Hiper Osiris Mid-Tower Case Review

Installation cont.

Cable routing with the Osiris isn’t too much of a chore but you should be aware that the Velcro tie-wraps you get aren’t worth you even looking at. Calling these “Velcro” is like calling the sun black since they are made of some cheapo imitation material which sticks about as well as a puddle of spit. Do yourself a favor and buy some black zip-ties from your local Home Depot and save yourself a world of frustration.

As you can see, there is place behind the motherboard tray and the drive cage where you can route and hide your cables. For this installation, I decided to take all the unused front panel connectors and pop them behind the drive cage while running the 8-pin CPU connector behind the motherboard. It should be noted that if you are considering this case, you should look for a power supply with at least a 20” CPU power connector.


The only other small hiccup which I encountered was the length of the front 120mm fan’s connector cable which was almost too short to reach the rightmost fan header on the ASUS motherboard. Since many of us using modular power supplies avoid Molex connectors like the plague, we don’t want to plug in a Molex cable into the power supply just for the sake of attaching one fan. So, it would definitely have gone a long way for Hiper to have extended their fan cables by a good 3”-4”.


After only a few minutes, you can make the interior of the Osiris look pretty uncluttered with most of the cables being stored at the bottom of the case. Considering the Silverstone power supply we used doesn’t have fully sleeved cables, things here may look a bit messier than I intended but that’s life and it goes to show why you should look carefully at all the components you are buying before putting money on the table.


Other than the major issues I had with installing the CPU power connector, the entire installation process as quite uneventful which is always a good thing. The final product looks quite good with enough space for extra long graphics cards along with plenty of space for future expandability.

A Quick Note about Acoustics

When testing the three pre-installed fans on their own, they exhibited very little noise considering their speed is low enough for acoustics to stay blissfully out of the equation. Those of you who want a completely silent system will probably find them slightly too loud and hook them up to a fan speed controller or replace them altogether. However, when you install a full system into the Osiris, you will quickly find the three 120mm fans are completely drowned out but the racket of a stock GPU fan. This means that for me any noise Hiper’s fans produce is a complete non-issue.