Gimmick-tastic.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
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The title makes it seem like this is a fancy new invention. Cases have been doing this for a very long time. At least splitting the airflow is the PSU is at least common, possibly the norm. And having separated drives isn't exactly new either? I don't get it...
It's like having an opening at the bottom of a case for gpu cooling but now it completely bypasses the PSU and drives. Vertical corsair 280X basically.
Drives don't create barely any heat. PSU is minimal. Almost all comes from CPU/GPU. Most sandwich cases isolate these components more effectively.
Some of the newer Gen 5 NVME SSDs can create enough heat that they need heat sinks.
That's not nearly enough to meaningfully contribute heat to the interior volume of the case.
Some even need active cooling, but they all go directly on the motherboard anyway so this design doesn’t change anything for NVMEs
Like every case ever?
It'd be cool if it was actually floating on magnets.
Would be interesting to see benchmarks for this case from the likes of GN.
CPU and GPU still dump heat in the same chamber, so it's probably not gonna do anything special.
Fatter, dual chamber cases, with the PSU and drive cages behind the motherboard already have proper bottom intake, that's not blocked by anything like the PSU (shroud), so this case is not doing anything new.
As long as the gap between the two chambers is big enough, so air isn't hindered, it's probably gonna be fine, but mostly a gimmick.
OG psu: I'm the only thing cooling this bitch 😎
Now psu: crammed into a small section to cool nothing
Customers: TAKE MY FUCKING MONEY IT'S GOT RGB NNNNNFGGH