Maingear F131 Review: A High Performance Gaming PC Masterpiece
Maingear F131 Power Consumption, Thermals And Acoustics
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Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload (instances of Prime95 and Furmark loaded concurrently). Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet.
Maingear F131 Acoustic And Thermal Profile
Acoustically, the Maingear F131 also exhibited refined, well-mannered performance...
At 45db, with its tempered glass side panel off and under full benchmark load, the Maingear F131 remains cool, calm and collected. This system is actually very quiet when you consider all the horsepower on board. We honestly expected it to become louder, and though it does push a fair amount of heat out of the top of the system from its massive 420mm radiator, the whole setup remains really well-behaved acoustically.
Thermally, the Maingear F131 inspired confidence as well, with its GTX 1080 Ti GPUs not exceeding about 58ºC max under 95 - 100 percent load, though one was always slightly cooler than the other by a couple of degrees. The F131's Core i9-7960X CPU also remained tepid, peaking at just 68ºC at the top end with both it and the GPUs fully loaded.
Thermally, the Maingear F131 inspired confidence as well, with its GTX 1080 Ti GPUs not exceeding about 58ºC max under 95 - 100 percent load, though one was always slightly cooler than the other by a couple of degrees. The F131's Core i9-7960X CPU also remained tepid, peaking at just 68ºC at the top end with both it and the GPUs fully loaded.
