Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

Havn didn't do much wrong with the HS 420. It's easy to build into and looks great once the build's done. But it is absolutely huge and heavy. So, at Computex 2026, Havn had an answer for that.

It's called the HS 360 and it is very similar to the HS 420, only smaller. Specifically, it's 19.4% smaller and 29.5% lighter, the company says.

I'm told the panoramic glass, which wraps around the front to the side of the case, required a slight reduction in thickness and a tighter bend radius to match the newly shrunken chassis and cut down on weight.

"I think we could probably claim that it's the tightest bend on any glass panel," Havn's Steven Levitt tells me.

One new feature on the HS 360 is the inclusion of a magnetic glass divider, which sits above a graphics card using the vertical GPU mount. The idea is that cold air coming through the bottom of the case—the case uses a chimney layout with cool air coming up through the bottom—a lot of it was escaping right out the top along the front third of the case. By adding in something to block the air, counter-intuitively, I'm told temperatures are reduced by three degrees.

There are a couple of minor improvements to how fans are mounted in the case, too. People who have used the HS 420 will know what I'm on about, but the fans need to be installed from inside the case, which is a pain once components are installed. The HS 360 has brackets that let them be installed in the rear, and the lower three fans can also be lifted out from both sides for easier access.

(Image credit: Future)

(Image credit: Future)

(Image credit: Future)

(Image credit: Future)

(Image credit: Future)

The HS 360 also has a really smart solution for back-connect motherboards—those with all the connectors on the rear for a smarter appearance. The tray to the side of the motherboard tray, with the cutouts that a 24-pin motherboard cable would usually run through, flips around, which means a back-connect motherboard can fit here, and there aren't any unnecessary cutouts for a cleaner look. Smart.

All of these upgrades would be great on the larger HS 420, too. So I asked Levitt about that, and he told me they're working on it, but it's something for the future. Perhaps a V2, then.

I'm told the VGPU version of the HS 360 will be around $230. The non-VGPU one will be around $160. These are only tentative prices, but that would put this case a little above the larger HS 420 and BF 360.