Raijintek Enyo in Review – Airy Hardware Bunker for Strong Arms and Lots of Inside | igorsLAB

Let's move on to the smaller hurdles, some of which I stumbled upon, and which were not all due to my limited memory ability or lack of skills. No, it is not too dramatic, but I have to mention some negligence, despite all the enthusiasm, in order to remain reasonably fair. After all, anyone who has moved a felt tonne in the sum of all movements over the construction period will quickly become personal. And we all don't want that. So first take a breath and sort out…

 

Watercooling

The DIY kit PHORCYS EVO CD360/240 supplied by Raijintek comes with a 65 mm thick radiator. In the specifications (see above) it is stated that such radiators can be installed anywhere. But this can only be done in the front if you owe the fans, which would be pointless. With built-in fans with standard dimensions, exactly 5 mm are missing, because 6 cm of free space remains! Raijintek will soon punch this 5 mm from the assembly part that is in the way. That's why I installed the radiator below the graphics card on the side.

Screwing the pump firmly onto the built-in part, which always somehow bends slightly, is nonsense. It would be possible if you do not have a GTC sitting on the pump and generally use only flexible hose instead of fixed tubes. The supplied Antila D5 is equipped with the usual standard D5, but suffers from slight vibrations at higher speeds.

That's why I screwed the pump and the GTC on the frame itself and only put it on the mounting angle. For decoupling and fixation I use 1 mm thick power tape from 3M at the foot. This then beats two annoying flies with one stone.

The stabilization of the GTC is also carried out by a cleverly placed cable tie at the top.

 

Raijintek PAXX Riser Extension

The part is helpful, but it's not the first time the PAXX has collided with the internal USB 3 connector. 3 mm more distance would suffice. But you can't mount this attachment anywhere else, because you also depend on the stand that stabilizes this part downwards. Because the whole story is only mounted on the frame for fixing the expansion cards, which is not very stable. And setting deeper is unfortunately not possible, because then the slots for screwing are missing.

Speaking of stand… It gets up on a rubber surface on the lower angular part, but this is also not very torsion-stiff. Especially since the graphics card weighs almost 1.4 kilos and the Fixation of the Paxx is only done vertically. If you tilt the Enyo forward with a mounted and standing graphics card, then this quasi also falls in this direction, bangs against the glass and bends the whole structure. The problem is the stand, which cannot be screwed firmly at the installation location. But what are cable ties for?

You can achieve the same with two cable ties diagonally crossed as with a screw. This now sits bombproof and I recommended to the manufacturer to think about some kind of bracket or at least a hole, so that one could drill oneself appropriately on the other side. If you don't want to become a machining technician, you better take the cable ties. You won't see them later anyway. But it's the life insurance for the riser construction.

 

Drive assembly including wiring

You can install disks almost endlessly, but that with the connection is a different story. The large, mechanical 3.5" hard drive sits very deep towards the ground. Conventional power connections on the SATA strands of the power supplies often have angled plugs, but their angles are not always right! If the bend goes exactly in the opposite direction, the famous A-card has been drawn. The Be Quiet Straight Power 11 used here in the 750-watt version comes without angle plugs, but with flexible bendable cables.

This saves the user the day, sustainably, because the radius is even narrower in the end than you could achieve with fixed angle plugs. If they are too large, they will push the HDD upwards when the housing is set up, because there is not enough distance to the ground. This in turn can cause the HDD to be lifted out of the attachment and fall out.

To rule this out from the outset, I secured the HDD, as well as the SSD on the picture below, with a cable tie. You never know. The SSD as a 2.5" drive sits higher, but here too the holes for the sockets are so attached that you can't use an angle plug for the data cable, then again 3 mm are missing, because the SSD sits too far from the edge of the mounting plate. A small thing, but it is annoying, because you now have to bend the data cable properly to avoid contacting the floor. An angle plug would have been smarter, but it just doesn't fit. Please improve.

 

RGB without limit

I admit that with full RGB fan assembly and all the luminous components, you not only get the same eyes, but the weak mind could be visually pushed to the edge of epilepsy. But Raijintek hasn't forgotten the remote control in the scope of delivery. Since all controllers are remotely controlled via radio and not with infrared signals, you can operate all controllers at the same time with just one operation, whether the RBW or 256 color controllers, which you get with the iris fans.

Only connecting to the RGB-256 controller was very tricky, because the numbering of the connectors was missing. And this is vital, because starting with one, you have to fill the sockets continuously. Otherwise, nothing will work. I, too, fell in there and had to make phone calls about where the connection is. It starts at the top and then always from right to left. Well, if you know it then.

How all this can shine and what I made of the case can be seen very well in the following video. But beware, for light-sensitive and/or RGB haters, this is nothing, because it becomes colorful. Really colorful! The path from diodes to idiots is a short one if you are not careful. This time as a last warning and now please click boldly:

 

 

Summary and conclusion

With the Raijintek Enyo you will certainly have a hard time as a buyer, but only in the literal sense. However, it almost degenerates into physical training, if you want to equip everything fully with hardware. And that's where there are almost no limits, except for the financial ones, of course. The whole thing almost always screams for more and the case swallows hardware as greedily as a Siberian lumberjack a certain national drink. The design is also fine and apart from a few small things, which can certainly still be optimized, there are no real errors in the design.

You can certainly argue about Open Frame, but as far as the dust is concerned, I can't report anything negative from the daily experience with the Thermaltake P9 hanging on my wall. A bolide with air filters standing on the ground is also added to dust after a year, but can be cleaned even more modestly. From this point of view, this is more of a question of philosophy and not of the swiffer, which can/should be used in between.

To give an explicit purchase tip in this price range for such a fancy exotic would certainly be a bit massively incompatible, but it is a well-designed and excellently processed hardware that provides a small motivational boost in the form of an award. would certainly be approved. And that's exactly why I do this, because apart from a few tiny details, this monster is a kind of special-class joy-giver. and a great training device for the next workout.

It's a monster, in a positive sense. There is nothing more to add to this from my side. Fits, weighs and lights up. Life can be so beautifully colorful…