graphite it's not quite as strong as
obsidian but it's still pretty cool because you can actually put it in
pencils and write with it and apparently you can also brand a Corsair case with
graphite so this is the graphite series 600t from Corsair I've received yes I
know you know what I'm about to say but I'm going to say it anyway I have received endless requests to unbox and
do a first look video of this case I actually should have had one sooner but
it looks like it got lost in the mail or something something terrible happened
and I didn't have one until now but I finally do and we are going to run it
through the paces so I am doing the unboxing portion of the video now where
I un the box and then we will proceed in
just a moment with looking at the case
and doing the first look part of the video now I've actually seen one in
person already so I cheated a little bit so it will not quite be my first look
but it might be your first look and it will certainly be my first Hands-On so
first let's have a look at the Box itself you can see that Corsair actually
conveniently labels all of the features that they want to talk about on this
case here so you've got dual 200 mm fans provided that is one on the top and one
in the front by the look of things we've got easily accessible dust filters and
oh they make maintenance simple and Happ hassle free okay that's terrific we've
got actually here cameraman if you want to look at the picture and then I'll kind of read them out we've got quick
release side panels just like the 800 de although it looks like a different
mechanism we have an integrated fan controller that allows you to adjust for
either performance or silence four toolfree Optical bays and up to six SSD
ready hard drive trays CPU back plate cutout allows you to take out your CPU
Cooler or install a new one without actually removing the motherboard which
is brilliant as well as the brilliant cable routing system which just like the
800d is really almost the most critical part
of case Design After Aesthetics in my opinion because it's such an important
part of Aesthetics adjustable Drive cages room for long power supplies and
eight expansion slots giving you room even for those new XL ATX motherboards
from the likes of Gigabyte cameraman's giving me a hard time about how long
we've been doing an unboxing without finishing opening the box so as you can
see it comes in wow this is like 2in thick foam all around the entire case so
this thing will make it to you and it
will not be destroyed on its way I have failed that unboxing it is
upside down that's okay I can flip it over it's all
good so I'm just going to do that there we are here it is in all of
its Glory the Corsair graphite 600t so
let's do our exterior Impressions first so cameraman if you want to come in and
have a look at the front you can see the entire front of the case is a dust
filtered meshed finish so that means
that you're going to have excellent air flow coming from the front of the case
you've got your four Optical Baye here in the top and then down here you can
clearly see there's a cooling fan installed behind this mesh and we'll
have a closer look at that once we open it up on the top of the case we've got
four USB 2.0 ports as well as that fan
controller knob that they were talking about on the outside of the box
headphone Port microphone Port USB 3.0
super speed Port as well fire wire and then finally a hard drive LED there's a
power switch here a reset switch here they both have satisfying clicks to them
and then we've got yes more cooling more
mesh Corsair is serious about the cooling it's a gaming oriented company
so it makes sense that this case is going to be geared towards Gamers we'll
move around to the back of the case you can see the side panels are quite clear
this is not a windowed case although as
we're about to find out just because there's no window does does mean you can't have a nice interior we've got a
120 mm cooling fan which would be perfect for an H50 or an h70 we've got
room for our IO Shield then we have eight PCI expansion slots two little
water cooling grommets as well as room to install a standard ATX power supply
on the other side of the case we will find nothing out of the ordinary and I
guess we might as well have a quick look at the bottom you see I'm having trouble twisting it around it's because it has
these great rubber feet on the bottom that are going to keep it from sliding
off your desk or having any other kinds of difficulties with the case see
they're very good I can put all my weight on it not that I weigh a lot
although we did just have Thanksgiving up here so I had a lot of turkey side
panel you can see right here there's not a whole lot of flex to it you expect a
little bit but Corsair really doesn't skimp on the materials and you can see
the way that their latch works is quite robust a lot of the time you look at
these tool-free mechanisms and you just go yeah that's going to break uh this
does not look like that is going to be the case so we'll take off that side
panel take off the other side panel so we can get a really clear look at what
we're dealing with here and let's have a look at the inside
so we find zip tied to the inside or rather twist tied to the inside an
instruction manual as well as some accessories so cameraman can sort of
