Cooler Master Silencio 550 Chassis Review

Completed System Installation was extremely easy. Cable management is not too hard (although I am not brilliant at it as you can see) this is mainly due to the PSU I use.

As you can see there is plenty of space for hard drives and even a large PSU. However, due to the sound proofing we found it a fairly tight fit with both the Akasa Venom Heatsink and the Antec Kuhler 920 Radiator. These are fairly large products but unfortunately it does make it hard to push the side of the case on with this size heatsink. Itt does fit but only just and means the sound proofing will be in contact with the top of the heatsink or radiator. A few extra mm clearance would of made all the difference.

This is unfortunately the case with the back as well, meaning that if the cabling sticks out or bunches up too much you will struggle to get the side of the case on without some good old fashioned jumping upon it. Of course this case is very well tailored for expansion and allows for plenty of hard drives to be added, it does also more importantly have an internal dock that can be accessed externally allowing you to just slide a 3.5″ HDD in at the front which is very useful for backups and cloning etc.

Finally, from the back of the case we can see the I/O panel of my motherboard and the USB 3.0 cable that is needed for the USB 3.0 port on top as this case doesn’t include a native USB 3.0 motherboard header.