Review on CORSAIR CARBIDE Mini Tower Window - Enhance SEO by Edward Mcnamara

Pros: - The workmanship of this case is perfect - it doesn't scratch at all (see: S340) inside and out. The matt white outer coating looks very high quality and does not absorb fingerprints or dust. Possibly the best case design under $100 - Three magnetic dust filters and they are all very good, especially the top one - Acrylic window. If you bought the standard S340 and not the Elite, it comes with a really crappy plastic window that scratches even with microfiber cleaning. Acrylic has a really subtle, perfectly even hue that hides imperfections while showing off your components/RGB. Only the "swing door" style windscreen sells this cover - it glides as if on air and was very easy to lift to get out of the way. Acrylic can scratch and attract dust with prolonged use, believe it or not, but it looks amazing here. Support for two 360mm radios - at least in theory. I would go with 240/280, this case is pretty tight with an air cooler and a single GPU. It's much easier to just fill all the fan mounts with fans. If you want to use RGB LED strips, choose this option for almost any occasion. The edging of the case is absolutely ideal for running tracks. Here I was able to separate the strips in 15 minutes instead of two hours on the S340. Cons: - The PSU shroud is a crappy design, it doesn't have any cutouts for the case connectors (power, reset, etc.) which would be very easy to do. The VGA cutout is also in a very odd, whimsical place, whereas on the S340 I came from it was perfectly placed. The two-piece cover itself is made out of cheap, flimsy plastic, and the feel and finish doesn't quite match the rest of the case. It's held in place by two thumbscrews and I would recommend that you just pull it out and hold it away, in which case it makes assembly a lot easier. The hard drive is pretty weak. You have support for two 3.5-inch drives under the 'cover' (seen when you remove them) and three 2.5-inch SSDs on the back on a large, branded plastic monster tucked into the back of the case is screwed (held with a thumb). ) . Screw.) The whole appeal of a triple SSD I has to be overlooked, since you can't fit anything like a HUE+ in it, only standard-size 2.5-inch drives, and it takes up almost all the real estate behind your motherboard and does cable management sucks. You have to run SATA cables up and down, and there doesn't seem to be a way to rotate it 180 degrees. It doesn't seem convenient to perform a tool-less triple SSD mount that would require you to remove two thumbscrews and connect a SATA cable to it, even if it only has a Corsair drive that should only have some holes drilled for two SSDs , which could be oriented to the front power supply and close enough for the 3.5 inch drive bay to be powered by the same SATA power line. Maybe add some SSD mounts to the encasement instead? (This is one of the few things I really miss about the S340) Again, this seemed like a gimmick and I pulled it out after playing with it for a few minutes. - Niggling: This case is full of thumbscrews and none. a prisoner. Overall I would have preferred the 400C S340 (Standard or Elite) and P400S for all of its odd design quirks. If they fixed the cover by moving the VGA cutout, adding an SSD bracket, and making some cutouts on it, it would be a near-perfect case. Maybe we'll have even better luck with the tempered glass version?