Corsair Obsidian 800D review

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Corsair Obsidian 800D

Check out the splendid paint job on the inside. Darker than dark. The colorless dark paint scheme is just right, and allows the many shrouds and wire management grommets to practically fade away into the background. As you'll notice, Corsair wanted to make sure that routing wires is an easy thing to achieve.

Here you can also perceive the three different cooling zones, one for the motherboard, one for the HDD rack, and the third at the bottom for the PSU and extra couple of hard drives -- that works like so:

Corsair Obsidian 800D

Corsair Obsidian 800D

The 5.25" Drive bays for optical and such are toolless. To use the drive rail system you just install the drive and slide the locking mechanism over when the holes line up. Easy peasy.

Corsair Obsidian 800D

When we remove the two plastic shrouds we stumble into a big 140mm fan for HDD cooling and if we zoom in a little...

Corsair Obsidian 800D

Here we see small PCBs which you must connect the power and SATA cables to. Corsair includes a special SATA power cable that was designed to fit each of the SATA headers just nicely. The PCBs obviously lead to the hot swappable HDD drive bays/trays. That is just brilliant.

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