Cooler Grasp is again on the scene, too, introducing its MF sequence of circumstances.
HAVN has the BF360, which {couples} a heavy deal with fan design and case-thermal engineering to content material with Hyte’s X50, for what every firm hopes would be the high performing case on thermal charts.
This story will re-cap a few of the finest circumstances that we predict are popping out over the subsequent few months. We’ll, in fact, need to evaluation these circumstances as they launch, which implies we’ll have a busy 12 months with circumstances. We additionally plan on working a narrative on the perfect circumstances of 2025 on the finish of the 12 months, which is able to embody all of our take a look at information. For now, we’re taking a look at the perfect circumstances from Computex 2025.
Thermalright TR M10
Thermalright is finest recognized for making a ton of low-cost coolers. The corporate is making use of that technique to their first case, which they introduced at Computex. Thermalright revealed its TR M10 MicroATX case, which is able to begin at $45 and scale as much as $65 for a mannequin that features an LCD and a digital show. Neither variant will embody followers.
The case has good cable administration depth and easy cable-management passthroughs with out BTF assist. It additionally has closely ventilated panels in every single place. The TR M10 suits 3x120mm side-mounted followers for consumption and might technically match followers on the high of the power-supply shroud. That is made considerably extra viable, though distance is a problem, by all the holes punched by means of the ground of the case and even the drive cages.
The costlier $65 variant will characteristic an RGB digital show on the entrance that’s able to spitting out fundamental numbers or seven-segment textual content. Externally, the case is straightforward. Thermalright has punched holes in every single place together with the corporate’s brand on the aspect panel. The case additionally has a glass entrance and aspect.
Thermalright has added shiny plastic accents to the highest and entrance. It is meant to appear to be brushed aluminum, although we don’t suppose it seems like that. The air flow in every single place is at the very least promising for thermal efficiency at its worth.
If the corporate is ready to apply its CPU cooler mannequin to circumstances, will probably be a significant worth disruption for the case business.
Silverstone
SilverStone FLP02
Up subsequent: SilverStone’s FLP02 will get our subsequent spot on this round-up. The retro-themed case is an precise actual try at a contemporary laptop case, not just a few meme, whereas preserving facets of circumstances from the late 80s and early 90s. Its clearest draw back is proscribed cooling capabilities, with the clearest upside being the explanation it has limitations in cooling: It’s true to the period whereas modernizing compatibility. The SilverStone FLP02 is a looks-first case, however not within the standard method.
The case builds upon Silverstone’s FLP01 smaller kind issue case, which was initially an April Idiot’s joke, and deploys a practical retro theming: The entrance panel options 5.25” bay covers that resemble floppy drives and embody practical levers for elimination. The bays can be utilized as typical. Under these molded covers, there’s a practical I/O panel with an influence swap and reset button, each controllable by the important thing lock which prevents unintended utilization, which is extra of a call-back to the outdated days. With the important thing within the unlocked place, the switches can be utilized as regular energy/reset buttons. There’s additionally a Turbo Button, which controls fan velocity. In principle, somebody artful might rewire it to be used with one thing else. Above the stack of 5.25” bay covers is a coated set of recent USB and three.5mm I/O for audio.
The field doesn’t have a ton of airflow. The underside-front of the case has largely blocked-off consumption and assist for a fan under the drive cages is actually the primary place you’re bringing air in. Haven’t any illusions: This might be a poor performer in our thermal benchmarking in comparison with different circumstances and that’s the trade-off they’ve chosen, so the target can be to configure the construct in a method the place cooling can brute drive previous restrictive panels. The entrance panel helps two 120mm followers, relying on drive format, the highest helps 3x 120 or 2x 140 followers, the rear can match a 120 or 140.
The highest panel can be comparatively low porosity whereas nonetheless permitting extra air motion than the circumstances that is impressed by. The highest can accommodate liquid cooling radiators, together with the 360 proven put in. That is the kind of case the place you’d most likely need to use a liquid cooler to assist overcome limitations of airflow.
Internally, the tooling for the FLP02 is identical as SilverStone’s current sequence of SETA Q1, H1, and D1 sequence circumstances.
SilverStone expects to promote the case for 200 EUR. US pricing was in flux as a consequence of variable tariffs, with an expectation of $220 USD pricing.
LD05
The corporate additionally had extra up to date circumstances, just like the LD05 fishtank case. The LD05 has closely ventilated decrease panels and a ventilated aspect panel to get air into the system. That is extra of a conventional design by at the moment’s requirements. SilverStone plans to ship it with 3x 120 ARGB followers included and needs to hit $100, relying on tariffs, for a budget-focused airflow case with the glass look to it.
