"Cleverly, the designer moved the PSU compartment to the top of the case..."
My mid-1990s Packard Bell and and early 2000s eMachine are rolling over in their respective graves over the idea of a top-mounted PSU being considered a clever idea in 2016.
So am I, I hate that all the newer cases have the PS at the bottom for 'structural integerity' or some sh*t. It logically makes sense to put it at the top, and keep the mobo at the bottom, so that the front case fan can just blow air straight over it, to be grabbed by the rear case fan......so simple!!!
It's not that simple, for cubes and large cases, like this, a top mounted psu is fine and dandy since the psu isn't likely to be heavier than the case, but a top-mounted psu makes cases top heavy, and that makes it easier to fall over. That is simply how center of gravity works.
Well who needs a hulking great ATX case if its going to be empty? Of course itll be top heavy then. For someone who can actually fill it itll be much more stable.
Generally tho, who cares if its the other way around if theres enough airflow room to sleep a cat left over in either design? Really sucks constantly seeing reviews for cases way too big for anyone without extensive water, 3+ video or a mini HDD datacentre going on.
There's more to it than just having the front intake fans in-line with the CPU and exhaust fans.
The biggest component to traditional aircooling PCs (as opposed to watercooled PCs) is the proximity of the fans to the hot parts in the builds, the CPU and GPU. This leads to cases like the FT02 still remaining as one of the best aircooling PC cases on the market, just because it comes with 3 thick 180cm fans in very close proximity to the GPU and CPU areas.
The PSU being top-mounted or bottom-mounted has little to do with the overall cooling performance of the case. Today, it just makes more sense to put the heavy PSU on the bottom of the case (so the case remains stable) and elevating the case up using rubber feet so the PSU can intake fresh air from near the ground, as opposed to sharing the warm exhaust air floating inside the case, and expecting the PSU to act as an extra exhaust outlet for excess heat in the case.
Even if you were to say that old-style cases were "better" designed, the intake fan (of which in many cases there was only one typically small fan, not multiple) the intake fans lost all their air pressure as it tried to get air past the hard drive cage area, and without that air pressure (lost due to obstacles and distance) the cooling performance degrades.
Cases in general have tradeoffs. Even with the FT02, the tradeoff is you're forced to have to get a full-tower sized case, with very tall "feet" to get fresh air from the ground, and an awkward top I/O plate that's annoying to remove whenever you want to plug something in, or looks bad if it's simply left off. Otherwise, it performs admirably. Modern cases balance these tradeoffs and are typically rather quiet and perform rather well, along with having good features for hiding excess PC build mess, such as elevated motherboard trays for routing power cables and rear-mounted SSDs, etc.
This case takes a different approach, so there's different tradeoffs, but I don't necessarily think it's any better than the traditional modern-style cases we have.
I love my FT02 I just wish Silverstone would make a true replacement for it even a tweaked version that removes 2 or 3 5.25" as 5 is a waste of space and raise up the current drive bays along with making it a little wider allowing for more spacing behind the motherboard tray. It would also be nice if they made the top cover bigger or less restrictive even as running 3 DP and 1 HDMI cable along with all of the other cables a high end system can have is annoying.
I'm not in the "I love my FT02" camp, but I do wish they would update the FT02 as well - or that their patent on 90° rotated motherboards would expire so that other manufacturers could use the design.
• Despite the 180mm fan below them, that thing is a hot box for hard drives with an awful plastic mounting system, and there's no ventilation for the SSD mount. It can only hold five 3.5" drives too, which is not many for a case this size. • If you have optical drives, they can interfere with the PCIe slots and would block airflow from the HDDs if there was any ventilation up there. (yes, I'm apparently a dinosaur now with my need for 2+ optical drives and many HDDs) • It's a pain having to remove/install the top cover to access the cables. It should be a double-hinged "door" that can open from either side, which can optionally be removed. • Cleaning the dust filters requires you to remove the top cover and the side panel to gain access. Dust filters should be removable from the front or the side of any case, so that you don't have to move it. • Despite its huge exterior size (and weight), I actually found the case quite cramped and awkward to build in. Cable management seemed like an afterthought. Remember when high-end cases had removable motherboard trays?
