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nc.com guys here we are the computex 2013 coverage just keeps coming this
time we've got the carbide series air 540 from Corsair this is as you may or
may not have figured out at this point already an air cooling optimized case
and my joke to these guys was well well then you went and put a liquid cooler in it so just because it's optimal for air
cooling doesn't mean that you can't also liquid cool the thing so check this out
the main difference between the air 540 and pretty much any other case out there
is this direct path that airflow is going to have from the front of the case
so there's like a few inches there to the graphics cards themselves there are
no hard drive cages there are no other random obstacles nothing like that so
you can put up to four graphics cards in this case because it does have eight PCI
expansion slots so that's a standard ATX chassis also they include pretty darn
good fans so you've seen their airflow series fans they include an oem version
of the air flow series fans much like what we see included with the h100i
where it's sort of a no rubber grommet version so these rubber grommets here as
well as the interchangeable color rings they're missing those but other than
that they are very similar to af-1 140s so you get three of those with the case
two in the front and one in the back now hard drive cages you've only got a
couple they're down here at the bottom but it makes up for it in let's go ahead
and switch sides here here that is not awkward at all there we go but you make
up for it with SSD mounts so you can mount up to four ssds in this toolfree
cage right here above the power supply you can mount two 5 and a/4 inch Bays
over here and you see all this cable mess that's the other thing that makes
this case very unique is that almost well really nothing other than the bare
minimum Essentials that you have to run over to the other side is going to be
interfering with the air flow of the case I mean at the power supply the drives is all in a completely separate
compartment other than those hard drives which really aren't going to be a
problem because they're down way down at the bottom now you can mount two 5 and
1/4 inch devices right here so you can see how those come through at the front
you've also got super speed USB 3 as well as headphone and microphone ports
power and reset switches and I mentioned before that just because it's air
cooling optimized doesn't mean you can't liquid cool the thing so check this out
you pull off the top by the way that is a very very loose mesh optimal for as
you may or may not have guessed air flow and up here on the top you can see where
they've got an h100i mounted you could also mount an h110 so it accepts up to a
240 mm radiator but wait there's more
even with long graphics cards so there's GTX 670s in there now this front piece
can be taken off as well this is a magnetic fan filter which hopefully I
can figure out how to get off here but ah there we go okay magnetic fan filter
so you can do either the two 140 mm fans that come with the case or three 120 mm
fans and you can mount either of them at the same time in push pull meaning that
this is one liquid cooling friendly case in spite of the fact that it is air
cooling optimized now I realized I must have bumped the power cord or something
cuz the system wasn't on showing off all of its sexy Corsair Glory before so if I
can just find that power switch there we go so now you can see the illuminated
h100i the color matching uh SP series
fans as well as their uh add-on individually sleeved power Supply cables
the illuminated Dominator Platinum RAM and of course these led strips are
powered by Corsair link so remember guys Corsair components not only make your PC
perform better they make it look better too and uh Corsair did not actually pay
me to say that um dude not
now and this case might not really look familiar to you this is the carbide
series 330r but once we open it up inside it will will probably look
familiar because it's based on the same design as the 300r so let's start with
what's different from the outside it has a power switch which is a new innovation
in Corsair cases they've never done this before they always relied on the user to
actually have lightning strike their house and Power on their computer by
pure chance so this is just a a huge step forward in convenience and
Innovation I love this that's another dollar by the way guys that's $2 right
there so on the inside you can see this is a more noise dampened silent
optimized case so we've got a silent panel right here we've got the same dual
fan intakes right here but check this out this little duct Corsair actually
found by adding this little piece of plastic it helped these two front fans
fight with each other less over the air flow allowed them to draw more fresh air
from the outside and in their testing they found that it improved graphics
card temperatures by 2 to 3° so it's amazing how those little tweaks can make
all the difference in the world now up here at the top we find flexibility so
check this out you remove this noise dampened material right there but if you
do not necessarily want the utmost in noise dampening and you would instead
prefer to have a little bit more performance out of your case you can remove it and you can install two 120 mm
or two 140 mm fans including room for
radiators so it can accept an h100i or an h110 without any difficulty
whatsoever the side panel is your usual fair for silence optimized cases with
noise dampening material on the inside gives it a nice heft to it as well and
other than that the internals haven't really changed much so what's this for
it's for someone who wants the flexibility of high air flow or silence
and someone who doesn't necessarily want a pony up for the obsidian
550d and as a traditionally memory company of course cor s has a memory
product to announce this is the Vengeance Pro Series optimized for
Intel's fourth generation core i5 and core i7 processors code named Haswell
these memory modules are also optimized much like other Vengeance products to
look good so they are launching in four different colors there's gold which you
can see rotating on the little pedestal in there as well as blue red and silver
so these are going to go with your motherboard pretty much no matter which brand you go with so this gold one was
specifically developed for ASUS's new gold motherboards now Vengeance Pro is
not just for looks check this out over
