Product Showcase

Product Showcase

As always we begin with packaging. It's a simple yet informative thing to show as when you purchase a chassis, you honestly do not want any defects and scratches on it. The Carbide Series 600C is packaged in cardboard.
 

Once you take the unit out of the cardboard box you'll notice two layers of polystyrene protecting the unit, which on its end is covered in a cloth bag. Packaging was done carefully and the chances of damage and risk are minimal thanks to that.
 

Yeah, she's quite a looker ain't she ? Notice that things are flipped around, to the right the motherboard and see-through door slash panel. And yes, that really is a door that can be opened up and closed opposed to removing the entire panel. As intricate as it looks, the design was kept simple, no bright lights and screaming logos, so that is subtlety in full effect. The dark black design is easy on the eyes. Less is better is the trend these days, and that works out well here.

The chassis is made out of a molded ABS plastic accent pieces for the shell and a black coated metal body. As you can see at the front side, it supports (x2) 5.25" behind a hidden door, and internally it comes with 3x 2.5” tool-free, 2x 2.5”/3.5” tool-free. The fantastic size see through panel can be opened up thanks to hinges. I say fantastic as that is what I call a window. When we flip around the unit we can see the left side panel a little better. The fan mount locations (or FML as is my lingo) are:

In combination with the meshes at the bottom and intakes at the front there is plenty of airflow. The backside reveals that it has 8 expansion card slots and a rather unusual power supply location to the upper side of that black booty, we'll look at that later though (the PSU mount I meant!). The size of the chassis by the way is 454mm x 260mm x 535mm (17.87” x 10.24” x 21.06”)  (H x W x L). The 600C has multiple fan mounting points.