I'm looking to build a new PC in the near future, and struggling to find a good alternative case though. With the size and weight of modern GPUs, I really don't like the idea of one of them hanging unsupported from a PCIe slot.
I prefer my PSU to be breathing cool air from outside the case. It's also one less variable to consider when trying to build a positive pressure set-up to minimise dust intake.
Actually the PSU works with cooler temps at the bottom (heat goes from bottom to top, so in a top mounted setup, the PSU easy the heat from the mobo, cpu, hdd's and gpu)
The PSU moving to the bottom was a trend started by silence enthusiasts. You don't get all the warm air in the PC blowing through your PSU, which makes it run cooler and quieter and more efficiently. Having it at the top is a bad idea.
I thought the same thing, until I put water cooling components into my mid-size. That's why the space is still there on so many cases, just with modular drive bays.
If you're not doing water cooling, then yeah, free up that space!
Isn't it amusing the way designs go full circle. Taking advantage of a top PSU + 5.25 bay section and not putting horizontal 3.5" HDDs in front of the mobo isn't new either. My parents circa 2000 Compaq mini tower did the same (although it put the HDD vertical against the front panel).
OTOH I'm surprised it took as long as it did to go back to this orientation since it's the most compact way to support a second 5.25 bay for anyone who wants then (a single bay can share space with top fan mounts) while otherwise making the case compact front to back by removing the big HDD cages from the front.
Yeah... And this whole business of center of gravity - huh? Biggest selling point for bottom mounted PSU as I remember it originally was moving them away from the hottest component (CPU), but then that shifted to become the GPUs (at least under load)...
Course this case doesn't really change that but still. The Silverstone TJ06 had an identical design to this, over ten years ago, when bottom mounted PSU were just starting to become trendy. Only deterrence was a larger top compartment with more bays.
In the table on page 1, the second Prominent Feature is "Full side panel window: A gorgeous, panoramic full side panel window shows off your components..."
I kept looking for a picture of that great feature.
There are two versions of the case, an opaque version and a windowed version. We have the opaque version. The feature list comes from Corsair, so I've tweaked it just a bit to make it clear that there are multiple versions.
Exposed top-panel ports: recipe for poor connections due to dust collection. I suppose some electrical tape over unused ports would fit right in with the "carbide" look. ;-)
Looks like a larger version of SilverStone TJ08-E, which is probably a good thing. And yeah, the interior design (PSU orientation, etc) is nothing new.
Are the thermal tests actually passive as captioned in the graphs, or are they with the case fans running as implied by the text? If the former, where are the actively cooled thermal graphs.
Is that the same setup used for the Graphite 760 and Deep Silence 6 tests that this case is compared to; which don't have the word passive on their graphs.
The lack of fans on E.Fyll's test heaters is a separate issue. It doesn't matter much with large enthusiast cases with several pre-installed fans. The problem is the other end of the market where his test methodology makes cases designed around smaller quieter setups whose lack of pre-installed fans indicates they were either designed to use the fans on the PSU, CPU heatsink, and optionally a blower style GPU cooler to dissipate heat look much worse than they would in a more realistic setup.
It is the same setup. We just improved the graphs to provide more information and be aesthetically appealing.
We are intentionally using a passive thermal load. This is not an issue at all; on the contrary, any form of active cooling would affect the results dissimilarly for each given design. With a fully passive load, we determine how the case performs unaffected by external parameters (as far as that is possible, of course). If we were using active cooling that would induce airflow to "assist" a case that cannot provide sufficient airflow over a certain area, we would be essentially fabricating the results. We are testing the case itself, not a predetermined system as a whole.
The cases that you mention do not "look" much worse than they would in a more realistic setup. They are much worse. In the scenarios that you describe, thermal energy will not disappear, it will move through the components that they have been designed to be cooling only themselves. When a case has been designed with its cooling depending on parts that are not supposed to be "assisting the case", the thermal performance of that specific part dives. For example, if a case has been designed so as to "depend on the PSU's fan", the PSU will have to extract the extra thermal energy that the case cannot. It will get hotter, louder and the thermal performance of the whole area will depend on the specific cooling capabilities of the PSU, just because the case cannot extract the heat by itself. Will it work? Yes (well, probably). Does it perform just as well as a case that can extract the thermal energy all by itself? Absolutely not.
