Hiper Osiris

Internals

After easily popping off the side panels, we see the Osiris laid bare, and it’s a feast of gorgeous matt silver aluminium utilising the more modern case layout of having the PSU at the base of the case and the motherboard right at the top.

We were initially disappointed to see the motherboard tray was riveted in place, as removable motherboards make the whole process of building a system a great deal easier and less stressful. However, thanks to the non-compartmental setup of the case, which has just one big space for all your hardware, fitting our test rig’s hardware was very easy with plenty of clearance on all sides of the motherboard for access to plugs and ports.

There's certainly enough space for the largest of graphics cards and most elaborate of setups inside although the Osiris doesn’t support EATX motherboards so dual processor users should look elsewhere.

It’s also worth mentioning at this point comes with loads of mounting screws and fittings, as well as a rather nifty Osiris medallion. Every single case is individually numbered on the rear panel, and the medallion bears the same serial number. This is a very classy, but simple addition, and made us feel like we were part of a select club having the Osiris in our hands. The copious amount of fittings Hiper includes means everything matches and fits as it should, and you’ve got tons of spares for future refits too.


Hiper also includes a bundle of Velcro cable ties to help keep your case tidy - behind and under the HDD caddy / 5.25” drive bays is a perfect place to hide those pesky unnecessary cables. Unfortunately though, there’s no option for routing cables beneath the motherboard so some will hang messily over your hardware with the PSU at the bottom of the case.

One particular feature that makes building a bigger system into the Osiris a whole lot easier is the fully removable hard drive caddy. The caddy, which fits four 3.5” HDDs and also houses the front 120mm cooling fan, slides out the front of the case once its dual thumb screw mounts and the fascia have been removed. This means that hard drive swaps and upgrades won’t mean pulling your system apart - a big bonus considering the continuing increases in hard disk capacity and of people’s music and video collections.

Hiper has even included rubber mounting strips for each HDD, so hopefully HDD vibrations and noise should be reduced. As we saw with the Akasa Omega, the lack of any vibration deadening for hard drives really does make a big difference to hard drive noise.


The cooling for the Osiris comes in the form of three 120mm fan mounts, all of which come pre-fitted by Hiper’s own fans. All the fans run at around 1,500 RPM, and push roughly 50CFM of air. However, it seems strange that Hiper has chosen to include just basic seven blade black OEM style fans considering it sells its own brand of silent, nine blade pimped out fans. Sadly due to the positioning of the fan mounts, you're going to struggle if you plan on fitting an internal 120mm watercooling radiator; what's more there's no option for extra fan mounts or larger radiators, so would be watercoolers will have to reach for their holesaws if they plan on picking up an Osiris.


Perhaps the only other thing to say against the Osiris' interior are the couple of visible welds on the hard drive and DVD drive bays. The drive bays, which with all their ridges and fins look like some enormous heatsink, have been welded together with some visible "blobbing" along the weld points. While this is admittedly only a minor cosmetic fault didn't hinder us in fitting hardware into the case, the little details really matter when you consider a good PC case can be the purchase you'll have to live with the longest. My last case lasted me through three processors and four graphics cards, and by the end even the most minor of flaws frustrated me.