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so I want to get started unboxing the carbide 500R from Corsair right away

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this is what I would consider to be a bigger brother to the 400r which is also

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in the carbide family products remember Corsair's highest end is their obsidian

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line followed by the graphite line and

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then by the carbon or carbide line at

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the lowest end in their current lineup of gaming cases which isn't to say that

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even a lowest end Corsair case is not a

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good choice because it would be

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Corsair's Philosophy for the design of

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their gaming cases is all about functionality while maintaining a

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certain aesthetic appeal so when we saw

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the 800d come out with a ton of features

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that just hadn't been done before the expectation was that the rest of a

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Corsair case lineup would include a ton of features that haven't been done

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before at the price points that they're going to be arriving at and you

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technically can't end a sentence with the word

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at but I did it so here we are so there

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are some key differences already between

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sorry guys the 500 R and the 400 R but

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let's start with the overall look of the outside of the case and we'll go from

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there so the front of the case yeah let's do that we have dual 120 mm fan

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mounts here and here we've got a nice mesh finish and then we've got four 5

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and 1/4 in Bays a power button two USB

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3.0 ports a hard drive LED microphone and headphone ports fire wire looks like

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you're able to turn the LEDs on and off and a fan speed controller the fan speed

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controller is not included on the 400 finally a reset

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switch the sides of this case are very

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clean looking so we've got this bulge

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which exists for a reason that's to give you clearance for the side fans to blow

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down on the CPU area as well as the video card area in this case you can do

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dual 120s dual 140s and they all have

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rubber grommets for noise dampening H or you can do a single 200 mm and in this

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case it's a white LED fan that is included did okay on the other side we find lots

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of room for cable routing in the form of a bulge that comes out of the side but

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it's sort of a Sleek looking bulge it's very aerodynamic so if the case was like

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going really fast like it wouldn't actually cause that much of a

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disturbance in the airflow

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pattern okay you know it's hard for me to get away with

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with sort of stuff like that but it doesn't actually it actually looks pretty good things that are aerodynamic

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I personally find tend to look better than things that are not

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aerodynamic and I think when you look at car design you find that to be somewhat

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somewhat true you know more uh you know Sleek curvy angular type cars tend to

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look better than like a box on Wheels right all right so at the back we find

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as I mentioned before lots of cable routing space although it doesn't look

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like it based on that if there was a flush side p it would sit like this far

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above the motherboard tray but because of the way they've designed the side

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panel there will be plenty of room to run your EPS 4 pin any fan cables you

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want to run anything like that so say you wanted to you know put this under

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your motherboard and run it down the back then you would be able to do that

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without any difficulty these are plugged into the fan controller at this point in

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time so those are the front uh white LED

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120 mm fans that are also included and

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then I think that pretty much covers it for the back here there's not a whole

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lot that I want to say about that on the

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other side we open up the case and we

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find here we are hey check this out you can't lose your thumb screws they don't

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come out I have seen that feature before but I haven't seen it in a while so

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there you go there's your fan and there's your panel putting that

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away all right so inside here the first

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thing I want to try to figure out because right now I'm not really sure

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what's going on here aha here sorry come up to the front I oh no aha there we are

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I was trying to figure out this whole time how that comes out now I know so it

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clicks in here and you just kind of push it in from the back and click it like

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that and it comes up so there's your mesh okay which is going to cover up an

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area where you can mount your top

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mounted 120 mm water cooling unit so

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Corsair's done very smart work here with

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the spacing of their 120 or 140 mm

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mounting holes and they've put them as close together as possible so that

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regardless of which kind of a radiator you have you will be able to install it

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without any difficulty here's where you can route your fan wires and over here

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is where you will Mount the tubes that come out of the top of your rad down to

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your CPU socket so I'm going to go ahead and put this back on so that the case

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doesn't just look you know totally skeleton by the end of the video here

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and let's have a look at the inside layout it's very similar to the 400r

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except for I'd say at least one key

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thing and that is this so check this out you can actually completely

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remove the

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top set of three hard drive cages well

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hard drive or SSD cages whichever you prefer oh hold on I believe there are

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also screws on the back that are preventing me from removing it at this

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time okay so I'm going to go ahead and remove those so it's difficult to remove

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I'd say but this isn't the kind of thing that you would have to remove just for

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installing a hard drive you can still install a hard drive just by using the

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sliding plastic rails and that is compatible with both 3 and 1/2 in and 2

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and 1/2 in drives but when you're building Mach your machine initially and

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you go to install a Radon 69 990 that you happen

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to have lying around and you discover that okay it fits anyway so that's

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clearly not what they were thinking here remember this is the longest graphics card in existence at this time at least

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on the consumer side of things uh so if there are longer

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graphics cards in the future you can go ahead and pull this out I mean imagine

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what a graphics card that long would would look like but I mean I'm not here

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to judge right so uh so yeah you would

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be able to remove that and I believe the other one also comes out as well just by

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undoing the screws at the back so like I said this is how you actually install a

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drive that is only if you discover during your build that you you know

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maybe you want to have less restriction on the fan that's blowing over your graphics card maybe you have a longer

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graphics card I don't know what your reasoning is I don't really care it

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doesn't matter because it's your reasoning not mine you can remove the

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cage all right let's go and look at what

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in here here's their little hard drive sort of mimicker cardboard piece

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here we have something that won't be relevant until a minute from now when I

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explain why it's here so here's power for the fan controller and whatnot

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here's another uh oh another header for the fan controller so you can plug in

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the side panel fan all right the back fan doesn't run off that and I will tell

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you why it's because the expectation from Corsair is that if you're building

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an Ultimate machine and you know who Corsair is and you bought this case

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you're probably going to go with an h80 or an h100 to cool your CPU so if that's

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the case that's going to go ahead and take care of the control of that back

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fan for you you don't need your case to do it so there you go all right we've

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got our front USB 3 and we also have included an adapter which we can put on

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like this if you want to use front USB 2

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instead of front USB 3 because your case doesn't support front USB 3 or your

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motherboard doesn't support it your case does you have front 1394 fire wire front

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HD a and front switches and LEDs and whatnot

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all kinds of good stuff uh you've got lots of grommets so these are two

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filtered either 12140 mm fan mounts or

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uh power supply rubber grommets to supported and then ventilation holes to

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make sure that your 120 mil fan on your power supply is getting lots of air

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because there are rubber feet on the bottom of the case which is going to keep it raised off the table or carpet

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or wherever you happen to put it and make sure your power supply doesn't starve all right I already mentioned the

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rubber grommets here's the CPU uh cutout as well as the motherboard back plate or

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motherboard trade being very reinforced it does reinforce it to put these

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patterns in it so it's a very rigid motherboard back plate that's good

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especially if you are shipping the system I haven't forgotten the

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accessories but I am getting a prompt about I think that's it so uh 1 2 3 4 5

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6 78 PCI slot which is great because if

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you have a bottom PCI Express slot at the very bottom of your board you can

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still install a dual slot graphics card should you desire to do so last but not

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least the rest of the accessories uh which includes some zip ties some

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plastic clips for mounting cables or for routing cables we got some fan yeah some

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screws some more different screws some motherboard standoffs some other more

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different screws and finally the more different screws that we have seen yet

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so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Corsair

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