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Digital we're here in the Corsair suite at CES 2014 I have the obsidian 250d
which has actually been leaked a couple times over the last little bit and
there's been some mixed reactions with some people saying they love it some people saying they hate it so we're here
to let you guys make your own call it of course has that traditional obsidian
look with the brushed aluminum finish that first started with the 800 100 D
Corsair's very first case you got front USB 3 you have a 5 and a/4 in Bay a
full-sized 5 and a/4 inch Bay not a Slimline opticle or anything like that
because the idea behind this case is that in spite of its small stature there
are no compromises it actually reminds me of myself a little bit so on the
right hand side you have support for two 120 mm fans you can and the spacing is
correct for a radiator and even with ASUS's motherboards that have those
wonky uh raised PCB things for the vrm
you can still fit a dual red it just kind of cuts off one of the fans a
little bit but it's definitely still adequate for cooling your CPU so there
you go you can put a dual Radiator in the one side you can put a 140 mil fan
or 120 mm fan in the front you can put a full-size power supply even an ax 1200i
with no difficulty and then Cable Management okay it's not quite the
Elegance of Corsair's grommet system that they introduced with the 800d but
cable management is taken care of by a smartly placed fan girl I actually
noticed when I opened this thing up for the first time I was like oh it has a
wire Fang girl on it I haven't seen one of those in a long time um because they
they're actually more expensive than doing punched fan grills but it's in there because the cable management is
all done in the front of the case and they wanted to make sure that nothing
gets caught in that fan so they include that nice little touch and then you've
also got of course support for up to a dual slot graphics card that's as long
as you could possibly want an ITX motherboard so the idea is as much
performance as you could want in an ITX form factor in fact you've even got
support for up to 4 2 and 1/2 in drives or two 2 and 1/2 in and two 3 and 1/2 in
drives and one of the things that Corsair's not talking about that much for some reason but I think it's crazy
because in my mind it's one of the smartest things about the case is the
rear loading Drive Bays so you've got all that cable management room in the
front so you can actually reach the SATA ports and then you can actually load
them in and out from the back so you don't have to dig a bunch of crap out of your case which is often the problem
with these ITX High per performance chassis so there you have it guys that's
the obsidian 250d and then we've also got behind me something that is sort of
exciting this is the 730t um unfortunately it has The Misfortune of
Being unfortunate enough to be pretty
similar to the 760t with its sexy
acrylic full acrylic side panel window thing it's basically the same one quite
a bit less expensive but it doesn't have that same
striking striking experience appearance
the experience of the appearance of the clearance of the CPU anyway um I don't
know where I'm going with this but the point is it's pretty similar internally to a 750d it has a bit of a different
look it comes in at a lower price and there you go on to peripherals there's a
couple things on display number one is the Raptor M45 which is an evolutionary
step forward from the M40 and features actually enough different features I'm
not even sure why they called it an M45 because this is a very very different
Mouse it has a pixart pwm 3310 sensor so who the devil is
pixart you might be asking well a Vago was actually acquired about 6 months ago
so this is a collaborative sensor project between it was being worked on
at aago and then now uh pixart has taken over and it has some interesting new
features so number one is now it is an IR Mouse so that means you can't see
that glow under it number two is the DPI has been increased from 4,000 Max to
5,000 Max and number three and this will be very important to a lot of people is
that DPI in increments are now much more granular you can go all the way from 50
to 5,000 DPI in 50 DPI increments on
this mouse and the software and there's other customizability as well so you can
customize things like lift distance once it's available it's actually coming
sometime in the next couple of months so I'm pretty excited to check it out the
last thing is that this sensor has actually been tuned for gaming surfaces
so while the older mentality might have been okay let's make it work on you know
pants or mules or whatever surface you might happen to want to put it on
um most Gamers who are spending you know 60 70 $80 however much on a mouse
probably have a $20 cloth mouse pad at the very least so we might as well just
make it optimized for that in the first place it has the same M40 features that
I personally quite like which is the very lightweight construction but with
an adjustable weight system the weighted scroll wheel I think they call it the
high mass scroll wheel but what they're trying to say is it's made of metal and
it has a nice rubber finish on it as well as a nice soft touch finish and a
Corsair led the next one Speaking of LEDs is the WRA K40 and my cord for this
is a little bit on the shorter side so I'm going to go ahead and move and like sit on this table or something this is
kind of a a hybrid of the uh of the k30
and the k50 so unlike the k50 it doesn't have as many macro Keys um but unlike
the k30 it now has full RGB backlighting and that's at an $80 price point so it's
a membrane keyboard yes it's $80 yes and I understand you can buy a mechanical
keyboard for $80 but if you want RGB back lighting which personally I don't
really care about unless it's on a mechanical keyboard more on that
soon anyway if you want RGB backlighting and you're okay with membrane then this
looks like it should be a pretty compelling option don't miss any of our
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