The case would work just as well right side up as inverted imo, and the biggest factor that would favor one or the other is CPU load vs GPU(s) load, which varies from system to system and workload to workload.
The biggest thing it has going for it is the direct path for airflow, regardless of whether any odd the components are below or atop. Not having bays in front of the mobo and having two large fans blowing directly over it should just be standard by now on any case not meant to house half a dozen drives.
The inverted design facilitates that to an extent by making better use of space and having the PSU in line with the external bays that are too often jammed in front of the CPU area, but it's not the only way to achieve this.
Direct airflow probably has more to do with it's thermal performance than any notion of hot air rising significantly thru such a small and well vented case. Otherwise they'd have a vented top or a 90 degree design.
It's not such a great case for watercooling. Space is limited for rads. I managed to squeeze a 240mm at the front and a 140mm at the bottom. [img]https://goo.gl/photos/jJNyE7RLXa95fmDJA[/img]
Nm... I actually saw the interior pics in the article. I have a Lian Li case that has a place for a couple of 2.5" and one 3.5" on the backside of the mobo tray. Again, nice build.
Everyone and their momma talking here about the reasons why PSU are bottom-mounted nowadays instead of having them top-mounted. The real reason for putting the PSU on the bottom of the case is to make way for big water cooling systems to properly fit and grab air from a place close to the CPU. They first put them on the back of the case, some chose the front, right underneath the HDD cage and behind the front intake fan (e.g. Alienware Predator 2) and now the trend is to avoid running tubes all over the case and thus put the (double) radiators on the top of the case. Putting the PSU farther from your ears makes the computer seem more silent, unless your WC pump and fans are on fixed to the top panel...then not so much. Oh well, that's what Noctuas are for.
That's not an original design, it's more of an old school design. I prefer the bottom/separated compartment design, but I can see the draw to it being on top.
Corsair hassle really good cases, but I'd wager that my favorite cases are their bigger ones for expandability, and the smallest ones for space saving reasons.
Most if not all of the carbide series are pretty elegant if I must say so. I have had two and I highly recommend them to those who want an unconscious case.
Figures E. would get what we were trying to do with this case. ;)
The core concept and layout of the design is mine, but the engineering, ID, and all the details that went into this were part of a larger team as most products are here at Corsair. But if you ever wanted to know what kind of case a former case reviewer might design, this is an example.
When I reviewed cases, the main issue with silent cases was airflow. Their airflow was often so mediocre that it tended to cancel out any benefits to the silent design. Flipping the interior had multiple advantages:
1. Allowed the use of extensive liquid cooling in the "top" (now bottom) of the chassis. 2. Allowed us to put the PSU and 5.25" bays on the same plane. 3. Allowed us to seal off the top of the case, preventing noise from escaping.
As a sidenote, in our thermal testing we found that the third fan barely affected performance but did affect noise, which is why we leave it spare.
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BrokenCrayons - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
"Cleverly, the designer moved the PSU compartment to the top of the case..."My mid-1990s Packard Bell and and early 2000s eMachine are rolling over in their respective graves over the idea of a top-mounted PSU being considered a clever idea in 2016.
dsraa - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
So am I, I hate that all the newer cases have the PS at the bottom for 'structural integerity' or some sh*t. It logically makes sense to put it at the top, and keep the mobo at the bottom, so that the front case fan can just blow air straight over it, to be grabbed by the rear case fan......so simple!!!TetsuoS2 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
It's not that simple, for cubes and large cases, like this, a top mounted psu is fine and dandy since the psu isn't likely to be heavier than the case, but a top-mounted psu makes cases top heavy, and that makes it easier to fall over. That is simply how center of gravity works.damianrobertjones - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
...Then don't smash into your case or put it under the desk? The force required would most likely topple a case with the PSU at the bottom as well.smartthanyou - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Nope, you are wrong.Ancillas - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
And all it takes is one kid running in a bit too fast...MadAd - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Well who needs a hulking great ATX case if its going to be empty? Of course itll be top heavy then. For someone who can actually fill it itll be much more stable.Generally tho, who cares if its the other way around if theres enough airflow room to sleep a cat left over in either design? Really sucks constantly seeing reviews for cases way too big for anyone without extensive water, 3+ video or a mini HDD datacentre going on.
