CeBIT: Corsair raids the chassis market: competitors beware?

[Brandito]

It's a bit of a mis-speak. The backplate cutout works for a large number of boards, but once tooling was complete some new board designs came out from eVGA, Asus, and Gigabyte which move the CPU slightly lower and in the eVGA case, over to the right a bit.

We are looking at making the backplate access hole larger right now.

well hopefully things can be worked out to support the majority of boards, can't win em all though!

[Manicdan]

well hopefully things can be worked out to support the majority of boards, can't win em all though!

as long as it goes from the top of the board, down to the first expansion slot, and 1/2 inch from the ports, to an inch from the right (where ram slots are), it could get 99.9% of any atx board. and stability isnt an issue since the edges can be raised/indented to give more structural strength.

[Blacky]

Is that mini WC system going to handle i7 OCing better than air cooling (TRUE)?

[Dante80]

This is a superb case, love both the insight into some features and the overall look...

A wish list:

1> For a face plate as beautiful as this, it is imperative to add (or sell as an extra) DVD masking plates.
2> I would love to see a way of negating possible noise from moving parts. A good addition would be rubber pads embedded in both sides of the fan screw holes. Lian Li has come up with a similar approach to the problem.
3> This is a grand entrance to the market. Plz continue with sth in the <200$ range (a mid tower addition would be wonderful).
4> Plz offer a panel version without window, preferably with some acoustic foam added.
5> Any plans for a possible silver/grey/gunmetal/(enter color) version?
6> We need an e-sata port in the front panel.

I'm sold personally, keep up the good work.

[clayton]

Is that mini WC system going to handle i7 OCing better than air cooling (TRUE)?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=225961

PS: Bring out the ITX boards already!

[Brandito]

see you guys added a picture of the front i/o panel. couple questions, is the panel door also aluminum? and is that round thing on the far right the reset button? seems the power led is built into the power button, which is nice, and i assume the thing below the power button is just a hdd activity light.

in the video i like that the door has a nice slow opening design, looks pretty nice.

[Redbeard]

see you guys added a picture of the front i/o panel. couple questions, is the panel door also aluminum? and is that round thing on the far right the reset button? seems the power led is built into the power button, which is nice, and i assume the thing below the power button is just a hdd activity light.

in the video i like that the door has a nice slow opening design, looks pretty nice.

You're right on all counts.

The reset button is behind the I/O panel in front, and the front door is dampened so it opens slowly. The panel door is an aluminum front with a plastic frame.

[Brandito]

i know it's probably a bit early still, but is corsair thinking of making accessories for their cases? maybe 5.25" bay devices, i'm especially hoping for optical drive covers sometime in the future, but i've mentioned that before

[Blacky]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=225961

PS: Bring out the ITX boards already!

Thanks! impressive numbers I must say for the price...

[cobra_kai]

Awesome case! I must say it has lived up to my expectations after seeing the LC build in it. And I think at 299 it is a reasonable price for the cases it is competing against. I second the question about whether you can fit a second radiator in the bottom if you remove the hard drive tray though - has anyone at Corsair tried this?

[Redbeard]

Awesome case! I must say it has lived up to my expectations after seeing the LC build in it. And I think at 299 it is a reasonable price for the cases it is competing against. I second the question about whether you can fit a second radiator in the bottom if you remove the hard drive tray though - has anyone at Corsair tried this?

Plenty of room but you'd need to do your own mods to fasten everything together.

[karl_eller]

Congratulations, Corsair, you've managed to make me ditch my idea for an air-cooled mATX i7 rig in favour of a WC'ed i7 in this case

But seriously, that's one gorgeous case, and a fantastic entry into the case market.

One question, what is the retail price on these going to be? techPowerUp says US$300, which seems a little steep for a steel case, as nice as it is.

Edit: Ah, never mind, US$250-300.

Eller

[Terru]

Went to Computex today, but for the life of me, I could not find the case. Where are you guys hiding it?

Awesome show by the way, I recommend everyone to go at least once!

[Redbeard]

Went to Computex today, but for the life of me, I could not find the case. Where are you guys hiding it?

