Aerocool BX-500 Evil Black Edition Full-Tower PC Chassis Review

Starting at the side of the chassis we can see that cooling plays a big part in this chassis, with room for 4 x 120mm or 4 x 140mm fans to be fitted on the side panel window thanks to its pre-cut mounting holes and ventilation slots.

On the front we can see there are 4 5.25″ drive bay covers and one top bay for either a card reader or similar sized device, as well as plenty of ventilation down the front panel for air intake and finally the stylish little “PGS B” and “Aerocool” logos further down the chassis.

On the top of the chassis we can see there is a flip up panel which hides away a range of ports, such as 4 x USB 2.0 sockets, headset and microphone jacks, e-sata and the reset switch. The power button and HDD LED are mounted just in front of this flip up panel. Behind the panel you can also see there is a padded compartment, very handy for storage of items like flash pens, memory card and what ever other small bits and pieces you require.

Along the top of the chassis we can see there are a further two fan mounting points both of which support 120mm and 140mm fans and along the rear of the chassis we can see there is room for a 80mm fan behind the motherboard for cooling the CPU.

The back of the chassis has a pre-installed 120mm fan, 7 replaceable expansion slot covers, which surprisingly aren’t ventilated, but there are some ventilation holes to the right hand side of these. Lastly we have two circle cut-outs with rubber grommets at the top and two more at the bottom right for routing water cooling pipes or additional cables.