Corsair Obsidian Series 800D CC800DW Black Computer Case With Side Panel Window

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This is an excellent case overall but I must warn those of you considering purchase. Corsair has built a intermediary circuit board to facilitate hard drive plug and play in the main drive bay. It essentially cuts of any alternative access for sata and power supply. This is fine under normal circumstances, but what happened was during installation, the series sata power connector broke while I was trying to install the plastic cover and my first clue about said malfunction came when I turned on the computer and was greeted by a spark and some smoke. (Apparently it was the broken connector alone, and, thankfully not my expensive hardware)Anyway, in vivid retrospect, the clearance between the plastic cover door and the inserted sata power cable is way to stingy, even with diligent manipulation. With the power connector broken, the only way I could get my power cables inside the drive bay was to warp the metal structure with a large screwdriver and push the necessary cables inside. (it still looks ok as I did it with nearly unnoticeable damage.) But the bottom line is that this is an Achilles heel. the cable is series and not parallel as the box picture would have you to believe. Combine this with the non-existence clearance the plastic cover door has on the sata cable and you have one very credible design flaw.Aside from the lack of some certain screws, I have no other problems with this case.

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Okay this situation is cannot weigh 80 to 90 lbs fuly loaded, result in mine is totally equipped with anything....Possibly the guy who wrote the assessment below me really should commence lifing weightsAnyways, Fantastic case, outstanding cable management and plenty fo space to place a midget on a hampster wheel to make the 50 pound cpu run. there are no cons of however this situation sure favors water-cooling, also the V-8 cpu fan fits nicely, and so does 10 to 12 in graphics cards.

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Solid make, aesthetically pleasing, cable management, lots of room, bottom mount PSU, vast cooling possibilities Not seriously a con but... this point is Huge! If you own a microATX mainboard it will appear like a postage stamp inside this issue! :) SOLID situation! you can inform Corsair put some severe time into developing this case. The very first issue I observed when I thew my technique into this case is the dramatic CPU temp drops (with stock fan) I then added the H50 Hydo to the technique and amongst the two I seen a solid -20 degree temp transform! Gave me adequate headroom to push my Phenom II Deneb to three.8GhzIf your hesitating weather or not to obtain this case, take my tips just order it! you will be very pleased with your obtain and probabilities are this is the last case you will ever purchase.

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This situation can hold practically anything at all. Some of individuals water coolers would beg to differ with all the mods i've seen... Not a con to the situation really, but if your making use of air cooling, believe via your placement of fans and wiring...I run a bunch of fans and I had to make a fan power header bascially to retain it neat...sort 'A' character... This case is nevertheless sweet...I wish the lower HDD cage was removable, or had brackets for three HDDs in it, rather of 2 with some funky latch devices. I guess it doesn't seriously matter even though given that I fit the quantity of challenging drives in that I necessary...(I shop a bunch of media on it).

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This case is extremely roomy, and uncomplicated to operate with. Side panel used for hiding excess wiring could bulge if cables are not adequately arranged.Screws supplied will chip the finish even when they are not overtightened. Had to use thin plastic washers on the screws that hold the radiator.Major bay could not be usable depending on the thickness of your 360 radiator. I looked about a lot for a new case for my water cooling, and this is by far the ideal investment I've ever produced.I had no issues with the plastic pieces from the case.

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Wonderful Cable managmentGood all black themeLots and Lots of space, makes the board appear like a postage stamp!Nicely believed out cooling zonessturdy After hunting at tons of reviews and seeing the measurment specs, you will still not be totally prepared with its actual visual size. It is major. I would expect a steel chassis to be heavy, not a problem for me as I don't do a lot of LAN parties, however it may well be for some. Processor power eight pin cable doesn't reach. I looked in the bag for the supposed exention and didn't see a single. I ordered a couple and in spite of the ugly colored wires, I didn't thoughts as they are hidden anyway.good notion for the Processor catch door, but it requires to be heavier material or at least a metal catch. The plastic tab could be broken off fairly easliy.

