Rosewill Throne Case Review
by Dustin Sklavos on August 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- Rosewill
- ATX
- XL-ATX
For testing full ATX cases, we use the following standardized testbed in stock and overclocked configurations to get a feel for how well the case handles heat and noise.
| ATX Test Configuration | |
| CPU |
Intel Core i7-2700K (95W TDP, tested at stock speed and overclocked to 4.3GHz @ 1.38V) |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H |
| Graphics Card |
ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DCII TOP (tested at stock speed and overclocked to 1GHz/overvolted to 1.13V) 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 in SLI (full fat testing only) |
| Memory | 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer DDR3-1600 |
| Drives |
Kingston SSDNow V+ 100 64GB SSD Samsung 5.25" BD-ROM/DVDRW Drive 3x HGST DeskStar 3TB 7200-RPM HDD |
| CPU Cooler | Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo with Cooler Master ThermalFusion 400 |
| Power Supply | SilverStone Strider Plus 1000W 80 Plus Silver |
Each case is tested in a stock configuration and an overclocked configuration that generates substantially more heat (and thus may produce more noise). The system is powered on and left idle for fifteen minutes, the thermal and acoustic results recorded, and then stressed by running seven threads in Prime95 (in-place large FFTs) on the CPU and OC Scanner (maximum load) on the GPU. At the end of fiteen minutes, thermal and acoustic results are recorded. This is done for the stock settings and for the overclock, and if the enclosure has a fan controller, these tests are repeated for each setting. Ambient temperature is also measured after the fifteen idle minutes but before the stress test and used to calculate the final reported results.
For the "full fat" testbed, the GTX 560 Ti is swapped out for a pair of GTX 580s, and three hard disks are added to fill out the case.
Thank You!
Before moving on, we'd like to thank the following vendors for providing us with the hardware used in our testbed.
- Thank you to Puget Systems for providing us with the Intel Core i7-2700K.
- Thank you to Gigabyte for providing us with the GA-Z77X-UD4H motherboard.
- Thank you to Crucial for providing us with the Ballistix Smart Tracer memory.
- Thank you to Cooler Master for providing us with the Hyper 212 Evo heatsink and fan unit.
- Thank you to Kingston for providing us with the SSDNow V+ 100 SSD.
- Thank you to CyberPower for providing us with the Samsung BD-ROM/DVD+/-RW drive.
- Thank you to HGST for providing us with the trio of hard drives.
- And thank you to SilverStone for providing us with the power supply.
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djshortsleeve - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
Another ugly case...piroroadkill - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
I don't know, ever since I saw the Cougar Challenger, I think my idea of an ugly case has been re-calibrated. That's an ugly case. This is merely a bit tacky.AravindA84 - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
I'm going to have to agree with piroroadkill"I don't know, ever since I saw the Cougar Challenger, I think my idea of an ugly case has been re-calibrated. That's an ugly case. This is merely a bit tacky."
The Throne looks pretty baller imo, especially when it's modded. It lends well to liquid cooling because of all the space, and well, it has the potential to be... as i stated before... baller.
Voo - Friday, August 9, 2013 - link
If you have to use a word that I have to look up on urbandictionary to describe a case it's probably a bad sign.I really don't know why half the enthusiast cases look like they were designed by adolescent boys :(
szimm - Monday, August 5, 2013 - link
It looks like it was designed by a team of 13-year-old boys who just watched Transformers for the first time.BryanDobbins - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - link
my neighbor's mom makes $72/hour on the internet. She has been unemployed for 7 months but last month her pay check was $19114 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more on this web site... http://goo.gl/qHdAQ4abrowne1993 - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
Kind of looks like a Silverstone Raven rip-off.SergeyN - Saturday, August 3, 2013 - link
+1JDG1980 - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
You mentioned the Raven RV04, but SilverStone has had the Fortress FT04 on sale for a couple weeks now, which has a very similar layout but should offer lower noise (with acoustic padding) and better fit and finish. Any chance we'll be seeing a review on that soon?SergeyN - Saturday, August 3, 2013 - link
I want SilverStone FT04 review too!