Assembly

Installing the motherboard within the Deep Silence 1 is done by traditional means. Simply screw the spacers into the right spots and place the motherboard on top of those. Lastly, use the included black screws to pin the board into place. There is plenty of space for large GPUs and large CPU coolers.


We have seen these exact metal trays before. These are used in the R2 version of the Define. Before you go ahead and think that an old revision is bad: that is not the case. These trays come with rubber rings as an anti-vibration measure and can hold both 3.5 and 2.5" drives. The fact that these are metal is good since they have a much better grip than any plastic variants out there. Simply fill the tray with the drive of your choice outside of the chassis. The connectors are, as you can see, facing towards the motherboard tray, which makes a clean looking system a possibility.


Once filled, simply slide the tray into place until it snaps down. It holds, once inserted, so well that you will not have to worry about these during transportation. The drives will stay where they are supposed to.


There is absolutely no reason to remove the front cover to install an optical drive. I have just done so to show you that it is easily possible. You can easily remove each individual cover by leaving the front panel in place and unlocking the desired bay. Once free, simply slide the drive into place and lock it down using the mechanism of which there is one on each side. While this does hold the drive in place, it still has, as expected, roughly 2 mm to jiggle around. I suggest using a single screw to pin the drive down properly, which should remove the possibility of vibrations here completely.


Installing the PSU is done by traditional means with the included black case-screws. Nothing else to see here besides the fact that it works as expected.


With everything in place, the Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 makes a great impression. Everything can be routed quite nicely, and there is plenty of space everywhere. The entire mess of cables is located behind the motherboard tray - nicely hidden away.

Finished Looks

Placing both panels back onto the Deep Silence 1 proved to, with some tough love, be a fairly easy task. Once turned on, the chassis delivers what it essentially promises: a silent computing experience. Even turning the fans up all the way only makes the system emit a mere whisper, and turning the fans downs creates a nearly dead-quiet experience. This, of course, is only possible with fairly quiet components, but noise encapsulation works quite well with the Deep Silence 1. A cool green power LED underlines the fact that this is a Nanoxia chassis.


The optical drive-bay is easily accessible through the front. All components in the rear are where they should be and nothing is obstructed in any way. As you can see, I have left the side cover on the fan placement, but you should have enough depth to place a fan there with multiple graphics cards installed.