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it seems like we can't go a week without some sort of mid tower with a power supply shroud entering the market and that's been true for a while now so I'd still argue that NZXT sort of revitalized this trend with the H 440 and then the s 340 which is the smaller version of the H 440 but that trend has been continued this year especially with Corsair there 400 CEO chief reviewed the fan tax Eclipse P 400 reviewed didn't quite like it but it is the product that exists and now we're looking at the Roseville gun near and soon after this will likely be looking at the Silverstone R l05 B all of these cases I just named have a very similar design approach and that's a mid Tower most of them without a five and a quarter Bay though this one does have a five and a quarter Bay and power supply shrouds that is the overarching trend for the current iteration of mid tower cases on market the market stack up is pretty tightly packed to the s 340 is available between 60 and 70 dollars Corsairs 400 C is around ninety to a hundred dollars and the fantex P 400 ranges from sixty to ninety dollars depending on how many options you want to add rosewall's new gun near case the one we're looking at today is priced at 65 currently available through Newegg which is its parent company and despite being sort of a store brand of Newegg Rosewell has put out legitimately good cases over the past few years the Rosewell r5 for instance was one of our favorite budget mid towers of its time the new gun near case is clearly taking a stab at the current metagame of mid towers in the market made obvious by its power supply shroud it's somewhat compact form factor and lack of main compartment hard drive cages the governor does straight from its competition slightly by adding five and a quarter inch Bay's potentially giving it a stand out point in the market but Silverstone's our l0 v will soon compete with the same feature set and a marginally lower price so Roseville's got a limited window here to get their gun deer out there it's definitely a tough market and the 5.25 engine bay is really won't be enough to make it stand out especially not in the US where there's sort of an ongoing move away from internal optical drives as you all know but let's walk through the rest of the case and see if it stands out in any other noteworthy ways starting outside the rows wells near uses three different colors of black paint definitely an oversight on their part they've got one type on this top metal panel one type of black pants on the plastic panel also on the top and one type on the front of the plastic panel that's glossy so three different completely different colors you can actually see the difference pretty well in the correct lighting scenarios and then they've got a red accents going around the outside with the sort of weird thing on the front the design whatever that is so they've got this mixed kind of confusing aesthetic going on with the new gun near case and the black pant is a problem that we've we've seen with white paint and with black paint both of them in particular with manufacturers who alternate between plastic and metal panels as this does here and that alternation does mean that the the tone of the black or the white will change between plastic and metal and so they have to account for that in the design process when selecting different paints and that's not really to mention its front facing design I'm not quite sure what the extruded plastic is supposed to resemble but it looks kind of like someone took the pen tool in Photoshop and tried to learn how to use it had Rosel gone for a more edgy look or more curved look it makes sense as an attempt to maybe appeal to a certain market like the younger crowd of system builders who kind of like that more standout look like the Wolfe alloy has which might not appeal to all of us but certainly does have a segment with the way the gun near did it though it just kind of looks tasteless and oddly mixed between an attempt at Grace and attempt at edginess I will give credit where it's due though the front panel has marginally more airflow potential then the fans XP 400 which isn't saying a whole lot because the p4 hunt is pretty bad but the Roseville gunner is at least grilled on the left side and that's reasonable it's grilled a little bit on the right side there the plastics a bit too thick to be realistically useful in most cases and the company could further improve on this by reducing the thickness of its plastic bars substantially on both the left and the right and the top panel could also use some improvements but it does deserve credit for its magnetic dust filter which is somewhat of a hot trend right now between Corsair and all the other manufacturers fantex included and that is something that I do like about the ROS going near time to look at the inside of the case the Roseville gun near differs a little bit from other cases in its class but overall it's pretty comparable to the existing models out there from other manufacturers like the s 340 and the fans XP 400 and again the Corsair 400 C the PSU shroud takes an industrial approach to its design complete with a random screw in the middle of nowhere to hold the underside cage in place the shroud stops just short of full coverage of the bottom third of the case this is to theoretically allow enough clearance for the two front fans or a radiator maybe but we think Roswell could have executed it in a much cleaner fashion for example had rosa lacks the five and a quarter drives the shroud could fully extend and the fans could actually move upward which would improve the cooling performance definitely and would also allow for a more full side panel window which is it's it's just short of looking cool it kind of I don't like really the way the the side panel window truncates itself right now we've actually got plans to sort of fix the gun near in a future video but that's still forthcoming in the meantime a couple other points of improvement the shroud suffers from the same clearance issues that the fans xp for 100 did it's got issues fitting some PS use into the rear panel and they have to be installed with great patience and at a slight angle