take you on a video Silent video tour of the inside of the case while I look at
the accessories and decide which ones are noteworthy enough to talk about all
right I'm done cameraman come back okay we have keys so
this is to lock the side panel of the case so that thieves cannot steal your
stuff excellent at least I think so then we
have some black zip ties for managing your cables they include probably about
enough to do a typical build then we have motherboard screws as well as other
screws that you will need fan screws and then some rubber grommets okay let's
have a look at the interior so here we go this is become sort of Corsair's
trademark thing these uh silicone uh
rubbery grommy things so you install your power supply here and then
basically these allow you to Route cables wherever you could possibly want
them to go so you take them right out here or through this cut out here you
bring out your 24 pin here you bring out your eight pin up here you bring out
your uh your optical drive connectors way up here so it means that you never
have to see cables running anywhere all you see is that the cable goes in this
and then it comes out exactly where it needs to be and they've included ample
space on the back of the motherboard tray and this one drives me nuts when
manufacturers do this when they create cable routing options and then there
isn't actually really enough space on the back to Route the cable like you
look there's quite a bit of space there so if you're running a 24 pin cable
you're actually going to be able to close your panel I've seen cases that have room to route a 24 pin cable on the
back and you can't close the panel once you've actually got it back here they've
also got a couple little uh Loops where you can install zip ties here here and
here so you can use those to make sure that the cables stay down flat when
you're running them up the back of the case here are the connectors for all of
your internal uh so all of your front panel connectors you can see they're all
sleeved in black and uh there's a lot of them I already covered what's up there
so I don't really need to tell you too much more about that the front panel fan
controller is here and we're about to find out because I have no idea to be
perfectly honest with you how many fans it can control and the answer is four so
there's two included fans here another one here and then it looks like you can
oh and another one here so by default no that's power so by default
you can control the three included fans and then one additional one with the fan
controller knob and then this looks like power for the fan controller knob itself
okay so here we have six 3 and 1/2 in hard drive installation trays I'm going
to go ahead and pull one of those out from the other side
and I think I'm actually going to turn the case around cuz we've seen everything that we need to see from that
side and by turn the case around I mean turn the cameraman around cuz that's sort of more effective now you can see
these have a bit of a flimsy look to them but I've seen these before as soon
as you install a hard drive in them they firm right up you slide them in boom
your hard drive is installed it's completely toolless and you see how they
jiggle now once a hard drive is in there they will not move they're actually a
very ingenious design and I really really like them here at the front we
have that one 200 mm fan and then up in the top we have an oh I'm sorry hold on
yeah and then we have another 200 mm fan up in the top you can see it has a good
number of blades on it and it is quite
nice looking although you do not have to use those fans it looks like we've got
mounting holes for potentially a variety of other sizes of fans for the top so
that's pretty cool too there's the 120 mm fan that I showed you from the back
and here's a little design by Corsair logo so you can actually see that is
right below the cameraman that is right below the CPU cutout so that's quite a
large CPU cutout no matter where your socket is located you will be able to
remove the back plate and remove the CPU Cooler without any hassle here is our
toolfree 5 and 1/4 in Bay device uh
installation and removal Gadget there
that's I think what they're called on the Corsair sheet although probably not
so you pull that out you pull your drive out you push that in after you put it in
and that installs your drive it's that simple and you can put in a screw from
the other side if that's not quite secure enough or if you're going to ship the system or anything like
that I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the
600t thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and don't forget
to subscribe to Linus Tech tips cameraman and I found a few more
things off camera first of all this is removable so you can reach the fan in
the front you can uh clean the dust filter which is part of this little
panel with the Corsair branding on it there's also Al a removable dust filter
in the bottom uh which I showed you before but didn't really talk about so
you can take that out just like the 800d you can remove that clean it all that
good stuff and then this whole panel is actually removable as well you just
click down on it and then you can uh use the key that I talked about but I
couldn't find a keyhole for to lock the
uh the side panel or to unlock it so
that is all I wanted to say about the 600t