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Right, we've moved the chassis into the photo-studio. The chassis is not that big, it measures 290mm (H) x 277mm (W) x 351mm (D) in CM, which is 13.8 x 10.9 x 11.4 inches for those on the other side of the pond. Let me just state that the photos really do not do the chassis any justice, you really need to see a build in a computer store or something. We still have some plastic wrapping on the front-side that needs to be removed.
Make no mistake, the 250 can not house ATX motherboards, you'll need to be on the lookout for Mini-ITX that is 17x17cm in size. It however is becoming such a very popular format, and even the most high-end processors can fit a handful of Mini-ITX, motherboards these days, with great features as well.
We'll actually be installing an ASRock motherboard with Kaveri AMD APU. at 17x17cm it houses everything including Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless N, many HDD/SSD connections, multi-channel audio .. well you get the idea.
So, the left and right side panels do not have extra little doors/compartments like you have seen on other Corsair chassis, there just isn't any space. What's good though is that you'll see meshes everywhere. Being on such a small form factor you need to exhaust heat as fast as you can. So next to the meshes on the inside you can install additional fans and cooling as well e.g. Front: 200mm, 140mm (140mm included) Side: Dual 120mm (single 120mm included) Rear: Dual 80mm (optional).
The top and side panels also do not have buttons to open them up, this is done old fashioned way with thumb screws. The top side panel has an acrylic see through panel directly exposing the Mini ITX motherboard.
So yeah, the 250D is sharing quite a few of the design elements seen on the Obsidian series. But let's zoom in and have a look at the backside. At the top you can see a mesh / fan mounts. Then in the middle space for the motherboard rear IO plate with to the right two PCI card slots. At the bottom left the removable mesh houses the storage units (HDD/SSD) and then to the right you can mount a full size ATX power supply. A great detail I think. It is ideal that you get to house a normal size PSU, as it is just so much cheaper to purchase and replace.
