edition Red

THUMPer replied the topic: #17047 26 Jul 2011 16:28

its nice. but that design is dated

garfi3ld replied the topic: #17051 26 Jul 2011 19:18

its not as dated as it is budget. Most low end cases are basic

Wingless92 replied the topic: #17056 26 Jul 2011 19:59

This isn't a knock on this case but cases in general.

I want someone to take a poll on how many DVD drives they have in their computer. Do we really need 5 5 1/4 bays? I would think that people would like more HDD space. I know that you can use 5 1/4 bays for many different things and I think that it why we are seeing still a high number of them.

I can see it now, Lesar has 5 DVD drives in his next build that are all IDE. Lol, sorry bud.

The most that I can see is 4 and that is extreme. 2 DVD drives and a reservoir that takes up two spots. Then again unless your burning DVD's constantly then you really only need 1.

I have no idea were i'm going with this but 5 is too many in my book. I wish my 800D only had one and more room for HDD.

I do like the red interior though.

garfi3ld replied the topic: #17074 27 Jul 2011 00:42

If they got rid of most of the bays you would upset a lot of people who use them for everything else.

I use all of my bays for example. Also a lot of bays help with airflow

THUMPer replied the topic: #17079 27 Jul 2011 02:00

my lian li has 3 - 5.25 bays. 1 of those bays had a 3.5 slot conversion. perfect for 1 optical drive and something else.