to avoid scraping the paint off the PSU in some spots and that's applicable with the larger PSU certainly but there's still ATX form factor and Rose will spec she definitely lists ATX form factor PSU has supported and then there's the matter of cabling so while we're back here in the power supply area looking at the cabling Rosewall has taken a unique approach to cabling that could actually be cool but it's poorly executed and they get routed through the backside of the tray which is fairly standard but instead of feeding through holes in the motherboard tray they feed out of a side panel wall and that's doubling an interesting approach it could work out brilliantly with motherboards that have a right-angle 24 pin header unfortunately Rosewell doesn't offer enough clearance so overlapping cables are severe inhibitor to the side panels ability to close Rosewell needs about 10 millimetres of extra clearance here has a minimum to help out it's also too tight to make changes once the PSU is in there so if you want to add a cable later the whole thing has to come out and really best just to get all the cables pre-installed and prieur outed for future upgrades now a couple of good points here there is a fan hub on the rear side of the tray that's definitely something I like there's a 3-speed fan control on the top of the front panel but unfortunately the front panel the way it's attached to the chassis it's actually got the PCB for all the front i/o attached to the plastic front panel and that means that when you pull it out it's got the cables attached so there's not a good way to separate everything and that is an old approach to the design that I'm really surprised - still being used normally what modern cases do is they'll have those USB and i/o cutouts in the top panel and then just mount that to the chassis the frame itself and that allows you to remove both the top and the front panel without having the cabling and the PCB attached which is of course a bit hazardous to the the cables and things like that the other thing that Rosewell did actually do a bit well was the top of the power supply shroud has a cutout for the PCIe cables something that I like a lot and that allows direct management of PCIe cables unfortunately it also is there as a means to sort of mitigate the lack of pass-throughs in the bottom of the motherboard tray so you can't really pass through the front i/o out the the underside of the tray into the correct pin outs on the motherboard in a concealed fashion and that's because there are no cutouts there for it so if you got to route them either through the middle of the case where they're very visible or if they're long enough you can try and force it through the power supply shroud to get to your motherboard from there as we recently showed in our thermal chamber validation our thermal tests are almost perfectly accurate when it comes to PC hardware in cases and test methodology is described in the article linked below if you want to learn more about that the Gagnier performed marginally better than the P 400 in both CPU and GPU peak thermal performance charts and the governor sits at forty two point 401 Celsius at load for the CPU and fifty eight point seven seven Celsius load for the GPU thermals if Rosewell modified the front panels are suggestions we're pretty confident that the temperatures would plants the case definitely ahead of the s3 forty and potentially even the 400 C but then you're basically redesigning the front of the case so definitely not a great measurement of the thermal success the case has a few good ideas but none of them are really developed properly or to their full potential and that's definitely disappointing in terms of the cases viability on market right now they've got a few problems with the design the paint colors are mismatched which is really just plainly an oversight and then the front panel I really don't know what's going on there if you like it then great that's all subjective but I do not so a front panel the paint colors are somewhat problematic more problematic though is that the interior is actually difficult to build with and that is in spite of the power supply shroud which should make it easier especially with cabling the cabling is not at all easy and closing the backside panel or the right side panel is somewhat difficult with the way that the cables end up stacking on top of each other and the fact that there's really no clearance there at all or any kind of cutout or stamp out on the side panel to allow that extra space for cabling the end conclusion here is that really I could waffle between the few good things that were done right and the things that were done wrong with the case and find a middle ground but in this instance I will plainly just say that I would not buy this case the competition is far too good on the market the s340 is very similarly priced if you really need optical drives the forthcoming two are l05 from silverstone is a bit better design that we haven't fully officially reviewed it yet and that does have the optical drives if you don't need them the s340 is a p400 even and the 400cc are better options than the 400 see to be fair is a bit more expensive so maybe if it drops to $50 I would consider it as a purchase because that market is a bit easier to get into with this kind of quality but there's still fierce competition there between coarser and Silverstone alike at the 40 to $50 price range if anyone from Rosewell is watching this video I would encourage you to look through the archives I'm looking at the r5 because that was a case that rose well actually did really well they were ahead of their time with the r5 the pull out dust filters were really nicely actuated and that the mechanics of the case were just much better than anything in this case so that is where I would start for improving design this case however I'd say is a miss and probably move on to something a bit better at the mid tower market segment so that is all for this video if you like this type of coverage as always hit the link with description below to read more about this case in particular or hit the patreon link to help us out directly in the post roll video and I will see you all next time you you