Gigabyte 3D Aurora

The 3D Aurora is Gigabyte’s first attempt at a system box. Overall, it has a professional look and feel to it and is surprisingly lightweight for its size, floating in at a mere 6kg.

The 3D Aurora is Gigabyte’s first attempt at a system box. Overall, it has a professional look and feel to it and is surprisingly lightweight for its size, floating in at a mere 6kg.

Cleverly, two holes filled-out with rubber spikes have been popped out at the back to make way for easy water cooling. This is of course only one of many water cooling methods, but the fact this exists saves a potential expansion slot and lowers the leakage risk with less pipe connectors. In terms of cooling, it comes installed with three silent 120mm fans, two of which are exhausts. They’re quiet, but exceptionally bright to make up for any lack in noise. At least they don’t strobe.

What particularly bothered us was the flimsy side panel, which could do with some sturdying-up. Aside from that, it was essentially fool-proof and solid as a rock. All installable items are done so via screw-less clips. And  finally, here is a case that doesn’t keep the weighty door on plastic hinges and a plastic clip – with two magnets for catching the door and ensuring a firm closure.

For full luminescence, the product name ‘3D Aurora’ is cast at the front-base of the case when turned on.

For the price it’s not bad at all for Gigabyte’s first entry into the world of cool cases, and we can’t wait to see what it brings out next. It doesn’t include a power supply by default, so keep this in mind when totalling your costs.

Nonetheless, Gigabyte has put a lot of effort into this first generation case and we have to say, they’ve done a bloody good job of it too.