you want to waste your money go buy a fancy case for your computer no but
seriously think about it every single dollar that you throw away on a metal
box to stuff under your desk that's money you could have spent on faster
Hardware games or Doritos and Mountain Dew that is why Sigma Gamers built their
PC components to a two dollar sheet of wood except that they mostly don't there
are actually benefits to enclosing your computer like safety which is why the
market is absolutely flooded with options that promise everything from
better cooling to better compatibility or cable management to extras like fan
controllers and RGB lights all of which raises an obvious question with so many
choices out there why the ever loving
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buying a case is a little like dating while there are plenty of fish in the
sea most of them are clearly awful fun reason or another so it's easy to at
least narrow down our choices but what
is it about the Corsair 4000d that ticks so many boxes that both Newegg and
Amazon agree that is the number one best
selling case well it starts with the price going all the way back to the
early 2000s a hundred US dollars give or
take has been the target for your mainstream gamer case you know it's
something that's got everything you need and nothing you don't and somehow in
spite of the rising costs of both materials and shipping Corsair is still
Landing right on that Target but that's
hardly enough to stand out from the crowd and frankly not even enough to
justify buying a case at all the thing is the ATX standard hasn't changed much
in the last 20 years which means that if you're building a new rig today your old
case or even when you found on the side of the road is probably compatible with
your new parts the only downside to this approach is that it might take a bit of
coaxing and this isn't the sort of thing that new Builders tend to be comfortable
with that is where Corsair's biggest contribution to the case category comes
in right on their first try with the 800d courser made it clear that their
cases were designed so anyone could build a PC in them every Cable
Management hole had a purpose instead of Simply plonking a couple holes in the
back and calling it water cooling ready they went out and bought aftermarket
radiators they built test systems and they refined the design to ensure that
once it got out into the real world it would be intuitive to build in while
also meeting Enthusiast expectations and 12 years later this DNA is all over
Corsair's case designs and it works without any incentive whatsoever nearly
half of the last 10 of our Intel extreme Tech upgrade recipients have chosen a 4
000 series case from Corsair and why shouldn't they there's a lot to like the
look of the airflow variant may be a little plain but at least it's an
offensive and Corsair makes it easy to upgrade to the RGB version later on they
also include thoughtful Cable Management features like this two-piece cable tray
and the fully removable panel here that covers all the connectors that need to
make their way over to the motherboard the hard drive mounts are fully tool-less with all screws and
accessories nicely packaged in a little box that occupies one of the hard drive
sleds and as one of the top providers of AIO liquid coolers naturally Corsair
made radiator compatibility a top priority up in the roof we find space
for a dual 140 mil and on the front a triple 120 though with that particular
size you may have to have your tubing up top Aesthetics are never an afterthought
for Corsair and while you can stick with a standard GPU orientation and hide your
two and a half inch drives away behind the metal board tray they also support
vertical GPU mounts with an aftermarket Riser and putting your ssds on display
on top of the power supply basement if you're into that sort of thing making
life easier for first time Builders the cutouts are all folded over to reduce
the chances of Nicks and cuts there are Cable Management anchors absolutely
everywhere the center standoff has a little stud to hold the motherboard in
place while you screw it in and those embossed arrows on the side panels that
show you what direction to push when you want to pop them off are real nice to
have by the way if you enjoy behind the scenes Shenanigans you may want to pop
off to Floatplane where we've got an exclusive with me accidentally setting
our props on fire twice there's still some room for
improvement Corsair falls behind and some nice to halves like the screw
organizers that phantax provides with their cases or the removable radiator
mounts that make water cooling a fair bit easier and in my opinion Corsair has
settled into a bit of a design rut in recent years with many of their cases
looking kind of samey though In fairness to them pretty much every other
mainstream case maker is in the same rut where the 4000 Dr flow really sets
itself apart though is right in the name airflow while Corsair will gladly sell
you a 4000 X or a regular 4000d if you
prefer solid panels we will have those links down below we've seen time and
time again that with the latest power hungry CPUs and gpus you will end up
leaving real world performance on the table if you don't take cooling
seriously the 4000d airflow does just
that merely the entire front top and
back of the case is perforated and even long gpus will get plenty of fresh air
through the filtered front panel all of these positive aspects of the 4000d
apply to both the black and to the white versions like the convenient captive
side panel thumb screws and the well-rounded front i o but we wanted to
take a moment to appreciate just how fine of a job Corsair did with the white
in particular small touches like choosing to produce gray clips for the
push pins and color matching the magnetic strips of the top fan filter go
a long way to the cohesiveness of your overall build speaking of magnets or
actually those aren't available yet but we finally have ShortCircuit hoodies go
and get them guys there are a few more points of concern worth discussing here
of course there's packing foam is what I would describe as single use only and is
not suitable for protecting the case with the additional weight of a fully
built system inside it and even if yours arrives in one piece that easy to access
mesh filter on the front intake can be a little bit saggy from the factory
causing a brushing sound as it contacts the intake fans you'll notice that the
other filters like the one for the power supply use plastic support frames to
prevent this so it seems like they were emitted in the front to keep the front
panel look clean especially on the 4000x which uses that same filter behind a
tempered glass front panel the other issue is uh down below larger power
supplies will have trouble fitting in the basement especially if you want to
keep your hard drive cages in place Corsair has accounted for this somewhat
by allowing the cage to move toward the front of the case by 40 millimeters but
even then you can forget about plugging in an extra modular cable for GPU
upgrades or when adding another Drive you'll have to pull your power supply
all the way out we also mentioned vertical GPU mounting as a nice to have
feature but you're limited to two slot gpus in this particular chassis and even
those can end up being a little too close to the tempered glass panel
offsetting the advantage of choosing an airflow first case design finally on
that note there are other cases in this price bracket that include more than
just two basic black fans though you're probably giving up
something else like for example Corsair's excellent post sales support
so your mileage may vary bottom line if
you're one of the sheeple who saw the 4000d airflow and went popular me likey
you actually made a really good choice but it isn't the only one if you want to
Buck the trend and pick up a comparable offering at around the same price fractal design has the mesh if I see
phantax offers the eclipse p360a and
Cooler Master has their nr600 any of those will satisfy your airflow Cravings
also without breaking the bank now these cases being mid towers as well have some
of the same constraints seen on the 4000 series with regards to fitting large
radiators and large power supplies and they aren't without issues of their own
the meshify doesn't support longer graphics cards and has poor access to
the front filter the phantax struggles to fit dual 140 millimeter radiators and
Cooler Master uses an SSD mounting system that's not very well liked with
that said you'd likely still be very very happy with any of those alternate
choices depending on your specific build or or okay okay you
go with the popular one that's I said if perfectly good choice just
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