Pros: Great Wire Management.Great side panel latch system and easy toclean fan filters.
Cons: Paint chips and scratches way to easily. Pretty bad stock fans. Not great if you want to water cool
I really don 't know where to start. In one way it's a great case but in another way it has a lot of flaws that really bothers me. It's very roomy and the whole interior is finished in black paint. The interior has a lot of holes for cable management and all the holes have nice rubber grommets that hold all your cables in place. There are a ton of these holes and it makes for great cable management.
Now you reading the above and saying this sounds like a great case but it does have flaws. I've found the paint job chips and scratches way to easily. After taking the side panels off only two or three times the paint where the door panel and main body meet was completely gone. It was bare steel there. Also there was some paint damage to the front. I don't know if it was from shipping or manufacturing but I would expect better from Corsair. I also found the stocks fan very noisy and just not that great.I replaced the front 200mm with a blue LED 200mm from Coolermaster. I replaced the top 200mm with two 140mm blue LED fans also from Coolermaster. I also found this case isn't that great for water cooling. It can only accept a 240mm rad at top. Depending on what you want to do this case might not be good enough for water cooling. I wanted to water cool the CPU and two GPUs so I would need a bigger rad. I had a choice I could do an exterior rad which I really didn't want to do or I could do two smaller rads which I also didn't want to do. That left me with one choice get a new case.
This is a good case but not great. It has a lot of good points butt also many flaws. I'm giving it four stars but it probably deserve's three.
Now you reading the above and saying this sounds like a great case but it does have flaws. I've found the paint job chips and scratches way to easily. After taking the side panels off only two or three times the paint where the door panel and main body meet was completely gone. It was bare steel there. Also there was some paint damage to the front. I don't know if it was from shipping or manufacturing but I would expect better from Corsair. I also found the stocks fan very noisy and just not that great.I replaced the front 200mm with a blue LED 200mm from Coolermaster. I replaced the top 200mm with two 140mm blue LED fans also from Coolermaster. I also found this case isn't that great for water cooling. It can only accept a 240mm rad at top. Depending on what you want to do this case might not be good enough for water cooling. I wanted to water cool the CPU and two GPUs so I would need a bigger rad. I had a choice I could do an exterior rad which I really didn't want to do or I could do two smaller rads which I also didn't want to do. That left me with one choice get a new case.
This is a good case but not great. It has a lot of good points butt also many flaws. I'm giving it four stars but it probably deserve's three.
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