so I looked at this case and I went oh it's like the 600t but updated to be
sleeker with like more features and stuff and then according to the
reviewers guide uh that's exactly what they were going for so mission
accomplished
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as always it starts with the Box that goes around the Box will your 780t reach
you in one piece the answer is most probably the packing foam was broken in
more than one place but ours had no visible damage on it whatsoever other
than the Corsair badge that fell off which we then later found and reattached
onto documentation and accessories Corsair's blown up view of the case with
handy dandy screw type reference chart approach works well for this case but as
always you can find a more complete version online speaking of screws
Corsair includes everything you need but nothing in the way of eye-catching
extras like those cool screw containers that fantex throws in with their
similarly priced cases which leads to my first complaint about the case in the
conclusion of this review of the original 600t an Onex writer who happens
to be our technical marketing contact at cors there now small world says that
compared to its Circa 2010 competition the build quality felt cheaper and that
the casee was quite expensive 4 years later I feel like it's repl placements
construction is still not impressive to me given the Fairly premium price tag
cuz I'm just not that into the plastic look although some people may feel
differently about this now to be clear I'm not calling the case bad and since
it's a computer tower and not a support trust in the real world it'll likely
never matter I'm just saying that much like the 760t which I reviewed here and
think is an awesome Case by the way the 780t sacrificed some structural rigidity
to the convenience and style gods in exchange for among other things a
massive Plexi window that lets you see all the guts and all their Glory stylish
plastic feet that keep the case off the floor so a bottom mounted radiator or
power supply fan can still get access to fresh air and reconfigurable drive cages
that can be hung from the top stacked from the bottom or removed alog together
to make room for a 280 or 360 mm Radiator in the front and it's not like
the whole design is Impractical anyway the front has a super easy to remove
filter that reveals two of the included 140 mm fans and it's got two 5 and 1/4
in bays in case you still use those at the top we find another easily removed
fan filter this one revealing room for a thick 280 or 360 mm radiator Andor the
accompanying fans front USB 2 front USB
3 front audio a too easy to hit by
accident IMO reset button a three mode
fan controller that controls up to five fans and finally the same automobile
design inspired power button that we first saw on the 380t a nice touch a
quick glance at the back reveals water cooling holes another radiator mounting
point pre-populated with the final included 140 mm fan this one without
LEDs and sheesh nine PCI expansion slots
that's enough for a triple slot card in the bottom of a standard ATX board a
double slot card in the bottom of an eight slot xlx board or a double slot in
Quad SLI on a standard board with ample
Breathing Room the 780t is the 600t
successor in more ways than just appearance this bad boy is meant to be a
perfect choice for extreme systems running air cooling which doesn't mean
that it lacks liquid cooling options either in addition to the mounting
points I already mentioned the bottom of the case along with its front and rear
access filters has a final 240 mm
radiator mounting slot that you can use if you don't need your hard drive cages
down there there all right so let's crack her open shall we the side panels
can be released with handle style latches on either side and the first
thing I notice is man this thing suffers
albeit to a lesser degree than the 900d from Hardware dwarfism a condition that
makes even high-end Hardware like this GTX 780ti and asws motherboard look tiny
inside it this roomy interior is going to be a dream for folks with large hands
or who want to throw additional stuff that Corsair didn't
think of inside like motherboard tray mounted cylinder reservoirs other than
sheer spaciousness there's nothing terribly groundbreaking about the
interior though I like Corsair's removable 2 and 1/2 in toolless mounts I
like the high quality rubber grommet material I like the adjustable height
rear fan Mount and I really like the extremely spacious cable management area
behind the motherboard tray with ample Cable Management Loops another 600t
Carri over but at closer to $200 than to
15 there are also a few things I feel like could have been improved so here
come the uh nitpicky complaints some cable management could have been a bit
better the front audio connector is long enough to connect to your neighbor PC
and the top-mounted fans have only one place where wires can be routed but
unless you're using the long leads on the cases built-in fan control or
extensions to your motherboard it might not be very easy to access this is an
issue for me because while I appre appreciate the built-in fan speed toggle
one of the reasons I'm partial to assus motherboards is their excellent onboard
fan control and this case makes it slightly less convenient to use which
leads to nitpick number two there are two Cable Management grommet locations
that I feel were left out of the motherboard tray top Center and bottom
right almost every board has a CPU fan header in the top Center and front panel
connectors bottom right I'm guessing that these were left out to maintain as
much structural rigidity as possible given the way that the motherboard tray
free balls without support from those removable hard drive cages but I still
would have liked to have them which ties into nitpick three the hard drive cages
I know we're stuck with them for a while because Corsair has so many cases that
use the design but I promise to keep complaining about Corsair's 3 and 1 half
in cages until they stop using them or
everyone on Earth stops using hard drives and switches over to ssds
whichever of those two things happens to come first which I guess leads us pretty
well into to conclusion time the 780t is
good but it didn't blow me away with its
striking industrial design the way the 760t did it's good but not amazing and I
also think they missed a huge opportunity to make the cable management
look fantastic by putting a basement separation in this case rather than this
open area with its kind of cheesy SATA cable management hole on the bottom that
leaves the wires not only exposed but even visible through the large side
panel window all of that said I feel obliged to remind longtime viewers of my
show and tell the new ones that I tend to go a little hard on Corsair because
my expectations of them are so high based on their history of innovation so
take all these complaints in the appropriate context if anyone but Corsair had released this case I would
have likely overlooked most of these flaws and praised the case as an
Enthusiast air Cooler's Delight with some surprisingly solid build options
for liquid coolers to and a striking industrial design with smooth curves
well placed mesh and that front illumination that's a really nice touch
so maybe that's the right conclusion but
I'm not going to start going easy on George now right I mean I've been at it
for this long anyway guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you
disliked it leave a comment letting me know what do you think of the 780t
particularly compared to the 760t given
their similar price point and you know similar overall features which one do
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