WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:08.519 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:12.400 the only true successor to the original 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:14.960 enthusiast class case from Corsair. This 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:22.000 is the 900D and it picks up where the 800D left off. The 800D was at the time 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:24.480 revolutionary. It made cable management 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:29.439 uh turn into something that everyone could do with its grommeted cable 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:34.800 management holes that by now pretty much everybody has copied. It was huge and it 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:40.960 wasn't afraid to be huge. Before the 800D, the only cases you could get that 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:42.399 were large were not even really like a 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:46.239 lot of the time they weren't even proper like normal cases. Like they had 5 and 00:00:44.239 --> 00:00:50.480 a/4 in bays that were like weirdly mounted on the side and stuff like that. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:55.440 and it was not afraid to let you water cool. The 900D takes everything about 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.760 the 800D and just completely amps it up. 00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:04.400 It's like injecting steroids directly into its corateed. So, there you go. Um, 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:08.000 for foam, we've got a fair not quite super brittle foam, but it's also not a 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:12.320 closed cell soft foam, but Corsair compensates by making it extremely 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:16.799 thick. And as you guys know, it is the girth, not the length that is the most 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:21.280 important thing. You've got another inch and a quarter or so right here on the 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:26.080 top. So, let's go ahead and tilt this over so you guys can have a look at what 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:31.840 the 900D looks like inside the case. So, while the box is huge, the 900D is also 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:35.680 huge. Um, I'm probably going to need Slick's help taking this out of the box. 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:42.640 So, we're going to tip it over and we'll be back in just a moment. How big is the 900D, you might 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:48.200 ask? to which I would reply, you could easily fit at least six cats inside 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:52.960 before they even started to like cause problems. So, it comes with bubble wrap 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:56.479 around it to prevent any kind of or at least my review sample does. I don't 00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:02.240 know if they all do, but this will prevent 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:04.320 any random incidental sort of punctures 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:10.319 and jabs with this cardboard and this bubble wrap layer here. So, I'm going to 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:13.920 go ahead and uh pull this off. We've got 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.520 another cardboard layer here, which 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.440 hopefully I can remove. I thought I was done with my knife, but they've packed 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:23.760 it extremely well to ensure that it gets here safely. And this is going to be 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:29.440 especially important packaging wise. Corsair could not afford to skimp on 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:34.239 this case because especially once you actually build a system inside it, it is 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:38.879 going to be heavy and big. So unless it's built extremely solidly and packed 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:44.800 extremely well, you are going to end up with a damaged computer at the other end 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:47.760 of any kind of shipping expedition. So 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:53.760 we're having some trouble here. So we're going to get this uh wrapping done here. 00:02:51.280 --> 00:03:02.400 Got the get the box out of the way. And the unveiling is pretty much complete. 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:05.280 Ain't she a thing of beauty? 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:09.840 gorgeous, enormous window that shows you everything. I mean, at the angle you'll 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:12.959 actually normally be looking at it from. So, we're going to go ahead and adjust 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:18.239 that right there. So, it shows you everything from your back radiator 00:03:15.519 --> 00:03:21.760 presumably, uh, your motherboard. You're going to see the power supply a little 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:26.720 bit, but not too much. And then you're going to see, um, a little bit of your 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:30.080 drive cages here, but again, not too much of that. We're actually going to 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.480 take a little bit of time to take all of the plastic covers off. So, there's 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:40.000 plastic covers holding things like the uh the IO cover in place, holding things 00:03:38.239 --> 00:03:44.959 like the front panel in place, as well as protecting things like the side panel 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:49.959 window here and little bits of uh of trim like this. So, we'll be back in a 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:52.319 moment again with all that 00:03:49.959 --> 00:03:55.760 removed. So, I wanted to show you guys a few things that I noticed when I was 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.000 taking the plastic off. Uh number one is, holy crap, the system for side 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:03.760 panels on this case is cool. So, I've taken the black plastic off the window. 