If you buy computer to run Prime and Furmark one time - probably. But check, how much scores of the same cases differ in Steve's real life tests - 3D Mark Firestrike as gaming-like scenario or Blender as CPU/GPU heavy programs. I also know, that Steve's CPU and GPU coolers during Case Torture are blocked on constant speeds, but to my knowledge, he've never shared what speeds. If he's able to bring the case noise to 32,8 dBA, they are low. And if they are irrationaly low, they unrealistically increase diffrences between cases during his procedures. And when the speeds are blocked, he don't really test, how the case balance cooling and noise supression, what is the most important thing - if we try to define objectively the best case, forget that everyone has different needs and preferences, that's the case with the best such balance.
Let's start with one to me really important detail - closed cases with sound dampening material don't only make computer quieter, but also make its sound dampened - more pleasant to the ears. Sound deadening materials also consume annoying noises like coil whine, fan bearing/motor sounds or help with HDDs noise. No non-dampened case will give you that.
I thought about Steve's studies in this matter, so let's take a look on his famous article:
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3391 ... t-base-601
Silverstone just kills SB 601. But we have to remember about shitty MSI CPU cooler Steve uses. Also calculate stress-tested GPU below warming this garbage Core Frozr. Change cooler for something decent and differences between both cases will much dicrease.
Here differences are... dissapointing. And where is the score of Silverstone with be quiet! fans equalized to SB601 maximum noise of 36 dBA? That was the one I was interested the most!
What whole test generally lacks are the same tests executed during Steve's real-life procedures I mentioned above. But I suspect, it would make point of the video less impressive. To me this video would do better named ,,How to use heavy stress tests to cook shitty CPU cooler".
What more I don't like about Steve's methodology is him keeping this damn outdated testing setup with 6700K and 1080. It should be i9 with 3090 - worse possible scenario. Plus generally with every other configurations scores on his graphs would be different - all you know is, some case cools better than other, but not how much. That makes his awesome graphs, few year-collection of test results, pointless - they are not comparable in the way, he present it.
To be honest, I find Gamers Nexus as one of the worst addresses, if we talk about case testing. As I explained above, it's just too much wrong and too much unreal.
BTW there's one active member of this forum, who (I know) transferred from sound dampened cases to airflow focused - Abula. Maybe he will share with us his impressions.