Hotspot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer more secure and
fully private click now to learn more at CES this year Corsair expected the 250d
to be the star of the show but like many other members of the press when I walked
into the room my eyes went straight to the graphite 76t a stunning case that
fuses smart design with a big departure
from traditional aesthetic the box that comes in is huge which wouldn't have
been a problem for me if Corsair hadn't sent me two of them so now I have like a
pile of 760 t's for some reason um and
the box contains excellent soft foam packing material to keep your case safe
all the way to your door now normal people once they get it out might look
at their brand new case and think wow that looks really sexy uh but my first
thought was actually wow structural Integrity must have been a real
challenge here normally the K the screw SC and tightness of the fit of the metal
side panels will add some extra strength and rigidity to the case but by its
nature a huge piece of Plexi like this
is going to have some serious Flex to it even with the engineering that obviously
went into building each side panel couple that with the chassis itself
having less metal to accommodate that large window and by extension more Flex
than normal and it's a recipe for disaster right wrong
given that they're only attached with little hinges at the back and magnets at
the front the panels do more than I would have thought possible for the
strength and rigidity of the chassis and with them in place it well you got to
close it I guess with them in place it actually feels very solid all right so
the next natural step on our tour of the outside is the side panels both panels
on the 760t have acrylic window panels on them even though the right side is
opaque so you don't actually see The Rat's Nest of cables most system
Builders leave back there they snap into place with magnets and a latch and
they're opened with a comfortable solid feeling handle they swing all the way
open to be out of your way if you need to get into the system and if you need
to do some serious maintenance on the system you can just pop them off their
posts and remove them completely I love the design here functional and beautiful
top marks Corsair front IO is nothing groundbreaking power reset uh Power and
drive indicator LEDs are all accompanied by two USB two ports ports and two USB 3
ports and then there's a fan controller toggle that leads to four internal three
pin fan headers I'm not really that fond of toggle switches since it's hard to
tell at a glance what setting it's on and hard to adjust correctly without
looking at it compared to a more tactile switch type but I think it is a great
inclusion uh one other Improvement that Corsair could also make is to hook up
the fan leads out of the factory NZXT does this and it's a really nice touch
when your case arrives and all your fans and cooling is basically ready to rock
if you plug in one power connector so um
with all that said though I'm really glad to see it there just watch out if
you're buying the lower cost 730t it is
not included on that one a stealth Optical at the front is something that I
haven't really seen that much these days most manufacturers Just keep putting 5
and a/4 inch bays in the front of the case but acting like they don't really
expect you to use them good encour there for making the front of my case look
good with or without an optical drive if we could see the envelope pushed even
further so that that 5 and a/4 inch Bay cover is completely stealth and maybe
there's just like a pressure sensitive bottom corner you press on or something
and it flips down that would be fantastic but either way I'm I'm still
glad to see that because some people do still use Optical drives the front fan
filter feels solid and is easy to remove
um unfortunately one of the clips did break on mine but I would chalk this up
to bad luck and it's an easy fix if it happens to you just contact customer
service and they'll ship you a new front piece every time I've dealt with Corsair's RMA Department experience has
been really solid the bottom fan filter for the power supply is functional see
slides out of the back but much less impressive to me now that I've seen the
magnetic filter implementation on the 450d way to make your own product look
bad Corsair cuz that one is awesome
basically magic and speaking of magic or
magnets uh the magnetic plastic cover on the top is very Tastefully done the
angled shape at the front makes it look more like a futuristic design Choice
rather than just a you know practical
way of choosing between a a cleaner plane top versus a more cooling friendly
ventilated top also of note is that the
color matches really really well and
knowing Corsair this is not an accident they spend a lot of time on color
matching behind the scenes so they should continue to match not only out of
the box but for years to come owners of early NZXT Phantoms will know what a
problem plastic fading out faster than the paint on metal can be at the back we
find nine PCI slots which seemed like an odd choice at first but George came to
the rescue and explained it allows three-way SLI with triple slot cards and
I was like okay and also said maybe
we'll see some more XL ATX motherboard designs in the next generation of
products so uh got you George the 140mm fan and ample Cable
Management room at the back means that the chassis is quite wide but I see why
they had to put so much Cable Management room into it normally with a metal side
panel that really locks into place and you can kind of like pile up the cables
behind it and then just like force it down um that'll work but with this one