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:07.280 You can see it's very, very clear, very transparent. However, you still get that 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:10.879 thing with all acrylic Windows where it does it's very staticky, so it tends to 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:15.120 collect. See, there's cat hair on it already, but that's just kind of life. 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:18.639 Uh, the side panel, because it's basically all acrylic, does have a bit 00:04:16.799 --> 00:04:21.919 of flex to it, but I'm not super concerned because it's still got some 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:26.320 weight, which is going to help it resist any vibration. And I love the mounting 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:31.280 system for the glass. Just look at this. It's like 00:04:27.880 --> 00:04:33.680 solid screws and just oh, feels really 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:38.639 good. I mean, even my TJ07, which is the case that I'm using right now, just had 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:43.520 like cheesy little plastic uh fixings on it. Not Not very uh not very great. Now, 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:47.040 you don't have to remove the top panel in order to remove the bottom panel 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:52.240 here. So, you just pop this open and it's on a friction hinge here. So, right 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:56.400 there. And then over on the other side, there's another one just like that that 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.400 controls this opening up. And I wanted to show you guys how Corsair has 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:04.320 included all the appropriate little bits of adhesive so that things don't fall 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:07.919 off in shipping. So, they've uh protected all the corners and then 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:12.880 they've protected things like the magnetic fan filters from coming off. 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:17.039 Magnetic fan filters really are the best way to go about this 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:21.120 because every other system I've seen, I mean, the original sort of fan filters 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:25.280 and cases were usually screwed on and then some of the later ones came along 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:28.560 and they were uh like latched on or they were uh slid in or whatever else. But 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:33.680 check this out. I mean, this is how hard it is to remove your fan filter. 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:40.880 Yeah. You take that, you throw it under the sink, you clean it out, you put it 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:43.360 back. Yeah. Just like that. And the fact 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:48.000 that the intake for the case here and the exhaust for the case over there is 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:51.440 so easy to get at is extremely convenient. Now, speaking of intake and 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:56.960 exhaust, you can see all around the edges here, there's a gap here as well 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:02.560 as over here and all along the bottom. That is how that fan is actually getting 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:07.039 any air. And Corsair thought about this. They didn't just sort of willy-nilly 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:11.280 um you know apply ventilation holes here. There's a gap between that piece 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:15.600 on the front and these pieces right here where you apply your fan filter. That's 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:20.479 going to allow for there to be um it acts as a bit of a Oh crap, the word 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:24.800 escapes me. Shroud. Thank you. Shroud that will allow it to actually draw some 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:29.759 air in. So that's very very smart. Now I want to take you around to the other 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:32.160 side really quick. So there we go. 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.080 That's latched on where I want to show you. It's okay. I got it. It's not 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:40.720 actually that much heavier than an 800D, which is nice. It does use aluminum 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:45.039 support struts in order to keep from just being it's just ludicrously heavy. