welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair carbide series 400r case here you can
see a kind of blown up view of the case and while I could show you all of the
features on here I am not really going to do that because we're going to open
up the case anyway and I would rather show you on the actual chassis itself
right now I'm just showing you the box because this is an unboxing although I
don't like to think of them as just unboxings because unboxings are usually
pretty dry to be honest so right now I'm
making an incision on this side and now I'm making incision on the other side
now I'm really excited about what's inside this box and I think that uh you
guys will be excited too because uh yeah
this is pretty this is pretty cool look at this oh wow unbox um so you know what
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
padding I just want to show you guys the styrofoam packaging so they've gone
with sort of thin here but up to about an inch plus thick on the sides and then
on the top we're looking at about the same thickness wow look at that uh about
an inch or even more depending on which part of the case is being supported by
the foam inserts they are using a stiff foam this is a value case so Corsair has
gone with saving a little bit of money on the packaging compared to their more
expensive cases like the 650d or the 800d
so the first thing I noticed about this case was that it has a pretty robust
carrying handle on the top of it we'll go ahead and put that down there so you
can kind of see nice and deep so even if you have long fingers you're going to be
able to get a good grip on that on the top we find dual 120 mm fans or dual 140
mm fans and what's cool is the way Corsair has spaced this out it's so that
you can actually put the fans right next to each other for a clean aesthetic
whether they're 120 or whether they're 140 because they have expanded the 140
compatibility out the other side rather than spacing the sorry about that guys
we ran out of space and all the footage on there was important so I don't really
remember where I left off yesterday but here we are so it has the carrying
handle we talked about that it has the fan spacing which is pretty ideal I
believe we talked about that briefly let's do a bit of an overview of the
outside of the case as a whole so in addition to those dual 120s or dual 140s
on the top we've also got dual 120s or dual 140s here on the side so this is
going to give you a ton a buttload so to
speak of air flow over your CPU area as well as your video card area and then on
the back for other cooling options we've
also got a 120 or 140 mm fan Mount
whichever you choose to go with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 look at that this is one of the
least expensive cases I've yet seen that
has eight expansion slots so that's will allow you even even with a standard ATX
board you can sometimes use a expansion slots because if you have a PCIe slot
right at the bottom you can then install a dual slot a dual width graphics card
in that very bottom slot without any difficulty so that's that's pretty cool
okay on the other side we see that the overall design of the case uh favors a
narrow narrower footprint to the case and then a widening of the side panels
for better cable routing better Cable Management that's one of the things
Corsair is good about they have good aesthetic to their cases but they also
really do take functionality into consideration when they are designing
these things so on the front we've got our power button our hard drive LED two
USB 3.0 ports a microphone Port headphone Port firewire port now that's
an odd one um but hey I guess some people still use it that looks like some
kind of an LED button H okay and then
finally we have a reset button four 5
and 1/4 in Bays which is a good number and then in the front we've got another
two 120 mm fans which we can see through
that uh that mesh on the front so this is definitely a Cooler's dream because
one two three four surface four of the
six surfaces of this case actually have room to mount cooling fans and by four
what I meant was five because you can
clearly see on the bottom here there is room to mount yet another single 120 mm
or single 140 mm fan and I forgot to
turn on my light so there that's on now should be a little bit better for you
guys all right what else do we find
inside this is interesting the motherboard
tray is actually
recessed so what they've done here is
they've taken what is normally a flat
back plane on a case like this and here
I'm going to hold up the side panel just so that I can show you guys um so you
can kind of relate this to the side panel on the other side so where the
side panel doesn't uh jut out as much
they've gone with a flat like uh like a
they've gone with something that's even with the overall profile of the case and
then where the side panel bulges out so where it bulges out like this they've
recessed the motherboard tray so throughout the entire back of the
motherboard tray and then back behind
here behind the rubber grommets you should have consistent space for
managing cables very very interesting something I haven't seen before standard
ATX only so you're not going to be able to fit any wider motherboards or longer
motherboards due to that design decision but I mean 99% of Boards out there are
going to fit just fine anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it we've
also got on the inside okay so we pointed out the 120 mil fan already
these are going to be useful for you so you're going to go ahead and mount your
uh bottom mounted power supply here we've got a removable filter that acts
as both a filter for this fan intake as well as the power supply bottom 120 mm
intake rubber grommets here keep the power supply from being damaged or
scratched or moving around all right so you're going to be able to Route all
your cables up through here and then coming out wherever they are needed
speaking of cables coming out where they're needed these are your front
panel connectors so I'm go ahead and see if I can remove the cover on
here and I'm not having a whole lot of
success just just now but I think I've
made progress yes I have there we
are all right so we find USB
3 HD audio front panel so there's all
your switches and LEDs and finally your front fire wire or 1394 as PC guys are
supposed to call it last but but not least we've got a power connector so I'm
guessing that's something to do with that light button there all right in
terms of mounting we've got 5 and 1/4 in toolless mounts here you also have the
option of screwing them in both at the front and the back if you are shipping
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
mounts for both 3 and 1/2 in using tooless uh grommy things here as well as
2 and 1/2 in using screws hard drive sleds in terms of accessor series I'm
going to go ahead and have a look at what's included here in this box oh
that's so funny look at this it's the size and shape of it's like a hard drive
uh placeholder kind of thing it's got holes in the side for hard drive may put
it in there brilliant I guess all right oh oh
this is a great inclusion USB 3 to USB 2 adapter so if you don't have USB 3 on
your motherboard natively you go ahead you throw that on there you plug this
into your USB 2 header you got USB 2 on the front handy all right we got some uh
screws fan screws how many have they
included 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 so enough to mount three fans so I wonder what I
wonder which particular mounts those are
for cuz usually these are used for mounting fans to radiators they're the
ones with the long bolts and then the screws in the front if you guys have any
insight as to why they've included this particular type of uh fan screw I would
love to hear about it so there you go
all right next we've got some hard drive screws we've got some optical drive
screws we've got some power supply screws some cable management zip ties
and little plastic clips and finally a few motherboard standoffs cuz most of
the motherboard standoffs are already built into the case now I've talked a
lot about the cable management of this case but this is all based on sort of my
impressions of what it might be like because I haven't opened up the other
side panel yet so I'm going to go ahead and do that now and we're going to find
out if I was right so I'm going to lay that down like that so you can kind of
see uh if I was on the right track here so yes so there's more room here due to
this uh like indentation of the back of the tray and then there's less room sort
of here so it's works up probably about the same as here where there's the Bulge
and here where the motherboard sits a little bit further back so I'm guessing
what Corsair's done here is two things they've given you room to manage CA at
the back and they've done a nice thin case that also has room for tall CPU
heat sinks they've also given you a very large hole at the back of the
motherboard tray in order to install any back plate requiring CPU heat sinks or
water cooling units without removing your motherboard uh they've shown you
how to use the cable management here lots of little Loops here for uh
securing zip ties here here uh okay
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
left space for and I think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking
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