Aerocool Cylon case review - The Bottom and Rear Panels

The Bottom and Rear Panels

The bottom panel of the Aerocool Cylon has two openings, one under the HDD bays and one for the power supply, this one with air filter.

Figure 8: bottom panel

The rear panel of the Aerocool Cylon is painted in black. The power supply is installed at the bottom of the case.

The product comes with a 120 mm fan installed on its rear panel (1.92 W, no more info available.) There are no openings for external liquid cooling system hoses.

This case comes with seven expansion slots, one with a reusable cover and the others with covers that must be broken to use.

Figure 9: rear panel

Let’s now take a look inside the Aerocool Cylon.

The left panel, in acrylic, is held by four thumbscrews. The right panel is held with two thumbscrews.

The motherboard tray has a huge cutout for you to access the backplate of the CPU coolers without having to remove the motherboard from the case, and holes for you to route cables behind it. There is a 0.6 inch (15 mm) clearance between the tray and the right panel to organize the cables.

The case supports ATX and smaller form factor motherboards.

There is a cover for the power supply compartment, with an opening that allows you to see the power supply. Over this cover, there is room for two 120 mm fans.

Figure 10: overall look

Figure 11: a view behind the motherboard tray

In Figure 14, we have another overall look inside the case. Expansion cards are held with regular screws.

The Cylon supports video cards up to 14.6” (371 mm) long. You can install CPU coolers up to 6.1” (155 mm) tall.

Figure 12: overall look

The power supply is installed at the bottom of the case, in an space apart from the motherboard area. It can be installed with its bottom fan facing up or down. As shown before, there is an air filter for the power supply fan.

You will be able to fit power supplies up to 7.1” (180 mm) deep.

Figure 13: power supply compartment

The Aerocool Cylon has two internal 3.5” bays (that can also fit 2.5” devices) and two internal 2.5” bays.

Figure 14 shows one 2.5” bay, located behind the motherboard tray.

Figure 14: 2.5” bay

In Figure 15 you see two 3.5” (or 2.5”) bays located on the power supply compartment.

Figure 15: 3.5”/2.5” bays

Figure 16 unveils the other 2.5” bay, located on the front area of the motherboard tray.Figure 16: 2.5” bay

Figure 17 shows a complete PC built on the Aerocool Cylon.

Figure 17: built system

Figure 18 shows the system on, with the front LED stripe on the “flow” mode.

Figure 18: lights on

AeroCool Cylon Mini RGB microATX case, Black

Elegant backslash LED with 13 lighting modes on front panel
6 RGB flow lighting modes and 7 solid color modes
Full acrylic side panel to showcase your rig
Top dust filter can be easily removed for cleaning
Supports Mini-ITX and Micro-ATX motherboards

The only highlights of the Aerocool Cylon are its front panel with RGB LED stripe, and the card reader. Besides that, it is an average case, similar to cheaper models.

So, the Cylon is a good choice only if you falled in love on its looks with RGB LEDs. If it is not you case, there are better models that cost the same, or even less.

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