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.560 So there you go. If I can move it, you can probably move it. The one button 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.600 releases at the back for the top panels here. Or first I'll show you that 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.560 functionality where the bottom opens up without the top actually being open. So 00:06:53.039 --> 00:06:58.960 you can get it your drives. You can actually upgrade your hard drive if you 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.840 ran yourself cables down from the motherboard and just kind of kept them 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:04.720 here. You could upgrade your hard drive without actually even opening up the top 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:09.120 panel, which is very cool. And there's another removable fan filter there. So, 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:13.680 these one button releases are great. You press them, you pull out the side panel, 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:17.440 and then it comes off. This one's bound to be a little bit more solid. Yep. Just 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:22.720 because it doesn't have that big acrylic piece on it. The way that it latches in 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:24.319 up here is very robust, very strong. I 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:30.160 can't imagine that that would break in any sort of uh realworld situation. Now, 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:33.759 cable management room at the back. This is where the 900D really shines. And 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:38.000 this, I mean, this is where the 800D really changed the game because it added 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:42.240 enough room for proper cable management that everyone could do without, you 00:07:39.919 --> 00:07:46.319 know, origami cabling as Voodoo PC used to call it. So, check this out. That 00:07:43.919 --> 00:07:50.720 looks like more than an inch behind the motherboard tray. That means you could 00:07:47.919 --> 00:07:55.120 have a 24 pin ATX cable and something else running back here without running 00:07:52.639 --> 00:08:00.639 out of room and without having to do that thing where you force the back 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:04.240 panel on and you kind of push on it in order to get it to actually close. And 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:07.840 the funny thing is uh George, the designer for cases for Corsair said to 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:11.360 me, he showed me his hands. He went, "I have really big hands, really thick 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:16.319 fingers. I designed my cases so I can work in them." I'm like, "Yeah, okay. 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:20.400 Sounds about right." So on the back you find not only all the cable management 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:23.919 grommets you could want which come out at the top for drives or at the top for 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:29.520 drives depending on whether you've got an ATX or an EATX or HPTX width board. 00:08:27.520 --> 00:08:33.919 You've got them here for your 24 pin as well as your PCI Express here for more 00:08:31.919 --> 00:08:37.039 PCI Express as well as cables for the drives over here. And I love this. So 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:41.039 many cases do this and it drives me crazy where they'll have something 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:44.560 interfering here between the drives and the motherboard. It's like case 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:48.080 manufacturers. Hello. We have to run cables from the motherboard to the 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:53.360 drives. Did you not think of this? SATA cables. They're not 24 48 in long. 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:56.880 They're short. So, there you go. Thank you, Corsair, for thinking of this 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:02.640 because there's lots of room to coil them up and hide them and keep them on 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:04.640 these um on these drive cages here. So, 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:08.720 very, very nice. You've also got plastic clips for holding cables in place. And 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:15.440 tons of these little anchors. I love these. 1 2 3 4 five 6 7 8 9. Uh these 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:19.040 are great because they allow you to without sort of folding things sort of 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:24.720 under each other and all that, they allow you to take everything, route it neatly, and then strap it down so that 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:30.800 it's not uh so it's not ugly and gross. So even even over here, check this out. 00:09:26.640 --> 00:09:32.959 1 2 3 four just for bringing your 8 pin 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:37.279 or your four pin up to the motherboard itself. Speaking of your 8 pin or four 00:09:34.959 --> 00:09:40.720 pin, check this out. Uh, this right here is an extension cable and also an 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:44.399 adapter. So, if you have a motherboard that goes uh that just has a single 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:48.240 eight pin, you can just run this as an extension and then you can tuck this one 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.360 back here in your ample storage room. If you have a motherboard that takes an 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:55.279 eight and a four, such as a Crosshair 5 formula, you can plug a single 8 pin 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:59.680 into this and plug this into the board itself. So, very, very handy. Nice big 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:03.920 CPU cutout. So, you're going to have no problem installing CPU coolers that uh 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:07.600 that do require a back plate without removing your motherboard. And the 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.760 motherboard tray itself has a little bit of flex, but you come to expect this 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:14.880 from motherboard trays that have all this room for cable management as well 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.560 as the CPU cutout and the cable management cutouts up here. And once you 00:10:16.959 --> 00:10:22.399 actually strap a board to it, you're not going to notice any kind of a problem 00:10:20.160 --> 00:10:26.000 with that. So, I'm not uh not too worried about that particular thing. 