Cooler Grasp
Cooler Grasp MF Instances
Cooler Grasp’s again in it this 12 months. The corporate had a ton of circumstances. We’ll deal with the modularity supplied by the MF sequence and can recap the others on the finish of the part.
For the MF sequence, which we’ve determined means “Motherf*ckin,” Cooler Grasp has the MF600, MF500, and MF400 circumstances as pre-configured choices of an in any other case completely modular strategy to case design. The MF sequence will use a set of 8 corners and 12 columns, that means that every case begins as a field of components that may get screwed collectively right into a case. These columns and corners will couple with a rails system internally to construct the motherboard tray, permitting the circumstances to be reconfigured into almost any format. That features inverted, mirrored or flipped, commonplace ATX, and likewise totally different kind components altogether.
Initially, Cooler Grasp plans to promote these as pre-configured, totally assembled circumstances by utilizing the modular components. Sooner or later, the corporate needs to supply the power for customers to customise the construct on an internet interface, at which level the construct directions would go to Cooler Grasp’s new Los Angeles-based meeting crew within the US.
As for what’s being offered someday this 12 months, the MF400 by means of 600 might be various sizes and layouts.
The MF600 is the most important of those, with 3x 140 followers and 1x 120 fan included. Value goal is $200, tariffs however. The MF600 has an all aluminum look to it, although makes use of a mixture of supplies for the chassis. Externally, Cooler Grasp has completed properly to mix the columns, corners, and panels to create one thing that has a less-gamer aesthetic to it. The front-to-back move design is basic and will work properly. Internally, the motherboard tray is principally a large gap with some rails and slats throughout for assist. This implies a weaker tray structurally, however one which is extra versatile (as proven within the reconfiguration with totally different orientations).
The pre-configured MF500 must be $165 and could have 2x 200mm followers and 1x 120mm fan, a a lot finer mesh entrance, and I/O on the underside of the entrance panel. Going with the 2x 200s is a basic Cooler Grasp transfer that we’re wanting ahead to testing.
The MF400 is micro-ATX, and so it’s smaller, with a lower cost goal at $150 for a similar 2x 200 and 1x 120 configuration. It nonetheless makes use of 8 corners and 12 columns.
Cooler Grasp additionally debuted its new Cosmos circumstances, together with a particular version variation with the NVIDIA DGX type entrance panel and one other with ductwork for air cooling. We’re at the moment crucial of the particular version’s liquid cooling configuration and query how properly it’ll work, although the scale of the radiator ought to brute drive efficiency (because it’s utilizing 4x 180mm followers). It’s simply that they’re blowing straight right into a motherboard and wall.
The corporate additionally showcased its “Elite” sequence of finances circumstances, that includes a tragedy of naming that doesn’t have a lot rhyme or motive for the mannequin numbers.
It additionally had a brand new Q500 Core following the Q500 sequence styling. The Q500 Core is meant to be $60 to $70 and is made totally of metal. It’ll embody 3D print supply information for modifications and might match as much as a 360mm radiator, however it’s not our focus at the moment.
Hyte
Hyte X50
Hyte showcased its new X50 case, which is its most mechanically sophisticated product to fabricate to-date. The X50 makes use of a bubbly exterior look whereas making an attempt to be the highest-performing case on benchmark charts. Hyte makes use of a entrance panel that’s perforated all the best way across the apex of the flip, leaving solely a small strip on the mounting level for rigidity. The case additionally has louvered slats on the again, together with for the PCIe slots, which add mechanical and manufacturing complexity however strengthen the chassis construction whereas bettering airflow efficiency. Hyte famous that its intent, which we’ll take a look at in our evaluation, is to assist mission air away from the system, highlighting that there’s all the time deal with lowering consumption impedance however noting that exhaust impedance is equally necessary.
The louvered strategy signifies that PCIe slot covers maintain all of their authentic metal (fairly than being eliminated like a typical slot cowl), however the gaps are created by punching the metal outward and twisting on the joint. This retains rigidity whereas theoretically lowering exhaust impedance.
The case is nearly totally metal. Internally, the facility provide shroud is metal, the motherboard tray (as standard) is metal, and the partitions are largely metal. The ground and a few connecting items are plastic, however its presence is general mitigated.
Hyte has a couple of types of toes for the X50, together with what the corporate refers to as “paws” (proven because the rounded toes) on some coloration fashions, with bars for fashions just like the white case.
