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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts let me open this

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video by saying I've got an email thread that's about a mile long with George

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from Corsair about this case and I do have a number of complaints about it but

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his response of well what else can you

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get at this price that's this easy to build in and has these features is

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pretty fair the 450d if you don't feel like skipping to the end to hear the

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conclusion delivers great features at a great price with great air flow and in

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my opinion very good looks which isn't to say that I'm going to completely let

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him off the hook the packing material is not the best hard foam I've ever seen

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but it's not really a concern unless you're having someone else build your

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system for you and then ship it to you all right so once it's out of the box

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this is a bit of an unusual look for an obsidian instead of going for a very

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plain look with simple straight lines Corsair has in my mind done a great job

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of delivering solid cooling performance and still having it look pretty clean

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out of the box with the included af140 L fans it still maintains a professional

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front bezel look but because the front design with its removable fan filter is

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so open throwing some Led fans in there would be a super easy way to give your

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system some gamer bling I think it's a great balance speaking of great balance

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the top fan filter is pretty much brilliant their flexible mesh and magnet

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solution to dust filtration is inexpensive aesthetically pleasing and

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convenient the bottom fan filter ain't half bad either it's much easier to

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remove and replace without being able to see it because it uses a rigid plastic

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frame and a few magnets around the edges to make it very easy to position now I

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guess I glossed over the front iio when I was talking about the front there's nothing too special here two USB 3 ports

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a headphone and microphone Jack a recessed reset switch and a large power

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switch the power and drive activity LEDs are built into the power button the side

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window is great too a nice large side panel window looks great on these

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smaller cases as long as Cable Management inside is good and the 450d

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is almost as good as other obsidian cases in terms of cable routing options

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finally at the back we find seven PCI slots some water cooling tubing holes

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that corser has given up even pretending that people use note that they don't

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even bother including rubber grommets for them anymore and included 120 mm

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series or AF series fan I griped at

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George about not putting in8 PCI slots when it really looks like there was room

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for an additional one and his response here was also pretty fair and that's

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that no one should be putting four graphics cards in Quad SLI in a mid

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Tower there's just not enough room to cool them adequately unless you do a

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side intake like on the Vengeance C70 all right George Fair Point opening up

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the case is done with four thumb screws at the back there are no real complaints

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here but I'd love to see Corsair implement the self- retaining side panel

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screws that NZXT has put on the h440 it

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doesn't cost much and is a great hassle saer for the user now that the case is

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open the layout will look pretty familiar to anyone who has seen its

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little matx brother the 350d by comparison the 450d excepts a full-size

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ATX motherboard and corsar has basically just added a 3 and 1/2 in/ 2 and 1/2 in

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Drive Bay sled to utilize the extra height and moved the super handy

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spring-loaded SSD mounts to the back of the motherboard tray a great move since

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it frees up space in the front for either a 240 or 280 mm radiator speaking

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of Radiators the case can handle RADS in up to four spots without any

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modification an exceptional feet for a case this size by my super precise

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eyeball measurements it looks like you could do a 280 or 360 in the top a 120

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in the back two 240s in the front and at

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the bottom all at the same time unreal

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speaking of radiator support for a case that is so well liquid cooling optimized

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I feel like the top panel was a bit of a missed opportunity the way that Corsair

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allows the grommets to be easily repositioned so you can mount a dual 120

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mm radiator in a variety of places is great for improving compatibility but I

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would have liked to see the holes offset to the side away from the motherboard to

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improve compatibility with thicker radiators and the uh top 8 Pin and four

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pin connectors on motherboards the recently released h105 actually doesn't

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fit in this case with this motherboard and this incompatibility was entirely

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avoidable I understand that the centered holes do look a lot better but the

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magnetic mesh would have hidden offset holes so guys let me know in the

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comments if you prefer the look of the 450d with the mesh or if you prefer the

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look of the 450d without the mesh so that'll give me a good idea of whether

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the offset holes would have been okay because if you're going to run it without the mesh you're not going to

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want those offset holes it looks really weird um cable management is a good

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point for this case there is ample room in the back for the 24 pin and other

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bulky connectors and the included cables for the front panel actually come

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pre-managed with nice little you know zip ties tied in place so you pretty

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much don't have to move them um but note

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that I said cable management is a good point for this case and not a great one

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this is one of two things that made the case feel a little more like a carbide

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or a graphite than an obsidian to me the back of the motherboard tray has only

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four Cable Management loops on it and when they're basically free to add I'd

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like to see a lot more in addition to that there's no way to cleanly Route the

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front panel audio without crossing over at least a few inches of motherboard

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down here at the bottom most cases have a little spot in the bottom left for

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that connector and this feels like a bit of an oversight the last thing that's

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missing is any room in the top aside from the hole for the 8 pin connector to

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Route smaller stuff like CPU fan cables

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usually we see a couple gaps up here to facilitate this but instead we're stuck

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going between the motherboard and motherboard tray or just routing them

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across the board the second thing that felt un obsidian was the 3 and 1/2 in

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Drive cage it's toolless which is great and while I appreciate the flexibility

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of being able to hang the cage from the top of the 5 and 1/4 in Bays or sit it

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at the bottom it just feels a little bit flimsier than the rest of the case in

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contrast Sharp with the motherboard tray which is very

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rigid in spite of the large CPU cutout a second cage would also have been a nice

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touch since they're using a modular design that allows you to Simply slide

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in another one to double your hard drive expansion but if you're targeting a

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price point then I guess it makes more sense to sell that as an upgrade option

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rather than charge everyone for a feature that only a handful of people

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are actually going to use um it should be noted that leaving it out also helps

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this case achieve fantastic air flow over the GPU area without the use of

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ugly side panel fans so I see why they did it this way one thing that stood out

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to me was that Corsair includes hilariously few screws in the Box

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basically some fan screws motherboard screws and 2 and 1/2 in Drive screws

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pretty much everything else is tooless and while this is another thing that's

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probably only a concern for system integrator shipping systems around in

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the 450d I would have liked to see Corsair include some hard drive screws

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so I have the option to secure things a little bit better if I want to with

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those few complaints out of the way the conclusion for the 450d is actually

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pretty positive if you consider its cooling flexibility looks and price

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you're going to have a hard time finding a better looking bang for your buck and

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speaking of paying for sex my wife actually built the test rig you're

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looking at with me looking over her shoulder so for all my complaints about

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little Cable Management details and inexperience Builder can still end up

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with a damn fine looking system guys like and share this video if you liked

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