Because the graphics card we’re using is long, a clean, swooping air path is interrupted due to the slim distance between the front fan and GPU. Sowohl optisch als auch haptisch strahlt er eine hohe Qualität aus, die sich dann auch fortsetzt, wenn man die Komponenten einbaut. Instead, the company has developed something less geometric and more striking, while maintaining the airflow a proper chassis needs. But it’s nice to see some creativity once in a while, which we get with the Fractal Torrent Compact. Our test PC was drawing 450W at the wall socket with 76W going to the Ryzen 5 and 255W going to the RX 6800 XT graphics card.

This is because the PSU resides at the top, and the chassis’ cooling system is centered around the intake at the front and bottom.

Fractal Design Torrent cases allow you to install 180mm fans in the floor and front of the case and house the power supply in the roof so if – like us – you're not much fussed about that feature you may well be feeling a touch of meh.

Then there's the opposite extreme favored by a certain fruit company, of pulling just barely enough air through to keep the system from thermal throttling. As for the sound, it's definitely not silent, but I guess that's hard to ask for with those giant fans and how much air they move. You will have gathered from our video that we have mixed feelings about the Fractal Design Torrent Compact. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

I ended up doing 3 120mm fans in the front that also hold my liquid cooler and I put the 180mm fans laying flat at the base of the case. However, no RGB controller or hub is present, so you will be relying on the A-RGB ports of your motherboard. Viele Kabelmanagement-Optionen, Durchbrüche an genau den richtigen Stellen für CPU-, und Audio-Kabel und sogar zwei Schienen, in denen man einen kleinen Stabilisator für die Grafikkarte anbringen kann. With the trend toward higher-and-higher TDP hardware, the Torrent seems primed to capitalize on that, with a design that should offer more airflow than any other case I’ve tested yet – hence the name Torrent. If you don't have lots of drives and power cables, so less cables, and are an air-cooling aficionado, there's nothing that compares to the torrent.

But since the original Torrent was tested on our previous testbed (with an Intel Core i9-9900K and an RTX 2070 Super), not our new i7/ RTX 3070 Ti setup, this isn’t meant as a direct comparison. It is worth noting the bottom and front fans were all set to intake and there may be scope for improvement with the addition of a rear exhaust fan. Tom's Hardware is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. But today, Fractal Design is coming out with the Torrent, and it feels like the designers got amnesia that led to forgetting what most ATX cases are like, which resulted in something totally different. Built to maximize cooling potential straight out of the box, the Torrent comes with a brand-new component layout and two custom-made 180 x 38 mm Dynamic PWM or Prisma RGB PWM fans.

Fan mounts: 3x 120mm, 2x 140mm or 2x 180mm front, 3x 120mm, 2x 140mm or 2x 180mm front, 1x 120mm rear. By launching the Torrent Nano and Torrent Compact, the latter of which we are reviewing here, the company aims to elevate this line to the same status by offering variants in three different sizes. Since we reviewed the original Fractal Torrent last year we have included our results from that case as well as the new Compact model, in part because we don’t yet have any other results from our new test rig. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Or in other words, bolting on a bigger faster fan doesn't necessarily make it cooler; learned this the hard way many years ago! What happens with the PSU at the top is a lot of the hot air from the CPU and the GPU gets sucked into the PSU's intake fan, reducing its efficiency. You can find the full statement from Fractal here , including support links and guides to disconnecting the hub.

Simply put, the new models are powerhouses that let you enjoy airflow to a degree normally associated with larger cases, making Torrent an excellent choice for air cooling aficionados looking for a compact or nano case. I like also how the glass door open they simply swing down and out, and if you have chunky cables sticking out a little you can close and put in screw at the top, for just a little added assurance that the glass won't open and shatter.