Corsair Obsidian 800d Computer Case

This thing is huge. Stay tuned, I'll give you sneak peak of the Corsair 800d Obsidian. Thing's massive. Alright so is thing big enough for you? Check it out, this is the 800d from Corsair. Now this thing is not really even for sale yet. Corsair is selling it on their website, but they haven't distributed out to everybody to sell. And they sent me a sample, this is their first production sample. So at first, I think it was at Computex in Tai Pei, that they showed the case off for the first time, some pre-production models. This is the real deal. Check it out. Very impressive case. As you can see I can disappear behind it because it's very, very big. A lot of space in here, it's going to fit all your motherboard sizes, your mini and your micro ATXs, your ATX and your extended ATX are all going to fit in here. It's black everywhere, there's nothing in here that's not painted black, the interior, the exterior, it's all aluminum steel. Very nice construction, incredible though went into making this case. They really took it to the next level. They pretty much got the case they said, "Here's the case, tell us what you think that needs to be changed about it." They got everyone's opinion on it, and then they came up with this thing. They literally took almost everything into account. It's got some of my favorite features that I love seeing on computer cases, such as a backplate, to take out your CPU cooler without taking the motherboard out, that's a big pain in the butt. It's got some hot, swappable drives in the front, that support SSDs, which is great, because nowadays, if you buy SSDs, you got nowhere to put them. And that's quite annoying. Tons of air flow. It's very, very compatible with water cooling. There's a lot of water cooling holes everywhere, lots of good ventilation for air cooling. Tons of fans I mean it's really out of this world, the way they built this case. And the best part about it, they took some pretty extra special steps to give you some really nice cable management. And they did an excellent job because this case can definitely show off your internals very nicely. And hide all those cables easily. Now, let's start by coming over here to the outside, I'm going to show you guys. Very important one of my favorite things about the case, right up here in the front, I'm going to sit on the table here. Right here boom, this is where you can put your hard drives. So hot, swappable drive bays. You have four base you can do a rate five array, or you can stripe, or I have ever done the drives, really up to you. Here are your caddies and basically these caddies, if you simply attach a 2.5 inch SSD to this side of it, actually I'm sorry, yeah to this side of it right here, the holes are going to line up back just like if it was a 3.5 inch SATA hard drive, so basically you just use two screws, and then you can hot swap in pretty much any SSD you want, which is fantastic. You can also put in 2.5 inch mobile drives, 3.5 inch drives, it's really up to you. Another cool feature is, I don't know if you can get it all but if you zoom up, let's see if I can edge this thing over here, if you look at these little hinges right here, they actually pop up, so you can actually pull this little spring up, and pull this one out and basically what you can do is remove the whole door, using that little mechanism and bring it over here to this side. So in case your computer's on your right hand side, you want to open the door from the other side of the case you can, you can flip it over so it opens from this side, and not from this side. So very, very cool feature right there, right off the bat. Next thing you move up here to the top, you'll see you have one, two, three, four five and a quarter inch bays So that's plenty of space for expandability. DVD drums, fan controllers, whatever, Blu-ray drives, media card readers, you can throw it all on there. Up here at the top you are going to see your power button is right there with an indicator light. And then right here you do have an input/output front panel. With four USB 2.0s, FireWire, and then you have input and output for your headset and your microphones. And this entire front panel is like a brushed matte black aluminum finish, which is very, very, very nice. I will also direct you now, so let's finish doing the exterior of this thing. Up here at the top, lots of space for big fans. So the first thing that's going to come to mind when you see something like that, and you're an enthusiast is "Wow." A 3 x 120 radiator would fit perfectly up there, and that is exactly what they want you to think too. It's basically what it's meant for, it doesn't even come with fans there, it comes with a 3 x 120 mm radiator. Also at the bottom even though you have tons of air flow options, you have a big suction right here, about 120 mm across for a big fan right there. And then you have big intake here, with a removal dust shield, whole thing comes out as you can see. And basically this is to suck in air for your PSU, which is bottom mounted and in turn, will exhaust the hot air out the back, the dust filter will keep the dust out, keep everything nice and clean. Now what we'll do is moving on, to the back so you can see how everything works back here. Very, very nice set up. Starting from the top, you're going to notice that again, hot air rises consistently all the time, it's just the way that nature works and it's the laws of physics. And if you're going to have a radiator up here, they wanted to have a little bit of extra space here to get some hot air out. So they did add this big bet they do have extra space in the case, why not have the extra space being ventilated as well. You're going to see two water cooling holes right here. This is going to be a big 120 mm fan, you have your input/output shield right here. And then you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, PCI Express expansion slots in total width, the eighth space that sticks out a little a bit, so if you want to run a classified, with some dedicated physics card, you can run that last third SLI card, down here at the bottom and it's not going to be running into nothing. So you can mount the third card down there, and then finally, down here, your bottom mounted PSU chamber. Now, another thing you'll notice is up here these two buttons on both sides, very, very nice releases for your doors, there's just a button. So if literally you just want to open your door, you push the button, pop the panel off, and that's it, you're done, there's no wires, there's nothing. Very easy to put on and take off. Once you have the side panel off, you will notice that the inside of this case is gorgeous. It is beautiful in so many ways, it's got so much nice stuff on here. Looking through first of all you will notice it is all black, it's like a 'must have' nowadays. It just seems to accentuate your nice expensive hardware, when you have it all blacked out. You'll also notice that there are holes here, and markings for just about every type of motherboard, ATX, EATX, they're all going to fit in there. And basically, some of your risers are already installed here, so you don't need to do it. So pretty much the ATX risers are all pre-installed. You will also notice there is a massive hole here, backplate, to remove your air cooler or your water cooler, and then reinstall it without actually having to take the motherboard out of the case. You literally just take it off through here, you'll also notice we have thumb screws on every single PCI expansion slot right here, so those are very convenient to have. You have a