Carbide Series 400R Mid-Tower Case
You know, ever since Corsair entered the market with their PC cases their cases have been nothing other then a success story. And that's because Corsair aims at a very specific audience, the high-end to enthusiast community. Though pricy, the people that understand that investing in a good chassis show the fruits of the labor. So with that in mind my stomach turned around a little when I noticed the all new Carbide series chassis in a preview at Computex. Luckily that mockup I noticed back then changed a bit -- for the better.
With the Carbide series Corsair enters the more mainstream market, and as we all know that means a cheaper product often resulting is ripped away features, style and functionality that we know and learned to love from say the Obsidian or Graphite series.
Regardless of my initial sentiment, admittedly what Corsair has been doing with the Carbide series will work out well for them as it did convince me in a positive way alright. A sub 99 USD chassis with the primary features the more expensive range offers as well. Keywords here would be an okay design chassis, tool free, lots of of space, high airflow and prepped for liquid cooling.
Carbide Series
The flipside of the coin for a cheaper product is loosing features like hot-swappable front side storage, fan controllers, stuff like top side drive bays, see through windows, and some dust prevention. The shell of the chassis for example is made out of a cheaper steel structure with molded ABS plastic accent pieces.
But other then that, the chassis does nearly touch the high-end market, as you're about to find out.
Have a peek at the product reviewed today, this is the Carbide series chassis from Corsair, costing roughly 99 USD yet comes with a nice design and a very decent feature set. Next page please.
