Aerocool DS230 Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Complete System

First things first, we needed to get our HDD installed, and since there’s a neat and tidy 2.5″ drive bay right at the back, we’ll take full advantage of that!

Right, so HDD stuff quickly out of the way, let’s take a look at the business end of the DS230. Immediately, you can see the advantages of that PSU shroud, as it hides so many ugly aspects of a build out of the way, and that means you can just cram your cable shame in there and not worry about it.

There’s an extremely large amount of room in this chassis for extra-long expansion cards, so no fears of any GPU not fitting here. Of course, keep in mind that thicker radiators in the front will eat into that space, so be sure to measure twice before clicking buy on all your swag custom-loop stuff.

There are no front panel fans installed here, so it makes sense to me that the front would be the perfect place to mount an AIO cooler for you CPU. You could use the top mount or even the rear 120mm, but keep in mind that the top mount would then require that lovely silencing cover to be removed.

The clean cable management is killer, it’s really a shame there’s no window on our sample as this a great build to show off. Of course, the name “dead silence” didn’t come about from interior aesthetics, and those thick side panels are going to keep your system as quiet as a whisper.

There’s a good amount of clearance for the CPU cooler, which isn’t surprising as the chassis is quite wide. There’s also a good space between the motherboard and the rear fan mount, so there shouldn’t be any issues fitting an AIO cooler here.

Wide expansion cards won’t be an issue here either, obviously, and there’s easily room for a multi-GPU configuration too.

All panels back in place and the DS230 looks just as neat and tidy as it did when we took it out of the box. Let’s power it up and see what the LED lighting has to offer us!

The front panel looks awesome with the two lighting strips, and even cooler with the underlighting on the base.

The underglow is really cool, the way it wraps around the front and sides of the chassis, and even more so how all the lights are synced, giving you some really cool colouring to pick from to suit your taste. There’s little else to say about the DS230 now, but enjoy the next series of pictures that show off the lovely colours on offer from the built-in lighting.