Cooling?

Aside from being one big heatsink this case also has a few fans, which help to bring the internal temperature down. A nice duct cooling system is placed right over top of the CPU to suck the hot air out of the case. In addition to that the additional fan on the arm helps to draw additional hot air away from the processor. How does the air get into the case? Unfortunately there were no intake fans supplied with this case, which is why I suggest that Skyhawk include an intake fan in the front instead of those silly speakers (the fan of which you can buy extra).

Test system:

AMD Duron 650 at 866 MHz
Thermosonic Thermoengine HS Fan
Iwill KA266-R Mainboard
256 PC2100 Crucial DDR RAM
IBM 45GB GXP ATA/100
Visiontek GeForce3
Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! 5.1
DVD-Rom & CD-RW

The temperature test was conducted after running the computer for approximately one hour (giving the system ample time to heat up) in a room with ambient temperature of 80 degrees F. We used the temperature probes located on the mainboard to take our readings. While not the most accurate of methods, we didn't have a good enough temperature probe. A series of four temperatures were taken then averaged together.

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