Deepcool gamer storm new ark 90 review in Spanish (full analysis)

A box with a modern and attractive design, with tempered glass, capacity for some of the largest motherboards on the market, RGB lighting, option for vertical riser for graphics cards and a powerful liquid cooling system pre-installed. These are the impressive cover letters of the new DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90.

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Technical characteristics DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90

DeepCool's latest creation is an impressive semi-tower case that combines the latest trends in functionality, design and lighting with a pre-installed liquid cooling system that is compatible with user-added components.

It is, therefore, a complete system, ready to go and compatible with some of the most powerful processors on the market as well as compatible with E-ATX size motherboards. A portent of cash with few weak points.

Materials and interior functionality

The new DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90 strategically combines various types of materials ranging from the plastic of some elements of the front, the tempered glass finishing off three of its six faces and a SGCC sheet metal chassis to give solidity to the entire structure and power, among other things, keep the cost relatively low, taking into account everything included in the serial box.

The front of the box, as well as the main side and the roof are finished in 3mm thick tempered glass. All the panels are easily removed and reveal a powerful ventilation configuration that we will detail later.

It is a box designed in two areas, one for power and supply, and one for the main components. This main area has several fan mounting points and a considerable length that allows it to house powerful cooling systems, as well as "deep draft" components.

The internal structure is clean and wide, with the appropriate holes to pass the wiring discreetly and also safely since any cutting edge is properly protected. It has multiple such inputs, even at the top of the case, which makes everything much more comfortable. Without a doubt, the management of the spaces, and also the management of the cable, are one of its strongest points.

Here we can install motherboards of the Extended ATX (E-ATX) format or any smaller format and we can install up to seven expansion cards, in addition to having an anchor point, although it does not have the necessary "riser" as standard, to mount one graphics card in vertical position. Something that gives a lot of prominence to the graphics card that we have installed in the PC and very fashionable in the last generations of high-end boxes.

It supports sources of great length, more than 200mm in length, but here we find the second defect of the box. It only supports traditional mounting of sources, with the air intake fan facing down, taking air from outside, and that makes it difficult for us to mount passive sources, which require that their ventilation area is precisely facing upwards, to improve the natural heat output. I know that the use of passive sources is residual, but it is a detail to take into account.

The bottom compartment of the DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90 is dedicated to the power supply and storage of 3.5 or 2.5 ”units using a system that we will analyze now later. This box has a good set of storage features, very adapted to what a modern and current PC should be.

The port front is one of those elements that detracts from our overall analysis of this box. We miss a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C connector, which many mid-range and high-end motherboards already bring, and which we will not be able to find in this model. It only has two USB 3.0 Gen1 ports of 5Gbp s with type A format. Of course it also has sound connectivity, common in any box.

What is not so common is the lighting control system available in the channel that forms the roof of the box between its plastic and sheet metal area and the area finished in tempered glass. There we will find three buttons to change speed, lighting mode or lighting colors.

The lighting system covers many points of this box, is powerful and independent of the ventilation system, and is mounted in such a way that the user only has to plug in his computer and enjoy it. It does not require software, which can be an advantage, but neither can we connect it to our motherboard to enhance the effects or synchronize them with other elements of the PC. What it does bring is a fully equipped hub that brings fans, lighting, etc. to life.

Storage and ventilation

This is a box with large internal volume, but also, like any modern box, it does not devote much of this space to the installation of storage units. It has room for six drives, three for 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives and three for 2.5 ” drives. The latter are bays fixed to the plate support plate, there we can find two, and another we find in the plate separating the two internal volumes of the box.

They are mounting points designed only for 2.5 ”units, but we can mount three more units of this type in the small disk rack in the front. It is similar to a backplane system that we can find on servers, but let's not get confused, it doesn't have any kind of hot connectivity. It is simply a beautiful and simple system to manage up to three 3.5 ”storage units, which is also perfectly ventilated thanks to the standard installation of the box.

Altogether we have a total of 6 disk storage units, in addition to the M.2 that we can mount on board, and for a modern PC, it should be more than enough. What we will not find, as is also usual now, is no 5.25 ”front unit.

Its ventilation system is the opposite, it is massive and extensive in size and capacity. As standard it mounts a powerful liquid cooling system, as we will see later, but it is that we could mount an entire army of this type of system. On the front it supports up to three 120mm fans, and that is equivalent to a 360mm long radiator, on the ceiling we can mount exactly the same and in the support plate area, where the standard kit is installed, it supports 140mm fans. Three of this size are installed as standard, one draws air from the disk area of ​​the case, also from the source, and two others are installed above the radiator to cool the processor.

