Corsair Graphite Series 600T Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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graphite it's not quite as strong as
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obsidian but it's still pretty cool because you can actually put it in
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pencils and write with it and apparently you can also brand a Corsair case with
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graphite so this is the graphite series 600t from Corsair I've received yes I
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know you know what I'm about to say but I'm going to say it anyway I have received endless requests to unbox and
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do a first look video of this case I actually should have had one sooner but
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it looks like it got lost in the mail or something something terrible happened
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and I didn't have one until now but I finally do and we are going to run it
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through the paces so I am doing the unboxing portion of the video now where
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I un the box and then we will proceed in
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just a moment with looking at the case
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and doing the first look part of the video now I've actually seen one in
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person already so I cheated a little bit so it will not quite be my first look
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but it might be your first look and it will certainly be my first Hands-On so
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first let's have a look at the Box itself you can see that Corsair actually
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conveniently labels all of the features that they want to talk about on this
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case here so you've got dual 200 mm fans provided that is one on the top and one
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in the front by the look of things we've got easily accessible dust filters and
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oh they make maintenance simple and Happ hassle free okay that's terrific we've
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got actually here cameraman if you want to look at the picture and then I'll kind of read them out we've got quick
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release side panels just like the 800 de although it looks like a different
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mechanism we have an integrated fan controller that allows you to adjust for
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either performance or silence four toolfree Optical bays and up to six SSD
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ready hard drive trays CPU back plate cutout allows you to take out your CPU
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Cooler or install a new one without actually removing the motherboard which
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is brilliant as well as the brilliant cable routing system which just like the
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800d is really almost the most critical part
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of case Design After Aesthetics in my opinion because it's such an important
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part of Aesthetics adjustable Drive cages room for long power supplies and
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eight expansion slots giving you room even for those new XL ATX motherboards
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from the likes of Gigabyte cameraman's giving me a hard time about how long
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we've been doing an unboxing without finishing opening the box so as you can
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see it comes in wow this is like 2in thick foam all around the entire case so
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this thing will make it to you and it
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will not be destroyed on its way I have failed that unboxing it is
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upside down that's okay I can flip it over it's all
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good so I'm just going to do that there we are here it is in all of
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its Glory the Corsair graphite 600t so
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let's do our exterior Impressions first so cameraman if you want to come in and
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have a look at the front you can see the entire front of the case is a dust
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filtered meshed finish so that means
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that you're going to have excellent air flow coming from the front of the case
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you've got your four Optical Baye here in the top and then down here you can
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clearly see there's a cooling fan installed behind this mesh and we'll
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have a closer look at that once we open it up on the top of the case we've got
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four USB 2.0 ports as well as that fan
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controller knob that they were talking about on the outside of the box
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headphone Port microphone Port USB 3.0
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super speed Port as well fire wire and then finally a hard drive LED there's a
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power switch here a reset switch here they both have satisfying clicks to them
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and then we've got yes more cooling more
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mesh Corsair is serious about the cooling it's a gaming oriented company
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so it makes sense that this case is going to be geared towards Gamers we'll
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move around to the back of the case you can see the side panels are quite clear
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this is not a windowed case although as
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we're about to find out just because there's no window does does mean you can't have a nice interior we've got a
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120 mm cooling fan which would be perfect for an H50 or an h70 we've got
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room for our IO Shield then we have eight PCI expansion slots two little
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water cooling grommets as well as room to install a standard ATX power supply
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on the other side of the case we will find nothing out of the ordinary and I
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guess we might as well have a quick look at the bottom you see I'm having trouble twisting it around it's because it has
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these great rubber feet on the bottom that are going to keep it from sliding
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off your desk or having any other kinds of difficulties with the case see
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they're very good I can put all my weight on it not that I weigh a lot
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although we did just have Thanksgiving up here so I had a lot of turkey side
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panel you can see right here there's not a whole lot of flex to it you expect a
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little bit but Corsair really doesn't skimp on the materials and you can see
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the way that their latch works is quite robust a lot of the time you look at
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these tool-free mechanisms and you just go yeah that's going to break uh this
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does not look like that is going to be the case so we'll take off that side
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panel take off the other side panel so we can get a really clear look at what
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we're dealing with here and let's have a look at the inside
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so we find zip tied to the inside or rather twist tied to the inside an
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instruction manual as well as some accessories so cameraman can sort of
