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Roseville's : PC cases the company's most modern endeavor since there are five released a few years ago this is the one we saw at Computex it takes all the boxes that have been created by NZXT sh 440 Corsair 760 t and some of in winds higher-end cases and those boxes these days generally include tempered glass which is got on the sides and the front and in this case no optical drives and then of course a power supply shroud which every case it needs these days apparently also every case you need RGB lights but this one opts out of that so that is the one box that is not ticked by the Roseville Cullinan otherwise it's got the tempered glass and that is the current trend in the PC case market the Roseville Cullinan mid tower enclosure was first shown at Computex 2016 and has since been followed by the new 460 X by Corsair not to be confused with an Andy product and was even preempted by in wins 303 here's the interesting part since rosewall's Computex unveil case manufacturer added ease has released its own AI crystal case which looks remarkably similar to the Roseville Cullinan that's because an ADIZ and Rose will both get their tempered glass heavy cases from Chinese OEM designer Jones bow which we believe is a customer of factory God's being casing NZXT largely supports with its growing demand relatedly the NZXT s340 that received iom powers element modifications tempered glass by the way likely was made by god's BK scene earlier this year prior to the tempered glass fervor unleashed at Computex by Roseville Jones Bo all these other companies om designer Jones Bo now makes its own at QT 0-3 glass panel case the case comes with an excellent catchphrase - which is quote chasing on the road have you already forgotten the beginner's mind this is part of the modern PC industry - as we discussed an AR who really makes your liquid coolers article the manufacturers mostly buy parts that are pre-made by engineering or design firms then apply changes during the production process courts are for example Institute's a number of changes on ASA tech coolers prior to incorporation in the final course their product but does still buy an ASA tech liquid cooler at the end of the day Logitech ware with its sensor suppliers to customize firmware for their mice further differentiating themselves from every other Avago or PM w or picsArt sensor out there and these small changes are what set the companies apart at the end of the day other than the sticker on the product warranty RGB LEDs and things like that but let's talk about the Cullinan specifically and then go through all the thermal benchmarks and testing note that everything we say about this case pretty much applies to the AI crystal by an ADIZ it's again basically the same thing the same is true for the Qt zero 3 if you see any other case manufacturer selling what is effectively a cutie zero 3 or even I think that product is available in some European regions standalone the review points we make here will apply to all of those the only real differences fan spec which I'll get to at the end the Cullinan has an expected street price of $150 for hard specs the unit is using five millimeter thick tempered glass side panels for the left and right four millimeters in the front each secured by flathead thumb screws and four locations for the left and right side panels a silicon damper sits between the screw and the glass to prevent unpleasant metal on glass contact with the glass itself sitting loosely on a stand off the front panel also uses tempered glass that's set within plastic housing as a single unit obstructing the front with tempered glass obviously prohibits any air intake but this isn't any different from what we're seeing on modern cases making use of sleek plastic or metal fronts either the quartz air 400 C 600 C in NZXT h4 14s 340 cases all use flat fronts with no mesh and then leverage the depth between the front of the chassis or frame and the front panel as the intake event for the front fans it's an approach to design that allows for intake a cleaner front aesthetic and theoretically reduced noise exposure to the user by directing the noise out and away from the front of the case and toward the back rather than leaking the noise out of a front mesh to make this work the enclosure needs to have some depth between the front panel and the frame and a grill within that cavity we found that a grill of about one inch is ideal for breathability the same is true for bottom intakes on elevated cases and a Cullinan meets this recommendation with a 1.2 inch gap between the front and the front glass for fans the Cullinan includes three 120 millimeter front fans with blue LEDs and one 120-millimeter rear fan with a blue LED also optional III 120 millimeter top fans can be fitted though we've generally found that cooling performance worsens when using top exhaust fans within a system that's fitted with a tower cooler so it'd be best to dedicate that slot to a radiator if you have one speaking of the Cullinan supports radiators up to 360 millimeters long on the top and front and 120 in the rear definitely 140 is a bit tight though if even possible you'd want to check on a radiator / radiator basis and