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welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair obsidian

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550d let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves in a billion different

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languages on the front sound dampening material silicone mounts on the fans and

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hard drive Bays to a to damp Corsair

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Corsair to dampen vibration you can cover unused fan locations to further

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reduce noise rigid steel and brushed aluminum makes it easy to build a great

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system you get built in USB 3 25 in SSD support etc etc rugged durability smart

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features and Great Looks let's open her

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up I'm pretty familiar with this case because I actually did a presentation on

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stage at the NC first annual Tech fair

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about the 550d which I prepped myself for in like the 2 minutes before Corsair

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was due on stage and asked me to uh to talk about their case for them I hadn't

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actually seen the 550d for more than a

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couple minutes at CES prior to that so

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there you go but uh now I know what I'm

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talking about in time for my actual video which will persistently be on the

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interwebs forever so that's good

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okay closed uh or not closed rather uh

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rigid foam not my favorite um at least it's thick it's not that

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thick yeah I would have expected a little bit thicker than that I guess in

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their defense they do have a pretty robust box that's going to keep it from

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getting damaged as uh as much in shipping as can sometimes happen we've

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had some oh we've had some interesting samples arrived for Tech tips we had one

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case that didn't use um that didn't use

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uh a soft soft foam that arrived with

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the back basically like dented in like that it wasn't from Corsair though don't

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worry guys uh okay there we go let's go

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ahead and have a look at this case so it

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has a very clean overall aesthetic actually let's start with uh with

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removing the plastic here at the front because that's uh going to here let me

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get you guys

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a about what Corsair does with their cases is

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they they spend money on the

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manufacturing where it counts so for something like their

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650d or even the 800d it's a steel case

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which is fine it's strong Steel's good for building things out of you build

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Bridges out of it for crying out loud if you can't build a case out of it then you're probably doing it wrong but they

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do a nice aluminum front bezel that looks very very very Sleek so I

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personally am a big fan of that and let's go ahead and take this off

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so um you know what one more right right so of Corsair yes they

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spend the money on their cases where it counts so the front bezel looks

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outstanding and then the general rest of the case is very plain very professional

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looking and in line with what we've come to expect from Corsair products in

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general so the back is pretty non-descript you've got eight PCIe slots

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though so it is xlx compatible got your IO Shield you got a 120 or 140 mm fan

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slot water cooling holes although I question the um validity of these most

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people aren't running external water cooling setups uh we've got a sound

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dampening foam mounted power Supply thing you can go one way or the other

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you've got aha this was premiered on the

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800d so one of corsairs now standard dual 120 mm fan filter do dads on the

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bottom there uh which is very nice oh look at these rubber feet These are nice

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these are really tall which gives you actually enough space under the case for

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some legitimate air flow down here and they're made out of a nice soft rubber

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and look at these like big L-shaped feet on the front as well very very nice so

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nice little touches so that'll uh keep it from like slipping which is good okay

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the front of the case this is a cool feature check this

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out guys so besides the front uh microphone headphones reset start uh

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hard drive LED power LED and front USB 3

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has a cool feature check this out so it opens from that side go ahead

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and take this off which uh holds in place the uh the front fan filter

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cover okay sound dampening material here you got an easily removable filter which

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comes out probably somehow but I don't really it's not oh oh I think it's

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magnetic actually there we go so magnetic front

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fan filter with dual 120 mm fans included so you go ahead and throw that

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on there just like that so ah there

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that's the side that's a little bit easier to remove very nice okay so we'll

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go ahead and put this back and put

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this apparently I'm doing it wrong cuz I'm just having a lot of trouble with

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what is supposed to be like the easiest fan filter ever but it's like Linus

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proof Edition there we go so let's go ahead and put this back and then I will

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get to what is actually cool about this so once you close it what will become

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fairly evident is that you can actually open it from the other side as well so

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you just clip it in really

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firmly and then you open it from the other side sound dampening material is

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also present here so this will help reduce noise a little bit another cool thing in line with the Sound Reduction

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theme of this case is the fact that there are actually very few vent holes

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actually well no vent holes really to speak of in the very front of the case

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and there's a reason for that I mean there's a couple there's the ones here down the side and there's the ones here

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down the other side but the reason for that is because vent holes in the front

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of the case are where a lot of the noise gets pasted to the user so they've

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shaped the front bezel like this see how there's a gap in there sort of not a

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very big gap but it's a small Gap so that the air will actually be pulled in

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from the back which will reduce the noise that you hear when the case is

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sitting in front of you on the top we find more sound dampening material in

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here you can actually take this off permanently if you do decide to mount

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fans here because obviously this solid

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piece of uh solid piece of plastic would

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not be very conducive to see I line is proof again uh would not be very

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conducive to U air flow so you just take this off and then you have like sort of