The case can have both a laminated so-called “acoustic glass” aspect panel or a full-on mesh panel that’s centered on cooling efficiency.
The highest-mounted PSU shroud will assist by enabling extra backside consumption by getting the PSU out of the best way, along with utilizing the facility provide as one other fan to assist information air by means of the system. With a completely mesh panel, this must also assist carry air into the pc from exterior.
We’ll see how the case does in our evaluation, however from a producing and engineering standpoint, it already will get credit score for overcoming challenges with going as mesh-heavy because the case is. You’ll be able to study extra in our interview with Product Director Rob Teller within the X50 protection from Computex. We spend plenty of time speaking about Hyte’s tens of 1000’s of {dollars} of failed samples, the place the corporate walked us by means of all of the trial-and-error of entrance panels earlier than it lastly discovered the way to manufacture the panel the corporate needed. The case must be priced for $120 with mesh and $150 with glass pre-tariff.
Lian Li
Lian Li had a comparatively giant breakthrough this 12 months with its ongoing makes an attempt to determine the way to embed followers in glass entrance panels. This has traditionally been difficult because it leads to decrease yields and damaged glass, or within the worst case, simply much less floor space obtainable for consumption since a bigger border has to stay for structural causes.
The Lian Li Lancool 217 Infinity and Lancool 4 circumstances each make use of this new strategy to fans-in-glass, successfully mixing mesh grates in entrance of the followers with the tempered glass look.
The Lancool 217 Infinity is a Lancool 217 (take a look at our evaluation right here) together with all the tooling for the case internals. The one exception the place tooling modified was to the entrance panel, enabling the infinity mirror impact with LEDs and the assist for mounting the glass panel. The one different change is to IO, the place Lian Li made it optionally mountable to the highest or backside aspect. The case will ship with 2x 170mm entrance followers within the glass and one rear-mounted fan. It ought to ship at $120.
The Lancool 4 is extra sophisticated and is totally new tooling. The case nonetheless makes use of the 4-door strategy that the Lancool sequence has grow to be recognized for, so the left aspect options a big sheet of glass resting on high of a mesh plate that opens individually. The mesh plate permits consumption by means of followers mounted within the backside of the case (or simply the GPU), with decrease panel aspect mounting obtainable for 120mm followers. The panels open with a button launch mechanism to permit them to individually lock. The proper aspect additionally options glass and metal, with a transparent line of sight by means of the opposite aspect of the entrance of the case. A cable cowl door may be screwed down to cover the cable administration.
A pogo pin setup permits the entrance panel to switch energy with out use of a cable, adopted by a mixture of painted glass and plastic covers to cover cables daisy chaining the followers. Lian Li is contemplating together with 3x 140x30mm entrance followers and 3x 120×25 aspect followers, with a pricing goal at $130 together with all 6 of those followers. This might be extraordinarily aggressive if they will do it. Lian Li has dedicated on digital camera with us to a 5-year guarantee for the followers.
Lian Li had a couple of honorable mentions on the present: Its O11 Mini V2 made an look and manages to cram an ATX energy provide into the case by punching out house within the aspect panel. The Mini V2 must be $90 with out followers and $100 with 5x 120 followers. The Dan Case B4 was additionally an attention-grabbing displaying, largely for its capacity to connect toes and swap to a a lot larger quantity vertical orientation. It makes use of the house offered by the toes by additionally together with a radiator extension chamber to assist a 360mm radiator on the aspect. Extra curiously to us, the Vector 100 and Vector 100 Mini circumstances are extraordinarily low-cost. The Vector 100 Mini micro-ATX case is meant to promote for $45 with out followers, making it a direct competitor to Thermalright’s new mATX case.
Antec x Noctua
Antec and Noctua are up subsequent in a collaboration. The businesses are working collectively to fabricate a substitute for the Antec Flux Professional besides with Noctua followers. The Flux Professional was already a chart-topper in our case benchmarks and opinions and has been a excessive performer, so Antec isn’t altering a lot past colours and what followers are included.
The businesses will do a like-for-like swap of 6 Noctua followers rather than the 6 Antec followers, switching to 4x 140mm NF-A14 G2 followers and 2x 120mm NF-A12 G2 followers for the shroud high.
The case worth remains to be being finalized, however it’ll be costly. We’d anticipate to see this fall within the vary of the $300s to $400s someplace, because the case itself is usually round $180 earlier than the Noctua followers.
More often than not was spent on coloring the brown panels and grommets to match the followers as intently as doable.
