Antec GX500 Window Mid-Tower Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 9 years ago
Interior
The interior of the chassis looks pretty promising, with an all-black finish that gives a nice and uniform appearance, there’s a good size CPU cooler mounting cut-out, a little cable routing, and the standoffs are pre-installed; all of this should help with the installation process.
The hard drive bay is fixed in place, but offers room for a few 3.5″ drives that will use clip-on rails, and there’s a dedicated 2.5″ bay located on the top.
Dual 5.25″ drive bays in the top, with a 3.5″ below them; the tool free screws will make installing your devices nice and easy too.
The rear 120mm exhaust fan, nothing too fancy, but it’ll certainly do the job and it’s also a great spot to install a 120mm AIO water cooler, although I’d likely stick with a slim radiator design due to the size of the chassis.
The PSU mount has two foam strips, which will help protect the PSU and chassis from scratches, while also helping to reduce any vibrations.
There’s not a huge amount of space behind the motherboard for cable routing, but keep in mind that the raised section on the side panel will help push this further. There’s a few fan connection headers for the fan controllers, which also requires a single Molex power connector from your PSU.
There are quite a few cable tie loops, however, so keeping excess cables in check shouldn’t be too difficult.
