welcome to the Corsair showcase at CES 2013 guys I have with me today the man
you guys are a fan of this man whether you know it or not this is George Maus
from Corsair he is the the The
Mastermind behind the 800d and pretty much every case that's followed it so
he's the guy who's responsible for their cases basically just rocking the house
and this right here is the house that every other case rocked inside
tell us about the 900d super Tower pck
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linkis all right well uh when we launched 800d about 3 years ago three
and a half years ago uh we got a lot of people really interested it was our
first case and we made a lot of changes that everyone of like so like rubber grommets and cable routing stuff things
like that people really dug um but then you know if you're any kind of a a
creative person or perfectionist at all all you see on like forums is the
criticisms like the the Thousand guys who love it that's fine that's great but
the like two guys who are like oh it's you know it should have more radiator
space or or whatever so since we launched that I've been like keep
keeping a mental checklist of the things that I wanted to fix based on like
people that said online like oh it should have more radiator space or it should be a little bit bigger or
whatever and so that's what this is is basically let's it's a hey I've listened
to it I fixed it these are all the really cool things you guys wanted and
then some other stuff we thought of that maybe you didn't know you wanted um so
first off uh the first complaint a lot of people said well you know it's only
got seven or eight slots we put 10 slots here so you can put a bigger uh
motherboard in it fits hptx motherboards like the SRX or any dual processor board
uh still got the standard cable routing stuff with even more space behind it um
it's got room for a 480 or a 420 up top
and then down here if you take these cages out you can put another 480 or 420
on this side um or you can put a dual power supply in here with that power
supply installed you can actually put a 240 or 280 on that side um as well as
the 480 or 420 over here okay so hold on a minute I'm going to stop you here for
a minute because I think we need to clarify this point I can put a 480 in
the top a 240 here and a 480 here and
probably one back here yeah and on the front you can do a 240 or 360 also so
and that is that's all Native you don't have to drill any holes or anything like that so
it's all taken care of for you um it's a little bit goofy but we kind
of I don't really expect too many people to load up every spot with radiator
spacing someone will but well yeah there's going to be someone I know who did because we did it we're doing a
photo of it but there's going to be guys who wanted maybe to put a 480 but they
don't necessarily want to put it up top they want to put it on the bottom or maybe two guys want you know I want to
put 3 240s in my case but I want to choose where I put them so this gives
them that flexibility so kind of my mindset is let's give people the
flexibility to do a bunch of different different things and see how they do it
and like give them that that chance and I don't like mandating how you do stuff
so that's what this case is really designed to do well that's one of the things that made the 800d so special was
that there was one way to do it that was really really good yeah whereas what
we're doing with the 900d then is is taking it to the next level kind of so
for example we had a hot swap B on the 800d that was front accessible um a lot
of people liked that some people say they didn't care about it but a lot of
people did like the of hot swapping drives so we still have one of these
cages has hot swap connectors on the back of it so you can do three hot Swap
aays and they're really easy access so you can just pop this open pull this out
and you take your drive out and put it back in um unlike the the 800d the hot
swap Drive trays are toolfree now so you don't have to screw the drives in like
you did on the 800d so that's even better um the other side is that hot
swap is relocatable so if you don't want it down here and you want to put it up here instead you can remove it and move
it around um and the water cooling guys a love that because now they have just a
ton of options yeah exactly and then the other thing we did is on these cages uh
you have the airf flow in the front from the front 320s that are there by default
but each cage has fan mounts on the back so you can do push pull on your hard
drive cage as well so you can keep better airf flow across right there
guys so we've done that on some of our smaller cases like the C70 or the 400r
500 R but this takes it kind of let's take those features that people really
liked about those cases and put them up in our flagship so that was one of the
things that was kind of funny as you sat down and wrote a feature list out
sometimes like the 400 R 500 R had better features than like the 800d it
had eight full slots which the 800d didn't have it had seven and kind of an
eighth slot that was a dongle slot but this is designed to be kind of okay
let's take all that cool stuff and add it up to the next level and make it more ridiculous do you want to show us the
front of the case yeah let's show over here real quick so you get the nice
aluminum fascia still um this is a cast aluminum surround it's a complete piece
