Crystal Carbon Dragon

Stage 0.2.7 - PC Case anidées AI-Crystal Cube Lite black Tempered Glass (AI-Crystal-Cube-Lite)

After all the drama around the new PC housing, I am pleased to have found the anidées AI-Crystal Cube. The website of the manufacturer provides many information about the housing (+ much better pictures) and my requests for details have been answered very quickly and personally.

In contrast to other Cube's with 2 chamber-system or tower's, it fits perfectly with the dimensions on the desk. It still offers enough space for components and expansion including a custom water cooling system with 2x 240mm radiators with up to ~30mm + 25mm fan's inside the top.

The glass (front, right & left) is very strongly tinted - with appropriate lighting you can put very nice accents. Air inlets at the front, at the bottom, at the rear and at the top allow a very good airflow. My decision for the ventilation of the Cube fell on the Enermax T.B.Silence PWM 120mm. Anidées itself also offers the housing with fully installed illuminated RGB-fans.

The processing of the housing is in high quality and very good black anodised. The only sharp thing I could find were the screw threads. Screws and cable ties (all black!) are, of course, all included. For all who use mechanical hard disks, it will be appreciated that the cage is equipped with appropriate dampers and no screws are required for installation.

The Lite version already has a fan on the back. Together with the PWM control, the fan is not noticed so far. For the up to 5 fans in the front is a normal fan control (off/7V/12V) with power from the power supply included - here I would like one with PWM.

The cables from the side connection panel (USB 2.0 & 3.0, Audio, Reset, Power) are all long enough (the digital audiocable could have been 1 cm longer - but I could solve that). All cables have already been laid clean - for all who want to get started, an advantage.

The only thing you might want to add is a bracket and PCiE 16x riser cable for the graphics card so that it can be installed standing behind the glass pane - but that is already grouse on a high level.

On the whole, the anidées AI-Crystal Cube is a well thought-out housing in very good quality at a fair price!

Enough tells ... here a few first impressions

More pictures and impressions can be found under Stage 1 - Let's build!

AMD Ryzen PC buildlog "CRYSTAL CARBON DRAGON" by meRlinX_AT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.