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take you on a video Silent video tour of the inside of the case while I look at
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the accessories and decide which ones are noteworthy enough to talk about all
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right I'm done cameraman come back okay we have keys so
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this is to lock the side panel of the case so that thieves cannot steal your
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stuff excellent at least I think so then we
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have some black zip ties for managing your cables they include probably about
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enough to do a typical build then we have motherboard screws as well as other
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screws that you will need fan screws and then some rubber grommets okay let's
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have a look at the interior so here we go this is become sort of Corsair's
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trademark thing these uh silicone uh
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rubbery grommy things so you install your power supply here and then
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basically these allow you to Route cables wherever you could possibly want
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them to go so you take them right out here or through this cut out here you
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bring out your 24 pin here you bring out your eight pin up here you bring out
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your uh your optical drive connectors way up here so it means that you never
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have to see cables running anywhere all you see is that the cable goes in this
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and then it comes out exactly where it needs to be and they've included ample
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space on the back of the motherboard tray and this one drives me nuts when
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manufacturers do this when they create cable routing options and then there
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isn't actually really enough space on the back to Route the cable like you
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look there's quite a bit of space there so if you're running a 24 pin cable
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you're actually going to be able to close your panel I've seen cases that have room to route a 24 pin cable on the
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back and you can't close the panel once you've actually got it back here they've
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also got a couple little uh Loops where you can install zip ties here here and
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here so you can use those to make sure that the cables stay down flat when
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you're running them up the back of the case here are the connectors for all of
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your internal uh so all of your front panel connectors you can see they're all
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sleeved in black and uh there's a lot of them I already covered what's up there
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so I don't really need to tell you too much more about that the front panel fan
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controller is here and we're about to find out because I have no idea to be
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perfectly honest with you how many fans it can control and the answer is four so
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there's two included fans here another one here and then it looks like you can
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oh and another one here so by default no that's power so by default
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you can control the three included fans and then one additional one with the fan
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controller knob and then this looks like power for the fan controller knob itself
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okay so here we have six 3 and 1/2 in hard drive installation trays I'm going
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to go ahead and pull one of those out from the other side
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and I think I'm actually going to turn the case around cuz we've seen everything that we need to see from that
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side and by turn the case around I mean turn the cameraman around cuz that's sort of more effective now you can see
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these have a bit of a flimsy look to them but I've seen these before as soon
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as you install a hard drive in them they firm right up you slide them in boom
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your hard drive is installed it's completely toolless and you see how they
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jiggle now once a hard drive is in there they will not move they're actually a
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very ingenious design and I really really like them here at the front we
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have that one 200 mm fan and then up in the top we have an oh I'm sorry hold on
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yeah and then we have another 200 mm fan up in the top you can see it has a good
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number of blades on it and it is quite
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nice looking although you do not have to use those fans it looks like we've got
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mounting holes for potentially a variety of other sizes of fans for the top so
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that's pretty cool too there's the 120 mm fan that I showed you from the back
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and here's a little design by Corsair logo so you can actually see that is
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right below the cameraman that is right below the CPU cutout so that's quite a
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large CPU cutout no matter where your socket is located you will be able to
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remove the back plate and remove the CPU Cooler without any hassle here is our
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toolfree 5 and 1/4 in Bay device uh
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installation and removal Gadget there
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that's I think what they're called on the Corsair sheet although probably not
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so you pull that out you pull your drive out you push that in after you put it in
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and that installs your drive it's that simple and you can put in a screw from
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the other side if that's not quite secure enough or if you're going to ship the system or anything like
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that I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the
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600t thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and don't forget
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to subscribe to Linus Tech tips cameraman and I found a few more
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things off camera first of all this is removable so you can reach the fan in
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the front you can uh clean the dust filter which is part of this little
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panel with the Corsair branding on it there's also Al a removable dust filter
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in the bottom uh which I showed you before but didn't really talk about so
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you can take that out just like the 800d you can remove that clean it all that
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good stuff and then this whole panel is actually removable as well you just
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click down on it and then you can uh use the key that I talked about but I
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couldn't find a keyhole for to lock the
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uh the side panel or to unlock it so
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that is all I wanted to say about the 600t