NZXT Panzerbox Mid Tower Case Review

Cooling Performance


The Panzerbox does quite well when it comes to CPU cooling. It falls just a degree shy of the potent Cooler Master Storm Sniper, and bests the Scout and Antec P183 by a healthy margin. We’ll see if our choice of PSU impacts CPU temperature shortly.


The motherboard sensor in the Asus M3A78-T is located between the two PCI-Express 16x slots, so lower temperatures read by this sensor usually equate to lower GPU temperatures. Thanks to the massive 190mm intake fan flowing 150CFM of air, the Panzerbox shoots right to the top of our charts. Clearly, a lot of air is making it to this area of the case.


Since our two HD 3850s are not identical, GPU1 is always a few degrees toastier than GPU2. Please note that this has more to do with the cards themselves than their relative positioning in the case.

Once again, the Panzerbox continues to impress and proves to be an excellent case for keeping video cards cool. During testing, we were able to feel a constant flow of warm air exhausting through the vented expansion slot brackets thanks to the healthy amount of front-to-back airflow produced. This is especially good news for those with video cards that do not exhaust hot air directly out of the case.


We see a very similar pattern emerge at idle. The Panzerbox is clearly an excellent video card cooler.