the Corsair carbide air 240 is essentially a mini version of the
carbide air 540 the air 240 is about 40%
smaller than its bigger brother and designed for matx and mitx motherboards
while maintaining the dual chamber
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system click now to learn more once you get out of the box you'll notice the
pack material which is well hard foam
and bad in terms of the actual case we'll start from the front of the aggressively stylized housing or you'll
be greeted by a pair of power and reset buttons that feel fantastic and have
great Audible and tactile feedback along with these two buttons you'll find a
storage usage LED audio jacks and dual USB 3.0 ports once we come around to the
back of the unit we see a glorious amount of thumb screws which is the
result of the removability of the top bottom and both side panels the left
side panel has a very large polycarbonate window which will allow you to show off all of your main
components I'm very happy they went with a large window here as with even very
minimal Cable Management it is quite easy to make your rig look pretty
amazing due to the decluttered dual chamber design next up is the right side
panel where an externally mounted fan filter is found which is actually quite
well secured by its magnets and even shaking the case like a crazy man didn't
dislodge it which is nice to see as I was worried about it falling off the
second I laid eyes on it both the left and right side panels featur these nice
thumb screws that stayed attached to the side panels when you removed them but
Corsair didn't bother to include this feature on the bottom and top panels
which is quite unfortunate as you will be needing to remove them from time to
time first we have the bottom panel which will need to be removed in order
to access the filter which is built into the bottom panel that filter will be
filtering the three potential fans which can be mounted in the bottom of the case
and your lowest mounted graphics card unit the bottom panel also doesn't come
with any feet installed but in the accessories bag you'll find four 3M
rubber feet which you can install yourself a fairly odd Choice from
Corsair not to just pre-install them but I guess it would be really nice if you
wanted to have the case in a different orientation secondly we have the top panel which will also need to be removed
due to its built-in fan filter which will filter your top three potential
fans other than that the top panel is also used to house the SSD cage ssds are
quite easy to install in this cage due to its bendable Trace system but I would
have really liked to see a hot swab plate on the other side due to the
drives being installed somewhat externally it would have made the installation of them much more elegant
before we head on inside we have to check out the hard drive cage which is
accessed from the back of the unit just above the power supply I was happy to
see that the thumb screw of this little door stayed attached to the door once
you removed it although I do think it would be kind of cool if the door was on
a hinge instead of needing to be completely removed whenever you want to
open it the hard drives are installed in the same style as the ssds with the
bendable Trace solution and just like the ssds I would have liked to see a hot
swap plate on the other side and yet again it would have made a much more
elegant process inside the back of the case we get to see the internal views of
those storage Bays the installed ssds aren't the easiest things to plug cables
into needing to come up from the bottom doesn't really make it that much better
but it's generally okay the hard drive cage is easy enough to use for hard
drives but also stands directly in the way of your CPU power cable and your CPU
cutout on the back of your motherboard Corsair's solution for this is a thumb
screw which is included with the hard drive K making it removable and this
makes the CPU cutout very easy to access but doesn't solve the problem for the
CPU power run issue I was able to run the CPU power cable from my Corsair
rm850 behind the cage and mashed the cage back into its Spot while pinning it
down with one hand and installing the thumb screw which ultimately held it in
place with the other this worked but only because the cable was flat and I
would never actually recommend you do this what I would have liked to see
Corsair do was cut a hole in the hard drive cage that lines up with the CPU
power cut out this would allow you to opt out of installing a third hard drive
in exchange for a clean and easy CPU power cable run instead of the current
Solutions which are messy power cable run and a hard drive bay or clean power
cable run and no hard drive bay neither of those Solutions sound like a very fun
compromise to me there are plenty of cable management loops on the back but I
didn't bother use them I'm not super worried about having a cable Nest back
there as it isn't exactly blocking any crucial airflow and you won't really
have to look at it due to the awesome dual chamber design then we finally come
to the inside of the main chamber where again due to the dual chamber design we
see a very clean and greatl looking aesthetic especially when viewed through
the side panel window it would be hard to make this build not look fantastic
due to how naturally clean the case appears if you opt to go with an AO
liquid cooling unit you will be likely installing it in the front due to
restricted space above the motherboard limiting you to just fans without a
radiator or just a radiator without fans that being said the front of the case is
close enough to your CPU socket that pretty much any cooler should work and
while it's possible to install a liquid cooler with tubes on the bottom making
it work would kind of sa rifice aesthetic a lot and it wouldn't really
fit very well either this is what led me to notice something with an matx
motherboard which is what I expect a lot of people to install in this case due to
its size and an AI liquid cooler in the optimal position having the tubes at the
top you really can't access as many fan spots as I had hoped you're able to
install one fan in the top with the rest being obstructed by your AO AO liquid
coolers tubing and it's likely that none of your bottom fans can be installed to
either the radiator or the headers on the motherboard instructing those next
up we have the two 80 mm fans in the back which I don't expect many people to
be rushing to fill 80mm fans are notorious for being audibly annoying of
course there are exceptions to that but because of this I very rarely see them
being implemented that leaves us with the 120 mm case fan in the back of the
unit which is going to essentially mostly cool your cables so effectively
with a dual rad AIO liquid cooler and an matx board you will likely have your
radiator fans and one fan in the top of the case but this thing is called an air
240 and if you installed an air cooler you can avoid some of these issues and
be able to fill the top of the case with fans another thing that deserves its
time in the spotlight is the graphics card Installation System which is very
easy to use due to its hinge mechanism and the fact that it doesn't require any
screws at all due to the ability to install an matx motherboard and the fact
that the case is quite long you'll be able to use this Installation System to
plug in up to two graphics cards at a maximum length of 290 mm and last but
not least is the case blackout the HD audio does have a little bit of color on
the end but all of the other included cables are completely black and the rest
of the case is completely black as well including the soft rubber grommets this
will allow the case to suit virtually any color scheme you throw at it and
this yet again caters to the great aesthetic of the a240 speaking of great
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