Another 140mm fan is installed in the back plate area, a classic and important point in any box. This makes four 140mm RGB-capable fans fitted as standard in the box. They all share the same connection hub and they are all controlled by the CPU fan monitoring point at the same time.

The roof also has ventilation points to improve convection air output. What we miss are dust filters, which are conspicuous by their absence in the air inlet areas, except in the air inlet area for the power supply.

Integrated liquid cooling

The installed system is similar, at least in block-pump, to the brand's Captain 240EX RGB. Uses the same pump system, with center outlet tubing, and the same RGB lighting capabilities. The fundamental difference is that the radiator is 280mm and also has an additional tank on the front of the box, which allows us to see the flow of the liquid inside the circuit. This tube is also illuminated and has a propeller in its lower part that allows us to see the flow of the liquid in the system.

The integrated pump works in conjunction with an exchanger made of copper and finished with a good polishing. The pump has a fixed working frequency of around 2500rpm and has a useful life, according to the manufacturer itself, of 120, 000 hours.

The mounting system is universal and really simple. It mounts in a few minutes and is compatible with Intel and AMD processors, with almost all except AMD TR4 processors, those of the Threadripper range. The estimated dissipation capacity of the set exceeds 200w so it is intended for any modern processor.

The fans installed are the DeepCool RF140 models. They are RGB fans where the blades are worked to enhance lighting and make it more homogeneous, they work as a diffuser. Apart from this they are good fans, well worked, with anti-vibration system at each point of fixation and frequency of work very healthy for the ear.

They can work between 600 and 1800rpm, which guarantees low noise, being able to move more than 90CFM with a noise between 18 and 36 dBA. All the fans in the box use this system and all of them have a separate motor lighting system, which allows the maximum brightness intensity to always be had on the LEDs regardless of the motor speed.

The system is firmly fixed to the box during transport, since it is pre-assembled, and we only miss a somewhat longer tube length and, why not, that they were covered by mesh, which always gives it a more attractive touch and better finish and also more protected. The tubes are FEP type, with low permeability, to avoid that the system needs filling for years.

Even so, DeepCool has left some facilities in the system so that we can add improvements in a personalized way and the radiator has a liquid filler socket, if necessary, although it is better to do it outside the warranty period, because we will lose it.

Noise and performance

The behavior of the integrated cooling system is excellent. On mid-power processors, up to 115 watts, and with corresponding moderate overclocking, fans never exceed 1300rpm. That in stress, because at rest they drop to a healthy 650rpm that makes the system completely silent and pleasant to use for hours. Our measurements at rest give 27dBA of noise, which we would have in a library, and on load, a slight whisper at a meter away, 33dBA of noise.

The temperatures with our AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor have not exceeded, in any case 55 degrees, with overclocking at 4.2GHz, simply magnificent. The box reaches an average temperature of 28 degrees in CPU and graphics card stress. Ventilation is excellent also in storage units and power supply.

It is a spacious box and that translates into good performance on mid and high-end computers. We can boost ventilation more, with more fans, but I think it would be completely unnecessary and we would add additional noise without any need.

Conclusion and final words about DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90

The DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90 has some details to iron out, for example, letting you choose the position of the power supply, adding a more modern and faster USB-C port or that slightly improves the aesthetics and length of the tubes of the exchange block. Little details, without a doubt, that makes me think that deep down this box has left a great taste in my mouth.

It is easy to assemble, has excellent finishes, top quality materials, perfect control of any vibration of the components, possibility of mounting vertical graphics, adequate and accessible storage capacity, magnificent ventilation and a silent and effective cooling system.

Regarding RGB, it is certainly simpler than other solutions offer, but sometimes simple things are worth it. I like the power of color, it is true that it lacks configuration capacity, but when we put the color that we want that day, and the breathing effect and we have not had to do a master in "Addressable RGB" then the thing arises more as an advantage than a disadvantage.

In general, for me, this box has what it takes to be one of the best boxes on the market, at least in that small segment of boxes that give us everything integrated, including the cooling system, where DeepCool and Gamer Storm they already have extensive experience. Currently we can buy it on Amazon for a price of 380 euros.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ Fully integrated and pre-assembled system	- It does not have a front USB-C Gen2 connector
+ Large silent fans	- Unable to control lighting from motherboard
+ Premium materials

The Professional Review team awards him the medal of:

DeepCool Gamer Storm New ARK 90

DESIGN - 90%

MATERIALS - 86%

WIRING MANAGEMENT - 88%

PRICE - 80%

86%