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a modular interface we've got more um magnetic fan filters you just take that

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off when it gets dirty and go clean it and then that is what the top of the

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case will look like if you opt not to use this although if you wanted a case

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that's more air flow optimized I'd recommend just going with a 650d or

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something or a 3 300 uh 300 R I believe

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it is 300 R in the first place instead of mucking up what I believe is the very

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clean looking aesthetic of this one this is taped on as well for a very good

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reason because there you go more sound dampening

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material more magnetic fan filters and

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the option to mount either 120 or 10 dual 140 mm fans or what appears to be

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like a single oh man that must be a single 160 mil or something like that

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you guys will have to just correct me if I'm wrong on that one but either way if

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I was going to mount something here I'd probably go with the uh the Dual dual

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140s just because if the theme is silen then you want to make sure that you are

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optimizing the build for silence which

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means what I would actually do is I would just leave this on because I like

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the uh I like the stock configuration of the case Okay keeping with their tooless

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overall philosophy they have brought back the rear buttons so we had those uh

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side clips on the 600t that uh wouldn't

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have really fit with the clean look of this case so we use a rear button in

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order to release the top panel you can see lots of thick sound dampening

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material on the inside of the case that is once again going to reduce the noise

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pass to the user um I don't know how

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many times I can say it about a silent CL case but it's designed to be quiet!

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again other side panel covered in sound dampening material it's great that cases

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are coming with this now because I remember it wasn't that long ago you had

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to just buy a case and then you'd buy like sound dampening kits and they were

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like 50 bucks or like a 100 bucks so now they're just n we'll just throw it in

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the case and call it a day and uh personally as an end user I appreciate

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that because it saves me money on the inside of the case we find the

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usual Staples for Corsair nice big CPU cutout so no matter where your CPU

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socket happens to be you'll be able to install your back plate and all that

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good stuff from the back black internal

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cables and little things like this so this is going to bang around corser

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doesn't want it to scratch stuff so they go ahead and they put some foamy

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plasticky stuff on there for you take care of that uh all black internal

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cables very very clean looking all black interior hard drive mounting is done in

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the form of sleds so you can either Mount Your 3 and 1/2 in drives with no

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tools whatsoever just using these little pins right here oh and these are rubber

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now too oh those are nice actually nice anti vibration thing going on and you

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have the option to either Mount your drive in the middle if you mount a 2 and

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1/2 in SSD or on the side that's kind of cool so they given you the

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option okay supports up to four 5 and 1/4 in Baye up to six either 3.5 or 2.5

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in drives you can completely remove uh and I'm going to need my screwdriver

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which happens to be right here you can

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completely remove this middle one should you have the desire I mean maybe you

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want to I don't know install

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something like like a really long

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graphics card or something I don't know but uh oh okay hold on wait for

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it give me a sec here guys I'm going to have to figure this out we got it

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removed there was just one more screw in the back so you can actually remove both

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cages if you want although you wouldn't really have too many options in terms of

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installing drives but there you go you

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can should you so desire maybe you just want like more air flow directly onto

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your graphics card and you just want to you know Bolton SSD somewhere and call

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it a day in terms of your uh your boot drive so let's go ahead and throw that

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back in there because I think we're we're done with that experiment um right

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cable routing so once again introduced with the 800d these awesome rubber

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grommy things that allow you to easily Mount whoops everything you want

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wherever you want it to go with nice tidy looking cabling plenty of room at

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the back so you can see the motherboard tray is a little bit recessed but there's tons of room here to Mount Your

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24 pin cable and whatever other thick cables lots and lots and lots of room in

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the back and more than enough of these little hooks which are very actually I

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would say wouldn't say more than enough I could use a couple up here so I can get that up to the eight pin or four pin

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uh hole right here and make it nice and tight but we have sort of enough then

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let's say of of these hooks for zap zap

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strapping cables down to make sure that they're nice and clean on the back so you don't have a hard time closing the

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back of the case let's have a look at what they've

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included in terms of accessories and whatnot and of course it's taped

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shut lots of stuff check it out okay so the internal USB 3 header is not

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necessarily compatible with older board so they've given you an adapter to plug

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into a USB two header should you so desire all right the um oh

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boy oh oh replacement clips for the uh

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for the front in case you happen to like break them or something I

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guess you know what I better check yep that's what they are so just

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in case you do happen to break them that's uh included for you we got some

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fan screws we got some hard drive screws no those aren't hard drive screws those

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are vibration dampening fan screws more fan screws

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hard drive screws power supply

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screws Optical and SSD screws and

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motherboard standoffs there's also of course a

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manual brilliant design inside and out I think that pretty much uh speaks for

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itself when it comes to Corsair's uh

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limited track record with cases but it's uh been very very good so far and I

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think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out our unboxing and first look at the Corsair 5 50d

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