Conclusion
Lower price usually goes hand in hand with lower quality materials or overall poorer build quality. This also applies to the tested Evolveo M5. With this case, you will come across a few places where the manufacturer has clearly skimped, but as long as you define yourself as a lower-end user, you’ll most likely be fine. The main advantage here may be the attractive price that probably won’t break the bank for you.
Conclusion
The case with the original fan placement lags far behind the others tested. The processor was the most affected, reaching a peak temperature of 71 °C at 39 dBA. With this value, the case took the last place, along with the Macube 310. However, when the fan is placed in the top position on the intake, the CPU temperatures are reduced by three degrees. On the other hand, the temperatures on the graphics card rise by two degrees. It’s up to you what you want to cool more effectively.
The design of the case is no great hit parade. The thinner sheets do bend, but they will hold what you load on them. The top plate is bent upwards along the edges at the front and back. I don’t know why or if this is just a defect on the test piece or a feature of the case. Also worth mentioning is the mounted power hub for the fans and their backlights. The one big drawback here is that you can only control the backlight and not even the speed of the fans themselves. You can only regulate these when you plug them directly into the motherboard.
I installed the test hardware into the case without difficulty. Cable management is subpar in the case, and you can only use the single-use zip ties you get in the accessories to modify it. You’ll have to leave the Velcro ones in your dreams.
For a price of around 50 EUR, you get a case that is both visually and dimensionally acceptable and that you can show off on your desk. What you probably won’t be boasting about is the cooling. It is weaker compared to most of the tested cases, but it can keep mid-range hardware running cool. Although with minor shortcomings, less demanding users will appreciate it, which is why it earns the “Approved” rating from us.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
| Evolveo M5 |
| + As much as three USB ports |
| + Pleasant appearance |
| + Fans with backlight |
| + Hub for both fans and ARGB backlight |
| + Up to 6 storage positions |
| - Thinner sheet metal |
| - Weaker cooling |
| - Hub does not regulate fan speed |
- Contents
- Exterior
- Interior
- Test methodology
- CPU and GPU cooling tests
- Motherboard cooling tests
- SSD cooling tests
- Conclusion
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Thank you for the compliments. We do not consider YouTube as a platform that is suitable for presenting our publications. We have a huge amount of data in most of our tests and it is based on the fact that everybody can choose what interests them (no need to wait for a lot of other things to pass that they don’t care about). Presenting it all in a video would be too boring for the typical viewer, and for the demanding user, who is primarily looking for hard data, it would be worse to navigate.
We like to write clearly structured xy-chapter articles, which contain, among other things, good details on testing methodologies. YT and videos in general are successful when the authors conceptualize it in the form of entertainment, often at the cost of embellishment or outright distortion of facts to create a desired wow effect. We will never do these things and instead focus on truly professional publications, and YT is not very good at that. See Aris’s PSU tests on Hardware Busters, which have pitifully few views. In short, not everything works in videos. In the same way, not everything works in text articles, the information value is much more important for their success.