00:10:24.160 --> 00:10:28.880 Nice little rubber grommets in here so that you're not going to see look at 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:33.680 these see these noise dampening pads right here. Corsair doesn't want this 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:38.480 case to make noise. So, they've actually included kind of a Blu-Tack mod style 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:43.839 thing that'll keep it from having any sort of vibration. Um, let's finish up 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:48.480 at the back here and then we're going to go uh or we'll finish up on the outside 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:51.920 and then we're going to uh to spend some more time on the inside. I apologize 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:56.880 guys, this is going to be a long video, but this is a very important case for 00:10:54.959 --> 00:11:02.079 the evolution of cases in general. I want to make sure I'm covering it adequately. It's all about cooling. So, 00:11:00.079 --> 00:11:06.000 one of the criticisms of the 800D was that it didn't do air cooling as well as 00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:11.440 it did water cooling. So, Corsair has taken all that feedback and opened up 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:18.320 every available surface all along the back. Your extra power supply plate, 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:21.120 your IO shield, your 120 or 140 mm fan, 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:25.600 and the back as well as the entire top of the 00:11:23.079 --> 00:11:31.600 case. Uh-oh. Oh, water bottle. It's all good. Um, is all mesh. Now, this mesh 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:37.920 has a fine filter on it in addition to the uh to the cutout metal. So, it's 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:40.880 also got a reinforcement plastic bracket 00:11:37.920 --> 00:11:46.240 on it. There you go. So, it's going to be nice and strong. And I think that's 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:50.240 pretty much it for the back and the top. We'll get to more about the inside once 00:11:48.079 --> 00:11:54.959 we're on the inside. I just want to lead myself around the case in a logical way 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.800 so I don't miss anything cuz uh that's really important to So, up at the top, 00:11:57.040 --> 00:12:03.519 there we go. We've got our IO, microphone, headphone, two USB 3 super 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:08.240 speed, reset button. Love to see this tucked away where the cats won't 00:12:04.959 --> 00:12:09.920 accidentally hit it. Four USB 2.0 ports. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:16.399 This is great to see because so many motherboards have anywhere from sort of 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:18.079 two to six USB 2 headers built into into 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.360 the inside. And it's like, what am I going to plug into this thing, you guys? 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:25.279 None of my cases support. Well, now we have a case that supports it. So, there 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:29.279 you go. Very nice to see. uh power buttons right here in the middle and 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:32.880 then you've got four 5 and 1/4 in expansion bays. Now you might say, "Oh, 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:36.480 Lionus, that's sort of odd because I thought that's what a 5 and 1/4 in 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:40.000 expansion bay looks like. This is a lot bigger than 5 and 1/4 in." And I would 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:44.720 go, "Yes, you're right." Because in order to not lose the integrity of the 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.560 look of the case, well, I think I might need to open those from the inside. I 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:53.920 actually don't remember how these come off from the uh from the video we did at 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:58.240 CES. But in order to not compromise the look of the case, Corsair decided to 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:02.399 widen the five and a quarter inch standard to make it uh sort of work for 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:08.000 them. So, I'm going to figure out how this comes off cuz I can't remember. All right, so we figured it 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:11.120 out. I mean, I can actually get inside the case to work on it, which is handy 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:15.920 because that's what I had to do. Uh there's little tabs in the back. Okay, 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:19.760 all you got to do is release those with your fingers. See, just pinch those and 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:24.880 then the whole thing comes out. Now you can see this is obviously much larger 00:13:22.160 --> 00:13:29.360 than a 5 and a/4 in device. But what Corsair's done is they have because so 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:32.639 