Cooler Master Centurion 5: Simplicity Meets Functionality

Benchmarking - Thermal

When benchmarking the Centurion 5, we test the temperatures of key components including the actual CPU temperature, the actual temperature inside the heatsink, the temperatures of the DDR, Northbridge, Southbridge, HDD, PSU, and the ambient temperature inside the case, all during normal operation. During our testing, the PSU and CPU heatsink fans remain on to measure temperatures during normal system operations.

Chaintech VNF3-250 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OCZ PC3200 DDR x 2 Zalman CNPS7000 Copper Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA ATI 9800XT AGP8x OCZ 520W PowerStream

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The thermal readings for the key components and points on the motherboard during operation were as follows:

With its combination of 120mm and 80mm fans, the Centurion 5 performed comparably to the Enermax Sea Hawk and Chenbro's Xpider II. CPU temperatures remained cool and well under the Athlon 64 3200's maximum operating temperature. Though it did not perform as well as the Temjin 5 or the Damier V6000A, it kept temperatures of all components at stable temperatures.