Quote Originally Posted by Bgriffs View Post
The videos floating around online had said late June/Early July. Perhaps it's just about time to start seeing them? I'm perfectly OK with a delay here or there if it means better quality and attention to detail. It looks like Corsair has dotted all it's i's and crossed the t's on this one. Can't wait to get myself one

Redbeard, think you can get one mailed to me on the house?

Haha, one day I'm going to surprise somebody and just pick some forums guy and PM him for his address and ship him some hardware provided he posts pics and tells everyone how awesome I am. I am not above trying to buy your love and respect.

Seriously though - availability is delayed like I mentioned earlier because we're enlarging the CPU backplate cutout. It works fine for most 775 boards but in order for it to be compatible with 1366 and 1156, we're going to have to make it bigger. The new cutout will be like half the size of the motherboard tray almost and will even accommodate unique boards like the eVGA classified with its custom socket placement.

Retooling that cost us a bit of time and money, so officially we're still saying "Quarter 3". I'd say, though, that it cost us about a month of time assuming everything goes well.

This is a lot of fun for me - I've been at Corsair 5 years, started working in the lab as the guy who swapped out Samsung TCCD memory modules trying to find the fast ones so we could make 275 MHz DDR1. Now I'm a Product Manager and I'm taking your guys' feedback and trying to make this thing as good as I can make it for you guys.

I know I can't make all you guys happy - some people want full aluminum, others want glowing LED lights, others want a mini-tower or an ITX case.

But this is Corsair's first case and coming in with a cheap, "me too" case that's an off-the-shelf product with our logo slapped on it just doesn't seem right.


And I'm all about criticism - so what you like, what you don't like - I read it all and it goes into my head when I try to create the next products on my list. As long as you guys stay polite, I'm willing to hear that my product is exactly the opposite of what you want.



Again:
Availability - delayed, officially Q309, looking very promising.

Simultaneous availability in North America, Europe, and Asia.