We're at the brand new Micro Center in Indianapolis. Micro Center sponsored us to come all the way down here
to check out the new Corsair 2000D. But if we're going to look at a case,
we need computer parts. I wonder where we'll get them.
This looks promising. Let's go this way.
The Corsair 2000D is Corsair's first mini-ITX case in a long time.
And a lot of people were really excited when they heard that Corsair was releasing a new enclosure.
I'm thankful that they went for the vertical style enclosure. I really like that.
You have a limited amount of space on your desk. So having this kind of vertical thing instead
of doing something horizontal saves you a ton of room.
But the mini-ITX market is getting more and more competitive. So the question is, will this be able to keep up
with the competition? Only one way to find out. Let's build in it.
Before we take a look at the case, let's take a look at what was in the box.
Just this. We've got some zip ties, some fan screws,
and motherboard mount. That's it. Pretty bare bones. Taking a look around the case.
The bottom of the case, we've got some rubberized feet. Down here, we have a bottom access.
It's going to let us access our GPU, all of our ports, basically.
So you're going to be running your cables down the bottom of the case, going around the side.
This is a cable run. For I'm going to assume a power supply extension,
we'll find out in a bit. And on the front, we have our front I.O. Nice big power button with the yellow Corsair accents.
For front I.O., we have two USB-A ports and a USB-C that runs at 10 gigabit per second, as well.
As a combo headphone microphone jack. Looking at the design of the case,
I do like the triangle pattern that they have continued.
This is more of the mesh format, as opposed to like a larger triangle metal grid.
I will say, it feels like a lot of plastic.
That's very lightweight. Also weird that it's a mesh fan filter that leads to nowhere.
But hey, better to have and not need than to need and not have.
But yeah, every side panel is this perforated mesh.
It is very dense, which makes me wonder a little bit
about air flow. They have this triangle pattern,
as well as further mesh on the inside, all over the case.
But they do this annoying thing, where these aren't easily removable mesh filters,
they're not magnetic. You can see that they're bent into the case.
So if you want to take these out to really give them a good, thorough cleaning, you have to like, bend the metal out.
It's really an elegant. And then also, this mesh doesn't have an easy way
to come out. Maybe if I take the screws off and do that, it's a whole lot of work.
One thing I do love is that we have captive thumb screws, which is always nice to have.
I just realized on the back, we do have a magnetic filter.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. That's so much easier to clean.
I'm not sure the front panel comes off. Oh, it looks like it's just detents.
I just wasn't giving her, so. We can see our three included slim 120 millimeter fans.
Oh, and that's actually really nice. This is something that not enough case manufacturers do.
They have included cable guards, which is really nice so your wires don't accidentally hit the back of your fans and make a bunch of noise.
That's a really, really great detail. There's a lot going on inside, so we're gonna have to take this thing apart
a little bit further to talk about it. Luckily, I have all of my tools in my tech sack
from LTTstore.com. You know, Corsair, I'm gonna call you out.
I would have liked thumb screws for this. We have room for three 120 millimeter fans
or for two 148 millimeter fans, as well as we have options to mount some fans
at the back here. So airflow and radiator supports, actually gonna be really good
because you could put a 320 here, a 320 here, or a 280,
or you could even put one at the front. And depending on the GPU you have,
you can fit up to a 240 millimeter radiator in the back.
Being a larger ITX case, we have a little bit more room for compatibility. For example, the case supports triple slot GPUs
at 365 millimeters in length, up to a 90 millimeter CPU cooler height,
not super tall, but this is an AIO focused case,
as well as SFX and SFX L power supplies. No ATX, sadly.
Now that we can actually see inside the case, there's a lot of bundled cables.
We have a ton of cables just for the RGB. You know, Corsair and their RGB,
they're all about it. As well as long IO cables. Honestly, confusingly long,
since they only need to get to like here-ish. That's a lot of slack.
And here's the extension cable for your power supply. So it'll plug in up here.
You'll run it all the way down the back. Couldn't run it inside the case, Corsair.
Who knows, it's hiding in the back of the case. Maybe it won't be as ugly as I'm imagining.
There's a power supply bracket that comes out to make your power supply installation that much easier.
Apparently this can support up to three, two and a half inch drives.
You can do two with drive caddies, but we only got one.