that panel would bow like crazy if you tried to put too many wires piled up
behind it so they just had to give you a lot of room to make sure that you didn't
end up stuck trying to do that inside we
see that in addition to the XL ATX compatibility the case will work with
eatx boards but fullwidth Enthusiast
eatx boards basically don't exist anymore so I can see why they didn't
bother to do two full sets of cable management grommets like on the 800d
even though it is compatible since I'm talking about these things um grommets
here uh they are well positioned and use a high quality material but given that
Corsair popularized which is now basically the industry standard in cable
routing holes we haven't seen much further Innovation since the 800d I mean
what about making things even cleaner with like um like angle shaped ones that
fit into these little spaces along the top or something like that do it Corsair
that would be absolutely awesome and I mentioned this before but there is tons
of cable management room in the back and a metric butt ton of wire loops on the
back this is really important because it helps you keep things nice and tidy back
there I would say the only place where Cable Management really needs a bit of
improvement is around the 2 and 1/2 in drive base these mounts back here are
spring-loaded and super handy but even though the SATA power implementation on
this power supply is fairly standard it was hard to Route the power connectors
from one cage to another and also while
I appreciate that Corsair wanted to leave the area pretty open so I could
show off my sexy Neutron GTX ssds they
didn't give me a good way to hide the cables that are going into the ssds OR
for the front fans although those ones are quite small um it's a just a bit of
an oversight on a chassis with an enormous window for a side panel um but
again it's a very very minor complaint uh another thing that I will leave up to
you guys whether I'm being Dev vitastic or not is the front panel connectors
internally are covered with a nice heavy black sleeving but the wires inside are
not black and that's visible when you plug it into the board usually Corsair's
attention to detail is what sets them so far apart from the others but this is
something that they've done in the past that is missing here black wires all
right moving on to the rest of the drive cages I'm not a huge fan of Corsair's 3
and 1/2 in Drive cages they're toolless and easy to use but I wish they were a
little bit more robust on top of being modular the 760t includes two of them
that you can put side by side in the bottom you can hang from the 5 and A4
inch Baye or you can stack up from the front and you can add another two for a
total of 12 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in
drives to go in there along with the spring-loaded ones the 760t is super
roomy inside and water cooling support is a very strong point I would be
surprised if it takes longer than a few weeks for an end user to cut up the 5
and a/4 inch Baye to allow a triple 140
mm Radiator in the top cuz the mounting holes are there but on paper it supports
a 360 or 280 in the top a 240 or 280 in
the front a 120 or 140 in the back ow
and a 120 in the bottom nice it makes me
sad though that the top f/ radiator mounts don't get any air flow with this
top magnetic piece in in place a small Gap around the outside edges would allow
at least some air through but I guess it
would also ruin the extremely clean look
of the chassis when it's covered so I don't know what the right solution is
here guys let me know in the comments if you'd prefer a gap when it's closed so
those fans can breathe a little bit or if you'd prefer to just have the choice
okay I want completely clean or completely open and I'm okay with that
one thing last thing I noticed that pretty much sums up my feelings on the
700t is this corner brace right here it
represents the compromises that were made from a rigidity perspective to
deliver an aggressive and yet not overthe toop and like you
know ricey looking aesthetic it's part
of the reinforcement solution that they needed to make this case work at all
with the panels off there's still too much Flex in this case for me to be okay
with cors are calling it uh an obsidian class product but I'm totally okay with
it as a graphite product and overall the
quality foam packing and the wonderful aesthetic that couldn't be achieved
without compromising on its ability to be used as a chair for a hippo is a
trade-off that I'm willing to make I should mention that the 730t is also
available but in my opinion it's worth the extra for the 760t you get the fan
controller you get the windowed side panels which to me are what really make
this case work and uh I think that's pretty much it
guys thank you for watching my video review of the Corsair 760t don't forget
to like this video and share it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it
leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on the aesthetic of this case I
hope we have some really good footage in here so you guys can get a really great
idea of what it looks like in person I mean sometimes that's the challenge is
things don't look as good NVIDIA as they do in person and this one really
does look fantastic in person um also
we've got a support Link in the video description so you can use that to you
know buy a t-shirt for example give us a kickback when you buy stuff on Amazon by
changing your bookmark or even give us a monthly contribution to help us keep
making these videos for you and I think that pretty much wraps it up guys thank
you for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe