Corsair 200R Value Gaming Carbide Series Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair carbide 200r this is now the
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well you know I shouldn't say lowest end case although it is the most value
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oriented in Corsair's lineup coming in at a pretty wicked price well under 200
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or rather well under a 100 bucks but
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trying to still continue to deliver Corsair's trademark gaming oriented
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features so we're going to go ahead and spend a little bit of time on the
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outside of the case by peeling away all
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of the information that I am able to find about the case so easy builds uh
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the only time you'll need a screwdriver is to install the motherboard something
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something easy ah here yes if we remove the shipping information then we can
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read it like this ha oh man this something Tower form
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factor is called Compact and USB 3 and oh this is just an awful awful
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experience of trying to operate the packaging so we're just going to jump
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right into it and open this bad boy
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up I've been asked a number of times in the past why I insist on Flipping The
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Box over to extract the case from it rather than just cutting open the bottom
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of the box and the reason for that is actually that I usually store the cases
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in a big pile so if I can't keep track of which ones have the top cut open and
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which ones have the bottom cut open at some point I will open up or I'll pick
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up a box and the thing will fall out the bottom and that'll be a bad experience
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for everyone now this case is a low-end case it is lighter but I'd say Corsair
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probably could stand to use a little bit thicker a little bit more rugged foam on
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this one I love to see soft foam but with these value oriented products I
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understand why we're using a molded hard foam because it is a lot less expensive
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on the packaging side now it looks like I've got the case upside down right now
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which is okay because the plastic wrap it looks like it's also on upside down
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so I don't know if that's uh something that happens just with the sample cases
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or something that happens with all of them but there you go why don't we start at the bottom of the case since that's
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what we're doing anyway we have amount for a 120 or a 140 mm fan rubber feet
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keep it from slipping around and you've got a fan filter that is easily whoopsy
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daisies easily removable for the bottom mounted power supply fan let's go ahead
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and flip the case back around to the orientation that it's supposed to live
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in and we'll go have a look at the front of the case two USB 3.0 front panel
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ports headphone microphone reset switch and power switch as well as a power
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indicator LED wouldn't mind seeing this reset switch a little bit further away
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from the power switch but as long as you're careful you shouldn't have too
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much trouble with that three 5 and 1/4 in bays and looks like not a removable
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front piece here however the ventilation
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is going to going to come from these holes on the side and on the side of
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well the other side on the side panel
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this is get it's a good thing we have video to go along with this cuz if I was a radio personality explaining this I'd
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be like they you'd be like what what are there vents on the side are there fans
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on the side are there like children on the side anyway so there's two 120 mm or
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140 mm fan mounts above the CPU area and
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the GPU area on the top of the case you find ah this is pretty much the most
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practical configuration for these holes so you can do two 140s and they'll be
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right up against each other and then what Corsair's done is they've moved the
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220s a little bit away from the motherboard tray to give you clearance
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for the vrm cooler the uh CPU block or
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heat sink or whatever else is going on in order to make it so that you can
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install an h100 dual Radiator in here
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without interfering with any of the other components inside your system so
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while it looks a little bit sort of off center because it is when you have dual
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120s in there it's again very very
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practical as as far as ways to approach that goes this is actually surprisingly
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uh surprisingly thick side panel material for a value oriented case like
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this and the entire interior of the case is uh black painted which is awesome so
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I'm just going to take off both side panels here so that we can get a really good look at things they've also got
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these awesome little rubber grommets these are great for noise isolation and
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what those do is they easily remove and then they can be installed in the
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different holes if those are the ones that you'd prefer to use so you see that
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if you want to use 140 mm fans you just move all those around and you'll get
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that same noise dampening uh no matter what size of fan you decide to use now
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that we're inside we can see oh this is convenient look at that they've actually
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they're assuming you're going to install ITX M8 TX which I believe is sort of
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over to here uh or uh yes these two are
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removable actually let's see are they yeah some of them are removable this is
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removable this is removable and this is removable and you better remove this one
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unless you're installing an matx board I wish they hadn't pre-installed that so
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be really careful guys that'll short out an ATX board but uh they've
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pre-installed the whole the uh the standoffs you need in order to install
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your motherboard you got a nice big CPU cutout 120 mm rear fan which is as
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compatible with a water cooler as these top 100 as these top 120 F mounts and
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you can see the way they've oriented the top 120s actually leaves room for a
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radiator here as well so you could potentially do a single 120 a dual 120
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and then an additional single 120 down here if you actually wanted to you could
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put a pretty Beast water cooling setup in this case in spite of its price the
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Tess 5 and 1/4 in bays are handled just with simple um tension mounted uh see
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there's little Clips in there that are going to clip into the side of the drive
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so you just pull those out when you want to slide the drive out no problems
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whatsoever the front cooling is done by a single 120 mm fan so it should get
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ample air flow from these uh from these vents on either side of it you've got a
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couple of SSD mounts actually Four SSD mounts oh that's outstanding four SSD
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mounts here that are just kind of pressure mounted as well so they
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shouldn't uh yes they clip in from the back right there so they're not going
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anywhere even in shipping and then you've got four 3 and 1/2 in drives this
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is actually a very smart internal layout this is completely custom chassis here
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so I'm going to lay it down for a second or just a little bit and show you guys
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the cable management options so cable management is going to be done here for
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actually for nothing because the power supply will be there here for everything
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that you're going to run up here 24 pin uh Power for your Optical drives all the
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power for your hard drives and all that good stuff and then um well I think
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that's pretty self-explanatory here's all your front panel connectors
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including something that I am not 100%
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sure ah yes okay so they've got a nice flat ribbon cable for the front USB 3
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that's actually the first time I've seen that that looks really sharp and is going to be able to bend much tighter
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see that than usb3 cables on other motherboards that I've seen in the past
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what's cool about that is it's going to make your cable management look quite a
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bit tidier again in spite of the fact that this is a very value oriented case
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now let's go ahead and pop out this I'm sorry for being in my living
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room here guys but I really don't have much of a choice right now I got to get
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this case unbox simulated so here we go some cable ties
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for cable management some uh mounting screws for fans and whatnot radiators
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more likely uh mounting screws for the motherboard and all likelihood and
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mounting screws for optical drives in all likelihood mounting screws for fans
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oh and more rubber grommets in case you lose some I guess cool good thinking
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Corsair and it looks like yeah these are clip-ins too so see there's uh there's
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clip-in pieces right here the way they've done the yeah if you stand there it's not good there we go uh the way
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they've done the tooless on this case is actually outstanding so this will clip
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in and then if you want more security you can screw it in here without much
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difficulty so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at what may
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be the new sort of lightweight uh lightweight champ for for Value gaming
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