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hey this is Dimitri with Harbor Canucks and welcome to another video review the Obsidian line from Corsair is getting bigger and bigger and what people have been asking for our smaller enclosures in particularly for a mini ITX obsidian and it seems like courser has listened and on our review table today is this teeny tiny 250 D this is $90 enclosure actually quite competitive within this small form-factor and from what we've seen at CES it packed the space efficient layout so let's check it out the aluminum front panel comes with a protective film and in order to avoid leaving all the gunk and the glue in the grain you peel the film off in the direction of the brushed aluminum they really should put a sticker or something to indicate otherwise you ruin a perfectly clean brushed aluminum surface now after that's done you can say goodbye to the film and get on with your day power and reset buttons are located at the top left along with two USB 3 and audio jacks on the other side separated by a five and a quarter inch drive bay now the front panel is removable with a push to release clips the panel itself is plastic with a tiny aluminum sheet on the surface for that elegant look behind which we find a dust filter and included 140 millimeter intake with both 120 and 200 millimeter mounts there's about 1/2 centimeters of space between the fan and the front panel so front intake will slightly be choked there's also a protective shroud on the fan which is considerate for all the cable work that is about to come the 250 D is actually quite small but is capable of handling full-size ATX power supplies long graphics cards and 240 million radiators but more on that later both side panels are ventilated with magnetic dust filters and at the top a window to reveal your internal goodies the case is elevated with rubberized feet and includes a removable dust filter taking a look at the back two PCI brackets are secured by a single lever we have dual 80 millimeter fan mounts with rubber grommets bar supply bracket on the right and the concealed drive cage on the left after moving about 10 thumb screws we can remove all these side panels and take a look at the hidden drive gauge what we have here are a couple three and a half and two and a half inch drive caddies they are not hot swappable although that would have been an awesome feature power supply is installed from the back with the help of the power supply bracket and while it looks like a crazy cable mess right now there are mini K bottom outs on the floor to secure all your large cables the case is designed to handle enthusiast graphics cards and we have full 12 inches of clearance and same goes for the power supply all the front cable connections are black which is always nice a courser is thinking about the clean system and after inserting all the drives in place I was initially skeptical about how far the SSDs were from the mechanical drives so I thought solder routing would be difficult but not to worry cables fit just fine although a little extra spacing would be nice taking a better look from the top the optical drive cage is there if you need it also has a tool a secure bracket and the cage is actually easily removable if you don't particularly care for it now the main attraction with the 250d is the side radiator mount we have a 120mm fan included on the right side of the case where it will exhaust the bottom portion of the radiator mount is removable if you require a little extra room to work with during assembly but I had no issues with it in place also notice there are two sets of holes that will be useful here require a little extra height clearance from your radiator for example clearance for the side radiator is limited but it seems Corsair has made sure to allow their own 1h series to fit just fine as there is about five centimeters of clearance so your fans and your radiator will fit just fine the motherboard tray has a large opening in the center that was very useful it will allow any type of bracket behind the motherboard to fit and after mini ITX board installation you can see just how much room there is right underneath and that's very considerate from courser especially since most all-in-one water coolers require some type of support bracket to be installed behind the CPU socket installing our two ATX which is an 11 inch card so it fits fine but it is taller than standard and requires the optical drive gauge to be removed so I could drop the card in IO notice that without the drive cage 250d became quite flexible which I wasn't expecting from an obsidian and with a total system assembled wiring is out of the way for the front intake and it all was concentrated at the bottom and if using the optical drive cage it is still very clean system indeed and even when the cable is routed through the left side a 240 radiator would still fit with no problem and I gotta say that I'm very pleased with the results of the 250 D that handled the assembly in the user-friendly fashion with excellent compatibility for your power supply graphics cards and the watercooler even I like the fully dustproof concept then the overall space efficiency that compliments it's relatively small footprint really without a compromise and relative to other mini ATX cases the price is actually spot-on now a few minor complaints would be the lack of a USB 2 adapter it would be considered of course sir to include it for non native motherboards and while not necessarily con the drive cage really screams for a hot swappable format but aside from that for all those interested going towards a mini ITX gaming systems the 250 D is very appealing case especially at that price point and deserve the damn good value a word I'm sure many gaming systems would be born inside the 250 D until now I think one of the most popular mini ITX cases have been the beat Fenix prodigy so let us know in the comments below on which one of the two you'd prefer and why as 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