few people even use 5 and a/4 in devices. They want it to look clean if 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:37.040 you don't install anything. And then they've used kind of a stylized um Oh, I 00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:41.680 might as well show you the toolless installation here, you guys. So you just 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:45.040 peel this up, slide the drive in, and then let it click into place. Drives in. 00:13:43.760 --> 00:13:49.120 You can screw it in with a couple screws if you want to, too. So, they've gone 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:53.200 with a recessed bezel here that will match your 5 and a/4 in device, just 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:57.040 like that. Now, we pulled off the solid aluminum front piece simply by prying it 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:02.079 up from the bottom. So, you can see there's four uh four points here that 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:06.639 will hold that in place. There you go. Got your nice little Corsair logo on 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:11.199 there. And uh the front had a couple more little pieces of tape that were 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:15.360 holding in another very conveniently removable fan filter. So, Corsair 00:14:13.199 --> 00:14:20.639 includes not their regular class of fans with this case, but their uh their 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:25.120 airflow style sort of modeled after their AF series fans. So, the entire 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:29.680 front comes through this. Look, I mean, look at what the thought they've given to this. They're like, "Okay, well, fans 00:14:27.839 --> 00:14:33.120 pull air from directly in front of them, but they also pull air from the side of 00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:40.720 directly in front of them as well. And the whole thing's filtered. You can take this thing off, clean it, and you are 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:42.880 good to go." So here once I've put that 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:47.040 in place, you can see it draws air here. So you can actually if you get a bit of 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:51.279 a better angle there, you can see from that side how there's lots of room 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:55.440 there. And then you can also get air from the front here as well. Now you can 00:14:53.440 --> 00:15:01.760 replace these fans. You can install a triple 120 mm radiator up here without 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.920 much difficulty whatsoever. And that is 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:08.160 part of what will lead us to the inside of the case where we will start to 00:15:05.839 --> 00:15:11.839 investigate the water cooling options that are available. Now, speaking of 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:15.440 water cooling options, the side of the bottom panels here, you can actually 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:20.480 remove this solid piece. Uh, Slick pointed this out to me simply by 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:25.360 removing the eight screws here. So, that'll leave you with a mesh side on 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:29.440 either side or both sides, giving you even more access to fresh air for the 00:15:27.920 --> 00:15:34.079 components that you're keeping inside there. Now, let's go ahead and flip it 00:15:31.199 --> 00:15:38.240 down to the bottom so we can see if there's anything interesting to see down 00:15:35.920 --> 00:15:43.040 there. I don't want to uh let go of it here so much. So on the bottom, no, not 00:15:41.199 --> 00:15:46.959 a whole lot that is interesting down there. So there you have it. Um I think 00:15:45.199 --> 00:15:52.639 it makes a difference that on the older 800D, the bottom had that fan filter for 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:56.079 your power supply, whereas the 900D uses a sidemounted power supply. So it's 00:15:54.800 --> 00:16:00.560 going to draw its air from the outside of the case here or the outside of the 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:04.480 case on the other side rather than from the bottom of the chassis. They've 00:16:02.959 --> 00:16:08.639 included some SATA cables and I guess we'll figure out how those work in a 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:11.759 moment. But um there you go. These are the mounts that are going to hold your 00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:16.399 power supply in place and keep it from putting any unnecessary strain on the 00:16:14.079 --> 00:16:21.680 back of the chassis itself. And then this right here is an additional 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:24.800 mounting point for more 3 and 1/2 in or 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:26.800 2 1/2 in hard drive or SSD mounting 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:31.040 cages. So let's go ahead and close this up. Again, I I you know, it's 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:34.720 interesting because I I found myself closing and opening it quite frequently. 