Installation report
Converting from the spacious full-size cabinet, I first had to get used to the space available in the much more compact Silenos MS. At the end of the day, the cleverly designed case offers more space than initially thought, but you will of course have to accept a few compromises here and there.
Since I had been putting off maintenance work on my main system anyway, and the hot-headed 5800X is also a good candidate for judging the cooling performance of the case, I decided on the following components without further ado.
This results in the following test system
First I screwed in the missing spacers to mount the mainboard. Conveniently, the screw holes for those spacers are marked and an embossing in the sheet metal provides information about which holes are used for which motherboard format.
The two Noctua fans should serve as additional “exhausts” and were therefore mounted in the case lid. As it turned out, however, the mainboard with the pre-installed CPU cooler can no longer be maneuvered to the intended place with fans installed in the lid.
In addition, the second fan would have covered the post-code or CPU temperature display, which was a decisive criterion, why I bought just this board. So I decided against using the additional fans.
The next step was to install the power supply and push the power cables into their designated places. Although this is a fairly simple step, there was a bit of a problem at this point. Due to the limited space, it is a bit fiddly to get the 8-pin connector for the power supply of the CPU into the socket. At least if you do the CPU cooler before installing the motherboard like I did and mount everything as one unit.
I hid the S-ATA SSD in the rear compartment and cable management is also easy in the Silenos. The above-mentioned slot is extremely practical if, as shown in the example, you are not quite so precise with the cable management. Without problems went later to mount the side panel.
Even the graphics card, which is quite long at just under 33cm, fits easily and would even fit with a front-mounted radiator if it wasn’t of the thicker variety.
All in all, a powerful system with a large cooler (or alternatively an AIO) and a large graphics card can be well accommodated in the compact Silenos. With a lot of tinkering and slim radiators, a custom loop in this case will probably also be feasible, but then at the latest when mounting the radiators and tubing the fun will quickly turn into frustration.
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