Test System

Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with the use of spacers and the provided screws. As the board is mounted upside down, the CPU area is on the bottom half of the mATX configuration.


You may install GPUs of up to 280 mm in size within the Styx, or less if using a bigger PSU. In our scenario, the standard-sized Seasonic unit was just a tad too tall with its modular connectors to make for an easy fit. You could, of course, use the second fully sized PCIe slot in such a scenario to work around this issue - so long as there is one.


Installing the PSU is straightforward as you simply screw it down to the frame provided within the interior of the chassis. However, you should do so before placing the power supply within the Styx if you are adding an optical drive. The angled connector should allow you to install any PSU regardless of which way its power plug faces.


Adding an SSD to these individual trays requires you remove them first to then secure the drive with screws. Due to their flat surface, the drive's connector is not given a lot of space, so most SATA power plugs will only fit by flexing the SSD PCB or plug itself. It would have been nice to see a slightly elevated tray design instead.


Things are a bit different on the separate hard-drive plate. Here, the drive connectors have a bit more room. 3.5" units are mounted on rubber rings, while 2.5" variants are screwed directly onto the plate. Once filled, you may simply put it back into its original spot. However, make sure you have everything connected to the motherboard first since doing so will block access to some areas. As you may have noticed by now, it is important to choose the right order of installation due to the compact dimensions of the Styx.


With everything installed, the Raijintek Styx is quite full. There is not a lot of cable management that can be done, but odds are it won't matter as things are hidden or blocked from view anyways.

Finished Looks

Putting the side panels into place is actually quite difficult if you placed an SSD onto the backside of the motherboard tray. Odds are the cables will make the panel bulge a bit as in the picture above. It would have been simpler of Raijintek to simply not include the two trays or to instead place them onto the floor of the chassis instead of including a bottom fan mount. Another option would have been to use more mounting screws for the side panel. However, that would not have been the most elegant solution. The white power LED is quite bright and the choice of color is a refreshing deviation from the standard blue or red used in most cases.


Looking at the windowed side of the chassis, it sits flush and allows the user to take a peek at the CPU cooler. You can also see part of the hard-drive plate. While it is nice to have a window, it is not very useful in this case. In the rear, everything is where you would expect it to be, with the power lead out of the way in the top-right corner.