In this video we're going to do a review of the sky 2 from our friends at Montech this beautiful
looking case we're going to be doing thermal and acoustic testing and then we're going to
go over the overall build quality of the case then towards the end we're going to go over my opinions
of this case and I'd love to get your feedback on that so stay tuned for that without wasting any
more time let's get started so right now the only thing really making noise in my office is the NAS
the noise level in here is
under 32 DB which is the lowest this will go down
to so that's incredibly quiet so let's go ahead turn on the machine real quick
okay so right now we're about two feet away from the computer and also by the way there
is no side panel on the machine so it'll be a little bit quieter with the side panel on
okay I wanted you to get that ambient noise again
so let me put the side panel on real quick and now with the side panel on
wow a lot more quiet all right so let's do some testing and then we'll come back to the noise
level since we will be doing noise testing we're also going to be doing thermal testing now one
very important thing about thermal testing is the ambient temperature is incredibly important
to the temperature inside of the PC if your temperature in your house or in your room is
hot the inside of your PC is going to be hotter the ambient temperature in my house is 63 degrees
Fahrenheit which converts to about 18 degrees Celsius the cooler your houses or the ambient
temperature around your PC the cooler the inside of your PC will be as well on most PCS the fans
are going to be on the front of the case this one you have the glass or plastic whatever material
this is kind of irrelevant on this particular case though the fans are going to be right over here on
the side these fans are going to be sucking air in they're the reverse type of fans so they're
sucking air in now there is a filter here to keep it from pulling in dust and everything which will
also affect how much cooler air comes in I think it's better to have no dust come
so just my two cents on that regardless on that so far it's cooling incredibly well the other
place that it's going to be pulling air from is down here and up front at the very bottom
then down here it's just sucking cool air in and there is a fan over here on the bottom of the
case like those rear fans sucking cool air from down here in through the case and blowing it up
under the video card helping to keep the overall system and the video card cool so the temperature
of this over here which is going to be where it's pulling cool air from is about 20.5 degrees
you can see that there that's incredibly cool and then the other place is going to be along the back
over here and that temperature is about 20.7 degrees so very very very cool
the temperature back here is 23.2 degrees
air coming out is about three degrees hotter than it is coming in from the front which is
to be expected and of course that's idle we're going to start off with temperatures on the CPU
and unfortunately my copy of Ida 64 has expired I need to get a new key on Monday so we're going
to go ahead and start a stress test one thing to mention I did move the pump from the CPU optional
to the AIO and then I also made the configuration in the BIOS from the original build till this that
did change though during testing I didn't notice much of a difference at all but anyway so let's go
ahead start it we're going to start off with half an hour of testing so let's click Start
after more than half an hour of testing ambient noise level
not too bad again we're about two feet away less than two feet away
the noise level on the rear of the PC
a little over 65 not bad at all we're less than a foot away from the rear fan
which would be the loudest
and along the top which actually would be the loudest because we have the radiator right up here
about 72 degrees though we are about four inches away from the top of the radiator
and of course if you're going to put your ear right there it is going to be incredibly loud
now coming up here with the thermals
about 26 degrees I'm just scanning all of it to see if I find a hotter spot up here six degrees
seven
now we can see back here along the rear of the system 25 degrees just the hot air
coming out over here looks like most of it is being expelled from the ceiling of the case
of course it would be that's where the liquid cooling is expelling from
so not too loud and not too hot so we're going to go ahead and stop that here the
hottest we hit was about 73 degrees and you can see that right over here
was just a quick blip and again that's not too bad considering this is a 12900
KF processor so closing out of here now we're going to go ahead and stress the GPU
so right now coming from the rear of the GPU
what around 23 degrees now mind you were idle we're not doing anything graphically intense
so we've been stressing the system now for about 38 minutes a little bit more than 30
minutes the hottest the GPU’s gun is around 65 degrees maybe 66 degrees that's incredibly
awesome being that we're stressing it 100 percent and of course we're using a 4090
and the system is consuming about 630 Watts the entire system not just the card of course
now stressing like this we can see right here along the back 32 degrees Celsius
and this is the heat coming off of the GPU now mind you we're not directly on the GPU
but that is the heat expelling from the card
so not bad and then the heat expelling from the rear of the system is about 38 degrees now one
of the explanations for that is that we have this fan blowing air up into the video cart and we can
see all around here the fins they're expelling the heat out into the system so this is helping the
air come out out of here and then getting expelled by the radiators up here and then of course cool
air coming in from the front slash side of the case right along here those two fans blowing air
in which of course is going over over here taking as cool air from the bottom coming up through here
then expelling from the rear of the card so all of the hot air is coming out entirely in the system
which explains why there is more heat coming out of the rear of the system
than the GPU itself so that's not bad at all the noise level we're about foot away
let's just say 50 DB so that's not loud at all we're again about a foot
away from the side of the system now about a foot away from the GPU
let's say another 55 DB so not incredibly loud then coming up behind the system
on the rear fan anywhere between 50 something and 60 something DB
so as the stress builds up on the system that fan is going to get louder because it is controlled
by PWM so I've been testing with this filter on which is going to block a little airflow being
exhausted from the top of the case and that's also going to make things a little tiny bit hotter
because not only is it blocking air but this is capturing some of that air heating itself the way
you're going to want to do it at home because this is exhausting air is to unscrew this back here
slide it out so that right here you have the radiator now mind you it's not as pretty as that
but this is a lot more efficient than that so like this again you're blocking airflow
and like this you're letting all the air come out you're letting the system get as cool as it
possibly can with what it has already with the system on along the rear of the system
