Corsair Air 240 Computer Case
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,884 words · ~9 min read
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the Corsair carbide air 240 is essentially a mini version of the
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carbide air 540 the air 240 is about 40%
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smaller than its bigger brother and designed for matx and mitx motherboards
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while maintaining the dual chamber
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design with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or knok you could
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instantly win an Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate
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system click now to learn more once you get out of the box you'll notice the
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pack material which is well hard foam
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and bad in terms of the actual case we'll start from the front of the aggressively stylized housing or you'll
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be greeted by a pair of power and reset buttons that feel fantastic and have
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great Audible and tactile feedback along with these two buttons you'll find a
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storage usage LED audio jacks and dual USB 3.0 ports once we come around to the
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back of the unit we see a glorious amount of thumb screws which is the
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result of the removability of the top bottom and both side panels the left
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side panel has a very large polycarbonate window which will allow you to show off all of your main
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components I'm very happy they went with a large window here as with even very
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minimal Cable Management it is quite easy to make your rig look pretty
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amazing due to the decluttered dual chamber design next up is the right side
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panel where an externally mounted fan filter is found which is actually quite
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well secured by its magnets and even shaking the case like a crazy man didn't
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dislodge it which is nice to see as I was worried about it falling off the
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second I laid eyes on it both the left and right side panels featur these nice
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thumb screws that stayed attached to the side panels when you removed them but
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Corsair didn't bother to include this feature on the bottom and top panels
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which is quite unfortunate as you will be needing to remove them from time to
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time first we have the bottom panel which will need to be removed in order
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to access the filter which is built into the bottom panel that filter will be
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filtering the three potential fans which can be mounted in the bottom of the case
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and your lowest mounted graphics card unit the bottom panel also doesn't come
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with any feet installed but in the accessories bag you'll find four 3M
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rubber feet which you can install yourself a fairly odd Choice from
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Corsair not to just pre-install them but I guess it would be really nice if you
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wanted to have the case in a different orientation secondly we have the top panel which will also need to be removed
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due to its built-in fan filter which will filter your top three potential
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fans other than that the top panel is also used to house the SSD cage ssds are
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quite easy to install in this cage due to its bendable Trace system but I would
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have really liked to see a hot swab plate on the other side due to the
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drives being installed somewhat externally it would have made the installation of them much more elegant
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before we head on inside we have to check out the hard drive cage which is
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accessed from the back of the unit just above the power supply I was happy to
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see that the thumb screw of this little door stayed attached to the door once
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you removed it although I do think it would be kind of cool if the door was on
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a hinge instead of needing to be completely removed whenever you want to
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open it the hard drives are installed in the same style as the ssds with the
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bendable Trace solution and just like the ssds I would have liked to see a hot
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swap plate on the other side and yet again it would have made a much more
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elegant process inside the back of the case we get to see the internal views of
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those storage Bays the installed ssds aren't the easiest things to plug cables
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into needing to come up from the bottom doesn't really make it that much better
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but it's generally okay the hard drive cage is easy enough to use for hard
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drives but also stands directly in the way of your CPU power cable and your CPU
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cutout on the back of your motherboard Corsair's solution for this is a thumb
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screw which is included with the hard drive K making it removable and this
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makes the CPU cutout very easy to access but doesn't solve the problem for the
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CPU power run issue I was able to run the CPU power cable from my Corsair
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rm850 behind the cage and mashed the cage back into its Spot while pinning it
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down with one hand and installing the thumb screw which ultimately held it in
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place with the other this worked but only because the cable was flat and I
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would never actually recommend you do this what I would have liked to see
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Corsair do was cut a hole in the hard drive cage that lines up with the CPU
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power cut out this would allow you to opt out of installing a third hard drive
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in exchange for a clean and easy CPU power cable run instead of the current
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Solutions which are messy power cable run and a hard drive bay or clean power
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cable run and no hard drive bay neither of those Solutions sound like a very fun
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compromise to me there are plenty of cable management loops on the back but I
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didn't bother use them I'm not super worried about having a cable Nest back
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there as it isn't exactly blocking any crucial airflow and you won't really
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have to look at it due to the awesome dual chamber design then we finally come
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to the inside of the main chamber where again due to the dual chamber design we
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see a very clean and greatl looking aesthetic especially when viewed through
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the side panel window it would be hard to make this build not look fantastic
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due to how naturally clean the case appears if you opt to go with an AO
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liquid cooling unit you will be likely installing it in the front due to
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restricted space above the motherboard limiting you to just fans without a
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radiator or just a radiator without fans that being said the front of the case is
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close enough to your CPU socket that pretty much any cooler should work and
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while it's possible to install a liquid cooler with tubes on the bottom making
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it work would kind of sa rifice aesthetic a lot and it wouldn't really
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fit very well either this is what led me to notice something with an matx
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motherboard which is what I expect a lot of people to install in this case due to
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its size and an AI liquid cooler in the optimal position having the tubes at the
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top you really can't access as many fan spots as I had hoped you're able to
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install one fan in the top with the rest being obstructed by your AO AO liquid
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coolers tubing and it's likely that none of your bottom fans can be installed to
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either the radiator or the headers on the motherboard instructing those next
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up we have the two 80 mm fans in the back which I don't expect many people to
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be rushing to fill 80mm fans are notorious for being audibly annoying of
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course there are exceptions to that but because of this I very rarely see them
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being implemented that leaves us with the 120 mm case fan in the back of the
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unit which is going to essentially mostly cool your cables so effectively
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with a dual rad AIO liquid cooler and an matx board you will likely have your
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radiator fans and one fan in the top of the case but this thing is called an air
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240 and if you installed an air cooler you can avoid some of these issues and
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be able to fill the top of the case with fans another thing that deserves its
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time in the spotlight is the graphics card Installation System which is very
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easy to use due to its hinge mechanism and the fact that it doesn't require any
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screws at all due to the ability to install an matx motherboard and the fact
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that the case is quite long you'll be able to use this Installation System to
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plug in up to two graphics cards at a maximum length of 290 mm and last but
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not least is the case blackout the HD audio does have a little bit of color on
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the end but all of the other included cables are completely black and the rest
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of the case is completely black as well including the soft rubber grommets this
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will allow the case to suit virtually any color scheme you throw at it and
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this yet again caters to the great aesthetic of the a240 speaking of great
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