Corsair 900D

Anyone have an opinion on the 900D? What a beast.

http://www.corsair.com/900d

Well I use the bays all the time, that sucks that get god ride of it.

also its no different then the 800D, looks like all they did was add hdds bays, and made it a little bigger.

I say a big:

MEH

for now till I see more, but basically they didn't give us more room for rads or anything and took a way the fans   

actually I'm very disappointed, I expected more room for rads and better fan placement.

btw what is the case for? a person that needs lot of storage? I mean wtf? I have 10 hdds and I don't have no use for that many internal drives, for one thing, you can put drives internal or external, number of drives that fit are really pointless past 4 hdds.

what is important is cooling, with my setup and this case, I'm still stuck with the same config as I have on the 800D, in a better case I expect room for my rear fan inside the case and much better fan placement.

There are other cases out there that have room for both rads and better fan placment, as a corsair fan, I'm very disappointed.

But I will hold my final judgment for when I can have a better look at it.

Edited by DST4ME - 03 Mar 2013 at 9:59am

im guessing that it will be priced higher than the 800d? if so by how much.. and if u cant say i understand.. mabe i will wait a little bit longer for my hailstorm and get the new case...

They better have a lot more room or something for that price.

its probably be good for those DS builds that need a dual psu but for cooling so far I have not seen proper room for 2 x 360 or 420 rads.

Edited by DST4ME - 03 Mar 2013 at 5:30pm

10 rear slots = not really an improvment, nor do we need it, 800d can do it without.

4 front optical bays = waste of space

dual psu = waste of space for most people plus I can do that now in the 800d

more behind mobo = meh

built in cable managment = meh

now:

intake front fans are not needed in an lc really, all you need is a good proper side fan.

rear 140mm fan = have that now

also not sure the rear 240 rad will work with push/pull on top.

stick a 360 rad in the front is not gonna breath well, where is the air gonna come from?

If you can stick 360 in the lower front then that is a plus and that would be good.

as for side rad, the last thing I want to do is stick my rad close to my psu.

So in short the only real upgrade I see there is the ability to stick a 360 rad in the lower front, but that is a great upgrade on its own.

Its not like the avantum, in teh avantum you don't have room to use rads I would use you have to use smaller rads, better thicker rads most times yeild better temps.

I said my peace, you can stick a 260 in the front but look at the front, its closed off so you are not getting any air to blow in to your rad or blow out, if you are blowing in, thats a bad idea, I never liked the idea of blowing hot air from a rad over my mobo/gpus/ram/etc. If you put the rad on the bottom you are again facing going with the flow of warm air (bottom to top) which again you are blowing hot air into your case, or you go against the natural flow of air and try and push the air thru rad to the bottom of the case, in which case it just will be sucked back in the case via psu and natural flow of hot air (it rises.)

So we can name all the upgrades, but I'm only impressed with what really works and not just sticking things in places and then padding each other in the back for a great job done.

what they could have done was to keep the front open at least so I could stick the rad there, again not the best place but if its open then I will take that over the bottom, or they could have put the psu in the top in place of 2 media drives and leave the bottom so you could put the side 480 in there and blow the air out the side and not worry about being close to the psu.

I do agree that the 900D would make a much better case for the aventum.

At the end at least it has options to put 2 big rads in there which is more then I can say for my 800d, and that I do like even tho its not my best choice.

If I did get it, the psu would go straight to the top so that the bottom is free for a nice 480 rad or better yet maybe 3 x 240 rad for a tri/quad sli gpu setup.

But honestly I'm tired of playing around with these cases, its never the best setup simply because room is an issue, my next build is gonna be a Ascension CYO (Crystal Ship probably:



Edited by DST4ME - 04 Mar 2013 at 12:36am

Keep in mind you are not getting real LC performance from h100i.

Sweet looking custom cube rig sir, and I see the top mount PSU on it too.      

I have a feeling you of all people could make a 900D work as well, but I understand the points you raised.    That front panel gets air from gap space on all sides, and the solid front panel is just for looks and pulls off just like a speaker cover.    If they left the bottom all vented for intake use, I would think you could mount a big front rad with fans to vent outward.    Would kind of spoil the improved cross case airflow of the 3 front fans though.

My biggest gripe is that none of the case makers address the top of the mobo heat from the VCORE heatsinks very well....The focus on GPU cooling is good, but VCORE gets ignored.

ASUS has a RAMPAGE Maximus V Formula Z77 flavor board out with a hybrid air/water VCORE heatsink + LCS ports for water cooling running through the VCORE sinks.   Haven't seen any reviews of it hooked up to LCS yet.   Be interesting to see if it helps temps much.

http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/MAXIMUS_V_FORMULA/

do they give the same temps? just one is air and one is liquid? or is there a definite difference in performance?


im running a closed system liquid cpu cooler now no idea what model it is.. came with my AW area 51 back in 2010. never had to do anything with it besides flip the fan, cus apparently that company thinks pulling air from inside tha case is a sane thing to do to cool a cpu....

The Noctua and the H100 cool about the same but the Noctua is quieter and its big block of cooling fins leaves little to go wrong.     But, the sealed units like H100 are here to stay and work well.   They require no maintenance.   

Edited by bprat22 - 04 Mar 2013 at 5:34pm