00:16:33.199 --> 00:16:39.199 But what's good is I'm able to do it quickly and efficiently because that is 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:44.079 how you are going to upgrade your computer. You're going to want to just go flip flip open do whatever you need 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:48.160 to do and then move on. You don't want to spend all day every day actually 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:52.160 working on the thing. So, hard drive mounting options. You've got these 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:57.120 little sleds here that are capable of mounting 3 and 1/2 in drives toollessly 00:16:54.399 --> 00:17:02.880 or 2 and 1/2 in drives by uh screwing them in. And then it comes with three 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:05.199 sleds that each holds three drives. So, 00:17:02.880 --> 00:17:10.240 they uh Oops. Hold on. Let me see if I got that lined up correctly there. So, 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:13.679 we've got three in each one that clip in like that. You can see they popped out a 00:17:11.760 --> 00:17:16.959 little bit in shipping, but uh shouldn't be anything to worry about. Now you can 00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:20.480 install you can actually okay they're modular for one thing. So you can move 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:24.079 all your drives to the basement and then you can go ahead and install pumps or 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:27.360 radiators or whatever other you know I don't know action figures. I've seen 00:17:25.360 --> 00:17:31.200 those in computers before up here that you want. You can take this one and move 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:34.640 it up here and you can keep all your drives in the front. Throw some water 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:37.520 cooling over here on this side. Throw some water cooling over here on the 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:41.679 other side. Maybe just a small single 120 mil radiator. or you can pull them 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:47.760 all out or you can add a full additional two for 15 2 and 1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:51.440 drives in the case natively. So those will be available from Corsair. Uh these 00:17:49.919 --> 00:17:57.120 are those aluminum pieces that I talked about before, those supports and I think 00:17:54.880 --> 00:18:02.080 that pre Oh yeah, mounting right. Okay, so mounting for radiators is awesome. So 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:07.520 you can do up to a Okay, here let's let's do all the radiators now. You can 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:09.520 do a quad 120 mm meter radiator across 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:14.799 here. To pull out these drives, you can put a power supply here and you can do a 00:18:11.520 --> 00:18:18.320 dual 120 mm radiator on the other side. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:23.760 Then you can put up to a triple 120 mm 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:27.120 in the front. Up to a triple 140 or quad 00:18:23.760 --> 00:18:29.919 120 in the top. You can do a single 120 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:35.200 or single 140 in the back. And I think what I actually missed was this could be 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:37.039 a triple 140 or a quad 120 as well. So, 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:41.919 the radiator mounting options, you can have up to five radiators in the case 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:45.919 without making any modifications to it, which is absolutely outstanding. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:51.000 Motherboard compatibility, as I mentioned before, is pretty much um 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:57.200 unparalleled. So, you can install an ITX board, an MATX board, which will go down 00:18:54.080 --> 00:18:59.360 to about here, an ATX board, which will 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:04.799 be this big, and then check this out, an XLATX board, which can go all the way 00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:05.919 down from either eight or nine expansion 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:11.919 slots. Here, I'm going to give you a bit of a better angle there, Slick. So, eight or nine expansion slots. Remember, 00:19:09.919 --> 00:19:15.760 they've included 10 expansion slots. So, even with a nine expansion slot board, 00:19:13.760 --> 00:19:20.720 you could install a dual slot card in the very, very bottom slot. And then you 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:25.280 can even install an HPTX board which would take up pretty much the entire 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:30.799 thing here and would allow you to really make the most of this particular beast 00:19:30.919 --> 00:19:36.559 chassis. I wonder if we've missed anything. We did show this in the top 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:41.440 here. So you can see all those different mounting hole options depending on what 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:45.200 you opt for up there. Let me just go sort of scan through and I'll see if we 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:50.880 missed anything. So, here's our variety of boards that 00:19:47.760 --> 00:19:52.960 we'd like to try out in the 900D. Um, it 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:57.039 it does say on the box it's compatible with ITX. So, I'm obligated to put an 00:19:54.960 --> 00:20:01.679 ITX board in there to just show you guys what it'll look like if you build a 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:07.360 system with a single PCI Express slot and uh about a half of ATX or half of 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:11.840 sort of slightly wider than ATX width on it. So, that's sort of ridiculous. 