As stated, the chassis comes with a lot of storage, so you can include a main set of drives and possibly some back up drives. The rear PCI back plates are cut from a vented metal material, a little tricky to handle, but they add a strong level of ventilation at the rear of the chassis. We have always liked these types of PCI blanks, more designers should follow this approach.
The PSU is mounted on four dense rubber isolators, they are substantial and should provide good vibration dampening.
Test Build
We didn’t include an optical drive as we don’t really use them anymore. We had no fit issues at all, however, we had a few cable length issues with the PSU, but only just. A lot of chassis this size are on the limit for the CPU power cable, the Aero 1000 was no different. It still reached without any cable tension, but careful routing has to be considered.
- Processor: Intel i7-5820K
- Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7
- Graphics: PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 770
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666Mhz
- Drives: 2 x 256 GB SSDs OS (Samsung 840 Pro)
- PSU: Corsair HX1000
- Cooler: Scythe Mugen MAX CPU Cooler
Let’s have a look at the build.
We did not try any aggressive cable management with this build, so you have an idea of a rough initial build and where the cables fall. However we used two of the supplied cable ties on the back side to stop some cables from moving.
There is plenty of depth behind the motherboard tray, which is not removable, but with flat PSU cabling like the Corsair HX1000’s cabling, you will not have any issues with the Aero 1000.
Aerocool Aero-1000 White Chassis Review
Package - 8.5
Component Compatibility - 8.5
Build - 8.5
Consumer Experience - 9
8.6
When you think about what the Aerocool Aero-1000 is supposed to be, functional, designed, water cooling ready and with cable management in mind, it ticks all the boxes. We found the Aero-1000 at £53.92 in the Amazon UK store, which is very cheap for what you end up getting.
