welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair obsidian
550d let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves in a billion different
languages on the front sound dampening material silicone mounts on the fans and
hard drive Bays to a to damp Corsair
Corsair to dampen vibration you can cover unused fan locations to further
reduce noise rigid steel and brushed aluminum makes it easy to build a great
system you get built in USB 3 25 in SSD support etc etc rugged durability smart
features and Great Looks let's open her
up I'm pretty familiar with this case because I actually did a presentation on
stage at the NC first annual Tech fair
about the 550d which I prepped myself for in like the 2 minutes before Corsair
was due on stage and asked me to uh to talk about their case for them I hadn't
actually seen the 550d for more than a
couple minutes at CES prior to that so
there you go but uh now I know what I'm
talking about in time for my actual video which will persistently be on the
interwebs forever so that's good
okay closed uh or not closed rather uh
rigid foam not my favorite um at least it's thick it's not that
thick yeah I would have expected a little bit thicker than that I guess in
their defense they do have a pretty robust box that's going to keep it from
getting damaged as uh as much in shipping as can sometimes happen we've
had some oh we've had some interesting samples arrived for Tech tips we had one
case that didn't use um that didn't use
uh a soft soft foam that arrived with
the back basically like dented in like that it wasn't from Corsair though don't
worry guys uh okay there we go let's go
ahead and have a look at this case so it
has a very clean overall aesthetic actually let's start with uh with
removing the plastic here at the front because that's uh going to here let me
get you guys
a about what Corsair does with their cases is
they they spend money on the
manufacturing where it counts so for something like their
650d or even the 800d it's a steel case
which is fine it's strong Steel's good for building things out of you build
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
do a nice aluminum front bezel that looks very very very Sleek so I
personally am a big fan of that and let's go ahead and take this off
so um you know what one more right right so of Corsair yes they
spend the money on their cases where it counts so the front bezel looks
outstanding and then the general rest of the case is very plain very professional
looking and in line with what we've come to expect from Corsair products in
general so the back is pretty non-descript you've got eight PCIe slots
though so it is xlx compatible got your IO Shield you got a 120 or 140 mm fan
slot water cooling holes although I question the um validity of these most
people aren't running external water cooling setups uh we've got a sound
dampening foam mounted power Supply thing you can go one way or the other
you've got aha this was premiered on the
800d so one of corsairs now standard dual 120 mm fan filter do dads on the
bottom there uh which is very nice oh look at these rubber feet These are nice
these are really tall which gives you actually enough space under the case for
some legitimate air flow down here and they're made out of a nice soft rubber
and look at these like big L-shaped feet on the front as well very very nice so
nice little touches so that'll uh keep it from like slipping which is good okay
the front of the case this is a cool feature check this
out guys so besides the front uh microphone headphones reset start uh
hard drive LED power LED and front USB 3
has a cool feature check this out so it opens from that side go ahead
and take this off which uh holds in place the uh the front fan filter
cover okay sound dampening material here you got an easily removable filter which
comes out probably somehow but I don't really it's not oh oh I think it's
magnetic actually there we go so magnetic front
fan filter with dual 120 mm fans included so you go ahead and throw that
on there just like that so ah there
that's the side that's a little bit easier to remove very nice okay so we'll
go ahead and put this back and put
this apparently I'm doing it wrong cuz I'm just having a lot of trouble with
what is supposed to be like the easiest fan filter ever but it's like Linus
proof Edition there we go so let's go ahead and put this back and then I will
get to what is actually cool about this so once you close it what will become
fairly evident is that you can actually open it from the other side as well so
you just clip it in really
firmly and then you open it from the other side sound dampening material is
also present here so this will help reduce noise a little bit another cool thing in line with the Sound Reduction
theme of this case is the fact that there are actually very few vent holes
actually well no vent holes really to speak of in the very front of the case
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
down the other side but the reason for that is because vent holes in the front
of the case are where a lot of the noise gets pasted to the user so they've
shaped the front bezel like this see how there's a gap in there sort of not a
very big gap but it's a small Gap so that the air will actually be pulled in
from the back which will reduce the noise that you hear when the case is
sitting in front of you on the top we find more sound dampening material in
here you can actually take this off permanently if you do decide to mount
fans here because obviously this solid
piece of uh solid piece of plastic would
not be very conducive to see I line is proof again uh would not be very
conducive to U air flow so you just take this off and then you have like sort of
a modular interface we've got more um magnetic fan filters you just take that
off when it gets dirty and go clean it and then that is what the top of the
case will look like if you opt not to use this although if you wanted a case
that's more air flow optimized I'd recommend just going with a 650d or
something or a 3 300 uh 300 R I believe
it is 300 R in the first place instead of mucking up what I believe is the very
clean looking aesthetic of this one this is taped on as well for a very good
reason because there you go more sound dampening
material more magnetic fan filters and
the option to mount either 120 or 10 dual 140 mm fans or what appears to be
like a single oh man that must be a single 160 mil or something like that
you guys will have to just correct me if I'm wrong on that one but either way if
I was going to mount something here I'd probably go with the uh the Dual dual
140s just because if the theme is silen then you want to make sure that you are
optimizing the build for silence which
means what I would actually do is I would just leave this on because I like
the uh I like the stock configuration of the case Okay keeping with their tooless
overall philosophy they have brought back the rear buttons so we had those uh
side clips on the 600t that uh wouldn't
have really fit with the clean look of this case so we use a rear button in
order to release the top panel you can see lots of thick sound dampening
material on the inside of the case that is once again going to reduce the noise
pass to the user um I don't know how
many times I can say it about a silent CL case but it's designed to be quiet!
