Complete System
Building a system in the Aviator V was fairly straight forward, it’s a little cramped in there, but certainly not beyond the abilities of first-time system builders. Cable routing wasn’t easy, space was a little tight behind the motherboard, but a few cable ties and a little care go a long way.
There’s plenty of room for the PSU, with a large area between the PSU and HDD cage to store excess cables, as well as run a cable to the side connectors on the GPU.
The 270X is a huge card, so it makes good use of the extra space above the hard drive bays. However, if you’re wanting to install multiple GPUs, you’ll want to get shorter cards or take that bay out completely to accommodate it.
There’s a decent amount of room for a large CPU cooler too, and room above the motherboard to accommodate any top mounted fans easily enough.
All panels back in place and the Aviator V looks just as good as it did when we took it out of the box. You can just about see the hardware through the tinted panel, but it’s quite hard with reflections on from around our office.
Power on the system and it certainly takes a new life, with the LED lights in the two front panel fans giving a deep red glowing effect that illuminates the lower half of the front panel.
It’s a really nice lighting effect, and certainly adds to the aesthetics.
Even more lighting on the top panel, it is a fixed red lighting, but I think it’s a great combination.
You can also see the front panel fan lights through the side panel, giving the interior of the chassis a nice warm glow.
