Supermicro SC750-A Extended ATX Full Tower

The Test

As always, we used the procedures outlined in AnandTech's case testing methodology, which includes temperature and noise testing following reader suggestions and requests. We tested the SC750-A as we do all other cases using the fans included with our evaluation unit.

Compared to the Enlight EN-8950, the Supermicro SC750-A manages to keep the hard drive a bit cooler, but both ambient and CPU temperatures are 5 degrees hotter.

The CPU temperature actually ended up hotter than with the Enlight 8950 that featured two exhaust fans mounted adjacent to the CPU. Adding the optional fan next to the CPU would help cool the CPU down a bit further and any other exhaust fans would help the ambient temperature.

The hard drive temperature stayed consistently (albeit slightly) lower than what we're used to from our normal batch of ATX cases and even a tad lower than the Enlight 8950. Of course, the focus of the SC750-A is keeping drives cool as evidenced by the number of fans that can be pointed directly at such devices. In this respect, the SC750-A is quite successful, even with just a few fans installed in our evaluation unit. Any drive in the entire system can be cooled directly by a fan, a huge advantage with those hot 10,000 RPM drives.