eMachines Acer Aegis UItra chassis review: three glass “ocean view room” at affordable price
“Seaview room” chassis development to now 2025, there have been a lot to do the front, side and top, are glass three-sided glass design, the sense of transparency can be said to be pulled full, but the look although it is better to see, but generally sold more expensive, until recently the price began to go down, eMachines Acer brought A Zeus-Smart Curtain Ultra chassis with three sides of glass “Seaview Room”
eMachines Acer past chassis are mostly on the business style, only recently began to introduce some more in line with the mainstream design style of the new product, this new Zeus - Smart Curtain UItra series chassis, divided into two versions of the Ultra and Ultra + version, the main difference is that the Ultra uses a relatively conventional combination of three pieces of glass, while the Ultra + is the front and side of the One-piece curved glass for a more premium feel.
First of all, from the size of the chassis data, Zeus - Smart Curtain UItra volume size is still relatively restrained, and to do the dual-cabin structure, there are a lot of users who think that “dual-cabin is the real sea view room”, should like this design. The front glass of the chassis has been trimmed to make the side compartments look relatively narrower and to emphasize the atmosphere of the glass.
In the chassis color above, Zeus - Smart Curtain provides black and white two colors to choose from, both in addition to different colors, the black version of the side of the cabin also did a wood grain pattern decoration, making the whole black hoo-hoo chassis is not too dull, while the white version of the whole, including the internal structure of the whole white treatment, which is also known as the “snow” version, if it is with the curved glass, then it looks more pure and transparent. The white version of the whole, including the internal structure, are all white treatment, which is commonly known as “snow” version, if with the curved glass, it will be more pure and transparent.
As for the three sides of the glass as Zeus - Smart Curtain UItra's most important feature, the perception presented is certainly the current “sea view room” ceiling level, very suitable for the installation of relatively high-end hardware platforms in the chassis, with color screen water-cooling header, ARGB lighting fan, etc., to create a set of colorful light overflowing computer mainframe.
The front I/O ports are made on the base of the chassis, and some twill decoration, when the chassis is placed on the desktop, the interface and buttons are located on the right hand side of the user, and it is relatively smooth to use, which Type-A is just a USB 3.0 + a USB 2.0, while Type-C supports USB 3.2 Gen2x2, which is also basically enough for most users.
Inside the chassis, Aegis - Smart Curtain UItra is the regular “Seaview Room” layout, the motherboard bit to do the BTF support, and thanks to the height of the chassis height, the tail provides two 120mm fan position, there are side fan racks can support the installation of 360 water-cooling exhaust, in addition to the bottom of the installation of the 3 120mm fans can be installed at the bottom.
Hardware compatibility support, Zeus Smart Screen UItra can be installed up to 380mm graphics card, and support vertical graphics card, factory with a mounting bracket, but the PCI-E extension cable will have to be purchased on their own. As for the CPU cooler height limit of 165mm, install most of the high-end dual-tower coolers are no problem.
In the side compartment part of the chassis, Zeus Smart Screen UItra's motherboard bit to the main compartment to “steal” some space, so the line space is still very large, and because the front I/O panel line, was cleverly hidden part of the chassis feet inside, so the back of the alignment can be very neat and orderly, and the side compartment here there is also a hard disk In addition, there is a HDD rack in the side compartment, which can install up to one HDD and two SSDs, plus an SSD bay at the bottom of the side compartment, for a total of four hard disks.
Chassis cooling test, the test platform CPU with Intel Core i9-13900K, locked 230W, motherboard for MSI MPG B760M EDGE TI WIFI Blade Titanium, BIOS set 512A current limit, CPU Lite Load for Mode 10, radiator for the overclocking three Pegasus RZ620 six heatpipes tower air-cooled, silicone grease for the Yajun W15, test graphics card for ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3080 12G, fully loaded with 390W TGP. The graphics card tested was an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3080 12G with a full 390W TGP, and the power supply was a Corsair TX1200. Since the Zeus UItra chassis doesn't come with a fan as standard, we used a Lian Li P28 (silent) fan to fill in all of the available spots, for a total of nine chassis fans. The test software is AIDA64 FPU grill + 3DMARK Speedway stress test, double grill more than 15 minutes.