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This case is good, but for the price I was disappointed that the hdd cover door sticks and they don't include any ssd mounting screws. This is one of the most expensive cases out there, so that's pretty disappointing.

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-Enormous! It gives you so considerably space to operate with. Setting up a water cooling loop in this situation is a breeze. No situation I have ever owned before was so friendly to water cooling setups.-CABLES! The cable management in this case is good. You effortlessly tuck away your wires giving you situation a really nice and clean appear.-Beautiful! The situation itself is completely beautiful. I have never seen a far more wonderful case. The giant side window also really makes you want to hold this child clean and tidy with the good wire management. The front panel is beyond lovely... You honestly have to see it in individual to believe it -LOW AIRFLOW! I wouldn't advise getting this case if your components rely primarily on air cooling. Specially if you have a GTX 480 with the reference cooler-HEAVY! It about 42lbs so its tough to move the case about This has pretty much every thing you could possibly hope for in a high-finish case. It looks nice and sleek, superb cable management and lots of space to function with. I can see myself utilizing this situation for for my builds for at least the subsequent 10 or far more years

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Cable management, air flow, lots of space for all my components with room to spare. Exterior style is sleek, basic and looks very good. Interior design is also superb, compatible with many type aspects and create preferences. Not a large deal but I needed an extension adapter to reach the further power port on my board.Plastic hinges on the from HDD door are fragile. Mine got broken off but portion of me thinks it could have been damaged beforehand somehow. Regardless, Corsair support was superb and had a new door shipped to me in a couple of days. Everyone says the situation is massive and heavy but it's difficult to imagine till it shows up at your front door. Exactly where it is heavy, the space to perform with makes up for it. Loved placing it with each other, and adore searching at it.

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Great, temps on every little thing dropped. I read the other testimonials so I knew specifically what I was acquiring, so for me there are no Cons. Beware, this case is an absolute monster.

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This situation is pretty considerably great!- All aluminum.- Like the all black look.- Lots of space.- Remarkable wire management features.- Built in assistance for a three fan radiator.- Great for water cooling.- Feels incredibly high top quality. The only con I can believe of is the bay covers are not all aluminum. As an alternative, they are plastic with a thin aluminum sheet glued on. This is a shame since the rest of the case is extremely high good quality. As a result of the plastic bay covers, the door that opens up to the usb/firewire/audio region feels a little flimsy. Would undoubtedly reccomend this case! Lian Li aluminum bay covers will fit so you can replace the plastic ones.

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This is almost certainly the very best case I've ever worked with.Big, strong, simple styling.There's area for everything... everything...3 heat zones operate very properly.Cable management is good. They included an atx 12v extender so it can reach all the way. Everything else reached w/ no challenge except the PCIe pwr.Each side panels come off w/ the push of a button (no tools) but secure into spot extremely effectively.Tool-less 5'' bays work excellent. Very same for the two fixed internal bays. The four hot-swap bays do call for screws to hold the drive into the hot-swap carriage.It's reasonably quiet... not silent, but really quiet for a box with this several high-finish components in it... if you want silent, get an ITX Atom. I would have preferred it w/o the window. You can get a strong side panel from Corsair for ร.Hot swap bays are not SATA III (yet)Front panel USB is not USB3 (yet)... Corsair says there will be an upgrade kit at some point.Optical drive bezels would have been good.. plastic drive sticking out of an otherwise strong AL panel really detracts from the look. It's major... genuinely massive. Examine your measurements just before you purchase... it may not fit beneath your desk. This thing is not constructed for LAN partys. Thats neither pro nor con... just a reality.I had no problem with the proper side panel bulging due to cables (some users stated they did)... I'm employing a modular p/s, so almost certainly have fewer cables crammed back there.The panel behind the CPU to replace heatsink brackets is plastic. some men and women have complained about it, but I genuinely see no issue with it. It feels sturdy... why make it even more high-priced just so that a panel (which probable will be removed as soon as each couple of years) out of metal?

