The Build

On this page, you’ll find a selection of photos of our finalized build inside the be quiet! Silent Base 601. I’ve used a GPU with an AIO LCS, and the CPU is cooled either with air (Thermalright True Spirit 120 Direct) or a liquid cooler (NZXT Kraken X62). With this chassis, it really doesn’t matter which option you choose in the end, because the performance and noise are good (you can find the details on the next page). The motherboard is an ATX form factor one, based on the Z370 chipset, with a de-lidded i7 8700K @ 4.8 GHz inside. The GPU comes from Aorus, and it’s the Waterforce version (GeForce GTX 1080 Ti).

There’s no RGB lightning, so the images from the outside won’t really differ from the ones from the exterior section of the review.

But inside it’s always a different story, right?

Everything fits easily, and ATX boards will not cause any issues. PSU installation is also very convenient, especially that there is lots of space for the job. There are three cable management holes with orange rubber grommets, and that’s enough. Overall – hardware installation was a easy.

My main complaint about the Silent Base 601 here is the lack of the plastic covers for HDD bays. They’re provided with the windowed edition, so I don’t understand why can’t it be done also for the solid-panel version. They’re just a couple of cents each, but they would really improve the looks even more, and help to hide the cables easily. Clearly, it’s not that bad, and you normally don’t see the inside (no window, right?), but for me, it’s just something that would be constantly nagging at the back of my head.

let's call this the „dark side” – it’s relatively clean, but some more space than 20-25 mm for cable management would be useful and also the plastic covers for HDD bays (yes, I remind it again).