Element Gaming Atomic ITX Aluminium Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 9 years ago
Complete System
There’s no point in hiding the fact that this was a difficult chassis to work with. It’s very small and as such, it’s rather cramped to work inside. Hooking up power cables, even with a modular power supply was no easy task, but the end result is certainly worth it.
Hard drives mount easy enough in the base of the chassis and are accessible enough should you need to swap out a drive at a later date.
Our Seasonic PSU is quite long, perhaps a shorter model would be more suitable. Of course, it still fit and I even found a little space above it for excess cables.
The CPU cooler we used is a low-profile model, but there’s easily room for something bigger if you feel the need. As I said before, you could also get a 120mm AIO water cooler installed in the back of the chassis.
The Sapphire R9 285 Tonga graphics card is a great little card, quite literally on the little part too, as it fit in this chassis with zero issues.
The complete product looks just as wonderful as it did when we took it out of the box. It may be small, but we’ve got room for a few hard drives, a decent graphics card, a high-end PSU, good CPU cooler and a decent motherboard; the Gigabyte Gaming 5 Mini-ITX.