AnnonymousCoward - Saturday, September 17, 2016 - link
> Well who needs a hulking great ATX case if its going to be empty?To fit a huge GPU, huge CPU cooler, and silent 140mm fans.
JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
There's more to it than just having the front intake fans in-line with the CPU and exhaust fans.The biggest component to traditional aircooling PCs (as opposed to watercooled PCs) is the proximity of the fans to the hot parts in the builds, the CPU and GPU. This leads to cases like the FT02 still remaining as one of the best aircooling PC cases on the market, just because it comes with 3 thick 180cm fans in very close proximity to the GPU and CPU areas.
The PSU being top-mounted or bottom-mounted has little to do with the overall cooling performance of the case. Today, it just makes more sense to put the heavy PSU on the bottom of the case (so the case remains stable) and elevating the case up using rubber feet so the PSU can intake fresh air from near the ground, as opposed to sharing the warm exhaust air floating inside the case, and expecting the PSU to act as an extra exhaust outlet for excess heat in the case.
Even if you were to say that old-style cases were "better" designed, the intake fan (of which in many cases there was only one typically small fan, not multiple) the intake fans lost all their air pressure as it tried to get air past the hard drive cage area, and without that air pressure (lost due to obstacles and distance) the cooling performance degrades.
Cases in general have tradeoffs. Even with the FT02, the tradeoff is you're forced to have to get a full-tower sized case, with very tall "feet" to get fresh air from the ground, and an awkward top I/O plate that's annoying to remove whenever you want to plug something in, or looks bad if it's simply left off. Otherwise, it performs admirably. Modern cases balance these tradeoffs and are typically rather quiet and perform rather well, along with having good features for hiding excess PC build mess, such as elevated motherboard trays for routing power cables and rear-mounted SSDs, etc.
This case takes a different approach, so there's different tradeoffs, but I don't necessarily think it's any better than the traditional modern-style cases we have.
SunLord - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
I love my FT02 I just wish Silverstone would make a true replacement for it even a tweaked version that removes 2 or 3 5.25" as 5 is a waste of space and raise up the current drive bays along with making it a little wider allowing for more spacing behind the motherboard tray. It would also be nice if they made the top cover bigger or less restrictive even as running 3 DP and 1 HDMI cable along with all of the other cables a high end system can have is annoying.User.Name - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
I'm not in the "I love my FT02" camp, but I do wish they would update the FT02 as well - or that their patent on 90° rotated motherboards would expire so that other manufacturers could use the design.• Despite the 180mm fan below them, that thing is a hot box for hard drives with an awful plastic mounting system, and there's no ventilation for the SSD mount. It can only hold five 3.5" drives too, which is not many for a case this size.
• If you have optical drives, they can interfere with the PCIe slots and would block airflow from the HDDs if there was any ventilation up there. (yes, I'm apparently a dinosaur now with my need for 2+ optical drives and many HDDs)
• It's a pain having to remove/install the top cover to access the cables. It should be a double-hinged "door" that can open from either side, which can optionally be removed.
• Cleaning the dust filters requires you to remove the top cover and the side panel to gain access. Dust filters should be removable from the front or the side of any case, so that you don't have to move it.
• Despite its huge exterior size (and weight), I actually found the case quite cramped and awkward to build in. Cable management seemed like an afterthought. Remember when high-end cases had removable motherboard trays?
I'm looking to build a new PC in the near future, and struggling to find a good alternative case though. With the size and weight of modern GPUs, I really don't like the idea of one of them hanging unsupported from a PCIe slot.
Azurael - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
I prefer my PSU to be breathing cool air from outside the case. It's also one less variable to consider when trying to build a positive pressure set-up to minimise dust intake.Lolimaster - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Actually the PSU works with cooler temps at the bottom (heat goes from bottom to top, so in a top mounted setup, the PSU easy the heat from the mobo, cpu, hdd's and gpu)Spunjji - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
The PSU moving to the bottom was a trend started by silence enthusiasts. You don't get all the warm air in the PC blowing through your PSU, which makes it run cooler and quieter and more efficiently. Having it at the top is a bad idea.seamonkey79 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Read - "I'm young enough to computers to only remember bottom mounted cases."Icehawk - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Yup, it is only recently that PSUs are bottom mounted, it used to be a novelty.I have never seen a top mounted machine that was unstable so not really a concern.