optionally the front fans can replaced with 140 millimeter units found on the AI crystal though you're really not gaining much from that endeavor other than potentially some noise reduction if you run in lower rpm fans the front fans are already fairly maxed out on their usage of the entire front surface area and 140 millimeter fans will really just bleed over some of the air channel on the steel paneling once you look inside the case you'll see that there's really not a lot more room for fans anyway to breathe through that front mesh the cases construction is entirely steel without the glass the enclosure is fairly lightweight and uses 0.7 millimeter thick SG CC steel but looking now at thermals the Cullinan case has a fan speed controller so it's got three switches one switch on the front with three toggles and those are a high medium and low because of the way this particular controller works and the fans in the case when you decrease the fan speed it's also lessening the brightness of the leds to the point where the lowest fan speed setting will turn off the LEDs if you dislike them for thermal testing as always we're running through our regular benchmark it's all detailed in the article link to the description below which has the full review of this case if you want more information but one thing to note as we've discussed in our GPU content of late high GPU temperatures in cases do actually matter so this is a point that we haven't really made before because GPU boost is changing the game with 3.0 and with way and D works now thermals are a big deal so an extra 5 Celsius granted by one case or another is enough of a swing that you can get some additional boost out of the clock for the GPU if you're running into a thermal wall and that's mostly applicable to something like a reference card like this one where you've got a week or cooler on it but it obviously depends on the card the Cullinan ends up at about thirty 6.5 Celsius delta T for cpu load temperature you can read about delta T on the site or on the channel you can learn about it and that places it right around the Corsair 400 CN NZXT s340 also on this chart idle taps for the cpu are at around 14.5 celsius for the cullinan with the fans configured to medium instead of max which is what we just looked at the noise is theoretically marginally reduced because you've reduced the RPM but that also increases the temperatures the : n CPU temp jumps up to 39 point one five Celsius load and sixteen point seven Celsius idle that makes the medium-speed configuration the hottest in this list the temperature difference 4 CPUs with this particular setup isn't hugely detrimental with GPU load it's a different story we're seeing a performance of 60 Celsius for the full speed fan configuration with an idle of one point three one Celsius again delta T over ambient that places the Cullinan between the N when 303 and Corsair 400 see medium pretty heavily impacts GPU temperatures as well increasing load by 5 Celsius to 65 point seven three Celsius and again that's actually kind of a big deal with the worse cooled GPUs as we discussed because of boost 3.0 or whatever you may be using speaking to build quality and ease of installation the case is fairly easy to work with in terms of strictly aesthetics starting with the front panel or all the panels actually and the glass terminate cleanly so there's no bleed over of the glass hanging over the edge or vice versa which we've seen in a lot of cases with worst quality control the steel at 0.7 millimeters thick is certainly not the thickest we've seen on the market in winds 303 uses a far thicker steel for the chassis and that's true for a couple of the other competitors at this $150 price point as well but the rigidity of 5 millimeter thick tempered glass which by the way is massive does improve the sort of structural integrity to a point that you really can't tell the main difference here is that when moving the case around having that thinner steel with the really heavy tempered glass does make it actually a little bit more portable than it would be if they used a one millimeter thick steel or something like that the biggest pitfall of the case is its failure to accommodate 88 millimeter tall power supplies our max plat max PSU is something around a $200 unit and it's fit in about a dozen cases that we've worked with this year including some lower end ones but it did not fit in the Cullinan to get the unit to fit we had to remove the PS use a finger guard on the fan and that's definitely an oversight by the designers and engineers of the case and one which could be fixed if they had just added one extra millimeter of height to the PSU shroud I guess if you wanted to you can file down the metal to get this thin there because that's just how close it is but it's easier to buy a shorter PSU the next pitfall is small and has to do with cabling the right side panel over here could use some extra thickness to better accommodate cables so for cable management purposes in this case the glass is exposing the side of the case where the cables are normally hidden so that does mean generally depending on how clean you want to look you'll want to manage that side of it better because of the limited space the clearance