Aerocool Strike-X Xtreme Black Edition Review

The build time was around 20 minutes, which is about my average for a system of this size and while I still think the vertical cable management holes are too small, they did indeed do the job nicely and you can see that the final build looks great. Unfortunately the extension cables I’m using have large plastic connectors and they proved too much to hide behind the motherboard in the limited cable management space, which is wh you can see them crammed behind the HDD bay, but of course you should have this issue with standard PSU cables.

Our Kingston SSD sits nicely in the top bay and there is plenty of airflow from the large front fan to the back of our GPU.

The Corsair H80i fit with ease and there is enough clearance from our CPU block that we could have used a push-pull configuration on the radiator, although this would put a little more strain on the water pipes than I would be comfortable with. There is plenty of room for our GPU also and you could easily get a good SLI / Crossfire configuration going here.

The large ventilation panel on the left side gives plenty of extra airflow, but it will certainly prove a challenge to get a positive air pressure inside the chassis meaning that it will likely fill with dust. The ventilation does have the added benefit that multiple graphics card configurations would get improved airflow but choose your components wisely or else noise could quickly become an issue due to the non existant sound proofing.