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Review: Cooler Master Sileo 500 Chassis
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Written by Paul Paliath on Saturday, January 02, 2010


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A quality case that provides you with both ample room for your components as well as diminished noise can be quite a rare find. Cooler Master has set out to create the perfect silent case for system builders in need of a silent, mid-tower solution, and, in pursuing this, they created the Sileo 500; a mid-tower case built with the intention of giving you ample room for your components, as well as decreased noise.

The Sileo 500, boasting acoustic foam sound insulation padding is built for silence, while still attempting to provide ample room for the components that enthusiasts need to build relatively powerful systems. While for truly beastly systems a full tower case is obviously recommended over a mid tower offering such as the Sileo 500, this case is good for most configurations you throw at it. In this review, we will house the following components in the Sileo 500:

  • Ultra 350 watt ATX PSU
  • Asus P5QL PRO Micro-ATX Motherboard
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
  • 4GB of G.Skill F2-6400CL4D RAM
  • EVGA GeForce 9600GT
  • 120GB HDD
  • ThermalTake MaxORB EX CPU Cooler

Manufacturer Specifications:

Model RC-500-KKN1-GP
Color Black
Dimension (L)480 x (W)200 x (H)432 mm
Weight 17.6lbs; 8 kg
M/B Type Micro-ATX, ATX
5.25" Drive Bay 5 Exposed
3.5" Drive Bay 1 Exposed; 4 Hidden
Cooling System Front: One 120 x 25 mm silent fan 800 rpm
Rear: One 120 x 25 mm silent fan 800 rpm
I/O Panel USB x 2, eSATA x 1, Mic x 1, Audio x 1
Power Supply

Standard ATX PS2 (optional)

 

Continue reading this GeekSmack review to discover whether or not Cooler Master succeeded in balancing performance and silence.

 




Last Updated on on Sunday, January 03, 2010
 

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