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Great case with lots of room. Pick up ahem you order or buy locally as shipping will be expensive. Fits 2 video cards easily. Front hot swap bays are handy if you wish to do backups with internal drives where capacity is cheaper than external.Would buy again

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The easiest situation you can work in. It is certainly the biggest situation I have ever owned, the ASUS EAH6970 DCIIǘDI4SǘGD5 Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP looks tiny in this case. I had the construct total in about 45 mins. This is only the 3rd computer develop for me and was particularly easy. Significant box MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD MotherboardAMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop ProcessorASUS EAH6970 DCIIǘDI4SǘGD5 Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video CardG.Ability Ripjaws X + Turbulence II Series 16GB Ɣ x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL9Q-16GBXLDCORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Overall performance CPU Cooler

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Cable management is second to none. The space is unbelievable. Really really a bit larger than you standard total tower. Hot Swap bays are quite great. (wish they had been SATA III compatible) Construction is of the highest top quality in create and components. Nicely worth each penny! Not also substantially of a con but it is extremely heavy (which I was expecting). Do not plan on moving it around significantly so it is not a large deal. The con for me is the 140mm fans. I got this case with the intentions of maintaining my air cooling. I do not program on liquid ATM. The fans push totally no air whatsoever. I have them running max in the BIOS and you practically can\'t feel any air out of the exhaust. I added three 120mm fans on the leading and my temps on most elements in my case were on typical 8c more than my prior case. (Antec Nine Hundred)If you are water cooling then this will in all probability not be a huge challenge.Other than that it is a Best case. Even with the fan problem it is not worth dropping an egg given that I knew by other evaluations that the air cooling was pretty poor with stock fans. Immediately after a week of getting the situation I ordered 3 Areocool Shark 140mm Black Edition (to maintain the all black theme). They have lowered my temps by nearly 10c on all of my elements over the stock fans. It has even dropped it below what I was acquiring in my Antec Nine Hundred on average (about 2c cooler). Not that the fans have been replaced it is the excellent case. I would undoubtedly advise three Aerocool Shark fans if you buy this and strategy on operating on air. The fans seem to have the greatest CFM to DB ratio and are black to match the situation.

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This is actually a huge tower. I read other individuals reviews saying it was massive but I in no way thought it would stand almost chest height to my 3 yr old! it cant move itself around!

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This situation will fit almost everything. It's a water cooling dream case for water cooling lately due to the space. You can fit complete size radiators at the best and involve Corsairs personal H70 water cooler (which is also mammoth in size) inside of the case. There is a lot of space for your hands to maneuver. The panels come off just with a press of the button located on the back of the case. They don't slide into spot like most widespread instances. Poor points? This is a hot box for air flow. It's normally the only gripe with the situation. If you are an air flow enthusiast you will not purchase this case. It's very merely created to be for a majority of water cooling. There's no air flow from the front or sides of the situation. It's from the bottom, back, and leading. The weight of the situation is significantly needed to note. It came weighted in its personal box at 44 pounds. Soon after full installation of each and every component, the situation now weights close to 54 pounds. Lanning with this case is not practically as probable as other instances at the very same value point.My construct with this situation:ASUS P6X58D PremiumIntel i7 950CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB Ɠ x 2GB) 1600 TR3X6G1600C8DCORSAIR H70CORSAIR 1000HX PSUXigmatek fans for the leading 3x120mm fans.SAPPHIRE 6870 xfire

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The cae is a tiny bigger then the Antec 1200 I have. I didnt have any of the shipping issues that I have read about. The paint and on the inside and outdoors looks great. Cable routing is going to be a brezze. The only thing that could be superior is the side panels could be a little tighter. There is space for almost everything in this situation. I will post a follow up assessment after I get my create with each other. Right here is what is going to be place itno this situation some of what is here is going to be passed on to my son come july:CPU Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield three.2GHzCooler CORSAIR Hydro H70 Motherboard GIGABYTE G1.Assassin Memory CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 6GB DDR3 DDR3 2000Video card 2x Radeon HD 6850Power Supply CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HXChallenging Drives 2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB Western Digital 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache THe video cards and cpu I am giving to my son in july when I will upgrade them both and yes he got the antec 1200 if any person was asking yourself. Will post a adhere to up on how the develop went.