IMO orientation all depends on what hardware you will be using.
I wish they would ditch 5" bays, I haven't populated one in 6+ years, they could make atx cases a good bit smaller then.
Ancillas - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
I thought the same thing, until I put water cooling components into my mid-size. That's why the space is still there on so many cases, just with modular drive bays.If you're not doing water cooling, then yeah, free up that space!
Murloc - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
I remember that even only 10 years ago bottom mounted PSUs weren't a given so how can that beDanNeely - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Isn't it amusing the way designs go full circle. Taking advantage of a top PSU + 5.25 bay section and not putting horizontal 3.5" HDDs in front of the mobo isn't new either. My parents circa 2000 Compaq mini tower did the same (although it put the HDD vertical against the front panel).OTOH I'm surprised it took as long as it did to go back to this orientation since it's the most compact way to support a second 5.25 bay for anyone who wants then (a single bay can share space with top fan mounts) while otherwise making the case compact front to back by removing the big HDD cages from the front.
Impulses - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Yeah... And this whole business of center of gravity - huh? Biggest selling point for bottom mounted PSU as I remember it originally was moving them away from the hottest component (CPU), but then that shifted to become the GPUs (at least under load)...Course this case doesn't really change that but still. The Silverstone TJ06 had an identical design to this, over ten years ago, when bottom mounted PSU were just starting to become trendy. Only deterrence was a larger top compartment with more bays.
Ej24 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Holy crap, I nearly forgot my first computer, an eMachines 633ids. Thank you for this nostalgic moment.justaviking - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Where is the panoramic window?In the table on page 1, the second Prominent Feature is "Full side panel window: A gorgeous, panoramic full side panel window shows off your components..."
I kept looking for a picture of that great feature.
Ryan Smith - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
There are two versions of the case, an opaque version and a windowed version. We have the opaque version. The feature list comes from Corsair, so I've tweaked it just a bit to make it clear that there are multiple versions.Houdani - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Three cheers for the non-window version. Case Makers: More please.fmyhr - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Exposed top-panel ports: recipe for poor connections due to dust collection. I suppose some electrical tape over unused ports would fit right in with the "carbide" look. ;-)madwolfa - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Looks like a larger version of SilverStone TJ08-E, which is probably a good thing. And yeah, the interior design (PSU orientation, etc) is nothing new.DanNeely - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Are the thermal tests actually passive as captioned in the graphs, or are they with the case fans running as implied by the text? If the former, where are the actively cooled thermal graphs.Ryan Smith - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
The case fans are running. It's the heat load itself that's passive.DanNeely - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Is that the same setup used for the Graphite 760 and Deep Silence 6 tests that this case is compared to; which don't have the word passive on their graphs.The lack of fans on E.Fyll's test heaters is a separate issue. It doesn't matter much with large enthusiast cases with several pre-installed fans. The problem is the other end of the market where his test methodology makes cases designed around smaller quieter setups whose lack of pre-installed fans indicates they were either designed to use the fans on the PSU, CPU heatsink, and optionally a blower style GPU cooler to dissipate heat look much worse than they would in a more realistic setup.
E.Fyll - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
It is the same setup. We just improved the graphs to provide more information and be aesthetically appealing.We are intentionally using a passive thermal load. This is not an issue at all; on the contrary, any form of active cooling would affect the results dissimilarly for each given design. With a fully passive load, we determine how the case performs unaffected by external parameters (as far as that is possible, of course). If we were using active cooling that would induce airflow to "assist" a case that cannot provide sufficient airflow over a certain area, we would be essentially fabricating the results. We are testing the case itself, not a predetermined system as a whole.