big fan up here at the top and again there's the water cooling holes, sticking out at the top. My favorite part about this case probably so far, has to be these holes for the wire management. First of all they're all over the place. So depending on what motherboard you have, you have convenient access to all of them, all around the motherboard. From every location, since there's so many, you're not trying to force three PCI Express cables for triple SLI through one little hole, where they all get stuck up. You have plenty of space to bring the cables from different, different sides, and it's not really a big deal, if you have a lot of cables into your motherboard. So very nice, you'll also notice that these rubber seals, now these are multi purpose. A, they kind of hide the fact that this is just a big hole sticking out, and second of all they separate the air flow from the back of the case, because there's actually vents back here, that force air out I'll show you those in a second, and where that air flow comes from, but they did not want the hot air from behind the motherboard coming out into this area. So they did provide you with those holes too. Now when you move down over here to this side of the case, you will notice that you have two holes here, for water cooling, so those are right there, you can literally go down here to your pump or your reservoir. Also a very, very large fan right here, I believe it's a 140 or 137 mm fan, that's going to be bringing cool air in, from this vent hole that I showed you, up earlier. Up through here into this chamber, and then it's going to be going out through here, and rising up through the top. Which is a really nice design, very intuitive, obviously kind of like the SilverStone stuff where the hot air rises, and you want the cool air coming from the bottom, they just didn't flip the motherboard over. Now another really cool feature, another fan that you'll find in this case is when you open up this section, check that out, how cool is this? First of all you know that right here in the front of this case, right up here is where the hot swappable drives are. You know, here's the door, remember? OK, so the hot, swappable drives are in here, this fan is going to cool the hot, swappable drives by themselves. It's literally, just going to suck in air from the case, and cool down all the hard drives, and it's going to shoot that hot air, rather than going back into the case, it shoots it behind the case. So it's going to be coming through behind here through the backplate. And then you'll notice that on the back side of the case, you do have this nice little slot right here, that ventilator, that ventilates all the back panel area. So very, very nice, all the hot air is going to come out of there, and it's not going to go into the case. So that's an ingenious design. Now let's talk a little bit about some more about this wire management, here's the part that affects these hot, swappable drive bays, and I really love this, this little feature. But you'll see here, I'm going to pull this little tab, and there's your back plane. For all your SATA hard drives. Just sitting there right there. You're going to cover all those cables, with this little plastic shield, and it's so simple but, God, it goes so far to help bring your wire management look so clean. You don't have to worry about anything, you plug in all your SATAs and all your powers in here. You run them through this hole, right here, out the back, and then as soon as you're done with that, you simply slide this right back in. And you're good to go, so very, very simple set up for wire management. You really, look at that, how simple is that? All those wires that were there, four SATA cables and four SATA power adapters, are now completely hidden. You don't even see them, going into the back hole, because it covers that too. So very, very ingenious. Now on top of only holding four hard drives, it actually does hold more than that, if you actually point your attention down here at the bottom. There's an additional section here, for 3.5 inch drives as well. And again those are also covered, which is pretty impressive because even the ones that are kind of out of sight, are still going to get some very nice aesthetically pleasing covers to hide the wires. And that's going to end up making you entire case look extremely, extremely professional. Really, really good stuff. But again you can put three drives in here. And then basically just seal it up and nobody will ever know they're down there. So if you have a nice little fast array up here, with VelociRaptors or SSDs, then down here you can put your storage drives. You can keep the cool air up here and the hot air down here. That's it, I mean its just the whole case is so, so well thought out, so well engineered. So lots of good stuff on here. Wire management. Oh, and I even forgot to mention, all the five and a quarter base, tool-less. That's pretty much become a standard nowadays, you pretty much have to, have to have tool-less. One final thing I want to show you a little bit more on the back side of this thing so you can see what it looks like, on the back. And all the options that you have for wire management. Because they really, really thought out the wire management on this case. Probably one of the top cases I've ever seen for wire management. So here we are looking at the back, first thing you'll notice is all the wires for the input/output in the front panel, are all black. Now you know they're usually colored a like rainbow, and it's kind of annoying, kind of ugly, when you have an all black case with some really, really nice computer hardware in it. But you will notice again, the hot air is coming out of the hard drives over here, out through the back panel, it's all hidden. This is the cap for your back panel shield. And so basically, this is not always going to be open. You can cover it up to keep it nice and sealed, to not leak hot air into the case. Closes up just like that. And then also you will notice that there all the holes here for your wires, to put them through. You basically don't even really need like zip ties and loops, because the rubber kind of holds it together. And then back here you kind of loop it with zip ties. So it holds its shape. Put the panel on, you don't have to worry about it, you don't have to tie it up. So very, very ingenious design. Really good stuff. And I can't say enough about the extent, the length they went to when they engineered this case to make it work out, to make it look great. And to make it very effective as far as cable management goes, because that is really, really important when you're air cooling. You've got to have the cables out of the way, so that they do not cause a lot of interruption in the airflow of your case. And it's going up through here and you have your big, fat ID cables, and all sorts of cables in the way. It disrupts the flow and in turn the CFM, and the efficiency of the case drops and your hardware gets even hotter. And then you crash and that's just not good, especially for overclocking and gaming and being enthusiasts. So, the 800d very nice, I like it a lot, good job Corsair, and I'm actually going to build a PC in this one, probably with the new P55 stuff that just came out with the Core i5, so stick around you might see it on the Internet or something. So as usual if you have any questions, feel free to email me, and I'll see you guys next time. For more information on the Corsair Obsidian 800d Full Tower Case, type in C13-2514 into the search engine of any of these major retailers. For Computertv, this is Albert.