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welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair carbide series 400r case here you can

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see a kind of blown up view of the case and while I could show you all of the

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features on here I am not really going to do that because we're going to open

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up the case anyway and I would rather show you on the actual chassis itself

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right now I'm just showing you the box because this is an unboxing although I

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don't like to think of them as just unboxings because unboxings are usually

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pretty dry to be honest so right now I'm

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making an incision on this side and now I'm making incision on the other side

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now I'm really excited about what's inside this box and I think that uh you

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guys will be excited too because uh yeah

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this is pretty this is pretty cool look at this oh wow unbox um so you know what

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I'm not going to make you guys sit through that give me two seconds I'm going to get the case extracted from the

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padding I just want to show you guys the styrofoam packaging so they've gone

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with sort of thin here but up to about an inch plus thick on the sides and then

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on the top we're looking at about the same thickness wow look at that uh about

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an inch or even more depending on which part of the case is being supported by

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the foam inserts they are using a stiff foam this is a value case so Corsair has

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gone with saving a little bit of money on the packaging compared to their more

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expensive cases like the 650d or the 800d

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so the first thing I noticed about this case was that it has a pretty robust

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carrying handle on the top of it we'll go ahead and put that down there so you

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can kind of see nice and deep so even if you have long fingers you're going to be

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able to get a good grip on that on the top we find dual 120 mm fans or dual 140

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mm fans and what's cool is the way Corsair has spaced this out it's so that

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you can actually put the fans right next to each other for a clean aesthetic

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whether they're 120 or whether they're 140 because they have expanded the 140

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compatibility out the other side rather than spacing the sorry about that guys

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we ran out of space and all the footage on there was important so I don't really

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remember where I left off yesterday but here we are so it has the carrying

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handle we talked about that it has the fan spacing which is pretty ideal I

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believe we talked about that briefly let's do a bit of an overview of the

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outside of the case as a whole so in addition to those dual 120s or dual 140s

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on the top we've also got dual 120s or dual 140s here on the side so this is

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going to give you a ton a buttload so to

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speak of air flow over your CPU area as well as your video card area and then on

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the back for other cooling options we've

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also got a 120 or 140 mm fan Mount

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whichever you choose to go with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 look at that this is one of the

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least expensive cases I've yet seen that

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has eight expansion slots so that's will allow you even even with a standard ATX

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board you can sometimes use a expansion slots because if you have a PCIe slot

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right at the bottom you can then install a dual slot a dual width graphics card

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in that very bottom slot without any difficulty so that's that's pretty cool

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okay on the other side we see that the overall design of the case uh favors a

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narrow narrower footprint to the case and then a widening of the side panels

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for better cable routing better Cable Management that's one of the things

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Corsair is good about they have good aesthetic to their cases but they also

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really do take functionality into consideration when they are designing

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these things so on the front we've got our power button our hard drive LED two

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USB 3.0 ports a microphone Port headphone Port firewire port now that's

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an odd one um but hey I guess some people still use it that looks like some

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kind of an LED button H okay and then

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finally we have a reset button four 5

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and 1/4 in Bays which is a good number and then in the front we've got another

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two 120 mm fans which we can see through

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that uh that mesh on the front so this is definitely a Cooler's dream because

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one two three four surface four of the

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six surfaces of this case actually have room to mount cooling fans and by four

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what I meant was five because you can

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clearly see on the bottom here there is room to mount yet another single 120 mm

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or single 140 mm fan and I forgot to

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turn on my light so there that's on now should be a little bit better for you

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guys all right what else do we find

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inside this is interesting the motherboard

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tray is actually

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recessed so what they've done here is

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they've taken what is normally a flat

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back plane on a case like this and here

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I'm going to hold up the side panel just so that I can show you guys um so you

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can kind of relate this to the side panel on the other side so where the

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side panel doesn't uh jut out as much

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they've gone with a flat like uh like a

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they've gone with something that's even with the overall profile of the case and

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then where the side panel bulges out so where it bulges out like this they've

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recessed the motherboard tray so throughout the entire back of the

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motherboard tray and then back behind

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here behind the rubber grommets you should have consistent space for

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managing cables very very interesting something I haven't seen before standard

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ATX only so you're not going to be able to fit any wider motherboards or longer

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motherboards due to that design decision but I mean 99% of Boards out there are

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going to fit just fine anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it we've

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also got on the inside okay so we pointed out the 120 mil fan already

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these are going to be useful for you so you're going to go ahead and mount your

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uh bottom mounted power supply here we've got a removable filter that acts

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as both a filter for this fan intake as well as the power supply bottom 120 mm

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intake rubber grommets here keep the power supply from being damaged or

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scratched or moving around all right so you're going to be able to Route all

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your cables up through here and then coming out wherever they are needed

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speaking of cables coming out where they're needed these are your front

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panel connectors so I'm go ahead and see if I can remove the cover on

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here and I'm not having a whole lot of

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success just just now but I think I've

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made progress yes I have there we

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are all right so we find USB

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3 HD audio front panel so there's all

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your switches and LEDs and finally your front fire wire or 1394 as PC guys are

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supposed to call it last but but not least we've got a power connector so I'm

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guessing that's something to do with that light button there all right in

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terms of mounting we've got 5 and 1/4 in toolless mounts here you also have the

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option of screwing them in both at the front and the back if you are shipping

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the system or whatever else you want it to be more secure you're going to go ahead and do that uh we've got here six

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mounts for both 3 and 1/2 in using tooless uh grommy things here as well as

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2 and 1/2 in using screws hard drive sleds in terms of accessor series I'm

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going to go ahead and have a look at what's included here in this box oh

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that's so funny look at this it's the size and shape of it's like a hard drive

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uh placeholder kind of thing it's got holes in the side for hard drive may put

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it in there brilliant I guess all right oh oh

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this is a great inclusion USB 3 to USB 2 adapter so if you don't have USB 3 on

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your motherboard natively you go ahead you throw that on there you plug this

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into your USB 2 header you got USB 2 on the front handy all right we got some uh

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screws fan screws how many have they

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included 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 so enough to mount three fans so I wonder what I

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wonder which particular mounts those are

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for cuz usually these are used for mounting fans to radiators they're the

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ones with the long bolts and then the screws in the front if you guys have any

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insight as to why they've included this particular type of uh fan screw I would

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love to hear about it so there you go

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all right next we've got some hard drive screws we've got some optical drive

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screws we've got some power supply screws some cable management zip ties

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and little plastic clips and finally a few motherboard standoffs cuz most of

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the motherboard standoffs are already built into the case now I've talked a

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lot about the cable management of this case but this is all based on sort of my

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impressions of what it might be like because I haven't opened up the other

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side panel yet so I'm going to go ahead and do that now and we're going to find

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out if I was right so I'm going to lay that down like that so you can kind of

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see uh if I was on the right track here so yes so there's more room here due to

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this uh like indentation of the back of the tray and then there's less room sort

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of here so it's works up probably about the same as here where there's the Bulge

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and here where the motherboard sits a little bit further back so I'm guessing

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what Corsair's done here is two things they've given you room to manage CA at

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the back and they've done a nice thin case that also has room for tall CPU

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heat sinks they've also given you a very large hole at the back of the

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motherboard tray in order to install any back plate requiring CPU heat sinks or

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water cooling units without removing your motherboard uh they've shown you

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how to use the cable management here lots of little Loops here for uh

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securing zip ties here here uh okay

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that's pretty much it not much here but then the only thing you're going to run up here is your 8 Pin EPS which they've

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left space for and I think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking

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