Raijintek Asterion Mid-Tower Chassis Review

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Building a system in the Asterion couldn’t have been easier, as there is an embarrassing amount of room on the interior for our hardware. Cable routing is sublime, with those huge cable routing grommets and various cut-outs exactly where you need them to feet cables to all edges of the motherboard with ease.

The HDD mounts on the lower section are great too, giving you a place to display your favourite SSDs, and they even have their own cable routing holes at the back to keep things looking neat and tidy.

The 270X Tri-X Toxic isn’t a small GPU by any measure, yet there is still has a vast amount of room for something bigger if you really need it (unlikely). Of course, this extra space can also be used for thicker radiators and push/pull fan configurations, giving you lots of options to play around with.

There’s lots of clearance above the motherboard too, and this means you’ll have zero issues fitting the biggest air coolers on the market, but also all the room you need for rear and top mounted fans or radiators.

With eight expansion slots and E-ATX motherboard support, you’ll not be left wanting for space in multi-GPU configurations either, and the extra width left over is perfect for water cooling hardware on your expansion cards.

Neat and tidy cable routing throughout, and don’t worry if you’re using E-ATX, as there’s a handy second set of grommets over to the right to deal with the wider board design.

All panels back in place, and you can barely see anything inside the Asterion thanks to that dark tint to the glass.

The same goes for the right side, barely see anything through it, which means that all those cables you’ve routed are very nicely hidden.

Powered up the chassis, for now with the side panel removed, and there’s a soft cool-white light from those three pre-installed fans. It’s not too much, nicely understated and is certainly quite classy compared to some LED fan lights.

The ring of light runs right around each fan, giving them a floating halo appearance.

With the panel back in place, the bulk of the hardware vanishes against the inky black interior, with just the motherboard LEDs, GPU and the fans glowing through. Of course, the more LEDs you add, the more you’ll see, but any LED/RGB hardware should look incredible in the Asterion.