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Corsair obsidian 250d a no compromises mini ITX case so
it's obsidian series you know it's going to be well packaged got to like that
nice soft Clos cell foam it's going to
have a a a clean overall aesthetic so
you're not going to have any sort of like you know Vengeance C70 army green
colors or anything like that and it is going to be expected to hold the highest
tier of Hardware but unlike other obsidian cases this one is a mini ITX
enclosure so it will hold the highest end stuff that you could possibly expect
to run in a mini ITX case so we'll start
with an overall tour of the outside at the front we find a fulls sizee 5 and
1/4 in Bay as well as a reset switch nice little recessed one there and a
power switch two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphone port and the front
there you go which has a nice brushed aluminum finish is removable giving you
access to that nice also removable fan filter here in the front so you just go
ahead and pop those tabs down there and then it comes with a 140 mm fan but I
believe you can actually install up to a 160 or 200 mm anyway you can install a
larger fan should you see fit on the
sides you find mesh as well as removable
able fan filters on both sides so one of them has fan mounts right next to it and
the other does not there you go magnetized fan filters so you can pop
those off clean them and then throw them right back into place quite easily all
right which brings us to the top where we have a window that allows us to look
down on the graphics card CPU area and
that is pretty much about it then the other side where there are two 120 mm
fan mounts these can be used for air cooling or you can actually mount a dual
120 mm Radiator in the case so you
couple that with the fact that you could also Jam another radiator into the front
you could actually put a pretty decent fully custom liquid cooling setup in
here with dual 120 and at least a 140 mm
radiator without running out of clearance so let's pop off the top there
that gives us access to the inside so there's that 5 and 1/4 inch Bay there's
the clearance for the included 120 mm fan as well as a radiator even with
ASUS's little Min ITX boards that have the Riser PCB portion for the power
delivery you're still going to have enough clearance but it's really really
really tight and then that pretty much does it for the top half oh yeah GPU
length so you can install pretty much whatever GPU you could possibly want
with the exceptions of some really long ones like the $79.90 that one does not
fit at the back we've got little rubber grommets for a couple more 60mm fans you
probably won't need those though as well as a full-size Power Supply Mount and
this is the first area where of course there gets a couple of marks off from me
this is not the most solid Power Supply Mount that I've ever seen you pull out
two thumb screws yes two thumb screws
and then this plate comes off so it's actually only held in by two screws on
the top once you have a power supply in there it feels not bad but it just seems
like it wouldn't have been that much more work to put a couple more thumb screws on there also on the bottom by
the power supply we have a removable fan filter so you can have your fan on the
power supply on the bottom and then finally rounding out the back of the
case we have four thumb screws SCS that give us access to the internal 2x 2 1/2
mm and 2x 3 1/2 mm Drive cages so you
can mount up to two hard drives and two ssds or four ssds in this case on the
removable sleds uh the way that you wire them up there is no back plane
unfortunately that would be a really really cool but also very premium and
expensive addition to this case is simply by opening up this side wiring
them up from here and then connecting them to the power supply itself speaking
of the power supply itself you can put pretty much any power supply you'd want
and then the wire management is done in the front of the case so that's why they
included that classic fan grill for that front 140 mm fan let's go ahead and have
a look at an actual finished case so I did spend some time building up a fairly
high-end gaming machine in here so I've used an h100i I've got two hard drives and one
SSD although I could have easily put in another one I'm using an ASUS uh Maximus
6 impact so that's pretty much the highest end mitx case are um motherboard
on the market I've also got a full-size Blu-ray drive up here so that's not a
short length one or anything like that and I went and threw a GTX Titan as well
as an ax1200i uh power supply so you can see
there's lots of room for the modular interface down here even with this long
power supply and then the cable management is tucked up here in the front GTX Titan H we've got probably
about another half an inch or even an inch of space here but that's pretty
much as big as you can get in terms of a graphics card and then there's lot lots
of room over here near the uh CPU socket
area for just general cable management
and Cooling and everything's actually quite clean once you've got the whole
thing installed so there were only a couple things I noticed while I was
building in it one of them is that you uh you actually remove the front bezel
in order to change out the front fan I think I changed the front fan for an LED
fan or something like that when I was doing the build and watch this guys you
can go ahead and uh soorry if you pop off the front bezel the legs actually
come off so what happens is uh the whole
case falls down and I actually almost chipped my table when I did that so
that's one thing to watch out for it's not a design flaw it's just a design
decision they made and you're going to want to watch for it when you're actually building in it the other thing
is uh Optical and the h100i is super super tight because of
the way that the uh the tubing is positioned so I'm going to go ahead and
pop the optical drive out there we go there's a toolless slider right here in
the the top man this thing's heavy right
there tool of slider and because the tubes come out like right here at the
front bringing them under the optical like this you can see if I had a little
bit more slack they'd actually be sticking up and they'd be pushing up on the five and a/ qu in base so it's quite
tight but it does actually fit even with high-profile memory so I was using
dominator platinums in this particular build here the cable management in the
front is not the tidiest thing ever but that's your mileage may vary if you're willing to spend the time on it you
could do better than I did and I think
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