ASUS PRIME AP303 PC case Review
Thermal Testing
ASUS PRIME AP303 Thermal Testing
Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look great from the outside, but it’s for nothing if your PC has an internal temperature like an oven. Your PC case needs sufficient airflow to keep your components cool under load and prevent thermal throttling. For our testing, we used the following hardware. We test at fixed fan speeds, so only the case and its fans affect 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 Testing
With both low CPU and GPU thermals, ASUS’ PRIME AP303 delivers excellent results with its fans set to 1,000 RPM. Note that we have used this case’s included fans, alongside three additional 120mm fans from ASUS. This case only ships with a single 120mm fan.
1500 RPM Testing
At 1500 RPM fan speeds, the ASUS PRIME AP 303 is one of the best-performing cases that we have tested. Great results.
Max RPM Testing
The maximum fan speed for the fans we used was 1500 RPM. That means that the ASUS PRIME AP303’s performance is unchanged from the above graphs. That said, every other case got to benefit from higher fans RPMs. Despite this, the AP303 delivers strong results. It remains one of the better-performing cases on the graphs below.