The cases that you mention do not "look" much worse than they would in a more realistic setup. They are much worse. In the scenarios that you describe, thermal energy will not disappear, it will move through the components that they have been designed to be cooling only themselves. When a case has been designed with its cooling depending on parts that are not supposed to be "assisting the case", the thermal performance of that specific part dives. For example, if a case has been designed so as to "depend on the PSU's fan", the PSU will have to extract the extra thermal energy that the case cannot. It will get hotter, louder and the thermal performance of the whole area will depend on the specific cooling capabilities of the PSU, just because the case cannot extract the heat by itself. Will it work? Yes (well, probably). Does it perform just as well as a case that can extract the thermal energy all by itself? Absolutely not.
davegraham - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
It's "inverted" not "inverse." Please, for the love of all that's good and holy, grammar check these articles.E.Fyll - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Well, Corsair wants to call it "inverse". And who am I to argue? It's their product, they can baptize it however they want.Margaronis - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
I was going to say the same- maybe inversed means it's been through some transformation in the 5th dimensionBatmeat - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Found my new case for my next build... Quiet water cooled gaming/media server machine.Impulses - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
The case would work just as well right side up as inverted imo, and the biggest factor that would favor one or the other is CPU load vs GPU(s) load, which varies from system to system and workload to workload.The biggest thing it has going for it is the direct path for airflow, regardless of whether any odd the components are below or atop. Not having bays in front of the mobo and having two large fans blowing directly over it should just be standard by now on any case not meant to house half a dozen drives.
The inverted design facilitates that to an extent by making better use of space and having the PSU in line with the external bays that are too often jammed in front of the CPU area, but it's not the only way to achieve this.
Direct airflow probably has more to do with it's thermal performance than any notion of hot air rising significantly thru such a small and well vented case. Otherwise they'd have a vented top or a 90 degree design.
Footman36 - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
It's not such a great case for watercooling. Space is limited for rads. I managed to squeeze a 240mm at the front and a 140mm at the bottom.[img]https://goo.gl/photos/jJNyE7RLXa95fmDJA[/img]
bigboxes - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Nice looking rig. Are the drives hidden by the black panels?bigboxes - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Nm... I actually saw the interior pics in the article. I have a Lian Li case that has a place for a couple of 2.5" and one 3.5" on the backside of the mobo tray. Again, nice build.Batmeat - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Tight fit but it looks goodmattlach - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Nice case.
Man do I wish revcontent style ads were banned though. They are so obnoxious. I hate that click bait nonsense.
prisonerX - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Who was the genius who shot this black case against a white background with simple metering and without exposure compensation? I can't see a thing.3ogdy - Monday, September 12, 2016 - link
Everyone and their momma talking here about the reasons why PSU are bottom-mounted nowadays instead of having them top-mounted.The real reason for putting the PSU on the bottom of the case is to make way for big water cooling systems to properly fit and grab air from a place close to the CPU. They first put them on the back of the case, some chose the front, right underneath the HDD cage and behind the front intake fan (e.g. Alienware Predator 2) and now the trend is to avoid running tubes all over the case and thus put the (double) radiators on the top of the case.
Putting the PSU farther from your ears makes the computer seem more silent, unless your WC pump and fans are on fixed to the top panel...then not so much. Oh well, that's what Noctuas are for.
m16 - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
That's not an original design, it's more of an old school design. I prefer the bottom/separated compartment design, but I can see the draw to it being on top.Corsair hassle really good cases, but I'd wager that my favorite cases are their bigger ones for expandability, and the smallest ones for space saving reasons.
Most if not all of the carbide series are pretty elegant if I must say so. I have had two and I highly recommend them to those who want an unconscious case.
Dustin Sklavos - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Figures E. would get what we were trying to do with this case. ;)The core concept and layout of the design is mine, but the engineering, ID, and all the details that went into this were part of a larger team as most products are here at Corsair. But if you ever wanted to know what kind of case a former case reviewer might design, this is an example.
When I reviewed cases, the main issue with silent cases was airflow. Their airflow was often so mediocre that it tended to cancel out any benefits to the silent design. Flipping the interior had multiple advantages:
1. Allowed the use of extensive liquid cooling in the "top" (now bottom) of the chassis.
2. Allowed us to put the PSU and 5.25" bays on the same plane.
3. Allowed us to seal off the top of the case, preventing noise from escaping.
As a sidenote, in our thermal testing we found that the third fan barely affected performance but did affect noise, which is why we leave it spare.
Thank you for the positive review. :)
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