of cast aluminum it's done for structal rigidity and a little bit of weight
savings over steel um if we had done this out of plastic it would have been a
little bit cheaper but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as rigid and I think
if you see a lot of cases that are plastic and steel they have a lot of
flex to them because especially full Tow and bigger because you really need that
rigidity of of heavy metal at that time so on the front you have a floating
bezel that just pops right off like a speaker Grill would so you have these
four mounts here and then just like the the 600t or 650d you just have the
removable dust filter on the front so you can really easily access that so
it's a pretty easy setup um by default this case will come with 31 120s in the
front and a 140 in the back uh for cooling and it's got really good air
cooling performance as well which is the other thing people with the 800d said
you know it's great for water cooling but I want to air cool my system for a while and you know if I put two or three
gpus in there it's kind of hard to get good cooling on that this Pro this case
doesn't have that problem now those don't appear to be standard 5 and a/4
inch uh Bays up there so these are these are bigger than 5 and
a/4 inch bays and we did it because not many people are using optical drives
anymore um so we figured okay you know for the width of the case and the look
of the case we had to get something that was able to hold those dries if you
wanted them but not necessarily kind of the same thing so this pops out and you
get a bezel let's see if I can get this to work here a sec again like I said
it's a prototype so so this pops out and
it gives you we've textured this and made this look pretty nice and when you
put a drive here or a drive here or a drive here they look pretty good but
yeah you will notice it's not the same width as the rest of the case so you
know this is one of those things that I think that people immediately the
modders and stuff are going to find ways to stealth this piece so they get a
stealth optical drive or a stealth fan controller and like I said this is
toolfree but that's optional you can just put screws in it and and go to town
on it however you like this is going to be one of those things people are going to mod yeah that's uh that's actually
that's fantastic I mean to ify I don't think George believes that few people
use Optical drives but few people buying a case of this caliber need an optical
drive anymore I don't have I haven't had an optical drive in quite a while in my
case and uh to be honest I don't really miss it so everything I you know install
a game it's off steam or whatever so I haven't I haven't actually purchased
software on CD for probably two or three years so lots of front IO yeah there's
uh two USB 3 and four USB 2s on there um
we didn't want to add stuff like a lot of cases have fan controllers or like a
card read or something like that that adds cost to the case and to be honest
whatever we put in there wouldn't be the best in the world if you want if you're
going to buy a $350 case my guess is you probably also did a lot of research on
your fan controller and care very deeply about what fan controller you buy and
whatever fan controller I put in there you guys wouldn't find is good enough
and if I did put the best fan controller in the world in there it would cost me an extra $ 20 or $30 to do a really nice
DC fan control method thing and I don't know that you would want to pay 380 or
390 or 400 bucks for that cuz it has fan control over it so my guess is I'll give
you guys the freedom to put whatever card reader or fan control you guys want
and keep the cost out of it so this case is only $50 more than 800d it's 350
instead of 300 and the reason we were able to get to that so reasonably with
adding all the size and all the features is because we took out like fan control
and some of the other stuff and the hot swap a is a lot less expensive version
so the old 800d had kind of a server hot swap a we just stuck in there this is a
much more userfriendly and actually more compatible version than you guys will
see so Cable Management wise do you have just as much room behind the motherboard
tray or is it even more than the 800d it's a lot more than 800d so this is
about an inch and a quar depending on what area you're in so you actually have
room to fit more like I mean I don't have the world I don't have the world's
smallest fingers and I can get my hand back there pretty easily so okay here
let's let's get a good let's get a good shot of that there we
go very very nice so it's it's a it's a lot of space back there and we took the
if if you've ever seen the back of our C70 we have these plastic latches for
cable tie down we have three of those back here too but we made them a little
bit bigger a little bit more robust and A Little Bit Stronger for the more cables that the guys who have a case
like this would have so almost everybody who buys a $350 case would have SLI or
something like that and this we know that you're going to have more cables
and as you can see with the power spay here the cables go up underneath that motherboard tray through a a cable ring
cutout that's down there so you can just kind of stealth it and go straight up so
it's a pretty nice way to restrict that all right well I think that covers it
pretty much as well as anyone could thank you very much George guys uh don't
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