Okay, we have one of the most

complicated cases for Computex. This is

the HS 360. This is from Haven. So, what

Haven's done is actually amusing, I

guess. I It should work pretty well, but

basically, there's another glass sheet

up here. Now, this sits on top of the

GPU. You can see that rubber sort of

bumper at the end that's uh allowing it

to almost directly contact the GPU. And

then if you look at the bottom front of

the video card, it's directly contacting

that glass sheet. So what's happening is

if we spin to this uh CFD simulation,

this computational fluid dynamic

simulation, it it all makes sense. This

is really fun. Like this is just it's

kind of fun science where basically what

you have is uh without the glass flow

separator here. So that's that new

piece. This is the one that previously

existed on the BF3 or the HS420, the

original HS420. Uh, and that's present

here as well, but you can see they've

added the glass separator. And then this

is the same thing, no glass separator,

still has that HS420 style uh,

deflection. And then this is with the

glass separator. So basically what

you're seeing is at least in simulation

we'll you know this is going to depend

kind of build to build um and we'll test

it but in simulation the uh for this the

hot air if you're at 100% GPU fan speed

which is very uncommon but good for kind

of a demo uh it's shooting all the air

up and out or out the bottom because the

fins are oriented vertically and then

that is getting pulled back into the

fans at that 100% speed without a flow

separator. This makes sense. This is not

like new. This isn't, you know,

revolutionary science. This is just how

it normally works. Uh, with a 55% speed,

it's kind of a different problem where

for this, still hot air exhausting top

and bottom, but the fans on the GPU are

lower speed. So, they're less likely to

pull that air in and recirculate it. And

instead, it's it's going up and out. So,

this is just a difference of positive

versus negative pressure setup for the

case, or at least for this region of the

case. And the end result is the cool air

coming in from the bottom for this one

is sometimes circumventing the GPU is

not getting pulled in. We talk about

this a lot in our testing. So you can

see this stuff in data like in thermal

data with results and we show that uh

but the simulation helps make clear kind

of what's happening. And what'll be

interesting for us to test is with this

flow separator in the two different

conditions, you when you have the

problem of the hot air getting

recirculated, this will block that

obviously cuz looking back at the card,

you these fins, they're set back towards

the CPU cooler. They're oriented

vertically. Most fins are on GPUs these

days. And uh they it's just it's not

going to be able to get back down

because there's a piece of glass

blocking it. Um other than maybe a

little bit at the back or something. And

then under the the lower flow uh

situation where it's like 55% speed

which is pretty typical for most GPUs.

Um I think we set ours to that for our

case testing in that condition. It's uh

the difference of where the the cool air

here is actually just getting blocked so

it's not going up and out and it's more

forced into the card. Pretty cool stuff.

I just I thought it was neat to see the

simulation of it. Uh we'll do the

testing of course, but that is the big

thing that Havens tried to do moving

from the HS420, which is a much larger

version of this case, uh to the HS360.

It was basically like instead of getting

rid of the concept in its entirely

entirety, let's double down and put

another piece of glass in the case. So

now we can have the full curved glass

front, the glass deflector, and the

glass separator. uh they are really

determined to make this idea work. So,

I'm looking forward to testing it, but

that's the big change. Um there's a

bunch of others, too. We'll go through

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360 is a relatively difficult case for

me to memorize and go over at a show uh

because there's a lot going on with it,

which is a good thing. But the Haven

series cases, we've overall been

positive on the BF360 and the HS420 both

overall tested pretty well. We did

obviously have various criticisms of

them like every case. One of them was on

the HS420 it was a I think the technical

term is gigantic pain in the ass to deal

with the fan in the back of the case and

they have fixed that. So, this is just a

fan mount or bracket that goes in the

back here. And, uh, rather than having

to, uh, be careful about what order you

install the rear fans in, now you just

access it from the backside. So, that's

a lot better. They're still doing the

thing that they did with the previous

cases, which is putting rubber at

basically every single contact point of

the case, where metal might touch metal.

There's rubber all over the place. So,

that's something we've been positive on.

We've liked with the Haven cases. It's a

really small touch. Um I don't know,

maybe like sometimes it might help with

vibrational noise. It's more of just

kind of a nice uh attention to detail

thing though. And then some other

improvements and changes. Um so the was

it over here on the So we did talk, this

is on the previous uh case that we

reviewed, but I did just want to give an

update for everyone. Previously

we did talk about the recommended uh

cable paths and they have fixed that. So

so Haven has just been working really

hard at improving everything that we've

criticized from from spelling to the

mechanical design. Um some other

interesting stuff with this. So for the

new case, this is their attempt at

trying to solve the fact that anyone who

supports both a back connect board and a

standard board uh ends up creating a

cheese grater motherboard tray. And uh

basically you can see the kind of the

holes for both here. So this is what

everyone's shipping when they try to

support both. Looks kind of ugly. And

they're just doing a separable plate.

Now this is currently done with a bunch

of screws. I would love to see this

implemented in a way where there's a a

simple mechanism either it's you know

plastic clips or metal socket and ball

or whatever um to get it to be a little

quicker to pull out. Now you should

probably only be doing this once as an

end user but uh it would be nicer.