here they've got the highest speed production memory kit running here right
now this is a DDR it runs at 3.2 GHz cl1
so check this out right there they've got it running right now so remember
guys dram frequency is half of the actual frequency dual oh you can't see
it oh should we try that one more time
are you going to be able to see it or should I just they should just take my word for it just take word oh okay let's
try one more time sure
really yeah that's fine
and of course there's a memory product to announce as well this
is and of course there's a memory product to announce as well this is the
Vengeance Pro Series which is actually one a couple of awards already including
the best PC memory brand silver award for Corsair from VR Zone and what
they've done here is they've updated their Vengeance line for Intel's fourth
generation core series processors code named Haswell so these are going to
offer perfect compatibility with Haswell not only in terms of actually
functioning but also in terms of looks even ASUS's new Gold Series Z87
motherboards are going to have a perfect Corsair memory module to go with them
they come in Gold blue red and silver
and they are not just about looks guys so we've got a demo system over here
that has another me another memory award
that they've won here from tweak toown and this system is running
DDR3 3.2 GHz cl11 this is running at the
stock speed of this module making it the fastest production memory kit out there
so compared to something like Dominator platinums which is traditionally the the
super high-end Corsair memory what's the point of this well it's a simpler module
optimized for overclocking you can expect when you buy something like a
Vengeance Pro memory kit you're not only getting exactly what you see on the box
but probably a little performance Headroom there as well next up we've got
the k70 so this keyboard this keyboard
and this keyboard are all the same except very different they're very
similar to the k60 except for a couple of changes so number one is you've got
these individually backlit keys that you can also set up to have whichever ones
on or off that you want much like the k95 next is these are mechanical Keys
now so on the k60 one of the complaints was that these keys were using rubber
Dome switches no longer last but not least these look a lot cooler than the
Red Rubber uh contoured keys that were on the k60 so remember guys the point of
the shaped Contour here is that it allows you to easily find your way back
to WD and easily differentiate your keys
numbers 1 to six but not only that corser has expanded the options not only
in terms of color so there's silver black and gunmetal but also they have
expanded the options in terms of color so you've got red key switches as well
as blue key switches oh yes so Corsair
still very firmly believes that the red switch is optimal for responsiveness in
gaming applications but there are people out there like me who like gaming
keyboards but also actually do a lot more typing than gaming so if you're one
of those guys a blue switch keyboard or
ah yes a brown switch keyboard my personal favorite might be a fantastic
option last but not least there's the k95 which isn't a new Announcement by
any stretch of the imagination but what we can say about it is that you should
be able to actually buy one unlike when we covered this at CES so just as a
reminder this is a fully mechanical keyboard that also has the individually
back lit feature so you can decide on whatever pattern you want for the keys
and this one is still in Cherry MX red
we're going to wrap up the Corsair Suite here with a couple of mouse products so
the M40 I'm already very familiar with this is very similar to the M65 except
for a couple of changes that I really feel like
don't make this mouse any worse than the M65 in spite of it being a lower-end
product in the product stack so number one is now that logo at the back is
illuminated okay score one for M40 number two is that it doesn't have a
sniper button I've never used a sniper button in my life then again I'm not a
sniper so if those snipers out there could tell me that I'm totally wrong
then cool that's fine too um but we still have back and forward buttons that
are perfectly positioned for people like me if you like a little bit of a claw
grip the materials are still excellent so you've got that high mass scroll
wheel as well as fully programmable buttons on the Fly DPI adjustments check
this out so they've removed the aluminum chassis that aluminum uh bottom that
makes up the mouse this um this really doesn't feel like a problem for me
because it gives you the option of an even lighter weight when you remove all
the yes they still have adjustable weights on this mouse so it's got your
large slippy pads it's got a 4,000 DPI
sensor now which is an optical sensor which a lot of gamers are finding they
prefer these days compared to laser and I actually can't find something wrong
with this such that I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend the M40 very
impressive product next up is the m30 which borrows the same chassis as the
lm3 so this was part of the Raptor gaming uh takeover now you can see the
changes that they've made here are mostly in terms of improving performance
so they've gone with from a 2400 DPI sensor to a 4,000 DPI sensor as well as
a couple of cosmetic and ergonomic I'd say say evolutionary changes nothing
revolutionary here so the shape is the same but they've changed this side grip
from a ribbed texture to something that's more of a uh I don't know what
octagon texture hexagon texture sure whatever you want to call that so one
way or another it's functional for picking up the mouse they've also changed the finish of it I personally
find glossy mice drive me crazy maybe it's just me who doesn't wash his hands
but you get grease all over your mouse and then other people use it and then
they get sick because you have all kinds of diseases it's a real problem so
they've upgraded that to a soft touched finish they've also added an illuminated
Corsair logo which looks way better than I mean come on is that a logo Raptor
gaming.com it's a good thing Corsair's taking care of this now uh still got the
illuminated scroll wheel as well as a nice accented little red finish piece
here so guys don't miss any of our computex 2013 coverage I hope you've
enjoyed our tour of the Corsair Suite remember our trip to the show is powered
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