XPG Invader X Mini ATX Chassis Review

TweakTown Rating: 86%

Our Verdict

XPG's Invader X Mini is a compelling offering for only $75, featuring five 120mm ARGB fans and dual tempered glass side panels.

Pros

• Includes five 120mm ARGB fans
• A competitive price point of $75
• Tempered glass panels
• USB-C connector

Cons

• Not backward/reverse motherboard compatible
• Same tooling as the previous Valor Mesh
• Three motherboard standoffs were not pre-installed
• Up to a 240mm AIO is supported
• Cable management is somewhat lacking

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Introduction, Specifications, and Pricing

XPG has sent over another one of their newest ATX cases for review. However, it's more in the "Mini" form. Hence, it is dubbed the Invader X Mini and priced at a staggeringly low $75, including five 120mm RGB fans, whereas only three of the 120mm fans are pre-installed. Something about the Invader X Mini makes me wonder if XPG has copied and pasted from another design, which they have been known to do. So why don't we look at the Invader X Mini and see if its value proposition is worth it?

A quick look at the XPG Invader X

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Packaging

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The XPG Invader X Mini's packaging is standard: brown cardboard with black lettering, an image, and the XPG logo.

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This side of the box shows all the specifications of the Invader X Mini. Again, it's pretty standard stuff.

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The backside of the packaging shows a blown-out view of all the components that make up the Invader X Mini.

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Pulling the Invader X Mini from the cardboard packaging shows open cell foam on both top and bottom, with a clear plastic bag to protect the case while in transit.

Outside the XPG Invader X Mini ATX Case

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With all the packaging materials removed from the Invader X Mini, we can now see more clearly what it is all about. The front and sides comprise two tempered glass panels with a ventilated PSU basement section.

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The front of the Invader X Mini again shows the front tempered glass panel and the front ventilation in the lower steel section.

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The rear of the Invader X Mini shows a typical ATX layout with 7 PCIe slots. A cumbersome retainer bracket is removable via a single thumbscrew, and a standard mounting for an ATX PSU is on the bottom.

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The back side panel is extremely plain, for lack of better words. I would have liked to see the same ventilation pattern found in the front and side panels continued on this side panel.

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When we flip the Invader X Mini over to look at the top, we can see a large section covered with a magnetic dust filter. Along the top side is the front I/O, consisting of a triangular power button, a small circle reset button, a combo mic/headset 3.5mm jack, a single USB 3.2 Type-A port, and a USB 3.2 Type-C port. The Type-C port, however, does look like an afterthought regarding its implementation.

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The underside of the Invader X Mini is also pretty uneventful. It has four feet, which, instead of rubber, have foam to attempt to grip a desktop surface. For PSU dust filtration, a chintzy dust filter is bent into place and held by six tabs.

Inside the XPG Invader X Mini ATX Case

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Moving inside the Invader X Mini, three of the five included 120mm ARGB fans are pre-installed (1 regular-bladed and 2 reverse-bladed). The two additional 120mm ARGB fans are tied to the PSU shroud in the two white boxes. Support for reverse connection motherboards is nonexistent. Also, I am confused about why the end user has to install them; however, plugging in any motherboard header would prove difficult if they were installed prior. GPU length compatibility is limited to 330mm, while the CPU air cooler height has a max ceiling of 166mm.

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Removing the rear side panel shows off the Invader X Mini's cable management or lack thereof. Having only a few cable tiedown points makes for a messy build, but I can manage. Two 2.5" SSD/HDD mounts are on the motherboard tray's back.

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Removing the two other 120mm ARGB fans, which are reverse bladed, from their respective white boxes, an HDD caddy that supports up to 2 3.5" HDDs, a bag of hardware, five zip ties, and the user manual.

Test System, Installation, and Finished Product

Case Test System

Final Thoughts

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Building the Invader X Mini was also a very familiar experience. Again, I just can't shake the feeling that I have built it before. Cable management was nonexistent, with a single channel running up the left side. On the right side, there are a few cable-tied points. However, the CPU EPS could not be tied down because the tiedown points are next to impossible to loop a zip tie through and back around.

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For testing, I used the Intel Core i5 12600K on a Z690 AORUS Pro motherboard to test XPG's Invader X Mini ATX mid-tower case. Two sticks of plain ole' DDR5 RAM from SK Hynix were run at DDR5-4800 M/T for memory. Zotac's NVIDIA RTX3090 Trinity GPU was run at its stock power limits and clocks via MSI's Afterburner GPU Overclocking and Monitoring utility for the test GPU. The CPU, the 12600K from Intel, is now being cooled by the new bequiet! Pure Rock Pro 3 heatsink has two 120mm fans in a dual tower configuration.

For the fan configuration, the XPG Invader X Mini's fans are set up by default with a single 120mm ARGB fan mounted in the rear fan location while two additional ARGB 120mm reverse-bladed fans in the roof are mounted as intake. This kind of fan configuration creates a positive case pressure scenario with only a single 120mm fan as exhaust. Temperatures for the 12600K rose to a max temperature of 77C but averaged 71C while maintaining a boost clock of 4.5GHz. Zotac's NVIDIA RTX3090 Trinity hit a maximum temperature of 81C but only lowered the average temperature to 79.4C. Overall, the temperatures were quite suitable for the CPU, but the GPU ran hotter due to insufficient front air intake.

All testing was completed using Aida64 Engineer's System Stability Test version v7.60.7300 for over 3 hours; the ambient temperature was 19C. Other monitoring software used was HWiNFO64 v8.07-5515, TechPowerUp GPU-Z v2.64.0, and CPU-Z 2.14.0.x64.

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Is the Invader X Mini from XPG a decent ATX case? In short, yes. Did it knock my socks off? No, not really. I alluded to this earlier in the review: XPG has been known to recycle its tooling to make several different cases. Do other manufacturers do this practice? Without a doubt, yes, it actually happens in just about every industry. I just think that XPG has accommodated the two tempered glass panels to achieve the compact fish bowl-style design. Currently coming in at a $75 MSRP price point, the Invader X Mini is priced aggressively to compete in the compact ATX case market while including 5 120mm ARGB fans, which the competition usually skips out on.