SignalRGB gives you a myriad of possible effects, but you can of course also set up your own to give your lighting ecosystem the look that suits you best. With the FX devices from be quiet! the possibilities are really vast, and since all your lighting hardware supports SignalRGB, you’ll have complete control over it. And how does the PC look with all the RGB synchronized? All of this said, the Pure Base 500 FX is definitely an Air-cooling focused case. While the 360mm Rad spot in the front might sound impressive, this one is bound to the removal of the HDD Cage at the bottom of the case.

With the case fans set to the “performance” preset the airflow helped the tower cooler manage temps with the tested 11th Gen Core i9 processor (power limits were enforced, hence the temps only in the 60s), and in spite of the airflow boost (I’m assuming) the relatively small size of this enclosure affected load temps with the RTX 2080 FE card I used, but not to any large degree (get it?).All in all, classy but simple is a perfect description of the Pure Base 500 FX's design. Without any outstanding and remarkable optical features, the case delivers exactly what you need, without any unnecessary extras. A design approach that we particularly enjoy. Installation In the most basic of terms, you will be buying the Pure Base 500 DX, minus the ARGB strip at the top of the glass panel. Otherwise, it is the same until we get to the cooling. In the Pure Base 500 FX, you get four Light Wings fans, which we currently use in our main rig, as we like the ARGB lighting and default rainbow mode they deliver. Even so, that is not where be quiet! stopped. They could have included some daisy-chain adapter cables and made a mess of things, but instead, they offered a better solution with the ARGB/PWM fan hub. The ARGB signal for the 2 front ARGB strips is not cable bound. be quiet! used a push-pin system that makes removing and installing the front panel easy. Accordingly, the 500DX performed well here with a CPU dT not much higher than the torture result, averaging 52C dT. It’s cooler than all cases other than the Corsair 220T Airflow and Phanteks P400A RGB, which are tied at 51C dT. The top side of the PSU shroud is plastered with little triangular cutouts. This paired with the incredibly long bottom air filter and the corresponding air hole makes it easy for some air to travel through the bottom panel immediately into the GPU. This might not make the difference between a Good and Bad GPU temperature situation, but it definitely helps.

At this “performance” fan preset for the case fans there was a slight increase in GPU load temps within the enclosure (vs. the the open testbed) with these particular components, and a decrease in CPU temps inside the case. The GPU length support inside the Pure Base 500 FX is truly impressive. With up to 369mm long cards, there is nothing out as of now which wouldn't fit inside the beast. CPU Cooler

Inside, there’s space in the front to mount up to a 360mm radiator, as well as an additional set of fans, as long as you remove the 3.5-inch hard drive cage below. In the roof, the Pure Base 500 also supports a slim 240mm AIO, and in the rear up to a 140mm AIO.

Switchable multi mode and multi color ARGB LED lighting(white, red, green, blue, orange, purple), internal and external, supports motherboard LED controlThere are dust grilles underneath the case as well as in the front. Therefore, large-grained dust cannot penetrate the case, which can reduce cleaning efforts. Nevertheless, the grilles should be cleaned regularly so that the airflow is not affected by collecting dust. Loudness Considering this is a mid-tower case, and a relatively small one at that, there is nothing more that we would have hoped for. For CPU coolers and their height restrictions, there is slim to none. With up to 190mm high coolers, it will be hard, or even impossible to find anything that can exceed this limitation. Fans A maximális légáramlásra optimalizált Light Wings PWM ventilátor a megfelelő választás minden olyan házkonfigurációhoz, amely nagy hűtési teljesítményt igényel. 7 légáramlásra optimalizált ventilátorlapátja nem csak a zajt keltő turbulenciákat csökkenti, hanem biztosítja a ventilátor számára a szükséges teljesítményt még az igényes konfigurációkban is.

With a different motherboard and RAM, it may well not be a problem. Still, the case would have liked to be another 1-2 inches taller so edge cases like this wouldn’t be a problem. Airflow Beyond that, just make sure everything is wired up and in place, and if you have an RGB/A-RGB controller, make sure not only that everything is wired up right, but also that it’s on the proper RGB channels. . And precisely this, leads us to the next point of the article… The importance of having an RGB hub like the one from be quiet! On to noise levels, and this was interesting. At idle, when I had the system configured as it was for the thermal testing seen above (CPU cooler set to 100%, other fans at “performance” preset), idle noise was a very noticeable 36.2 dBA (measured with the meter 12 inches from the front of the case). On the other hand, total system noise only rose slightly above this under a gaming load, hitting 36.7 dBA on the meter.

Díjak

Although this is supposed to be a mid-tower & mid-tier case with an according price tag, the Pure Base 500FX can house quite a lot of hardware. Down below we added a short summary of everything that the case offers: All of this said, we are certain that the Pure Base 500 FX's strengths lie within the Air Cooling world. Cable Management