We recently reviewed the Corsair Carbide 400R, a mid-tower chassis that came out surprisingly well, offering good features for a fair price. With the Carbide series Corsair entered a more mainstream market, and as we all know that means a cheaper product often resulting in stripped away features, style and functionality. But the 400R most certainly did not disappoint.
Being a somewhat mainstream chassis you could say a thing or two about airflow IF you plan all kinds of hefty hardware components in the chassis though.
With that in mind Corsair went back tot he drawing board and improved that 400R model towards an updated SKU, the 500R. They added more meshed vents, a new 200 fan was added, a three step fan controller and tweaked the overall design a little as well with removable and relocatable hard drive cages allowing you to even insert a 452mm in length graphics card.
Carbide Series
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So all in all, they took the base 400R and added/improved on features. Also funky is that Corsair now offers a somewhat unusual colored model, the White edition.
That particular model we'll review today, and though it is a total bitch to photograph, we do hope you get a good overview what this 105 EUR chassis is all about.
