{"video_id":"oK1DGZMXmL8","title":"Corsair 300R Value Gaming Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":688,"segments":[{"start_s":7.399,"end_s":15.719,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair carbide series 300r I first had the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.28,"end_s":23.32,"text":"pleasure of laying eyes on this case at CES 2012 and now I have one here in well","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.56,"end_s":28.56,"text":"I can't really call it the studio because it's just at home where I happen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.199,"end_s":33.64,"text":"to have some light set up so that I can shoot some videos but here I have it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.119,"end_s":37.8,"text":"somewhere where I can show it to you guys so let's see what Corsair has 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and the engineering that goes into it because it looks really","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":668.079,"end_s":673.24,"text":"good and it's I've seen high-end builds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":671.56,"end_s":677.92,"text":"done in this case already it does not look like a sub $100 case once you put","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":675.68,"end_s":681.32,"text":"some decent Hardware in it so that's uh kudos to Corsair on this one so thank","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":679.839,"end_s":685.44,"text":"you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Corsair 300r don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":683.959,"end_s":689.839,"text":"forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Corsair carbide series 300r I first had the pleasure of laying eyes on this case at CES 2012 and now I have one here in well I can't really call it the studio because it's just at home where I happen to have some light set up so that I can shoot some videos but here I have it somewhere where I can show it to you guys so let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves the carbide Series 300 R is a compact expression of the Corsair philosophy great systems begin with a great case um open the easy access side panel to find a builder friendly design with three toolfree optical drive bays and four toolfree hard drive Bays with integrated 2.5 in SSD compatibility there's room for extra long graphics cards and it keeps your Hardware cool with amazing air flow including 140 mm front fan 120 mm rear fan which should be compatible with the h8 as well okay and dust filters are removable for features much like this make the foundation of your next system okay interesting so let's go ahead and get it opened up you know what give me a sec here guys now that we've got it out of the box we can have a bit of a look at this particular chassis it does come packed in a hard foam I do prefer a more soft foam because it can be a little bit more robust during shipping especially once the system is fully loaded although as you can see by the way I'm manhandling it this case is not that heavy so it is far less of a concern than it is with heavy cases and they've gone with more than inch thick foam so 99.99% of the time it's going to be fine and remembering that shipping is more of an issue in Canada than it is almost anywhere else just because of the size of this country and uh how sparsely populated it is so cases often travel very far before they eventually reach the intended recipient so what else we got included here bit of a quick start guide but that's about it so let's go ahead and buckle down here so the first thing we see is the front of the case which has and I'm a big fan of this actually it has that plastic brushed thing going on and I'm going to show you guys uh yeah I'm going to show you guys why I like that so much and it's going to involve me moving this computer which has my cat perched on it and then moving my backpack which is in the way of this door in here so no no you don't to follow me in here I'm just going to bring out a brushed aluminum side panel from my case so here ha you're going to need to get the light just right but you can see all along the back edge of this side panel are fingerprints can you see that can you see the blemishes in the Finish yeah you can kind of you could kind of see it there in that shot you can kind of see it here okay so why don't I just wipe them off and the answer is because I cannot you cannot completely clean brushed aluminum because what happens is the oils and acids in your fingers etch into that anodized brushed aluminum finish and you cannot completely clean it so I love this plastic brush thing it's the same as is on the back of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 because it looks good it's lighter than metal although not by much aluminum doesn't weigh much and as much as you touch it you can actually clean it off so sorry I've harped on not enough let's keep going I love the industrial look of this design of this case overall you can see these little I mean they're just for Aesthetics but they look like kind of you know yeah like kind of industrial with these uh these bolt things going on here we've got three 5 and 1/4 in Bays power and reset switches headphones and microphone two USB 3.0 ports and then we have a front thing which I'm not 100% sure how it works although I felt some kind of a something going on down there what's that I haven't actually taken this apart I've only seen it on demo at the uh at the Corsair Suite so pardon me for uh for my ignorance here guys yeah okay so what is this down here nothing apparently okay so we have a removable fan filter which is not that easy to remove frankly that's uh that's kind of a shame so you do have to peel back some tabs in order to get that to to come off although you'll be able to blow it out sort of 99% of the time time and then I guess if you really wanted to wash it you can take it off other than that the inside is pretty run-of-the-mill this is interesting though this is a nice touch instead of going with plastic security uh pieces for the panels Corsair has gone with these pronged metal pieces and I don't know if you guys noticed but in my unboxing of the Shinobi XL I actually when I took off the top panel without even realizing it immediately I broke off those plastic pieces so this this is the kind of thing that and answers a question or like