you want to remove the rear panel okay now one of the things also blocking airflow is a filter
on the side fan but I would say that filter is needed because that's sucking air into the system
with these reverse fans we're normally a fan like this would be blowing out these are reversed this
is sucking air in cool air into the system so I would say keep that filter on that way you don't
get any dust along here now the reason I mentioned the back aside from that filter is you don't have
a lot of room back here to hide cable so when you put the side panel on depending on how you cable
manage I think I do a pretty decent job you're going to have a little bit of a bulge I had to lay
it on its side pushing it down to slide it in and then to screw it in the back for it to work that's
a common occurrence but something definitely I want to let you know regardless of that you have
plenty of space for storage two SSD’s here and then two drives here four drives in total it's
not the most but it's definitely not the least I would say this is nice and then with the built-in
aRGB and fan controller Hub right up here the engineering sample I have does have some issues
with this controller but as you can see the issues aren't too bad as everything's working
correctly when you receive the retail version if you bought it the issues would already be worked
out you would have the final version again this is an engineering sample now one of the other
things that bugs me about this case though it is a trend is there's only two USB ports mind you
they have a USB type c which actually does work but still only two USB ports I feel in this day
and age take advantage of the USB 2.0 ports so that you can have four ports and then mind you
I completely understand that motherboards might only have one USB 3.0 header but typically they
have at least one USB 2.0 header if not two so pop in two more of those it'll help a ton
a few things I love about this case is that 45 degree angle they put on the side of the case
over here that allows you to fit for example the ATX24 pin the USB type-c the USB 3.0 any
kind of cable you can fit in there and then in this case also the cable mod cable for the
4090 so it it lends itself to Great cable management
the other thing I loved is this fan down here this fan not only provides additional airflow to the
video card but coming out you can see it provides additional airflow throughout the case since
heat is going to come out through the side of the video card here it helps push air up and
then out over here and then through the rear of course if you don't have fans along the top
I love this Hub over here that is not only for your fans so you can put your fans here
PWM controlled to a single fan header on the board but then you also have aRGB as well so it controls
these two fans the fan at the bottom and the rear fan then of course if you wanted to add another
one in there as well for aRGB and fan alike now down here you have space for additional storage
and your power supply actually fits in here they give you two spots here so you can either put
it right here or you'll notice you can move the entire box one way over here but then of course
you're going to run into some cables over here so right here is the best option now unfortunately
they don't have additional trays for a 2.5 inch drives so you need to either use two 3.5 inch
drives there or get two trays to convert it from a 3.5 to a 2.5 over here they have two trays for
two 2.5S be it mechanical or SSD’s like that this is the rear side of those 45 degree angle grommets
or cutouts so you can see the rear side how I fit the atx24 pin then right over here they have
another hole which I didn't use in this build but surely you can use in other builds and then these
two holes over here where I fit a ton of cables through and because I have the radiator up there
almost completely hidden might need this big strand of cables but it's because of the very
odd EVGA liquid cooling unit which is actually awesome but it's just a little tiny bit awkward
the front of the case has this glass front panel or I don't think it's glass kind of plastic but
so there is no fans up here you do have to rely on those side fans
but it works out great there is plenty of room in the case for this video card now mind you
this will have to bend a little tiny bit this does hit the glass but as we already know it
doesn't really cause any issue unless you do have a bad cable and as you saw in this video
the card stays incredibly cool not only because of those fans and the fans on the card but that
fan helps a ton as well as this exhaust up here and along the rear the top up here does have a
filter for the radiator but because it's exhaust I would recommend to just remove that filter
and just have your bare radiator sticking out like that that way heat comes out quicker and
less resistant I still feel like they could have added two more USB ports maybe USB 2.0
an additional two USB 3.0 would have caused an additional header on the motherboard and not
everybody has that so most people have at least one free USB 2.0 Port they could have used that
there it's nice that they included a USB type-c and of course the front panel audio over here they
give you the option for aRGB if you don't have RGB on your motherboard and of course the power
button with the power light and the HD activity light along the rear here nothing really different
pretty standard features along the bottom here they give you a filter here that you can remove
and wash for the bottom of your power supply so that you don't suck in any dust or anything along
those lines then over here is where I was saying that you can move the tray for the hard drives
move it back one notch here about an inch but I would say leave it as far as possible from the
rear for your cables the feet add an additional almost an entire inch of space breathing space for
your power supply to breathe so that's always welcome here
to cut down on vibration and so that you don't push it over maybe if you have a dog a cat a
kid maybe that pushes it over rubberized over here so that it doesn't slip on top of the table
now this fan is pretty cool because you may not realize it but a lot of cases have a fan down here
that you could put but it's not really pulling the air from anywhere now right down here this
is open air so it's pulling cool air from the sides over here sucking in while there isn't a
filter here this is kind of a mesh material so on its own it's a filter and then that same filter is
along the front right over here the Montech Sky Two to me is an awesome case it looks beautiful
it has amazing Acoustics and amazing thermals and for under 100 bucks you can't go wrong it comes
complete with four RGB lights two along the sides one along the bottom and then one along the rear
then perfect cutouts just about everywhere so that you can fit cables to give yourself the most room
for cabling it has a decent amount of options for storage though it could use some more it could use
two additional USB ports be it USB 2.0 or 3.0 but I get that would make things cost a little
bit more they really did put a lot of thought into this case the only thing to me that really
kind of makes it hurt a little bit is the space in the back you can't fit a whole lot of cables
without getting some bulge in there all in all I think it is an awesome case for an awesome price
you can't go wrong with the Monntech Sky 2. this is Iggy with ThisBytesForYou out, see you guys