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you want to waste your money go buy a fancy case for your computer no but

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seriously think about it every single dollar that you throw away on a metal

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box to stuff under your desk that's money you could have spent on faster

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Hardware games or Doritos and Mountain Dew that is why Sigma Gamers built their

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PC components to a two dollar sheet of wood except that they mostly don't there

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are actually benefits to enclosing your computer like safety which is why the

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market is absolutely flooded with options that promise everything from

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better cooling to better compatibility or cable management to extras like fan

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controllers and RGB lights all of which raises an obvious question with so many

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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

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sea most of them are clearly awful fun reason or another so it's easy to at

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least narrow down our choices but what

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is it about the Corsair 4000d that ticks so many boxes that both Newegg and

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Amazon agree that is the number one best

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selling case well it starts with the price going all the way back to the

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early 2000s a hundred US dollars give or

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take has been the target for your mainstream gamer case you know it's

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something that's got everything you need and nothing you don't and somehow in

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spite of the rising costs of both materials and shipping Corsair is still

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Landing right on that Target but that's

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hardly enough to stand out from the crowd and frankly not even enough to

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justify buying a case at all the thing is the ATX standard hasn't changed much

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in the last 20 years which means that if you're building a new rig today your old

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case or even when you found on the side of the road is probably compatible with

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your new parts the only downside to this approach is that it might take a bit of

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coaxing and this isn't the sort of thing that new Builders tend to be comfortable

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with that is where Corsair's biggest contribution to the case category comes

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in right on their first try with the 800d courser made it clear that their

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cases were designed so anyone could build a PC in them every Cable

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Management hole had a purpose instead of Simply plonking a couple holes in the

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back and calling it water cooling ready they went out and bought aftermarket

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radiators they built test systems and they refined the design to ensure that

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once it got out into the real world it would be intuitive to build in while

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also meeting Enthusiast expectations and 12 years later this DNA is all over

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Corsair's case designs and it works without any incentive whatsoever nearly

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half of the last 10 of our Intel extreme Tech upgrade recipients have chosen a 4

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000 series case from Corsair and why shouldn't they there's a lot to like the

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look of the airflow variant may be a little plain but at least it's an

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offensive and Corsair makes it easy to upgrade to the RGB version later on they

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also include thoughtful Cable Management features like this two-piece cable tray

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and the fully removable panel here that covers all the connectors that need to

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make their way over to the motherboard the hard drive mounts are fully tool-less with all screws and

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accessories nicely packaged in a little box that occupies one of the hard drive

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sleds and as one of the top providers of AIO liquid coolers naturally Corsair

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made radiator compatibility a top priority up in the roof we find space

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for a dual 140 mil and on the front a triple 120 though with that particular

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size you may have to have your tubing up top Aesthetics are never an afterthought

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for Corsair and while you can stick with a standard GPU orientation and hide your

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two and a half inch drives away behind the metal board tray they also support

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vertical GPU mounts with an aftermarket Riser and putting your ssds on display

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on top of the power supply basement if you're into that sort of thing making

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life easier for first time Builders the cutouts are all folded over to reduce

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the chances of Nicks and cuts there are Cable Management anchors absolutely

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everywhere the center standoff has a little stud to hold the motherboard in

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place while you screw it in and those embossed arrows on the side panels that

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show you what direction to push when you want to pop them off are real nice to

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have by the way if you enjoy behind the scenes Shenanigans you may want to pop

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off to Floatplane where we've got an exclusive with me accidentally setting

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our props on fire twice there's still some room for

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improvement Corsair falls behind and some nice to halves like the screw

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organizers that phantax provides with their cases or the removable radiator

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mounts that make water cooling a fair bit easier and in my opinion Corsair has

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settled into a bit of a design rut in recent years with many of their cases

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looking kind of samey though In fairness to them pretty much every other

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mainstream case maker is in the same rut where the 4000 Dr flow really sets

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itself apart though is right in the name airflow while Corsair will gladly sell

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you a 4000 X or a regular 4000d if you

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prefer solid panels we will have those links down below we've seen time and

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time again that with the latest power hungry CPUs and gpus you will end up

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leaving real world performance on the table if you don't take cooling

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seriously the 4000d airflow does just

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that merely the entire front top and

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back of the case is perforated and even long gpus will get plenty of fresh air

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through the filtered front panel all of these positive aspects of the 4000d

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apply to both the black and to the white versions like the convenient captive

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side panel thumb screws and the well-rounded front i o but we wanted to

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take a moment to appreciate just how fine of a job Corsair did with the white

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in particular small touches like choosing to produce gray clips for the

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push pins and color matching the magnetic strips of the top fan filter go

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a long way to the cohesiveness of your overall build speaking of magnets or

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actually those aren't available yet but we finally have ShortCircuit hoodies go

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and get them guys there are a few more points of concern worth discussing here

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of course there's packing foam is what I would describe as single use only and is

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not suitable for protecting the case with the additional weight of a fully

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built system inside it and even if yours arrives in one piece that easy to access

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mesh filter on the front intake can be a little bit saggy from the factory

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causing a brushing sound as it contacts the intake fans you'll notice that the

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other filters like the one for the power supply use plastic support frames to

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prevent this so it seems like they were emitted in the front to keep the front

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panel look clean especially on the 4000x which uses that same filter behind a

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tempered glass front panel the other issue is uh down below larger power

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supplies will have trouble fitting in the basement especially if you want to

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keep your hard drive cages in place Corsair has accounted for this somewhat

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by allowing the cage to move toward the front of the case by 40 millimeters but

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even then you can forget about plugging in an extra modular cable for GPU

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upgrades or when adding another Drive you'll have to pull your power supply

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all the way out we also mentioned vertical GPU mounting as a nice to have

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feature but you're limited to two slot gpus in this particular chassis and even

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those can end up being a little too close to the tempered glass panel

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offsetting the advantage of choosing an airflow first case design finally on

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that note there are other cases in this price bracket that include more than

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just two basic black fans though you're probably giving up

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something else like for example Corsair's excellent post sales support

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so your mileage may vary bottom line if

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you're one of the sheeple who saw the 4000d airflow and went popular me likey

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you actually made a really good choice but it isn't the only one if you want to

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Buck the trend and pick up a comparable offering at around the same price fractal design has the mesh if I see

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phantax offers the eclipse p360a and

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Cooler Master has their nr600 any of those will satisfy your airflow Cravings

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also without breaking the bank now these cases being mid towers as well have some

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of the same constraints seen on the 4000 series with regards to fitting large

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radiators and large power supplies and they aren't without issues of their own

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the meshify doesn't support longer graphics cards and has poor access to

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the front filter the phantax struggles to fit dual 140 millimeter radiators and

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Cooler Master uses an SSD mounting system that's not very well liked with

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that said you'd likely still be very very happy with any of those alternate

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choices depending on your specific build or or okay okay you

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go with the popular one that's I said if perfectly good choice just

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