Review on Corsair Carbide Series 175R Black Mid-Tower ATX Gaming Case with Tempered Glass & RGB Lighting by Victor Glatzel

Overall I really like this case but there are a few things I would like to point out to those who will be using it to build. The power supply compartment is located on the underside of the housing. It's not really a big deal, except that one of my motherboard's power connectors was at the very top of the motherboard and the cable from the PSU was barely long enough to bypass my graphics card to the connector. The body is mostly mesh where you can mount fans. Not that big of a deal, but just something to consider if you're the type of guy who puts things on the CPU case when it's in use. doesn't really mention anything about it other than the fact that it's included. Most racks come preinstalled in the chassis; the latter should be screwed into the spot marked "A" for ATX motherboards or "M" for mATA motherboards. I think they thought anyone building the system would probably guess that intuitively. Cables for the various connectors - a couple of the cables could have been labeled more clearly depending on which direction (i.e. + or -) they go to the board, but looking at some of the other connectors it's pretty easy to get the context to understand. The front panel took a little longer. Strength than I expected to remove. I was so afraid that if I took off the front bezel to install the optical drive, I would break the plastic. After installing the optical drive I had trouble putting the front panel back in - oddly I had to install the front panel first and then insert the optical drive as the front panel had a small lip that caught on the front of the optical drive. Drive. I think this might be a bit of an issue when it comes to removing it again since essentially I have to remove the optical drive first. I guess the only reason I'd ever have to take the front off again would be because the optical drive needed replacing, or for some reason I decided to put in a second drive, so it probably doesn't matter that much. Finally, I would like the user manual to have more information on how to help with wiring and cable management. Perhaps this influenced the fact that I made a slightly different decision about the order of placing components in the case. For example, this is the first time I've seen HDD bays designed so that the cables face the opaque side of the case rather than the window pane. After figuring it out (I was a bit disappointed that the drive tray screws seemed to be facing backwards before I thought about it seriously), I think I actually like it better in terms of cable management. However, this means I have to remove both side panels to add drives. Nothing fancy here either, especially since both panels can be easily removed with thumbscrews, it's just a unique design. I love the tool-less drive bays for the optical drive and hard drives. You still have to use screws if you're using an SSD since they're 2.5 inches, but that's tolerable. It's also great that the case has 4 hard drive bays. I plan to eventually deploy 3 HDDs in RAID 5 for shared storage and use an SSD for boot drive and apps.