addresses a concern that I sort of had about cases in general because I've never seen this before uh before I even had a chance to talk to anyone about it so that's really cool Kudos Corsair way to go so dual 120s or 140s it comes with 140 mm fan you can throw another one in there to put cooling over your hard drives there's a fair bit of restriction on these fans but they've done a little bit to alleviate this problem by putting in some uh some perforations here in addition to the holes that you see on most cases right here so let's go ahead and work our way around the side we find a pretty standard looking side panel over there on the other side we find dual 120s or 140s on the other side so you can use that to cool your graphics card on the bottom we find a filter for the bottom intake power supply as well as nice grippy rubber feet and on the back of the case we find once again a pretty run-of-the-mill design um so we've got our 120 mm exhaust with oh this is interesting so they've bulged out the 120 mm grill a little bit to give you a bit more room between the back of the fan and the grill this not only reduces the turbulence and increases the air flow it's able to push through but it also reduces the noise just a little FYI for you guys some perforations here bottom mounted power supply and everything's looking pretty hunky dory in there here we have dual 12s or dual 140s would have preferred to see the 20 centered and seen a couple more holes put in it just so that uh if you're running a radiator such as an h100 you would be able to have that radiator centered because you can see it and um hold on a second I just got to throw this mouse for my cat who is bothering my filming assistant all right there we go let's put the front back on before we get too much further here cuz I do want you to guys to uh I want you guys to appreciate the case the case is finished design rather than just you know with me having torn it apart already more ventilation here on the sides so that is how those front 140 mm fans are getting all their air flow not only from these sides but also the mesh in the front as well as this hole in the bottom so very very good access to Fresh Air for those fans all right here we go let's take off those thumb screws the side panels pull off the side panel so this is a more value oriented case but Corsair still managed to keep the side panel reasonably strong although it is nothing compared to you know something like the 650d or the 800d which are obviously very very highgrade cases let go ahead and take off this other side panel as well give you guys a brief look at the other side here there you go that is a huge CPU cutout so no matter where your CPU socket is located on your board remember every time the uh every time the C CPU socket changes the the average sort of usual locations tend to shift around a little bit so they've planned for the future giving you as much space as they possibly can in terms of cable management room you can see we have a fair bit of space back there we've got an entire thumb width which is a pretty good indicator that we should be able to fit a 24 pin connector back here with no issues whatsoever we've also got cable management holes here here here and here allowing us to also here for the eight pin access the optical drives the hard drives uh any other kinds of drives we might install in the front of the case that's about it I wouldn't have minded seeing another cutout here maybe on a like a revision you know 1.1 or something like that because some motherboards these days do have the eight pin in the middle and unless you have a power supply with a very long cable you might not make it all the way sort of over here from that hole so just something to bear in mind although oh no look at this H they thought of that you can probably run it through here no problem because you can see where the motherboard mounts are so you should be able to squeeze squeeze it in there all right what else we got on the back this can uh this can serve as routing for your front panel audio cuz most motherboards have that located over there although you might have to cheat a little bit and push your push it through before you put the power supply in stuff like that and I think that covers it for this side of the case yes it does okay let's flip it around here so here's our tooless 5 and 1/4 in base here is the the enormous space that we have in this case accommodating up to 4 50 mm graphics card I mean imagine that it would be like this much longer than a motherboard so I don't think that's coming anytime soon but there you go Corsair will be ready for it regardless okay we've also got our 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in hard drive mounts so there are the 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes these don't look that strong but trust me once you put a drive in them they are significantly more robust here's how Corsair ships the accessories and doodads so let's have a look at what we got in here some zip ties for cable routing some screws we're not getting a whole lot of extras but there isn't a whole lot to supply I mean something like an 800d comes with cables for the hot Swap and stuff like that but this doesn't really have that uh does this come out no it doesn't I mean other than that I think we've pretty much covered it I mean you got your dual 140s in the front you got your dual 140s up here you got your 120 back here you got your 120 built into the power supply here this is a very very capable case and Corsair always does such a good job of these little details even on their value cases black interior all black cables down to the connectors on the very end front USB 3 is with an internal header which they all should have been from day one but no one could decide on a standard and I think that pretty much wraps it up this is going to just if you want my opinion these are just going to clean up in that sub1 case Market because it's it doesn't come down necessarily to like the materials that are used it's a steel case you know with a plastic front bezel but it comes down to the design and the engineering that goes into it because it looks really good and it's I've seen high-end builds done in this case already it does not look like a sub $100 case once you put some decent Hardware in it so that's uh kudos to Corsair on this one so thank you for checking out this 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