Review Date: 26th August 2006 Reviewed By: Michael "Hughesey" Hughes Product: Silverstone Temjin Series TJ08 mATX Case Rating: 90% Manufacturer: Silverstone Supplier: N/A

Installation

Installation of a system into this case was quite simple. Despite the rather unusual method of removing the motherboard tray, installation was quite straight forward. You simply remove the tray, screw the motherboard on, put your CPU and its cooler on, put the RAM in. It is a good idea to place your hard drives in with the motherboard tray removed as even with a stock AMD cooler we were unable to insert/remove hard drives due to the cooler being in the way.

 

Now that the system has been installed we can observe a few areas where components are extremely tight, or have the potential to be extremely tight.

 

The first is the power supply area. Note how there is very little space between the power supply and the optical drive. If a large modular type power supply were used, inserting and removing power cables could be quite difficult due to the rigid nature of the modular connectors.

The second is the area around the processor and hard drives. As you can see, even with an Athlon 64 3800+ (thanks Altech!), space is very minimal between the heatsink and the hard drive. As such, using a large heatsink such as Thermaltakes Big Typhoon or the Scythe Ninja could be an issue, although some users have reported success in being able to run these large heatsinks passively in this case due to the close proximity of the 120mm case fan. Having said this, installation of such a large cooler would be incredibly fiddly as if it were installed whilst in the case, accessing the clips would be near impossible, and if it were installed while the motherboard tray were removed, it may be difficult to tilt the motherboard tray back into position.

When looking at these issues, however, we must remember that we are dealing with a mATX case and that space is at a premium. While some areas may be a little pokey with large components installed, Silverstone have done rather well to be able to fit all this in such a small case!

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