again other side panel covered in sound dampening material it's great that cases
are coming with this now because I remember it wasn't that long ago you had
to just buy a case and then you'd buy like sound dampening kits and they were
like 50 bucks or like a 100 bucks so now they're just n we'll just throw it in
the case and call it a day and uh personally as an end user I appreciate
that because it saves me money on the inside of the case we find the
usual Staples for Corsair nice big CPU cutout so no matter where your CPU
socket happens to be you'll be able to install your back plate and all that
good stuff from the back black internal
cables and little things like this so this is going to bang around corser
doesn't want it to scratch stuff so they go ahead and they put some foamy
plasticky stuff on there for you take care of that uh all black internal
cables very very clean looking all black interior hard drive mounting is done in
the form of sleds so you can either Mount Your 3 and 1/2 in drives with no
tools whatsoever just using these little pins right here oh and these are rubber
now too oh those are nice actually nice anti vibration thing going on and you
have the option to either Mount your drive in the middle if you mount a 2 and
1/2 in SSD or on the side that's kind of cool so they given you the
option okay supports up to four 5 and 1/4 in Baye up to six either 3.5 or 2.5
in drives you can completely remove uh and I'm going to need my screwdriver
which happens to be right here you can
completely remove this middle one should you have the desire I mean maybe you
want to I don't know install
something like like a really long
graphics card or something I don't know but uh oh okay hold on wait for
it give me a sec here guys I'm going to have to figure this out we got it
removed there was just one more screw in the back so you can actually remove both
cages if you want although you wouldn't really have too many options in terms of
installing drives but there you go you
can should you so desire maybe you just want like more air flow directly onto
your graphics card and you just want to you know Bolton SSD somewhere and call
it a day in terms of your uh your boot drive so let's go ahead and throw that
back in there because I think we're we're done with that experiment um right
cable routing so once again introduced with the 800d these awesome rubber
grommy things that allow you to easily Mount whoops everything you want
wherever you want it to go with nice tidy looking cabling plenty of room at
the back so you can see the motherboard tray is a little bit recessed but there's tons of room here to Mount Your
24 pin cable and whatever other thick cables lots and lots and lots of room in
the back and more than enough of these little hooks which are very actually I
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
uh hole right here and make it nice and tight but we have sort of enough then
let's say of of these hooks for zap zap
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
back of the case let's have a look at what they've
included in terms of accessories and whatnot and of course it's taped
shut lots of stuff check it out okay so the internal USB 3 header is not
necessarily compatible with older board so they've given you an adapter to plug
into a USB two header should you so desire all right the um oh
boy oh oh replacement clips for the uh
for the front in case you happen to like break them or something I
guess you know what I better check yep that's what they are so just
in case you do happen to break them that's uh included for you we got some
fan screws we got some hard drive screws no those aren't hard drive screws those
are vibration dampening fan screws more fan screws
hard drive screws power supply
screws Optical and SSD screws and
motherboard standoffs there's also of course a
manual brilliant design inside and out I think that pretty much uh speaks for
itself when it comes to Corsair's uh
limited track record with cases but it's uh been very very good so far and I
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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