Xclio Touch 767 Full-Tower PC Chassis Review

With the Touch 767 from Xclio being targeted at the enthusiast gaming market, it has to be up to scratch when it comes to performance time, fortunately that is one area it delivered in, it’s cooling capabilities are superb, with its support for a colossal amount of fans giving you some serious air flow for your components, combine that with the innovative touch panel control that is built in to the chassis giving you maximum control over the different fan configurations in your system, thanks to the custom PCB points in the chassis that allows you to connect all your fans to the control panel, because lets face it, a system with this many fans can get pretty noisy at the best of times, dependant on the quality of your fans of course. Having the ability to drop all your fans down to a wisper is vital for when your wanting to kick back and listen to music, do some light browsing or watch a movie, but when it comes to overclocking your multi-GPU system, sticking your headset on and blasting through Battlefield 3 on ultra graphics, you can crank those fans up to a storm and keep your rig as chilled as possible.

Sure a lot of system seem to favour water cooling these day, the Xclio is no exception here with our Antec 920 water cooler having plenty of room to co-exist in this chassis, but many of us, my self included still rely on the more common heat sink and fan combo for our systems, but getting a good balance in the airflow can make or break your system temps by a huge margin, this really isn’t going to be the issue here with a full compliment of fans installed.

The only issues I have with this chassis is its somewhat at odds cable management solutions, they’re not very uniform and with odd sizes and placements things still looked horrendously cluttered inside the chassis, if you were to add in another half dozen fans and a few more hard drives, this issue is only going to get compounded and start restricting your airflow more, meaning you’ll either need to put in more effort that is reasonable to using cable extensions, cable ties and a lot of extra time to get this chassis looking tidy, so if your reading this Xclio, larger cable management cut-outs with rubber grommets running down the motherboard backplate would make a beautiful companion to the air cooling capabilities of this chassis, plus it will look nice.

I want to stress though, cable management isn’t as important as people make out, sure it makes a difference to airflow and temps, but with a little common sense to keeping all your cables tied together, you can still get excellent results with no cable management features on your chassis.

I’m going to award the Xclio Touch 767 our innovation award, while its not perfect in its implementation of some of the internal features, such as the drive mounting trays, which would have been more effective (in my opinion) as standard drive trays or quick release drawers instead of the vertical panels, or its cable management, it’s still a very robust design that would happily accommodate most high spec gaming rigs.