Xigmatek Elysium Super-Tower Full Tower Chassis Review

Now that the build is complete, how good is the Xigmatek Elysium, well given that Xigmatek have a pretty solid reputation for their pc cases, so I wasn’t expecting this thing to be anything but impressive.  It has a certain overpowering presence to it that just cannot be ignored, while its size is huge, its that size for good reason, to accommodate the extreme multi gpu systems with advanced water cooling or even just a dozen hard drives for networking, this case can cater to a lot of thing.

The build quality is fantastic on the most part, I scratched my hands quite badly more that a couple of times when dealing with the covers on the 5.25″ drive bays, since they are made out of perforated aluminium that is folded over, leaving them with razor sharp edges, at this price there is no excuse for these not having a better construction in my opinion.

While the cable management solutions are in abundance, they just didn’t seem to be in the right place for the combination of components we used for this build, everything felt like it was 1 or 2 inches away from where it should be, likely because this chassis is ideally for a much larger motherboard, given that there is a massive amount of space inside and that things looked tidy enough I won’t mark the chassis down for it, plus once the side panel is on you can bared see anything past that 230mm fan anyway, so it still looks great.

The build process in general was extremely easy, with so much room to spare there was hardly any fiddling about and I was able to click everything into place and have the system up and running in about 30min, the only set backs I had were the sharp edges on the drive covers, the fact that it weights so much made it difficult to move the rig about while installing components and the last problem I had was that the top 5.25 drive bay won’t accept a DVD-Rom.

Since there is a 5.25″ bay at the top, one would assume that you can slot a drive straight in, but half way in there is a hard wired bundle of cables that prevents you from pushing it beyond halfway into the case, which is why you will notice the drive is in the 2nd slot in our photographs, I’m not sure if that is poor design or not, but the case is already massive, surely making that extra 5mm or space for the DVD drive wouldn’t have been too much to ask.

Overall though I’m very happy with this case, while its not something your everyday system builder is going to need, you quite literally get a lot for your money, while there were some minor flaws with its design, they don’t take away from the fact that this is one impressive piece of hardware, so even though it costs £140 in a choice of black or silver with windows, I am still going to award the Xigmatek Elysium our Bang For Buck Award, simply because of the number of features you get for your money on this chassis.