Not sure if that's a mistake or not. And you can also mount one to the top right here.
There's also no removable motherboard tray, which is okay.
But it is going to be a little cramped building around this side. There's only one way to figure out
if this is going to be fun to build in. But to do that, we'll need some hardware.
Excuse me, do you know what power supply I should get? What would you recommend?
Corsair's good. Corsair's good? Hey, that's perfect. Cause I'm building in a Corsair case.
SFX-L 1000 Watts. Would you guys help us by choosing a AIO cooler?
So you want the Gala hat? Okay. We're going with the Leon Lee Gala hat.
What's the next thing? The video cards. Do you have a recommendation? 7900 XTX.
700 XTX. We're going AMD today. Okay, which one though? I'd go with this ASUS one.
Excuse me. You look like somebody who knows a thing or two about computers. I can tell by the way you're dressed.
I need a CPU for a computer, but I'm not sure which one. Could you recommend one for me?
Yeah, so I was thinking to go in 7800 X3D. Oh, okay, sweet.
That's a banger of a CPU. Let's get that one. I need a motherboard for AMD,
and I need it to be mini ITX. What about that ROG Strix X670?
Oh, you chose the big money one. It's got the alarm on it. What SSD should I get?
The Evo's a good choice. Okay. That would probably be my choice actually.
The Evo? And what about one of these gumsticks? Probably the P5.
The P5? Yeah. Okay, sweet. Thank you very much.
I need RAM for my system. I need it. It's DDR5.
DDR5? Can you recommend me a kit? 64 GB.
Okay, sweet. The Dominator? Cool, awesome.
Thank you so much. All right, we got all our stuff, and now we can get to building.
We got the ROG Strix X670EI gaming Wi-Fi,
a heck of a motherboard if I do say so myself. It's got pretty much everything you could want
from a mini ITX board, including an incredibly tall daughter board
like scenario thing. This thing's really weird. You have one chipset on the motherboard
and then one chipset right here, specifically so that you can have a PCIe Gen 5 drive here.
Let's get our CPU installed. Let's start there. At 5,200 megatransfer per second,
this isn't the best selection of RAM we could have had. Ideally for Ryzen 7,
you want something that's at 6,000 megatransfer per second to line up with your Infinity fabric.
I just realized, I don't know if I wanna put this RAM in yet because it's so tall that it might make putting the cooler
in kind of a pain. So we're gonna set this aside for now and we're gonna go for our SSD.
The Crucial P5 Plus is a really just solid SSD.
It's a great selection, reliable. Crucial's awesome.
We love them. We have two terabytes on our boot drive so we'll have lots of space for games and stuff like that.
And it's crazy how cheap these drives are getting these days. A two terabyte SSD is like $100 in these days.
Like it's pretty wild. Now that we're at this point in the build,
I do kind of wish I could take one more side panel off.
One of the worst parts about building an any PC is having to like go deep into it. And when you're in an ITX PC,
you don't got much wiggle room, right? Like you take this motherboard and even then
you don't have a ton of extra space. Oh, that's interesting. Okay.
It looks like you would be able to fit full size 25 millimeter fans, but because of the IO shield,
it's going to force you to have to put in a slim fan, at least in the top portion. Up next, we're going to mount our power supply
into the bracket. And because it's of course our power supply, we really get to keep the triangle theme going.
Our power supply bracket goes in here, which gives us two options with the power supply.
We can mount it like this with the fan getting fresher from the outside.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to mount it like this and that way it's going to be taking air away
from our components and blasting them out at the top. If you want to use this as an exhaust,
you will have to route your power cable like this, which isn't exactly pretty.
I'm going to still going to do it. So now that I'm putting this power supply in,
things are looking like they're going to get a little crowded.
We chose an SFXL power supply. So it's a bit longer than your typical SFX power supply,
which means you could probably make do with the world's shortest 24 pin cable. It's just going to go from here to here.
You could hardline cable it. I am curious if this GPU is actually going to fit.
So we're going to check right now because we might have to resort to getting the new one.
Why is it so big? Is this a four slot card?
This legit might not fit.
We got to get a new GPU. So we need any GPU. The only thing, the only requirement
is that it has to be smaller than this. How about just like a 4070?
