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fully private click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing and review of the

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Corsair obsidian 250d a no compromises mini ITX case so

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it's obsidian series you know it's going to be well packaged got to like that

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nice soft Clos cell foam it's going to

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have a a a clean overall aesthetic so

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you're not going to have any sort of like you know Vengeance C70 army green

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colors or anything like that and it is going to be expected to hold the highest

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tier of Hardware but unlike other obsidian cases this one is a mini ITX

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enclosure so it will hold the highest end stuff that you could possibly expect

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to run in a mini ITX case so we'll start

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with an overall tour of the outside at the front we find a fulls sizee 5 and

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1/4 in Bay as well as a reset switch nice little recessed one there and a

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power switch two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphone port and the front

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there you go which has a nice brushed aluminum finish is removable giving you

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access to that nice also removable fan filter here in the front so you just go

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ahead and pop those tabs down there and then it comes with a 140 mm fan but I

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believe you can actually install up to a 160 or 200 mm anyway you can install a

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larger fan should you see fit on the

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sides you find mesh as well as removable

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able fan filters on both sides so one of them has fan mounts right next to it and

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the other does not there you go magnetized fan filters so you can pop

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those off clean them and then throw them right back into place quite easily all

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right which brings us to the top where we have a window that allows us to look

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down on the graphics card CPU area and

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that is pretty much about it then the other side where there are two 120 mm

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fan mounts these can be used for air cooling or you can actually mount a dual

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120 mm Radiator in the case so you

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couple that with the fact that you could also Jam another radiator into the front

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you could actually put a pretty decent fully custom liquid cooling setup in

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here with dual 120 and at least a 140 mm

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radiator without running out of clearance so let's pop off the top there

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that gives us access to the inside so there's that 5 and 1/4 inch Bay there's

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the clearance for the included 120 mm fan as well as a radiator even with

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ASUS's little Min ITX boards that have the Riser PCB portion for the power

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delivery you're still going to have enough clearance but it's really really

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really tight and then that pretty much does it for the top half oh yeah GPU

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length so you can install pretty much whatever GPU you could possibly want

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with the exceptions of some really long ones like the $79.90 that one does not

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fit at the back we've got little rubber grommets for a couple more 60mm fans you

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probably won't need those though as well as a full-size Power Supply Mount and

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this is the first area where of course there gets a couple of marks off from me

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this is not the most solid Power Supply Mount that I've ever seen you pull out

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two thumb screws yes two thumb screws

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and then this plate comes off so it's actually only held in by two screws on

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the top once you have a power supply in there it feels not bad but it just seems

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like it wouldn't have been that much more work to put a couple more thumb screws on there also on the bottom by

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the power supply we have a removable fan filter so you can have your fan on the

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power supply on the bottom and then finally rounding out the back of the

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case we have four thumb screws SCS that give us access to the internal 2x 2 1/2

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mm and 2x 3 1/2 mm Drive cages so you

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can mount up to two hard drives and two ssds or four ssds in this case on the

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removable sleds uh the way that you wire them up there is no back plane

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unfortunately that would be a really really cool but also very premium and

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expensive addition to this case is simply by opening up this side wiring

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them up from here and then connecting them to the power supply itself speaking

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of the power supply itself you can put pretty much any power supply you'd want

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and then the wire management is done in the front of the case so that's why they

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included that classic fan grill for that front 140 mm fan let's go ahead and have

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a look at an actual finished case so I did spend some time building up a fairly

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high-end gaming machine in here so I've used an h100i I've got two hard drives and one

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SSD although I could have easily put in another one I'm using an ASUS uh Maximus

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6 impact so that's pretty much the highest end mitx case are um motherboard

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on the market I've also got a full-size Blu-ray drive up here so that's not a

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short length one or anything like that and I went and threw a GTX Titan as well

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as an ax1200i uh power supply so you can see

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there's lots of room for the modular interface down here even with this long

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power supply and then the cable management is tucked up here in the front GTX Titan H we've got probably

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about another half an inch or even an inch of space here but that's pretty

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much as big as you can get in terms of a graphics card and then there's lot lots

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of room over here near the uh CPU socket

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area for just general cable management

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and Cooling and everything's actually quite clean once you've got the whole

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thing installed so there were only a couple things I noticed while I was

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building in it one of them is that you uh you actually remove the front bezel

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in order to change out the front fan I think I changed the front fan for an LED

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fan or something like that when I was doing the build and watch this guys you

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can go ahead and uh soorry if you pop off the front bezel the legs actually

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come off so what happens is uh the whole

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case falls down and I actually almost chipped my table when I did that so

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that's one thing to watch out for it's not a design flaw it's just a design

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decision they made and you're going to want to watch for it when you're actually building in it the other thing

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is uh Optical and the h100i is super super tight because of

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the way that the uh the tubing is positioned so I'm going to go ahead and

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pop the optical drive out there we go there's a toolless slider right here in

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the the top man this thing's heavy right

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there tool of slider and because the tubes come out like right here at the

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front bringing them under the optical like this you can see if I had a little

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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

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tight but it does actually fit even with high-profile memory so I was using

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dominator platinums in this particular build here the cable management in the

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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

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could do better than I did and I think

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that's pretty much it guys thank you for checking out my unboxing and review of

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the Corsair obsidian series 250d no

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