They're going to ship this in a standard

configuration by default. And then if

you want a back connect, you would

basically pull it out, flip it like

we're doing here, and then that would

give you the the whole pattern without

having holes through the entire

motherboard tray. Um, and then there are

the grommets that we've also come to

expect from Haven. So, they've got kind

of the stringy kind where you can run

the cables through them and separate

them. Uh, those can go in if it's

standard layout. If it's back connect,

you probably don't want that for obvious

reasons. Um, but those come out with

back connect and then they also have

these cable combs that uh that go in the

case, too. So, a lot of really small

like attention to detail touches.

Pricing on these is supposed to be $150

for base and then $230 for the vertical

GPU model. Uh, and then there, this is a

different case. is this HS420, but um

this is also going to be in the uh uh

upper 200s for the technically not

Mercedes I guess a AMG Patronis Formula

1 team. I've been told in no uncertain

terms that I am not to say that this is

a Mercedes collaboration. This is not a

Mercedes case.

This case with that logo is not a

Mercedes case. It is an AMG Patronis

Formula 1 team case. I hope we are all

clear that this is not a Mercedes case,

especially the lawyers at Mercedes.

Okay. All right. So, another thing that

Haven's working on is on the mechanical

design where uh this corner, they wanted

to strengthen that. And if you look

internally at the older HS420 here, the

main thing to notice is that this is

just kind of a flat bar for this top

corner. Um there's been some changes to

the way the panel secures, too. on the

new HS360.

This is a far more complicated uh set of

steel here. So you can see it kind of

bends and this like punched out section.

Uh all of this is intentional where they

say it's basically meant to improve the

structural strength. So Haven ran these

simulations as well where this is a

force application scenario. So this is 5

kg uh of force pushing down on that

front edge without a glass panel

underneath it. So without any support

under that front corner. Um, and then

what you're looking at is deformation.

So this is in millimeters deformation.

This is pretty cool, uh, from a software

standpoint. So they're seeing like

almost.5 millimeters of deformation on

the old design with the HS420. And then

the H360, which is the new design that's

got that reinforced

uh, piece underneath the uh, the fan

tray panel. There's, you know, 0.3 mm

deformation max. So pretty cool stuff.

It's like this is what we liked with the

BF360 announcement last year at Computex

was having some actual data available.

We can go through some of the other

stuff. So on this one where they were

doing the simulation of flow, uh the big

thing to notice on the right side for

the GPU fans at 55%. The GPU temperature

is 60.2° without the flow separator,

52.7 with it. So that's pretty big

difference. It's like 7 degrees is a

gigantic difference for a GPU. At the

100% fan speed, they're not really

seeing any difference, which I would

expect just because uh when you're

blasting the fans that much, you're kind

of overpowering a lot of the um more

nuanced differences anyway. And then on

this one, so this is a liquid cooler in

the HS 360 with a VGPU

and uh I've seen a couple degrees of

performance or one almost two degrees of

performance improvement. noise

normalized on the left image with the uh

with and without the flow separator. And

then for the HS420, they also did

testing with the flow separator, even

though the focus today is on the 360,

but see it added here. That improvement

is pretty big. Then Haven says they are

planning to do a flow separator as a

separate component for the HS420s in the

future. So this is Haven's uh

competitive analysis chart. These are

not necessarily the cases I would choose

to compare against. The Corsair 3500X

sucks. Uh the Lean Lee 011 is old and

the NZXTH9 is from NZXT. Um so we would

compare against probably different

cases, but at least versus this Eclectic

mix, they you know they're showing well.

We'll we'll test that in our own

benchmarking of course, more noise

stuff, but anyway, that's kind of some

of the basics on the data. Um the plan

for Haven is they want to launch around

September for the HS360

and uh pricing as I said is 150 base no

fans um or 230 for the VGPU option which

uh we tested both the VGPU and the base

models for the HS420 if you're curious

how that kind of all looks and works.

But the general design, I guess, look is

very similar to the uh the past cases

where they're still doing these really

large um slats. And on on the past Haven

cases we've looked at, the spacing for

the uh supports has typically been

pretty good in terms of especially on

the side panel in terms of minimizing

how much overlap you have for the

support on top of the fan blades. So,

that's been one of Haven's strong points

is trying to align like on the side

panel the supports with the fan hub

where the hub is a dead zone for fans.

You're not going to get really any air

going through there. Um, and that's all

been kept with the newer case. So,

mostly just updates and refinement for a

smaller uh HS series case that they are

taking some some learnings from and

improving on. I think we've kind of

covered most of it. The rest of this

stuff is I mean it's like the same as

the past with the uh drive cages that

can mount on the side versus a a cooler

fan. So, um I think that pretty much

covers this stuff and otherwise we're

looking forward to getting the 360 in

for testing. Uh there's going to be a

lot of AB testing to do with the

separator and the glass. I think that

pretty much covers it though. So far, we

haven't seen a ton of cases yet, but out

of the ones I've seen, this is the most

interesting one to me. So, we'll see how

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