Antec additionally had another stuff, like the corporate’s new Antec 900, which relies on the case of the identical title from many years in the past.
The case had 2 variants. One in all them included 2x200mm Noctua followers on the entrance.
HAVN BF360
We toured the HAVN testing lab in Taiwan to have a look at the corporate’s new BF360 case, following-up the HS420 that we beforehand reviewed general positively. Along with a 40+ web page presentation from its thermal engineer detailing all the varied testing carried out to organize the brand new case and followers for launch, we additionally obtained a take a look at the brand new BF360 and its followers. We appreciated the time the corporate spent to display all of its testing and engineering, as most firms don’t make thermal engineers available.
HAVN’s new BF360 goals to be extremely aggressive for case thermals and has devoted a major quantity of that towards fine-tuning the followers. We’ll see the way it does in testing later within the 12 months, in fact. The case will use 2x 180mm followers at 40mm thickness within the entrance, serving to with larger static stress efficiency. In testing, HAVN experimented with positioning these entrance followers larger versus decrease on the entrance panel, settling to largely bias them barely up within the case. This could assist push extra air straight into the GPU, which will get additional tuning from a “ramp” formed on the entrance of the PSU shroud. HAVN examined quite a few shroud ramp sorts and shapes, discovering in the end {that a} large, comparatively modestly angled ramp offered the perfect efficiency with the fewest acoustic trade-offs.
The panels are heavy-duty and designed with related consideration to element because the HS420. The case has tuned placement of the structural struts within the panels to cut back impedance to move, with large sufficient high mounting to assist extra 180mm followers with out extra fan mount rail obstructions if going the bigger route.
HAVN has introduced over smaller consideration to element elaborations on this case from the HS 420, together with molded textual content within the plastic cable routing channels to information novice customers to doubtlessly optimum routing pathways. For seems, HAVN goes for white and black, however with a faked stone-looking entrance panel. Pulling that entrance panel reveals the metal plate above the highest 180mm fan, serving to stop re-circulation and drive air consumption by means of the perfect channels.
For the followers, HAVN experimented with followers as much as 52mm thick, however in the end settled on 40mm thick choices for a steadiness of thickness and efficiency. All of HAVN’s new followers use bigger bearings, which it says helps to stabilize the blade throughout rotation. HAVN additionally has notched the forefront of the blades to assist seize and drive air by means of the blades, though we’d have to see A/B testing to know the way a lot that actually issues.
Corsair
Corsair’s Computex displaying this 12 months was a lot stronger than a few of its prior years. The corporate appears to be pushing laborious after the comparatively good reception of its FRAME 4000D circumstances and is increasing the scope of the FRAME sequence, but in addition making some radical cooling adjustments to its new circumstances.
Corsair confirmed its new FRAME 5000D with LCD panel, its Air 5400 with successfully three chambers that utterly isolate entrance radiator air from the remainder of the system, and it had a prototype FRAME 4000D with an influence board from Singularity PCs.
The FRAME 5000D is a bigger 4000D and we’ll probably take a look at it quickly sufficient, so we’ll skip that one and deal with essentially the most distinctive of those.
The Corsair Air 5400 makes use of a separate chamber for a front-mounted radiator, which includes working the tubes throughout successfully store brush bristles for tube routing. Which means the radiator, probably used for the CPU cooler, would pull air in externally after which propel it out of the case instantly by following an inside curved wall. The air by no means will get into the primary chamber, which implies it doesn’t improve native ambient temperature. Likewise, as a draw back, this implies much less airflow over ignored parts just like the VRM or system reminiscence.
The underside of the case makes use of a duct to information air straight in from backside consumption, then factors it straight on the GPU. Corsair claims that its A/B testing of this ductwork creates a couple of 1-2 diploma enchancment in GPU thermals versus testing with out it. Likewise, there’s one other top-mounted duct that would encase high followers to supply some cooling to the remainder of the motherboard, though flow-through cooling from a GPU would additionally push air into the reminiscence. It’ll be warmed, however that’s higher than no airflow.
The rear can technically match a 120mm fan with an adapter, however there’s no actual motive to mount one. It’ll blow almost half the air straight right into a curved glass wall, doubtlessly inflicting noise points however undoubtedly limiting thermal advantages.
General, the case is a riskier try at a brand new design that we don’t typically see from Corsair. We’re wanting ahead to thermal testing on it.
The FRAME 4000D Prototype can be value displaying right here: The ability board on the again doesn’t present any logging performance (such as you would possibly discover with an Elmor Labs Benchtable), however does provide cable routing by funneling all of the connectors by means of a rear-mounted PCB.
