Fractal Design Torrent Compact

Aufgrund der Fülle an Features, der gebotenen Qualität und der hervorragenden Kühlperformance, vergeben wir dem Torrent Compact von Fractal Design unseren Spitzenklassen-Award. Die von uns getestete Variante liegt momentan bei 180 € im Preisvergleich.

Fractal Design baut eine ganze High-Airflow-Serie auf. Denn die beiden neuen Modelle Torrent Compact und Torrent Nano versprechen ebenfalls kompromisslose Kühlung, sind aber platzsparende Alternativen zum ausgewachsenen Torrent. Wir haben die beiden Airflow-Zwerge gleich im Doppel getestet und können sie deshalb auch bestens miteinander vergleichen.

Over the last few years, Fractal cases have moved up my list of favorite cases. The Meshify series from Fractal is still one of my all-time favorites. I really do like that series with the Meshify 2 being the winner in my opinion. With that, the Torrent Compact is a good design. I love the aggressiveness of the front panel. I like the fact that all the panels are insanely simple to remove to get to the mesh and clean it. Those 180mm fans push quite a bit of air inside the case. With the case up and running, there’s a good amount of air coming out of the case without adding any fans other than what the Torrent Compact came with.

Overall, the concept of the original Torrent with its PSU in the top works well only if you have the space to really offer the same uncompromising compatibility we see in modern bottom-mounted PSU layouts. The Torrent's layout simply does not scale into anything smaller well enough, making the only uncompromising use of the Torrent Compact that of air-cooling the CPU with no aspirations for additional case fans beyond what is included out of the box.