so I want to get started unboxing the carbide 500R from Corsair right away
this is what I would consider to be a bigger brother to the 400r which is also
in the carbide family products remember Corsair's highest end is their obsidian
line followed by the graphite line and
then by the carbon or carbide line at
the lowest end in their current lineup of gaming cases which isn't to say that
even a lowest end Corsair case is not a
good choice because it would be
Corsair's Philosophy for the design of
their gaming cases is all about functionality while maintaining a
certain aesthetic appeal so when we saw
the 800d come out with a ton of features
that just hadn't been done before the expectation was that the rest of a
Corsair case lineup would include a ton of features that haven't been done
before at the price points that they're going to be arriving at and you
technically can't end a sentence with the word
at but I did it so here we are so there
are some key differences already between
sorry guys the 500 R and the 400 R but
let's start with the overall look of the outside of the case and we'll go from
there so the front of the case yeah let's do that we have dual 120 mm fan
mounts here and here we've got a nice mesh finish and then we've got four 5
and 1/4 in Bays a power button two USB
3.0 ports a hard drive LED microphone and headphone ports fire wire looks like
you're able to turn the LEDs on and off and a fan speed controller the fan speed
controller is not included on the 400 finally a reset
switch the sides of this case are very
clean looking so we've got this bulge
which exists for a reason that's to give you clearance for the side fans to blow
down on the CPU area as well as the video card area in this case you can do
dual 120s dual 140s and they all have
rubber grommets for noise dampening H or you can do a single 200 mm and in this
case it's a white LED fan that is included did okay on the other side we find lots
of room for cable routing in the form of a bulge that comes out of the side but
it's sort of a Sleek looking bulge it's very aerodynamic so if the case was like
going really fast like it wouldn't actually cause that much of a
disturbance in the airflow
pattern okay you know it's hard for me to get away with
with sort of stuff like that but it doesn't actually it actually looks pretty good things that are aerodynamic
I personally find tend to look better than things that are not
aerodynamic and I think when you look at car design you find that to be somewhat
somewhat true you know more uh you know Sleek curvy angular type cars tend to
look better than like a box on Wheels right all right so at the back we find
as I mentioned before lots of cable routing space although it doesn't look
like it based on that if there was a flush side p it would sit like this far
above the motherboard tray but because of the way they've designed the side
panel there will be plenty of room to run your EPS 4 pin any fan cables you
want to run anything like that so say you wanted to you know put this under
your motherboard and run it down the back then you would be able to do that
without any difficulty these are plugged into the fan controller at this point in
time so those are the front uh white LED
120 mm fans that are also included and
then I think that pretty much covers it for the back here there's not a whole
lot that I want to say about that on the
other side we open up the case and we
find here we are hey check this out you can't lose your thumb screws they don't
come out I have seen that feature before but I haven't seen it in a while so
there you go there's your fan and there's your panel putting that
away all right so inside here the first
thing I want to try to figure out because right now I'm not really sure
what's going on here aha here sorry come up to the front I oh no aha there we are
I was trying to figure out this whole time how that comes out now I know so it
clicks in here and you just kind of push it in from the back and click it like
that and it comes up so there's your mesh okay which is going to cover up an
area where you can mount your top
mounted 120 mm water cooling unit so
Corsair's done very smart work here with
the spacing of their 120 or 140 mm
mounting holes and they've put them as close together as possible so that
regardless of which kind of a radiator you have you will be able to install it
without any difficulty here's where you can route your fan wires and over here
is where you will Mount the tubes that come out of the top of your rad down to
your CPU socket so I'm going to go ahead and put this back on so that the case
doesn't just look you know totally skeleton by the end of the video here
and let's have a look at the inside layout it's very similar to the 400r
except for I'd say at least one key
thing and that is this so check this out you can actually completely
remove the
top set of three hard drive cages well
hard drive or SSD cages whichever you prefer oh hold on I believe there are
also screws on the back that are preventing me from removing it at this
time okay so I'm going to go ahead and remove those so it's difficult to remove
I'd say but this isn't the kind of thing that you would have to remove just for
installing a hard drive you can still install a hard drive just by using the
sliding plastic rails and that is compatible with both 3 and 1/2 in and 2
and 1/2 in drives but when you're building Mach your machine initially and
you go to install a Radon 69 990 that you happen
to have lying around and you discover that okay it fits anyway so that's
clearly not what they were thinking here remember this is the longest graphics card in existence at this time at least
on the consumer side of things uh so if there are longer
graphics cards in the future you can go ahead and pull this out I mean imagine
what a graphics card that long would would look like but I mean I'm not here
to judge right so uh so yeah you would
be able to remove that and I believe the other one also comes out as well just by
undoing the screws at the back so like I said this is how you actually install a
drive that is only if you discover during your build that you you know
maybe you want to have less restriction on the fan that's blowing over your graphics card maybe you have a longer
graphics card I don't know what your reasoning is I don't really care it
doesn't matter because it's your reasoning not mine you can remove the
cage all right let's go and look at what
in here here's their little hard drive sort of mimicker cardboard piece
here we have something that won't be relevant until a minute from now when I
explain why it's here so here's power for the fan controller and whatnot
here's another uh oh another header for the fan controller so you can plug in
the side panel fan all right the back fan doesn't run off that and I will tell
you why it's because the expectation from Corsair is that if you're building
an Ultimate machine and you know who Corsair is and you bought this case
you're probably going to go with an h80 or an h100 to cool your CPU so if that's
the case that's going to go ahead and take care of the control of that back
fan for you you don't need your case to do it so there you go all right we've
got our front USB 3 and we also have included an adapter which we can put on
like this if you want to use front USB 2
instead of front USB 3 because your case doesn't support front USB 3 or your
motherboard doesn't support it your case does you have front 1394 fire wire front
HD a and front switches and LEDs and whatnot
all kinds of good stuff uh you've got lots of grommets so these are two
filtered either 12140 mm fan mounts or
uh power supply rubber grommets to supported and then ventilation holes to
make sure that your 120 mil fan on your power supply is getting lots of air
because there are rubber feet on the bottom of the case which is going to keep it raised off the table or carpet
or wherever you happen to put it and make sure your power supply doesn't starve all right I already mentioned the
rubber grommets here's the CPU uh cutout as well as the motherboard back plate or
motherboard trade being very reinforced it does reinforce it to put these
patterns in it so it's a very rigid motherboard back plate that's good
especially if you are shipping the system I haven't forgotten the
accessories but I am getting a prompt about I think that's it so uh 1 2 3 4 5
6 78 PCI slot which is great because if
you have a bottom PCI Express slot at the very bottom of your board you can
still install a dual slot graphics card should you desire to do so last but not
least the rest of the accessories uh which includes some zip ties some
plastic clips for mounting cables or for routing cables we got some fan yeah some
screws some more different screws some motherboard standoffs some other more
different screws and finally the more different screws that we have seen yet
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