A Closer Look - Outside

We received the black version of the Raijintek Pan Slim, which comes with silver feet. Some users may have expected black feet, but I actually think the color contrast is pretty nice. Naturally, that is purely subjective.


The entire front of the chassis is solid and made out of aluminium with a smooth surface, while the rear has all the major components arranged next to each other to achieve the form factor.


Both sides of the Pan Slim come with some air vents, and the top and bottom panels curve to wrap around the sides a bit. They are held in place by small, sunken screws on each side, which keeps things clean and beautiful.


On the right edge of the front are two USB 3.0 and a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port. As the cherry on top in terms of design details, it would have been nice if those were black instead of the OEM blue. Additionally, audio ports here would have been nice as well. A fairly large, silver power button with a tiny LED in the middle completes the I/O. While this button is not very apparent with the silver or white variant of the chassis, it does stick out a bit here. Raijintek put branding on the other end of the front.


In the rear, starting on the right from our perspective again, you have an SFX PSU bay next to which are three horizontal expansion slots with plenty of space blow them. This means you should have no issues installing thick and potent GPUs within the Raijintek Pan Slim. On the left half is the cutout for the motherboard I/O, and lastly, an air vent for fans or liquid cooling within the enclosure.


There are two vents with metal mesh dust filters on the top, one above the just mentioned cooling space and another right above the GPU. I am not sure how much a GPU will benefit from this with its solid side up. On the other hand, there is no vent right above the CPU area, which could have been useful, especially if air-cooling it. Flipping the Pan Slim over, there are plenty of vents across the entire span of the chassis with the exception of underneath the motherboard, which is perfectly fine.