Bitfenix Prodigy Mini-ITX PC Chassis Review

So now that we have our system installed, you can see we’ve made some major changes to the standard setup of this chassis, with the optical drive bay removed, giving us room for the gargantuan Antec 920 water cooling system for our CPU, we would have loved to installed this above the motherboard, but the water cooling pipes didn’t look too happy about being bent into a small space, so I decided to give it a little room at the front. I’ve left the 2 x 3.5″ drive bay in place, to demonstrate how you can still have larger hard drives in place, while removing the upper drive bay to allow for our GTX 560 Ti graphics card.

Now if I tilt back open the rear panel, you can see there are a lot of cables running through this rig, even with our modular power supply its a little busy in there, to the bottom right you can see we’ve made good use of the two oval cut outs on the rear side of the motherboard, below which there was a fantastic amount of space for “stuffing” excess cable, I also found leaving the bottom drive bay in place allowed me a little more room for hiding cables. You can also see our SSD is side mounted on the rear side panel.

If I remove the top panel of the chassis you can see our Antec 920 in all its glory, with the fans, heat sink and water pipes all having plenty of clearance inside this chassis, still leaving room for a further 120mm fan or just as much room to install a 240mm radiator if that is what you desire.

From around the back, we can see that the original 120mm rear fan has been left in place, helping even further with the cooling capabilities of this chassis and the Antec 520 PSU mounted upside down, with its fan facing downward in the chassis taking advantage of the bottom air intake/outlet and dust filter.