between the chassis the motherboard tray and the glass there's really not a lot to work with for cable management so that does take some extra time and you might want to consider buying braided cables just because they're going to be exposed to the outside in terms of build quality of the glass itself the paneling helps strengthen the case when all assembled and makes for pretty heavy enclosure the glass quality is exceptionally high - during filming we tragically drop the panel on a piece of metal tripod mounting hardware and the panel received no damage or scratches at all which is admirable and worth a mention that's just what tempered glass is good at you wouldn't want to do it regularly but it is high-quality glass as an enclosure Rose Wells Cullinan is one of the better cases we've worked with this year it had a brief advantage in the market when it was shown at Computex between arriving which will be within a week or two of this video and that advantage has kind of gone now in that there's actually competition so when this was announced it was one of the cheaper more workable mid towers with tempered glass other than they like in winds cases if you didn't like them or they didn't quite fit the bill now though several other companies have come out with competitors that includes Corsairs 460 X which we just saw it packs and includes the AI crystal which is this thing but by added ease ease of installations reasonably well designed there's tons of space in the ceiling for working with a radiator and the finished build looks good in the case the PSU fitment is the biggest hurdle with the case but we found that it fits PS use of 85 to 86 millimeters tall without issue at least ours and that's most power supplies on the market including the Silverstone one we inevitably put in here because the other was just too tall the super high end power supplies that are 88 millimeters tall will have fitment issues and the next challenge for Rose Wells take on this case is its competition as mentioned entities is likely also buying from Jones Bo and assigned it's AI crystal for $130 after temporary instant discount but it has a $21 shipping charge so that brings it up to the 150 dollar MSRP that entities already list the case for Rose wills case will have a $180 MSRP and will be sold for 150 after instant discount so basically $150 case and it will possibly include free shipping because Rosewell is owned by Newegg and they tend to do that with their products we're not positive on that yet but that would be an advantage where would basically equal the price of the anodized AI crystal and the Rose we'll call it in case so with the real price of each case probably at about $150 after you account for the shipping and instant discounts and all that BS for the most part really you're looking at the differences between the two of the differences our Rose will uses 120 millimeter fans in the front there's probably no real cooling advantage there we'd have to test it to know with the an ADIZ fan specifically it's not all about the size of the fan of course it matters how fast it operates and things like that I guess you could look at the LED color the AI crystal II is a white fan or as well uses a blue one you can choose based on what you want there and then other than that it really comes down to things like support warranties brand name stuff like that and that's up to you to decide what you like better the only other thing worth mentioning is the naming there's no name plate on the power supply shroud for the Roseville Cullinan they put their name on the front in glass and then an ADIZ puts theirs on the power supply shroud so if you have a preference for what the logo looks like that's another way to choose I guess but I would choose based on warranty support expectations by brand name things like that and most importantly choose by price if one of the cases happens to go on sale just buy that one really doesn't matter who makes it for the most part because the price is the same otherwise the features are the same otherwise other than what I've just listed very small things as the same om so that's really all there is to say about this as a case the Cullinan the AI crystal the QT 0-3 it is a good case I do actually like it as a mid tower I think it's a little expensive potentially the competition is going to be Corsair with their 4 60 X and if you like it the n1 303 which we liked but it's a little bit less flashy doesn't have the tempered glass in the front it doesn't have the same LEDs obviously in the front because it's there's no reason to have them that would be an alternative to look at that's closer to the $100 mark it fluctuates between about 80 and 100 and then if you want to go cheaper still there's this the NZXT and the fantex options without the tempered glass but for tempered glass you're basically looking at Corsair 460 X the ROS will an ADIZ Jones Bo QT o 3 Cullinan thing which is this and the n1 303 those would be kind of the ones to look at for the most part Corsair 460 X we don't have yet but we'll be talking about more soon so thank you for watching as always patreon like the post roll video links the description below for more information subscribe for more i'll see you all next time you