Aerocool X-Predator Evil Black Edition Gaming Chassis Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. Aerocool X-Predator External4. Aerocool X-Predator Internal5. Aerocool X-Predator System Installation6. Testing Methodology and Performance7. Acoustical Performance8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

First we installed an Akasa Venom Power 750W power supply at the bottom of the chassis.

The 3.5″ trays can cater for either 3.5″ or 2.5″ drives; as such we fitted a Kingston HyperX 3k 120 GB SSD easily enough. Aerocool have even included the right sized screws for both 2.5″ drives and 3.5″ drives.

You then just slide the trays in until they click in place – we also fitted a 3.5″ 160 GB Maxtor Diamond Max 20 drive. Our only comment being, that this seems to be quite a tight fit, and we suspect not much air will be able to circulate around a 3.5″ drive if you use consecutive bays.

We then proceeded to install a motherboard and cpu cooler. Our Micro ATX board certainly looks small in this chassis and it can easily cater for ATX and even EL-ATX boards with ease.

We finally installed a XFX Radeon 5450 HD graphics card. This case can cater for graphics cards with a length of up to 330mm.

Connecting everything was extremely easy as there is plenty of space inside the chassis to work with. We managed to route most of the cables exactly where we wanted to keep the system tidy. Only the thin rubber grommets caused us problems as they just fell out of the holes every time you tried to push a cable through.

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