APNX V1 PC Case Review
Thermal Testing
APNX V1 Case Cooling Performance
Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look great from the outside, but all of that is for nought if your PC has the internal temperature of an oven. Your PC case needs enough airflow for your components to remain cool under load and to prevent any form of thermal throttling. For our test, we used the following hardware using fixed fan speeds (so that only the case and its included fans can influence thermal performance).
Intel i9-9700K @4.8GHz at 1.2V
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming @ 100% Current Capacity/ LL lvl16
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition @ 9V via Fan Speed Reducer
Nvidia GTX 980 Reference @ 60% Fixed Fan Speed
Corsair LP Vengeance LP (Grey) @ 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 NVMe SSD
Corsair RM550X Power Supply
The graph below showcases Delta temperatures with a controlled ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius.
1000 RPM Fan Test
The APNX V1 comes without fans, which means that we had to install some. APNX provided us with seven of its own FP1 fans, and honestly, we don’t like them. Yes, we may not have optimally positioned all of these fans, but that doesn’t get around the fact that they don’t push as much air as we feel they should. At higher RPMs we see thermal performance improve, though not by enough to shoot this case past its peers. Again, this is due to its fans and not the case itself. Since this case doesn’t ship with any fans, our recommendation is that you buy different fans than APNX’s offerings.
Max RPM Fan Test
While the APNX V1 is a solid case, we aren’t a fan of APNX’s fans, at least their current versions. While these fans are very affordable, they aren’t the best-performing fans out there. As such, we would expect much better thermal performance from this case with other, better, fans.
