Xigmatek Octans Mini-ITX Gaming Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 9 years ago
Complete System
Building a system inside the Octans was surprisingly easy. The interior of the chassis isn’t exactly huge, but being able to remove five sides of the chassis makes accessing screw holes and fittings remarkably easy. I’ve used our Sapphire R9 285 graphics card, since our R9 270X was unfortunately too long to fit.
To top drive mount is pretty easy to use and having it near the top of the chassis makes it easy to swap out the drive should anything go wrong.
Things look a little scruffy around here, but I guess all those cables have to go somewhere. Fortunately, they’re all out of the way of the ventilation and our CPU cooler, so that’s more than enough to keep me happy.
I used my Silverstone SFX PSU here, despite the chassis being capable of using a full ATX PSU. The issue here is that the PSU cables would back onto the motherboard and since I use a modular unit, it was tricky getting cables in place due to conflicts with the motherboard; a non-modular ATX PSU or an SFX PSU would be more suitable.
Overall, a clear looking build and lots of ventilation to provide plentiful airflow to your gaming hardware.
All panels back in place and the Octans looks every bit like the boxy spaceship it did at the start. The only difference here being that I can see the fan on our graphics card through the side panel.