00:20:09.600 --> 00:20:17.200 Here's what an MATX board will look like inside. So, most people are not going to 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:18.720 go microATX with a uh with a system like 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:24.960 this, but that's your four expansion slots and standard width. Next up, we're 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:28.480 going to do ATX. So, this is a crosshair 5 formula. This is one of those ones 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:32.080 where that uh that extension cable will come in handy. All right, so this guy 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:38.080 right here is going to look a little something like this. So, that's seven expansion slots and standard width. So, 00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:43.600 you can see there's tons of room over here for much, much wider boards than a 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:48.400 standard ATX board. Now, the next one I have is a bit of a hybrid because some 00:20:46.159 --> 00:20:53.280 boards are labeled as EATX, but what they actually are is slightly wider than 00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:57.840 ATX. So, you see here how there's a little bit of extra width to this board. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:01.760 That makes it sort of EATX, but it's also wider than normal because there are 00:20:59.919 --> 00:21:05.440 seven expansion slots, but there's a burned one here at the top. So, this is 00:21:03.360 --> 00:21:11.440 actually eight expansion slots. And this is the biggest XLATX board that I had on 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:15.360 hand. This is an X79 UD7 from Gigabyte. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:17.600 And even that doesn't look that big in 00:21:15.360 --> 00:21:23.280 the 900D. I did miss something on the 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:28.080 inside. So in here, we've got all of our front panel connectors, our USB 2, our 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:33.679 HD audio, our other more different USB 2, USB 3 front panel headers, as well as 00:21:31.360 --> 00:21:39.120 three SATA cables. So, what I noticed is that two of the included triple hard 00:21:36.080 --> 00:21:40.960 drive cages uh do not have back planes, 00:21:39.120 --> 00:21:45.159 but one of them does. So, if you slide that out, you can see that that is a 00:21:42.600 --> 00:21:49.200 toolless installation. So, you can pre-run uh presumably there's power over 00:21:47.760 --> 00:21:53.679 there somewhere. I think I did see it before. You can pre-run power to the 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:58.240 back plane, pre-run SATA data to those three drives, and you can just take down 00:21:55.760 --> 00:22:02.240 this thing, pop in a drive, and you are literally ready to go without any 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:05.760 difficulty. If you have hot swap enabled on your motherboard, you actually won't 00:22:04.159 --> 00:22:09.760 even have to turn off your computer, which is very, very cool. So, we're 00:22:07.520 --> 00:22:14.799 going to put the case back together and do some size comparisons against some 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:20.640 other chassis that we have lying around. So, we're going to start with um the 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:28.440 kind of case that most normal people would be running. And this is a 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:31.280 modestsized ATX tower. So, this is the 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:35.679 900D. Corsair has increased the width compared to a normal computer. And 00:22:33.280 --> 00:22:41.039 they've also dramatically increased the height and the length. So, I'm going to 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:43.440 line them up back to back so you can see 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:48.559 the sheer size of the 900D. This is a Corsair Carbide 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:50.320 300R. Significantly narrower. Go ahead. 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:53.520 Get it from this angle as well, Slick. So, I'm going to go ahead and adjust 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:58.640 that for you so you can really see. You could almost probably fit two of these 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.640 in here. rumble in terms of the sheer volume. So, 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:07.840 we're going to tuck this one aside for now and I'm going to show you one of our 00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:13.880 most space efficient computers that we've ever had here at TechTips. And 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:17.200 this is our Shuttle X79. It has a 6 core 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:19.679 3960X, 32 gigs of RAM, a Quadro 4000, 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:26.480 and a 10 GB network card. And you could probably fit anywhere from um five to 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:29.039 about seven of them inside the volume of 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:33.440 the 900D. With that said, you obviously can't do a dual socket shuttle. So, 00:23:31.520 --> 00:23:38.159 there's uh there's an option that you have with the 900D that you don't have 00:23:35.120 --> 00:23:41.679 with that. Here is a Corsair Vengeance 00:23:38.159 --> 00:23:44.240 C70. So, this is a pretty uh Skookum 00:23:41.679 --> 00:23:51.120 gaming tower and even this one. So, with uh up to dual 140 mm radiator in the 00:23:47.760 --> 00:23:53.200 top, single 140 mm in the back, lots of 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:57.520 air cooling. Uh I think it supports up to quad fans in the front, something 00:23:54.960 --> 00:24:05.360 like that. And this is what it looks like next to the 900D. And we're working 00:24:01.280 --> 00:24:06.880 our way up to the 800D next to the 900D. 