Like everybody else, that they had different circumstances current, corresponding to an open body case, however we’ll level you towards our Computex information protection for that.
Thermaltake
Thermaltake additionally had rather a lot on the present. For circumstances, its IX700 enclosure was being utilized in an immersion cooling system, which was largely simply cool to see.
The extra consumer-focused circumstances for our viewers would come with the View 390 Air, the TR200, and the TR300.
The TR200 and TR300 introduce bigger variations of the mini-ITX TR100, simply with micro-ATX assist in a single and ATX assist within the different. Micro-ATX appears to be taking off extra this 12 months within the case market.
The View 390 Air makes use of a curved tempered glass panel across the high and aspect, with choices for as much as 200mm followers on the entrance. Thermaltake hasn’t but finalized the inventory fan configuration, however has finalized the value: It’s making an attempt to hit $150 pre-tariff and the corporate thinks it will possibly embody 2 followers at that worth. They talked about to us choices of both 2x 200s on the entrance or 2x 120s on the again or aspect. We’d favor the 2x 200s, largely as a result of customers with liquid coolers will already be getting 120s, and 120s are additionally extra frequent simply in bins of components from seasoned PC builders.
The case can match followers alongside the best aspect panel as properly, with 2x 120 rear exhaust followers obtainable optionally on the again. Two can match right here as a result of the elective display location, discovered above the motherboard tray, makes the case taller and gives the clearance for a second fan.
The entrance panel design makes use of a brick sample with a excessive porosity, which could really make this pretty aggressive thermally, relying on the fan configuration.
Phanteks
Phanteks was additionally current on the present. Phanteks had the budget-focused G370A ATX case and its XT M3 micro-ATX case. The G370A makes compromises to hit a worth goal of $60 whereas together with 3x 120 RGB M25 followers. Phanteks described it as a smaller model of the G400 case. The case can match SSI-EEB boards, although they’d block all of the cable administration routing apart from the best pass-throughs, and is in any other case about as commonplace and plain as a case may be. The objective is worth on this one.
You’ll be able to study extra concerning the XT M3 in our Phanteks Computex protection.
Tryx
Tryx was additionally current at Computex. The brand new Flova case is at the moment an idea, however Tryx is experimenting with making an attempt to get a crossflow fan built-in with axial followers within the case. The thought can be to shove a crossflow (or transverse) fan within the house that would historically be used for bigger entrance followers, which might then present a extra even, laminar move alongside the highest fringe of the GPU and nearest the glass. Crossflow followers aren’t essentially the perfect at one of these cooling, however might undoubtedly be tuned to be aggressive with sufficient analysis and care. We noticed it work within the Meshless AIO mini-ITX case beforehand.
For now, that is an experiment that we’re enthusiastic about as a result of we need to take a look at one thing totally different. We now have an animation displaying how these work in our Meshless AIO case video evaluation, in case you need to study extra of the science.
Montech
As for Montech, the corporate had a ton of circumstances current and might be launching them over the subsequent 12 months or so, with some out in Q2 2026.
For this text, we’ll simply maintain it brief and deal with the most cost effective circumstances from Montech which might be popping out the soonest, because the others are all nonetheless being finalized:
The X5 and X5M are Montech’s latest budget-focused circumstances. The case is meant to be $60 for the micro-ATX X5M and $70-$75 on the X5 ATX case. These circumstances use a wavy, ventilated mesh entrance panel. The X5 intends to incorporate 3x 140 followers and 1x 120 inventory, with an elective 2x 120 followers for the highest of the shroud (which might have restricted profit as a result of panel styling). The $60 X5M will embody 4x 120 followers.
In Win
In Win’s circumstances have been largely too early in growth to get into element on. The corporate didn’t have costs or fan configurations prepared, so we’ll skip all of these till they’re nearer to prepared.
The one we are able to shut on although is In Win’s Chronomancy, which was its 40-year anniversary case design. It’s probably not meant to be offered. They anticipate to make round 40 items, fittingly, however it’s simply sort of cool.
The case makes use of an IR wand with gestures to open the outside aluminum shell, shut it, open the opposite chamber, or modify the amount stage of varied music tracks baked into the case with its included speaker. Manufacturing the case is a nightmare, utilizing a big and thick sheet of acrylic that will get laser engraved after which slowly bent. The aluminum panels additionally require bending, with the entrance utilizing a chrome steel and the bottom utilizing giant aluminum pillars.
Inside, the Chronomancy does really maintain a pc, however it’s clearly secondary to the design.
