Rosewill Throne Case Review

It should go without saying that the cooling style Rosewill employs with cases like the Throne is going to be less efficient than more esoteric designs like the Corsair Carbide Air 540 and SilverStone's Raven RV-04. But the importance of efficiency is fairly relative and unique to the individual consumer; if the case gets the job done, who cares how it gets there? The Throne doubly benefits from the inclusion of a fan controller that allows individual users to determine where their ideal balance of thermals and acoustics lies.

The Rosewill Throne was tested with both its highest and lowest fan settings at an ambient temperature of ~24C.

Load temperatures aren't super exciting, but they're competitive and certainly among the better cases we've tested. The competing cases we've listed are pretty much the cream of the crop, so the fact that the lowest fan setting doesn't have to yield too much performance and still hangs in the game is compelling.

It's pretty obvious the highest fan setting just isn't worth it; the copious amount of airflow in the Throne ensures that even running at the lowest gets the job done. The flipside is that other competing cases are still able to do the job more quietly; some tuning may be necessary to get just the right amount of airflow, and your mileage will vary.

With overclocking applied, the Throne starts to demonstrate a clear benefit from a little more airflow than the minimum setting.

Depending on how much tweaking you're willing to do, it shouldn't be too much trouble coaxing the right amount of thermal performance out of the Throne without causing noise levels to spike in the process. The problem is that the Editor's Choice Award-winning NZXT Phantom 630 is able to compete aggressively on both levels, and if you catch it on sale you can have it for the same price as the Throne, if not cheaper.

Performance with our brutal full fat testbed remains competitive. Note that the Throne is able to put up a good fight against Rosewill's own flagship Blackhawk Ultra. The full fat testbed tends to be a pretty tough race, and test units will spread out further when acoustics are taken into account.

Now that we're trying to dissipate 600+ watts of heat under stress, the Throne's noise characteristics don't look quite as bad. Idle noise with the fans cranked up is pretty horrendous as it has been up to this point, but load noise benefits from the tremendous amount of air the Throne moves.