HAVN BF 360 Flow PC Case Review
Thermal Performance
HAVN BF 360 Thermal Testing
Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look great from the outside, but all 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 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 Testing
At 1000 RPM, the HAVN BF 360 delivers the best GPU thermals that we have seen on this test rig. CPU-wise, it delivers the second-best results we have seen. We tested the “Flow” version of the BF 360. This model includes two front-mounted 180mm fans and a rear 140mm fan. We installed an extra 140mm fan at the top of the case, as this is what we would consider an ideal cooling scenario for this chassis.
At 1,000 RPM fan speeds, the BF 360 delivers strong thermals. Clearly, all of HAVN’s design efforts and tinkering have paid off. If you want a case with strong airflow, this is it!
Max RPM testing
When we pushed the fan RPMs of this case to their maximum, we continued to see strong cooling results from the BF 360. We set this case’s front-mounted 180mm fans to 1200 RPM, and its 140mm fans to 1600 RPM.
The BF 360 was second in our CPU and GPU cooling graphs, giving fierce competition to the NZXT H9 and Fractal Torrent. This case is competing with some of the best high-airflow cases that we have tested.
