Cooler Master Silencio 650 Mid Tower PC Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 12 years ago
Starting at the front of the chassis we can see there isn’t much on display here, but there are plenty of little details that stand out under closer inspection such as the flat diamond cut aluminium front panel, at sleek black finish and fine details to the edges and trim of the chassis front panel.
With the front panel open we can see that the rear of the panel is lined with foam to help keep noise to a minimum, behind which you can see some ventilated panels, room for a card reader (or floppy drive) and space for 2 x 5.25″ optical drive bays or similar devices.
Along the top of the chassis, there seems to be little going on here also, there are grooves cut along each side to keep with the theme of the front panel and two slide back covers, one at the front and one at the back.
Behind these two covers we see the front cover hides the front I/O ports and buttons, with the USB 2.0, USB 3.0, headset sockets all taken care of, as well as the DualBoot HDD switch, which allows you to switch between one of two hard drives before you boot for dual booting your system without hot swapping the hard drives inside the chassis. The rear panel covers a 120mm fan / ventilation area to allow for extra cooling.
Along the left side of the chassis we can see the side panel is just as unassuming as the rest of the chassis, everything is clean, tidy and there are no major features to be seen, but there is again some nice detailing along the bottom of the chassis, adding to the collection of little design touches that are present all over this case.
The same can be said about the rear of the chassis, which features the same blank looking panel.
There is a little more going on around the back, with two large water cooling / cable routing cut-outs fitted with rubber grommets at the top right of the chassis, with a pre-installed 120mm fan below that. The chassis has 7 expansion slot covers and one vertical expansion slot which could be used for something like a fan controller device. Lastly we have a bottom mounting slot for our PSU.
