Corsair Fires Shots at the $99 Case Market - 400C & 400Q - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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welcome to the Corsair booth at CES 2016
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we have got a couple of case products to show you guys starting with the carbide
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clear 400 C and the C is for
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Corsair no it's not it's for Clear huge thanks to Squarespace for sending Linus
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Media Group to CES 2016 check out the link in the video description to learn
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more about Squarespace so what they've done here is
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they've basically taken the concept of an optical drive list computer case
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which is not the first time we've seen it but they've gone and they've tried to find what they think is a better balance
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in terms of features and size than what's already on the market so the 400c
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allows a full ATX motherboard it's got there what I personally think is just
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stunning we first saw it on the 760 uh T
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their their full glass door with the removable hinge style thing on the side
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here and then they've allowed you to effectively Jam an incredible amount of
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Hardware in here so the power supply is covered by a nice by the way removal
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shroud and then there's another shroud piece here that can also be removed if
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you want to cover up your cable management so you can see the way that they've got it done here makes it look
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really clean or you can take it out if you want to be able to pop in a triple
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120 mm Radiator in the front to go along
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with that you can put another dual 120 mm Radiator in the top for a total of
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five 120 mm RADS in what is a mid tower
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case in fact if you're going custom liquid cooling it's possible
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no I think we'd have interference on the back but still very very impressive on
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the top you've got their awesome magnetic removable fan filter system
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going on here and in terms of airflow there's basically no restriction because
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while the front panel is the sort of Corsair signature I mean we're talking
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since the 800d flat black box the sides
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themselves are completely full of air vents that are almost an inch off the
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front of the case so you're going to have ample air flow in any situation now
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there's actually two versions of this case there's the C with the c for coair
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and then there's actually the 400 Q the
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carbide quiet 400 Q where the Q is for
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quar a so uh really different from the other one and the only differences here
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are that the top is now also removable but not a fan filter because it's
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supposed to be quiet! you're not supposed to fill it with fans but you can because you can take the top off and on the
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other side of this you got magnets so you can go ahead and mount that puppy on there as well as noise deadening
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material now this is unusual but the Q and the C both actually cost exactly the
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same and normally you charge extra for the window the reason for that is that
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the que has noise deadening highdensity rubber material on all of the internal
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panels and that costs money just the same as an acrylic or Plexi window does
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so you can see in this one they haven't gone quite as balls to the wall in terms of all the liquid cooling radiators and
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all that stuff a more modest conf configuration but that's what you'd expect the one cool thing about this is
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it gives you a bit of a better look at that cable management hole with this
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bottom shroud here I don't think I can remove
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this but uh oh hold on oh no there's a
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there's no there's a screw in the back so we won't pull too hard on it which
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leads us then I guess to the last Corsair case that we're showcasing and
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this is the carbide series spec Alpha
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personally not a fan I think the the
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word that they've asked me to use is polarizing when I think what I said was
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repugnant or something like that it's got this angular front that kind of you
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know Towers over you menacingly except that it's except that it's kind of small
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but it does have some positive things going for it um the aesthetic can be
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customized the colors can actually be changed very easily we've got two
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versions of it over here so there's like a red and white there's a black and gray
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there's also going to be a black and yellow and then any number of other colors if a system integrator or whoever
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else wants it it's got built-in fan control and it's got you know the usual
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things you'd expect from Corsair so the mesh front uh for good air flow the side
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window for you know nice tall CPU coolers if you're into that sort of
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thing or you know liquid cooling compatibility if you're into that sort of thing let me know in the comments am
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I totally wrong is this the New Black I
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do genuinely want to hear from you guys I mean surely someone likes it
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apparently this is a big hit from the Latin American and the Chinese resellers
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they're like super stoked on this so I want to hear from you guys so thanks for
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checking out our first video here from the Corsair Suite on the 400c 400 Q
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remember the C and Q are both for Corsair as well as the spec Alpha I
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believe this thing goes by thanks for uh checking us out and a huge thanks to
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whoops this one Squarespace for allowing us to be here at CES 2016 remember guys
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