Awesome show by the way, I recommend everyone to go at least once!

We're in a suite, but there should be booth girls handing out information as to where it is. They're wandering the floor, as far as I know.

[Terru]

So, tucked away somewhere on the 5th floor of Nangang then? Does that mean you will not be showing the wares on Saturday, the open-to-public day?

I'll try again to see if I can hunt you down

[kaskuli]

No window, acoustic foam and at least 2 eSata ports and I'm sold. If this sells for $299 hopefully the ABS Canyon will drop in price as a result.

[ChaosMinionX]

No window, acoustic foam and at least 2 eSata ports and I'm sold. If this sells for $299 hopefully the ABS Canyon will drop in price as a result.

This case and the ABS Canyon are completely different markets... The corsair case is geared toward liquid cooling, where the ABS is aircooling since it is too small to take larger rads.

[johnp1983]

@Yellowbeard = Do U have this photos in @ big size and big quality?



thanx

[Nuance]

That's a great looking case!

Have any thermal tests been run/compared to other popular chassis?

[Brandito]

are we going to get extra hot swap enclosures with the case? will corsair sell more of them individually?

are the hot swap bays pretty standard so you can use different hot swap enclosures? i've never used hot swap enclosures so they're a bit new to me.

seems like they'd have to be standard in order to really be functional, so i'm guessing they are? but what would really be nice is if the case shipped with say 5 enclosures so you could have one for swapping at least one drive in and out from the get go.

[WeaponX]

I'm probably going to end up buying this case just because the positives definitely out weight the cons but you know what makes me me a little mad about this case when people are presenting it? When they specifically point out that air that cools the hot swap drives gets push through the backside and magically the hot air will come out the back end. Okay let's take a step back and think for a minute, hot air rises, it ain't going sideways with proper guiding and even it could go sideways, there's a ton of cabling that's in the way so how did Corsair think it was going to end up through the backside without first accumulating a ton of hot air behind the motherboard? Granted there isn't THAT much heat coming off from hard drives, wouldn't you think that it would just be a heat deathtrap?

[Brandito]

I'm probably going to end up buying this case just because the positives definitely out weight the cons but you know what makes me me a little mad about this case when people are presenting it? When they specifically point out that air that cools the hot swap drives gets push through the backside and magically the hot air will come out the back end. Okay let's take a step back and think for a minute, hot air rises, it ain't going sideways with proper guiding and even it could go sideways, there's a ton of cabling that's in the way so how did Corsair think it was going to end up through the backside without first accumulating a ton of hot air behind the motherboard? Granted there isn't THAT much heat coming off from hard drives, wouldn't you think that it would just be a heat deathtrap?

in my experience simply moving air across a hard drive improves it's temperatures a great deal. when i put a hard drive in my thermaltake black-x hdd dock it get's blazing hot compared to the 3-4 drives i keep in my case with my 80mm intakes running at even a very minimal speed.

i'm sure airflow out the back won't be exactly direct, and there likely will be some build up of heat, but overall the heat should still remain mostly isolated from the rest of the case thus i'd imagine improving overall temps in the case as compared to venting the air directly into the main chamber of the case.

i think the best way to improve upon the design would be to perforate the side of the case where the fans for the hdd bays exhaust, but if you go that far you might as well mesh both sides.

i don't really think it's going to be a big issue since hdd's don't need all THAT much cooling to begin with, so i think they made the right choice by not incorporating some sort of mesh or perforated side panels.

we'll just hyave to see what the reviewers say. anyone who has done enough case reviews will likely be able to tell what works and what doesn't.

[kiddyl]

Great case! Maybe going to Corsair after many years of CM cases. The setup looks really good with very nice features not seen in other cases. Will there also be a case without the sidepanel window?

[kaskuli]

This case and the ABS Canyon are completely different markets... The corsair case is geared toward liquid cooling, where the ABS is aircooling since it is too small to take larger rads.

Not to me they're not. I'm not interested in water cooling. I base my purchasing decisions on personal criteria.

[Nullack]

Corsair needs to develop some 5.25 to 3.5" convertor accessories, for those of us who expect to fit more drives into the case