CORSAIR Launches Three Stunning New Cases

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CORSAIR®, a world leader in enthusiast memory, high-performance gaming hardware and PC components today announced the release of three new high-performance ATX PC cases. The new Crystal Series 570X RGB and 460X RGB pair renowned CORSAIR build quality and ease of use with beautiful tempered glass and vivid RGB lighting, allowing PC builders to admire and illuminate their system like never before. The Carbide 270R combines sleek minimalist design with an exceptional internal layout designed to make systems easy to install and look their best. Whether you’re building your dream PC or your first PC the new CORSAIR Crystal and Carbide series cases offer the features, looks and quality to help you Build It Better.
 
So, is tempered glass the new "it" thing in cases? Seems like everyone is coming out with a tempered glass case. Going to be around for a while or a short lived fad?
 
ir0nw0lf said:
So, is tempered glass the new "it" thing in cases? Seems like everyone is coming out with a tempered glass case. Going to be around for a while or a short lived fad?
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I have the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv with Tempered Glass, I really dig it.

The only part of Tempered Glass cases I dislike is that they tend to put it behind the motherboard try as well, which, well, looks ugly since lots of wires tend to hide there.
 
Guarana [BAWLS] said:
I have the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv with Tempered Glass, I really dig it.

The only part of Tempered Glass cases I dislike is that they tend to put it behind the motherboard try as well, which, well, looks ugly since lots of wires tend to hide there.
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The best ones don't.
 
Guarana [BAWLS] said:
such as? Almost all the cases I see do that.
These 3 new Corsair cases included.
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Lian Li PC-08
Thermaltake Core P5
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass

I'm not saying they're the best, but just some examples. I'd go for the Lian Li one myself, but I feel it'd break during shipping.
 
Stunning?

The TJ07, Caselabs M8, Corsair 800D and the S-Frame were stunning.
These new Corsair case are just following the RGB trend. Here's a case for people to see all of the lights you've installed in your case.

Antec used to build UFO cases. Now it's Cosair with the clear version of the Antec 1200.
 
Neat idea.

I'm not really in to case windows or LED fans, but its nice to see something new being tried.
 
savagepagan said:
Can't really tell how much air flow the hard drives are getting.
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Half of the 120mm fan blows over the drives. The drive cages look to have elongated holes in them to allow air to flow through, then the air gets sucked out the back by the PSU fans. They'll probably be fine.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Well, yeah. Windows aren't new and LED's aren't new, but I haven't seen this particular design before
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Nah, the tempered glass and LED combo hasn't really been popular til now. In Win had one back in 2014. Lian Li had their's mid 2015. It's just either no one cares for the brand, the price, or the design. It seems that the end of 2016 is when everyone else is jumping on board. Not sure why some brands waited til now.

I do wonder how long it'll last. I remember when it was all the rage to get a full acrylic case.
 
I have a Corsair case and it is nice except for two flaws that would stop me from buying a case from them again if not corrected.

Those HDD rail mounts are just plastic clips and I have had a few of them break on me. I now have one HDD that just sits in the rails with no clip to stop it sliding if I move the case.

The width of my case is too narrow so that the HDD cables get wedged against the side panel and makes it hard to out the side panel on.
 
Looks pretty nice, I was a bit shocked that I didn't see IDE drive mounts for a DVD drive, but then I remember everything is going to USB install anyway and even hard drives are going to the M.2 format, which is cleaner due to lack of cables to manage. It will probably be a long while before we remove the giant CPU heatsink/fans and GPU 90 degree mounting style to reduce case width without limiting capability though. I'm halfway considering building a new box from scratch and keeping my existing system intact as is, but I'll probably hold off for the next DDR generation
 
Guarana [BAWLS] said:
Doesn't look like it, the right side is also tempered glass, so anything you hide behind the mobo is also shown, and is even shown in the video.
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Can always mod. Take that panel to a car window tinter shop and have them put the darkest tint available applied. Then you can't see in, while maintaining the glass surface.
 
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