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:12.679 I have to go get one right now, though. Just a sec. So, just for lulls, I hauled 00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:16.960 down my rig. So, this is the Silverstone TJ7 next to it. Bear in mind, the TJ7 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:23.760 doesn't look like that out of the box. I still haven't put my glass panel window on it or anything like that, but there's 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:26.240 still like a good sort of 3 or 4 in 00:24:23.760 --> 00:24:29.520 there. that is the difference in height and then a good few inches here. And 00:24:27.600 --> 00:24:34.559 look how much wider it is, how much wider it stance is than the TJ07 which 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:39.360 just has 5 and a/4 and then sort of a border. Whereas that's pretty much the 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:44.799 width of just the bay covers on the 900D, never minding the huge gap around 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:49.440 here for air flow through the front of the case. Now I'm going to move my 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:54.080 system and we are going to show you a couple more size examples including the 00:24:51.919 --> 00:25:00.880 Bit Phoenix Prodigy. uh which is sort of a gaming grade ITX 00:24:58.080 --> 00:25:05.440 tower with similarly sort of way too many water cooling options but not 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:08.960 designed for HPTX ports. So there you go. This also actually has a similar 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:13.919 width to the 900D. I'm going to pop it up here for a sec so you can see that uh 00:25:11.919 --> 00:25:17.520 the Bitfenix Prodigy has kind of a wide stance and that's because it actually 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:22.559 holds the motherboard in it the flat way as opposed to vertically. So I don't 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:26.080 know what the uh the 900D's excuse is. Actually, I do know what its excuse is. 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:29.679 The excuse is it holds a butt ton of hardware. So, there you go. That's how 00:25:28.159 --> 00:25:35.919 you could probably fit about three Prodigies and change in the 900D. And 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:40.799 let's wrap up. Actually, here one more practical demonstration of how big the 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:45.840 900D is. And you know what? It's big, but it's efficient. I did make fun of 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:49.760 the uh the Cosmos 2 a little bit when it was released because I said, "Well, this 00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:54.159 thing is so big." But the Cosmos 2 doesn't fit nearly the same caliber of 00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:57.440 hardware in it that the 900D does in terms of liquid cooling. I couldn't 00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:02.520 figure out there. I couldn't figure out what the Cosmos 2's excuse for being so 00:26:00.320 --> 00:26:09.039 big was because it didn't fit that much stuff. Um 900D does. We can actually put 00:26:06.080 --> 00:26:14.640 our shuttle computer right inside it without any difficulty. So there you go. 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:21.440 We can put a couple in there. No problem. There's your dual X79 solution. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:29.240 Um, all right. So, let's wrap up with a size comparison to the classic 800D. So, 00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:33.279 this is Slick's personal 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:36.919 rig. There we go. All right. Man, that's 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:39.760 heavy. Slick, how do you move this thing 00:26:36.919 --> 00:26:43.520 around? So, there's a liquid cooled 800D. Actually, I'm going to put it 00:26:41.520 --> 00:26:48.400 right next to it for size comparison first and then we'll uh then we'll go. 00:26:45.919 --> 00:26:53.600 So, if the 800D is the biggest case you've ever seen, then the 900D will be 00:26:51.520 --> 00:26:59.360 bigger, and it will be the biggest case you've ever seen because uh it's 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:03.600 definitely definitely taken that crown 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:07.520 from the 800D. So, it is wider, taller, 00:27:03.600 --> 00:27:09.360 and it is deeper. It is all three of 00:27:07.520 --> 00:27:13.679 those things. It holds so much more hardware, though. Corser hasn't wasted a 00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:18.159 cubic inch of the space that they've added to the 900D because remember the 00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:22.799 800D natively only supports a triple rad in the top, a single 140 in the back, 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:27.200 and you can mount a 140 here, but other than that, the space isn't nearly as 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:32.159 usable as the 900D. Personally, I don't miss the hot swap here because I find 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:36.400 that the easily accessible uh opening door down here at the bottom and those 00:27:34.080 --> 00:27:42.080 hot swap or well, not hot swaps, but backplained uh SATA mounts back there 00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:46.400 are an equally good option compared to the older system. And it doesn't break 00:27:44.159 --> 00:27:53.640 up the uh the clean look of the front that the 900D has. So, there you have 00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:58.000 it, you guys. The new enthusiast 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:59.600 champion from Corsair, the 900D. I hope 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:03.840 you enjoyed this unboxing and first look. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus 00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:07.440 Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.