Cougar CONQUER vs Thermaltake CTE C700 Aircomputed

Datasheet figures next to each other, and the airflow balance, pressure verdict and case air heating that the fans in each box compute to behind that case's own front. Calculated with the CaseFlow model, not measured.

Side by side

Cougar CONQUERThermaltake CTE C700 Air
FormMid-TowerMid Tower
Volume101.3 L93.9 L
Dimensions685 × 255 × 580 mm566 × 328 × 506 mm
Frontmesh dust filtermesh dust filter
Fan mountsfront 3 × 120, top 4 × 120, rear 1 × 120front 3 × 140/120/200, top 2 × 140/120, rear 3 × 140/120, bottom 3 × 140/120, side 1 × 140/120
Radiator supportfront 240 mm, top 360 mmfront 420 mm, rear 420 mm, bottom 360 mm
Dust filters–front, top, bottom, rear, side
GPU length350 mm410 mm
Cooler height190 mm190 mm
Stock fans3 × COUGAR CFD 120 LED Fan (front)3 × CT140 (front), 1 × CT140 (top), 1 × CT140 (rear)
Stock airflow, max rpm–181 in / 136 out CFM
Stock pressure verdictstock fans named but no datasheet - nothing computedpositive, worst case included
Case air at 290 W–+2.9 K
Stock fan noise–37.5 dB(A)
All mounts, reference fans140 in / 264 out CFM 3 / 5 mounts396 in / 330 out CFM 7 / 5 mounts

With a reference pressure-optimized fan on every mount the CTE C700 Air moves more air. The stock fans of the CONQUER are named without figures behind them, so its stock columns stay empty. The pressure verdict describes the stock fan set, not the case: stronger or extra intake fans in the free mounts, or slower exhaust fans, turn a negative balance positive.

CONQUER — mounts and stock fans

TOPBOTTOMREARFRONT · mesh

CTE C700 Air — mounts and stock fans

side mountsTOPBOTTOMREARFRONT · mesh

Case air heating with the stock fans — computed

0 5 0 100 200 300 400 450 W GPU (open cooler) + 40 W board CTE C700 Air K case air above room

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How these numbers are computed

Each stock fan contributes CFMmax · derate · rpm/rpmmax behind its wall's mounting class: filtered mesh front and side mounts as dust filter, bottom as floor + filter, top and rear as open grille, solid and glass fronts as side-slit intake at roughly half of a mesh front. Front, bottom and side blow in; top and rear blow out.

MountingAirflow bladesPressure-optimized
Open grille0.88 (0.80–0.95)0.88 (0.80–0.95)
Dust filter0.70 (0.60–0.80)0.78 (0.70–0.86)
Floor + filter0.64 (0.52–0.74)0.72 (0.62–0.80)
Solid or glass front0.50 (0.40–0.62)0.58 (0.48–0.68)

Worst case sums intake at the low end of each band and exhaust at the high end; positive there means positive regardless of how the estimates fall. Case air: ΔT = 3.1 · W / throughput (m³/h), with an open-cooler GPU putting its full board power into the case air plus board, RAM and drives. Capacity puts a reference pressure-optimized fan on every mount at max rpm — 120 mm 60 CFM, 140 mm 75 CFM — a generic good fan, not a product.

Mount counts, radiator support and clearances are datasheet figures. Nothing here is measured; the same model runs in CaseFlow.