welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair carbide 200r this is now the
well you know I shouldn't say lowest end case although it is the most value
oriented in Corsair's lineup coming in at a pretty wicked price well under 200
or rather well under a 100 bucks but
trying to still continue to deliver Corsair's trademark gaming oriented
features so we're going to go ahead and spend a little bit of time on the
outside of the case by peeling away all
of the information that I am able to find about the case so easy builds uh
the only time you'll need a screwdriver is to install the motherboard something
something easy ah here yes if we remove the shipping information then we can
read it like this ha oh man this something Tower form
factor is called Compact and USB 3 and oh this is just an awful awful
experience of trying to operate the packaging so we're just going to jump
right into it and open this bad boy
up I've been asked a number of times in the past why I insist on Flipping The
Box over to extract the case from it rather than just cutting open the bottom
of the box and the reason for that is actually that I usually store the cases
in a big pile so if I can't keep track of which ones have the top cut open and
which ones have the bottom cut open at some point I will open up or I'll pick
up a box and the thing will fall out the bottom and that'll be a bad experience
for everyone now this case is a low-end case it is lighter but I'd say Corsair
probably could stand to use a little bit thicker a little bit more rugged foam on
this one I love to see soft foam but with these value oriented products I
understand why we're using a molded hard foam because it is a lot less expensive
on the packaging side now it looks like I've got the case upside down right now
which is okay because the plastic wrap it looks like it's also on upside down
so I don't know if that's uh something that happens just with the sample cases
or something that happens with all of them but there you go why don't we start at the bottom of the case since that's
what we're doing anyway we have amount for a 120 or a 140 mm fan rubber feet
keep it from slipping around and you've got a fan filter that is easily whoopsy
daisies easily removable for the bottom mounted power supply fan let's go ahead
and flip the case back around to the orientation that it's supposed to live
in and we'll go have a look at the front of the case two USB 3.0 front panel
ports headphone microphone reset switch and power switch as well as a power
indicator LED wouldn't mind seeing this reset switch a little bit further away
from the power switch but as long as you're careful you shouldn't have too
much trouble with that three 5 and 1/4 in bays and looks like not a removable
front piece here however the ventilation
is going to going to come from these holes on the side and on the side of
well the other side on the side panel
this is get it's a good thing we have video to go along with this cuz if I was a radio personality explaining this I'd
be like they you'd be like what what are there vents on the side are there fans
on the side are there like children on the side anyway so there's two 120 mm or
140 mm fan mounts above the CPU area and
the GPU area on the top of the case you find ah this is pretty much the most
practical configuration for these holes so you can do two 140s and they'll be
right up against each other and then what Corsair's done is they've moved the
220s a little bit away from the motherboard tray to give you clearance
for the vrm cooler the uh CPU block or
heat sink or whatever else is going on in order to make it so that you can
install an h100 dual Radiator in here
without interfering with any of the other components inside your system so
while it looks a little bit sort of off center because it is when you have dual
120s in there it's again very very
practical as as far as ways to approach that goes this is actually surprisingly
uh surprisingly thick side panel material for a value oriented case like
this and the entire interior of the case is uh black painted which is awesome so
I'm just going to take off both side panels here so that we can get a really good look at things they've also got
these awesome little rubber grommets these are great for noise isolation and
what those do is they easily remove and then they can be installed in the
different holes if those are the ones that you'd prefer to use so you see that
if you want to use 140 mm fans you just move all those around and you'll get
that same noise dampening uh no matter what size of fan you decide to use now
that we're inside we can see oh this is convenient look at that they've actually
they're assuming you're going to install ITX M8 TX which I believe is sort of
over to here uh or uh yes these two are
removable actually let's see are they yeah some of them are removable this is
removable this is removable and this is removable and you better remove this one
unless you're installing an matx board I wish they hadn't pre-installed that so
be really careful guys that'll short out an ATX board but uh they've
pre-installed the whole the uh the standoffs you need in order to install
your motherboard you got a nice big CPU cutout 120 mm rear fan which is as
compatible with a water cooler as these top 100 as these top 120 F mounts and
you can see the way they've oriented the top 120s actually leaves room for a
radiator here as well so you could potentially do a single 120 a dual 120
and then an additional single 120 down here if you actually wanted to you could
put a pretty Beast water cooling setup in this case in spite of its price the
Tess 5 and 1/4 in bays are handled just with simple um tension mounted uh see
there's little Clips in there that are going to clip into the side of the drive
so you just pull those out when you want to slide the drive out no problems
whatsoever the front cooling is done by a single 120 mm fan so it should get
ample air flow from these uh from these vents on either side of it you've got a
couple of SSD mounts actually Four SSD mounts oh that's outstanding four SSD
mounts here that are just kind of pressure mounted as well so they
shouldn't uh yes they clip in from the back right there so they're not going
anywhere even in shipping and then you've got four 3 and 1/2 in drives this
is actually a very smart internal layout this is completely custom chassis here
so I'm going to lay it down for a second or just a little bit and show you guys
the cable management options so cable management is going to be done here for
actually for nothing because the power supply will be there here for everything
that you're going to run up here 24 pin uh Power for your Optical drives all the
power for your hard drives and all that good stuff and then um well I think
that's pretty self-explanatory here's all your front panel connectors
including something that I am not 100%
sure ah yes okay so they've got a nice flat ribbon cable for the front USB 3
that's actually the first time I've seen that that looks really sharp and is going to be able to bend much tighter
see that than usb3 cables on other motherboards that I've seen in the past
what's cool about that is it's going to make your cable management look quite a
bit tidier again in spite of the fact that this is a very value oriented case
now let's go ahead and pop out this I'm sorry for being in my living
room here guys but I really don't have much of a choice right now I got to get
this case unbox simulated so here we go some cable ties
for cable management some uh mounting screws for fans and whatnot radiators
more likely uh mounting screws for the motherboard and all likelihood and
mounting screws for optical drives in all likelihood mounting screws for fans
oh and more rubber grommets in case you lose some I guess cool good thinking
Corsair and it looks like yeah these are clip-ins too so see there's uh there's
clip-in pieces right here the way they've done the yeah if you stand there it's not good there we go uh the way
they've done the tooless on this case is actually outstanding so this will clip
in and then if you want more security you can screw it in here without much
difficulty so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at what may
be the new sort of lightweight uh lightweight champ for for Value gaming
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