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This situation has so significantly room. I like how the power supply is set at the bottom of the case, separate from the other elements. The cable routing system is great. The power cords from the motherboard to the power supply get routed behind the motherboard, and down to the power provide. Quite nice. Plenty of fans for efficient cooling. Heavy and bulky! The advantage of lots of space inside the situation comes at a value. This thing is heavy, and I haven't even got all my components installed. It's incredibly substantial, and I'm not positive it's going to fit on my desk, so I may possibly have to place it on the floor.

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Wonderful simple built situationAll mtrls are high excellent and look excellentback plane to run cables make it look wonderful when anything is installedrunning three fans on the top preserve the situation good and cool the size... this is no little situation. Be certain you have a place to put itthe expense... it not low-cost case but is worth it as soon as you get it and recognize how effectively it is created CPU: Intel i7-930MB: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 Ɠx2GB)GPU: EVGA GTX 470 Super clockedSituation: Corsair Obsidian 800DPS: Corsair 750HXExtras:-Windows 7 Ultimate x64-Corsair H50 CPU-Samsung SH-S223L DVD ƒ)-Logisys Dual 8" Green Lights

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This case is what I first decided on when setting out to build a new computer. Once I had all the parts it was extremely easy to get everything into the case. The cable management was easy and the grommets lined up perfectly for all the cables needed with the sabertooth z77. The only complaint I have with this revision of the case is the lack of connector for the front panel usb3.0 to the mobo. I had to purchase a bit fenix adapter to do this in order to keep everything internal. The part was cheap at 10$ but it would have been nice to know this prior to ordering so I would have been able to order it along with the rest of the parts. I spoke with corsair CS and the rep informed me that the upcoming revision of this case would resolve this issue. If I was going to build a computer I wouldn't look at any other case out there, it exudes quality. It can also be price matched for slightly less if you keep an eye out. I got free shipping on my entire order when I ordered this case which was extremely helpful when ordering a complete computer and a case made of the solid materials such as these.

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Space is by no means ever ever an problemOutstanding Ventalation and Chambered compartmentsHot swapable drive baysIts difficult! it can take a beatingCpu back plate access for Cpu coolerSpace behind the motherboard to hide the wiresWhen people see it they say WOW everytime. None i love it but the door that covers the drive bays broke i dont know why i have been gentle The situation accomidates any new or old hardware thats out there and that is so important. becase its so large and it has top vents it keeps your components cool and not croweded. If you have high priced hardware this is the case to hold it in. I see what other brands have built to compete but it just doesnt evaluate Corsair nice function!

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Can put my Corsair H100 in here, or practically any liquid cooling solution, steel and aluminum construction is very fine and solid, this is for the hardcore gamer/enthusiast, don't blow 300 bucks down the drain for nothing. A must have for water cooling solutions and great for overclockers as there is loads of space and room. The other side of the case is used to hide the wires, making it look neat and promoting airflow.

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Totally the most engineered chassis that I’ve ever noticed. Anything is in the proper spot... Everything is perfectly accessible. Air-flow is wonderful. If you dont mind the size and weight, I do not think you can get a greater case. The case is certainly major and heavy… considerably larger than I had visualized, but absolutely worth it. Depending on your create-out, you may possibly require to also pick up extension cables for the 24-pin power and your 8-pin power (or 2 of them if you’ll be using two).

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This case is brilliant, lots of room and not too 'flashy' as some of the other cases out there. Nice black/matte finish and loads of room to setup your components the way you like. Loads of options for routing your wires behind the scenes to avoid clutter.As a bonus, Corsair seems to have upgraded the newer 800Ds with SATA3 and USB3 ports on the front and hot-swap bays, now that's service!