Corsair Crystal Series 280X review

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The matte dark interior overall is well designed and there's not ample, but enough room to work with, all the larger components will fit including even the longer graphics cards (up-to 30cm). You'll get four PCI expansion ports at your disposal. Motherboard standoffs are already inserted. 

 


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And sure, the bottom side has four rubber feet and again a magnetic dust filter. This compartment as well could hold. The bottom can house 2 x 120mm or 2 x 140mm fans, however with Mini-ITX setups only, and not Micro ATX.


 

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With the top and side panels removed we can now look from top to bottom what the inside of the chassis looks like. The glass panels all are secured with four protected thumbscrews, then you pull the panel to the towards you and gently lift it out. Believe it or not, but there's plenty of space to work with. Small note, CPU coolers up-to 150mm fit, keep that in mind. I'd advise a nice LCS cooler TBH, that drags away heat from inside the chassis, and looks gorgeous with all that tempered glass and a bit of RGB of course. 

  

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Inside the chassis, you'll spot a small carton box. Bundled items are screws, tie-wraps etc.


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At the opposing side we can see where we can mount the PSU, that would be the right bottom side. All standard ATX power supplies can be installed up-to 18cm. At the top of the PSU mount you'll find the HDD cage where we can install two HDDs or SSDs.

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Above you can see the PSU mount a little better, and if you are wondering what the SATA connectors are used for .. next photo:


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The RGB SKU comes included with your controllable LL120 RGB LED Fans (2x). So what you see above is the Integrated Lighting Node Pro: which controls all case and fan RGB lighting effects through iCUE software. 

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