Gamers Nexus finds HAVN's HS 360 glass guides fix vertical GPU temperatures
With both glass air guides fitted, a vertical GPU ran just 1 degree warmer than a horizontal one in GN tests. It costs $200, or $280 with the vertical kit.
Gamers Nexus reviewed HAVN's HS 360 PC case on October 29, 2026, and found that its two-piece glass airflow system finally makes a vertically mounted graphics card run almost as cool as a horizontal one. In GN's bottom-intake test, the vertical GPU with both guides fitted landed only 1 degree above the 42.5-degree-over-ambient horizontal result.
A smaller HS 420 with a second sheet of glass
The HS 360 is a compact take on the HS 420, and HAVN quotes it as 19.4% smaller by volume and 29.5% lighter. It looks almost identical, but the vertical-GPU edition now ships with two glass pieces: a lower "Glass Airflow Guide" and an upper magnetic "Divider" that rests against the graphics card's cooler. The HS 420's single guide made little measurable difference in GN's earlier testing. This time the numbers moved: removing the bottom guide raised GPU temperature to 44.2 degrees over ambient, removing the top guide pushed it to 45.4, and running with no guides at all gave 45.9.
The divider works best with flat, square-edged coolers, and the vertical bracket uses a PCIe 5.0 riser. HAVN will also sell the divider separately, and it fits the HS 420.
Where it falls short
The case ships without fans and only takes 120mm units across its 11 mounts, so GN had to borrow Antec fans for testing. With that setup its GPU results sat mid-pack against rivals, and CPU thermals fell toward the bottom of the chart. Noise-normalised at 27 dBA, the GPU ran 44.7 degrees over ambient, close to Lian Li's Lancool 217 Infinite and behind Fractal's North XL.
Build quality drew the usual praise for HAVN's rubber isolation at every metal contact point, but GN flagged a quality-control problem: two of the four review samples arrived with broken snaps on the rear panels, and the accessory kit includes no spares.
Price
HAVN floated $150 and $230 at Computex. At launch the base model costs $200 and the vertical-GPU version $280, which is $10 more than the vertical-GPU HS 420 launched at. GN's conclusion is that it is a well-made case with a genuinely working vertical GPU solution, but buyers chasing raw thermals have better options from Antec, Hyte and Cooler Master. HAVN has not published Southeast Asian pricing.
Source: Gamers Nexus.
