The Raijintek Styx is a great-looking chassis that caters to those looking for a specific color. With seven to choose from, odds are you will find one that will fit your build visually. Raijintek also manages to stuff an mATX board inside the very compact chassis while keeping with fully sized components with the exception of the optical drive. While it advertises the ability to hold GPUs of up to 280 mm in length and a CPU air cooler of up to 180 mm in height, those numbers are a bit deceiving. How much room the GPU has can be cut short by a large PSU unless you are willing and able to plug your graphics card into the second fully sized PCIe slot. A similar logic goes for the CPU cooler: You can only go all out if you detach the hard-drive plate, which otherwise restricts the height to about 150-155 mm. It would be great of Raijintek to communicate these minimum and maximum compatibilities to save users from an ugly surprise in the end.

The Raijintek Styx can hold up to five hard drives, which is more than enough for most, and there is a well-placed ODD slot-loading drive to make the most of the available space. Thanks to the upright PSU slot, you are pretty much free to use most fully sized units as long as it does not interfere with your GPU.

The window on the chassis is a nice touch, but seems a bit useless as you can barely see anything due to the hard-drive plate. While Raijintek makes good use of the limited space, I would have liked the engineering approach to be bolder. The PSU bay should have been moved toward the front a few millimeters, which would have given you enough space to have the hard-drive tray situated vertically instead of horizontally, along the front of the chassis, and you could have even kept the ODD bay in place with some creative engineering of the HDD plate. I am being picky here, but at nearly 90 euros for such a chassis and the way it is being marketed, one is allowed to expect to be able to utilize the space as mentioned without too much compromise.

Don't get me wrong: The Raijintek Styx is a nice-looking, well-constructed chassis, but does not quite meet the expectations set forth by their marketing department. So, if you want an aluminum chassis in a fancy color with mATX board compatibility, the Styx is for you.