Aerocool Strike-X Advance Black Chassis Review

1. Introduction2. Aerocool Strike-X External and Bundle3. Aerocool Strike-X Internal4. System Installation5. Testing Methodology and Performance6. Acoustical Performance7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

First off we installed a power supply, this time an Antec TruePower 650W.

We then went to install a Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB Solid State Drive. Each 5.25″ tray can cater for both 3.5″ drives or 2.5″ drives, although the screws included by Aerocool don't fit the SSD's – this is however quite common. 1 x SSD can also be installed at the bottom of the 5.25″ bays, but this is slightly more fiddly.

Installation of the solid state drive is ever so easy, although it does stick out a bit more than expected from the tray. Each tray can also fit a 120mm fan on the underside, which is great for conventional hard disk drives, and this could prove to be a useful addition.

We then installed the motherboard and CPU cooler. At this point we had to plug in a 4-pin power cable before screwing down the motherboard as we were limited on space at the top of the chassis.

We then installed a graphics cards. As you can see, there is a still a good amount of space showing that this case can cater for much larger graphics cards.

Finally, we connected up the test system. We found we very limited on space for cable routing, and we very surprised to find that the left-hand side panel would not fit properly as it conflicted with our Akasa Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler – which is by no means the largest CPU cooler out there.

The side panel did fit, but with a bit too much perseverance and force involved, another few mm clearance would have been perfect for this particular build.

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