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Our review sample was shipped double boxed for added protection. It is well packed and should be secure enough during transportation. Inside is the main chassis, along with the MSI Z87M Gaming motherboard box including driver discs and some left over parts from the system build.
Kitguru loves the Aerocool Dead Silence Gaming Cube chassis. We love it that much that it won best small chassis in the KitGuru annual awards 2013, surpassing even the excellent Bitfenix Prodigy. If you want to see a full indepth review of this chassis then check back here.
Even better, BOX are using the windowed version of the chassis.
BOX built this system in the beautiful red version of the chassis. Aerocool specifically use a leathery style material which does not mark or attract fingerprints. Overall, it is very resilient to rough handling. The curved front panel looks very stylish and modern, especially when we compare against other small chassis, from companies such as MSI.
Box have installed a black DVD writer. Incorporating mixed colours on the front panel normally wouldn't look great, however the side panels of the Aerocool Dead Silence chassis are black, so it coordinates well.
Plenty of connectivity along the top panel including a power button, reset button, microphone and headphone jacks. The right hand side is home to 2x USB 2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 ports. We received the ASSASSIN system with both the ordinary red panel and black MESH top panel. Depending on how the machine is configured this will vary – BOX say a watercooled version of this build works better without the MESH panel, due to airflow front to back.
BOX have included a colour coordinated MSI GTX770 2GB Twin Frozr OC Gaming Edition graphics card.
The build is based around the MSI Z87M Gaming Edition. We reviewed this motherboard back in January and it claimed our highest award at the time due to the incredible capabilities. It is even more impressive when we factor in that it is a Micro-ATX design.
Motherboard rear ports:
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
- 2 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x Clear CMOS button
- 1 x LAN (RJ45) port
- 6 x USB 3.0 ports
- 1 x Optical S/PDIF OUT connector
- 2 x eSATA ports
- 6 x OFC audio jacks
- 2 x HDMI port
- 1 x DisplayPort
The Aerocool Dead Silence chassis is easy to work with – both side panels are removed with thumbscrews. We can get a better look inside now.
The lower section of the chassis houses the power supply and drives. BOX are using the Aerocool Strike X 800W modular power supply, which is the weak point of the system build. We reviewed this back in November and it disappointed in a few areas.
If you wanted to add another GTX770 graphics card to the system then you would need to attach another PCIe connector. The other cable was not supplied with our review sample, however BOX did tell us that a customer will get all the left over cables in an accessories box.
This build features a 3,5 inch 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD and a 2.5 inch 120GB Kingston HyperX SSD. BOX have Windows 8.1 installed on the faster Solid State drive.
Installed in front of the MSI graphics card is a small TPLink wireless networking card – a very useful addition to the build. This can be easily removed if you wanted to add another graphics card to the build.
We removed the other side panel to get a look in behind the graphics card. We can see that BOX are using extender cables on the PCI e power cables. We removed these extender cables and found the primary Aerocool power supply cables directly stretched to the graphics card. We aren't quite sure why BOX have decided to use them.
We can see that BOX have installed the MSI Dragon Water Cooler with a 120mm fan on the radiator. Additionally however they have installed an extra Aerocool Dead Silence Fan in matching red and black. This will increase cooling performance.
These are without question some of the best fans on the market – you can read our review, over here.
The front of the case has a large intake fan fitted to ensure cool air is sucked into the chassis, from front to back. You can see this from our ‘stripped down' picture above.
Another KitGuru award winner installed in the Assassin System. 8GB of Kingston HyperX Beast 2,400mhz memory. You can read our review on this memory, over here.
All of the power supply cables are mainly hidden in the lower compartment, as shown in the image above.
That is a great system, good specification and well thought out – never heard of box before, but will be keeping my eye on them.
I love the case, my friend bought one and its very very quiet indeed. my own thermaltake chassis sounds like a helicopter. about time I invested a little cash into upgrading.
Its a good list of components for the price. I know a lot of people say you should build your own, but after you have done it a couple of times, it loses the charm. A lot of the good UK companies have guys now that can do it as well as myself. Box seem to be one of the handful I would trust.
this unit is just like fooling all the people that is interested in purchasing if you will ask me iwill never buy this unit it is still the best if you build your own unit and put all the best parts you know about computers…