Xilence XQ Series Interceptor Full Tower Chassis Review

Lets start with the left side of the chassis, which as you can see comes with a real heavy duty approach to both style and its colour scheme. The black and red colouring reminded me of the Judge Dredd helmet. As you can see, the side panel is held in place with a pair of thumb screws at the back, featuring a design on the side that sees the panel bulging out quite a bit before we get to the fan grill and narrow viewing window.

I wasn’t sure about this side panel in terms of design, but when I found that it was hiding a quick access dust filter, it started making more sense. While it may not look terribly stylish (at least in my opinion) this is a practical feature that I really like.

Moving up from there we see that the top of the chassis feature a fin design to allow for further airflow in or out of the top area of the chassis.

In the image above the fins are lowered, here from the back angle you can better see what the fins look like when raised. It doesn’t look like much but those grooves cut in each fin will allow for an excellent amount of extra airflow if you have top mounted cooling solutions installed.

The right side of the chassis features a similar panel to the left, again held in place with quick release thumb screws and featuring another large recess area. Of course around this side of the chassis we don’t have a window or dust filter, but that recess will help make extra room for cable management.

The front of the chassis doesn’t skimp on the use of heavy duty plastics, I can see that it has been done to give some design flair to the front panel but it does however cheapen the look a little. On a plus side though, there is room for 4 x 5.25″ drives at the top and a pair of high quality 120mm fans installed in the bottom half.

The front panel comes fitted with 1 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, power, reset, microphone and headphone ports and switches. Not the most lavishly equipped I/O panel, but enough for most tasks.

Here we can better see the heavy duty plastic trim on the front corners of the chassis as well as the ridges along the top edges of the chassis.

Around the back of the chassis is where we find out just how big this chassis really is. First we have a tiny cable routing cut-out at the top left (great for routing any USB devices to the back I/O plate), a 120mm exhaust fan, three more cable  / water routing holes below that and a further 4 routing holes below that, all in all adding up to a lot of room for water cooling pipes. To the side we have a staggering 10 expansion bay covers and finally a bottom mounted PSU cut-out.

The base of the chassis features a slide out dust filter for PSU air intake and a number of screw holes for mounting those heavy duty stands should you require them.