Okay, a 4070, which one should we choose? There's a Spider-Man one.
I'm not, no influence. Don't listen to me. No, it looks good.
I think it's Spider-Man one. I think you should go with that one. That's the Spider-Man 4070?
Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you very much. Absolutely.
We've swapped from team red to team green and we're now using the GeForce RTX 4070.
Hopefully it's a little bit smaller. Fits in the case a little bit nicer. So, oh, look at that.
Spider-Man stickers? A thing? Oh, it's a magnetic back plate.
It's swappable. And this is a much more logically sized card.
Thank you, Zotec, for going to the more compact route. That's going to fit in there much nicer.
So I guess I don't need to do the test fit anymore, which is why I opened the GPU in the first place.
But we should get to next, putting our AIO in and then wiring up the power supplies.
I'm going to be set to exhaust because I don't want to change out the front fans. We would have, if this was an intake,
we would have all of this air just kind of rushing in and then all trying to exhaust through our power supply,
which is not ideal. What I would do if I had more time,
and if I was Corsair, I would actually switch these front fans to an exhaust and then you can have like an actual reasonable flow path
with fresher going into your CPU. Your GPU is right up against the side,
pulling in cool air, and then you're exhausting it out the front.
I get why they didn't do that because RGB make computer look good. And if you put them as exhausts,
they have this stick in the way. If you're somebody who prefers function
a little bit more than form, then maybe you'd turn around.
We're like mostly wired up at this point. I'm going to put in my RAM finally
because I got the cooler in. And then I think it's time for the GPU.
And I think we're almost there. I will say for the amount of space it has,
it doesn't really have a good solution for cable management.
You're really kind of on your own here. You're going to be wanting to zip tie
a lot of things, bundling them together because there's not much by the way of mounting points.
This is like the shortest cable in the case. And they know I need to plug it in over here.
I have not tested any of this yet. We also have to get this guy in there
and all of these cables out of the way. This is a nightmare.
What a mess we've made for ourselves. GPU goes in.
This back plate's making things harder to put in because it's like slides around a little.
I really do think this build would have been a little bit easier if I could have had access
from one more side panel. Taking the front out would have made my life a lot easier.
There's a light, so it's getting power. But the power button isn't causing it to turn on,
which means that it probably just isn't plugged in
on the I-O board, on the front panel I-O. I did plug it in, but did I plug it in wrong?
We've had a big struggle trying to figure out why this thing wouldn't turn on. We're seeing lights on the motherboard,
but there's not any sort of life when we press the power button.
But we just realized that by trying to move all these cables around and manage stuff,
we accidentally unplugged the 24 pin from the power supply.
So, if I plug this in,
we should, this is hard. Okay, okay.
Oh, we had it. Let's go, we're on. We're good, okay, I'm good.
This honestly, I'm not gonna say that this was the best building experience I've had
in a small form factor case, but it is far from the worst experience I've had
building in a form factor case. The extra space, a lot of it for part compatibility
does kind of help you out, but still, it just feels a little restrictive
because you can't take off a lot of the side panels. Also something that's gonna be a little bit inconvenient
is that your motherboard iOS all at the bottom. So, if you have like a USB key
or something that you need to plug in, that can be a little bit hectic and problematic,
especially with a longer device. You'd probably wanna consider getting like a USB hub
if you were gonna use this kind of case. Hey, there we go, we posted everybody.
We did it, we did it. We did it, we did it.
That was a close one. This case comes in at $200 US,
but it's entering into a pretty competitive market where there are great alternatives.
It's a good looking case, even if it's missing a few of the creature comforts that have been found in other cases,
but I'm just glad to see Corsair embracing the ITX community again,
and I really hope to see what they do next in the space. Thanks so much to Micro Center for sponsoring this video.
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at their knowledge bar. Now check it out in the link below. So we have to go back to Canada,
so I guess we don't wanna take this.
Should we give it away? I think we should. Thankfully we've had so many wonderful people
join us for this build that we've been doing live in the Indianapolis store,
but I think I know who I'm gonna give this to. We're gonna give it to the guy
who's wearing ShortCircuit merch right now.
So here you go, sir. This entire computer is yours.
Congratulations. I hope you enjoy your new computer, and yeah, have fun.
Do you wanna shake? Do you wanna shake me like?