Review be quiet! Shadow Base 800 FX Review: Stealthy, Stellar Performance

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The Be Quiet Shadow Base 800 FX is an excellent choice for anyone looking for great airflow, RGB, and silent computing.

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[JohnBonhamsGhost]

i loved their Dark Base 700, $180 for that one.
very quiet design and pretty modular, but really could've used a mesh top option.

Silent Base 802, $180 for that one.
one of the best cases i've ever worked with and many options not regularly available with a lot of high-end cases.

and $220 for this one?
don't really see much that makes it worth another $40.
even $180 for the previous ones was a bit too much.

 

[Dr3ams]

I've been using Bequiet! products for over ten years. Even though they're not perfect, I prefer the quality and funtions over their competition.

 

[mwm2010]

be quiet is fire

 

[WrongRookie]

I still think Lian Li 216 is better.

At 100$ you get two 160mm argb fans, one 140mm fan at the back and an option to change the front io panel at the side.

Pretty much all features are there compared to this and it's at a very competitive price.

 

[watzupken]

Barring the fans used, there is really very differentiating factors between such an expensive casing, vs a cheap mesh case. So not sure if it worth paying so much for it. After all, you can get better or comparable fans out there.

 

[olaf]

It would have been nice to see a comparison to the older 802 Silent Base..

 

[Dr3ams]

After all, you can get better or comparable fans out there.

Examples?

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

you can get better or comparable fans out there.

Examples?

since this article is specifically about be quiet!,
they even offer better fans than what's included;

the Silent Wings Pro 4 are quite a bit better overall than the included Light Wings.

 

[RodroX]

I own a Pure Base 500DX, and I had and worked with lots of "generic" and not "generic" cases, the main issues I found with the branded ones like mine is how time consuming it is to build a PC.
You have to deal with lots of compartments for differente parts, screw thing in very uncomfortable positions/places and do all this OCD cable management to achieve and amazing ~2° C less compared to cases that lack cable management features. Im not saying is ok to fix everything in it, close the panel and be done with it, but some people take it too far, like its a beauty contest.

Last week I had a few issues with my main PC, so I took my living room one, which is a really small matx case, with only 1x80mmm fan at the back and no compartments.

I had a hard time making my Corsair RM750x to fit inside but it did, I was also able to fit my RTX 2070 in it, added 1 120mm fan at the front and another SSD. I finally changed the humble Athlon 3000G with my R5 3600 with the boxed cooler (no way to fit my 120mmm tower in this case).
At first I thought "this thing is going to set on fire", to my surprise it didn't. To be fair this case was not designed for a huge PSU and GPU, so the fact that I could put them inside, its really amazing.
CPU temps were more or less really close to the ones inside the bequiet one with the tower cooler, GPU temps while benchmarking were a little higher, but to be fair there was only about 12mm top between the GPU fans and the bottom of the case, gaming temps were normal. I bet if my motherboard (Asrock A320M-HDV) had the only PCIE slot higher in the PCB (like most mobos do) temps will be better. Yes the 80mm fan was annoyingly noise, but it was better than having no PC at all.

I guess the main things to be aware when picking a case should be: 1. What kind of parts are you going to use (not the same the to build and have to acoommodate a low-end system than a high-end one), 2. to not fall for the shiny RGB concept, 3. to look for cases that avoid putting solid panels behind or in front of fans.

 

[helper800]

The Be Quiet case outperformed the others in the comparison by so much I question if the testing methodologies were consistent across all the tests for each case. That does not necessarily matter as long as the test results for each case are replicable, but it can paint an outlier as being "better" than the others if the testing is not consistently the same across all the cases tested.